PACE FOUR Editorial Opinion Rule Standardiiation Ye.,Lei7ciay's statement by 'the Dean Of . Women con cerning women's judicial affairs was essentially' well grounded Dean Lipp noted that judi r cial procedures should not be turned into an'IBM systeni of dispensing exact penal ties for exact infractions in all cases. She further stated that infractions which appear identical on the surface, may actually involve divergent circumstances. We agree that one thing Penn State does not need is any addition 10 the IBM layer cake which mixes varying ingredients into one impersonal student body, free' from the touch of human hands. I ' - We also agree with her corollary, that circumstances, background and history of offenses can often be pf im portance in determining a penalty for rule infraction. It should be indicated, hovirever, that the standrdiza tion which both this newspaper and the USG Cotigress spport should result in laying certain ground rules and guide lines concerning student discipline. ' Primary here is *the standardisation of definite limits of discipline for infractions. There - should be some leeway within this standardization to allow for individual cases but uniformity should govern the highest and c lowest penalties. Such codification would, we think, eliminate mich of the groaningi about unjust treatment. It would also elimi nate the possibility of. individual orgroup;fluctuatipns in assignment of penalties. t • Such a system is followed tin local, state and Federal government courts where an established offense rates an established penalty—again within .w. defined- area.! We envision this istandsrdizatlon applying to the AWS judicial bodies as well - as to the off-campus tribunals_ and aim's area tribunals. The nature of regulatory power differs among these groups. The women's judicial has final jurisdiction with the dean pf women's office retaining the right of review. Any change in the rules governing women students needs, in theory, only to be ratified by the AWS senate. The teen's tribunals are only recommending bodies, with the dean of men's office retaining final authority. Thus. if and when standardization of men's penalties is reached, this standardization would have to be presented to and adopted: by the dean of men's office to become effective in fact as well as word.. USG has taken on an immense burden for the sake of preventing Any future possibility of poor judicial, judg ment. In addition, the theory that all area judicial func tions should be under the 'jurisdiction of USG will be a difficult one to establish. . . 1, . . Neverthf•less, standardization is clearly necessary to make this judicial learning , proceis valid in!terms of future , community life. : , , , • I A Studint-OTerated New:paper . I , 57 Years of Editorial Fretdona • 1 , atle Elaug -.ololtrlnatt, Successor to The Free Lance, est. !lilt • . • "obibiked s, Wilma illatartay total** . dariag at glatveralty pier. Tia Dana Callorlaa la a ated•at.paratail aprospartar. faural ia spopeataiass uatte, Sala 411. DU al She State Callas, Pa. Past Oaks wade/ the set of Yarn) I. ins. nail Sallrartatka Priest -$4.80 • sear Ofallisur Alley law ILL less. (.'4 m- Pa. . . JOHN BLACK Editor 41110- Member of The Associated Pre.'s Cite Zeiteni. Lean. Creek* as Etk bard Lelease: Weeds. &Woes, Mee Telaidtoits and Joel Myers: Nese Editor. Paolo Drawer: Personnel skoll Veining Director. Karen Keseekeal: Aegislent Pennant! and Training Director. Kasen Orgy; Sports taller. Unite Kati; Assistant'Spode Editors. Den OIU k and Mortis: Pieter* Utter. ).Vet Seems. Leval Ad Mgr. Marg. Devisors.; Mantas* Load Ad Mgr.. Martin La ski Natisauld Ad Mere, Gnat: Credit Kir. Ralph Friedmann: Assintant Creak Mir. Eritity Nedaseeimiet Ad Mir.. !Catkin llWawa: arrelathon Mgr« Mow ilk** Trervaskin rareinoti MST. Anita Ilan: Who Lava Murphy. Perm% nitit mamplalate about TV/ Dalag or newt esterase ass yoke them in the letters to Um editor minas et green& then, ilk Oflll4lol sr Is writing. to the contaleints will its lovestigated sad *Dorm made to rommis eitostime when this ..*water Is at ( matt na Osih Cellestem, Imerower, opleoldie. time eight to maintain its tmiespen sa to *:eerie. to Owe teetzenent re to wiled gr.titialto Is is taw is Mistreat at ,Ms trahtersftr ats • erbeis. THE DAILY CO.LEGIAN UNIVERSJTY PARK. .PENNSYLVANIA WAYNE H_IUNSICI BUSIA.VI Oirasaget accents i Warder at the Gate' "...1 was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who ,had to take particulars about me. He asked my teligion, and I re-• ptied 'agnostic? He asked . how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh:,'Well, therel are many religions, but I sup pose 'they.'all worship I the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week." --"Portraits From Mentl4 . 7." Bertrand Ramiel/ The recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court r j ulli n g against Bible reading in the State's public schoolsi has compelled many warders at the gate to comment. The ban has resulto in a tidal wave of lettcrs Uo the editor and a corresponding low tide of editorials on the subject. Why this paradoxical reaction in the press? . The number of letters to the ediloy Is far easier to e*plain than the content the thgrn. For the most part, the ban has in spired the many who consider the action an_ infringement upon their religious righti. This is curious when you consider that the ban was appliad for the very same reason. - Hundreds of people feel that a heritage close to their hearts has beep wrested froni them. Jn many- cases, those whn.con done the ban are being labeled un-American, irreligious or Communistic. - Most of the arguments pre sented against the ban are philosophical nightmares: Many oA them are illogical - to the .-Aint of ludicrousness , , then, can this not be expected? The letter writers have: three strikes against them: •Most of the. letter writers are so incensed "over the issue, that they are unwilling 'to see Letters Politics, Olympics, Nationalism TO THE EDITOR: Last Sunday in New York ex-Hungarian At- tila - Keresztes won the inter national Martini-Rossi ' saber fencing championship. defeat ing Calabera, Italian champion, Zahlocki i and Pawlovski, Polish champions, who placed third, fourth and fifth, respectively at, the Olympics in 1960. • Besides Keresztes there were two other ex-Hungarian na turalized citizens in the meet, Daniel Ma gay ;(The U.S I char . pion) and Gene. Hamo x i (Sec ond in the U.S.). With his t victory,. i Attila Kereactes. 