Friday; May i, I970

SCARLET AND BLACK

 

College Approves Program To Help
Blocks To Live In Clusters In Holls

By Mark Sableman

A plan which would allow a
number of black iipperclassmen
and freshmen to live in the
same dormitory next year has
been approved by the college,
The so-called “Younker proe
posal" is designed to help ease
the problems of adjustment.
both social and academic,
which black freshmen face
when first coming to Grinnell.

As plans now stand. there
will be ten llppel‘ClaSS black
men in North Younker. arid
eight upperclass black women
in South Younker, Entering
black freshmen will be sent a
special letter, asking if they
would like to live in Younker.

Associate Dean of Students
Conney Kimbo. who has been
involved with this proposal
since its inception, plans to fill
no more than approximately
forty of the 106 spaces in Youn-
lter witll black students. Dean'
Kimbo said that black students
will be scattered throughout all
the floors in Younker.

The plan is optional for all
black students. It is the out-
growth of an earlier proposal
by the Concerned Black Stu-
dents (CBS) for an all-black
floor, and the final plan was
decided on just last Monday.

The original proposal by
CBS, an all~black floor, was
sent to the Student Housing
Committee appointed by the
Student Senate last month, It
contained a number of reasons
for the need for a living situa-
tion which would provide an
“atmosphere that would pro-
mote better adjustment to Grin-
nell by black freshmen."

The Housing Committee rer
fcrred the proposal, with their
approval, to the Student Deans
office. Last Saturday. Dean
Kintbo and President Leggett
discussed it with the CBS com-
inittee of Quinton Phea, Larry
Wright. and David Lewis,

Both Leggett and Kimbo felt
that the request for an all-black
floor was unwise. but that the
reasons given for the need for
some kind of special orienta-
tion for black students were.
in Leggett’s words. "very per-
sttasive.”

Last year, a kind of informal
“cluster arrangement" was fol—
lowed iii assigning black sttlr
dents to domiitories; for ex~
ample, several dormitories
have five or six black students.

Last week, President Leg~
gett informed several of the
Trustees who have special in-
terests in this area, of the CBS
proposal for an all black floor.
and asked for their opinions.
President Leggett spoke to
Mr. Robert Noyce (chairman
of the Board of Trustees). Mr.
Lawrence Towner (Vice-Chair-
man), and Mrs Elizabeth
Kruldenier, a trustee who has
been involved in civil rights
work in Des Moines Dean Kim4
on spoke to Mr. James Lowrey,
a Trustee who is a black gradu-
ate of Grinnell. All four of
those Trustees felt that black
freshmen would need some oriv
entatioii. but preferred to do
this without having a black
floor.

After the meeting of Leggett.
Kimbo, and the CBS commit-

BLACKS—
Continued on page 6

Page Three

The Aesl‘he’rics Of The Senior Class Gill"
And Oiher Occasional Bedtime Stories

ll_i Toni Gironticltl

The Giinncil College English
"ll llilppCliS Ercry Spring” Der
pnrimcni is oticring up their
coniprchcnsive examinations
llttsuctk. As a t‘csull I have been
eliminating nil limo consuming
tli\ct‘sinlis A collccl (all. mine,
Scconds on Gourmet Casserole,
and classes 7 for several dz 5,

When Tuesday rolled around
and. once again, i was nilorded
tlic opporltlttil} to attend an
evening of light conversation
Willi the Senalm's, l was forced lo
dcclinc, lnsicad l pcrchcd myseti
on a chair in Mears Lounge and
diiiiiuliy undertook the task oi
developing a working dciiiiition
nf Romanticism, ilhcreby Substi-
tuting one lime consuming barrel
of laughs tor yet another).

Lloyd, upon hearing of my
benign neglect of the Senate
Meeting. was concerned about
ihc pOSSIbIllty of a shorter-than-
usual column (The 5&8 office is
uptight this week because there is
n famine or ncws on campus in
tact Lloyd is preparing an
editorial which Condemns the
entire College community for not
being newsworthy). l assuaged
Lloyd's fears when I assured hiln
that my regular attendance at
Senate Meetings is not the only
antisocial personality abber-
l'alioli I possess. in addition to my
weighty task of writing on the
Senate Meetings, 1 am also
CHAIRMAN OF THE COMr
MENCEMENT COMMITTEE.
What a gas! ttliought it might be
worth a column.

The first task

which the

Wins’ron King. Former Grinnell Professor.

Ancl Scholar lnBuddhisHm To Lec’rure Here

Winston L. King. a former
Grinnell faculty member who is
now professor of the history of
religions at the Vanderbilt
Divinity School. will be on
campus here Sunday and Mon-
day. May 374, as a visiting lec-
turer,

Dr. King will speak on “Person
to Person” at ii AM, Sunday in
‘Herrick Chapel at the college's
weekly worship service and will
lecture on “Buddhist
Humanism” at 7:30 that evening
in the South Lounge of the
Forum.

