DIFFER AS TO MEANS

The difference of opinion in this matter as represented by the two opposing points of view reflected on the one hand by a number of students including The Dartmouth editors, and on the other, by the Publications Committee and certain members of the Administration—lies between the terms supervisory and advisory, as a means to the end of meeting problems, correcting maladjustments, and helping formulate the editorial policies of the paper. The Administrative stand, it may be conjectured, has been in general some system of supervision of checks and balances "in reserve" so that if the students running the paper erred in judgment at any time in the future (as it has been pointed out has been true in the past), then the Administration could have an ace to pull, a stick to shake. The undergraduate group including, as has been stated before, the editors of The Dartmouth and others who having thought the problem through, committed their sentiments in the Vox Populi columns of the paper—agreed with the aims the Administration focused upon, but disagreed with how it wanted to go after them.

The points at issue are the focal centers about which the Publications Report brought forth its recommendations. The same clauses, which are the teeth of the Administrative supervisory point of view, are the ones which caused the dispute with those who claimed that advisory, not supervisory, agents be set up. These clauses proposed that the controlling stock ownership of The Dartmouth and Jack-o-Lantern be taken over by the College (through the agency of the Alumni Trustees proposed for these publications), and that the Alumni Trustee proposed for each of these publications have unqualified power of removal over the staff.