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- on freedom of choice in the laws

Constitutional precedents, the dif-

owas 264 in favor of the old, 89 for

Mass Meeting Votes
To Keep Constitution
Continued from Page 1

“unified concept,” a “small scale
bill of rights,’ and a correction
of former ambiguities.

Helena Hersey stressed the need
for a democratic principle, based

of society. She stated the import-
ance of flexibility. Any infringe-
ment of individual rights should
exist in the form of national law,
not custom. The old constitution
would need a series of amend-
ments which would involve many
meetings.

' Asserting that the new consti-
tution would not be “anarchistic,”
Jean Franklin applied the princi-
ple to the contested issues. She
suggested that the three important
restrictions of freedom were the
laws of the state, the conventions
of society, and the needs of the
student body. Answering’ the
charge that a new constitution
would endanger the college’s repu-
tation, she pointed out that there
was “nothing in the old one to pro-
tect it.”

She attacked the signing out
rules as impractical, and not ful-
filling their avowed purpose. Sign-
ing out should be optional, and
only absences of over 24 hours
need be recorded...She proposed a
system of proportional represent-
ation for a committee to draw up
a new constitution.

Debate

Most of the debate centered on
the issue of whether or not amend-
ment of the old constitution was
preferable to a new constitution.

ficulties involved’ in drawing up
new constitutions, and clarification
of the “fundamental principles”
were the main topics. Supporters
of the old constitution maintained
that the supposition that a new
constitution would be simpler than
amendment was unfounded. They
emphasized the value of precedent,
and cited needs for specific re-
strictions. The principles need not
be stated if they are determined
by the specific rules, and are im-
plicit in democratic life anyway.

A test vote was taken, which

the new constitution. As a quorum
was not present in Goodhart, a re-
vote was taken in the halls.

Jessie Stone, speaking for the
smoking petition, suggested that
the present rules were outmoded,
particularly not smoking on the
Paoli Local. She felt that the
privilege could be exterided cau-
tiously and that freer smoking
need not mar the beauty of the
campus.

 

Calendar
Thursday, March 2
Interclass Swimming Meet,
4:00.
Political Discussion Group,

Common Room, 8:30.
Saturday, March 4
Basketball Game with Ur-
sinus, 10:00.
Dr. Paul Nettl, Goethe and
Music, Music Room, 8:00.
Sunday, March 5
The Reverend Rex Clements,
Music Room, 7:30.
Monday, March 6
Henri Peyre, The Epic Novel:
Giono, Goodhart, 8:30.
Tuesday, March 7
Faculty Vocational
Deanery, 4:30.
Wednesday, March 8
Alexander Frey, The Region-
al War Labor Board. Good-
hart, 12:30.
French Club Movies, Common
Room, 8:00.

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Self-Gov't Proposes
Practicil Revising
wf ;
suggested changes represent the
opinion of the majority of both
Boards and will, we believe, provide
a simpler and more workable sys-
tem. In making these proposals
we have tried to reconcile the de-
mands of the student body with
those of the College as a unit and
those of society in general. :
We cannot see any need for re-
vision of the body of the constitu-
tion except in the following points:
Article VI should be amended:

Section I. “The legislative power of
the Association shall be exercised by the
whole Association, three-fifths of whose
members shall constitute a quorum,” etc.
(At present a quorum is one-third).

Section II. The president of the Al-
liance and the Editor of the College News
should be added to the list of those who

comprise the Legislature.

Continued from Pagel

Section IV. To be replaced by para-
graph 2 of the resolution concerning the
Executive and Advisory Boards, in an at-
tempt to remove the contradictory phrases
about giving notice of ‘meetings.

Section VI. “A vote is not valid un-
less held in the presence of a quorum. A
simple majority of this quorum of the As-
sociation or its Legislature shall have all
executive and legislative powers not pro-
hibited in this Constitution, and may con-
fer authority upon the Executive Board,
or upon any committee or committees
which it may hereafter constitute,”

Article VIII should be amended as fol-
lows:

Sections 1 and 2 “two-thirds” to be
changed to “three-fifths.”

