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Reagan to speak facing protests By HELEN JUNG

Facing protests from several groups denouncing his administration's policies, former President Ronald Reagan will speak this morning on "The Triumph of Freedom" at the first Peak Week plenary session.

While Reagan speaks in the Civic Center's Convention Hall, members of an AIDS activist organization said they will hold a rally outside to protest what one member called Reagan's "ignor- ing of the AIDS crisis."

And several administrators, faculty members and students yesterday participated in a "teach-in" in which 19 speakers criticized the University for in- viting Reagan, saying his policies are inconsistent with the goals and objectives of an institution of higher education.

Calling the selection of Rea- gan "a travesty," speakers addressed the crowd of over 100 University community members in the intermittent drizzle for about three hours on College Green, condemning cuts in federal funding and Reagan's military buildup.

Penn Women's Center Direc- tor Elena DiLapi, one of the speakers, decried what she called Reagan's silence on such social problems as the AIDS crisis, violence against women and minorities and the threat to re-

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Cort F«y/DP Senior Photographer A graduating student waves his program to his relatives and friends in the Franklin Field stands at Monday's Commencement.

Class of '90 bids adieu with pomp By ADAM LEVINE

Virtually the only visible protest to Barbara Bush's speech at Commencement Monday was the few graduates waving pieces of broccoli above their heads.

Under a clear blue sky that seemed to be ordered especially for Commencement, approximately 25,000 friends and relatives saw over 4900 students graduate in Franklin Field earlier this week.

Parading behind a bagpipe player from Superb- lock to Franklin Field, members of the Class of 1990 cheered and snapped photographs of their friends. The seniors adorned their mortarboards with names, flamingos, and even the Eiffel Tower.

Some messages written in tape across the hats were cryptic, meant only for friends and relatives. Other messages, like "We all have jobs" worn by nursing graduates were less subtle.

"You can get married a thousand times," Whar- ton graduate Lisa Abendroth said. "You only graduate once."

The first lady gave a 15 minute speech, discussing the importance of personal relationships and sprin- kling in several campus buzz words. Bush received enthusiastic applause before and after the speech.

But the graduates reserved most of their enthu- siasm for several of the honorary degree recipients, loudly applauding former United States Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, Planned Parenthood president Faye Wattleton, and comedian Bill Cosby. Cosby wore sweatpants, running shoes, and athletic socks under his gown.

With little visible protest to Bush's appearance,

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President Emeritus Meyerson hospitalized By STEVEN OCHS

President Emeritus Martin Meyerson, co-chairperson of the 250th Anniversary Commission, is listed in satisfactory condition

at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania following back surgery.

Meyerson was admitted to the hospital May 1, according to

a HUP spokesperson. Meyerson, who retired from

the presidency in 1981, has been instrumental in planning Peak Week events since late 1986.

Assistant to the President William Epstein said last night that Meyerson may be released from the hospital within a few days.

From "Pants Fights" to "Diversity": The Freshman Experience By DAVID LASKO and BRENT MITCHELL When Roger Raffe first entered

the University in the fall of 1941, freshmen had no reason to fear searches of their room for al-

cohol, hot pots or microwaves. Instead, they had to scurry across campus hid- ing their ankles.

On September 22 of that year, Raffe achieved temporary notoriety as he became the first member of the class of 1945 called up on charges for violating the freshman regulations.

According to the next day's Daily Pennsylvanian, Raffe had been appre- hended by Robert McWhorter, a member of the sophomore class "Vigilance Committee," for a particularly heinous offense: wearing colored socks.

"Although the member of the Class of '45 pleaded that he had two pair of white socks in the wash and had been unable to buy a clean pair, Vigilance Chairper- son William Byrnes ordered the offender to report again [for punishment] at Wednesday's meeting," the DPreported.

As part of their freshmen experience, Raffe and his classmates were harried throughout their first year by the sophomore class, which was empowered to teach them the ways and customs of the University. They attended retreats, partook in prescribed rituals, and at least pretended to be subservient to their elders.

Over the intervening half century, the strict regulations and the mandatory white stockings have gone the way of knickers and courting calls. But the "freshman experience" has remained an intregal part of University life, and people still work, in different ways, to introduce first-year students to their new community.

Although The Pennsylvanian never listed Raffe's punishment, many members of his class were found guilty of violating the rules

that regulated freshmen attire, required they memorize University fight songs, and forbade them from using the front doors of most campus buildings.

As punishment, the sophomore class could sentence wayward freshmen to do odd jobs or walk through campus with sandwich boards advertising student group activities. The most unruly rook- ies could be dunked in the Biology Pond.

The University's indoctrination ef- forts, of course, took on positive ele- ments as well, and Raffe's class was trundled into the Poconos for a "freshman camp" where the neophytes were taught songs, cheers and the facts of life in West Philadelphia.

The University began the camps, which were segregated by gender, in the 1920s to instill a sense of solidarity among members of the freshman class. In earlier years, the class's most prominent activities had been annual, ritual- ized melees with the sophomores in which students fought for the honor of their year.

Among the fights were ones in which freshmen would try to tear down a poster put on College Hall by the sophomores, and others in which members of both classes squared off in the Quadrangle

and spent an hour trying to pull the pants off as many of their opponents as possible.

