Page Two SCARLET AND BLACK Editors . Hlny Fulton, Lloyd Get-son The Scarlet & Black Student Newspaper oi Grinnell College. crinnslt. Iowa ”strum An |ndEDcndv s‘ ,4, “V; on newspaper par. 5 hsncd wcckiy. ox; cspt during holi- (days Ind :Xaminh ‘5 toio‘n pfiiudcs, by the It“ a \ngi rnns ommiltee .. 0 g on Student Public} irons. Subscription mtg sew per school year. Business Mlnuzer . John study Man-gin; Editor ., Strive Grow Layout Editor .. are: Butcher spurt! Edltor John Pepper Columnists Tom arachnoid. Tlm Furies Reporter: Cathy Ncwkirk, Mark Samemm, Cindy Root. Nnda Many-lent. rhii sasicn, .L c. Lnbawltz, Betsy Erickscn. ‘ Reggie Grnham, Kathryn Heinzes Cafe de] F oro For the past three weeks, Grinnell students have been blessed with an opportunity for relaxing weekends such as has long been lacking. Jon Stein’s coffee house in the Forum, appropriately named Cafe del Fore, has provided us with a Weinstube contrast to the Bierstube atmosphere of the Forum Grill. It is quite a pleasurable diversion from study to be able to sit quietly, sipping cider or tea, and enjoy folk music or other entertainment drawn from the plenitude of talent available among the students of Grinnelli Jon has worked a long time to make this coffee house possible He was one of many students who were disturbed that no use was being made of the excellent facilities available'between the Grill and the South Lounge and aware of the need for a quiet alternative to the Grill. He did something about it. He has garnered the best performers from among the students to provide entertainment, and they are of such quality as to have surprised many of the students who were unawa that such talent existed at Grinnell. He has gone to Des Moines and Chicago to provide fresh pastry, talked students into baking cakes and made tea, cider, coffee and espresso available, Yes, Shirley, you can even buy lox and bagels with cream cheese at the Cafe del Foro. Attendance has been somewhat erratic. It is to be expected that the cultural events of a Grinnell weekend will draw a certain number of students who might otherwise spend much of the evening at the coffee house. But they have managed to pack the place several times. Jon has promised us that he will try to opEn the coffee house during the week and for longer hours on the weekends if response continues to be good. We hope it will. If you didn’t know about the coffee house, or if you just haven’t been there yet for some reason, try to stop by this weekend. You might be surprised. We have gotten several comments, some favorable, some unfavorable, on our policy in the letters to the editors column. Some people feel that we should devote less space to letters and more to news, campus or otherwise. We agree with those who are glad we are providing a forum for members of the Grinnell College community. We feel that in many cases the availability of this forum is even more important than the limited amount of news which a college paper this size can provide. Oh those occasions when we do not publish a letter you wrote, you can be sure that it was because 01 space limitations, and not because you disagreed with us. This should be apparent from the letters in today’s column. We edit this newspaper because we feel strongly about campus issues. If you feel strongly about campus issues, we want to give you a chance to make your feelings known. Writing Contests to be Held Entries are now being accepted [or the annual Whitcomb Prizes in Poetry and the Steiner Memorial Prizes in Fiction The number and amount of prizes will be at the discretion of the judges, all judging can be done anonymously. There is no limit to the amount of fiction or verse any one person can submit, but discretion is hoped ior. The judges are requesting that all and may range train 35 to $50 each depending on the quality of the entries. Winners will he announced at the Annual Writers Conicrence, April 3, 1970, where Mr, James Dickey will be the featured speaker. Entries must be typewritten and should not have the author's name on tho cntry itsell, so that entries be submitted bcicrc spring vacation, but they will be accepted through April i. Entries should be submitted lo protessor Moore in ARH 32 Judges tor the contest are: [or tiction, Professors Kecble, Libcrman, and Moore: for verse, Professors Harris and Irving, and Mr. James Dick ._ @6705th m mmumu militant CiVitizATioN AT LAST! Friday. March 5, mo Letters to the Editor . . . To the Editor: Having just returned lroni a trip to the East Coast, 1 was distressed to read Bruce N issen's letter in the Feb. 20 $528. I find it astounding that Bruce disclaims ever having said ”. . we're working for a society that's‘ above tree'speech." So Bruce calls me a liar for saying that he did make the statement, and I say Bruce is a liar for saying that he didn’t, ‘ I also find it rather amazing that Bruce should claim that I ”admitted that it wasn’t a genuine quote.