OCTOBER 23, 1970 Diplomat Visits Campus, Pushes Foreign Service by Mark Sablemon Myron Koenig, retired Dean of the Foreign Service lnStl’ tute of the State Department, was here Monday to speak on “The State Department and the Academic Community." Mr. Koenig addressed him~ self to the "gap of misunder- standing" between the Dep- artment and the universities and said that the gap is neir ther new nor easily bridged. Much of the gap is histori- cal ,_ it was not, for exam- ple, until 1946 that Congres created the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) with relation to the State Department analon gous to the relationship betw- een the military institutes such as West Point and Anna polls and the Defense Departs merit. The military institutes, Koen nig explained, “train men to win a conflict when it breaks out; the function of the SF ate Department and its train- ‘ ing institute, the F51, is “to try and preclude that conflict from breaking out in the first place.‘I Koenig emphasized the im- portance of the Foreign Ser- vice Institute by telling of a visit by President Kennedy in 1963. The President, on this rare visit to a relatively small part of the government, complimented the shaff on the fine job they were doing to prepare foreign service offie cers to understand the coun- tries they were assigned to. Russian A by Debby McKnight. To the clinking of coffee cups on saucers, Professor James Billington made his first ad* dress on the Grinnell campus October 2i. 01 the faculty of Princeton University, Billing- ton's impressive Russian culr tural and historical credent- ials include his book, The Icon and the Axe, an interpretive ‘ cultural history of ‘Russia. Russian majors, history and language students comprised the bulk of a sizable audience at Grinnell House for the in- formal morning ofdiscussion. The principle topic was the seventeenth'century Church Schism. This split, analogous to the Western Reformation, affected an equal number of people and hadsimilar impore it . Kennedy asked, however, to what degree the PSI prepared the diplomat for representing the United States in foreign countries. This remark, Koee nig said, triggered a reorder” ing of the curriculum within the FSI toward better educat- ing the diplomat in American studies. The foreign service exam as it is now set upfavors Ame erican Studies as the college major most likely to prepare a man or woman as a dip10* mat; at least, those who may or in it are more likely to pass the exam. The majors with the next highest probab- lity of passing the exam are philisophy, mathematics, in- ternational trade, Russian studies, chemistry, econom- ics, history, politicalscience, and English. These top ten offortymajors show the emphasis on the exe am and in the State Depart- ment is for breadth of know ledge, rather than depth in any particular academicarea. Majors in specificforeign lan< guages are often notas advan- tagious to the Department as it might seem, Koenigsaid, since approximately 20% of those majors require further training by the F51. Rearrangements or expan— si'ons of the State Depart- ment’s academic curriculum, however, are not enough to bridge the gap between the Department and the acader (Continued to page 6) THE SCARLET AND BLACK KATIE TROTTER as Alithea, and Patricia Smith as Mrs. Pinchwife converse during a scene from ”The Country Wife", which opened in Roberts Theater Thursday night and continues Friday and Saturday. Don Boros, a new addition to the Grinnell theater depart- ment, plays the lead in the production under the direction of Betty G. Voertman. Other actors and actresses include Jim Spell, David Gaines, Greg Gaines, Debby Sanden, Mera Katz, Mary Brown, Doug Cloud, Blake Blakesly, Larry Grimm, Betsy Gilman and Karen Auerba ch. (Photo by Marty Sachs) Prol Studies Faculty Workload by Laura Shook Professor Robert F. Voert- man of theEconomics Depart- ment recently completed an analysis of the faculty work load and its relation tostudent demand as a factor in salary rtists Gain Freedoms tant effects on the society in which it occurred. Besides answering specific questions about the Schism, Billington dealt with it as an example of cultural revolution and an il‘ lustration of several recur- rent themes in Russianhis tory. He also spoke more gener- ally about Russian societyand suggested what he considered one of its greatest strengths: "I think we're coming to the end of the age in whichwe held the belief - very widespread in the West , that there are political solutions toall human problems. In this respect Rus- sian culture is far ahead ofus because they never accepted that kind of thing in the first place." Digressing from the answer m it ‘ . PROFESSOR James Blllington, who teaches Russian History at Princeton University, talks to, from left, Sue Siegel, Gregogfy Guroff and Eric Graff duringa ’5 meeting with Guro Russian History class. (Photo by Marty Sachs) to another question, Billings