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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - October 10, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news vol. 92, no. 239 Jeffrey Hart Campus and meritocracy despite All that a been said and written about the Campus during the pasts few years you cannot understand what is going on unless you grasp the key difference Between the current generation of students and those of fifteen or Twenty years ago. The operative difference has nothing to do with a a idealism or a political commitment a and so Forth. Those Are merely surface Phenomena. At a College like Dartmouth a and this is surely True at other colleges across the country a the alumni of the thirties and the forties return with their families for a football game or for their class reunions they Wear their blazers they drop in at their fraternities they have Tail Gate parties some of them get smashed. The whole thing has a colourful Holiday Quality a and this is a clue to something important. Until sometime around the late 1940�?~s, the undergraduate experience was a sort of Holiday a hiatus before going out into business or one of the professions. You liked to get Good grades but except to a few a grinds a grades weren tall that important it Wasny to a bad situation at All even from an intellectual standpoint. If you found that you really liked Faulkner Well you could read him All Day and Settle for c in geology. The College moreover was very much bound up in non academic ways with Middle and upper class life. Many students attended the same colleges their fathers had gone to joined the same fraternities. In ways that were often Subtle both the various colleges and the various fraternities conferred different kinds of status and had distinctive identities. The social life of the College had links with prep school and later on with corporate and suburban life. All of this gave to the life of the College a certain density of texture and both the students and alumni Felt that they were related to the colleges by ties of tradition and affection. All this has now been transformed. College is no longer a kind of Holiday no longer a hiatus Between childhood and the adult world. Today a student perceives it As part of a continuity. Grades Are grimly important High school grades for College Entrance College grades for graduate school admission. In an increasingly specialized and technological environment these grades have become so important that spasmodic attempts occur to abolish them usually in the interest of some even worse system. But the Point is that now As very much a part of the adult world the colleges neither inspire the affection nor create the sense of Community they once did. The College years Are just like any other. Too this loss of Community and shared meaning is especially noticeable at the so called a a elite colleges which once took a Good Many of their students from the a a great prep schools and also had a substantial number of alumni sons. These colleges Are now drawing mostly on the vast miscellaneous meritocracy of the High schools. Grades Are what pay off and a student goes to a particular College merely to cause he happened to get into it. There is Little then to modify a purely instrumental attitude toward the College. Everyone has noticed that the traditional College spirit has More or less evaporated. Significantly enough at Dartmouth Petty theft of Library books personal property and so on is a growing problem. In this circumstance where the student is merely using the College to get a Good Job later on in the meritocracy he might As Well also use it even attack it or damage it in any Way calculated to serve some other purpose ending the vietnamese War expressing anger influencing Public policy. He has much less reason not to do so than he once had. But Edmund Burke tells us what inevitably must happen. In institutions As in society itself when internal and informal restraints disappear external and formal restraints must be devised. And if the students now fear a repression a As they claim Well they have excellent reason for doing so. A distributed by King features Syndicate Gra Homecoming float wins first the it. Pleasant High school girls recreational association float won first place in the 1970 Homecoming Parade with the theme a Victory recipe faculty sponsor for the Gar is mrs. Alma Bennett. Second place honors were awarded to the Booster club under the faculty sponsorship of miss Helen Hallowell. Third place went to the drama club under the sponsorship of mrs. Marilyn Vincent. The Fra it. Pleasant chapter handles the Parade and float activities under the sponsorship of Roger Garnjobst. 1970 Homecoming Queen miss Brenda Turley presented ribbons and trophies to the winners at game half time Friday evening. The panthers were 40-0 victors Over the Davis county Mustangs. _ difficult decision for Canadian govt it. Pleasant Iowa saturday evening october to 1970 crowning ceremony at mph game Brenda Turley was crowned As Queen of the 1970 it. Pleasant High school Homecoming at the halftime of the Panther Davis county football game at Mcmillan Park Field Friday night which was won by mph 40-0, by Patti Mcclure the 1969 Queen. Queen Brenda was escorted by Steve Savage. The attendants Bonnie Barney Teri Elgar and Amy Nesbitt were escorted by Steve Wettach Jeff Myers Steve Leonard respectively attendants were crowned by years attendants Lana Decker Marti Hassenfritz and Scotti Rawlings who were escorted by John Burrow Roger Harrison and Bob Mathews. Miss Mcclure was escorted by Mark Moffett. The mph marching band played during the crowning ceremony and the drum major Debbie Cor Nick and twirlers Becky Bates Margaret Kinney Sharon Roth and Regina Williams had their Batons raised Over the Royalty. Roger Williams served