PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Exit Honor Code The honor code has come to its final and well-deserved rest. The code was quietly voted out of existence by the Women's Student Government Association Senate Wed nesday night, climaxing a long and futile attempt to implement an honor system for coeds. It is not difficult to see why WSGA decided officially to kill the code. There was very little support for the system at any time during its existence. The actual num ber of coeds who signed the code was never high, and after the original signees put themselves on the code, the num ber apparently grew at a speed approaching a complete standstill. The honor code never really got off the ground. Its founders went at the project with a generous helping of idealistic gusto, but found it was backed up with too little realistic planning. One of the honor code's greatest drawbacks was that it was too nebulous—no one knew just what the code aimed at, and how it intended to get there. When boiled down, the code provided only that a signee affirmed her own honesty and ability to live within the University's rules without super•;sion . . . although the supervision was never lessened for the signees. This made the code rather pointless, but there was no way to change it. Special privileges could not have been granted without the taint of bribery, and fortunately the code at least avoided this. So the code really provided nothing, and consequently it failed. Whether or not an honor system could succeed at a university the size of this one, and whether it could suc ceed as an involuntary project applying only to those who request it, is questionable. If there are other attempts at an honor system, how• ever, we hope they will not be undertaken until they can solve some of the problems which so overwhelmed the late honor code. Touchdown on Tickets Football contests against Pitt, Army, Syracuse and West Virginia traditionally have given Penn Staters some of the most exciting sports thrills available anywhere. Now comes the announcement that, ,in addition to traditional teams, the Nittany Lions in future years will face such power houses as UCLA, Oregon, Navy and Southern California. It is a pretty sure thing that as the University grows, so will its list of top-flight opponents. And as the list grows, football fans—especially alumni —more and more will want to watch these games. Well, the kickoff for the spectators is this week: members of the alumni association, which is now accepting memberships from graduating seniors, receive about two weeks advance notice on football ticket sales. Special consideration in the ticket line is only one of the benefits received by members of the Alumni Associa tion. editorials art written Or the editors and start members of The Oally Collenian and de set necessarily represent the views of the University or of the 'Rodent n 047. A Student-Opetated Newspaper Mlr Battu Tollrgiatt Successor to The Free Lance. est. 1887 Pets!biked Need., through Saturday morning ductal the University roar, The Daily Collegian Is a student-operated newspaper Entered as second-class matter July 1 1934 at the State College Pa Poet Mice ander the act of &larch 1. 1971. Moil Subscription Priest 13.0 b per 'meets, .- Mlll pia rear ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor 149137," City Editor, David Fineman; Managing Editor, Richard Drayne; Sports Editor, Lou Prato; Associate Sports Editor, Matt Mathews; Personnel and Public Relations Director, Patricia Evans; Copy Editor, Lynn Ward; Assistant Copy Editor, Dick Fisher; Photography Editor, Robert Thompson. Credit Mgr., Janice Smith; Local Ad Mgr., Tom Mickey; Asst. Local Ad Mgr., Robert Pirrone; National Ad Mgr., Betsy Broachtil; Promotion Mgr., Bitty Bur gett: Personnel Mar., Mickey Nash: Classified Ad Mgr.. Barbara Ryan: Ce. Circulation Mire.. Mary Anna First And Murray -Simon; Research and Record. Mgr., Mary Herbein; Office Secretary, Myla Johnson. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Robb( Levine: Cons! Editor, Jeff Pollack; Wire Editor, Marie Russo: Assistants, Lucy Thiessen, Don Caaciato. Judy Rosen. Ilium. Beira McCafferty, Elaine Miele, Mack MacCaugban. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA FRANK VOJTASEK Business Manager 'Showing Flag' I. In S. America Called Ticklish By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst The United States has been en gaged this week in one of the old est and most ticklish forms of di plomacy—showing the flag, they used to call it. As developed by the British dur ing their heyday of empire, it amounted to a silent announce ment of political interest, a re minder of latent power, and a threat. Frequently it led to a fight, and some British parliamentar ians argued that it should never be used unless a fight was ac cepted as the possible denou men.t. In more modern times, as when Theodore Roosevelt sent the fleet around the world with special ar rangements that it be seen by the German Kaiser, showing the flag has been more of a deterrent ef fort than a fighting threat. That's what it was when the 6th fleet was dispatched suddenly to the Eastern Mediterranean sev eral years ago during the Jordan crisis, when Egypt and Syria were making threatening noises. That's what it k was when Air Force nuclear bombers flew non stop around the world. Indeed, it has been a major factor in the whole Western program of