SAFETY DRIVE

The most important undergraduate news story which has broken since the opening of College is the attempt of Palaeopitus to curb the reckless driving of automobiles on the part of undergraduates which has resulted in several disastrous accidents. The plan of the campaign is to place on the windshield of each undergraduate car, legally registered at the dean's office, a sticker on the front of which is pictured a pine tree about which are the words Dartmouth College Safety Drive '32-'33. On the rear is a pledge to drive carefully and intelligently. The members of the governing body who formulated this plan hope by this means to keep student drivers constantly reminded of the necessity for caution and of the criticism which may be levelled at the College as a result of their carelessness. Already this step has done much toward cutting down the operation of vehicles which were not registered at the Dean's office, a practice which was quite common under the old method of regulation.

Palaeopitus also decided at the beginning of the year to keep in force the modified freshman rules which were drawn up last year. Virtually the only demand made upon the first-year men under this new code is that they wear the new freshman hat which seems like a Patou creation straight from the Rue de la Paix to us of the old regime who were forced to submit to the horrible pea-green atrocity. Freshmen may now walk upon the grass, smoke in public and wear sweaters openly. It is even rumored that several of the more adventuresome laddies have been discovered hovering about the flesh pots of Leb and the Junction! It certainly is a far cry to the halcyon days of 1929 when as fearful yearlings we suffered an enforced cloistering for many, many months before we rose up in righteous wrath and overthrew our oppressors. Thus far this year we have seen only one regrettable result of the new rules. One freshman has earned the undying enmity of this department by insisting upon wearing a sweater the insignia of which proclaims him to have been at one time a member of the Andover swimming team.

John Spaghetti