Faculty Approves limited Requirements Plan by Greg Butcher 124 credits. 30748 credits department. No more than 92 credits in one division. A 4- credit freshman tutorial course. A 2.0 average (halfyour cou— rses may be credit-fail). The above are the only re quirements thatwill greet next year's incoming freshman class as a result of the fac- ulty’s longeawaited vote on all—college requirements in a major Monday afternoon. The final vote on the Walk Jones- Clotfelter proposalwas 4B— 12 Iihfl filial‘lflli El' HUMANL‘ with four abstentions IS‘Ib > Q g a; S ”Mioweuse 0‘- VOL. LXXIX NO. 4 and at least six others pre- sent but not veting. (There are 128 faculty members el— igible to vote at meetings.) The effect of the faculty’s action on presently enrolled students is not yet certain; but moSt likely all students, with the possible exception of sen~ iors, will be able to choose which set ofrequirements they would like to complete. In ad dition, it is unlikely that any courses next semester will be required. (Yes, freshmen, that probably means that you won’t have to take second 55, mester humanities.) Andy Loewi, SGA president, opened the meeting withan ef- fective speech on the “grave NOVEMBER 20, 1970 crisis" he perceives at Grin- nell. He said that many freshr men were considering leaving because the education being offered was not meaningful to them. He quoted from a book that tailed curriculum debate by faculties a “great indoor sport" with little meaning for students. He urged the imme diate adoption of the Wall- Jones- Clotfelter proposal, but with tutorials for the first semester only. It was later agreed that that issue could be resolved at a later date. Most ofMonday's debate cen- tered around aproposalby John R. Kleinschmidt, French professor and former chair- man of the faculty, toinstitute GRINNE LL, IOWA 501 12 Trustees Hear Gripes, Suggestions by Jim Alt The Grinnell Board of Trus- tees met on campus last Sat- urday and Sunday to handle routine business and to meet with administrators, faculty, and student leaders. Two of their meetings were informal gatherings open to the student body at large. Chairman Lawrence Keeney convened the first closedmee- ting in Burling viewing room at 1:45 Saturday afternoon. The executive council of the faculty, executive cabinet of SGA, President Leggett and other administrators attended in addition to about 20 trust- ees. After the invocation, a num- ber of routine votes were ta— ken. Appointments of Gardner SGA PRESIDENT Andy Dutton, George Drake, and Theodore Lovejoy as trustees were formalized, as was the promotion of Velma Hiser (communications) to full pro- fessor and granting of tenure to Louis Zirkle (art). The [r’ ustees also approved granting an honorary degree to Nor~ man Borlaug, recent Nobel peace prize recipient. President Leggett next pre sented a report on the college's year to date. He spoke of the overcrowding in housing this year and noted that the formula used to esti‘ mate enrollment had proven inaccurate. He observed, “The students were reason- ably good-natured about it," but that “this is really more than we canhandle consistent ly without doing something Loewt talks with trustee Sunday afternoon at the end of a weekend of meetings. Loewi later said he was "impressedwith the trustees' willingness to talk with students." (Photo by Marty Sachs) fundamental about housing." Leggett outlined the [Owl'r gown movement and toldabout Community Day. Speaking of the first meeting, he commen- ted, "It did clear the air ...” He told the trustees that the public newspaper account of the meeting was less than fa- vorable, saying that "It was written in a rather sneering tone . . . which was more or less the point of the whole article." He said that, on the whole, community‘reaction to the [OWl'rgOWn meetings was good. Leggett also mentioned the class agents' return to cam~ pus in September, saying that "In some ways itwas the most successful meeting of alumni I've ever seen on a campus." He described Guru Steve's recent visit to campus, and said thatthe Women's Lib con- ference lastweekendwas "ra- ther spectacularlywell organs ized." The president touched onaih’ letics, and said that the foot ball team "ms much more successful than anyone thought it would be." He noted that average attendance was up to 1500. Leggett spoke on Dean Wall’s new book on Andrew Carne- gie, calling its favorable re- ception "in some senses the most sensational news of the fall." He read a review from the current New Yorker and commented that Wall may be considered for certain liter- ary awards. Wall was absent from the meeting, watching his son's last football game at Cornell. Leggett then remarked on the academic reorganization plan which he has been drafting. He said that he feels the present faculty organization is not as efficient as it might be and that the executive council is overworked. He added, "I’ve been thinking for the pastyear that some way has to be found to bring students into the de- cision~ making process." He is presently talking with faculty and SGA executives and plans to bring general fa- culty members and students (continued to page 2) the tutorial program onanonr required experimental basis for one year before deciding whether to require it for all freshmen. He mentioned two major un- resolved questions about tut~ orials which prevented