But by 1931 the sophomores were firmly entrenched as the enforcers of University order while the seniors im- parted the "yearlings" with their wis- dom. After returning from camp, freshmen would be rounded up for traditional rites, including kissing the toe of a statue of Ben Franklin that stood on 34th Street outside Weightman Hall.

Except for an interruption during the war years, the camps were held annu- ally into the 1950s. Bernard Lemonick, president of the Class of 1951, remem- bers a University whose main focus was its successful football team, and the camps were the time to stoke up the school spirit for contests that would attract tens of thousands of Philadelphi- ans to Franklin Field each week

"When freshman came in, they came in ready to cheer," Leminick said. "Whatever excitement took place, took

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At Monday's commencement activities, first lady Barbara Bush head- lined the ceremony for the Class of 1990, along with former Surgeon General C. Everett Coop, Sony founder Akio Morita, entertainer Bill Cosby, and Planned Parenthood President Faye Wattleton. By Adam Levine '92.

Although a student's first year at the University has always been special, the freshman experience has changed drastically in the past 75 years. From rules and regulations to social planning and education, the new kids on the block have it different. By David Lasko '90 and Brent Mitchell '91.

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# Home of the Quakers, the Palestra and Franklin Field have hosted millions since their construction. As Penn football and basketball lost their national prominence, the venues often were more prominent than the teams, but the pride that made them famous still lives on. By Alan Schwarz '90.

At the University, large-scale visual events are a mainstay of campus life, especially during celebrations like the 250th. The Daily Pennsyl- vanian's photography department presents pictorial coverage of the spectacles of the past few days, including commencement and the start of Peak Week.

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Although all the signs read "250," the University's lineage is not as clear as could be. Between the founding of two schools, the building of a meeting hall, and the desire to be established, the story of Penn's founding is still murky. By Helen Jung '92, Brent Mitchell '91, and Peter Spiegel '92.

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ByALANSCHWARZ Look at a 1927 aerial photo-

graph of the University and you'll be somewhat startled.

You may see a trolley rumbling through College Green, on what used to be Woodland Avenue. Rowhouses, shops, and maybe a gas station or two ap- pear where the high rises now stand. Deitrich Hall does not yet exist; nor, for that matter, does Mr. Steinberg.

Move eastward, though, and you're reassured that not everything has changed. Two brick structures stick out beside a river of railroad tracks. Franklin Field, recently remodeled with its fash- ionable upper deck, sits majesti- cally beside the Palestra, Perm's brand-spanking-new basketball arena.

Sixty-three years later, history and change have forever altered this campus — but its athletic venues remain beautifully pre- served. Incoming freshmen next year can go to Franklin Field and watch a game from the same spot their grandparents did two gen- erations ago, when 70,000 fans routinely packed the old brick horseshoe every fall Saturday. And whether current students know about the Palestra tradition, they can still get the feeling of entering a sacred shrine.

These two buildings stand almost exactly as they did in 1927, surviving as shining tributes to Penn's athletic success and tradition ever since.

The original Franklin Field was built in 1895 for the first running of the Penn Relays. It soon became the home of

the University football team when the old grounds at 37th and Spruce Streets, where the Quad now stands, became inadequate to house the spectators who were often forced to watch from rooftops and utility poles.

The new, wooden stadium built on the banks of the Pennsylvania Railroad sufficed until the early 1920s, when the post-war eco- nomic boom prompted expanded interest in spectator sports. In Philadelphia, that meant primarily Penn football.

The University Council on Athletics decided in 1922 to tear down the old Franklin Field and replace it with a new, steel-supported, double-decked stadium that would more than double its previous capacity.

Within several years, the Penn football team's popularity more than paid for the facility's recon- struction. Franklin Field's gate receipts had increased fourfold — and its football team was the toast of Philadelphia.

The stadium's carnival-like at- mosphere began to form with Penn's emergence as a national power in the 1930s and 40s, when SRO crowds, cheerleaders, marching bands and other top-20 programs came to Franklin Field and captivated fans from all over the East. Top draws included Penn stars such as Frank Re- agan and Chuck Bednarik—who later starred on his old stomping grounds as an All-Pro for the Philadelphia Eagles—as well as the annual Army-Navy game. Throughout that era, Franklin Field hosted more college football fans than any other stadium in the nation.

"As a player, you didn't get to see the bands and the spectacle during halftime becauseyou were in the clubhouse getting taped," said Bert Kuczynski, a Penn end

The Quakers played before crowds of over 70,000 at Franklin Field during the 1930s.

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The Palestra has seen 4 million fans. University Field at 37th and Spruce streets was Penn's first stadium.

in the early 40s. "But when you came out onto the field, the roar that came out to greet you was deafening. All the cheers and the singing, it was absolutely fantas- tic. It inspired you to play a little bit over your head sometimes."

The 1922 expansion of athletic facilities also included a new indoor arena, one of the first buildings devoted solely to the game of basketball. Little did the Council on Athletics know that this gym would soon be regarded as the most celebrated college basketball facility in the country.

Only Penn called the Palestra home until the mid-50s, when vai i- ous scandals in the sport induced college presi- dents to order their teams out of big, bad arenas like New York's Madison Square Garden and Philadel- phia's Conven- tion Hall. Penn athletic officials suggested to Temple, St. Jo- seph's, La Salle and Villanova that they all play at the Palestra and share the gate receipts. Soon afterward, round-robin play among the schools began and the Big Five, as well as the Palestra legend, was born.

