Page Eight SCARLET AND BLACK Friday, February I}. we SCARLET 8 BLACK SPORTS mmeeeeeee seaweeds; THE WEEKLY SPORT SPALE codenamerawarae fearsome Lament of The Editor: It is Characteristic of colum- nists and commentators to spend much of their time elaborating the answers to asinine questions of their own devising. This perversity is especially promi- nent at Grinnell, since most pressing questions seem to gen- erate bizarre pentacostal revi- vals of the confrontative or cons fessional sort on the one hand, or a particularly ghastly form of death by attrition known as the ad hoc committee on the other. The outcome of this, quite apart from a plethora of disenr questioned answers, is the under- standable reluctance of anyone to expose himself to this regu- larly, much less weekly. Do any of you have any idea of what it’s like to ask a question here'! I sent out a questionnaire iast week: “What is the value of sports?" In response to this I received 17 signed confessions of implication, 2 angry denials, a complimentary subscription to Christian Economics, advice to consult the Shorter Oxlord Greek-English Lexicon (provided, of course, that I am willing to accomodate myself to the 'n‘uth) and 8 pounds 5V2 ounces of Monmouth College press releases. I also received a form letter from the University of Iowa's Athletic Director informing me that it depended upon ability and so forth, but that sports could be worth up to $1,900 a year laundry money, plus board, bed, and tui- tion. This, of course, does not include whatever endorsements, Bar Mitzvah‘s, and such like could be picked up on the side. Nor did he fail to mention the possibility of a small Cut of a brass plaque (Richard Nixon autogrjph model) given an ex- ceptional year and a restirgence of Democratic sentiment in Iowa. These of course, are the im- ponderables of chance that a good sportsman must learn to face bravely in this cause and effect universe, All of Which does criminally conspire to bring me to within seizing distance of the point of all this. For it is my,pride (and I say this unashamed) that a Sportspage can be run on sports- men’s principles, good, clean, and decent. Just as it is the American way to play to win, so, failing this, it is the American Way to field a team, play for a stipulated length of time on the proper sort of field, and follow all sorts of splendid provisions which, along with those of vicV tory, are laid away in the Rule Books. Cause and Effect in the news- paper game begins on Sunday night, Each Sunday night there is a staff meeting, in which the staff meets in the 8&3 room to sit on the typewriters and watch Lloyd and Harry light their pipes. I frequently cannot go to this meeting due to unavoidable circumstances such as my for- getting it. Then on Monday morning, Lloyd sneaks up on me in the Forum while I am wondering why l ever bothered to get up. He lights his pipe and asks how the ol’ Sportspage looks this week. Ilie to him cheerfully and he goes off happy. There are only two fundamen- tal axioms necessary to this craft: Axiom One: Sports happens on Friday and Saturday Axiom Two: The college information office has the scores and a small stockpile of jargon on Tuesday afternoons for immediaterelease AX. 2, Schol. 1: It might well behoove the editor to be there on Tuesday afternoon. Thus I am freed to spend Monday and Tuesday in whole- some pursuits such as dancing the Egyptian Polka and shooting Polar Bears. Until Wednesday, that is. On Wednesday, Harry sneaks up to tell me that he's got a photograph of a basketball or something. He wants to know if I have a story for it. So it’s Wednesday, and I need a writer. A good way of getting a writer is by means of what we in the trade call Cajolery. Cajol- ery is when you write an anony- mous letter, threatening to place a bomb in the gas tank of his diseased 1959 Buick unless the writer delivers a Sepage article to the 8&3 office in a plain brown wrapper by Thursday noon. Thursday is layout day, when it is incumbent upon everyone to read the letters to the Editors and walk around bawling “I Want photos," “I want headlines.” and “I want a special greasy proofs reading pencil with no tooth- marks on it,” and so forth. This yields a layout, three nervous breakdowns, and a warm feeling of professional pride. Then we put Lloyd and Harry in the car, tell them that they can‘t have their pipes back until the papers are in the mailboxes, and take a well~deserved rest. Allof which goes to point up the truth of what a Great Ameri- can (Vince Lombardi. I think it easternmost? Undefeated Grinneii Swimmers Roll Over How To Write The Weekly Article Carleton, St. Olaf' Face Knox This Week Enjoying an enthusiastic full house Friday and Saturday, the swim