The Scarlet & Black r f A ivrukly llCstilpCI publisiico 5W9“ N‘”"P"Pe ° rich rriday or iiic College year Grinnell College, :v the Grinncll Commiilcc on . \uucnl Pullllcllllohs Reprflsenlctl Grinnell. Iowa ior nullpntgd advcrllsmg by Na. , liona ucallollal Advertising se‘mw min 360 minim. Ave. ; _ New York, New york loan Seer ‘ ma class posiigi ii n omr ‘ iicll, iriwa Subscriplioii mic ssuu pcr school ycar woo Paid "mm“, silosrripiions l’DH’OnS nusiless MANAGER MANAGING FDIIOR mvou'r 0R scours EDl’rDR izcmiiiius llilrry rulioii, Lloyd Gersoii John iirody sicvo Grow Greg Butcher John Pepper Tom Greenfield, oil-i: Eulcher, suhlcmon. Mike SICKL-l, Phll Morales. unowliz. Killhryn l-iclnze. PM Lester. Jun Siciii, Noun Manglalclii, Plill Saslch Environmental Teach-[n This week marks the beginning of the First Na- tional Environmental Teach—In. All over the country students, teachers, scientists, politicians, and just plain citizens are gathering at economic, social, and academic institutions to focus their attention and the attention of their nation on the problems presented by the ecological crisis. There is hope that this week’s events will be the beginning of a popular movement that will express in deeds and not merely words a concern for the safety of our environment. If this happens, it will not be the first such move- ment. Among other organizations, the Sierra Club has for years been actively working on a limited scale for the preservation of the purity of our wil- derness areas. The masterful and sensitive photo- graphs of Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter as pub- lished in the Sierra Club’s books have convinced many of the need for active concern in these mat- ters. These are days, however, when even such pre- serves as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area are threatened by encroaching industry. Pollution of our environment has, in urban, rural, and wilder- ness areas, reached a level at which it cannot be ignored. We are awakening to the need for action at an alarm which we can only hope did not come too late. We are no longer willing for our environ- ment “to be handed over to ceaseless, unthinking development by those who think only of what it could yield to them today,” in the words of Garrett De Bell. Everyone admits that it is “ceaseless, unthinking development” that has got us into this situation, but we disagree as to whatito do about it. Suggestions for action range on all sides from the active and rational concern of the conservation organizations to the rash, if sincere, actions of students who con~ scientiously collect tin cans from the roadsides to empty on the floors of soft drink and beer distribut- ors. We suggest that this is a time when, more than at any other, reason is needed, lest we move from “ceaseless, unthinking development” to ceaseless, unthinking activity. Man, the only rational animal, has often acted before thinking. If we work together to reverse this trend, we can more effectively work together to change our treatment of the environment. Luebben's Anthropology Group Digs Kivo on Trip Pueblo, dated approximately 1200 AD, exploration of other allied features of the site, field Di. Lucbben oi ilic An- lllropology department has announced the fourth annual Grinnell College iield session to be held this summer, The field research will take place at Ismay Ranch, Cortez, Colorado. The research team, consisting oi two in {our siudenls and Dr. and Mrs Lue'hbcii, will leave Grinnell on May 30 and return here on July 1. The research will involve excavation oi a Klva lCercmonial Chamber) associatcd wilh the Lancaster anaylsis oi data, and mapping and photographing of the site. Fees lor the trip will be paid by a COSIP grant to the An lhropology department. Students, however, will be required lo pay ior food enroute. The prerequisite ior ad- millance to the field team is a course in anthropology. Preicrence will be given to an lhropology majors. Applications are available from Mr linebbell SCARLET AND BLACK Friday, April 24. I970 “You know, it’s a hell of a price to pay for a little depolarization l" Letters to the Editor . . . to: ALI. s'l'UDEh Sometime during the previous week each oi you should have received a questionnaire and should have been asked to para ticlpale in a sociometric Study of the political attitudes of Gl‘innell College Students. We have received some feedback both favorable and unfavorable. I will concern myscli with what appears to be llle most unfavorable criticism of the questionnaire, that is the supplying of names of your iellow students at diliercntpoinls in the qucslioniiaire. Many sludcllts liuvc objected in