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...scope and thoroughness. For decades, Penn was little more than a state college, drawing a huge proportion of its enrollment from Philadelphia and surrounding areas. In relatively recent time, commuters made up 40 per cent of the undergraduate population. Now they number only 17 per cent of the student body, and the decline is due to more than the construction of new dormitories. The University now draws men from a wider geographical range than ever before, thanks to its expended and still growing Admissions Traveling Program. George B. Peters, Dean of Men, will soon leave Philadelphia for a week...
...League look' is the business--an awful phrase," Pitt maintains. "In fact, Dean Bender of Harvard wrote the Ivy admissions directors a letter offering a bottle of whiskey for the man who could think of a new name." Pitt tries to prove his point by quoting students who usually complain that "there are not enough people like themselves, rather than the reverse." Yet, if the students themselves seem to prefer homogenity to heterogeneity, Pitt's argument loses its validity. Winn asserts that Penn has "less conformity than you'll find in other Ivy colleges," but he nearly defeats...
Penn has a complex system for regulating undergraduate affairs, which operates under the aegis of Dean Peters. As simply as possible, the organization is as follows: a University Committee on Student Affairs sets policy for the Dean. The Dean's office is responsible to the vice-president for Student Affairs, who works with a Trustee Committee of Student Affairs. The University Committee is chosen by the faculty senate (all those holding the rank of assistant professor or higher), the President, and the Undergraduate Council. In cases which demand disciplinary action, the University Committee of Discipline convenes. This committee consists...
...brought about, we hope it will grow and expand," Peters says. Still, for all its committees and representatives, the Dean's office likes to posture itself as a benevolent despot. Peters explains, "There is a certain number of necessary rules. We try to interfere as little as possible with student affairs...
...Dinks" are one symptom of an acute childishness that affects the student body. These inane freshman beanies do not speak well for a University with a public credo of individualism and dignity. Hypocrisy shows forth in different attitudes toward this custom. Dean Peters describes the requirement--all freshmen must wear dinks--as a sort of harmless, inoffensive jest which is not strictly enforced. Yet freshmen will attest to the violence of the rule's administrators, and only brave or foolish men will defy the kangaroo court which orders them to display their dinks and buttons...