team’s last home meets were particularly excellent. Fri- day’s effort was outstanding, as we defeated with ease our toughest competition so far this season. Most of the team turned in their year’s best times, and the weekend provided for new school record; Friday’s Carletonmeet started out Well with a victory in the medley relay. Ron Brammer, Bruce McKean, Jim Williams, and Jim Carms teamed up to win the vital seven points. Mike Daley broke school records in the loan and 500 yard freestyle events (he lost both races, however, to Carleton’s ArnesonJ Bruce Continued iron. page 5 the redress, honored in tradition. is also revolution. . where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response. Strong words, coming from one of the Establishment‘s own “elected spokesmen." The question is open,‘yet academe’s experts never raise it. What is especially noteworthy about all this is the affinity of our Social Science and our foreign policy. Surely U.S. postwar foreign policy is accurately described as Counter- revolutionary Interventionism. The Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson Doctrines speak the message clearly, as do our aggression in Greece, Lebanon, Guatemala, Iran, Brazil, Laos, the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, etc. Academic Social Science, as in— tellectual votary of the status quo. is not only ideological propa— ganda, but counterrevolutionary propaganda. Thus, if Social Science provides a counterrevol- utionary rationale for U.S. global policies, and U.S. educational in- stitutions are a crucial source of official Social Science, our colleges and universities are umbilically tied to the barbarities of U. 5. foreign policy, This is not surprising, as imperialism’s body politic has always required a functioning brain. We in» tellectuals are cells of that very brain. What irony, then, that we watch Battle of Algiers horrified and shaken by what we See, while at the same time we are func- tioning constituents of a social organ that rationalizes battles like Algiers for the wrong Slde, Laura Marx once turned to the revolutionary with the words “Father, what is happiness“ “To fight,”he replied. was) once said: “I couldn’t 'a done it without a great team behind me." Let all the people say “Amen." John Nigel Pepper By Reggie cinhnm Rollins broke the school and pool record in the zoo; his 1:53 tied the conference record in that event (unofficial.) Saturday against St. olaf Rollie broke another school and pool record, He beat last year's con ference champ and the runner up in that event by swimming a 27.5 sec. on yo. freestyle. Jim Williams turned in a 2:195 sec, 200 yd, backstroke for his best of the year. Also turning in season‘s best times were: Robert Brown (500), John McBlain (1000), Hal Dale (200 butterfly), and Jim Carns (200 free). Don Like won the diving both days with little competition from either school. This week we face Knox at Galesburg. It will be our toughest meet so far, although the tough» est of the year will be against Cornell, Feb. 27, Cornell is the defending Champion in swimr ming, and whoever wins the Grinnell-Cornell meet could very well be this year's conference champ. Cornell even promises that a band is coming to cheer its team on during the meet. We need the support of anyone who could make it to the meet. There is the possibility of a bus going if enough people are inter- ested. Contact Kathy Abbott or Jim Williams if you would like to go Friday. Feb. 27. to see an undefeated Grinnell team face, last year‘s conference champs in the best meet of the season. Hoopsiers Halve Two Close Ones; Quint Phea Tips in Win Over Knox The Grinnell Pioneers split a pair of home games this weekend as they lost to Mon- mouth 75-67 and pulled out a 75771 victory over Knox. Bob Burnett had the highest scoring weekend of his career as he rolled in 27 points against Monmouth and 28 against Knox to lead Grinnell scoring for both games. Friday night the Scots jumped to a 31~23 halftime lead, but Grinnell came back in the second half to within one point, only to ., fall behind once again as’the clock ran out. Y5?" Saturday night was a different story as Grinnell' and Knox battled evenly the whole game. Don Peterson was the second highest scorer for the Pioneers as he bagged 16 points. Both teams pumped in points con» sistently until Grinnell pulled away in the last few minutes to Win by four points with Quinton Phea’s last second tiprin. Grinnell now stands 45 in conference play and 5-3 overall. This weekend they face Carleton and St. Olaf for the last home gama until February 27, The orinncll College White Caps, a synchranhcd snhnining group, will present a program on Thursday and Fl'iLm' of nut week, ADDRESS HERE!