GRINNELL COLLEGE - SCARLE'Ea BLACK THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER vol. LXXVI Grinnell. Iowa, Friday. April 25. [959 No, 23 Causes and Solutions to Poverty Symposium Calls for Construoiive hadicalism Power Politics Only Way SAUL ALINSKY talks with interested students on organizing for change. “College today ls like a stagecoach on the highway” said Saul Alinsky. “Col- lege should be the training ground for nrganizers." Organized power for re- iorm. not idealistic daydreaming, is the only way to construct a better world. Community Organization was the topic of “Prnfessional radical" Saul Aliusky. Wednesday afternoon to the student Symposium oi Poverty. The veteran organizer stressed the need for organization in order to obtain the necessary power required to affect change. “Unless you have the power, everything else is rhetorici Power is pos- rible through organizing. Organizing should be done around issues which are specific immediate, and realizablei An issue is what you can do something about," In talking about the Black Power movement, he stressed the need for or- ganized power along with the gaining oi black identity. “Black Culture is esssen- tial," but he warned. “One does not get identity without power," “No number of Dashikies, naturals, sunglasses or soul food is power." “if you want to change the world to what you'd like it to be you must start irom where you are," He suggested that those interested in change “must get with the world as it is." “There are three things one must know about what is, 1. people act in sell interest. 2. right things get done for the wrong reason. ' 3. never make value judgments on the basis or what is right but on the basis of alternatives" He stressed that i: any change is to occur, elements at the middle class whito society must also be included as power allies. it all minority groups were to become united they would still he in the minority, requiring the aid at middle L whites. He further commented that “basically any people can be organ- izer ." Iiiter the lecture Mt: Alinsky answer- ed questions and discussed student par- ticipation in change at an iniormai ses- sion at Conference House, He also pals ticipated in the attarnoon panel on “The Role of Community Acts in Reducing Poverty.” Keynote ~ Rational Action By MICHAEL BRANDON “! think we owe it to Ourselves to lis- ten to student pmtestors to see what they're saying," Dr. Robert Coles, a Harvard University research psychia- trist, said here Tuesday nighti “It is not enough to decry the tactics oi some students who take it upon them— selves to occupy buildings when protest- ing and demonstrating," Coles said. ”We need to use all the understanding, com< passion, and sensitivity We can mobilize e—mt hysteria, not labeling, not name Calling." Coles, who is a contributing editor for New Republic magazine. delivered his remarks in a keynote address during Grinneli's Student Symposium on Pov- erty. Coles told an audience of some 250 persons in Herrick Chapel that his gener- ation uses young ‘demolistrators as "scapegoats" when it criticizes them. “We rail against them, rather than rail against our own weakness and failure." “I love this country and I consider myseli loyal,” Coles continued, “but 1 also realize that America has serious problems that must be tackled and not glossed overt" Coles criticized the United States for spending billions or dollars on space exploration and the Vietnam War while A iuli investigation or Thursday aiternoon's ilag demonstration, protesting the Vietnam war, will appear in next week's Scarlet and Black. millions of Americans “are on the edge or severe hunger, living the kind ot life that can only be described as desperate, painiul. and lacking sell-respect." He also criticxzed those who tell the needy “to Wait a little longer” and have patience. “We owe it to ourselves to realize that we suiler as others Stiller and that when others don’t have, We lack," he said, Speaking or the recent disruptions at Harvard, Coles said that he thought some of the protesters acted “rudely and maliciously," but that the disruptive actions forced the administration to pay heed to various demands. “Rudeness is a bad sin,’ he added, “but so is the rudeness of sellesatisfac- tion, complacency, aild the contentment of a Brooks Brothers suit and a Harvard degree." He said that the dissident students “made the Harvard Corporation realize that restructuring (the University) is an important goal that has to be met." Coles said that he found some of the protesters to be “as nasty and arrogant as some DI the Harvard administrators. “However, i don’t think the students were being purely distructive,” he ex- plained. “A large number or them were ethically concerned young Americans.” Labels and names such as “the genera ation gap” or “slits.” are not important issues, Coles Said “The real issue isl l-low yielding will we be to the cry ior justice, we who have so much}, PTERO. Home for Now A U.S. District Court judge last Wed- nesday ordered iowa Attorney General Richard Turner to return copy and photo graphs his agents illegally seized irorn Pterodactyl, Grinnell's underground paper. Judge Roy L. Stepheson ruled that the confiscation oi the allegedly obscene ma- terial at a Wilton Junction printing shop on Mar. 13 was illegal because “no War- rant tor the seizure of the materials We! ever sought or issued" Stephenson, however, denied