rm sight SCARLET AND BLACK Fri by. October lo. I"! New SAGA Checking System Causes Controversy By Molly McGuIru Has the Grinnell student ii< nally been reduced to a num- her? Is the new checking sys- tent in the dining halls really necessary? Or will it even do the job it has been set up to do —- namely, keeping the eighteen students newly-ex- empted from board lees out of the dining halls? These were just a iew at tho questions raised as the new checking method went into al- tect last Monday at Cowles and the Quad. The system, in at: oordailce with a provision of the referendum of last week allow- log the eighteen exemption, re quires each diner to give his meal card number to a check- er at each meal before eating. Although this honor . number system is not as strict as a meal card presentation system, it nevertheless is a change irom the previous relaxed policy or allowing entrance to the dining halls without any term oi identi- ilcation. According to Business Man- ager Ralph Poinerenk, both the business oitice of the college and Saga saw the need for some way or checking who ate in the dining halls, ii any option were to be put into operation. “When you have options or paylng board or not,” Pometznk said, “you have to have more than the honor system iii the dining halls. Saga can't teed everyone that Comes to the door, and the college can't administer the program (of options) unless there is some system of check- ing who eats. We can’t aitord 3 ‘Come one, come all’ policy." Pomerenk said that he had originally recommended to the Student Affairs Committee that ii photo lD card system be in< stituted, because such a system would eliminate many prob- lems created by the number checking method. But the com- mittee “worked him down" to the present “nominal honor and number" system. According to Student Coordinator Frank Thomas, the SAC decided that the number system would he the most efficient, yet minimal, method the college would oc- cept. The checking system was fully described in the referena dum, and students voted their approval. But there are come plaints (presumably by the 700 students who either didn’t vote or voted against the proposal) about its very existence, its ei- iectiveness, and the inconveni- Depart Chicago: March 2i or 22 Return Chicago: April 4 or 5 PLAN YONR WINTER/SPRING VACATION NOW! Student Flights To MEXICO 8r SWITZERLAND Tulle Your Choice — Break Away And . o . JOIN THE SET!!! 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ADDRESS: SCHOOL: (Deposit-Full) Paymenr to reserve departing . once it is causing by forcing students to remember their one, two or three-digit number and tell it to a checker in the line. One irate student voiced tho complaint that he “didn’t mum to Grinnell to be a number" and that now Grinneli has joined the "number cult" along with big universities, Those sharing this view, in order not to be forced to go against their moral principals, are allowed to show the checker their meal card, and thus bypass identitying themselves by a number. (Ac- tualiy, every student is not only a meal card number, but also a computer number to the col- lege.) Questions have been raised as to the eiiectiveness of the new system in keeping out non- boarders since numbers could be duplicated at both dining halls and anyone can use any number as long as it hasn't been used already at a parti- 'cular meal. Fomerenk realizes that the system has "potential leaks," but none of these weak- nesses were unanticipated. The success or the system depends upon the cooperation or the boarders, or, as (Saga) Chuck Hand, Food Service Director, said, “the system will work as well as the students want it to work." Several dissatisfied students have suggested that instead or checking all the diners, pictures or the 18 be posted in each din- ing hall, with perhaps a line im- posed if they should show their race in either place. The store- mentioned disgruntled student explained, “Atter all, we’re not a vast, faceless mass, and it isn’t fair to be inconveniencing 1100 people to be convenient ion 18.” Tlils proposed “mug shot" system would not be enough, according to 'Tomerenk and Hand, because there would be no assurance that the non< boarders would be recognized and identified it they should show up tor a free meal. Since the checking system has been in eiiect only live days, all has not been said or realized about it. Pomerenk feels that It is “shaking down reasonably well, and will probably gain more acceptance as checker: gain more speed.” Hand be< lieves that like any new system. It is an inconvenience at first, but the situation will improve. while the checking system in receiving an untavorable stu. dent response, that response is not above criticism. Student Co- ordinator Frank Thomas is “fed up” with the negative student response, and maintains that the uncooperative students (those refusing to y've their number or those giving any thing except their own number)‘ are causing most of tho incon- venience. “On a Saga issue." Thomas assorted, “the student body generally displays those adole< scent actions and emotions which are always expected or it by the ‘other generation.