ton made some of his mOSt provacative comments in re- ference to the study of his- tory: ”Nothing is more irre— levant than the hiStory of ten or fifteen years ago . . . You, have to go back at least 100 years to findanything ofvalue. People are running around new setting up courses in re* volution because they think everybody's in a revolution- ary mood. Students are doing things nobody understands, so everybody‘s Studying the Re— volution of 1917. But I believe that the events leading to the revolts of 1848 are far more applicable now." Following the discussion, Billington lunched with sev— eral students and Russian face ulty members where the con- versation included the prof essor's own revolutionary th- eory. A true revolution must be a complete change from existing cond' ons back to a “natural state." Since this involves such toral change, no revolutionary party can anti- cipate its results and should not attempt or be expected to attempt describing a program of "what it will be like after the revolution." late in the afternoon Billington wasagain available in the Forum coffee house when American educa— tion joined Russia as a cone vers‘ation topic. His evening lecture, “Nature and Significance of Intellec- tual Ferment in the Soviet Union," began by classingSor viet dissent with a world-wide search for humanism in reac~ tion against modern bureaus cracy and technology. Specifr ically in Russia, Billington considered the ferment of youth and of renewed internal nationality conflicts. His gr» eatest emphasis was on the (Continued to page 7) expenditure for the college. He saw the need for the study as a member of the Executive Council last year when he was constantly confronted with a lack of information as to the cost of certain programs and the use of faculty time. His study concerns someasr pects of the economics invol- ved in faculty manpoweras re- lated to student enrollment, in hopes of arriving at a con- clusion about possible re-dis- tribution of future workloads which might cut down on the necessary number of faculty. A brief explanation ofVoertr man’s study follows, but, as the author himself stressed, “It defies any useful inferen- ces about quality variables among programs." For purposes of research, work loads were established in terms of points, which inn cluded courses taught for cre- dit, labs, independent project supervision, appliedmusicler ssons, direction of perform- ance groups, contact hours in coaching and recreation pro gram work, and were extend- ed to special tasks such as administrative dutie. . Exam- ples of these measurements are as follows: Regular course . . . 3points Independent project . . .1 point l per l2 credit hrs ‘ Labs in credit courses . . . 2 points Applied music . . . l pointper 3 registrations Direction of Performance gr— oups . . . 3 points each Coaching, recreation, etc. . . 1/3 point per contact hour Dept. Chairman . . . 1 point per semester Faculty Chairman . . . Spoints per semeSter The assignment ofpoints was made according to a system developed at Princeton which enjoys wide use. Using this system, tenpoints per semester (twenty per year) was consideredanormal workload for each faculty men mber. According to the data from the academic year 1969770, Voertman measured workao tivities of the faculty usingthe point system, which yielded the following results: (Continued to page 7) Eight Short Flicks Due This Weekend Un Chien Andalon (An Andur lusion Dog) is a classic ex perimental film made by Luis Bunnell and Salvador Dali in 1928. The surrealist Dadaist film bagins with someone slit- ting open a woman's eyeball. Bunnell asks, “What can I do about people who are crazy for anything new, even if the novelty outrages their inmost convictions . . .7" A child tells the story of her pretend “uncle" who comes to visit Mommy every time Daddy goes out of town in Wh- atever Happened to Uncle Fred by Bob Godfreyi DraW* ings and narration by God frey's daughters. Dream of the Wild Horses is a film poem of the horses of Carmarque done in slow mo- tion photography. Der‘Cled by Denys Colomb and soundtrack by Jaques Laspy, 1962. The emetional life ofayoung girl is recounted through a succession of sexual images constantly combining into par rodies of famous painting in John Straiton's animatedfilm, Portrait of Lydia, First Prize Cannes Film FeStival, 1964. 0 refers to the center point around which people and obs jects revolve. Chicago film makes Tom Pallazolo develop a mood of comicerOticism inn to one of disorientation and fear. The Madison Avenue image of the world throughadvertis- ing in Help! My Snowman is Burning Down! With music by Gerry Mulligan, 1964. "Very Nice, Very Nice," a 10-minute zap montage, sh- - ould shock Grinnell audiences out of any unwarranted stand- ing ovations. ”Bass Fiddle" is a Chekhov story of a man and woman, whose clothes are stolen wh- ile they are skinnysdipping, and who take refuge in the same place.