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...About 20 people assembled in the St. Olaf administration building at 3:00 p.m. November 12. They were there to begin an all night "Vigil for Peace," the purpose of which came into question and under fire several times during the evening. ... Most of the group's problems lay in its lack of unity, not only in agreeing on its purpose, but also in deciding the means by which to achieve it. The original plans for the vigil were to stay in the administration building until 5:00 p.m., at which time it would move to Boe Chapel, where people were authorized to spend the night....

...Giant oaks from tiny acorns grow... or was it mountains from mole hills? Whatever. ... I have just been exposed to the mind-freakingest pipe-dream since the conception of the Paracollege. From the pithy pit known as the Student Bod Office located in the bowels of the St. Olaf Student Center comes the blatantly prophetic yet typically Olafy-timed query: "Why not stage a second Woodstock in Northfield this spring?" ... Never since the days of Jesse James and his pals has Northfield been faced with such potential for excitement and fame!...

...Some of the best blue cheese made is produced just twelve miles away — in Faribault — by Treasure Cave, the oldest commercial producer in the U.S. ... But driving through Faribault, it is an easy place to miss, because the major part of the plant is dug into the bluffs of the Straight River, the site of an abandoned brewery dating back to 1854. Treasure Cave has been there since 1936. ... The underground caves were dug into St. Peter sandstone with pick and shovel, and hauled out in wheelbarrows....

...A company itself as "a young, ambition exploring challenging strikes one as something in Northfield's placid leges, cows, and of incongruity is stories of that with the U.S. military violation of the virgin the emission of River. So it was that intrepid reporter found striding through the drowsiness of midweek to the humming modernity of the twenty-first center Company. ... Mr. Stuart of personnel and community greeted me cordially and his second-floor office, to substantiate the to youth, ambition, and From an unimposing of the Northfield in 1955, Schjeldahl has youth, with plants in Island, California, as well as in Northfield, fiscal 1969 of over $21 million....

...DEANS THREATEN ACTION ... The ten women who lived on Third Burton in violation of open house regulations have left under threat of prosecution by the deans. The girls and their male accomplices on 3B now seem satisfied to wait for trustee revision of social regulations in January. ... The deans' action came at the end of a ten-day period of grace declared after an earlier student-deans confrontation. At a floor meeting Monday night, called to assess reaction to the threat of disciplinary action, resignation and a wait-until-January attitude prevailed....

...A television set from Watson, a davenport from Willis, curtains from the fourth Musser lounge, empty pop bottles, books, bicycles, and girls' purses—these are some of the objects of the Carleton crime wave. ... "This kind of widespread theft or 'borrowing' if there's a large increase, can be quite destructive to the morale of the student body." commented Dean VanEyck. It's difficult to determine, however, whether the trend is actually increasing or simply that the students are reporting more "loses....

...About 25 small colleges abolished their interscholastic football teams last year. Mr. Prowe, Assistant Professor in History, thinks that Carleton should do the same. ... "I kind of question the value of football here," he said. "It doesn't have the community focus it used to." ... Mr. Prowe circulated a petition among faculty and wrote to Steve Melges, CSA President, but got little reaction. "Its a lame duck at the moment." he admitted. ... In the petition Mr. Prowe points out two advantages to dumping football....

...On Sunday, Nov. 9, the Charles Ritz Collection of Canadiana, an impressive compilation of works by Canadian authors, was dedicated to the Carleton library by Hugh MacLennan. After being introduced be President Nason as "the foremost living Canadian novelist," MacLennan, best known for his novel The Watch That Ends the Night, gave a humorous dedication speech discussing the relationships between the United States and Canada. ... "Bucking an industrial trend," MacLennan said, "Mr. Ritz started a Canadian owned business in the United States and later became its president....

...A new ACM program of foreign study in Japan has been approved by the central ACM board, according to John C. Perry, director of Asian studies programs. It is expected to pass the board of individual representatives of the 12 ACM colleges this week. ... The new program — a year of study at Waseda University in Tokyo — brings to a total of four the number of student programs in Japan sponsored by Carleton. Starting probably in the fall of 1970, it will involve one ACM faculty member and 15 to 20 students from the ACM colleges....

...SPC POLL RESULTS ... The results of the Social Policy Committee questionnaire released last week reveal what most Carls have known for a long time: the doctrine of in loco parentis is a dead letter. Students feel they have the right and responsibility to make their own rules for regulating their life outside the classroom. ... In responding to a question on "section autonomy", over 70% of both men and women indicated they want dormitory sections to be given autonomy "to make and enforce their own regulations....

