saturdsy. September 13, I959 SCARLET AN_D BEACK > Pa 9 Eleven Trustees Keep ROTC Credit Cricket Crisis Plagues Students identity Crisis hugs Cricheis By JOHN GARDNER "There‘s those two girls in Loose — you’re not gonna be- lieve this —— who have about 100 bugs trapped between their win« (low and screen. .” “Oh, yes, crickets, Had sever- al at our lounge party the other night, they were just getting in the way of everything. Bad scene.” “Well, i know a girl who says there’s bugs in the Libe, Says she iinds herseli hugged by them. .hehrhehfiY why is it that everybody knows somebody who has been especially bad 0” since the re- cent cricket invasion on cam- pus? Or maybe i should say since our invasion or campus. The crickets were here first, you know I mean, what would you do if your stamping grounds were all at once invaded by these huge people carrying trunks and things, screaming when they iound you in their baggage? I! you were a cricket, would you go to their parties crawl into their beer, go to Burling and scale maids and get trapped in between windows? And why? All in the eiiort to be understood by somebody, anybody. it s a super identity crisis for cncketsi All the time, these people ask- ing why crickets 'don’t stay on the hearth, just like why women don't stay in the kitchen or something. And then when you do stay on the hearth, like in Loose lounge, that isn’t too good either, because preps Zap you With Homer, and you have to listen to all their hull anyway . . .lt’s a hard life. . Could you really help it if it was a wet spring and cricket copulation climbed to a crashing crescendo? And that you are u by—product of a copulation ex— plosion which makes your iden- tity CI'lSlS all the more imper- Eonal? Conference House coed “There is no way to make me sleep in that bed. What a bum- mer. Spent all oi last night swatting these , and the are crawling under the. sheets now!” Mr. Kenneth Christiansen, of the Bio. department, is an en- tomologist, and he is probably closer to the cricket scene than most people here. Black iield crickets, he says, don't do much harm to plants, so iarmers don't even spray them. We passed several on the way from his office down to the insect- rack, or whatever that thing is in the science department with oil the bug pinrups. “Why so many crickets this year?” I asked Not an invasion Just, well, a crashing copulation crescendo. Sophomore Jake Margolin says, “The thing with crickets is that when you step on them, you get this gooey stuff on your test which is hard to get on, So, either abolish crickets or wear shoes!” As the incoming crickets of Grinnell search ior then’ identi- ties in yet-to-be-tried places (Dean Low’s house? Saga kite chens? The concrete or the phy- sical education complex?), the cold season approaches. Dark night of the soul and all that. You can only be squashed by humanity so many times. in the winter. Mr. Christiansen says, criclreis make for warm, moist places, like basements and rooms. As he told me this, I noticed him developing a strange tic, and I wanted to ask him if ho had a large, moist basement— but I reirained. it just wasn’t cricket, ‘ Faculty in Meet. ' Agenda Uncertain The faculty will meet in their first regular meeting or the year this coming Monday. A possible lupic of debate will he student attendance at the prfienily closed meetings. A 5-man special committee has approved a proposal to deal with the student attendance question, according to Raymond Bells, chairman or the group. “This means very little. it is up for discussion, amendment, and ultimately to rejection by the members of the iaculty,” Belts said. Grlniiell will continue to grant academic credit for Reserve Oiiicer Training Corps (ROTC) courses until the Air Force completes the phasing out-oi the Grinncll unit on September 1, 1972. P r e s i d 9 it t Glenn Leggett announced the decision in a let- ler sent to all members of the faculty on June ll His decision iollowed a discussion or ROTC accreditation at a icgulatly scheduled meeting of the board of trustees the preceding week. “The effect of this decision is to permit Gl'innell students of the classes of 1970, 1971, and 1972 now enrolled or eligible tor the program (presently 29 stu. denls, diVided among the three classes) to take nrnorc courses for credit in the estab~ .lished sequence until they are graduated and commissioned,” Leggett stated. “The 1972 class will be the iinal commissioned class at Grinnell, tor on Sep- tember I, 1972, the AFROTC unit at Grinnell will be com- pletely withdrawn irom the campus." The president continued: “It is my own belief, whlcl’i 1 suspect is shared by many faculty members, that it is pedagogically unwise to com- press or tamper with the se- quence oi ROTC courses so as to permit sophomores or juniors to get all or most oi the requir- ed courses out at the way by 1970 or 1971. Dr. Leggett reiterated that the college, in agreement will: air Force directives, will or continue the recruiting of so dents for the Grinneil ROT program and that no new slut dents will be enrolled in hJ program unless they can co plete the program heiore the Air Foice withdraws liom canfi pus. The iaculty on 'April 78 proved by a 47410 vote a row mendation calling for the co loge to discontinue the awar ing of academic credit i1. ROTC courses on September 1970. 1 Four days later, the Al Force announced that it wag discontinuing AFROTC units it} Grinnell and eight other cob logos and universities on Sega [ember l, 1972, because of small enrollments in the units. In two subsequent ballots th iaculty recommended that th college continue to nwai‘ academic credit for ROT courses until September 1,197 The Votes were 4734 on MR 19 and 4442 on May 30. ‘i Send a smile or* r a laugh i W CONTEMPORARY CARDS Book 'N Card WHERE MODERN MEDICAL SCIENCI MEETS THE PUBLIC MATHEWS REXALL DRUGS "ON '[HE CORNER“