i OCTOBER 16,-‘1970 Dr. Koenig To Be In lecture Series Dr. Myron Koenig, retired Dean of the State Department's Foreign Service Institute and a Grinnell graduate, will be here this Monday, October 19, to speak in “The Department of State and the AcademicCo- mmunity." Dr. Koenig has extensive ex- perience as an educator in the university as well as at the Department of Smte. After getting his B.A. from Grinnell and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, he taught in Iowa at Grinnell, the Uni- versity of Iowa, and Gus Cole lege for twelve years, and at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he was Professor of Anglo:‘ American History and Dean of the Undergraduate College, for thirteen years. His spe- cial academic interests are in geopolitics and American and British hiStory. After two years with the St- ate Department as a cultural attache in London, Dr. Koe- nig joined the staff of the Sch- ool of Foreign Affairs at the State Department in 1958. Th- ere, as Associate Dean and later as Dean,» he was in ch- arge of all academic prog- rams, staff, and curriculum. Dr. Koenig's lecture, to be held in the South Lounge at 8:00 p.m. Monday, will be the first major lecture under an informal speakers program initiated this year by Steve Grow. It should prove of in- terest for Mr. Koenig's views on education and the foreign service. true SCARLET AND‘BLACK Tim Dennis, Diane Beihoffer, Cheryl Linn, David Beeman, Merrill Peters and Peter‘ Bowman perform the Skopso, a Macedonian line dance, during the concert of inter- national folk dances presented by the Grinnell Folk Dancers October 3. Pirkkd'Roecher, adviser to the group, served as mistress of ceremonies for the evening. Frank Thomas is president. (Photo by Marty Sachs) Sex Education Sessions Explore Myths 0n Pregnancy, Abortion by Debby McKnight "A number of women who go through with an unwantedpre~ gnancy . . . begin to feel that they want the responsibility for the child after it is born. The pregnancy turns out to be a sort ofmaturingexperience, _ Modernired Bookstore Opens, , ‘ Gets‘McBee As New Manager Grinnell's new bookstore op- ened August 30 with a new manager, Mr. Thomas McBee. McBee, who inheriteda rather difficult situation last June, has ambitiously set about im- proving the bookstore. He feels very strongly that the bookstore should serve the students and be responsive to their criticisms and ideas. He also feels that communica- tions between the bookstore and the administration, fac- ulty, and students is extreme- ly important. The main problem of college tookstores today, says McBee, is the lack of progressive and competent management. Too many bookstores are now as they were twenty years ago. Because the need for an ade- quate bookstore is so import ant to the college, great ef- forts should be made to see that Grinnell has a good book- store. Its new manager says thathe would like to see Grinnell have a bookstore "as good as any in the country for a college this size." The annex to the bookstore was designed to blend withthe Skidmore, Owings and Mer- ril designs of the Forum and library. A Des Moines cone SlI'LlCliOn company built the st- ructure's shell and Grinnell's physical plant employees did most of the remaining work. This included much of the inn terior and fixtures which Mc- Bee estimates saved at least a half of the building’s poten- tial cost. Work did not start in earnest until June, sothere was considerable pressure to be done by the opening date of Aug. 30. The store did open on time but work is still con- ‘ tinuing on the interior fixtures and the set up and display of books, as well as on the ex- terior. Mr. McBee feels thatthepri- mary function of a bookstore is to sell texts. Supplies and sweatshirts are secondary. He also wishes to add more sup- plementary texts and broaden the available selection. McBee, who has worked in several college bookstores and a private store, wishes to try new ideas here at Grin- nell and is always willing to meet with people and listen to any of the criticisms of the store. Theater Season To Begin Sunday by Ann Casseit The theater department he gan its performing program on Sunday, October 4, with the play The Death of Faust, directed by Ned Donahoe. The theatre will continue its pr0* gram of plays witha restor- ation comedy by William Wy- cherley, The Country Wife, under the direction of Mrs. Voertman on October 22, 23, and 24. The Country Wife was writ- ten in 1675 and is a comment on English societyatthattime. The story concerns a man who hires a quack doctor to spread the rumor that he has had a social disease and has been rendered impotent. He feels that if he can convince all the husbands of the society ladies that his story is true, they will have no qualms about let- ting him near their lovely wives. His feeling proves to be correct and he proceeds to seduce and have affairs with many ladies who, before though obviously not one we would want programmed into everyone's life." In an undesired pregnancy, _the alternatives are comples tion or abortion. Both were discussed by Dr. Evalyn Gen- del in the first session of this year's Sex Education Confer- ence on October 8. Approxi- mately fifty students and re- sident advisors gathered in South Lounge for the informal lecture-queStion and answer presentation. Dr. Gendel's impressive credentials in- clude a position with the Di- vision of Maternal and Child (lire of the Kansas State Bo- ard of Health, an assistant clinical professorship in pre- ventive medicine at the Uni~ versity of Kansas, and asso~ ciation with SIECUS, the