1938_06 The Daily Collegian June 1938

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Recognition Given to Students
J\t Annual College Day Rally
Tea. Fashion Show, and Open House on for
Balance of Program; Dedicate Senior Bench at 12
Opening the College Day activities this morm'njj with an as-
jmililv at which editors, public speakers, honor students and athletes were awarded recognition for participation In activities dur-
„„li:or« ol Th. Colli-ilan. Th.-'C<
'38 Yearbooks
Distributed
Next Tuesday
Students Must Show
Association Cards
To Get Campus
EVENING  SLATE  GIVEN
Campus Staff Banquet
Slated Monday Night
Musselman Wins  JZ^o*.
Art Scholarship    l"*rB«^k
SENIOR CLASS BULLETIN
"'liit.Ui.m of Senior Ben
lior Closed Dance -   •
Senior Class Breakfast -
Baccalaureate Services -
commencement Rehearsal
o'clock today. West Court.
Tomorrow night, June 4. Ball-
rooom of Hotel Californian.
0:30 Sunday morning, June 5, at
Patio of Hotel Californian. Tick-
College Auditorium, Sunday,
June 6, 5 o'clock. Seniors asked
'   nd by 4:30.
Wednesday, Jum »
the auditorium. All seniors asked
to be present,
encement Ceremonies   Friday morning, June  10. All
seniors asked to be on hand no
later than 9 o'clock.
Fair Play Is Dead
The last editorial that any editor writes for The
Collegian is by tradition a maudlin thing, one in
which the editor weeps that this is his swan song.
If this writer is accused of weeping today, it is
not because his term of editorship has ended. If
there is any show of sentimentality, it comes because a bigger issue is at stake.
When one has been at an institution for four
years, and has learned to accept it and to associate
with it the things that are good and the things that
are right, only to find at the last moment that it
all has been a pipe-dream, then one has the right
to be-discouraged.
When, on Wednesday of this week, the strength
of a small and organized clique of persons on this
campus was able successfully to flaunt the action
of one of the major committees of the association,
this writer stopped to wonder if the idea of student
self-government were not a farce after all.
Briefly, the situation was this: Recently, the publications committee elected an editor for The Collegian, an editor toward whom a particular group
on the campus had a certain amount of fear. Unable
to stand public criticism even where criticism was
justified, this group scurried around to find some
charge they could make against the new editor,
Norman K. Dorn.
Fortune acted for them, for only a short time
before a constitutional amendment had boon passed
amending the publications committee. Here, this
group charged, was proof that the publication
board that had elected Mr. Dorn had acted in a
unconstitutional manner. The fact that they raise
the cry of "unconstitutional" only at Mr. Dor
showed their true intent; they did not have sens
enough to hide their personal persecution under
blanket charge at all the editors elected in the "unconstitutional" manner.
After Mr. Dorn had been notified that he was
elected, after his election was publicized, after he
was honored at a banquet in obsei-vance of his
election, after he had withdrawn from college for
the semester, thinking all the while that he was to
be the editor of The Collegian when classes were
resumed next fall, this small group was able to
influence certain members of the publications board
to nullify Mr. Dorn's election and to appoint someone else in his place.
If this is fair treatment, if this is justice. The Collegian wants none of it.
The Collegian does not believe that the students
of Fresno State College could approve of any group
that depends on sub rosa activities to achieve its
purpose. The Collegian feels, and it is certain that
1700 students feel along with it, that Norman K.
Dorn was not treated fairly when he was ousted
from the editorship.
What, it may be asked, were the grounds on
which he was removed? Simply,, these: That this
small group of persons was AFRAID of Mr. Dorn.
It is to be remembered they did not give him a
chance to prove his ability. They did not give him a
fair trial in office. They were so afraid that he
might prove a success in office that they refused
to allow him to commit any injudicious act before
they condemned him for it
' Before a man contemplated a crime, before he
committed a crime," as it were, they hanged him
for it If that is justice, then The Collegian wants
none of it.
Yet The Collegian, too, will come in for criticism
for publishing this very article. It will 1* reprimanded as giving persons "outside" the college the
idea that everything is not too harmonious within.
The student administration, the publicity.department, and others can mutter that the damphool
editor is off on a tangent again.
But none of them can or will deny, if their consciences are made up like those of normal persons,
that what The Collegian prints here today is the
truth.
In the Fresno State College, and in the administration and faculty of Fresno State College, The
Collegian has only the greatest faith and respect
But toward the little group of persons which will
capitalize on its position to have everything run its
203 Seniors End Career Here
At Ceremonies Next Friday
Morning Exercises on West Lawn Close AcHvities
Of 1937-38 College Year; Musical Selections Named
Culminating four years of. scholastic and extra-curricular
activity, 203 seniors will be awarded diplomas at the annual graduation ceremonies Friday morning at 9:30, on the west lawn.
Senior Prom   ^TSJS"
Is Scheduled    r£J 5x
will b. followwl by in. i>i
For Tomorrow 7£?"**ra*
Breakfast Sunday
At Californian
Is Second Event
Srl|}r:HHS Editor Lauded
5SH5SS By Instructors
e  place at  5  p.m.
tote Coll* ftp Chapter of th
Lincoln Will Get
Pi Gamma Mu Key
N. Y. A. Time Notice
I    Omar     Khayyam
i-crvtary. and Emily Chambers. hl»-
FINAL EXAM
SCHEDULE
Senior Co-eds Advised
On 'Proper Attire'