University of Iowa - Hawkeye Yearbook (Iowa City, IA)

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Minette Doderer Robert Fulton Ed Mezvinsky 202 Politics '70

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do and are taken first. There's a fine collection of books - the Truax Library - but books are rarely checked out. The rooms are painted dull, sleepy colors. In the winter, students often put up with chilly or overheated rooms and always with the clanging pipes. It's a dumpty sort of cozin-ess at the Honors House. Half-filled ash trays and empty Iowa dixie cups sit on the end tables and the few examples of student art seem out of place under the fluorescent lighting. But as one student noted, It's ugly in a way, but it's a house. There's an attic to explore, and in the spring there are plenty of windows to run around and shut when it rains. The sterility of dorms and the distrac- tions of apartments are gone. In their place - the warmth of a house filled with people. The people may not be the most talkative. They come there to study, assured of silence and few inter- ruptions. A senior in Home Economics last year studied proxemics in the Honors House, or how the students utilized the space there. She concluded that students seek isolation and achieve it by such means as studying in separate rooms, sitting in the middle of a couch, barricading oneself with personal belongings or remaining in one spot a long time. Yet there's a comraderie among these students who come to stake out their personal domains for book- ing. This comraderie is not so much provided by the Honors program itself. Greater utilization of the house for discussion groups, poetry readings and other programs has been encouraged this year. One of the students urging these programs hoped they would give some unifying sense to the Honors House. Response and participation, however, have been meager. This unspoken, unobtrusive comraderie apparently does not depend on planned activities. The common task of studying seems to be unifying spirit enough. I go to the Honors House to study, to see a few friends, and because I won't feel like a martyr for staying up late studying, commented one girl. Isolation is hard to come by on nights be- fore big pre-med examsg the house is full. But a pack- ed house on those nights also exudes an empathy for the student who would rather be sleeping or partying than cramming for a test. There are those who break at ten and go out for a beer. Others are in no cliques. They come alone, gradually meet a few people and eventually know enough faces there to feel they belong. Others come back because they've discovered that the nameless cat who had been sacking in upstairs on the couch all autumn finally had her kittens down in the library. But they all come there to study, because when you're in college you have to study sometime. So it might as well be in a place where you can get some- thing done. And if the place has a fireplace inside and looks like something from Music Man from the outside - well, so much the better. 9 article by Ginalie Bein Honors House 201

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Robert Ray Election '70 came alive during the fall semester for 168 U of I students enrolled in Politics '70. Politicos state and local made campus appearances and class members - many of them already active in political party activities - drilled the noted visitors with ques- tions. Politics '70 became reality at the suggestion of the University administration after the..Board of Regents refused to allow students time off from classes to work in the campaign flurry. The course received extensive mention in the news media when guest speakers used the engagements as opportunities to kick around various political foot- balls. Prof. Kenneth F. Millsap, who had charge of the course, said he hoped the class provided students a chance to get a first-hand profile of the candidates, to study the issues important in the campaign, and to analyze issues and candidates. The candidates who appeared included Gov. Rob- ert Ray, a Republican, and his opponents, former Democratic Gov. Robert Fulton and Robert Dilley, the American Independent Party's candidate: incum- bent Republican First District Congressman Fred Schwengel and his opponent, Democrat Edward Mez- vinsky. Neither Lt. Gov. Roger Iepsen, a Republican, nor his opponent, Mrs. Fred lMinettel Doderer, a Democrat, could attend the class before the elec- tion, although both made post-campaign appearances. Other guests included county, district and state party committee chairmen and chairwomen. The election, of course, was the climax of the course, Millsap said, and there was a little let- down afterward. Millsap lectured the first hour of each two-hour session before the election, and the visiting candi- dates spoke during the second hour. Millsap touched on issues pertinent to the cam- paigns in which the visiting office-seekers were embroiled. Following the election, he turned to dom- inant national issues including poverty, the cities, 'civil rights and liberties, and violence. Q Politics '70 203