Controversy Gver College Role in FBI Probe The college administration Tucsday decided to stop acting as an intermediary between stu7 dents and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents who for the past two weeks have been Conducting an investigation of Grinnell students involved in the SDS demonstrations in Chicago earlier this month. “If FBI agents come on cam- pus, we will not serve in an the tormediary role," said Joseph F. Wall. clean oi the college. Wall told the 5&3 he had eallier ofv lered two FBI agents the use of a college building to question freshman Kay Sophar and‘ her roommates because he wanted to protect the students from the embarrassment of going to the Grinnell police station. “I was operating on what I thought were generous instincts,” Wall explained. President Glenn Leggctt said that the college’s role in the FBI probe had been “simply that of relaying information from FBI agents to students" and informing students that they were not legally bound to meet with the agents. “The use of the word inter- mediary is unfortunate." Leg- gett said, ”because it gives the impression we were cooperating with the FBI in a way that we weren't." Both Wall and Leg- gett said that they thought they were prov1d‘ing a service for the students involved by relaying the information, and were not intentionally aiding the FBI agents. Mrs. Alice 0. Low. dean of students, used the words ”inter- mediary cdpaCity” to describe thc college’s role in the matter in a note sent to the students involved. Both chgett and Wall were critical Thursday of a new story about the FBI prcbe here that appeared under a banner head- line on the first page of Wednes- day's (Oct. 29) DE; Moines Register. Wail was expected to release early today a statement “ larifying the facts" about his invclvemcnt in the matter. lowa Governor Robert D. Ray criticized the college adminis- tration’s role in the FBI probe during a press conference Wed- nesday. "Schools should not be in the FBI business," Ray said. According to a memorandum released by the President’s of» {ice Tuesday, FBI agent Ells worth Gustafson and a fellow investigator called at the of— lice of Dean Wall Friday, Oct. 17, and told him they wished to talk with Miss So- phar and her roommates. Wall contacted Mrs. Alice 0. Low, dean of Students, who in turn contacted the girls in- volved, informed them of Gus- tafson’s message, and told them their legal rights. The girls met with the agents that day in a college office. On Tuesday, Oct. 21, another FBI agent called on President Glenn Leggett. Dean Low also attended the meeting. The agent said he wished to talk with 11 students whom the 5823 had identified as having been in Chicago during the GRIN NELL COLLEGE SCARLET & BLACK THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER SDS demonstrations. “The im- portant thing to remember,” said Leggett, “is that the FBI already had the names. We didn‘t give them to them.” After consulting with the college attorneys, Leggett and Low agreed to contact the stu- dents the FBI wished to see. In a note sent to the students involved, Dean LOW said, “The dean’s office is acting in an intermediary capacity only between the current investiga- tion conducted by the FBI and the students here.” In a brief meeting with the students on Monday, Dean Low again reiterated that the col» lege was acting only in an “intermediary capacity." One FBI— Cont. on Pg. 2, Col. 3 Vol. LXXVll erinnen. lows, Friday, October 3|. We"? ND—_7 Leggett Delays Statement On Disruptive Protests Policy BULLETIN‘ShC‘rily before the son went to press, President Glenn Leggeitt said that after discussions with the Judicial Council and Student Affairs Committee, he has decided NOT to issue a statement on disruptive protests at this time. “I have questions about the need for it and about how it might be interpreted by students," Leggett said. “For the time being, the statement is not dead, but it’s dor- mam.” President Glenn Leggett is revising a draft of a state- ment he has written concern ing the college policy on dis- ruptive protest. the sari; learns ed this week. Leggett said the statement “which is not on procedures, but on attitudes" may be ready for release next week. He explained that the “state- ment on college responsibil- ity” will attempt to define “at what point the community should draw the line” with re- gard to disruptive protests by students. Leggett read the original draft of his statement at the Oct. 9 faculty meeting, and the faculty Executive Council has since made recommendations to the president concerning re» visions. The statement is pres- ently being discussed by the Judicial Council, and the final version will be submilled to the trustees before being re- leased. Leggett said that