JUDICIARY REVISED
Student power got its greatest push in the formation of the new Campus Committee on Standing and Conduct (CCSC), which takes the place of the Undergraduate Council's Judiciary Committee and the faculty's Committee on Administration as the final arbiter of important College regulations. Undergraduates elected from the junior and senior classes comprise four out of nine CCSC members — and they're being given a precedentsetting responsibility.
As equal members of the committee, the four students have full access to the Dean's confidential records. They each have a vote in all cases that come up before the CCSC, which include not only mundane problems of behavior but also student petitions for changes in their academic requirements and standing at the College.
The CCSC heads up a revised judiciary system which seeks to handle most minor cases in dormitory or fraternity councils. The committee has original jurisdiction in cases involving major College regulations and hears appeals from the dorm and house councils.
Following its first meeting, there was consensus among the nine CCSC members that this committee was going to work. In its first parietals case the committee voted 8-1 in favor of mild censure of the student violator. Joseph W. Campbell '69, the only dissenter, took issue with the other three students on the committee, arguing he could not enforce what he called "an unjust College regulation."
The other three students, Steven B. Harris '69, Lynn R. Breedlove '70 and Karl S. Steinmanis '70 sided with the faculty and administrators, prompting one professor to tell The Dartmouth, "I don't think the students have, like a politician does, a special loyalty to the third ward."
It may be, but the third ward has second thoughts. Harris, Breedlove, and Steinmanis face recall movements to replace them with students more disposed to the minority view.
It's hardly what the activists meant when they called for coeducation, but now when college handbooks list "ratio: men to women," Dartmouth will at least be represented. The figure will be 3150-7.
The young ladies, all drama majors at other universities, are studying at Dartmouth for a year and not coincidentally performing in The Players' Hopkins Center productions.
Some of the girls' random first impressions included: "Men have more adventurous minds," "The architecture is so unified," referring to the other 3100 undergrads, "What do you call them? Boys? Men?" and in reference to the dubious experience of being hostess at fraternity rush, "When I first walked in I felt like I'd walked into a gay bar by mistake."
Some of the.girls were more taken with the fraternities, as evidenced by the following from the September 26 issue of The Dartmouth:
"I knew this would happen," said Dean Thaddeus Seymour in a tone laced with enough astonishment to suggest he really didn't know it would happen. "They told me if we took girls this would happen."
Seymour was speaking to Lynn Lobban, one of the seven female drama students that Dartmouth's administration is allowing to surrepti- tiously herald the possibility of coeducation in Eleazar's preserve.
She had accosted him Monday morning as he descended from the convocation platform and nervously announced she had sunk Chi Phi Fraternity the night before.
"Of course you're not eligible," Seymour continued, "but maybe we can work out some kind of honorary membership for you." The prospect could have only been disappointing for the girl, who had invested her last four evenings rushing Chi Phi.
House President James G. Janney '69, equally disappointed, later explained, "She seemed pretty solid on the house, so we didn't bother to send her any visitations. We could see she was ready fourth night, so we sank her."
The case was equally perplexing for the great Parkhurst Hall computer, which simplemindedly digested Lynn's pledge punch card.
Project A Better Chance, begun five years ago by the College to help disadvantaged high school youth, is receiving aid from an unexpected quarter this year. WDCR, the student radio station, announced early last month it would donate the proceeds of its "Let's Help" charity campaign to the ABC program.
Before the first of next month, WDCR hopes to raise enough money to defray the mortgages of three ABC dorms in the Upper Valley, permitting ABC to turn its attention from fund-raising to more basic concerns.
The drug problem at the College, though far milder than at some of the other Ivy League schools, finally hit the surface in October when -state narcotics squad detectives nabbed a senior, along with three Vermont residents, in Brown Hall.
The College maintains an attitude of strict neutrality in drug cases, even though the consensus holds present laws to be too harsh. A comprehensive policy outlined last year by the "task force on drags" reserves the College's right to impose discipline following conviction in criminal court.