Over four million fans have since come to watch thousands of games at the facility, contests actually revered more for the teams' war- like, boisterous supporters than fortheheart-stoppingexcitement of the games themselves.

"The Palestra seats 9,200 fans,"

Sports IUustmted wrote in 1965, "and on any night when one Big Five team is playing another you could be excused for supposing that every one of the 9,200 is a lunatic...4.600 fans on one side engage in insult contests with the 4,600 on the other side, and fre- quent loud remarks are addressed to the question of the legality of the marriage of the referee's mother and father."

The fans' intimidation tactics also included two old Palestra traditions — throwing streamers after their team's first basket and unfurling long rolls of paper that featured various taunts directed toward the opposing team's

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Franklin Field is the home of the Penn Relays, the world's largest track meet.

cheering section. Just before the game, these banners were slowly unwound down the row, while the letters came into sight one by one. A good example of a rollout was one St. Joe's fans once brought:

"La Salle is an armpit." Clerics at the three Catholic Big Five schools tver° often perplexed by the banners, and had to call upon their lay friends for translations.

Simply put, the Palestra became the most intimidating place for any team and any player to visit. Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, Bill Bra- dley, Julius Erving, Ralph Sampson, Patrick Ewing and dozens more, all played in the Palestra and fell prey to its mys- tique. With the maniacal fans only feet from the action and with the great teams that played there, the Palestra soon redefined home court advantage. When the Big Five was in full swing in the 1960s, visiting teams went home with a loss 80 percent of the time.

"For Big Five games, when the Palestra was packed like a sar- dine can, neither team could hear its coaches," former Penn point guard Alan Cotler (1969-72) said. "It was so loud, so electric, we could never hear anything. We just played."

"I recruit players by saying the Palestra is the finest basketball arena in the country," La Salle coach Speedy Morris said at last year's Big Five banquet. "Be- cause it is."

Morris uttered that remark with a tinge of remorse, because at the time La Salle was contemplating

its impending move back to Con- vention Hall. St. Joe's was planning to leave the Palestra as well, joining Temple and Villanova, who moved in 19<»6, in staging its own on-cam^us games.

One year later, the transition is complete. Now only Penn re- mains, left behind to watch programs with higher athletic aspi- rations live it up in other arenas, by themselves.

Penn's affiliation with the Ivy League prompted Franklin

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250th Coverage

THE LAST HURRAH Commencement '90

Mike RockoH/DP Senior Photographer

(Left) The University's 1990 graduates parade onto Franklin Field in their traditional cap and gown while the scoreboard congratulates them on their accomplishment. (Above) Assistant to the President Nick Constan tries to organize seniors in Superblock before their last march down Locust Walk on Monday morning.

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(Clockwise, from top) First lady Barbara Bush marches into Franklin Field accompanied by other honorary degree recipients; Graduating College senior Cato Law, sporting sunglasses, walks down Locust Walk before the Commencement ceremony; Alumni, such as this 1936 graduate, carry flags bearing their year at Commencement.

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250th Coverage Dr. J helps uncover Ivy stone By JEREMY SELWYN

Former Philadelphia 76ers star Ju- lius Erving, one of the city's most famous basketball players, addressed the crowd at Monday's Ivy Day ceremonies, where, fittingly, the first round Ivy Stone in the University's 117-year- old tradition was unveiled.

Erving, better known to millions of fans simply as Dr. J, spoke to the near-capacity crowd at Irvine Audi- torium about the highlights of his own career and offered the insights he gathered during his 16 years playing professional basketball.

Erving spoke at length about his own achievements in basketball, ranging from winning the NBA's Most Valuable Player award to leading his team to the 1983 NBA championship. He also recalled his disappointment at losing certain basketball games, adding that it changed his attitudes toward life.

"I couldn't quite accept being re- lated to solely on the basis of accomplishment or non-accomplishment," he said

Erving emphasized that fear of failure should not stop anyone from striving for success.

"There's no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying," he said.

Erving also told the graduating seniors that as future leaders they must live according to their values.

"You foster a turning point when you learn to balance the physical and

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the spiritual aspects of your life," Erv- ing said "Protect your values — our future depends on the orderly transition of those values from one genera- tion to the next.., Accept this chal- lenge as the luminaries, the visiona- ries, the dignitaries of the 21st century."

Introducing Erving, Provost Mi- chael Aiken provided some unex- pected basketball trivia by speaking of his own short-lived basketball career.

Aiken, who was in his own words "barely visible over the podium," told of how he was a second-string guard in high school. As Erving and Aiken snook hands, the 6'6" athlete towered over the provost.

A number of senior honor awards, voted upon by the senior class, were presented as part of the Ivy Day festivities.

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Four women's honors to graduating seniors were also awarded: Engi- neering graduate Linda LaGorga won the Hottel Award, College graduate Lynn Halpern won the Harnwell Award College graduate Tara Fitz- patrick won the Goddard Award, and College graduate Farah Jimenez won the Brownlee Award

Senior class President Tim Hill presided over the ceremonies, receiv- ing applause after his humorous in- troduction and laughter when he mis- pronounced several names.

The new Ivy Stone was unveiled — or, more accurately, un-T-shirted, as it was stripped of its senior week T- shirt — on the front steps of College Hall shortly after the speech.

