Ml: SCARLET AND BLACK SiIurday. Sopiumbor I3, I95, Off-Campus students seek sacs option; Vote probable By MOLLY MCGUIRE l Off-campus seniors may be able to forego their board fees this year, thus giving up their "privilege" to eat SAGA food in the dining halls, If an all- Itudent referendum proposed Tuesday by the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) indi- cates support for the measure. The referendum will determine it the majority of the student body is willing to pay a alight increase in board fees that would enable their offrcampus peers to say goodbye to SAGA and fend for themselvesi The recent action by the SAC is only the latest in a series of measures taken to explore the possibilities of giving students options to the present policy of mandatory board fees. At the present time, all students must pay for board except married students and those originally mm the city of Grinnell. Last spring, alter complaints by future off-campus seniors and in light of the response to the SAGA committee’s ques- tionnaire (where students indi- cated a desire to be able to forego the blanket board fee), the SAC issued a list of sug- gestions to the administration, asking them to find speciric in- formation about various pos- sible options. About a month later, on May la, the commit~ tee issued a recommendation to President Leggett for a tem- porary plan tor the tall semes— ter: they asked that “students not in college housing be given the option of not paying the board fee, and thus not eating in the campus dining hall." this proposal was for the loss— 70 school year only, until a more satisfactory plan could be worked out, The committee malized that there “may be some problems in the imple- mentation of the recommenda- tion. ” Problems there were. Be- cause of the late date of the suggestion and the illness of one of the key personnel in- volved, nothing was done about answering nr approving the proposal until this 1811. Mean- while, about seven offrcampus seniors decided to refuse to pay their board fees at registration, hoping to put pressure on the administration to do something immediately about the recom- mendation. After being sent to talk to six diltereht adminisr traticn oliicials, the students were given an ultimatum to pay their board fees by Mona , day, Sept 8th, or they would not be considered students at the college. (All have paid; students they still are.) They were also told that the deans were currently considering the recommendation. Considering it they were. On September 5, following otiicial procedure, President Leggett sent Professor Edgar Mullins, chairman of the SAC, a re- sponse to the suggestion of last spring. in it he stated that he saw problems in the implemen- tation of the request, and that he had asked the deans to take certain measures to “begin the necessary analyses that would provide us with descriptions of Viable options for long- range food service arrangements for all students. ” Leggett cited the possibility of a rise in board charges next semester and thereafter for those excused to make up for those exempted from paying board (the fewer students pay- ing, the higher the individual board cost will be), and the possible need of a checking system In the dining halls, He felt that because of these pos- sibilities, every student should be informed and be able to have a say in the issua. ‘Nous' Becomes ‘Moniuge’ Editor Raps About New literary Magagzine By GARY GIDDINS Montage Editor Are you suffering from "angst?” Do you feel alienated? 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One of Leggett's requests to the deans was to find out exacts ly how many seniors presently living off-campus would take advantage of the option now under consideration, so that the business office and the SAGA business manager could figur¢ out the difference this would maké'in the SAGA proiit and thus compute the possible risé in board charges next semes~ ter. in accordance with this, Data Low held a meeting Mohda afternoon (Sept. 8) of the Stu: dents interested in the option, Nineteen seniors signed theii names to a statement saying that, if they had the chance they would choose to forego that; board charges. Mrs Low prom ised that when and if the op. tion went into effect they would be refunded their board lees with the price of the meals that they had already (presum- ably) eaten deducted. With some 20 students (mar. Iigned the list later)‘ not pay- ing board, the fees per student would go up about $5.00 a set mester, it was reported at the SAC meeting. The administra- tion would absorb the cost thil semester, but since next se~ mester the board fees of those not excused would be attected, the committee believed tha| students should be able to have a say in whemer the option it instituted or not. The matter of checking procedures in the dining halls might also be u problem that would affect the rest of the students, who might be asked to show an ldenilfirv cation card at all meals. } More Letters (Continued irom Page 5) probably never to regain the honored status I once had (H- S). Accordingly 1 am up against it (the system). I knew full well what might happen last May when i had my dratt card sent in, Well, then, why was i so stupid to do it? Alter all Grinnell provides a warm motherly womb for fou r years, and after that . . . But that's in the Iuture to be worried about when the time comes. Of course, prison also pro- vides a protective womb that insulates a person irom the rest or the world. The system takes good care at its own. A few people who were here last May, like Mike Eaton and Ted Glick, are no longer. In another semester I Will probably be gone, too, This is rather sad, naturally, but most people are still at Grinnell, pur- suing they know not what, but determined to have a good Jag in the meantime. And that’s what’s really sad. Obviously, a person can go to school and still follow his conscience as it pertains lo alleviating world problems. After all, Gl‘innell provides a stimulating environment which nurtures one: potential into full bloom, and after Grinnell. . . . But that's in the future to be worried about when the lime comes. Paul Miller dint} International has beads for stringing and other wompum STRAW FLOWERS ALL COLORS Posi a New POSTER, Too! 909 BROAD