“ I never said any such thing, least of all to Bruce who has never even talked to me about the matter. He would be better oil not using secondhand information from his girlfriend Sally Hamann when engaging in such personal attacks. But all of this isn't really getting to the heart of the issue. Bruce might have much better written a letter about just what are his political views vissarvis the free press. I find it most in» tcrcsting that the Bruce Nissen who claims he is a supporter of Cuba's present policy oi lack of freedom of the press is also the Bruce Nisscn that writes the Ann Arky columns which have up» poured in Ptero and High and Mighty. Anarchy on Monday, tascisloianday? And in the next issue of the 5&5 I note that Crossett has joined in the fun. John now ac; nepts the “tact” that I mis-quoted Bruce, Now please, John, in the name of better journalism ins stead oi worse, you should have checked with me before you said that. Lets just call cach other liars and immoral slohs and call it a day Mankind has a long way logo Yours iii In\‘(‘ mid pcacc. lIt-iirj Wilhelm To The Editors: In the traditionISM of the greatEST negatiVISTS of our generationISM, n. R. GrossIS’l‘, Strom ThurmIST, and Shirley Temple BlackIST, we encourage the Grinnell student body to support the 5&8. In last week’s stirs the editors promised us that their endorsement would be the “kiss 0[ death” to any candidate. We believed the editors because everything they have condemned this year has succeeded. For example, last week the editors recommended that the students boycott the election. We can see no other reason for the stu- pendous turnout. This can lead to only one conclusion. It the editors really believed that their support would constitute a kiss of dcath then it would only seem rutioiiaLthat they should have en- dorsed all the candidates. Fora tunalely. they acted irrationally To paraphrase last week's editorial' we do not intend to impugn the characters oi the editors. Nor do we believe that this negativisin is necessarily reprehensible, but we do believe that irrational negativism cx- crclcs something which isn’t the product oi a maliunctioning pituitary gland. Phil Sasich Joli Stein To The Editors: We believe it necessary to correct the ‘tacts’ and, perhaps more importantly, the con- jectures of last week‘s sou editorial. It is unfortunate that this seems to beawcekly chore. First, although your financial statistics are roughly accurate (after all, you got them from us), the context in which you place them is highly misleading. You ncglccted to mention the close to 200 copies we distributc ircc each week, you ignored the [act that, pending legal negotiations, we had yet to claim the $50 allocated by the Senate; and perhaps you didn’t know that we give a commission of 10 cents per copy to all stores and non-staff salesmen who distribute High and Mighty. Secondly, High and Mighty is not a profit»making enterprise. High and Mighty goes into debt each issue and manages to repay the debt only by selling copies across the state, no simple task. individual staff members pay the bulk of each printing bill out of their own pockets. So far, all of these loans paid back by. our offrcampus sales. The iinancial goal or High and Mighty is to raise enough capital to pay each printing bill without borrowing irom individuals. The economists call this capital in- vestment, not profit. In addition we are trying to raise enough money to subscribe to Liberation News Service (the UPIVAP of undergrounds), Underground Press Service (an exchange network with other papers), and other syndicated items, hoping to provide a better newspaper for our readers. In explaining your editorial, You told us that all ol the above may be true, but “if you stopped publishing after any issue, you would have a profit left over.” on the contrary, all funds go right back into production of the paper and if any money is left at the end of the year, we would try to put out a free issue. We would like to add a further concerning the finances oi the student Senate. Although it may be true tllat, as the student auditor stated, the Senate is flat broke, the special Senate budget is only one small part at the total Letters— Continucd on page 6