Faculty Reiecls Clolfeller Proposal 4 by John Pepper and Tim Porges Acting as a committee of the whole, the faculty narrowly defeated the Clotfelter Propoe sal to dropallcourse require- ments for graduation on Oct. 5. The marginal and contested 4542 vote culminated four weeks of lackluster debate, parliamentary boondoggles, and faculty apathy. The “Clotfelter Proposal is technically "Proposal III" of the report submitted to the faculty on August 25 by the Faculty Summer Study Com- mittee. Its full test is as fole lows: Proposal III: A curri- culum with no fixed requirements other than a limitation upon the number of credits that may be counted towards graduation in any one field and a fixed number of credits for graduation. To this was appended a sub- Graham To Play This Weekend Violist John Graham will make two appearances at Gre itinell this weekend, the first at 8 p.m. Friday with the Fri ancesco Trio and the second as a soloist at 8 p.m. Sunday, both concerts to beperformed in Herrick Chapel. Graham lives in New York City, where he is regularly heard in recitals andin cham- ber music concerts. He was violist with the EEGUX’AI‘tS String Quartet for five years and toured the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia with the group. A participant in the 1970 Marlboro Music Festival, Graham will tour with an en- semble from the festival this winter. He plays a rare Amati viola made in the same 17th century period asMiss Hampe ton’s Amati cello. Hehaspere formed on many occasions with members of the Fran' cesco Trio. Graham earned a degree in music at the University of California at Berkeley and now lectures at the City Col- lege of New York stantial rationale written by Mr. Clotfelter, which empha- sized general educationas op- posed to a fixed body of facts to be known by all graduates, a thorough revision ofthepren sent advisory system, and its replacement with one oriented towards freshman guidance on the basis of probable interest. Noting that this system would tie students rather more clo- sely to their departments than is the case now, Cletfelter argues that Students would be protected against "the despm tic power of the departments in three ways": credit limir nation, recognition of inter- disciplinary majors, anda re quirement that all depart- ments "devote some reason* able part of their manpower to general education courses, designed for the nonvmajor." In its Augnist 28 meeting the faculty voted 72— It) in favor of opening meetings discussing general—education proposals “to students and other meme bers of the college commun- ity," who would be allowed to speak, but not to vote. How ever, student attendance and interest has been even scare cer than that of the faculty, and a maximum audience of about 60 was by far the large est student contingent. The faculty further moved to con- sider in subsequent meetings "general education require ments" rather than the pre- viously stipulated "general curriculum." This seems lat ter to have been construed as excluding from debate the iS* sue of retaining Physical Ed- ucation Requirements for graduation. Defences were then offered for alternative proposals: Mr. Parslow: spoke for the maintenance of the current general-education require- ments as found in the Cata* logue. Mr. Erickson2arguedagainst the Clotfelter Proposal as presently a false alternative to the current system. Rather, he favored a distributionalre— quirement which would allow flexibility and increased chr oice of individual courses, while requiring ”some study of several major areas." Miss Noble: Spoke fora "tri- partite distribution plan,"whe ose main features would be a "core course requirement" consisting of a 4 credit H“, manitles course concentrating on individual student-teacher contact (no more than 18 stu- dents allowedper section),and a distribution requirement of 8 credit hours in each ofthree groups of departments: Group A; Biology, chemis- try, physics, psychology, lane guage, mathematics. Group B: Anthropology, ece onomics, education, history, political science, sociology. Group C: Art, communica- tions, literature, music, philr osophy, theater. In addition, the proposal stip- ulated that PhysicalEducation requirements be mainmined, with completionasa prerequi- site for graduation. Between Sept. 1 and Oct. 12 position papers were submit- ted to the faculty by Mssrs. Erickson, Oelke, Kurtz, Kint- ner, and Cleaver. Kurz's positionrpaper-pro- posal appears to advocate, with reservations, the clot felter proposal. It warns ag- ainst the dangers of "educa‘ tional entrepreneurship", in- tellectual faddishness and in- tern divisional competition, which he sees as detrimental (Continued to page 2) he sear-lob El” HUMAN,» > IHI‘O ‘6} S Qfi 2 ”M [OWENSE 0“ VOL. LXXIX N0 | Committee A P October 16, I970 . . . . . Grinnell, Iowa 50112 resents ReporiL As Low TurnoulL Shows Apathy by Jon Stein On October 6 after conside- rable discussion and modifie