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STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Diehl . McKalip ,copy editors, Bill 011endike, Mary Lee, Lauffer
assistants, Bill Snyder; Bob Dunn,' and Mary Loubris. •
Don't Use the Same Rope Twice
The establishment of a student traffic court
as recommended to All-College Cabinet should
help solve• a problem that has vexed Tribunal
since the full enforcement of the present traffic
parking plan last fall.
The function of Tribunal, the handling of
cases detrimental to the name of the College,
was virtually forgotten last year when Tri
bunal became bogged down with hundreds of
parking violation cases. •
In general the set-up as proposed to cabinet
shows a great deal of thought has been given
to the organization of the court. However, there
is one point that might bear closer study before
being accepted.
The proposed amendment calls for a senior
member of Tribunal to be chairman of the traf
fic •court. This organizational set-up will pro
vide, as contended, a link between Tribunal
and •the traffic court. The link is desirable to
keep in touch with policies followed by the
traffic court. But, since Tribunal will be the
appellate court for actions of the traffic court,
Safety Valve ... Hits Honor System
TO THE EDITOR: Often the only effective
method of dismissing unpleasant realities in an
argument, in the lack of any positive proposals,
is simply to scoff at 'the opposig arguments.
This is what Mr. Sauder has dons in his letter
(in the • Sept. 29 Daily Collegian) on the so
called honor system.
The term honor system, as it is used, is
nothing but sentimental semantics. The true
honor , system is a sort of academic anarchy in
which all students are trusted to act honestly ...
In most schools the honor system consists of a
double-barrelled pledge in which the student
agrees (1) not to cheat, steal, or act dishonor
ably, and (2) to report anyone who does. The
proctoring system is—in the best sense of the
word—a police system; the so-called honor
system is an informer system. The essential
difference between the present proctoring sys
tem and the proposed informer system is not
in en&, but in the methods used to achieve
these ends . . .
This is not to say that the informer system
Safety - Valve
On Immaturity
TO THE EDITOR: As I am an immature fresh
man I probably shouldn't write this, but your
little article in today's (Sept: 30) Collegian is
overly slanderous toward the Class of '57. I hate
to bring up things that have happened in - the
past, but, you have forced my hand.
Customs, it is said, are an old campus cus
tom. Each ' new freshman class inherits the
right to be overlorded by upperclasSmen. The
riot staged this year was far from new. In fact,
it is about as old as customs. I can recall having
heard of riots by immature freshmen several
times in the past. Monday night, the riof was
not entirely staged by the freshman class. It
would not have gone so far as it actually did
if it hadn't been for some mature upperclass
men egging the froth on. I don't believe you
can disprove me there.
This also brings to mind an incident that
happened, I believe, in 1951. The panty raid
was certainly a mature exhibition. Don't you
agree? The present senior class was a mature,
original group at the time,
Richard Lemyre, our honorable All-College
president, was certainly mature by offering.
or should I say challenging, to take on the
whole freshman class single handed.
Due to the laxity of customs enforcement
by upperclassmen, I believe they should be
abolished!
—Robert Howe
Editor's note—Admittedly immature actions .in
the past are no basis for immature actions in
the future. The panty raid came from combined
efforts of immature elements in all classes,
not just one class. The mob refused to listen
to reason three times, and refused to hear a
logical argument by Lemyre.
AUDITIONS for announcing candidates, campus
radio, 7 p.m., 304 Sparks.
COLLEGIAN PHOTOGRAPHY Candidates, 7
p.m., 111 Carnegie.
HELLENIC Society, 7:30 p.m., Tub.
NEWS AND VIEWS staff and candidates, 6:30
p.m., 14 Economics.
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a person who has already judged the guilt
or innocence of an appellee will be on hand to
judge the guilt or innocence of the student a
second time.
It is true that Tribunal is comprised of. nine
members—nine members who can probably
sufficiently present diverse views for a fair
judgment. It is also true that seldom in the
past has there been a better example of give
and take among members of student govern
ment.