him from supporting the program without a trial period. They were that he doesn't lmow precisely what tutorials are, and he doesn’t lcnow whether they are feasible. Dean Jos- eph Wall had said at an earls ier meeting that 31 or 32 fac- ulty members had indicated a willingness to teach tutorials. Kleinschmidt contended that that was not a sufficient pool from which to draw a staff of about 35 tutors. (Wall later replied that he anticlpatedthat many more would volunteer for the program.) William C. Oelke, professor of chemistry; Irwin Goldberg, professor of sociology; Luth- er E. Erickson, professor of chemistry; and Gene G. Wub- bels, assistant professor of chemistry, all spoke in favor of the Kleinschmidt proposal. Alan R. Jones, professor of history, arose to speak with out havlng decided whether to support the proposal. Event- ually, he convinced himself to. oppose it, saying, “All of hi- igher education is full of une answered questions; to wait for answers is to donothing." Beryl E. Clotfelter also con- vinced him self during the cou- rse of thediscussiontooppose the proposal because he felt that the proper information on tutorials could not be gained unless the program were re quired. Robert D. Grey, as- sistant professor of political science, seconded Clotfelter's sentiments; and Howard R. Burkle, professor of philos— ophy and religious studies. also spoke against Kleinsch- midt's proposal. Robert F. Voertman,profese sor of economics, Goldberg, Joseph D. Danforth, profes- sor of chemistry, and Greg- ory Guroff, assistant profes- sor of history, all spokeabout the meaninglessness of the debate; Danforth and Guroff both promised to support ei- ther the Kleinschmidt or the Wall proposal if the faculty would end the debate. Goldberg summed up many persons’ feelings when he said, "It is obvious, regard- . less of our vote, that the fac ulty is reluctantly movingfor- ward to something. They will be voting to end the debate; not because of any great com- mitment to tutorials." Guroff expressed the hope that the faculty would get on to some really important topic--such as the curriculum as a whole "upon ending these 11 weeks of debate. Black Cultural Weekend Starts Today: "Time Of Communion” by Lawrence Wright Black Cultural Weekend is dedicated to those lifestyles that are unique to Black peer ple. It is dedicated to the en volvement of Black people in Black people or, to say itphi‘ losophically, it is dedicated to our ever greater selfrreae lization of our situation in the world today. We as a people live in a time so mad that one of the primary decisions on which this country selectedits President was that he keep us in our place. Such dedication to anti-humanistic policies will some day doom this pla~ net to its destruction. We Black people herebypro~ claim this weekend, Novem- ber 20. 21, 22, to thoseforces within us that expand our hu- manistic tendencies and make us the people we feel we need to be in this insane world. It is our primary purpose that this not only be a time ofcom- munion, but also a time ofre— dedication to those principles which will make our Grinnell educations relevant to our own natural environments. So in essense we are dealing with our own life styles and the forces that mold them. And beyond this we intend to deal with the nature of structures which can be erected to deal with them from our own de- fined perspective. Our program will be started Friday night at 8:00, with a lecture in the South Lounge of the Forum by Robert L. Wilv liams. Williams is the Direcr tor of the Black Studies Pro~ gram, at Washington Univer sity. He is a professor ofpsy- chology at this institution a]- so. He is noted for his num- erous contributions to psyche ologiml literature. He has dealt extensively with the El- ack psychological mechanism and is a proponent of a new approach to the psychological problems of Black people. He will be on mmpus two days and will participate in an inter- racial workshop Saturday, also to be held in the South Lounge. The next thing on the agenda for Black cultural weekend is an informal discussion, Bl- ackeWhite workshops. This situation will be structured by our next speaker and Prof. Williams. Leonard Perkins, who is Dean of Student Ser- vices at Purdue University, has a degree in modern lan~ guages, but has practiml ex» perience in dealingwithinters racial conflict by his direc- torship of the Purdue-based upward bound program for several years before his ape (continued to page 3) $175 Jump In Tuition A Grinnell education will cost each student $175 more next year, Dean Waldo Walk- er has announced. The com- prehen ’ve fee will be $3,700 for tuition, room and board, compared to last year's $3,525. The increase includes $30 for full board at SAGA, $10 in room fees, and $135 in tuition charges. The total will prob- ably make Grinnell the third most expensive of the 12 ACM schools, although the increase is less than the average $196 expected for ACM schools. The tuition increase comes in spite of a stringent auster: ity program resulting in a serious reduction of the cola lege's operating budget for next year. Expenditures per student are about $5,200 this year and are expected to be $5,000 next year, reflecting a drop in the overall budget of at leaSt $200,000. Student ’ contributions to this total will rise from 67% to 74% under the new budget.