Two Mask and Wig members con- cluded the ceremony with their rendi- tion of "Ode to the Ivy," poking fun at several aspects of University life.

Medicine exec featured at Baccalaureate

By CHRISTINE LUTTON Roy Vagelos, a University Trustee and 1950 Col-

lege graduate, shared career anecdotes and advice with graduates-to-be and their families at Sunday's Baccalaureate service.

Vagelos, who since 1985 has been the president and chief executive officer of the pharmaceutical firm of Merck and Company Inc., told the standing- room-only crowd in Irvine Auditorium that they can make important contributions in their professional careers.

Vagelos shared a story about his company's search for a drug to help people afflicted with the disease known as river blindness. He said the company's scientists found a medication which would prevent the disease with only one tablet each year, but the communities in which it was needed could not afford it He said his company donated the funds.

He made an analogy to a sea trip in which he re- membered thinking that the ship was battling a storm, only to find that his mind had created this illusion.

"When you can do something positive, don't let fears and misconceptions stand in your way," Vage- los admonished.

Vagelos, President Sheldon Hackney, and Uni- versity Chaplain Stanley Johnson all wished the seniors well in their future endeavors.

Hackney urged the seniors to continue to follow the values that have been part of their four-year ex- periences at the University.

Several songs and prayers completed the hour- long program.

Student leaders Franklin Ferguson and Patricia Marin, both graduating College seniors, and several campus religious leaders led the audience in prayers and readings. The Glee Club also sang for the ceremony.

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The University has set up an elaborate light display on Col- lege Green, set to begin tonight at 11 p.m., with the Ben Franklin statue as its focal point.

Students frustrated over 250th housing BY CHRISTINE LUTTON and JOSH STARR

Recounting stories of traffic jams and dusty rooms, many students who had to relocate to stay for Peak Week festivities complained of what they called a lack of foresight in arranging housing.

Residential Living provided housing for 350 student volunteers and perfor- mers and 250 seniors. But some students called the process unnecessarily troublesome.

Perm Band Vice President Steve Bir- mingham on Tuesday blamed Residen- tial Living for inconveniencing students by forcing them to move.

"I think it is stupid and pointless," said Birmingham, a College junior, who spent almost three hours Tuesday moving his belongings from Modern Lan- guages House to an unrenovated section of the Quadrangle.

Birmingham also criticized the Uni- versity for moving students in and out on the same day.

"The people who run this place couldn't have gotten in here," Birming- ham said.

Some band members had been told that the students who originally lived in the Quad were forced to move so that the University could clean the rooms, Birmingham said. But those same students arrived with their belongings to find dust, trash, and even week-old food in their new rooms.

Associate Director of Residential Liv- ing Flora Lea Louden said yesterday that students who lived in the Quad had to move so the rooms could be prepared for the 525 alumni who will live there during Peak Week

Students were told their rooms would not be cleaned, Louden said.

Band member Brian Stifel also complained that accommodations for students who volunteered to work for the 250th celebration were not adequately organized and planned.

Stifel was most critical of phone ar- rangements for students. Penntrex, the University's phone system, waived the fee for transferring service for students who are volunteers, but Stifel said students were not aware of the waiver unUl they moved into the Quad.

"Currently, there is no way for parents to get a hold of.their,kids," Stifel said Tuesday.

Glee Club members also complained that the University has not been flexible or helpful in their attempts to find housing for May 21 and May 22, the days before they leave to perform in Europe.

College sophomore Daniel Katz said he was also frustrated because he was forced to move from High Rise East to the Quad's unrenovated Butcher dormitory.

Louden said all residential buildings not in use during the summer will close after the celebraUon, so there are no rooms for Glee Club members.

"We did the best job we could under very difficult circumstances," Louden said. "People made assumptions they shouldn't have made."

250th CelebraUon Director Clare Wof- ford said she told Residential Living during the fall that students involved in the 250th celebraUon would need housing.

"My impression is that most students got what they wanted," Wofford said yesterday.

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Oscar Gandy, associate professor of communications, protests the selection of Ronald Reagan as a Peak Week speaker yesterday in front of Logan Hall.

Groups to protest Reagan speech REAGAN, from page 1 productive freedom. She added that "250 years of white male privilege [are] reflected in Ro- nald Reagan's presence [today]."

"Ronald Reagan's silence is nothing but lies," DiLapi said. "We are outraged at Ronald Reagan's selection and presence at the University's 250th anniversary celebration."

And Emeritus Finance Pro- fessor Edward Herman criticized the University for using celebrities and "brand names" to solicit donations from alumni. Parodying John Keats' poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn," Her- man denounced what he said was the University's focus on finances.

"The modern university says

'Money is power. Power is money. That is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know,' " he said.

Teach-in Co-coordinator John Noakes, a sociology graduate student, said yesterday that he was impressed with the number of faculty members who participated in the event, saying that the interest is "indicative of their anger and exasperation" with Reagan's policies.

The audience responded posi- tively to the speakers, applauding enthusiastically throughout several of the speeches and re- maining at the protest for ex- tended periods of time.

A representative from AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, an organization lobbying for greater governmental support for

AIDS patients, said that his group will protest this morning starting at 8:30 a.m. outside Con- vention Hall.

ACT UP member Coleman Terrell, who also attended yesterday's teach-in, said the group intends to protest because they were "utterly furious at the silence of Reagan on the AIDS crisis."