As master of ceremonies during the halftime Royalty presentation. He expressed sincere appreciation to the student Council and members of the mph faculty who worked Long hours to prepare the Homecoming events. The preparations were under the direction of Helen Hallowell the student Council advisor and Savage the student Council president. Price to cents first Frost of the season first Frost of the season was reported Friday night. Frost was evident Early saturday in Many places. And the last soviet assails Nixon proposal Moscow up a the soviet Union saturday denounced president Nixon a Indochina ceasefire proposal As Mere a dodging and it was the first direct soviet reaction to the plan. The reaction came in an editorial published in pravda the communist party newspaper. The editorial was signed by Sergei Vishnevsky a specialist in International affairs. The ceasefire plan is a five Points aimed at legalizing and perpetuating the United states intervention in Indochina a Vishnevsky wrote. Pravda a description of Nixon a proposal was similar to a statement by the communist Vietnam news Agency broadcast by Tass. Seize 3 hijackers of plane in Baghdad Tehran up a three Iran-1 without bloodshed among Passen inns who identified themselves As Sere and eight Crew members who communists hijacked an iranian terse verse by a. C. Gordon f you done to get All the things that you want Lunk of things you do not get you done to want Montreal up a the Canadian government faces the Dilema of choosing Between two bitter alternatives a Freedom for 23 imprisoned separatists today or possible death tonight for kidnapped British Diplomat James Cross. The front de liberation do Quebec Flynn underground terrorist group kidnapped Cross 49, the senior British Trade commissioner monday. They said in a a final communique Friday that he would die tonight unless the government releases their jailed comrades and flies them to Sanctuary in Cuba or Algeria. Doc in Ottawa lights burned through inc i get in one set of rooms in be massive Stone parliament bund Thorb of the a crisis Center set International festival at inc next week an International festival will be held at Iowa Wesleyan College next week and it. Pleasant townspeople Are invited to enjoy the special activities with the students. The festival will open at 7 39 ., tuesday in the International room of the Library. The a International evening will include entertainment by foreign and american students As Well As slides and discussion by students who have studied abroad. Instrumental music songs and poetry will be featured. Following the program refreshments will be served in the Intima Diosal club room located in the Faith and life House. The International club Coffee House will have its grand opening at that time. Wednesday and thursday programs will focus on China with wednesday programs and displays relating mostly to literature and the arts and thursday programs relating to political affairs. On wednesday at 4 and 7 . In the International room of the Library there will be a showing of u t films with music and discussion. The evening program will also include a lecture by prof. Stan Wie do Span head of the inc and department whose talk entitled a the unfinished statement a will Deal with the subtlety of Oriental Art. Professor Wiederspan will lecture at 7 45 . The program for thursday will begin at 9 30 . In the Chapel auditorium with a lecture by up to handle the problem. De Ritchie undersecretary of the department of external affairs headed the team on duty through the night. Government sources said a statement possibly the final decision on the affair would probably be made today. It was expected that prime minister Pierre Trudeau an anti separatist who has taken a hard line against giving in to the kidnappers demands would make the final decision. Trudeau has made it Clear throughout the crisis one of the most serious his government has faced that he favors standing fast. Sub Wendel to stay in c Osc touch with educators congressman Fred Schwengel Aid Here today that he is planning to continue his programs a designed to stay in close touch with first District Schwengel speaking to first distinct teachers Here said Quot in 1967 and 1969 office sponsored first District education conferences. State and Federal officials were present to explain their programs but More importantly there was a dialogue Between local school peo ple and program administrators at j the state and Federal a in the process a Schwengel said a understanding of the problems of education was greatly enhanced. I plan to continue holding education conferences to which teachers administrators and school Board members will be Schwengel said he regularly sends up to Date summaries of the elementary and secondary education act to Hie presidents of local education associations school administrators and school Board presidents. A it is important that a congressman keep in touch with All aspects of the education Community. plays an increasingly important role in shaping education Delicy. It must have the counsel and help of those people working d acc try in education to do the right demanding expulsion of two cubans Washington up a state department officials Are demanding the expulsion of two cubans they claim have been spying on the United states. Officials say it is the third known espionage Case involving cubans uncovered Here in the past three years. The state department said both men Are in the cuban Mission to the United nations in new York used an attractive Young woman to gather information in on u. S. Activities involving Cuba. The state department asked . And cuban officials to remove them. The cuban Mission to the United nations refused to comment on u. S. Demands that Orlando Prendes Gutierrez 29, and Rogelio Rodriguez Lopez 28, leave the country by