32-year-old nsechan ical engineer. became a promis ing challenger -for the saber event at the Olympics In 1954. The U.S. saber team (Keresztes. Magay, Hamori, dr. Nyilas—all ex-Hungarian) will have a good chance for the gold medal. And right at this point the sport matter" turns political and nationalistic. Namely, for 30 years Hungary dominated saber fencing as the U.S. leads in track. The defending Olym pic champions ;are Karpati and Horvath (Hungary) and the Hungarian :team If Keresztes. hitagay and Ha - mori want to win the Olympics in their specialty for the U.S., they have to face their !former countrymen and good friends, Karpati and Horvath of Mgt . 5103 r. • They have: to dethrone the Hungarian flag for the Ameri-. can. And all speak a better Hungarian than English (came 'in 1956) and thew friends and parents probably still ilive in Hungary. - - They.lika America bluff they love Hungary! They will com; peba for Amer and - 1 41 pas . . I wish that the world were less complex. —Nick Molumban "62 arty other side of the argument. JoThe opinions presented are highly subjective, thus making it !difficult to convince the op pcisition. , The reduction of th e Church versus State argument to: religion versus non-religion, tends to differentiate between what is thought constitutional and what is thought' right. t is eviderd,,,,,' t. many pie are .cerned over dq the pipers offer little tditoi gliidance on qqbject? The proh reason that 1 have ste4 clear of subject is that LEIGHTON experience has taught editorial writers to stay away from most refigious'issues. They have dis covered' that when, an argu mint has been stripped down to religious 'nakedness, all the logic in the world won't con vince the person :who feels he has been slighted. kfow do yoti answer' Harry; a 116 -year-old, who wants to know why. God, after he' has done so much for .the world, has been refused a few min utts in the classroom? If you to I him. that his God might .11 . n t be interpreted by some as th it God; yoll.have difficulty with letter writers like F. M. C. of Philadelphia. F.M.C. insists that Bible reading is a neces s&T and legal Christian heri tage in a Christian country, and that its discontinuance 'is im pc:Ong the will of the minority uptlon the majority. Do you tell F.M.C. that it is s difficult to consider Christianity as en . entity when diseissi i ia th issue: that it you di vided Christians according to their interpretation of the Bible, the Letters 'Stat us` Edit Draws Praise TO THE EDITORt Ip The Daily Collegian of Friday, February 16,! an editorial entitled ""Uni versity Status" appeared. Two comments: r- Although do not read the Collegian every day, it • would be' har d to miss the relatively great proportion of adversely critical letters, many of, which are from graduate students and many of which seem well 'minded. 4-lowever, Fridays editorial deilerves praisZThe issue con corning. legislative recognition byl the state is pertinent, and ,itt style Is forceful yet con trolled (except for a few fuzzy rnitaphors--to use one of my wain.) And the content is quite in fo#native; this is the duty of every 'such piece. As one - with i • 11111131111 TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 20: 1962 by dick leighton non-Christian minority Jathe ists, agnostics, deistv—not to mention Jews. Moslems . . .1 would far outnumber any par ticular sect? , • ' And if you convince park and F.M.C. (which is _unbkely)„ how do you answer Mrs. F, from Castle Shannon who thinks the court has deprived the;children of hearing some of the "great est literature ever written"? Are you brash enoughlto tell her' that her point is lirrele vant?- Do you suggest that 'a religious studies course 'whigh would include the studying of the great works of all religions might solve the problem? - Do you extend her argument , ' to absurdity, by suggesting - that 10 verses a day of "I Sing the Body Electric" or "This Is My Beloved" might- be considered on a literary par with the Bible? But if you do thii, you will undoubtedly be considered by many as irreligious and,,by extension; atheistic. (It appars' that quite a few. people cannot differentiate between atheism, agnosticism, deism and indi vidualism.) And thin you run into people, such as "Suspicious' of Thila delphia,• who equate atheism with Commtinism: All Commu •nists -are .atheists. The editorial writer is obviously an atheist. Therefore, the editorial writer is a . ComMunist. Simple. Sometimes it is imposSible to explain that freedom of re ligion can be interpreted as freedom not to believe; that the Jew, might not- appreciate - his children learning that Jesus of Nazareth was or is "king of the .Jews"; that Lebanese might have difficulty answering, his son's "Why are the .Jews the chosen people?"; that agnostic. might not be able to convince his daughter that he !is sincere even though the •Common wealth seemingly teaches there must be a God. • ' • • a small bit of practice in jour nalism, I praise you and beg for more. Second. perhaps you could follow this up with an emplane ' tion of the sources Of Penn State's revenue, excluding my pocket, and the co'nclitions or stipulations placed on this ,in come. I don't think that. too many'of the other students here know these things either, and it is indeed an interesting point. The. editorial confirms , 'common idea 'that legal status -i s him:lion:illy defined a s "whence the money comes." in' contrast, a digres sing question:. By-lines for weather reports? —Bruce H. Carrier • Graduate 'Student (Ed. Note: - The weather fore . casts in The Daily Collegian are specially prepared for the local area by Joel Myers, a meteor ology graduate student. Each forecast requires about two hours preparation.) ) lIMMI zo Om '''.. .0707;r4e4C-
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