Iihfl filial‘lflli ' ET HUMAN/A anal black ”M lOWENSE 6 VOL. LXXIX No. 4 NOVEMBER 13, 1970 GRINNE LL, lOWA 50112 Board Of Trustees To Meet Here; Two Sessions Open To Student Body The Board of Trustees will hold a series of meetings Sat urday and Sunday with admin* istrators, faculty members, and students. Two meetings Will be open to the student body at large. The first will be an informal meeting Saturday evening in Younkers Lounge starting at 8. Topics for discussion will be possibilities for better ins forming the college commun- ity of the board's meetings and actions, and the ad hoc committee's proposal that the senior class each year elect a member to the Board of Trustees for a two'year term beginning after graduation. The second open meetingwill be Sunday afternoon in the Forum South Lounge from 3 to 5. Students at thattime may discuss their role in college goverance with the trustees. A number of closedmeetings Will also be held. The first, a general meeting Saturday afternoon, will include the ex- ecutive council of the faculty, executive cabinet of SGA, and the trustees including chair- man Lawrence G. Keeney. Nu- merous reports will be pre- seated at that time, featuring President Leggett'spreliminr ary plans for academic reor- ganization, a report on the faculty‘s progress in curricu- lum reform, Dean Walker's report on finances and the pres jected tuition increase next year, and a report from SGA president Andy Loewi. Sunday morning the invest- ment committe and commit tee on trustees (a selection committee) will meet. Inaddi- tion, the remaining trustees will meet with Leggett, Deans Kimbo and McDowell, the fac- ulty executive council, and the SGA executive cabinet to dis- Community Day Is Moderate Success Community Day, scheduled for October 24th, was extend- ed beyond twenty four hours because rain forcedpostpone- ment of the day's activities. Small groups of townspeople and college students worked in the afternoons ofthe follow- ing week to clean up several vacant lots. This job included cutting down trees, removing garbage and moving heavy de— bris to the junk yard. Although much of the enthu- siasm was lost due to the weather, most of the jobs, ex- cept painting houses, did get done; and public responsewas favorable. Anne Walter, studs ent organizer for Community Day, said, "The momentum was really squelched by the weather; but there are great possibilities for the future. There is no question that the public response we got was favorable." Possibilities for the future include a day to be set aside in the spring to paint houses. cuss changes in judicialcoun‘ cil organization and proced- ure and possibilities for ch- anges in the disruption clause. Another closed general meeting will be held from 11 to 12:30 to hear reports from the investment committee and committee on trustees. From 2 to 3 the trustees will hold a closed—door meeting with Leggett. Loewi, speaking of the large CHARLES WILLsY, Sam Moore (superviser), Elvin Willis, number of closed meetings, expressed the desire that the first general meeting Saturn day could have been opened to the student body. It was not, he said, because the tr- ustees would not have recei~ *vved fair notice prior to the meeting. However, a S&Brct porter will be admitted to this and other closed meetings, and a report will be published in next week's paper. Wright Tactics Draw Attention To Racism - by Debby McKnight The mail box blurb announ- ced: “Nathan Wright, Jr. on ‘Black Power: a Creative For- ce.’ " and described Wright as "a vigorous black strate- gest of blackrwhite confron- tation.” “Vigorous" was an understatement. Wright, wh— ose credentials include his book about Newark, Ready to Riot, and chairmanship of the AfrvAmerican Studies De- partment at SUNY, Albany, was on campus November 5. He spent much timewithblack students and visited the Amer- ican Minorities class. An in- formal public discussion took place in South Lounge at 4:00. Before the discussion, Wr— ight exchanged a few words with each person in the aud- ience, creating a kind of bond that does not usually xist between students and vi 'ting speaker. Then be defined the topic: “I'd like to hear what black w “vs Ea‘rry McDaniel and 1.3.. Kummerow (moderator) formed a panel discussing prison life in America and Riverview, a "buffer" state between penal institutions and the outside world, crudely analogous to the Grinnell community suspended between youth and adulthood. (photo by Marty Sachs) Inmates Rap About Prison Life,- Say Men Treated Like Animals by Bill Knecht Three inmates and a super visor from the Riverview Ree lease Center near Newton sp- ent Wednesday afternoon at Grinnell discussingprison life and the American penal sys- tem. The three men, Barry Mc- Daniel, Alvin J. Willis, Ch» arles Willey, and theirsuper- visor, Sam Moore, spent the afternoon in discussion with faculty and students, first in Loose Hall Lounge at 2:15and finally, in the South Lounge at 4:15. Their discussion began with dieir experiences as inmates of various corrective institu- tions, especially Riverview, where they becameacquainted with one another. Riverview, they