cation the proposals for in- creasing student involvement in the College’s decision-mar king process were submitted to the student body. The pro- posals were largely the work of three ad hoc committees and concerned the areas of social policies and regula- tions and counseling. Theproe posals were reviewed and re- fined by committee A (the executive cabinet of S.G.A., the Deans, and the Chairman of the Faculty), and are likely to be approved by the presie dent in the near future. IN SHARP CONTRAST TO THE HUGE TURNOUTS AT LAST YEAR'S "STUDENT Town-Gown To Clean Grinnell by Mark Sableman Several groups on campus and in town who have been working on improving town~ gown relations have set aside Saturday, Oct. 24, as Commue nity Day, a day for members of the Grinnell community to work together cleaning up Gr- innell. The impetus for Community . l act‘s . bafflemnm Day came from the Environ- ment Committee of the Grin— nell CommunityPlanning Coue ncil, a group which includes Rev. Michael Tan Creti of St. Paul's Church and firis Nell- son of the college Develop— ment Office. Father TanCreti and Mr. Neilson spoke to the Student Senate last month, and later to a meeting ofstudents. Anne Walter, Assistants l. Rev. John Frykman, Dr. Roger Smith and Dr. Andrew Weil were participants in the drug symposium sponsored here October I and 2. Rev. Frykman, who is a consulting psychiatrist in Carmel, Calif., spoke Friday afternoon on the “brief therapy" treat- ment he uses to treat a variety of problems, including bad drug trips. Dr. Smith, a former criminologist who ran a treatment clinic in the midst of the HaightrAshbury speed scene, spoke on the background and history of drug attitudes. Dr. Weil is ems ployed by the National Institutes of Mental Health where he has been studying mari- juana, and he talked about the ”uninteresting“ pharmacology of the psychoactive drugs. (Photo by Marty Sachs) dent Coordinator, who has been in charge of most of the preparation for Community Day, said that about 70 Slud‘ ents have volunteered to work so far, and the response from toWn organizations has been good. Townspeople and town organizations and businesses will contribute tools, equip- ment, and paint, and towns- people and students will work together cleaning up road- ways, clearing vacant lots, and painting houses of selecr ted citizens who are unable to do it themselves. Community Day is thought of by its planners as an activity that will be made intoa yearly affair if the response thisyear is good. William Deminoff, Director of College Relations, said he believes it is valuable as a natural way for people from the town and the college to get together and understand each other, while performing a useful job for the whole com- munity. Deminoff is one ofthe college representatives on a subcome mittee of the Grinnell Human Rights Commission which.is ‘ concerned with townrcollege relations. (Russell McGregor is the other member, and a woman student will be added soon.) This committee plane ned a general town-college meeting that was held last month, and subsequently re ported by the Des Moines Register. Deminoff believes that the meeting, designed to alleviate some of the tension resulting from the early clos- ing of the College last spring (Continued to page 2) POWER" MEETINGS THE TURNOUT FOR THIS HIGH- LY PUBLICIZED MEETING TOTALED 34 STUDENTS. Andy Loewi, S.G.A. presi- dent, opened .the meeting by giving a historical perspec- tive on the student power movement and the position paper that emerged from the flurry. While attacking the position paper on the grounds that it was hastily prepared and that those involved had “just plugged more students into existing positions”. Loe~ wi praised its basic ideas. Bill Thomas, C. of H.P.pre~ . sident, presented the struc- ture of the Committee on So~ cial Policies and Regulations and praised it for its “eco— nomical" wording. The duties of the committee will be to review and recommend chanr ges in the allecollege social policies and regulations as well as provide a forum for any member of the college community who wishes to make a proposal within the Committee’s area. The mem- bershin would include two (Continued to page 2) Jeff Guthrie Here: Fiddler From 30’: Jeff Guthrie, an Old’time fiddler from the “Grapes of Wrath” era, and his piano accompanist Buster Jackson will be performing at 8:00 and at 9:15 Sunday night in me Forum South Lounge as part of the Era of the Th- irties program this weekend. During the thirties, Guthrie resided in the Oil boom town of Pampa, Texas, as an hone est-to-goodness deputy sher- iff, where he participated in the apprehension ofthe infim- ous ”Pretty Boy" Flody. The accomplishment for which he received wider acclaim is that he taught Woodie Guthrie, his nephew, to play the guitar and performed with him many ti- mes. Guthrie and Jackson, bothfr- om Golden, Colorado, are st~ opping at Grinnell on their way to a tour of the East Coast.