'19. Twolvo SCARLET AND BLACK i talk 01‘ the town I (Editor’s note: The following column was written at the time of the Play- hoy incident by one of Iha participants In order to explain the meaning of her Ictlom. We were unable to pre- sent this so much needed explanation, due to the impending legal investiga. thin. We feel that it is a very honest appraisal of her actions, which may shed a new light on the meaning of the incident and show how unfounded any charge of "obscenity” must be.) By FREDRICKA NELSON the talk of the town for two weeks now and running is of the demonstrators. this week’s herald-register has made trout page news of the a oi us and our friends, the state investigators. we all merit a special heavy print black box on page one of tact and speculation (a mis- demeanor? or “conspiracy to commit tin illegal act.”) about the incident that "happened" at grinnell and has subse- quently become everyman's alter dinner conversation piece. as a participant claiming consider- able responsibility tor “getting us out of rhetoric" and originating ACTION. 1 Would like to reply to everymau; l) stripping in this case was not purient since for me it meant asking the person i call myself if i had the strength of conviction to accept my body the way it is. lots of words aild people chatter at you in adolescence and in your mature lile; “blonds have more fun," “she's ugly because she's fat," you think about looking groovy (sexy) for the tlrst dance in high school, we worry about complexioiis (black or white, dap- pled or smooth). as a matter or fact, you might miss that second kiss while you morbidly ease your hair back into place. i had this subversive thought: first you have to MAKE yourself believe you ARE BEAUTIFUL. nobody can say how averyman Will think if he doesn't find out how he thinks a and that’s what i call a problem of INTERNALIZATION. now we have decisiorrtime. can you think how you would feel if you took on your clothes for a principle instead of for a bath or for making love? 2) i took off my clothes, initially, as an act of faith. faith in ME, for a change, and faith in my “radical" friends. one act in exchange for words can serve as h mover for new commitment in any area. grinnelliis all over the world need some today, since people and institutions like playboy tell us in so many words that “this old wn rld o1 ours is going down the tubes in a hundred thous- and ways, and THERE AIN’T ANYTHIN' ,YOU CAN DO ABOUT KT, BABY—J l have investigated multiplicity, and 1 find it awesome and part oi the Total, but i don't want to find it impOSSIble. 3) from Mother Earth, “the kingdom of heaven is within you.” 4) i don't want to set myself up as one of these brilliant intellects that our favorite concrete-man writes about. i Want to be human and learn to do what is meaningtul tor me; and at the same time to accept the human condition of not doing what is RIGHT each time I “meaningful opportunity" comes up grinnell calls itself liberal. but what is liberal about the fear that “intellect" will shock the masses? this college does- n’t relate where it should — grinnell, lowa. grinnell College talks in sears roe- huck language to suburbanites on the fringes of our cities, where the MONEY IS. 5) now man is in the age that is per- fectly suited by the media and by his education to have his values for his pillow at night. he can think them all through and prove them on the tube, meanwhile. running awry of any human confrontation. i should say that we are lacing confronted by change at such a rapid rate that it is easy to assume that luck or technology wlll iron out our difficulties. many are confused about “meaning" today, but there is a vague possibility that we are in a TRANSIS< TIONAL phase where the assertion of human Values is still a useful projecti projects are things that one does that have a social impact and offer individual fulfillment 6) (breakfast though) “methodology is a farce." Evergreen Review, articles on the “new left,” NEW issue (cont) dis- cussions of methodology are iarces since fear of consequences — “truth or . r ." prolong any useful discussions of MEANS. 7) our actions are justified on three counts, as far as (i) can see: the initial action was motivated by a beautiful sentiment; the consequences for grin- hell have the appearance at a possible reevaluation of the institution; and (i) have found that involvement is the way education should operate # one shouldn't “get byuil 8) “REVOLUTION" is simply the word that has the most currency, which also describes meaningful action. these eight TALK— (Continued Page 5, column 4) CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GRADS From All of Us ell GRINNELL STATE BANK 3-Day Trial End: Thursday May 19. I “Grinnell 8” Are Found Guilty A jury of four men and eight women Wednesday found eight Grinnell students guilty oi indecent exposure in connection with a Feb. l5 nude protest against Play- boy magazine in Gates Hall Lounge. Judge it. 5. Yoder, who presided over the three day trial in Poweshiek County District Court, has set June 20 as the date for sentencing. The three men and five women were among a group of ten students who dis- robed belore some eighty Griiineillans to protest what they called Playboy’s exploitation of sex during an explana» tion of the “Playboy Philosophy" by Erica Draper, a field representative of the magazine who was on campus as part of a college sex education program. The students who could now be sent» enced to 6 months in jail or fined $200 are: Seniors Ftedricka A. Nelson 20, of Brooklyn, 13.; Mary Malcolm, 21, of San Diego, chili; Catherine R, Leder, 21, of Allen Park, Mich.; James D. Ru- dolph, 22, or Elmhurst, 111.; Derrick N. Exner, 22, of Ames, lowa.; junior Charles Ar Garman, 21, of East Canton, Ohio; sophomore Judith s. Grueuberg, 20, of Montebello, cant; and freshman Freda s. Tepfer, 19, at Brooklyn, N. Y. immediately after court adjourned Wednesday alterndon, Miss Malcolm is- sued the following statement on the be- half of all eight defendents: “The decision of the Jury is not un— expected. We believe it was inevitable in view of the instructions on the law of indecent exposure given by the judge. However, those instructions omitted the requirement of "open and gross lewd- ncss" which appears in the statute. Our contention has been that our conduct was not lewd. “Our present teeung is that we will appeal this (1 ' 'on by the judge, and seek a new trial with the jury instruct- ed as to all the requirements of the law as it is written" Throughout the trial defense attorney ADDRESS HERE: Dan Johnston of Des Moines argued tll although the defendants had “desig; .' 1y exposed themselves,” they were guilty of indecent exposure because tin had done nothing obscene or gm lewdr “We obviously do not condemn nudity in our society.” Johnston told jury. “I know or no arrests or 1 models in art classes.” The jury’s verdict apparently hingt on the following instruction from Jud Ynder regarding the statute: “Tile words ‘opeu and indecent or 1 scene exposure’ . . . . mean an cxhi tioll of those parts of the human in which instinctive modesty, human deci ey, or natural self-respect require sh be customarily kept covered in the pn ence or view of others 4 . . t A perst if so inclined, may dress himself or in self in nothing more substantial th the innocence of Eden provided he slle does not “expose" himselt or hi ‘ self in that cond on. An exposure . crimes ”open and indecent or ohscer only when a person indulges in sir practice at a time , , , (when) . . or her act is open to the observation others. After deliberating for three hours, jury returned to the courtroom to t the judge that his interpretation was ‘ absolute,” it would apply to persons ii disrobed before “doctors and nurses artists and sculptors." Yoder told _ jury that such persons were exceptic , but that “persons in attendance at open meeting" are not. The jury asked Yodel'. “Is it poss: - for this jury to recommend to the co the jury’s attitude toward the save of the sentence, should the deienda be found guilty?” Yoder instructed them that they cc not, and that it was the court's pram tive to prescribe the sentence. The jury then retired for another minutes oeiore returning with the r dicta of "guilty as charged." After the trial, jury ioreman Sh Lannom of Grinnell criticized Yoder GUILTY- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1)