However, there is always the chance that
in the future there will be a split decision that
will make the one voice found on both the
traffic court and Tribunal of great importance.
The chances of this happening may be very
slight, but to the one student accused of a traf
fic violation the results will be quite important.
In the search for an equitable and more ef
ficient judicial system, our student goyernment
should be careful not to hang a man twice with
the same rope.
is bad; the entire point is not whether it is good
or bad, but whether it will work here or not .
. . . favorable conditions for (the honor sys
tem's) establishment do not exist on the Penn
State campus. But aside s from feasibility,• the
honor system is unfair, not only because it
more readily rewards those who cheat, but
by its very nature. It is justice without mercy:
"or to make an exception in enforcing the
honor system, regardless of circumstances or
the degree of offense, is to destroy the faith
upon which the system is founded. A proctor
ing system, with student judicial processes, i=-
nore able to give fairer decisions
. . . in studying any proposals for an honor
System, let's not imagine that those who cheat
under difficulties are not going to cheat because
the obstacles are removed. Because we all
ought to be good does not mean that we all
are good.
e Letter cut
Tennis, Anyone?
About the lostest person in the country these
days is the man who's not a baseball fan: the
man without his country's pastime.
For the next several days, the world will be
a different place. The day will be reckoned by
the game of ,the series. In the afternoon, at
least, time will be measured by somewhat dif
ferent standards. Innings will replace hours.
and a combination of hits, errors, walks and
outs will substitute for the measurement of
minutes. Seconds will' be reckoned by- pitches.
Ebbets Field and Yankee Stadium are the
rational capitals, and a handful of umpires will
constitute the Supreme Court.
There are - two classifications of man today:
a Dodger fan or a Yankee fan.
Man's most valuable possession today is a
nortable radio. Static and—dread the thought—
ain are his two most feared enemies.
One question faces the country today: What's
_he score?
The South could secede, or the stock market
quiver. That wouldn't matter. The. condition
of Mickey Mantle's leg, or the meaning behind
a nod from the head of Chuck Dressen are much
more vital issues.
And scrambled between it all are the razor
blades. The baseball fan who could go unshaven
these days—despite inning by inning sales pitch
—is the ultimate example of sales resistance.
About the only non-controversial thing you
can say about the World Series is that they'll
go four or more games.
Say anything else, and you'll be sure to find
someone who'll place a wager on that.
Gazette • • .
Fred Drabenstadt, Hana Gach, Ronald Gard
ner, Paul Green, Helen Hammersberg, John
Hertel, Patricia' Hennessy, Russell Hummer,
Virginio Juan, Marilyn Kaplan, William Kuda
roski, Charles Larson, Marvin Lessin, Sally Os
trom, Earl Shoemaker, Robert James Watson,
Lee Wetmore and Richard Pinney.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT SERVICE
The companies listed below will conduct interviews on
campus. Schedule interviews now in 112 Old Main.
REM-CRU. INC. will interview January graduates in
ME, lE, EE. Metallurgy, and Accgunting on Oct. 13.
GENERAL. MOTORS CORP. will interview January
graduates in Chem. Eng., Arch. Eng., CE, EE, lE. ME, and
Accounting Oct. 1345.
Co'legion editorials repre
sent the viewpoint of the
writers, not necessarily the
policy of the newspaper.' Un
signed editorials are by the
editor.
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—Mike Feinsilber
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—Dick Rau
—Duane Holm
Little Man on Campus
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fter reviewing your case we're still in a quandry—Mind steppi
ound here for a moment?"
Music Lover
Whiperiiioo
- : Gtilery. •
We can't really be termed a "music lover" like the long hairs
who lose all sense of equilibrium (their eyes do 33, 45, and 78 rpm)
at the first strains of a concerto and they begin to spout lyrics,
the composer, date, period, country, etc. (no offense to Music 5,
which we skillfully avoided). And . we're not a bon cat who's really
hep to the jive. But 'we appreciate a pleasant tune and fine vocals,
Not having taken music lessons
as a child (at the relief of the
local maestros), we ~.never took
music seriously, and barring an
occasional dixie land combo or
stray Salvation Army drum and
bugle corps, never even took no
tice,
Then last summer, we, were
termed "barbarian" by a self
styled debutante . long past her
"coming out." It was then we
became a "Cultured Scholar" and
began to do something about it.