nu clear development. This week the military colors of the United States have been waved at four major points of world disturbance. Two of the displays have been what they call routine—joint ma neuvers with the British not far from Algeria, and an even more routine SEATO operation north of Indonesia which was protested by the Communists. In the Eastern Mediterranean naval units have moved to the Lebanon area, and the fleet's al lotment of Marines enlarged. U.S. planes have flown weapons to the Lebanese government. The most debateable show of power was in the Caribbean. The United States flew Army and Ma rine reinforcements to U.S. bases. , The avowed purpose was to have them handy if the Venezuelan government invited help in pro tecting mob-besieged Vice Presi dent Richard Nixon and his wife. Latin Americans are particu larly sensitive about any show •of U.S. power. They remember with rancor U.S. military inter vention in Haiti and Nicaragua, and the shelling of Mexico's ', Vera Cruz before World War I. Critics of the Washington ad ministration are saying that this week's action opened the door for a flood of anti-Amerie,an propa ganda—a flood which the Com munists have already turned loose. They contend that a limper ap praisal of Nixon's prospects on his tour would have put the troops on the U.S. bases quietly beforehand, if there was any need for them at all. Gazette TODAT Alumni Membership. 3 s.m. to 5 p.m., HUB Card Room Armed Forces. 8 a.m. to 9 p.m , Card Room and Ground Floor Lobby HUB Christian Fellowship, 12:45-1 p.m., 213 HUB Economics Faculty Seminar, noon, dining room A. HUB Football Meeting, 6 to 6 p.m., Aasembig Hall HUB Hillel, Sabbeth Eva Services, 8 p.m., Foun. dation Jazz Concert, 8 p.m., Schwab Auditorium Nittany Dance. 9 p.m., Ballroom, HUB Newman Club, Spring Fling, 8 p.m., Church Hall Penna. Newspaper Publishers Association. Editor's Conference. 10 a.m., Nittany Lion Inn Players, "Tonight at 8:30," 8 p.m., Center Stage WDFIII. 7-9 p.m., Assembly Hell HUB WHA, Free Swim, 7-9 p.m., White Hail Nineteen Junior Men Tapped by Androcles Nineteen students have been tapped by Androcles, junior men's hat society. They are Charles Bartholomew, Charles Blunt, David Epstein, Kenneth Florence, Theodore Hall er, William Jaffe, Louis Johnson, Leonard Julius, Jerome Karp, Irv ing Klein, Martin Leshner, Ber nard Magdovitz, Vincent Marino, Wayne Mason, Robert Owens, Jame Portman, Ro;.yert Thompson, William Vandegrift and Howard , Wgitiff• ittle Man on Campus by Dick Bib! OFFICE ath 'F,' Psych 'F,' an' a 'C' in Phys. Ed.—just shows ya wh happens when ya spend all yer time studying one subject." ehind the News He's 'Thumbing it' Down Route 322 If you have never taken the night run down Route 322 sitting in the darkened cab of a tractor trailer truck hauling 18 tons of plate glass, you have missed an ex perience to remember. At least, so says a hitchhiking friend of ours. "Thumb ing it," a popular method of transportation with many stu dents, is against state law and is considered a most dangerous activity for both rider and driver, It is unfortunate that rela tively few deaths and f-- rob ,N beries on -- • 7 -%.,..,, , th e highway • . make hitch- ~ , hiking so dan- ! -: f ~,, ' gerous, our " 7 -- - friend says, - for the open- car-door poli- ! ' ' • cy can lead to • ''' - some interest ing . ~ and un- usual situa- . Lions. ; - Our friend '- - learned one of his first hitch hiking lessons late one Thurs day night when he left State College bound for Harrisburg. He got into a car at College Avenue and Atherton Street without asking the driver's destination, so he waited an hour for his second ride—at Boalsburg. Riding -in a tractor-trailer behemoth at night when truck traffic is heavy feels, we are fold. something like trying to harness the "irresistible force": one wonders if such a huge mass. having attained such mo mentum, could be stopped in time to avoid collision with an "immiveable object" such , PIA \ UPS I CO VULTURES ON,YES...OSUALLY TREY - ~li ziY OFE Z Ya zi; 3 - 13fi l i CII , I / 4 CLE IN T ROIND AAAII.6O e ~ 0 . _.......,.................... 4 . . ...,„- ...,„, (SUDDENLY, tom A GREAT 4.46 " EP %II S eNI Y D 1 .I)° I 4 i r 4") ..__ FRIDAY. MAY 16, 1958 By Bob Franklin as bridge abutment, tree or somebody's house (probably his). Our friend, who says he has "hitched" everything f r o m Cadillacs to concrete mixers, described first comments on entering a vehicle as ranging from "I remember you from last year" to "I hope you have insurance" and "You better not have a club in that bag!" Since the times of Lincoln' and Douglas, debates have at tracted more than average in terest among Americans. The University makes good use of the device of debate as an extracurricular activity. And there is almost no better way than a debate between well informed indiViduals to bring out pertinent information, and get to the heart of a matter. We recently had the oppor tunity., to hear Sen. Albert Gore (D.-Tenn.) and Rep. Charles B. Brownson (R.-Ind.) debate on national issues. At the time we wished the rest of the stu dent- Body could hear the re marks of two such capable in. dividuals. It seems to us that the Uni versity and the student body might gain a great deal through such a public debate, or even one between two of the more prominent nominees for the November election, if it could be arranged.
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