he is pro; paring the statement because This is the first son to be printed. on an offset press. It‘s getting better all the time. “the executive council of the Board of Trustees felt we ought to have one.” He added that the trustees first began discussing the matter last year when the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, is- sued a controversial statement on disruptive protests and nu- merous other colleges and Uni verslties, p re p a re d similar statements defining their [.307 siticns. Rabbi Rubenslein Is Gates lecturer Rabbi Richard L. Rubens stein, Theologian and Profes- sor at the University of Pitts- burgh, will deliver the annual Gates Memorial Lecture Series at Grinnell Sunday through Tuesday (November 24). He will give three public lec- tures. all] in Herrick Chapel, on the theme “Religion After the Death of God.” Lecture themes will be “Why I Parted Company with Traditional Theology" (Sun- day, 8:00 p.m.); "Technology and Contemporary Religious Experience" (M o n d a y, 8:00 pm); and “Religion After the Death of God” (Tuesday, 11:00 am). Rabbi Rubenstein also serves as Chaplain to Jewish students at the University of .Pittsburgh, Duquesne Univer- sity, CarnegierMellon Univci'r sity, Chatham College, He is the author of the books Alter Auschwitz and Religious Imagination. He has also con- tributed articles to numerous journals. Profs Debate Abolishing Senior Comps After several years of contrur versy about the senior compra~ hensive examination, the fac- ulty met Monday and debated whether to abolish comps as a general graduation r e qu i r e- merit. Prof. Joseph F. Wall (His- tory), dean of the college, placed on the floor a motion to abolish the comprehensive examination as a graduation re- quirement “effective for the class of 1970." Wall told the faculty that after debating the motion for 11/2 hours, the faculty’s Execu- tive Council was divided evenly on the question, with five mem- bers favoring the abolition of comps and five others opposed. “In some respects that was good," Wall said, "because now there is no pressure from the Executive Council (on how the faculty should vote). We must get a decision within the next week or two." Wall also told the faculty that the three divisional educational policy committees had been divided on the issue of compre- hensive examinations. The Humanities Divisional EPC res commended that the comp rc~ quirement be maintained, while the Social Studies and Science Divisonal EPC’s recommended that it be abolished. Asst. Prof. John H. Worley (Philosophy), faculty secretary, read a proposal which he will offer as an amendment to the present motion at next Mon- day's faculty meeting. The pros posal would allow individual des partments to replace the present comp requirement with programs that “could consist of a comprehensive examination, a theSis or paper, a particular course or seminar, a research project, a public performance, or any combination of these." Such programs would be either required or optional, but if passing them is a graduation requirement for majors, they “must be accepted by the Di- visional EFC, the Executive Council, and appear in the col- lege catalog.” Wall said that the comp issue was “fundamental to the basic issue of college policy and the reason for the existence of the college itself.” He explained that the Executive Council dis- cussed the issue dn the level of whether Grinnell’s purpose is to provide only a broad and diverse liberal education, or whether it does, or should. also provide high quality pie-pro fessional training. During debate on the motion to abolish comps at Monday’s meeting, the faculty appeared to be divided on the issue for various reasons. P r o i . Morris Parslow (French) defended the compre- hensive examination because it “evaluates the student’s ability to define and to operate in his field and to see the relationship of that field to the general lib- eral arts in a wide perspec- tive." "I'm against comprehensive examinations as a general We quiremenl." Prol. Irwin Gold- berg (Sociology) told the faculty. “Leaving the require ment to each department would allow the departments to do what's best for the student.” Goldberg said Grinnell should “prepare our students for the world into which they are moving” by aiding in "occur patioual placement and self- fulfillment." He said that comps don't serve those pur- poses in his discipline, and FACULTY— Cont. on Pg 4, Col. 1 Some 2|) students marched onto Ward Field bearing a Viet Cong banner and gave the clenched-fist sign of resistance during the flag-raising ceremonies at the Homecoming foot- ball game Oct. [8. “I didn’t like it," said President Glenn Leggetl, who added that there are no grounds upon which the students could be disciplined.