supplying the names of lllell‘ fellow sludellls on Ilic grounds llizil such lnallcl's arc hm pcrsoiial. While we Ulla (lul’sléllltl and agree that our mic, itillllflll’e is an invasion oi [)l‘l\rl - , and downright “imscy,” \l'c iiiiisl iiisisl llial iiiosl ol' the qiicsiiims we ask you and your fellow students are publicly ulisci-iablc l‘:,\dlll])lt:§: Anyone can sii oiiisidc Darby Gymr iiisiiiiii conic lhis Saturday night slllKl dclciiiiiiic who took whom to llic Spring Rock Dance The names oi your rudiiimalcs are pulilic kimivicdgc, some write illell‘ llzlillcs on the doors for all to sci" \‘IlllUlll a second ilioughl you publicly lcll lhc names 01 your lclIiiw sludcills who visited Wllh you over Spring Break; and \villiill 24 hours anymic could dcciphci- fairly a ‘ately mosl iii your closer associates. Bul \ye are 1101 iiilcrcsled iii him ‘mg your friends or assoclzlles per so. All names used in lhc questionnaire will be translated to Codes, the codes and oihoi-doia lrom the questionnaire will be placed on data cards and ihc questionnaire will be destroyed. Names are needed ior lollow-up studies of the student community and to test our hypothesis. individuals with siiniliai- altitudes, if brought into close proximity will form reference groups On a more serious hole, some RINNELL COLLEGE people have expressed alarm at being requested to write down some personal data ior fear oi “Big Brother” and national security agencies, But in all lioncsly and sympathy, 1984 is already here, Through college, jllh and organizational apr plicuiloiis, international Revenue. lllc Dl'ilfl boards, and, as ill liIlL‘ lllc 1970 Census, \ have had ll} II' the man Wallls to leach yiiii. hc can reach you. our lilllc illllly licic iiuuld only be a drop iii a i-csci-vmr by comparison. Yet, we realize his psychological \‘Il)l'2\|ltllls oi our i-cqucsls and the limo no lll'oi I do not see any phi. cul liar ici-s. least of all the psLurlUrhzll‘l‘lCI‘ oi Gl'lllllcll College, in hard all 198-] Si llutll lilusl collie from within, \lic waiil you to ii~usl and work iviili us in iliis project. ll you liislilulc lllIS 1-4 year study and \\‘llll your Cl‘lllClSlllS and siiugc is and cooperation, lhis could “11‘” CHI to bc a real “groovy" ciilci-piise All in llll’lllilllllll \‘llllCll reaches us (Mr, llotlnls, Dianne Wilson, Tom (illlcspici will be held in Sil‘iclb Uillllrltncc. We value our own and the Political Science Dcpariiiiciil's iiilcgi-ily loo much Ill rill OlllEI'WlSL‘ ‘ ll-I DI 'IUN YUL'RS L. Uillc' To The Editm Congratulations on a mature and intelligent editorial on the B & G Strike in the April 17th issue of the Scarlet & Black. Sincerely, S.) Velma B. Hiser . .nc. Pl'ol. of Communications To the Editors: To take on John Nigel Pepper, cspeciallywvhen he can muster such reserve forces as the movie Highschocl and Alan NasV ser in support of his proposal to scrap lhe Physical Education requirement, is a lush at WillCll even i inighi quail, sull, as me man who preserved the SWimr ming requirement the last lime pie it was debated at [acuity meet ing a for which I received the John Pfitsch Award for Prue gymnastic Excellence—l guess it devolves on me to speak up in behalf of the “body hall" of the “mind-licdy problem." Mr. Pepper questions whether the President and the Deans are competent to decide on the value of physical education 7 and this at a time when the faculty is engaged in turning over its control of the curri- culum to the students! If pllySlr cal fitness be a bad thing, then the charge of making its bad- ness requisite must be laid on the faculty tcc. Let us give dis- credit where discredit is due. The faculty and the adminis- tration have preserved, in the P.E. requirement, the last ves- tige of a tradiliun that goes back beyond Flam, even unto Homer: that man be a speaker of words and a doer of deeds. My chjec- lion to lhe P.E. requirement at Grinnell lies precisely in die fact that it is vestigial. What we need is not less but more RE, In the present lermcnl aver re- ViSlng the curriculum, I would move that we raise the require mom to 62 of the 124 hours re- quisile ior graduation, {or only thus can we achieve the juvenal ideal oi mans sand in corpora sano. If the students around here were tuckered out from 62 hours worth of P.E., we would see a quick and to the kind of malevolent high jinks which we suller in contem- porary surrogates for Spring Riots e.g., vandalism in sup- port or unions. To gain physi- cal lilness and get rid oi moral evil in one motion is all econ- omy worthy of Divine Provir deuce. Under Gl‘innell's pres- ent system, we have inverted the Homeric ideal, and our LETTERS— Conlinued on page 7