‘ " Judicial council: Mistrial In Clark Hail Case By a do vote with one absten< tion, the student taculty Judicial Court, in its lirst meet- ing of the year October 2, heard the appeal or senior Patrick Perry and junior Thomas Cole and reversed a decision made by the Clark Hall Council last year, declaring a mistrial. "The Clark Hall Council of 1968759 violated the judicial saicguai-ds guaranteed in the Student Handbook in that it did not properly notify Patrick Perry and Thomas Cole or the hearing May 17, 1969 at which they were lined," the council ruled in a statement issued by its chairman, Asst. Professor Bernard Mergen (Am. Studies). “The Judicial Council also finds that the Clark Hall CounClI de- layed the hearings unduly from "WHAT chm-cv does tho Nixon Adminisrraiion think about bus. ing? Along comes Robert Finch to explain. ‘You can't rule out busing. I mean busing is rlicre. Every dis. iricrprncllcallyin the country user buses to move people from one place to anoillen‘ All clear, finally. super exist, people ride on rhcrn, and the Nixon Administration is all {or re. All (or what? Why, People riding to school instead or walking in school, get it?" rsr a two new or Wm. r. rockieyh the time or the incident and then acted too hastily. The Judicial Council therefore der clares a mistrial." The case stemmed from two hall parties given in Clark Hall during the first semester of last year. The first party, held in the lounge during midsemester break, Involved what Art An— drews, a member of Clark Hall's Council last year, de- scribed as “an assault on tha soia. Several guys were violente ly jumping up and down on 't. They even invited the Pagliai’s Pizza man to join them," During exam time, there was a second party in the rec room in which two male students were wrestling on the rug, as the third, a visitor irom Purdue University, pelted them with ice cubes. This party finally re- sulted in red, blue, and brown stains on the rug from beer and crepe paper, The Physical Plant House- keeping bepartment notiiied the then President of Clark Hall, Jim Sebern. ’69, that $350 in damages was done to the rug and Bola, and that the hall was expected to pay ior the repairs. Alter $85 was taken from hall iunds. Sebern brought the mat- ‘ ter of the remaining sum before the hall council. FISH OF THE MONTH At Your BEN FRANKLIN STORE Brick red swords and sphenop mollies 3 for 81.00 Complete selection of fish. aquarium. and pet supplies. TURTLES — CHAMELEONS ALLIGATORS — GERBILS 908-10 Main in an action on May 17. 1969. the Council iined‘ each member of the hall Si, fined each hall member who had attended either party $4, and apportioned the remaining lines to various individuals according to their participation in the damaging activities. According to Sebern's res cords, only $25 In tines, paid by twelve liall members, was ever collected. Senior David Petta, last year a member of Clark said, “There were rumors of the administration withhold- ing senior transcripts of those who wouldn't pay." However, this action was never carried out. Ralph Pomerenk, the college business manager, commented. “The fine is Still on the hooks." Patrick Perry and Thomas Cole appealed the Clark Hall Council’s decision in the last days Of the academic year 1968a 69. Tile Judicial Council, at that time, decided to hold it over until the first meeting this year. In their first meeting the Judicial Council interviewed the 1968-69 Clark Hall Council: Art Andrews, John Robinson, Neil one and Gary Jones. They reached the decision cited above. Professor Mcrgen said that it is now up to the hall whether there will be a retrial or not, Other business of the Judicial Council at their iirst meeting was the election of Mergen as chairman. other members or the flameniber Judicial Council are Associate Professor Arnold Adelberg (Mathematics), Asso- ciate Protessor Ralph Lueliocn (Anthropology), senior David Petta, sophomore Ed DeBus. and sophomore Nick Russo. “The JudiCial CounCll is set up to hear speciiic cases," Mel'— gen commented when asked to define the role at the coult’ctl. ' “It is not to make judgments on college life in general.”