Word: penns
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President Harnwell was being unjust to the Class of 1960. ("Loyal Penn Men tried and true, '60 leads the Red and Blue" runs their class cheer.) Actually the painting which graced the sidewalk outside his office that morning was the work of the Spirit Committee, a civic body that arranges pep rallies and other patriotic events...
...Spirit Committee is itself a creature of the Undergraduate Council, a big-men-of-the-campus club which is the main arm of student government at Penn. This group includes the chairman of the InterFraternity Council, the editor of the newspaper, the presidents of the honor societies, class presidents, and the like...
While publications are not subject to the same kind of control as dramatics, there is nevertheless a Graduate Manager of Publications, who exercises financial, if not censorial, control of Penn's four journals...
...daily paper, the Penn undergraduate may read something known as the "D.P.," a sheet that regards itself as competition to the Philadelphia papers, according to the views of some editors. They believe this despite the fact that the Daily Pennsylvanian's Monday edition goes to press Friday or Saturday night. The paper does not adopt editorial policies on issues like the Presidential elections when the six executives disagree. Most editors, consequently, feel it is enough to cover College news...
...frats, moreover, have deep roots in Penn's history, and to suggest that they are perhaps a bit archaic is to incur undying hatred from many prominent (and wealthy) alumni. The "old grad" would as soon sacrifice a thousand professors as do away with old Kappa Dappa Doo. Whether or not it likes the system, the University is shackeled to it for the foreseeable future...