- ~uw“ " hid-y. May is, I969 Wait For Action From Above Blacks Meet with Trustees By TED GLICK For the past lew months the CBS and the administration have been working to improve conditions at Grinnell for black students. Last weekend, at. a Trustees meeting in Chicago, several black students presented an outline of the innovations and improvements they would like to see at Grinnell, and repre— sentatives of the administration presented a position paper out- lining their ideas for making this institution present a worth— while educational experience for its black students. Subsequently, the position paper or the admin- istration was, lor all practi~ cal purposes, thrown out, and the outline of the blacks was accepted by the Trustees as the base on which to build a resolution to be voted on at the Trustees meeting in June. The action of last weekend grew out of the Trustees’ March meeting. At that meeting a group of Grinnell black stu- dents, administration members, and former Grinnell students met before the Standing Com» mittee an Educational Policy ol l. ripe broken? No, Yin trying to find where l stashed roms dough 2. That’s where you keep your money? Sometimes I put it in the flower pot. 4. But that‘s what you're doing now. Not quite. The beauty of nly system n that 1 usually can’t find where I put it. J 3. What's wrong with the bank? i'd only lake it right out again, sum 6. I think you'd he a lot better oii putting some oi your dough into Living insurance irom Equitable. It not only gives you and the tnmrly ou'ro going to have a iehnre of rotcction, it also buil 5 cash value: you can use ior emergencies, opportunities, or even retirement. lwonder if it could he with the irrnch fries? For lnlormal‘lon Ihout Living Insurance, lot: The Man from E ullable. For career opportunities at Equiluble, see your Placement 0 'cer, ad wrilei Lionel M. Stevens, Manager, College Employment. THE fiEQUITABLE Thu Equitable Lite Assurance Socmly ot (h: United stain 1255 Atomic oi the Amcricns, Nuv York, New York lotus An Equal Upyoriuluty minnow, M/F _ D Equitable ilIOl SCARLET AND BLACK the Trustees and presented their case for a more relevant pro- gram tor blacks. This led to a meeting before the entire Board of Trustees later that night at which [he turmat [or last week. end's meeting was decided on. At the June meeting of the Board of Trustees a committee of the Trustees will present 8 resolution concerning-the chang< es desired by blocks for the en< tire Board to vote on, Also, the Board will consider possible Contributions and financial as- sistance for the setting-up and operating of the new programs. There are seven general area! which the CBS would like to see improved, expanded and/or initiated. These are: (l) It means for students needing pre- oollege educational enrichment to receive it; (2) provisions [or increased admission of blacks and an increase in scholarship assistance; (3) an increase in the number of black faculty members; (i) an expansion or curricular opportunities, such as a Black Studies department; (5) provisions for more money for more Black Cultural events; (5) establishment of a Black Student Cenler, such as an oil'- eampus house, which will also be open to whites; and (7) an improvement in the placement oiiice so as to provide more in- formation on meaningful job opportunities for ‘hlaclts once they enter the real world. Further information on the specifics of these general pro- grams was unavailable item the Students who were at the Chi- cago meeting. Greg Coggs said, “I’m not going to make a com- merit until the President makes a statement. It's up to the Ma ministration and the Trustees to act.” Along with the meeting with the Tmstees, there has been other activrty on the issue of educational improvement tar blacks. Mr. Joe Wall, luturo Dean of the College, and Mer- ryll Penson of CBS traveled to Atlanta on Monday and Tiles- day. While there they talked to students and faculty at More— house, Spellmau. Clark, and Morris Brown colleges, all of them predominantly black in- nitiltions. They explored the possibilities of having faculty members frt J these schools spending time as visiting pro~ tessors at Grinncll, oi having an exchange of faculty members between schools, and of having an exchange of students be- tween schools. The idea for thls expedition grew out of IWO sources: First, Mr. Charles Cleaver, on leave trom Grinnell and working at Morehouse College, a black graduate school which is devel- oping a graduate program in Black Studies, ,believed .that such exchanges would be bene- ficial and educational. Secondly, Hugh Gloster, president or Morehouse, visited Griimell in February and spoke to various iacuity members and adminis- lration officlals. From these two interrelated events, Ihe idea for exchanges grew and began to be acted upon. Miss Penson, in speaking or her experiences with students, said Ihat the Students at Clark and Morris Brown seemed in- terested in the idea. but the students at Morehouse and Spellnian received the idea in a manner less than encouraging. Tl Faculty to Leave Page Sivan