Article XI should be amended:

“Two-thirds to be changed to “three-

fifths.”
In addition, some provision might
be included specifying a general
revision of the rules every. three
years either by the Legislature or
other committee. _

We have revised the resolutions
one by one and we have discussed
the signing-out and special per-
mission systems in more general
terms. We believe that a system
of signing-out should. be required
of all students for two reasons: so
that students may be reached in
case of an emergency and so that
the College’s responsibility for each
individual is upheld. Practice,
however, has made clear that stud-
ents should be able to put down a
list of places they intend to go.
Such a list would obviously be con-
fusing if too large and we think
that students should realize this
and limit themselves so far as
possible to three places.

The times assigned to the vari-
ous activities have always been de-
termined .by what. seemed fair,
reasonable, ‘and proper for the ac-
tivity involved. For those reasons
we believe that 11:30 should be
kept for campus aetivities and for
the Main Line unescorted and 12:15
for Philadelphia unescorted. The
old criterion of 2:00 o’clock per-
mission for dancing only at places
with an orchestra seems outmoded
and we would suggest a blanket
2:00 o’clock permission both for
Philadelphia and the Main Line if
escorted.

We believe that the present sys-
tem_ of obtaining Special. Permis-
sion has largely outlived its use-
fulness. However, we think the
system should be retained for
Freshmen who should get Special
Permission for 2:00 o’clock activ-
ities at least during the first se-
mester. ‘Permission - givers are
necessary to sign-out those who
call after 10:30; many mistakes
are made now by those who rely
on their friends to attend to the
late books. Some of us believe
that Special Permission should be
required for private parties in or-

 

der to make sure that students are

escorted back to the halls. We be-

lieve that it should be retained for
formal 3::00 o’clock permissions.

The net result of all this is that
we believe certain specific changes
should be made in Resolution VIII
which concerns registration and
absence from College. The first
part of this Resolution which deals
with walking off. campus after
dark should be kept unchanged as
it is’ based upon general princi-
ples of safety. The rest of this
Resolution should be amended to
read:

A. ABSENCE AFTER 10:30:

1. Registration: (the paragraph should
stand unchanged except that the last sen-
tence should be) ‘Therefore it is necessary
to register accurately but students may
list several places.”

2. UNESCORTED STUDENTS MAY SIGN
OUT UNTIL—

11:30 for: Parties in other halls and

other campus activities.
Calling on the Faculty.
Movies on the Main Line.
Eating on the Main Line.

12:15 for: Movies, theatres, and con-

certs in Philadelphia.

3. IF ESCORTED, STUDENTS MAY SIGN
OUT UNTIL—

2:00 for: Any place of entertainment

such as restaurants or hotels if they

are accompanied by an escort, family,
older friends, etc.

Informal private parties in Phil-
adelphia and Vicinity which includes

Princeton and Wilmington. Special per-

mission is required for all students.

Freshmen are required to obtain per-

mission for all 2:00 o’clock activities.

3:00 for: Formal dances. In ordinary

cases this does not include University

of Pennsylvania and Haverford dances.

‘Special permission is necessary.

4, STUDENTS MAY HAVE ONE
SPECIAL PERMISSION—

After-informal College entertainments.

After formal College entertainments

if escorted.

B. CHANGES IN REGISTRATION—

. Students must telephone the Warden
when unavoidably delayed beyond the

time of registration and then return

to the College as soon as» possible.

2. If a student after leaving the hall
wishes to be signed-out or to change
her signing-out, she must telephone a
permission-giver who will enter it in
the late book. If not signed-out, a
student must call before 10:30. In
order to change permission students
must telephone before the hour of their

* expected return.
3. If a student wishes to leave the hall
after 10:30 she may do so if she gets
permission and makes arrangements
with the Warden.
ABSENCE OVERNIGHT—
(These regulations should stand un-
changed except for paragraph 3. As
the guest books are seldom used ,and
some halls do not have them, we be-
lieve that the guest should sign in the
overnight book of the hall she is vis-
iting).

