Word: seated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vogue takes little cognizance of class standing and keeps an artificial caste hierarchy intact for four years of everyone's college life. The person who took girls to football games as a Freshman and is still escorting them there as a Senior has approached little nearer the ideal seat by his academic efforts. The places he wants are being taken by Freshman and graduate students and others who sit alone and like...
...only distribution method which makes absolutely certain that everyone gets a good seat in the Stadium at some time in his college career--and correspondingly a mediocre seat at some other time--is the other proposal on the ballot : elimination of the artificial "cheering section" and of the preferential one-seat application...
Simplicity and absolute fairness--simplicity for the H.A.A. and fairness in the long run for every ticket buyer--are the advantages that appear immediately with the plan of placing by classes and of equal priority for single and two-seat applications. Bottled in bond misogynists excluded, this second proposal on the Council's ballot should sweep the field...
...seating plan proposes allocation of seats by class, with equal priority for single and two-seat applicants, thus abolishing the present all-male cheering section and moving men with dates closer to the 5-50 yard line...
What the explosion of this weekend past does achieve constructively is to call attention at last to the system itself. The idea that a student in the College or one of the graduate schools deserves a better seat than an undergraduate bringing a date is for the first time up for scrutiny, and Mr. Bingham's profession of yesterday that he has no preference on the matter leaves the issue clearly open to organized student opinion...