1949_11 The Daily Collegian November 1949

              Editorial:
fair play
The sense of fair play can
elusive thing.
Take the case of the Marching Hun¬
dred, FSC's neon-Iightcd band. The
rs of that band might well wonder
what happened to fair play.
Recently it was necessary a decision be
reached—should the band stay here in
Fresno, to play during half-time of the
FSC-San Jose game, or should it go to
Southern California, to be a top ranked
band in the giant Hollywood Star
Parade?
Here's what, as far as we can deter¬
mine, happened. The music department
made an informal poll of
ation people, top-faculty
school officers, asking for their opinior
They felt the band should stay here.
You  should   pardon   the   cxpressio
but that's a hell of
The band members were asked their
opinion. They voted unanimously to go
to Hollywood.
Let's look at it rationally. These mu¬
sicians have put a lot of time and effort
into making half-time at previous games
something enjoyable. They've worked
hard to gain their due recognition as one
of thc three top college bands in the
nation, and the best on the West Coast.
If they stay here, they will not be able
to perform with the lights, as the game
is a day-game. If we draw a two-thirds
capacity crowd, the school will be lucky,
ten of the folks at¬
tending haven't seen the band perform
If the trip to the southland is made,
a good quarter of a million people will
see the band in all its splendor. If that
isn't better publicity and credit than per¬
forming here, what is?
isidered opinion the band
mbers are being pressured into doing
lething they not only don't want to
Ujaggclt's   aUicjgii
By DICK DAGGETT
d hoped that people would notice by
" s column thty it does not
lion of publicity blurbs for glory-
is designed for the
ittention to things
which otherwise would go
not for the furtherance of any
private
The last cause which sought support by
flattered hell out of me and in¬
sulted my sense of ethics all
not, however, sell space in I
the furtherance of a junior political party
regardless   * '
And if t could. 1 wouldn't.
Still, this is not the first time it has hap- '<
I -'111,1. Several year., ago, in Seattle (called «
hy .lini Farley the western suburb of Mos- »
eow), a  columnist  friend  of mine was ap- ■'
cached by a character from the American •'
. .iuth for Democracv organization, since tie- ,!
scribed by the U.S. Attorney General's otTicc "
a- being subversive. My friend was doing a
column for one of the downtown papers s
beamed at local teenagers and had a column p
in his school paper, to boot. .
The trench coated figure offered Jerry live
bucks a mention in his column in the school  f,
paper, and fifty in the downtown paper. This
was the culmination of a campaign to reenr*
young innocents into their nefarious org ai
'  haye  been  a succesful  strategy,
though. Jerry  finally  quit arguing. I
gave  me guy a  few  mentions,  collected   a •
little   money,  and   got  his  column   dropp. d
from the downtown paper. The school admin- r
istration called him in. gave him thc wo-'-
and he spilled the beans.
When the story hit the front pages, a
of the more  franatically  inclined  members "
of the Democracy org got excited and gave '>
Their leaders had warned  them again;
such a move, knowing full well the publicity
it would bring. And it did. Jerry died from a
'    >1   hemorrhage.  That  chapter  folded
a lawn chair. Jerry was made o"' *"
a martyr and editorials w
;ut he is still dead.
No guess as to who's
underdog tonight when
FSC, COP renew rivalry
One 'of the oldest rivalries in Fresno State College football
history will be renewed tonight in Stockton's Baxter Stadium
when the Battlin' Bulldogs take on their toughest opponents
of the year — the nationally ranked College of Pacific.
 ithout saying that the Bulldogs will be underdogs,
fottn Kichcurdy >3rti
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