Word: code
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...died in a fall from a fraternity window, several others were seriously injured, and there were numerous casualties involving automobiles and their tipsy drivers. A total of 50 accidents was recorded, and President Deane W. Malott decided that something had to be done to change the existing social code...
This week, as the time neared for social code revisions by the Inter-Fraternity Council to be submitted to the Faculty-Student Committee on Student Activiies, the prevalent attitude of the male student body was that things were pretty nice as they were last fall and that a chance accident should not cause Cornell to throw out its whole tradition of "blast house-parties...
...attitude of the Cornell students at these "blast" weekends seemed basically to be that "anything goes." They felt obligated to maintain the good old Cornell spirit of getting as drunk as possible and letting nature taking its course after that. This social code was the rule, and the Inter-Fraternity down against Colgate, and Yovicsin saw the Red Raiders move 60 yards in the last two minutes to score their winning touchdown on six straight completions. This, too, has been duly noted...
...student body's attempt to reform the social code, however, was rather nebulous. The proposals barred organized house-parties between the hours of 3 and 9 in the morning but did not prohibit mixed company during these hours. Rather, they were supposedly designed to create an atmosphere which would encourage the male to go to sleep...
Last week, in Second Air Force Headquarters at Barksdale AFB (Shreveport. La.), Captain French, career officer in the U.S. Air Force, went on trial before a general court martial. The charge against him: violation of Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice by attempting to communicate national-defense information to a foreign power. French pleaded not guilty, listened while a military lawyer pleaded that he had been a good Air Force officer, had no Communist affiliations or beliefs. But at the end of the four-day trial. Captain George French's biggest gamble went against...