sunday night. State department spokesman John f. King said Friday the woman who was employed in a Washington embassy apparently was directed by the diplomats to collect information about american foreign policy and other unspecified matters of interest to Cuba. Too King said none of the information collected by the unidentified i woman was damaging to u. S. Be i purity. The woman has resigned from the embassy and left the i United states. It was understood her activities j were uncovered by the Federal Bureau of investigation. Basement work started on new Church jetliner today and forced it to Fly to the iraqi capital of Baghdad where they threatened to blow up the plane in a demand for the release of political prisoners. Iraqi militiamen seized the hijackers at Baghdad Airport and the bizarre incident ended apparently attack near phenom Penni phom penh up a North vietnamese troops attacked six Miles East of downtown phenom penh Friday night in a second straight night of thrusts against the City Souter defences. The Glare of Battle was in View of phenom penh crowds celebrating the nations new status As a Republic. Were aboard the Boeing 727 plane in addition to the hijackers. Cambodian spokesmen said gunboats rushed up the Mekong River to support government troops Batty basement work has been started the communists near Moat the plane was commandeered at gunpoint on a flight from the iranian capital of Tehran to the kingdom of Kuwait on the persian Gulf. It returned to Tehran a Short time after the hijackers were arrested in Baghdad. Officials Here said the hijackers were arrested because they identified themselves As communists. The baathist government in Iraq is strongly anti communist. The hijackers had threatened to blow up the plane if iranian authorities did not release 21 a political prisoners in Iran. The iranian ministry of information denied the existence of such prisoners. In Baghdad the official Iraq news Agency said iraqi authorities negotiated with the hijackers for the release of the passengers and Crew. Tile hijackers were identified As Hassan Zahran. Ali Reda and Mohammed Masoudi All iranians. By the it. Pleasant Assembly of god for the new Church to be erected on South Street. The location is Between South main and the Oakland Mills Road on the North Side of the Street. Krassas Karo six Miles East of the capital. The fighting on the East Bank of the Broad Mekong River was Well within View of celebrants in phenom penh. Value musical equipment taken from bus at $2000 a bus owned by Lane Fitzgerald was broken into while it was parked at the High school sometime Between i and 2 30 . Saturday and some musical equipment valued at $2,000, was taken out of it. Entrance was gained by breaking a padlock. The bus is used by a band that Fitzgerald is in and the band had played for the mph Homecoming dance Friday night. The theft was reported to City police who Are investigating. Microphones and speakers were among the articles taken. First Teasel Plant in county tion of All seed production. Kathy Collins Harmony Queen Farmington a Kathy Collins 18, Blue eyed blonde senior was announced As the Queen of the 1970 Homecoming at the half time of the Harmony Central football game Friday evening. Crowning ceremony was held at the dance following the game. She is the daughter of or. And mrs. Robert Collins of Farmington. Central won the game 9 to 6. Inauguration at upper Iowa oct. 24 Fayette up a the 16th president of upper Iowa College or. Aldrich k. Paul will be Forth Mally inaugurated at ceremonies Hon. Colin Jackson a member of British parliament. His talk a China challenges the world a will be followed by a 10 45 Coffee hour in the International room at the Library. At 3 . There will be a Here oct. 24. Or. Paul was selected for the presidential Post at upper Iowa in August 1969, and arrived on Campus to assume his duties Jan. 2, 1970. He succeeded or. Eugene e. Courthouse in . Area ripped by bomb new York up a a bomb ripped through the second floor of the Long Island City courthouse at 1 23 . Today in circumstances strikingly similar to the three predawn blasts that rocked buildings in the West coast thursday. One custodian the Only person in the building escaped injury. Deputy chief inspector John Downer or id there was damage on All four floors of the building. The courthouse bombing adjacent to the Long Island City House of detention occurred minutes after a male caller had told a switchboard operator at the new York daily news and a corrections officer at the jail that the bomb woman killed in Freak Accident Ainsworth up a mrs. Mary Louise Johnson 23, of Williamsburg was killed Friday night in a Freak Accident about two Miles West of Here on Iowa 92. Authorities said her husband was mixing a Flat tire when a car came around a curve and slowed into the Johnson car forcing it Over a Bank. Mrs. Johnson who was in the car died of a broken neck. Authorities said a Motorist who had stopped to help Johnson parked his car nose to nose with the Lisa bled car with the headlights on. They said this arrangement apparently confused the Driver of the oncoming car. Richard l. Thuma county Exten 1 Sion director reports that a Teasel Plant has been found for the first time in Henry county about % mile East of Trenton. Teasel Thuma reports is a primary noxious Weed and will be a serious Weed pest in rough pasture land he says that he saw several acres of pasture land in Western Oregon destroyed by Teasel. Too Teasel is a biennial Plant and can Best be controlled by spraying in late october or Early november with 2, 4-d. Spring spraying must be done in May while the plants Are still in the Large Rosette stage. Once they Start to produce seed Heads the plants become increasingly resistant to 2, 4-d. Any control method that prevents seed formation will eventually eliminate