Faculty Fa alities As of this week, twenty-one faculty members, excluding the Lenox Quartet, are not planning to return to Grinnell. Also, Dr. Norton, who has been on the faculty since 1930, will be re- tiring, although he will teach one more course next semester. And Dr. Dawson will be resign- ing in order to go to Africa, al- though he does plan to even< tually return to Grinnell. There are approximately 125 faculty members, of which half have only been here since 1965. This year there were six facul- ty members who were original— 1y appointed in 1965, nine who came here in 1966, 19 from 1967, and 27 new taoulty members. This does not include the Assist- ants and Mike Finley, who is lnstnictor in Religious Studies. as well as being a Resident Ad- visor. It is interesting to note that all the full professors, be- sides President Leggett and Lieutenant Colonel Steger, were hired prior to the fall of 1969. It should be pointed out that ap- proximately the Sallie number of faculty (18), left last year as will be leaving this year. There are at present, sixteen faculty members who are plan» illng to take a leave of absence next year for at least one se» mester. This, Combined With particular iaculty departures, is creating Somewhat of a prob- lem for a iew departments. For example, this year’s entire Rus- sian Department is leaving, (Barasch and Young). The Psy- chology Department will be los— ing three members, although Dr. Tyler will be returning. With such a small department this will continue the tremen— dous turn-overrrate problem. (There is only one other person on the staff, Mr. Gerritz, who was new this year. Physics will also be missing three of its members, at least tor the iirst semester, (Bow- man, Gale and Hanson). The Classical Languages Depart- ment will be reduced by one third as Crossett and McKibhen take consecutive one semester leaves. The struggling Art De partment has not yet tound a replacement for McMillan, al» though it has hired someone to replace Morse. And iinally, the Anthropology Department has not been able to replace Mr. Willis. Faculty not returning men: (The numbers in the parenthesis indicate the first year they came here) Barasch (’67) Russian—ill N. Classified Ads E WILL BUY electric guitar from fldy student, Call 236-3022. WANTED: Girls' bicycle. Call 236.4874. Wm WHOEVER took the light green dress out or the Main 4th hall closet between May 2nd and 5th please re- turn it? No questions will be asked. The dress is a short one, with ruffles on the neck, sleeves, and tront, and it has is wide dark-green belt. Size: 13.14, The dress is part or a bridesmaids outtit and i need it ior a wedding on May 24th. Please just put it back in the closet from which you took it. Marilyn Brookens ‘1. city tinishing his dissertae tion. Cagle ('57) Phllcsophy~teachr ing at the University or indi- ana in Bloomington. Dawson ('57) Economics-gain; to Africa (see text). Donovan ('68) Psychology (one year program) — raising a family. Hanson ('56) Physlcs — Chaln man of U. at Northern lowa Physics department in Cedar Falls. Harrington ('68) Political SCl~ ence (one year program). Fennell (’68) Math Matthews (spring '68) Theater~ working near Atlanta, Ga. McMillan (’60) Art — Chairman or the Art Department at the University of Arizona in Tuc< son. Morse (’66) Art — does not have a job, but will work on his art in Portland, Oregon. Murphy ('67) Education~teacli at St. Mary's College, Winona. Minn. Norton ('30) History — relirini (see text). Parsell (’67) French—teach at Flirman U., in Gi‘eenville, S.C. Parzen ('67) Biology — Consid- ering doing post-doctoral world at the University of WISC., in Madison. Platt ('67) Math — attending graduate school at the Univer. sity of Iowa, in Iowa City. Purdom (’65) Aerospace Studlel —involved in national develop. ment of ROTC at Montgoms ely, Ala. Schwartz (’67) Economics -— in the ACM Field Program in San Jose, Costa Rica but will not return. Skinner (’68) Spanish — teach. ing at ii, oi lowa, in rows City. Taylor (’68) Biology — will marry David Harris and live in Atlanta, Ga. Willis ('67) Anthropology — teach at Western Michigan U., in Kalamazoo. Young ('66) Russian — teaching at Dartmouth, in Hanover, N.H. Zimmar ('65) Psychology — teaching at [he all-girls Briar Cliff College in Westchester, N.Y. Zitner (’57) English (Carter- Adams Prolessor of English) —teaching at University or Toronto. Lenox Quartet: Hersh ('62), Marsh (’62), McCall (’62), Pettys (’65) Music — Quartet- in-l‘esldence at State Univer- sity oi New York in Bingham. ton. Leaves 1969-70 Bowman ('67) Physics—lot semester, Burma ('41) Sociol- ngy—year, Fishman (’48) Bit» logy — year, Gale ('25) Physics — year, Haner ('47) Psychology — year, i-iaveman (’62) Econo- mics — year, Howe (’56) Music — year, Kintner ('64) History— year, Kissane ('56) English — year, Maggee ('62) Political Sci-r ence — year, McKibtren ('52) Classical Languages — semes- ter, Crossett ('53) Classical Languages — lst semester, Mendoza ('43) Biology — year, 0elke ('31) Chemistry — year, Pollack ('65) Economics-year. Smith ('34) Music — lst Semen- ler.