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....2 Scrimshaw Wednesday. September F. 1975 There are a number of new rules parked, such as a student in a sources that there will be a crack- Immediately reported to the and a small, but significant per- in effect on campus this year that faculty-staph parking space, or down on the payment of fines this Student Affair~ Office for centage not operating in the girls merit our attention and com- vice-versa, or next to a yellow or semester. disciplinary action. No s~nd dorms. , mendation. The first set of these red curb, thats it, the fun is over. If the above new rules are ac- chances, its straight to "the chair" Hopefully,. this dangerous rules concern parking regulations. Instead of fining a car $1.00 for tually enforced, it should lead to an for this crime. situation will not occur again if the LaBt year •. only "a sophomore, its first violation, as was the easier time of driving around our And an excellent rule it is. Last fire equipment rule is enforced. lis funtoe. senior, or non-resident p-ecuce in the past, all cars now campus. No one who has a car on year, you'll recall Scrimshaw ran really not worth having an ad- freshman" could-obtain a parking receive a $5.00 fine, whether its the campus can deny that they've been an article describing the fire ministrative warning go down on sticker, and park their car on first Violation or not, with only a hassled at least once, and possibly hazards on campus due to the lack your records, just because you campus. This year, that restriction few exceptions. Those exceptions numerous times, by illegally of sufficient or poor maintenance wantedto squirt someone with a has been dropped, allowing all are the red zones. Anyone, faculty, parked cars, forcing the driver to of fire equipment. In the dorms, fire extinquishet, is it? students the equal opportunity to staph, students, cafeteria worker, "squeak through by a hair" or the only reason any of the ex- So even though not all the rules have a car on campus, if they can found parked in a red zone receives sometimes be totally blocked in, tinquishers were discharged; or and regulations on this campus fmd a I~al place to park it. a $15.00 fine. Failure to pay the with no way out. It's true that these the fire hoses tangled, (except on seem fair, some quasi-legally and Which bripgs out the next rule: fine, or fines, can resu1t in the loss rules don't alleviate the "too many the ground floors, were the kids some ethically, these rules at least What happins if a car.ts illegally of the privilege Of-driving a car on cars, not enough spaces, ,. from town might have gotten in) seem designed to both protect the parked? Essentially, the areas campus, and possibly the pr-oblem, but at least the campus was because the students them- student against himself, possible students are allowed to park in withholding of final grades, until will be an easier place to drive selves had discharged them during 'danger, and make the campus a haven't changed much since last the fine is paid. through, and those who don't take water battles, or at 3 AM under more pleasant place on which to year, with the exception of ad- Although the last few lines sound heed will end up paying the piper. someones doer, just before the live. The administration should be ditional available parking spaces like a re-run from an old movie, The last new rule to be com- "big test". The situation which commended for conceiving these in the newly paved "water tower" and everyone says "If I get a mended here is the rule concerning resulted in the dorms was an new rules, and hopefully, this year lot, and the newly paved parking ticket, I'll throw it away. They the fire equipment. Any student almost total lack of operating with student cooperation, will take area across from the grille. won't do anything!" I have been found tampering with the fire equipment in the sections, a good the initiative to enforce them. However, if a car is found illegally assured by some very reliable equipment in any manner, will be percentage not working in Rouzer, B. L.T. Personal ViewPoint: Herds' by BilJCochran Starting this week, Scrimshaw is intensive accepting - rejecting vicarious initiative. But it seems to 'imaginable to be considered POil!t, he would have perhaps offering the student body (or emotional brain blow-out known as me that if you don't face life and worthy of belonging. Fitting. While written "Loneliness sucks," which faculty, for that matter) a new a bidding session (which brings to people with some degree of in- I do not believe there is any is hardly debatable. -fcrum in which to present your ~ mind another, more hideous type dependence, then you just don't homosexuality in the system, it is Another example of this Personal ViewPoint about of human auction). This is where face life and people. It is far more true that some frats do such things deliberately closed-minded in- anything on which you wish to the frat as a group picks from a list exhiliarating and rewarding to as tie pencils on strings to their security appears in one (at least) write an article. The