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The Boards do not think that
smoking should be allowed in the
rooms primarily because of the
danger of fire. It is hoped that
more smoking space can be ap-
propriated in those halls and other
buildings in which there is need of
such an extension of the smoking

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Crenshaw Gives Talk
On Chemistry in War

 

Park Hall, February 23: Speaking
to the Science Club on the chem-
istry_of high explosives_and_illus-
trating his lecture with slides and
experiments, Mr. James L. Cren-
shaw noted the contribution of
chemistry to the war effort.

Forced by the war to find sub-
stitutes for rubber and quinine,
chemists produced five different
kinds of synthetic rubber, and de-
veloped atabrine. Further develop-
ments of chemistry include sulfa
drugs, high octane gasoline, bet-
ter metals and lubricants, and also
plastics, which are now used as
noses for bombers, army bugles,
and even automobile tires.

Explosives

“The laws of chemistry apply
just as well to explosives as to
anything else,” stated Mr. Cren=
shaw.

Three different kinds of explos-
ives are used in a shell: the deton-
ator, which goes off when it is hit,
and lights the propellent or low
explosive, which shoots out the
high .explosive.

The oldest known explosive is
gunpowder, which only detonates
when placed in a container; other-
wise, it merely burns. Mr. Cren-
shaw demonstrated the burning of
gunpowder and compared it to lead
picrate, which exploded when _heat-.
ed. He also hit a combination of
phosphorus and potassium chlor-
ate with a hammer. This explos-
ive ig extremely unstable and will
go off when a fly walks over it.
One of the most used high explos-
ives is mercury fulminate which
can be made by dissolving mercury
in nitric acid and putting the re-
sult in alcohol. Mr. Crenshaw ex-
plained that we save fats because
they are needed in nitroglycerine.

TNT is one of the best high ex-
plosives, Mr. Crenshaw said. Two
new explosives are tetryl and
PETN;; the latter is probably being
used in the big block-busters.

 

Tryouts

Are you journalistically in-
clined? If so, come and try
out for the Editorial Staff of
the News in the News Room,
Goodhart on Thursday, Maren
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Valeur Cites Evidence
To Exonerate French
Continued from Page 1

Affirming that there is “nothing
fundamentally wrong with France”
M. Valeur showed what poor tea-
soning it is to blame internal pol-
itics for military defeat. —Ger-
many’s early victories, for in-
stance, do not prove the justice of
her policies. Yet such reasoning
is practised extensively in specu-
lationg.about France’s collapse.
There has been powerful propa-
ganda, the speaker felt, to the. ef-
fect that France was far more
united in 1914 than in 1940.

The evidence shows this: In
the elections six weeks before the
first World War the un-war-mind-
ed French voted strongly against
extension of the period of com-
pulsory military training. Dur-
ing the War itself the Parliament
and Cabinet were .engaged-in con-
stant bickering until the
of Clemenceau to power in 1917.
France was no more united in
1914 than in 1940. But, M. Va-
leur pointed out, in the earlier
war Germany had to fight on two
fronts from the beginning, nor
was Italy her ally.

There were political elements: in
1940 too, that made lack of unity
more serious than in 1914, First,
there was the strong anti-Rus-
sian sentiment that motivated
Munich and other toleration of
Hitler, then there was the hatred
of war stronger in France than
anywhere else. !

All these factors plus her prox-
imity to Germany made France
an easy prey for the Nazis. Yet
Britain and the United States
were no better prepared for war
than she. All threé followed sin-
gularly short-sighted policies af-
ter the last war in failing to cre-
ate the “New spirit in democracy
which must follow this one”, M.
Valeur stated. France, the tradi-
tional leader of liberalism, may
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