We sent away for a pair of
tickets (free, at that!) to Robin
Hood Dell on the bonny, bonny
(if somewhat polluted) banks of
the Schuylkill River in. Philadel
phia. In previous years, concerts
were run as private enterprise
and invariably, thanks to Jupiter
Pluvius, Old Man. Weather, con
certs were alwys rained 'out.
Considerable money was lost be
cause contract performers had to
be paid whether or not they sang.
Philadelphia, lest it be called a
"scab on the face of America"
like her big sister New York,
overtook several civic projects to
develop culture within the city
and decided to underwrite the
Dell. Free tickets were distributed
for the asking . to allow common
people a "slice of art."
As a result, the Dell was of
ten a strange mixture of dis
traught society matrons, street
walkers, women's clubs, musi
cians, and students striving for
the arts.
We went to hear coloratura
Roberta Peters of Metropolitan
fame. Arriving late, we looked
for a place to sit and were amazed
at' the number of front seats not
taken while the back was jammed
solid. We would have collapsed
in the first row if we hadn't been
indignently informed that this
was the local "Diamond Horse
shoe" reserved for Friends of
the Dell. We picked up our rhine
stone tie clip and trudged back
through the crowd to perch on a
stone wall. Already the banks of
the Dell were covered with mobs
of people. Women sat on blankets
with their shoes kicked off, wigg
ling their toes. Men squatted con
tentedly sipping the mysterious
contents of a thermos jug, and
children wove their way among
people crouched beneath the
trees.
As it grew darker the orchestra
came out and began to ;tune up,
and colored spots flooded the sta
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1953
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By CHIZ MATHIAS
dium. Ten thousand people filled
the seats and an equal number
(according to the morning paper,
we didn't take a census!) coated
the sloping banks Under the char
coal sky.
Overhead old Jupiter Pluvius
started kicking up his heels and
Erich Leinsdorf of the Detroit
Symphony, guest conductor,
made an announcement that
Harrisburg Weather Bureau
predicted rain and program
numbers would be arranged so
tmportant numbers were played
before the downpour.
This called for an entire new
seating arrangement in the or
chestra. While musicians played
musical chairs in the shell, our
attention was caught in the aud
ience by a peculiar, disheveled
girl clanking down the aisle with
all the grace of a Pershing tank.
She wor e mushroom - colored
slacks and a tee-shirt with the
figures C 01347. We couldn't . de
cide if it was a telephone exten
sion or a parole number. She
found a spot on the stairs and
sat down with her head in her
lap. Then she laughed, squinted
her eyes, stuck out her bottom
lip, and went through all the
grimaces • of a well-rehearsed
pantomime. One minute she was
Sarah Bernhardt sending her lov
er to the guillotine. The next in
stant she was a playful trained
seal barking and flapping her
arms for a fish. We caught, some
of her conversation.
"I'm surprised they let me in,
ha! I was going to sit outside in
the grass and : listen." Her eyes
rolled iup in her head. . "Hey,
what's your name!"! She spied a
"cat" from South Philadelphia
sitting on the bottom step and
occupied herself for the next ten
minutes trying to put a hex on
him. By this time she had a large
audience.
"My name's Bernice." It might
have. been a proclamation of Cae
sar rendered in fog horns.
Then Mr. Leinsdorf made a
majestic swoop with the baton
and
. the music began. There
were mountains, and rivers and
fountains—and Bernice!
"What's the name of this
piece?" The. orchestra was play
ing Mozart's "Symphony No. 39
in E Flat Major," originally. ,
scheduled for after intermis-3
sion, and the harpist, who ar.?
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