9"“ "1'” ""ng g. E 2 z 230M IOWENSE 6“ Vol. LXVIIl GRINNELL COLLEGE SCARLET & BLACK "The misuse of language ir not only dinomtoi in itselt. n is even injurious to the real.“ _ Plate Grinnell, lowa, Friday, May I. l97o FNflOl EAY TON No. l3 Students Vo+e To Reject Judicial Council Proposal By Greg Butcher Students rejected an amends merit to the SGA Constitution concerning the Judicial Council Article by a narrow margin Monday noon in the lunch lines. A positive vote of so per cent was needed for approval; but out of 512 ballots, 302 (59 per Cent) Voted in favor, eight short of the number necessary for approval. Only 123 students (25 per cent of those voting) opposed the proposal, but the 75 abstentions and seven unmarked ballots provided the margin of defeat. The voting followed a KDIC editorial opposing the amend rnent and urging the defeat of the proposal. The editorial attacked seven aspects of the proposal: (1) the limit of 20 persons at open hearings, (2) a section of the bill of rights which allows entrance into student rooms, (a) hall judicial councils remaining essentially the same as before, (4) one section which left defendants open to “double jeopardy,” (5) the President‘s veto power over judicial decisions, (6) one section of the amendment (had-ll which ape pears to be contradictory, and t7) the sloppiness and redundancy of the entire amendment. Tuesday night, the Senate, which had previously approved the amendment, deleted the section limiting attendance at open hearings and voted to resubmit the proposal to referendum. A motion to delete the section allowing double jeopardy was deieated unanimously on the grounds that no parallel could be made be tween judicial councils and the U.S. court system and that therefore the objections were invalid, Bill Thomas and Greg Vranicar defended the amendment against the other KDIC attacks. Dealing with the second objection above, they said that entrance into student rooms is already college procedure and that at times it is AMENDMENT— Continued on page 7 Dean’s Office And Senate Committee Reveal Plans For Residence Halls Several major changes have been made in the residence halls for next year, resulting in a wider number of options for students, particularly with respect to co- ed balls, The changes were made by the Student Deans office in cooperation with the Housing Committee of the Student Senate in response to the results of a questionnaire distributed by the Committee to residents of Loose and Younker and all other stun dents except seniors. Next year, Loose Hall, which has been co-ed by floors this year, will be coed by rooms The rooms will not be exactly alterr nating, but there will be approxir mately the same number of men and women on each floor, spread throughout the entire iloor, Cleveland and Langan Halls will both be made cerd by floor. Basement and second floor in Cleveland will be women and lirst and third men, In Langan, first and second will be women and Basement and third men. These arrangements were made to keep the number of bed spaces available and the number of singles available equal {or both men and women In addition to me above changes, Younker Hall will re main coeed by wings, and Smith will become a men’s hall and Dibble womens, Mrs, Alice Low, Dean of Students, told the SKIS that the changes were made in accord ance with the belief that “it is very important to maintain a variety of living styles on cam pus." and the questionnaire circulated by the Student Housing Committee indicated that there was a desire for more Co~ed halls. Freshmen will be assigned to all halls on campus; they will be sent a letter explaining the ale tcrnatives, and they will have a chance to indicate their prefer- enccs. For returning upperclassmen, number drawings were held Thursday night, and room selecr tions will be made Saturday. Mrs. Low said that the dormi» tory arrangement planned for next year was not planned as a permanent one, and that she thinks that ”the 1' ng situation and use of dormitories should be evaluated each year." Dean Wall Offers Alternate Motion To 'Bei‘l‘s Proposal' At Faculty Meeting The following proposal was presented by Dean Wall in fac— ulty meeting on Monday, April 27, as a substitute motion to the proposal originally pre- sented by the joint Student ,Fnculty Organization Commit tee. it is presented here as general information for the stu— dent body, inasmuch as the faculty has accepted this as a substitute motion and will tie bate it at its next meeting on Monday, May 4. The proposal as presented is open to amend- ment, and will be voted on by section : A ~ on Voting Mem- bership; B — on Duties of me Committee, and C — Opera- tional Procedures. Following the debate