He added that Reagan's administration has been key in prom- oting "homophobia and AIDS- phobia."

"We're also protesting as a warning to the current president who has said a few good things on the AIDS issue, but hasn't proved he'll do anything," Terrell said.

The first plenary session will be held from 8:45 to 10:15 a.m.

1990, from page 1 antagonism, what there was of it, was generally limited to private discussions. Her speech fo- cused on community involve- ment and family, and the first lady listed what she saw as the three opportunities in life: "getting involved in the great issues of your time," "having some fun," and being a "successful parent."

"Relationships are the most important investments of your life," Bush said.

The first lady said that while the Class of 1990 might think jobs and graduate studies are important, each graduate must remember that "you're a human being first." She continued by saying that students should be primarily mothers, fathers, hus- bands, wives, sons and daughters.

"How sad it would be to fail at one of these positions," Bush said.

Bush spent the first part of her speech touching on numer- ous campus landmarks including Locust Walk, Benjamin Franklin and Smokey Joe's Tavem. She contrasted Univer- sity founder Franklin to George Washington, saying that although Washington was "God- like," Franklin was "alive" and "accessible."

Bush, however, received her most enthusiastic applause and a standing ovation for her clos- ing remarks.

"Somewhere out there may be a future president of the United States," Bush said. "I wish her well."

Bush's speech apparently reinforced graduates' opinions about the speaker selection. Students who disliked the selection of Bush generally said her speech was cliched with little substance. Those who praised the selection embraced the values espoused in Bush's speech.

Outgoing GAPSA chair Mo- hamed Saadi-Elmandjra said that he "was not in any way sur- prised" by the content of Bush's speech.

"I still think the part of her message that was interesting could have been read by anyone," Saadi-Elmandjra said.

But those who supported Bush said that critics had over- looked the first lady's accomplishments.

"I thought she was a great choice because of her stance on education," said Engineering graduate Craig Schorr.

Saying that "its my last chance at you," President Shel- don Hackney advised graduates to balance careers, family, and "service to humanity."

Hackney spoke at length about changes in Eastern Europe and indicated that Czechoslova- kian president Vaclav Havel had been invited to speak for Com- mencement but Havel declined. Havel wrote a letter saying that his country's first democratic election in 40 years made it im- possible for him to attend, Hack- ney said.

After graduation exercises, Koop spoke with reporters and lauded University connections with the West Philadelphia community.

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The Daily Pennsylvania!! is published Monday through Friday in Philadelphia, PA during the fall and spring semesters, and weekly during summer sessions, except during examination and vacation periods. No part thereof may be reproduced in any form, in whole or in part, without the written consent of the executive editor.

Copyright 1990 The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc.

The Changing Views of The Daily Pennsylvanian

Excerpts from editorials from throughout this century

The New Tool Striking at the very root of student

lethargy, the Undergraduate Council has not hesitated to revise its entire constitution in an attempt to bring every student into the realm of activities and self government.

The return to the organization based on the ideal of separate school organization should do much to make the Council once more the vital force it was intended to be in student life instead of the political football it had tended to become in the past few years.

In some respects the new constitution is still an experiment. It may not prove to be the cure-all for the problems which it attempts to confront that its proponents claim it to be, but at least it is a step in the right direction. The Class of 1933 has the oppor- tunity to do much with its new tool.

— May 9, 1932

A Success The results of Thursday's election

for class officers provide a number of very encouraging points which speak well for the future of the parly system at the University.

The closeness of the election and the strong, active competition between the Campus and Franklin parties serve once again to demonstrate conclusively that the party system can work can work if the the members of the parties elect only the best candidates.

A healthy party system will provide the type of checks and balances which student government at Penn needs to function. The class presi- dents receive seats on the Undergra- duate Council and a well-contested campaign assures that the best men well be at the controls of our student government.

— May 5, 1958

Abolish Student Government

Men's Student Government in its two months of existence has effectively and conclusively demonstrated that it has no place on the campus of this university. There is no real reason why this group should exist, many reasons why it should not.

Wednesday night's meeting was an

excellent demonstration of the faults of MSG. At that meeting, three members from the Anarchist Party left the government in disgust. The Anarchists, of course, were elected on a platform of disrupting the government, and their eventual resigna- tion was a foregone conclusion. The reasons they left, though, are worth noting.

Politics of the worst sort and a de- pendence on expediency have marked MSG from the beginning. Af- ter denouncing the UCF-SAL during the campaign, both parties were will- ing to woo its members when it turned out that they held the balance of power in the Assembly. "One day you're a weirdo, the next day, everyone loves you."

President Pegnetter, who now damns the UCF-SAL members as immature, was happy to embrace them when it meant that he would be elected to the top office.

— February 23,1962

The Responsibilities of an Administration

A free newspaper is a vital link to the interchange of opinion on signif- icant issues. An intimidated newspaper can add nothing to the education of its writers or its readers.

The administration of this Univer- sity, attempting to intimidate and suppress The Daily Pennsylvanian, sought to destroy a part of the educa- tional process, and thus it showed itself to be out of sympathy with the purpose of this University.

We believe that a continued lack of sympathy with this purpose is intol- erable. Therefore, we propose that a Faculty Senate committee be formed immediately to investigate the administration's lines of responsibility to the University community, and to propose measures by which better communication between faculty and administration can be achieved.