na- tional organization for sex education. Informative and exciting, the session cleared up several myths about pregnancy, abor‘ tion, and adoption. Dr. Gendel concentrated particularly on the social implications of the newly liberalized abortion this time, he had found un- approachable. Even today this situation cou- ld be the basis for hilarious antics. Imagine the fun they had with it back in 1675. As Steven H. Rubin (who?) says in the introduction to the play, "It is at once flagrantly ribald and libertine, and unconven» tionally but discernably more al,” or if you prefer it in Mrs. Voertman’s words, "It's a dirty play." A few observations about the Grinnell production of The Country Wife are in order. The scenery was designed by sophomore Mark Shanstrom and special music is ‘being composed by David Wooldrige of Grinnell’s music depart ment. A large percentage of the cast is freshmen; only four members of the cast, Larry Grimm, Jim Spell,Ma- ry Brown, and Greg Gaines, have ever been seen on the Grinnell stage before. All the rest are novices, including the leading character who is being played by Don Boros, laws. For example, 80% of Amerimn abortions are per- formed for womenwho already have one child. Since most of these women are not widows or divorcees, Dr. Gendel be- (Contiuued to page 6) Page 5 Student-faculty Ratio Increased Definitely noticeable in the housing crunch, the size of the freshman class, and the reduction in the number of faculty, the student-faculty ratio at Grinnell this year has been raised significantly. At the end of last year the stu- dent-faculty ratio was down to 9.2, but this fall was raised to 11.3. Although Dean Wall, in 8 sp- eech before the faculty, gave evidence ofa growinginterest on the part of students in the Social Sciences. three Social Science departments lost me- mbers this year. Ecomomics and History dropped by one, while Political Science drop- ped by two. French and Span- ish both dropped by one, and the English department exper- ienced the biggest reduction of all, losing four members. The biology department gai- ned one professor, while the rest of the Science depart- ments and the Fine Arts de- partments remained the same. Small liberal arts colleges are feeling an impending fin< ancial crisis and realize that this may not be solved by eternally raising the tuition rates. Thus, the studentfac- ulty ratio atmany collegesac- ross the country is being rai- sed. The administration of Grinnell ls accomplishing this through both avenues open to them: a reduction in the size of the faculty and a sharp in» crease‘in the number of stu- dents. Academic Improvement Plan Recipient 0! $200,000 Grant GRINNELL, IA. ‘- Grinnell College is the recipient of a $200,000 grant from the An- drew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City, President Glenn Leggett announced tee day. The Mellon grant, which re» sulted from a proposal pre- pared by the Grinnell Office of Development, will help support the program of edu- cation in the humanities in- cluded in the college‘s Aca- demic Improvement Master- plan (AIM). The grant continues support of Grinnell’s educational pro- gram initiated by a predec- a new member of Grinnell's theatre department. The theatre department's next presentation will be an experimental children's thea- tre production directedby Don Boros. The production dates are November 13 and 14 in the Arena Theatre and per formances are planned for the elementary schools in the Grinnell area. The play is based on the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but the script is being written entirely by the actors as they rehearse and improvise. The success of the play depends entirely on the actors’ ingenuity and creativity. Right now they are trying to understand how a child's mind works (which sh- ouldn't be hard for Grinnell students) by playing children's games andstudyingtheactions of children. The process is entirely experimental and is ‘ designed to teach the actors, as well as the audience, about what is really involved in theatre. essor of the Mellon Founda- tion, Dr. Leggett noted. The Old Dominion Foundation,wh< ich was merged with the Ava? ion Foundation into the An- drew W. Mellon Foundation in 1969, gave Grinnell $50, 000 for the upgrading of fisc- ulty salaries in 1965 and aw- arded the college an addition- al $100,000 in ‘1967 for the expansion of faculty study and research opportunities in the humanities and fine arts. Noting that Grinnell is one of 15 liberal arts colleges in» cluded in the Mellon Founda- tion's current program of aid to higher education, Dr. Leg- gett said, "This grant under- lines Grinnell's nationwide reputation as a college offer- ing educational opportunities of the highest quality. Thepo- sitive response by the Mellon Foundation to our request for support is in keepingwithpre~ vious efforts of the Old Dom- inion and Avalon Foundatlons to Strengthen the country's independent colleges." AIM, which was inaugurated at Grinnell in 1967, is a com- prehensive program designed to meet both the immediate and long—range needs of the college. The five-year $10 million first phase provides for the acceleration of academic of- ferings in all disciplines thr- ough‘new teaching projects, expanded research opportun- ities for both Students and faculty, the purchase of more sophistimted science equip- ment, and the expansion of library holdings. Higher faculty salaries and an accelerated program of student financial aid are also being funded by AIM, as are new construction projects and the rennovation of older cam- pus buildings.