...Open Sundays through Fridays from 3-5 p.m. and Sundays through Thursdays from 6-8:30 p.m., the Reading Lab in Scoville 204 affords Carleton students of all classes the opportunity to increase their efficiency in any or all of the following skill areas: reading comprehension and speed, study skills and habits, and vocabulary. ... The time spent in the lab can vary from three to five or more hours a week, depending on individual needs. Each student is required to plan a weekly program of disciplined lab work, preferably lasting for at least five weeks....

...The Carleton Senate went on a resolution rampage in an unprecedented three-hour meeting Monday night. No fewer than eight resolutions were proposed on subjects ranging from coed housing, floor autonomy, and open house to the Vietnam Moratorium. ... The Senate passed three of them. The first one urged a plan for coed housing be put into effect by the end of January, 1970, along with moves toward floor autonomy. The second resolution affirmed the right of floor autonomy in determining open house hours....

...The Carleton Service Fund is now conducting its annual drive to obtain funds for donations to important national and international charities and to new projects of the social services on campus. ... The six off-campus charities included in the drive were selected by the Carleton service fund board to offer students a wide spectrum of programs to which they can contribute. The Northfield United Fund provides money for community action programs, including Project Friendship; the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students is an organization that offers college scholarships and guidance help for blacks in economically deprived areas....

...The Arabs in Israel have been robbed, cheated, and discriminated against by a fanatical, self-righteous group of Zionists for over 20 years. Unfortunately, the Israeli people themselves, and the American public, are unaware of their crimes. They have been blinded by their own Zionist propaganda machine. ... Last July I revisited my childhood home of Jerusalem. I spoke to many old friends and met some new ones at the Hebrew University in the new city. One of the most perceptive men I talked to was my former landlord, Sammy Kamal....

...Peace Corps representative Hafidh Ellouze will be at Carleton on Thursday, Nov. 20, to recruit for and answer questions about the Corps. In addition, he will speak to Prof. Byron Fox's Introductory Sociology and Population courses, at 9:20 and 1:20, respectively. ... Ellouze is a teacher of Arabic and French for the Peace Corps in Tunis, Tunisia. He is currently in the United States for a new bi-national recruiting program of the Corps. ... Ellouze (or his assistant, Miss Rodemeyer) I will be available all day in Willis first-floor lounge, and is expected to be administering the Peace Corps Placement Test....

...SAIGON (LNS) — Gl's and American civilians in South Vietnam joined in the Oct. 15 anti-war protests. The police-state atmosphere discouraged mass actions, but the small-scale actions were significant nonetheless. ... Gl's of the Americal Division, forced to go on patrol on Moratorium Day, wore black armbands in solidarity with the stateside demonstrations. They said they wanted all Gl's out of Vietnam now. The soldiers defied strict Army regulations .against "partisan political" activities. ... At the time, a group of twenty American civilians delivered an anti-war statement to the U....

...Lyman Lakes are strangely silent now at midnight. Trees sleep peacefully, no longer in mortal terror of being cruelly slaughtered. No new, vicious teethmarks appear on already badly wounded trunks in the morning. The Carleton beavers are gone, their work, fortunately, unfinished. ... The colony of beavers which moved into Lyman Lakes over four weeks ago managed in 10 days to damage 25 trees, planted along Spring Creek, and for ornamental purposes, on Mai Fete and jungle Islands. ... Most of the trees along the banks are gouged and gnawed around the base....

...Saigon— "Yellow Power" isn't being used here yet, but some American observers are predicting the imminent rise of similar slogans among the general population. ... From the standpoint of Vietnamese-American relations and co-operation against the NLF by the Allies, identification with the like-colored enemy is deeply disturbing. There is, it is claimed by American sources, an American contingency plan to fight the South Vietnamese army if necessary while withdrawing. ... The distrust and fear of Americans is not new, but now it is dangerously forcing the Vietnamese inward to their own kind and blurring political distinctions nurtured by the American propaganda machine....

...Dyer-Bennet Corrects Carletonian Error ... To the Editors: ... May I correct an error in your story on faculty opinions about comps? I have never supported any plan under which whether a student had passed or failed would be entered on his transcript, but he could graduate in either case. ... Judaism a Religion Say Hecker, Gamble ... To the Editor: ... There is a widespread misunderstanding at Carleton that needs to be corrected. The gross misconception of which we speak is that the Jews are a race....

...You were at the last faculty meeting? ... Yes, I was there. You know we passed a get out of Viet Nam resolution. ... Was that necessary? Can't the faculty act individually? Write letters, petitions... ... Doesn't work. All we get are form-letter replies. ... Demonstrations? ... How would you like to be called an impudent snob? ... Yes, I see the predicament. ... We're only being realistic. The way American society is structured today, it's impossible for individual effort to cause any change in the status quo....