Penn StateCsllegian Published Wednesday of each week during the college year by the students of Tiie Pennsylvania State College in the intcre»t of the Students. Fee ulty. Alumni and Friends of the college. Entered at the Postofficc, State College. Pa , as second class matter Editor in Chief 1. D. HOGARTH, ’l4 Assistant Editor F. C. DOSE, ’l4 Sporting Editor D. HESS, ’l4 Associate Editors J. R. MATHERS, ’l6 W. S.PARKINSON, Jr., W. W. WEAVER, ’l5 P. S. BRALLIER, ’IG D. McKAY, Jr., ’IG Business Manager L. B. ICEELAN ’l4 Assistant Manager W. H. SAVEBY, ’34 Advertising Manage 3. B. MOYER, ’l4 Associate Managers. J. M. HORNER, 'l5 M. C. LIEBENSBERGER, 'l3 W. R. MILLER ’l5 Office hours—4:3o p. m. to 5’30 p. m., at office of the Nittany Printing and Publishing Co. SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 per year or $1.25 if paid within 30 days after date of subscription. Wednesday, February 25, 1914 At the beginning Why Wot? of its junior year every class here finds itself deeply in debt, and it is only due to the fact that each member is forced to pay his class dues before his picture can appear in the La Vie that the class is enabled to rid itself of this incumberance. If we look for the causes of this deficiency we find that they are „the failure to pay class dues and the financing of class athletics. Class athletics have a value that is hard to overestimate but is the present method of financing them the best? The only interclass games that cover expenses by the present system are the freshman sophomore football game and wrestling match. The rest are a poorly attended financial drag on the class. Why? Mainly because an admission fee is charged. Considering the size of the fresh- man class this suggestion might be worked into a method of solving this problem. If at the beginning of each school year a fee of one dollar were charged each four year student at the business office for class athletics a fund, easily suffi- cient, would be gotten, to cover all the interclass expenses incurred during the year and leave a snug sum in the class treasury besides. By the present system one dollar does not cover the admission fees charged to attend the freshmen sophomore contests to which every member of these classes is sup' posed to be present. Interclass contests could be plac ed under the supervision of an ath letic director and through him all bills for equipment, etc. would be paid. Here he would cooperate with the class managers and the not infrequent complaint of ex cessive bills would be eradicated. The following results might be expected: An adjustment of the junior financial wrangle, a much greater attendance at interclass con tests, keener competition for mak- ing teams, increased rivalry in inter class leagues and a marked de crease in the number of athletic dead heads that each class may safely claim for its own. It may be said, The Honor with reasonable ac- System curacy, that every one admits that "crib bing” is absolutely wrong,and, to be frank, has no justification whatso ever. Yet it must also be admitted that some men make a practice of "cribbing”. The introduction of the Honor Systen, the principles of which have been explained before, will practically do away with the existing evil. The system has been in use for years in the Electrical Department of this college with the greatest of success, as both stud ents and faculty of the department will testify. Moreovei, among the leading institutions which possess an honor system are Princeton, , Chicago, Williams, Virginia, Wesyleyan and Washington and Lee. The Honor System will do away with the evil of cheating because it removes any incentive to cheat,itre moves the necesity of having in- structors act as proctors;it puts men on their honor to give or receive no help, and to report anyone else do ing so to a duly establishedtribunal, which tries cases of infringment with absolute secrecy. A fair trial is given, and in the case of the system proposed for Penn State the penalty is secret expulsion from college, with the privelege of re turning a year later. Contrast this with the punishment inflicted at at another college —namly, absolute expulsion, without the right to any further connection with the college such as are enjoyed by alumni or men who have failed to complete :heir courses for some other reason. Perhaps some may object to that phase of the system which re- quires the reporting of cases of violation of the rules. No code of laws can be successful without pro visions for enforcement. Who would hesitate to make known to the police any violations of the criminal statutes -of Pennsylvania ? Or, getting closer to college affiairs, who would fail to report to the stu tribunal a freshman or sophomore who persisted in walking across the front campus ? So a man who reports another who vio lates the rules of the honor system, in a college when the system is es tablished, is simply upholding the integrity of the student body and of his Alma Mater by enforceing the laws which student government has instituted. It is extremely probably that the near future will see a reduction in the credits required for graduation at Penn State. It is hard to believe that some men are compelled to cheat because of the fact that they are carrying too much woik; but il this should be the case, the pro- posed lightening of requirements, which we may expect with some degree of assurance, would remedy such a condition, An Honor System for Penn State has been drawn up and has been passed favorably by the student board; it will be considered by the student council at their meeting to night; if adopted, it will be sub- THE PENN STATE) COLLEGIAN Distinctively Individual To turn out high grade laundry work is a fine art. To make the linen ‘‘live” and have that neat, smooth finish so much'desired by the man who cares, is a secret gained only by careful study and painstaking care. We give you absolutely the best grade of work to be had. 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