explained, is a "buffer" between hardrcore penal in- stitutions and the outside world. It provides a place for convicts to adjust to the pres- sures and tensions of every» day lifettsmall things to most people, but forces strong ent ough to drive some men to re turn to the “security" that prison can offer. Since they are not usually allowed to re turn, they must commit new crimes to be readmitted. The men expressed theirbe- lief that therearea greatnume ber of criminals who would truly like to assume a normal role in society, and who could benefit greatly from an instit tution like Riverview. They cited their own experiences in penitentiaries, wheremen we- re treated “like animals," and were not given the coun- seling and individual attention they feel is necessary to es- tablish true rehabilitation. They explained how a convict in a hard- core institution is likely to drift into a “dream world" of fantasy in which he does not have to work for a living, or accept the blame for his mistakes, or seek to pro vide for his own security, or accept any of the responsibie lities a healthy member of society must accept in order to adjust to that society. They elaborated that Rivera view has extensive facilities to aid inmates in reorienting their goals and behavior. Psy- chological therapy sessions enable individuals to see their problems more clearly and to help them to be able to es- tablish healthy relations with other people. Individual couri- seling helps inmates toasscss their capabilities and to Search for healthy goals to suStain them on the outside. Job training gives them skills to enable them to support th- emselves. Frequent opportun- ities for social contact, such as Wednesday-night skating in town, and frequent visits to friends and families, enable them to interact on a normal, everyday plane with people they would otherwise have no (continued to page 6) students have to say about things here at Grinnell Col- lege . . . What are some of the tings thatneed to be done?" An immediate suggestion was to have more black people. Taking this up, Wright cone tended that the "marginal op» inion" - that of groups denied full participation ina society- is more sensitive to that soc- iety. From here he stressed the need for black faculty mes mbers. ”To omit 15% of the American experience is to preclude any chance of find- ing the truth about it." He. then said that black recruit- ers are necessary for finding creative black instructors who will not serve as “window dressing” for a college inter- ested only in "being white." Convincedthat he "couldne- ver have gotten a job at any major university if it had not been for black student pro- test,” Wright put some hope for changes in America. racism on the efforts ofyoung people. First he demandedthe recognition: ”Everybody in America has apro-white mind . . . a black man knows he is honkified as everyone else but he tries to overcome it, know- ing it's not in his or the white people's interest." However, white Amerim refuses to ad- mit its own racism, and this refusal prevents dealing with the problem. Before the two races can get together many- thing, Wright contended that white people mustunite among themselves to begin corrects ing their own attitudes. . The discussion content was not new; the flamboyant con- frontation tactic was. Wright commanded the attention of everyone in his audience; wh- atever the opinion of his phil- osophy and style. The even- ing address at Herrick Chapel was similar. A large crowd gathered to hearWright “bear down very hard on white peo- ple." Denouncing civil rights leg- islation, Wright claimed that in the last fifteen years, the black American's positionhas actually deteriorated. He at- tributed this to the inherent- ly conservative role of social institutions such as colleges. Society does not allow them to exist except to preserve the status quo. Since the Ameri- can status out) is white sup- remacy, institutions general- ly further racism. However, Wright did not rule out all possibility of change. Anyone who wills human fulfillment will just have to work at un- dercutting the “dehumanizing effects of institutions." Addressing himselfto imme- (continued to page 3) Women's lib Weekend Conlerence I riday, Nov. 13 8:00 p.m. panel discussion "A Definition of Women's Liber- ation in Terms of Goals" participants: Marlene Dixon; Shannon, from the Twin Oaks Community in Virginia; a representative from the Chicago Women's Union; a repre- sentative from the Grinnell Women's Liberation Front 10:00 p.m. informal reception for guests aturday, Nov. 14 10 a.m.*5:30 p.m. workshops on the topics ofWomen in Media and Art; Women as a Caste and Class: Daycare; Lesbianism; Alternative Life Styles; the Institutions of Marriage and Sexual Intercourse; and any others that women decide they want to have 6:00 p.m. Digger Dinner 7:30 p.m. role playing and informal discussions , whatever you to do -unday, Nov. 15 10:00 am. panel discussion "Women's Liberation asa Basis for Radical Social Change" participants: Marlene Dixon; Barbara Chasin; a representative from the Grinnell Women's Liberation Front; re-resentatives from the Feminists