In addition, Dr. King will
participate in a Monday morning
meeting of the Contemporary
Religious Thought class and will
meet informally with students
and faculty members.

Dr. King was a member of the
Grinnell faculty from 1949 to 1964,
serving as dean of the chapel.
protessor of philosophy and
religion. and Rand Professor of
Applied Christianity. He was the
college’s Robcrts Honor
Professor in 1963-64.

A graduate or Asbury College,
Dr, King earned a B.D. degree
from Andover Ncwion Theo
logical School. S.T.M. from Har»
vard Divinity School. and PhD
from Harvard University.

He is the author of several
books, including A Thousand
Lives Away and in The Hope or
Nihbmla. studies of cone
temporary Buddhism.

Winston L, King, Professor at the History of Religion at
the Vanderbilt Divinity School, will lecture here next week.
Dr, King is n tormer member of the Grinnell faculty and
held the post or Dcan of the Chapel here. His lecture will
tic criiiiied “Person to Person."

This rock is a class gift donated in 1880 during an out-
Iirenk or Dutch Rock Disease. (Photo by Harry Fulton)

committee undertook was the
selection of the Class Gift The
beauly and aesthetics of giving a
Class Gift. as the Development
oilicc and the alumnae office pa-
tiently cxplaills. lie in the tact
that the gift represents the firsl
time the class is ‘together' since
New Student Days of Freshman
year, Ilidccd each class lives an
anonymous lite at Grinnell, but in
on ‘last act. we unite behind our
Wi ligncss and ability to leave a
little memento of our stay. tof
course seniors are not the only
people who donate physical mor
mentoes to the college. Last year
the English Department donated
Richard Schmeikeiil.

All important, indeed, is the
selection of the gift, Many ex-
cellent suggestions came in writ-
ing trom both the Dcvcloplnonl
llllict‘ and (he sludcltl body al
ltirgc. but by tar and away [he
host suggestions came tit a 1:30
A M Conference at the ‘Horn'

it A Buffalorpurcllascd lrom
lhc U. S. Govcrltmcnl, Thc
Ctllltjgl" could lie him It) the flag
pole .nid let the kids in the day
care center mess around with
lilln,

2i A neon sign flashing “Eat"
and “Hamburgers" to l)(‘ on top
ol the forum. iTliis gitt would
iiiiilclicd by a gift from the Trus-
lccs — i’l Billboard outside the
library which reads “Last stop
liciori- Mtircngo,”l

:li The csiablislniiont oi the
Donn Simiss Awardia one hour
shopping sprcc in ti sporting
goods store.

the seniors iniully votcd to
purchase now trees for the
('ilmptls i'l‘hc inidwcsi is sulr
loring lrom an outbreak ul Dutch
lclm lliscztsc The new ll'CL‘S vull
no plnnicd in slrztlogiL plates
.Il’mlild the ciinipus. For cxampic
:i clump nizl) hc planted on north
rumpus to scrie as n windbreok
fill‘ the Physical Etluczittoli
ttroiilu. urns

Next crime the senior dinner
lilnry t; .loncs rcqucstcd that “)0

”Cmfllllliicf" 7 Mike Sellestedl,

Judi Manoval, Cindy Norton and
tnyscli 7 stl at the head table
with all the grown up iolk. We
tigrccd on the condition that the
zllunlnac office mecl lhc
roliowing nonrnegnliable
demands.

ii Al no time will any member
oilho head lahlc ask us what are
ruiiirc plans are.

21 At no time will any member
of the head fable ask us what
5.0.5. and black students really
\viml,

.ii Any rcicrcncc to any
member of the senior class as a

‘inc Young Man” or “Finc
Vining Woman" will be cause for
immediate termination or the
dillllf‘l‘,

41Tllt'pl‘t'st‘ncc nl grapes in thc
li-nil cup will no legitimate causc
tor the tour or us to go and play
bridge somcwlicrc

at Al no time will ally members
ill llit‘ head table tell its about
their wite's cousin who was me
jurcd in Chit-ago, huslcd in L A
drnitcd out or grad school. o
prcpniunl in their Freshman anr
in hudclittc

iii No member ol Ilic hood Itiblc
will usc tllf‘ spcciuiiy oral-run
dinnci- s an excuse to bri g up
iln- sulljccl oi tood on campus.
li‘ul‘lhI-rlnttrfl. no inrnibci- oi the
bond tnhlr is permitted to tcll us
how much worse the load was iii
the lll‘m)

Forum Hours
Are Announced

'l‘lir Forum Cnmmitlcc hiis
nttttouticod new l’ltl‘tlm hours
beginning this wcckuntl.

lt‘ridny Closes ht midnight.
iNo cotloo lionsci

Saturday, Closes ill l-titl A in
tNo coftcc Iioiisc i Showing of lilm
“Still otllic Earth" at II P M in
South Lounge.

Sunday: Upcli tit noon texcopi
grillt

Food in the entire house from
noon to .‘i l’ M