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SCARLET AND BLACK

Friday, April 17, I970

 

The Scarlet & Black

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The Buildings and Grounds workers have gone
on sti'i c. The Tcamsters’ Union and the College
have been unable to agree on a contract for these
employees. The College argues that its proposal is
lair within the bounds of its financial resources and
the current labor market. The Union argues that the
College can allol'd more and that the employees de-
serve more money and benefits. Student and fac-
ulty support for the strike has ranged from benign
sympathy to active participation in picketing and,
in several instances, to boycotting of classes.

The matters of the College’s financial resources
and financial commitments are complex ones. No
one, we believe, can make a decision on the justncss
of the position of either side without a thorough
examination of these. This week we have attended
both student and faculty meetings at which the
question of the strike was considered. It is pain-
fully obvious that a number of people are perfectly
willing to support the Buildings and Grounds work-
ers with little or no knowledge of the facts. At
neither of these meetings was the possibility serious-
ly considered that the Union is making unjust and
unreasonable demands. This is surely an example
of a degenerate kind of liberalism. It is compassion

without thought.

We do not categorically support either the Col-
lege or the Union in this matter. By the time this
editorial appears, some settlement may be reached.
We believe, however, activists to the contrary not-
withstanding, that the proper position for students
and faculty to take is one of respectful silence. As
for those faculty members who have refused to hold
Classes in support of the strike, we accuse them of
intolerable professional incompetence. A riLuTiber of
students and faculty have shown that their capacity
for righteous indignation far exceeds their desire

for reasoned action.

Poe Film Festival Here
This Weekend and Next

Edgar Allan Poe's name still
elokcs images of mystery and
hm or, and the Gi‘lnncli comn
iiiuiiiiy can iind pui by seeing
llie six films in [he Poe Film
Festival [his weekend and next,
Some Of these films have little
In do \Hlll Poe's works lTHE
HAUNTED PALACE is based on
a mich by H. P, Lovccraiii. but
all of them were directed by
Roger Cornish and slar Vincent
Price,

Wilh lhc help of Boris Karloff,
Pclcr Lorre. Basil Ralhbone.
Barbara Slccle and Lon Chaney
Jl‘,. Price portrays or is
surrounded by madman,
magicians. and wiichcs. Debra
Pagel, lliizcl Courl and Luana
,iiiiici-s prniiilc iiic erotic in-
lci‘esl. Like Poc, Cormaii

ggcruies ihc unpredictable lo
. i ‘lle our liiiiiilllir coiiceplions
iii produce macabre cfiecls of the
abnormal lobsession and
dchisumi. llle palhological
iplziguc and madness). and ihc
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.\llll(‘ nl lllese films an
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cepliun, liul lhey do suggest llial
llie grotesque appeals whcn man
is no lbngcr sure of his moral
or psychological boundaries. Tile
ugly, the rcpellan! and ihe
unknown challenge the
established order of lhings and
allow us a momentary freedom
from predictable paiici-iis and
organic laws

The films are made available
by Mr lrvnig (English and
American Sludiesl who is
sludying perceplions of the
grolcsquc in lileraiure and the
film, Each of the films will be
shown lwicc in the Forum South
Lounge (or ARH Audiloriuml at
lhc following times in the
evening THE HAUNTED
PALACE lAprll 16, 1015 and
April 17. 7:30 iii ARHl, TALES
OF TERROR (April 17. 10:15 and
April 18. a 00) THE Pl'i AND
THE PENDULUM (April 15.
ill-30 and April 19, 7:00 in Mill),
THE HOUSE OF USHER (April
23. a 00 and April 24, 7:3(ll. THE
RAVEN lAprll Z4, )0 (loand April
2:. 10:3(ll. THE MASQUE OF
Till: RED DEATH «April 2.3. 7.30
will i\})l'll .1). min in AHH l..

”But You're Supposed to Starve in o Garret!”

Letters to the Editor . . .

To The Editors:

Allhough democracy may be
ulijusl on a national level, it is
completely equitable here
at Gi'lilnell. The recent defeat
of Juslice Carswell showed that
lhe U S Senate is too narrow
minded to allow mediocrity in the
Supreme Couri. Thank God our
seiiale elections at Grinnell af-
lirm lhal nicdiocrily, loo, has lhe
righl lo equal i'eprcseiilalion.

Paul J. iiuiliiiiuii
l'Ii 'l'lii' l‘Iilili

ll‘hcii ilic sill; reqiicsicd llizii
iic sulllnil an arlicle describing
ilic Ullllei‘cllcl} on [he working
class \le i'elllscd to do so. As
iiiciiihci-s ol' the planning com»
iiiillcc \vc (lid iiol [ch lllal it was
jllsllllc’llch lo dcsci-ibc llic coil-
irrriicc ini- n siiidcni body which
pniici-nlly ilid iioi bother to aln
[will

ll sociiis mhiiilesily hypo
ll'llical lhol a student body that
iius so recently rallied round his
liiliiii- chusc, weeping crocodile
lca abuul Hie genuinely de-
[il‘c ‘ed slalus of Grinnell BKzG
inn-hers. din iioi have the depth
ill llliCI‘L‘Sl lu cdlicale lhemselves
ill llie realllies of the labor move-
lllCIli

he experienced iirsi hand.

