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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.
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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
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beries on -- • 7 -%.,..,, ,
th e highway • .
make hitch- ~ ,
hiking so dan- ! -: f
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gerous, our " 7 -- -
friend says, -
for the open-
car-door poli- ! ' ' •
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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
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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.