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honesty and juslice and a
tile oi vil'tue’ I
mean the colleges and univer
sities ior some proiessors are iust

as weak or ruthless in promoting
their own interests at the expense
at their colleagues, by pei‘r

iorming acts which in llieir
younger days they regarded as
unworthy oi the protession and
even despicable. To quote the
“master oi them that know,"
concerning youth, “Young men
have exalted notions because
they have not yet been humbled
by tile or learned its necessary
limitation, they would rather do
noble deeds than useful ones;
their lives are regulated more by
moral teeting than by. reasoning;
all their mistakes are in the
direction or doing things exe
cessively and vehemently; they
love loo much and hate too much,
and they think they know
everything and are always quite
sure of it, lor which reason they
overdo everything,"

Inshort,. what colleges need
these days ot academic turmoil
is less “personal morality", less
yielding to unreasonable
demands, and more and more

class discussion of ethical issues,
What is the nature of the good,

what is happiness, what is virtue,
what is the aim of life, what is
the aim of education? By
definition, students are in
colleges to learn. Accordingly.
they must submit to learning and
not claim authority to knowledge
and act upon it On the other side,
teachers are in colleges to leach,
and ethics is just as important
as chemistry and literature. A
teacher in ethics should have
arguments for certain kinds of
actions as being pi-eierable to
certain other kinds, and raise
questions on diiticult issues. A
course on ethics should be a
discussion and not it led
ture course. resembling the
discussions in Agora and Plato’s
Academy There will be many
unresolved problems, but the tent
should be set. and an atmosphere
or inquiry and learning should
prevail. and not an atmosphere
oi dogma and action, The come
nlcxitv (if the problems should be
emphasized. ior in this way
sludeills Will be less likely to
espouse simple answers and act
hastily. Practical and tiieoretical

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difficulties in having such
courses are acknowledged, but a
beginning is better than no
beginningatall.

One theoretical difficulty is due
to the varieties of assumptions
concerning lite, Happiness for an
atheist is limited to this life, but
a believer will-have to define
happiness in terms oi eternity;
and there are differences even
among hclicvers. Nevertheless,
all or them have something in
common: ior example, all agree
on being just, on promoting
the intellectual and social values,
and, in general, on treating in-
dividualsras ends in themselves
rather than as instruments to be
used for one‘s own ends. And if
diiierences exist, pr udices are
more likely to dim ish if the
various assumptions are made
known and discussed, for some
respect and tolerance for dite
ferent assumptions is likely to
follow.

As for physical education and
health, they are well taken care
or in most colleges. Next, we shall
proceed with the final part,

Faculty Opinion
Honeywell Corp.
And the Military

The annual stockholders
meeting oi the Honeywell Cor-
poration will be held in Min-
neapolis on Tuesday, April 20.
Honeywell, with sales or about a
billion dollars a year, has a nice
relationship with the Department
oi Deiensc. The Deiense
Department bought $400,000,000
worth or goods irom the
Honeywell Corporation in iiscal
year 1969. This included
552,000,000 worth oi ammunition
and explosives. Honeywell has
been a major supplier oi cluster
bomb units, the so.ealled dam.
The ettectivencss oi the CBU in
killing Vietnamese cilivralns has
been well documented

The Honeywell Project is
organizing direct action against
the Honeywell corporation on
April 23 The actions begins with
a rally in St. Paul on the evening
oi the 27th, See Karen Smith or
David Decoster ior details,

SCARLET AND BLACK

Faculty Meets To
Debate ‘Betts Motion’

The iaculty met in a special
session on April 16, and in regular
session on April 20, primarily to
discuss the proposal for the
establishment of a committee on
curriculum and academic afe
fairs, the soecalled Belts
proposal. (See the March 18 issue
of the S&B|.

After an extended debate on
technical points, the tacuity
voted to discuss the proposal in
[our parts: the voting mem-
bership, the duties, the respon-
sibilities, and finally the
establishment of the committee.

Another motion was made and
passed concerning student
election to the committee If the
entire proposal is accepted,
Student election will he as
follows: one student elected at
large, and one student elected
from each of the division by the
majors in that division.

The discussion oi the proposal
was tabled until the next
meeting, however it appears that
there Will be considerable debate
before action is finally taken on
the substance oi the proposal.

Grotni Received

Receipt of a $2,500 grant irom
the General Electric Foundation
for the support of undergraduate
education in chemistry at
Grinncll College has been an-
notiliccd by president Glenn
Leggett

Grtiilitll will channel the funds
into its comprehensive, iivcyear
program lor the further
upgrading oi the chemistry
department tii addition to ac-
cclcratcd opportunities ior in-
5 “(Ellen and research, the
program provides ior the pur»
Chasc at new and more
sophisticated chemistry
equipment

The chemistry plan is one oi
niaiiy disciplinary and intere
disciplinary programs developed
as part or the $10 million lirst
piiaseotGrinneli'slong-i-anges25
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Contest Winners N amed

The 79th Hill Speaking Contest
held on Thursday, April 16th. In
the Women’s Contest first place
was won by Patricia Sullivan tor
a speech entitled “My Personal
Views on Women's Liberation;”
second place went to Cynthia
Roby ior her speech “Foreign
Study Program ; " uiird place was
won by Carolyn Ashbaugh for her
Speech “Urban Renewal,”

In the Men‘s Contest the results
were: rstplace, Robert sackett,
“American Involvement in
Vietnam," second place, James

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Spell, “Athletics," third place,
Dirk Adams, “Blacks in
America.”

The Hill Contests were
established by Dr. Gershom Hill
of Des Moines and the Rev.
James Hill of Salem, Mass. in
1091, in commemoration ot the
twentieth anniversary of their
graduation irom Grinnell in 1071.
Their desire was to establish a
contest that would develop in
college students the ability to ’
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