— March 4,1962

Abolish Student Government: Part II

By its actions throughout the past week, the Men's Student Govern- ment Association has indicated that it consists of a group of individuals in-

Please see EDITORIALS, page 18

Different Administration By E. Digby Baltzell

I came to Penn as a freshman in the fall of 1935. Franklin Roosevelt was in the White House and our nation was in the midst of the Great Depression. Tuition was $400 dollars a term and most of us commuted from home to save money.

I enrolled in the architectural course in the School of Fine Arts but, after drop- ping out in the fall of my sophomore year because of lack of funds, I returned to the Wharton School in order to improve my chances of getting a job. The great majority of the male undergraduates were in Wharton in those days; girls were not ac- cepted in Wharton nor did they attend classes with boys in the College; they were all enrolled in the College for Wo- men and centered their lives around Bennett Hall; they were never seen in Houston Hall, the first student activities center in America.

The Ivy League did not exist when I was in college. Penn filled Franklin Field each Saturday, playing a schedule which

^Loyalty and continuity are vital assets in all insti- tutions and their absence in our leadership at Penn is a weakness?

included such powerhouses as the two military academies, Notre Dame, Michi- gan, and the annual Thanksgiving Day classic with Cornell; the game with Pen- nsylvania State College was a breather.

I watched my first game as a Penn student at Princeton; though Penn was fa- vored, Princeton won and then went on to have its finest season in modern times. That game in 1935, incidentally, was the first since 1894 when the two institution severed relations after the Penn and Princeton fans fought each other all the way back to Philadelphia on the train from Trenton where the game was played.

When I came to the University, West Philadelphia was a solid, white, middle class neighborhood; the campus was more or less rundown and shabby, lec- tures were often temporarily interrupted in College Hall and Logan Hall (which then housed the Wharton School) by the noisy trolley cars running up and down Spruce Street and Woodland Avenue (which then ran right through what is now College Green). The campus was run-down and safe.

As I went through the Wharton School in the Depression, I had wonderful and famous teachers (many of them founders of their disciplines). There were no graduate assistants and we had these famous men in quiz sections as well as in lec- tures. Fortunately for my later career, I had a distinguished sociology professor in two small classes; he was the wisest teacher I have ever had. It was largely due to those two classes, that I later returned to Columbia after the war for a Ph.D. in Sociology before coming to Penn as an instructor in 1947 (for $2400 a year!).

When I came to Penn as a freshman, the University was dominated by WASP

Philadelphia gentlemen: President Tho- mas Gates, former senior partner in the Drexel and Morgan firms, was the city's most distinguished citizen; the board of trustees was entirely composed of gentlemen from such old Philadelphia families as the Cadwaladers, Hopkinsons, Houstons, Peppers, Whartons, Rosen- gartens, and Clothiers. Gates and all the Trustees were listed in the Social Register.

When I came back to Penn as an instructor, Harold Stassen, perennial pres- idential candidate and once-governor of Minnesota was the University's president, the first non-Penn graduate to run the University in the 20th century. Stas- sen was followed by two mid-Westerners, Gaylord Harnwell, a graduate of Haver- ford College, and Martin Meyerson (the first Jew to be president of an Ivy League university) of the University of Chicago.

These three non-Philadelphians trans- formed a shabby and local, upper-class dominated university into a national and international institution of absolutely first-rank The members of the board of Trustees are now drawn from a national pool of distinguished men and women of achievement, including blacks and Jews. The almost entirely residential student body is drawn from a national pools of high achievers, of both sexes and all mi- nority groups. The present student body is by far the best I have had since coming to Penn.

If I were asked to list one criticism of our so-much-improved, and steadily im- proving, university, I would say it was the atomized leadership at the top in College Hall. Though I should not suggest that we go back to the WASP and alumni- dominated College Hall administration, I am distressed by the fact that of all of the top administrators in College Hall today,

6 What a privilege it has been to have spent my adult life in West Philadel- phia; to walk today across one of the most beautiful urban campuses in America?

none are Penn graduates and none have been at Penn for more than a decade, all having been hired fairly recently. Loyalty and continuity are vital assets in all insti- tutions and their absence in our leadership at Penn is a weakness.

What a privilege it has been to have spent my adult life in West Philadelphia; to walk today across one of the most beautiful urban campuses in America every Spring and Fall; especially to watch the setting sun light up the red bricks of the Furness building as I ride my bicycle down Locust Walk and across College Green on my way home in the late afternoon.

E. Digby Baltzell is a professor emeritus of Sociology. This column appeared last semester in The Daily Pennsylva- nian as part of a series of columns in conjunction with the 250th Anniversary.

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Happy 241st

U. stretches truth and time in celebrating 250th ■EN JUNG. tahlpthinP" trvin0tnonnvinrvvmi unra man HUKPIIUU' Iho (nimil iiiino __• t ,. ... By HELEN JUNG,

BRENT MITCHELL, and PETER SPIEGEL

In 1740, Benjamin Franklin was doing many things: managing his businesses, running a newspaper and adjusting to life in the young city of Philadelphia.

He was, however, not doing one notable thing: founding the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania.

In 1990, Sheldon Hackney has been doing many things: starting a captital campaign, dealing with campus issues and teaching a history course.

And today, he is doing one no-

table thing: trying to convince you that Franklin was founding the University in 1740.

sance man describes the founding of his Academy of Philadel- phia which would eventually

In his autobiogra- phy, Fran- klin take credit for many things. He was not an overly mod- est man, and he knew how to make himself look good.

