Monday, January 13, 1964
STANDARDS WEEK:
What Is If?
By Sally Larsen
President, AWS Board ,
Associated Women Students has initiated a new program
this year called AWS Standards Week. This is not a week in
which the AWS Board is exclaiming self-righteous concern
over the standards of the women on this campus. Instead,
throughout this week, the women students themselves will
be re-examining their understanding of the word "standards."
They will be concerned with the question of responsibility in
the area of setting and upholding high standards. And they
will be reviewing the rules which result from the concept and
principles of high standards.
Through the aid of the standards chairmen in the separate
living units, the women students will be asked to broaden
their concept of the word "standards." They will be reminded
that high standards apply not only to grooming and social
conduct; but also they apply in the areas of honesty, respon
sibility, intelectual pursuit, and practically every other phase
of life.
The women students will also remind themselves that it
is their responsibility as women, and especially as women
who have had the privilege of college training, to set the
goals of high standards for the future American society.
Thirdly, the women students will review some of the
manners and mannerisms which best illustrate a broad con
cept of the field of standards.
Through a program of discusions, lectures, and etiquette
hints, Associated Women Students hopes to provoke serious
thought and consideration of the feminine role in the field of
standards. We hope that the standards emphasis and evalua
tion of this week will be at least one step toward maintaining
high standards throughout our college careers and the rest
of our lives.
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By JIM MOORE
I wonder what the State Senators will
think when they see the results of the
drinking poll . . . that 80 of the student
body drinks and that 60 of these are
minors.
Yep, 5,000 minors break the law on
the average of once a week.
Where does Student Council go from
here? An Investigation Into the problems
of student drinking? That would be like
investigating why the barn door was open
after the horses had left
The Council has a clear, definite man
date. It has the jurisdiction (Article III,
Section 1, G. of its constitution) "To
exercise . . . powers that may benefit
the student body," and precedent (i.e.,
the student discount card, etc.) to legis
late for the student welfare.
If, however, the entire Council takes
the attitude of one of its members, that
"We have more fun sneaking the beer in
the back seat of a car" then we can
only pity the senior honoraries Into
which such leaders will inevitably be tak
en. Bnt then our aspirants have only the
leadership of such an Illustrious Innocent
as Dick Weill to follow. After his bar
rage at a Council meeting that the Coun
cil can only act on Issues with which the
majority of students have expressed a
positive concern, then we must join Mick
Rood in saying that "He is misguided."
The Council has an issue. But then,
it would be nice if nothing were done
... no one would need fear his May Day
Career. '
If the Council Is concerned with the
welfare of its students, then it must act
on this issue. If however, we hear that
the poll did not show the students wanted
Council to do anything, and therefore,
"We, as representatives, can hot go
against our constituents," then we can
only marvel at the lack of consistency
in Council leadership.
It was not so long ago that Dick
Weill said, "I was not elected to repre
sent student opinion. The good of the Uni
versity must be considered first." No
Council member disagreed.
So with the "gwd of the University"
In mind, I trust that Weill will be among
the first to demand that Council do some
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thing about us drunken masses.
What to do?
First of all, the Council and the Stu
dent Body must join with Dean Ross to
correct the situation. He needs help from
the student body ... to work out a solu
tion. This column has, in the past, attacked
the Vice-Chancellor of Student Affairs not
the man, the position. G. Robert Ross is,
I hope, aware of the problem, but the
woeful lack of communication prevents
him from acting, and results in edicts
from the title.
What can Ross and his students, work
ing as a group, expect to accomplish?
What can they do?
Dean Ross and President Christie
should, together, present the recent drink
ing poll and its results to the Board of
Regents. Perhaps this group could sug
gest some way to rectify the situation of
minor drinking.
Or perhaps the Regents would allow
beer in fraternity and sorority houses. As
the Greek houses are built on private
land, it is only the present Regents rul
ings that prevent beer there now. (Some
law authorities feel that this action is un
lawful, but it still stands.) The Univer
sity of California (Berkeley) has taken
this way out.
As for the dorm's situation, the cam
pus police could be as blind as they were
the night of the "open campus." (This
also works atCal.)
If all this fails action by the Board
of Regents then It will be necessary to
follow the route of changing state law to
lower the drinking age to 19.
Contrary to what many Council
members think, asking for such a change
would not put the University in a bad
light. Many, that's right Weill, many
State Senators are talking of Just such a
move.
But an easier route to follow is to
take a lesson from the State of Missouri.
All that's needed to allow minors to
drink is a law . . . "A 19 minor can be
in a bar where just 3.2 beer is sold." The
constitution and laws still stand but
the implications are obvious.
But perhaps Council will still do noth
ing. After all they were not elected to
represent student opinion they were
elected to get points.