Teasel. However not All the seed produced will germinate the first year. Or. E. P. Sylwester Iowa state University Extension botanist reports that at Clarion Iowa where All seed production was prevented for one year there still were millions of seedlings the following year. He says that seedlings have continued to arise on a cemetery lot near Hedrick Iowa in spite of close mowing and Preven the cemetery near Hedrick was a a seeded with Teasel when seed fell from an ornamental bouquet. Or. Sylwester says that All known infestations in Iowa have been traced to artificial wreaths and Winter bouquets. Mature Teasel Heads Are Spray painted and used to make bouquets and ornamental cemetery wreaths. Sylwester says Heads used for this purpose should be gathered before Blooming to avoid scattering seeds. Teasel is a serious pasture Weed in Michigan Ohio Indiana Tennessee new York Washington. Oregon and Northern California. It was brought to the United states from Europe. Too Thuma asks everyone who knows of a Teasel infestation in Henry county to report it to the county Extension office the county Board of supervisors and the county Weed commissioner John Lane. The Iowa Law requires land owners to destroy noxious weeds and further states that supervisors and the county Weed commissioner Are subject to Fine if they fail to make provision for the control of noxious weeds Thuma reports. Car stolen Money taken a 1962 Chevrolet owned by gallon fear Olds was stolen at Olds sometime after 10 30 p. M. Friday and was found saturday morning in a ditch near it. Union. The Elliott store in it. Union was broken into sometime during the night and a few dollars were taken from the Cash Register. Deputy sheriff Charles Droz went to investigate both the stolen car and the break in. Showing of films in the Library with Garbee whose retirement became a political dialogue in which dr., effective do. 31, 1969. Or. Garbee Emma Layman and Chris Huang was president of the College for 18 was about to explode will discuss the China situation with years. I a this is weather or. Jackson. Although 19 persons have headed a a there a a bomb in the courthouse. All events in the International the institution Only 15 have offi festival Are open to the Public Dally been inaugurated As presi free of charge. Dent. Weatherman a he said. It will go off shortly. This is in retaliation for what happened during the week inform pig horse killed along Highway a horse owned by Lester Char Bonneau it. Pleasant was struck by a car owned and driven by Al Wasson Libertyville and killed on Highway 34 near the big Creek Bridge at 5 25 a. In. Saturday. The horse had gotten out of a pasture and ran onto the Highway. Deputy sheriff Charles Droz investigated. Pompidou in Tashkent Tashkent. User up a president Georges Pompidou of France arrived today in the Uzbekistan capital of Tashkent the third Stop on his tour of the soviet Union. Rim is is a juror in do Over employment of a Counselor Des Moines up a members of the Des Moines City Council Friday night vowed they will move to cancel a proposed Job offer to a controversial member of the City a Radical Black segment. The Center of the dispute is Charles Knox 25, an admitted Leader of the Black communist youth organization Here and a former Leader Ai the Des Moines Black panthers. Knox was hired As one of eight Job Counselor for juvenile delinquents under the Des Moines Model cities program a $7,000 a year position. Larry Scales director of a he Iowa children a and family services organization said he hired Knox because he was impressed by the Many a eagerness to work with Black youth and his communications abilities. A Many people have questioned Unity a said Scales a but if he vants the Job he has Scales said the whole object of the counselling program is to hire prove a some with a unusual credentials a to reach the youth who turn toward juvenile delinquency. Scales said he had no objection to rehabilitated criminals or even convicted felons applying for the Job positions. But City Council members expressed Shock at the situation. Councilman Charles Vanderlinden said unless Knox is removed before the Council meeting oct. 19, he will move to break the contract. Vanderlinden said he had contracted other Council members and Des Moines mayor Tom Urban and they agreed to support the move to rescind Knox a contract. Change policy for Industrial users of Gas Des Moines up a a shortage of Gas has required Iowa Power and Light co. To change its policy for serving Industrial users. The company which reports adequate natural Gas available for Homes and businesses in Central and Southwest Iowa which it serves said Large new Industrial Gas users will no longer be Able to obtain guaranteed. Non interrupt Ive service. However service subject to interruption will be available. Company vice president r. L. Meyer said the policy was required because its two suppliers Northern natural Gas co. And natural Gas pipeline co. Of America could not guarantee Iowa Powers full requests. He said natural Gas pipeline co. Has said it is in a a Supply crisis Quot and Northern natural Gas co. Was refused by Canada to Lay pipelines and Export Gas from Canada. Iowa Power officials said the policy will actually Only affect a few customers since most Large industries already choose to receive interrupt Ive service because the cast is much less. It was pointed out in the notification to the Iowa Commerce commission that All Homes present Anil new plus Small commercial users will continue to receive non inter rup Tible service. Richard l. Thuma county Extension director examines a Teasel Plant a noxious Weed East of Trenton. This is believed to be the first such Plant found in the county. The Muskrat often builds Bank Burrows with underwater entrances

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