But in the third segment of his book, the reknowned Renais-

Today, Sheldon Hackney is doing one notable thing: trying to convince you that Franklin was founding the University in 1740.

1749? Ben does say "I think," but nine

years would be a long time for him to lose track

of. That would make today's celebration the kickoff of the 241st anniversary of the Uni-

celebrations committee, 1740 is only the date when Philadelphi- ans broke ground for a meeting hall at Fourth and Arch streets intended as a great pulpit for An- glican preacher George White- field.

At the time, there was no Acad- emy to inhabit it Whitefield va-

versity of Pennsyl- ca ted the structure several years

become the Univeristy: "[A] house was hired, masters en- gaged, and the schools opened, I think, in the same year, 1749."

vama. So where are

Hackney and the rest of today's partygoers getting 250?

According to historians apparently not contacted by the 250th

later to create orphanages in Georgia, and the buidling lay dormant until Franklin's school moved there almost a decade later.

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U. stretches time, truth 241, from page 14

Despite today's celebration, the first commencement class did not graduate until 1757 and the current "U. of P." did not become of- ficial until 1791.

Apparently, University officials hungry for recognition and pres- tige in the late 19th century conveniently tracked the University's lineage back to the earliest possible point.

And now the little fib has become a part of the University's folklore, tradition, and logo. Short of recalling thousands of com- memorative buttons, mugs, and t-shirts with the 1740 seal, Uni- versity officials say they will have to stick with the convention.

"There was a nine-year period of vague- ness," said Clare Wofford, who is coordi- nating the celebrations. "However, the reason we have stuck to the year is that the bicentennial was celebrated in 1940 with Franklin Delano Roosevelt."

"If you celebrate your bicentennial in ■■■■■■■■■■■ 1940 it would be a little odd not to celebrate your 250th in 1990," added.

Of course, she could also note that straightening the record would drop the University to fourth in the Ivy League founding race, falling behind Princeton Univer- sity, which began as the College of New Jersey in 1746.

Of course, these revelations are not considered new, and no one planning the biggest party in the University's history is that troubled by the reports of age-fixing.

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Wofford says that "it's not a bad date," and in a 1987 Commencement address, even Hackney deflected the controversy with good humor.

"Our first class graduated in 1757," he said. "If you want to know what happend ^^^^^ between 1740 and 1757, call ^"^^^™ Mark Lloyd and the ar-

chives." Though its nose may

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Editorial EDITORIALS, from page 10 capable of perceiving larger issues beyond the immediate situation. The MSGA thought it had a legitimate grievance against the present editorial board. It chose, however, to deal not with the editors through discip- linary channels established by the University, but rather to call for the suppression of free expression on a supposedly liberal college campus.

— March 4,1962

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We believe that the Men's Student Government is finally making an honest attempt to pull itself out of the anonymity of nothingness and turn itself into an effective voice of the students. A detailed study of the purpose and effectiveness of the Com- mittee on Student Affairs is a necessary step not only toward giving MSG the responsibility it deserves, but also toward insuring the individual student that there is someone "up there" who would listen to his grie- vances and act upon them.

MSG has taken a further positive step by unanimously rejecting a mo- tion to extend their terms of office four months. The present MSG body has proven ineffectual, due partly to the fact that this was its first year in operation, but due also to the lack of interest shown by a majority of its delegates. The present members should soon begin preparing plat- forms and thinking of candidates for the December elections, so that a group may be elected that is truly

representative of the student body, and one that will take the initiative in fighting for students' rights.

— October 15,1962

Abolish the UA; Rebuild Student Gov't.

The Undergraduate Assembly is beyond repair.

It would make little difference if the Interfraternity Council were able to mount a takeover of the failing student government, or if there were a sudden increase in interest during this week's UA election. The undergraduates of this university do not and should not respect a political body which wields little power.

The UA has squandered its author- ity and responsibility to the Student Activities Council and the Nomina- tions and Elections Committee. In this quest for a balance of power, the UA surrendered the most important tools needed to represent effectively. The UA is no longer a viable medium for political change and discourse on this campus. It is also an embarrass- ment to all undergraduates who attend our Ivy League university.

Once the UA is voted down, the undergraduates could set about creating a new student government. At a convention open to all undergraduates, students could present ideas and possible structures for the new government. Eventually, the students should have the final say in their form of representation.

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The retreats served "to bring them together in terms of intro- duction and a sense of family," he added. "It seemed to be effective."

Of course, the camps allowed the freshmen some other activities: the Class of 1943 heard Dr. Charlotte Graves give his advice on dating and playing "hard to get" and the Class of 1944 created their immortal cheer: "Red and Blue forevermore, Pennsylvania '44."

Even in the era of jitterbugs and Glen Miller, the freshmen were often inspired to large scale rebellion. One

year they stormed out of their dormitories, built a bonfire in the Quad to burn their regulation books, and fought off the sophomores for several hours.

But in 1939, the DP warned the newest class about the serious- ness of the freshman codes:

"Attempted insurrections against the rules are invariably doomed to failure even before conception, for a first-year rebellion is considered not as a matter between the freshmen and sophomores alone but rather an affront to the entire undergraduate body, its tradition and customs," the DP wrote. "The en- forcement of these regulations is not 'hazing' but is done in a friendly way."

