Word: pennsylvanians
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Pegnetter also pointed out that a student report criticizing the Pennsylvanian--signed by the president and treasurer of the senior class, the president of the junior honor society the captain of the soccer team, and the head cheerleader--had been submitted to the president of the University, Gaylord P. Harnwell, earlier this winter. Harnwell subsequently called a meeting of student leaders and editors of the Pennsylvanian to discuss the criticism. The discussion produced no conclusions...
...special meeting late yesterday afternoon between President Harnwell, Goddard, the editors of the Pennsylvanian, and the leaders of the student government produced little hope of a compromise, Goddard said...
University administrations tend to forget that the task of the undergraduate is to learn; in suspending the publication of the Daily Pennsylvanian, the University of Pennsylvania has fallen into evil ways...
...closing of the Daily Pennsylvanian is particularly disturbing since it was so clearly a matter of principle in the eyes of the university. The present executive board of the paper had only two weeks left in its term of office, and the Penn administration has made clear that when the new board takes office publication will be resumed. Clearly the aim was assertion of authority rather than any long-term change in the editorial staff of the paper...
...Daily Pennsylvanian is not a great newspaper--and the university is doing its best to assure that it will not become one. But its problems are those of its university, and it has been victimized by the difficulties of an administration which seeks to make Pennsylvania great while behaving little. A university which tries to regulate its students' use of liquor, which is dominated by a business school just one step up from vocational training, and which requires its freshmen to wear dinks, does not foster a newspaper so excellent that administrators can watch its freedom without occasional distress...