We do noi hold only ihe Grilmell
sludenl body on contempl. Thosc
faclllly who preach ihc enjoy-
mciii oi learning, med [0 take
udvanlage of (his unique
situalitln,

This conference oiiered a
unique opportunity and it is in
comprehensible lo us that his la]-
enlCEl niid socially conscious slu-
dcnls and inlellcclllally sllmus
lalctl iaculiy stayed away in
droves

Mike Siegel
PliilSasich

T0 The Editors
The coiiiroici-sics over me
Sludeiil Posnioh Paper and
Sllldclll i-igliis in general have
Cl‘caled, ii nuihing else, an at-
lnosphei'e of polarization on ihe
campus. i iiiyseir, iiir insisiice,
iiqi-ninlly apolitical when ii
Collies lo the machinations of
college pchiics, have found a
rccu cilt impulse to sift ihrpugh
siiideni ideology in hope of
defining it in some mcaiiingiiil
why, /\fler several months of
this, one realizes that it is ex
Il'enlely dill illl not to take an
extreme posilion, that indeed, an

sigiiiiicaiilly. nnly ilie label Lexii-cmeis what is cxpccled, and

rilVC cnmniunisi speakingat
Griiincll" drew substantial
uudiciicc. This iaci indicates Ille
pI‘UpCllSily of siudenis and
lilCllll)‘ all (iriiiiiell to him out
nll|_\ ini- iiuinc speakers wiib unn
iisiinl rrpulallniis
Il iiiis inlcresiiiig iii iiiiie llial
illt' iiiidiciicc was impressed by
l'i-iiirssnr Aplheker's pi‘esenla-
iiiiii. iiiiinriuiiniciy lhe Grinnell
(’(llllmullliy lniicd to realize lhal
iliry iiiisscrl liiiir UlllCl' speakers
iiliu were as good or bciier lllan
"lllc liiiiig. brcalliiiig com»
iiiiiiiisi " »
nniiiii (lL ibc iiicse
siirukcrs llll pnpcr, lUl‘ ibcy c0in~
llllllll(<|l(‘[l iiii iiiirn iliui can only

ll iiiusl be one taken, after a
quick dose of Marcuse aiid Laing,
bn llic Left The attempt to
L'Olllllcr Leiiisi ierminulogy on
iliis campus, if only for the sake
of some sort oi Contrast to the
colorless ilioughi piii-veyed in and
out (il the classroom, is emn
harassingly fruitless Pic»

Slllilably ilie college has been
cslabllshed as a cehier ol
ihiiughi. historically developed
iiiih his idea lhat a student is
possessed of less knowledge ilian
ills professors, and that hIS goal
should be to lesson that gap, whai
is iniiiid in actualily is a far cry
liulil this. an|inllitellcctualism
would be [he bcsi ierm for it ii

men: were any signiiicani por-
iion of lhe student body that
understood or practiced intell-
igence enough to be aware of '
ihcir opposition to it. To be quite
holiest, I find it incredibly difn
liciili to concern myself with the
average sludent’s reality kick as
it is mouthed, chewed, digested,
and assimilated into the college
:oiiimuniiy every day at that
campus-wide nerve ending, the
forum. All too unfortunately, the
ii-csliiiian arriving on campus
iiiih bags packed, mind blown,
and iliai ulli'a revoiuiion lussing
about inside his head, is perfectly
suited to fit into a siyle of living
Ilia! he should have been
prepared lo leave in his earlier
years of high school, Thai he did
nol do says more about him than
it does about the society he would
(lcslroy.

Yet reaiily is where [he
icciiiigs coalesce: who could
forget it'.’ And al't, pour,
dissatisfied arl, yearning ibi-
release into our student’s
inlcrocosmic world, is inevitably
left at the door. A bridesmaid
liiii mm a bride, pbeii-y stands
in His iviiigs oi the marriage oi
emotion and action. The ultimate
élrl, one hears constantly, is his
art ol realism. n is bred in the
slrecl; ii is as slimy as ihe
swamps of Vietnam, as political
as that famous battle bi Algiers,
and above all, explosive, A quaint
theory iid ii belongs (alasl most
ciiiphalicully io our times, May
ollc be permiiled, amidst the
i-hclpric, to bring forth me
question of order? For surely,
even the most superficial
examination of our literature
llidicales the freedom inherent to
arlislic disci line: inherent,
lildccd, lo polilical discipline as
well as that most vaunted of
sliil)ho|ellis. individual freedom

LETTERSs

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