a request by Pterndactyl staff members for $11,000 in damages from the attorney general’s oilice and an injunction to prevent lure ther seizure of Pterodactyl materials, The suit was tried by Grinnell phot0< grapher Henry Wilhelm and Grinnell junior Lawrence Frank, who were both present at the SR Printers shop when the material was seized. Attorney Clark Holmes oi the Iowa Civil Liberties Union handled the case for Pterodactyl. Named as derendants in the suit along with iurner were Asst, Atty. Gen. Doug- las Carlson, Robert C. Blair, Director of the Bureau of Criminal investigation, and BC] agents Daniel Mayer and Terry C. Johnson. Stephenson ruled that the law enforce- ment officials were immune irom civil damages because they were acting with in their oiiicial jurisdiction as agents or the attorney general’s office Although Turner testified that the ma- terial was obscene, Stephenson ruled that his testimony to that etlect had no bearing on the Case. “It is not the purpose or the law to permit the dissemination of obscene ma- terials but to prevent the abridgement ot the right in a free society to un- obstructed circulation ot non-obscene materials,” Stephenson said in his rul- mg. Wilhelm, who went to Des Moines Thursday to recover the material, told the 5&3 he was not pleased with the court’s actions. “The court order to return the material was much too long in coming." Wilhelm said, reierring to the lact that Ptero- dactyl was deprived of the right to pub- lish the material for almost six weeks Wilhelm also said that he and Frank will appeal their request for damages iron. Turner and the other agents. “It public officials cannot be held respon— sible for their actions it gives them a free license to harass anyone they want,” he said. Wilhelm said that he is “working to find a printer" and that he expects to publish the seized material plus tour ad- ditlonal pages about the seizure in an issue of Plerodactyl that would be dis- tributed next week. Wilhelm said that he and his lawyer expect Turner to file obscenity charges when Pterodactyl is published, but that they are confident that the courts would not find Pterodactyl obscene. fig Klelnschmidl Elected Professor John Kleinschmidt (French) has been elected Chairman or the facul- ty iii a special election. He will cnm< plate the unexpired term of the present chairman, Joseph Wall (history) who will vacate his post after becoming Dean oi the college in September. Klein- schmidt will serve until the regular elec- tion in September, 1970. S udenl Harassed Racist Arrested Last week, Roy Walker '69, a black student, tiled charges in Justice of the Peace Court in Grinnell against a man who he identified as having passed him in a car and shouted racial slurs at him. Vernon Schooley of Grinnell pleaded guilty to the charge of disturbance of the peace and was fined $25. Schooley was in a car with three or four others when they passed Walker last Thursday and shouted racial slurs, such as “nigger", at him. when the car passed, Walker tried to get the license number, but the car was too dirty for him to read it. Knowing from past ev- perience that they would probably be back, he waited, and when they ape peared again, he copied the license num- her from the front of the car. He then gave this iniormation to the Grinnell Police Department, and Schooley was picked up within a half hour. Although others in the car, construe tion workers in their early twenties, had also shouted these slurs at him, Walker could only positively identify Schooley, so he only tried one complaint. This was the first time, however, that a complaint had been tried, although this harassment “is not unusual at all,” ac~ cording to Walker. Walker said that incidents like this one occur “constantly," and there have been cases involving visiting black dignitaries, as well as black students Usually, how- ever, the students are unable to get the license number of the car. Grinnell Police Chief Bill Peters told the 58:}! that this is the first time any such case has gona into court, since the offenders have been juveniles in all the previous cases he knew oil in these cases, Peters said, he has brought them and their parents to the police station, and talked to them, “eyeball to eyeball." fl! Political Dealing Begins By TED GLICK Although most of Wednesday night'l Senate meeting was rather mundane, one notable event did occur concerning the choice of a new Finance Committee chairman. The decision, now nullified due to the reopening oi applications tor all Committees, appeared to he the first “political dealing” oi the new adminis- tration. Freshman senator Andrew Brill had been interested in being on the com. mittee and attended the April 15 meet. ing of the Committee with SGA Presi- dent, Jim Lew. At that meeting the old administration recommended wide- spread budget changes including a $50 cut in the AWS and Com? salaries. Committee member Michael Saeger en- dorsed this measure to tighten a slim budget and because the jobs are now less demanding Brill and Saeger applied for the posi- tion of Finance Committee Chairman. Brill recommended acrosstherboard sall ary increases for SGA, AWS and Coil-l? presidents. A board composed of Ernest Weston, Jane West, Jim Lew. Frank Thomas. and Bill Thomas chose Erlll for the chairmanship, In explaining the board's action, Lew said, “When I select a chairman. ll SENATE—— (Continued Page 8, Column I)