Personal of supplicants its new friends plunge into the cold water, to which genitals, and then walk around ')f the chants used by one (at least) ViewPoint Column is different (members) for the coming year on one soon becomes accustomed, asking people to write with the -of the frats when they travel across from the Letters to the Editor the basis of, of all things, per- than to sit on the beach shivering, pencils. Behind closed doors the campus in a closely-packed herd column, in that Personal sonality. Think of it. Any struc- wrapped in a towel. Getting in- string is shortened and the.pencil is wreaking mindless aural van- ViewPoint is a full article, not just tured organization choosing volved in a frat can be compared to replaced with a brick. Initiates are dalism. The essence of the chant, if a letter, presenting scmeone's members on the basis of race or walking out on a pier oyer the encouraged to drop the brick, and not the word, is "if you don't belong view on something. color would be run off campus ocean. The farther out you go, the the atmosphere is so ... trust- to ,the hell withyou!"This It should be noted that the-views without hesitation. Here are deeper and colder the water is, and ful ... that most eventually do. I will implies both that these people_ will and opinions expressed in Personal organizations, with admInistrative thus harder to jump in alone. And ret repeat here the function of the have nothing to do with anyone ViewPoint are solely those of its sanction. picking members on the it's difficult, once on the pier, to hot dog coated with Ben Gay, or the outside of their group, and that author and not the views' or basis of personality. And these are ' turn back, because of, of course, ret-hot poker known as the Red those not belonging are worthless. op.nions of Scrimshaw or its organizations purported to be pier pressure. Reamer. This is the kind of thing To the observer" the sentence stapoers. manifestations of human Another of the system's inef- new members go through in order becomes ironic through its Scrimshaw welcomes comments brotherhood. Holy shit. licacies results from the to win the acceptance of old delivery. I am not trying to an- or rebuttals on the views and The disadvantages of the system characteristic of man which makes members. Witness to what extent tagonize people, just certain opntcns expressed in Personal are serious and subtle enough to it difficu1t for him to act in accord some will go to join a herd. These cliques fOIl being cliques. The ViewPoint, If in letter form, the merit considerable attention, since with his own feelings when they humiliations are not evident in one people .can be great. The comments will be printed in the they are more pervasive am run counter to toose of the group. noted exception, the- Phi Delta, characteristics they display as a Letters to the Editor column, and if polarizing than the advantages. When this combines with the although disgustingly demeaning group are repugnant to me and in article form, the comments and affecting as they do those having common belief that the most tm- p-ocedures are followed by the alienating to the student body. rebuttals will be printed in the nothing to do with the system as moral move is the most daring, sororities, which mayor may not Such behavior patterns as following week's Personal well as those involved of their own which in tum combines with the surprise you. displaying proudly a large number ViewPoint. choice. natural individual instinct to stand of notices of academic failure Staph The frats can be thought of in oot an~ be recognized, ~e usual (while supposedly a part of an higher HERDS general as a manifestation of the result 15.that the behavior of an But the most insidious aspect of institution of nonmembers learning), nicknaming with alone by Bill Cochran ~~:n~~~: ~~a~; ~ n~i:~ ~:e~!~~~;:~ Any~~~~ho h~:~ the system, the one which for its derogatory tags, and subjecting grounds should be sufficient shies away from facing life to a raucous .concer~ or walk~ by abandonment, is the tension them to ultimately serious ridicule A year's beginning is an ex- erratically alone. Although man any frat.sectIon at ~ght knows the created between frat members and all lead one to the conclusion that cellent time to think about change, lives irreconcialably alone, destructive beh~V1or often ap- independents resulting from in- they are permanently on the especially with the advantage of everyone knows relationships can paren~, usually In the name of security, a fear of being though defensive. I believe what they are the new freshman blood pumped help one over the rough spots. (You ~easlng .tenslOns or even par- wrong. Any adu1t belonging to a hiding should be exposed and into the hearts and bowels of got to have Iriends.) But to fit tying. This pattern frequently strictly social personality- destroyed. campus. Institutions especially oneself into a determined structure takes the form of verbal battles discriminizing organization must, have a way of constantly needing of relationships is like splinting the between fr~ts .acr~ th~. qua~; I think, I;lecessarily fear for his The characteristics I have so change. The institution under trunkofa sapling in case it breaks, four orgaruzations Id~tJcal. 