GRINNELL COLLEGE i SCARLET & BLACK CfllSOBEp BY tilt PRINTER crusonto BYWTHEVPRINTER 7 Vol. LXXVll THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER crime”. Iowa, Friday. November 2|. itse— ltd—to complete Text of Leggett’s State of the College Speech (At last Monday’s faculty meeting President Glenn Leg- gett delivered an address on what he called “the state of the college.” The complete text of his remarks is published below.) I want to talk with you about the state of the College as I see it. This means I will be talking about some of our problems—fi- nancial, educational, and psychological, I may spread some gloom and probably some resentment, but here and there there may be a glimmer of hope and good nature. All colleges are in trouble. The better colleges are in more trouble than the others, chiefly because their expectationsare higher and thus harder to realize and more expensive, partly because it is the nature of a superior faculty and student body to invite trouble more efficiently than the nature of a second-rate faculty and student body. But the fact that we have partners in trouble is cold comfort for us here in Grinnell. This is where we live; this is the environment that works on our personal and pro- fessional nerveendings; this is where our problems have to be solved. You already have some information about our financial prob- lems, On September 26, I sent you my interpretation of the trus- tees’ meeting of September 17, in which the trustees posed certain questions for study by the faculty. These questions, all inter-re- lated, concerned the financial ramifications of different student- faculty ratios, of the relationship of the comprehensive student fee to the actual cost of a student's education, of an increase in en- rollment, and of a cutback in administrative services. Deans Wall and Walker, with the assistance of Professor Voertman of econ- omics and Professor Mullins of Mathematics have already begun to develop the necessary models of analysis for such studies; and my understanding is that the computer will shortly be bringing forth the data which will help us form our recommendations to the trustees at their June, 197D,_ meeting. Though analysis and stu- dy will not resolve our financial problems, they will at least define them more accurately than ever before. In the meantime, our development people and appropriate staff and faculty persons are hard at work devising more and better stratagems for raising funds. The effort is CrucialI for like all colleges, we face the fact of an increasing discrepancy between our ability to spend money and our ability to find it. Luckily, we have, because of our en- dowment and the nature of our trustees, more resilency than most colleges, We should appreciate this circumstance, so long as we realize that the oratory of austerity as practiced by Dean Walker has a necessary accuracy about it. If you have resentments about this hard fact. take them out not on Dean Walker, but rather on the fact of national inflation, on a federal government which can- not decide what its obligations are, and on a war that is chewing up both bodies and minds and is dangerously close to making psychopaths of us all. The problem of simple educational sanity, let alone educational direction and leadership, in such an unhappy climate, is almost beyond description. Faculty are jittery or self-righteous; students are bewildered or angry; parents are confused or outraged; alumni are indignant or puzzled. Trustees wonder why they bothered in the first place. Presidents and deans, who by nature like to begin each morning with a semblance of orderly purpose and a minor flexing of executive muscles, discover every day that once again there is time only to strategize about emergencies and time only to devote their weary muscles to the unhappy routine of academic stable-keeping. l overstate the circumstances, by about one per— cent. We cannot do much about resolving this national agony, and we cannot avoid being profoundly affected by it. But we can make a better effort than we have to bring a measure of sanity into our own operation. How do we start such an effort? We start by defining our pri- orities, then move to describing the obligations that are attached to these priorities, and then to parceling out our time and energy accordingly. The first priority of this institution is to offer superior undergraduate education. Superior undergraduate education is not primarily a matter of curricular manipulation; it is mostly a mat- ter of superior faculty teaching superior students. This means that our first energies need to go into the recruiting and retension of superior faculty and into the searching out of superior high school graduates and into keeping them working hard and constructively after they get here. This process also implies the obligation to dis— courage from remaining here those faculty and students who for whatever reasons do not meet the standards we commit ourselves to. A great deal of our energy is already going into this priority of