and vote on each section, including amendments Horacio Jorge Becca, Argentine editor-poet-c c, that may be offered, the entlre proposal, as amended, Will then be voted upon. Should the pros posal fail, the faculty would then return to its consideration of the original proposal as pre- sented by the joint committee. Dean Wall has announced his intention to present to the foes nlty helore its next meeting a hriet summary of the changes in the existing Trustee By-Laws and the Rules of the Faculty Organization that the adoption of his proposal would necessie late. The students who served on the joint committee will be present at the faculty meeting on Monday to hear the debate and to offer their views on the proposal. Other students who do» livcred a leciure last Tuesday evening at 7:45 P.M. in the South Lounge of the Forum, His lecture, entitled El cuenio argentinu, was delivered in Spanish. Clot-teller Offers Plan To Severley Cu+ A proposal has been presented to the Faculty Executive Council which would signiiicantly lessen the number of specific require- ments for graduation from Grinnell College. A student would still be required to obtain a major and would be forbidden to take more than iorty hours of courses from a single department, but other than that the choice is up to him. The proposal, known as the Clotfeltcr Proposal, follows: “Proposal A: That the Re- Requirements “Requirements for Graduation: I, Completion of 124 credits with an over-all cumulative grade-point average of 2,0, provided that not more than 40 credits from any one de» partment may be counted toward the 124. “ll Completion of a major, comprising a minimum of 32 credits in a niajor held together with such courses outside the major field and other activities (comprehensive examination, quirements ior Graduation found «colloquim, etc ) as the major de- on pages 34.27 oi the catalog be replaced by the tollowing statement: CLOTFELTER— Continued on page 7 University Of Iowa Professor Will Speak Nancie Gonzales, Professor oi Anthropology at the University of Iowa. will speak next Wednesday evening, May otli, at 7:30 PM. in the South Lounge on “Reyes Tijcrcua and the Courthouse Raid." Miss Gonzales, author of a hook in her speciality, Mexican Americans of New Mexico, is delivering this lecture as parl of the series (in Amman Studies. A short question and answer pcriod Will follow, The lecture is open to all members or the Grinncll com. munity. and students are one couraged to attend. may wish to have their opin- ions known. should Contact either the students or the fac— ulty who served on the joint committee. To: Voting Members oi the Faculty From: J. F. Wall Concernin A Proposed Modi- fication of the Proposal for the Establishment V of a Committee on Cur- riculum and Academic Affairs. This is a tentative proposal modiiying the proposal by the Betts Committee, which is presently before the Faculty. it the Faculty should be inter ested in this proposal, before it was adopted I should wish to relate this proposal to specific changes and amendments in the Trustees By~Laws and Fac- ulty Organization rules. A. Voting Membership of the Committee (as already ap- proved by the Faculty) 1. 3 EFC Chairmen plus the member-atelarge to the Execu- live Council. Zr 3 student representatives, one from each of the three di- Visions, elected by the majors within that division (students who have not yet declared a major may vote in the division or their choice), plus one stu- dent electcd at large by all students. 3. The Dean of the College will serve as Chairman of the Committee (in his absence, the Chairman of the Faculty). The Chairman would vote only in case of a tie. "4. Ex officio, nonrvoting members: the President of the College, the Chairman oi the Faculty, the President oi the SGA, the Student Coordinator. (It is hoped that whenever pos sible the exrollicio members will attend these meetings.) H. Duties of the Committee ‘I. TO consider all curricular matters that presently are sub- mitted to the Executive Coun» cil, including general gradua- tion requirements, department- al course offerings and curric» ula, interdepartmental pro» grams, variations in the stan- dard curricula, and grading systems. 2. To perform the function of a curricular and academic long-range planning committee. Consideration will be given to future projections of academic programs and staffing needs, both on and off the campus. To assure serious review by the college of future academic planning. the Committee will provide a written report evalu tiling its deliberations to Fac- ulty and students during the first semester of alternate aca- demic years. The first report will be due during the second WALL— Continued on page 4