10 reputation among those who do not generally named as natural to man scrutiny here is ,the fraternity· before it does, when it may not at ~tructure and purpose hurl~g share his fears. This results in a are not in my opinion faults, sorority system (thereafter simply all. What happens is that the msults at each other 10 tightly-packed group with all They're just there, as weaknesses fraternities; no sorority slight splints immediately begin to astoniShingly i~aginati~e bom- spears pOinted outwards. Any at most. The whole resulting intended-sororities are every bit irrita,te the surface bark, and basts of obscemty destgl1~ to attack on the structure of the structure going full-blast on a as adjective), and the intention is eventually restrict growth. Other p'ove that each has the highest organization is interpreted as an weekend night brings to mind a constructive destruction. side effects include the sapling's qualities by pretending all the attack on the individual. The fragment from a novel, formerly Most frat members, when asked, f10ding it difficult to stand alone o~ers have the. lowest. Natw:al~y response to "Hey man, yer spears required reading for most will tell you that the greatest ad- when the splints are removed in a this occurs With charactenstlc are stickin' out," is, invariably students: "The methodically vantage in joining a fraterruty is couple of years, and the trunk disregard for those not.involved: If bitingly hostile. This is evident in rehearsed gaiety of youth rang out the brotherhood, the com- growing in UlUlatural directions they weren't so ObnoXiously nolSY the message of graffiti on the wall against the night. False com- panionship which is - indeed thE because of the pressure of the they'd be an interesting study in of the college library. Someone munion everywhere raison de' entre of the whole mess. sp,ints. Some will argue that you sibling rivalry. firSt wrote: "Fraternities suck," everywhere shedding the The word "fraternity" in fact can't have any meaningful social Outsiders are often led to believe expressing hU! opinion of and op- responsibility of fate-flight to the comes originally from a word life without joining a frat, and in there's some mysterious hidden position to the structure, to the herd for warmth." meaning brother or friend. I my op.nion that is pure bulIshit. benefit in belonging to a frat .. s~me institutfon created by, recognized suppose the idea is that if you don'l The underlying message of that subtle mark of supenorlty, by, and existing only in human already feel a brotherhood with argument often appears to be "I whereas the greatest lure and only minds. Someone else, presumably. To those first COming in contact other human beings, you can join a haven't the ability to make friends benefit is the sense of just a frat member, came along, saw with the system, be careful of its frat and get a paddle certifying on my own, and I want the group to belonging, of feeling needed, like the graffiti, scratched it out, and tendency to suck normally rational bonafide relations with at least a do it for me. Safety in numbers, fenceposts leaning together wrote "Independents suck," at· students into its polluted vortex. To couple dozen. you know." In actuality, holding each other u~ when th~y tacking that one person and all those in fraternities, please look The purpose is to provide a everybody has that ability, or no could be use~ul standing alone m others not sharing his beliefs. This very carefully at the nature of the guaranteea structure of automatic, one does; at any rate everyone is the construction of a fence. Eagles is the process through which the groop you belong to. To those frat even regimentedj friendship and p-etty much on the same level. nest together but fly alone. Nest old Catholic church used to burn or sorority members so solidly compariy. The advantage is ob- When they stand alone, that is. But with one opposite sex member, not heretics, and Fascist countries to implanted in the structure that vious: a place·to go where one herds. tend to meet only other twenty of its own. execute political opponents. While they can't hear me. I'd like to hear can find people to confirm oJ)e's herds, and the most interesting This sense of belonging is made the results are not as cataclysmic, from you -(Box 216). It should be existence, without having to worry people around, the individualiSts, oot to be more worthwhile than it the level of thought and the interesting fu see how much far- about the whole acceptance- go unnoticed. Not that they give a actually is through the process of mentality are as sickening. Had ther and harder the ostrich can rejection game, since that has been damn. Fraternities and sororities initiation, when new members the frat member desired to stick his or her neck in the sand taken care of p'eviously in- an are a major campus source of submit to the lowest humiliations honestly debate the independents' without breaking his or her neck.