But Penny Rubincam, president of the class of 1960, recalled the freshman cap or "beanie" that served to set freshmen apart from the other classes and said most students did not need to be threat- ened to comply.

"We were good little people," she said. "We just did what we were told."

According to alumni, the strict traditions were eventually swept aside, not by reactions to the rule? but by greater social movements. Through the 1960s, the football team lost its national reputation, and according to Robert Graham, a Class of 1970 officer, the style— if not the substance — of many of the other customs associated with freshman year changed in the late 1960s.

"The years I was there [1966- 1970] came in at the tail end of the more formalyears," he said Graham said that both the freshman dining commons, at which male freshmen had to eat in jacket and tie, and a highly formal fraternity rush, re- plete with coat-and-tie smokers, disolved during the late 1960s.

In their place devel- oped events

Photos courtesy of University Archives

In the fall of 1906, a freshman carries the beer for a football victory party as a sophomore gives him direction.

"We did away with things that were done just because they had always been done that way," Graham said last week. He added that as students broke with many old-fashioned freshmen traditions in the 1970s, events like fraternity rush and "rowbottoms"

In 1952, these freshmen try to kiss the foot of a Ben Franklin statue for good luck.

say the University does more now than ever to insure a smooth transition to college life with its New Student Week.

But both the alumni and New Student Week planners say the tone of the freshman experience has changed from one centered

around school spirit and tradition to one centered around aca- demics and community life.

Today's freshmen spend much of their first year getting special treatment The Uni- versity has established a special freshman college house in the Quad scheduled freshman seminars with senior

faculty, and like the "freshman run," in which new students took a lap around the football field at the first game of the year and were pelted by projectiles by upperclass- men in the stands. The "freshman run" in turn died in the mid- 1980s because of violence. j^e 1915 pjgjjj fight where freshmen tried to rip down a

said rthe rtac- ,ist of ru,es for fresnmen that the sophomores guarded tions against formal "freshman" in the Quad became wilder, activities were part of the atmos- phere surrounding the Vietnam A lthough many of the tradi- era, when life as a whole, not just f» tional freshman experi- freshman life, became less stilted il ences have ended, alumni and bound by tradition. flfrora the 1950s, '60s and '70s

runs a week- . long program

in September with social and education activities.

College junior Buzz Tho- mas, who is helping plan next fall's New Student Week, said the committee wants freshmen to see the educa- tional, social and research opportunities open to them

on campus. Thomas said that the changing

demographics of the freshman class have forced the University to adapt its programs. The class size has doubled since the 1940s,

Several 1920 pants fight losers fix their underwear. making retreats too expensive, and the increase in minorities and students from outside the East Coast has made programs like last year's diversity education programs necessary.

"Now we have people from every state, different geographic backgrounds, different racial backgrounds," Thomas said. "We need to expand people's ideas because some people may come from a very homogeneous home setting and. we need to help them learn to adjust and live well in the Penn community."

Both current and former students cite freshman houses as an excellent way to prepare students for life at a University that

the small residential groups created unity.

But even as things change, they remain the same, and Thomas said that football cheers such as "Hang Jeff Davis" are still a rally- ing point for every freshman class. Along with faculty tours and seminars, the Class of 1994 can expect some of the same lessons their grandparents received decades before.

And even next fall, the observa- tions made by The Pennsylvanian in their first issue of the 1931-2 academic year will still ring true: "The Freshman Class in its present state may be likened to a mob."

Brent Mitchell '91 is the execu- often feels more like a big city tive editor of The Daily Pennsyl- than a tight-knit family. Thomas vanian. David Lasko '90 is the saidheenjoyedhisfreshmanyear former associate managing edi- ln Hill House, and alumni said tor of The Daily Pennsylvanian


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Loud crowds of "lunatic" basketball fans at the historic Palestra redefined the term "home court advantage."

The Palestra and Franklin Field: Athletic history written in stone

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Field's demise considerably more swiftly. Penn State and Army ended long-term series, and the Quakers' inability to schedule top teams knocked them out of the national spotlight only a fewyears after the Ivy Agreement was signed in 1953.

Franklin Field and the Palestra — each the oldest facilities still operating for major college football and basketball games—now are eulogized more often than

they see top-flight competition. It's certainly not like it used to be, but the buildings' tradition and majesty will always remind fans of the festive nature that once pervaded their hallowed halls. This year's streamer resurgence confirmed that Palestra spirit still lives; and a new ritual at Franklin Field, throwing toast at the end of the third quarter, helps keep the stadium unique even as upstart, multi-purpose facilities grasp national attention.

"I've played in many pro stadi-

ums where Super Bowls have been played," said Don Clune, a 1971-73 Penn receiver who played four years in the National Foot- ball League. "But they can't cap- ture the collegiate spirit and the antiquity of Franklin Field. Only the astroturf and benches are different now. The ghosts are still around."

"From time to time I would walk out onto Franklin Field in the evening, when the sun was setting," former Penn football coach Harry Gamble (1970-79) said. "I

would just stand there by myself and look around, feeling how lucky I was to become part of the tradition at Penn."

Today, one red streamer still rests atop a rafter at the Palestra, defying gravity just as its home defies age. Who knows when it was thrown up there — and does it really matter?

Alan Schwarz '90 is former editor of The Weekly Pennsylva- nian.

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