searching out and retaining good faculty and good students, and quite successfully so. As yet not enough is going into the hard- beaded application of the measuring-up process and the decisive STATE OF THE COLLEGE — Cont. on Page 6, Col. 1 , neither r‘ftowniesl’l . . , . Four Ptero Venders Busted Four persons, including one Grinnell student and two alum- ni, were arrested in Cedar Falls Wednesday afternoon while selling the latest issue of Pterodactyl, Grinnell’s under— ground newspaper. Charged wlih distributing ob- scene matter were sophomore Jacob Alfred Margolin, 19, of Metuchen, N.J.; Krystyna Neu- man, 22, of Grinnell, a 1968 graduate; Catherine Reed Leda er, 22. of Allen Park, Mich, a 1969 graduate; and Robert D. Hoenig, 18. of Metuchen, N According to Cedar Falls po- lice, the four were arrested about 2 pm. at the intersection of 23rd and College near the University of Northern lowa campus after police received a complaint that they were selling obscene material. The four were arraigned in the Municipal Court of Cedar Falls late Wednesday afternoon and were released on their own recognizance upon their promise to appear for a hearing sched- lued for 4 pm. Thursday. They were charged under a state obscenity statute which provides for a maximum penalv ty of one year’s imprisonment or a fine not exceeding one "10qude dollars. The allegedly obscene issue included a full-page photograph depicting a male youth Five Hundred Dollar Theft During Sweetwater Concert By Mark Sableman More than five hundred dol- lars in clothes and cash was stolen from the Darby dress- ing room of the Sweetwater band during their concert here last Saturday. Although the College social committee is not legally bound to pay for the loss, it expects to make some kind of settle— ment with Sweetwater "to in- sure good relations," accord- ing to Social Coordinator Jon Stein. The incident illustrates the growing amount of larceny on campus, and the related prob— lem of security at concerts and dances. There was actually more security at the dance Saturday than was required under the contract w i t h Sweetwater, since one Grinnell auxiliary po- liceman was hired to watch the dressing room area. There were also the normal two policemen outside Darby to keep “outsiders” out of the dance. Nevertheless, in between the rounds of the policeman in- side, the dressing room was broken into, and three leather coats valued at $50 each, one valued at $290, and $70 in cash were taken. The theft was reported to Grinnell police, but they told the 5&3 that they have no leads as yet. A number of people from towns as far away as Cedar Rapids and Newton were ob- served at the dance, and some suspect these outsiders pulled off the theft. Social coordinator Jon Stein told the 5&3 that he recog- nized more than twenty people at the concert as definitely college students or Stein also mentioned that, be- fore the Sweetwater concert, he had seen three of these “outsiders” using the tele- phone in the dressing room. He told them to leave, since he needed to use the phone to call Sweetwater in Des Moines. Sometime after Stein had made his telephone call and left, the phone was taken from the dressing room, (Later that evening, four boys from Newton were picked up by police and charged with disturbing the peace, and ille- gal possession of beer. When the police picked them up, they had the phone from Darby in their possession, They were THEFT— Contr on Page 2, Col. 3 — in front of several Playboy magazine centerfolds and a short story by Pristine Pureheart vividly describing a couple - Police reported Wednesday that they did not seek prior adjudication that the material was obscene before they made the arrests. “It was obscene be- cause it showed a naked man," Sgt. Peterson of the Cedar Falls police told the 5&3. Last year, state agents were ordered to return allegedly obscene Plero material that they had seized at a Wilton Junction printing shop. A dis trict court judge ruled that the seizure was illegal because there had been no prior adjudi- cation that the material was ob- scene. A Pterodactyl suit a- gainst Iowa Attorney General Richard Turner and other agents involved in the seizure is still pending in the 8th US, Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, BULLETIN—Thursday moms ing, the hearing for the four Vendors arrested in Cedar Falls was postponed until next Mon- day upon the request of their attorney, Clark Holmes of Des Molnes. Ptero staff member Henry Wilhelm said that numerous re— tail outlets have stopped se ing the latest issue, although it ' is Still being circulated on cam- pus. David Danforth, a clerk at the Varsity Newstand in Grinnell, said that he stopped selling Ptero “because of what hap- pened in Cedar Falls." Danforth also said that he was Visited by law enforcement officials Thurs— day morning regarding Ptero, but would make no further com- ment. WASHINGTON. March Against Death participants place names of American war dead in symbolic coffins at the foot at Capitol Hill. (See Washington story on Page 4.)