THE
Dear Editor:
The drinking problem has
been defined as "the gap
between the law and the
reality of the situation." In
any analysis of the drinking
problem, there is an un
written (and possibly un
known) law demanding that
the actual existance of this
problem be indisputably
established.
Being a typical apathetic
student, totally unfamiliar
with the current campus sit
uation, at this time I pro
pose a poll to be conducted
to determine if this prob
lem exists. This would be
a project of no mean un
dertaking; the talents of the
best minds at the Univer
sity would be required.
To begin, the poll could
ask the student if he drinks.
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WAYWARD BUSES
On Drinking Poll
If he marks an "X" in the
box marked "Yes," this
should give us a clue. How
ever, there exists a ques
tionable element at this
point. The poll must also
ascertain as to the age of
the student. Consider John
William Drink's form.
There are four possibilities:
1. Yes ,1 drink, and am
under the age of 21.
2. Yes, I drink, and am
21 or over.
3- No, I do not drink,
and am under 21.
4. No, I do not drink, and
am over 21.
Given that Johnny marks
one of these, how would we
decide whether or not there
is a problem? We can dis
count possibilities (3) and
(4 1, because by the original
definition of the drinking
problem there is no "gap"
and hence no problem. Pos
sibilities (1) and (2) re
quire a more stringent ex
amination. If (2) is the
case, there "apparently" is
no problem since Johnny
is of legal drinking age.
However, if (1) is the case,
a definite problem exists
(unless there are extenuat
ing circumstances such as
he drinks only when forced
to, etc.)
After the results of this
poll have been collected and
recorded, they would have
to be interpreted. If only
one person answered that
he is under 21 and drinks,
would this constitute a sig
nigicant problem? How
many students must drink
before there is a true prob
lem? Obviously this re
quires a subjective judg
ment. Perhaps another poll
could be conducted to deter
mine who should make this
judgment.
What should be done with
the information from our
drinking poll? Since this is
a problem of great signifi
cance, I now propose that
a poll be conducted to de
termine what to do with
this information. Yet we
must be careful; first a poll
would have to be conducted
to determine who should
conduct this last poll. Fi
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law in America:
The ftew Religion
CaUeclate Pren Strict
By Mike Perlgut
The Supreme Court is pre
siding over the (right
ful) demise of organized re
ligion in the government
and governing of the United
States. A strict interpreta
tion of the law will neces
sitate further separation of
organization religion and the
state.
The church is no longer
a check on the government.
It can no longer provide a
moral or ethical setting for
politics. It can no longer be
the dominant force in our
lives.
All this is inevitable
and right. The Church, no
matter what its beliefs, can
not claim a pre-eminent
place in a society where al
legiance is to more than one
church. A consensus of any
community is required for
a true belief system to op
erate. Traditional Islam and
Hinduism are examples. Re
ligion is not a part of the
lives of Muslims or Hindus:
it is their lives, and every
thing they do is based on
their religions.
But there is one thing in
which practically all Amer
icans believe, one thing on
which a consensus of the
community can be reached.
There is one belief system
with no rivals, one church
that has the power to reg
ulate the lives of all of us,
one candidate for an Amer
ican religion.
That is law.
Law has a bible : the
Constitution, written just as
vaguely as the Bible or
Koran and just as subject
to interpretations. It has a
priesthood: lawyers, a high
priesthood: judges, and a
papacy: the Supreme
Court.
And most of all it is a
total belief system. One
has to believe in the law
prevailing for logicially that
is nonsense. Carry law out
to its logical extreme and
it is ridiculous. The search
for consistency in ; law is
self-defeating because much
of the basis for law is self-
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contradictory. Yet many
people continue to believe
in law as a consistent sys
tem, as a way of living life.
They are the believers.
And they are minstered
to by members of the priest
hood, graduates of divinity
schools (law schools) and
schooled In the Intricacies
of the fine points of Inter
pretation of vague statues.
Our society is built on a
basis of law and only a
lawyer can understand its
inner workings. No wonder
law is the easiest road to,
the power elite in the United
States today. And no wonder
lawyers win exorbitant fees
for counseling bewildered
' people lost in the red tape
of bureaucracy.
Law is a full-time re
ligion in this country. Or
ganized churches can only
command a part of the pub
lic's time and a small part
of most people's lives. Law
pervades all.
For a while It looked like
science would become the
American religion. ' But
science, another total belief
system (a system in terms
of which everything can be
explained, like Communism
and Capitalism), has been
discredited and study of
science is no longer the
road to political or exonom
ic success in this country.
And law reigns supreme.
I cannot believe in law
personally. I cannot place
my hopes in any belief sys
tem. My protest is the
avoidance of law school
and of organized religion, sci
ence, and economics.
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