Liberty's voice rattles as so many peas in an empty pod in this week's consideration of "Princeton On Roller Skates" The time-worn arguments that: "The faculties of colleges and universities are charged with developing boys into men. Men nowadays drive cars. Students should learn to handle cars. That is a vital part of the education of the modern man and woman," are used to little avail and nothing new or of interest is given. True, the editorial will appeal to the emotions of many people dissatisfied with the present situation at the universities and colleges where the use of student cars is prohibited or restricted, but beyond that there is little substance.
The soundness of the reasoning is not so much to be questioned as the futility of bothering one's self with this subject. Far from subscribing to the doctrine that "the King can do no wrong" it nevertheless seems to be the logical feeling that insomuch as universities and colleges are put in charge of administrators who are given full powers of control it is to be presumed that they will not violate their trust. Critics of administration methods fall to see that men placed in charge of the operation of the universities and running of such institutions and anything they do is to be questioned only when extremely unreasonable or irrational.
The student has no choice in the matter. Because he enrolls in a university or college he has no part nor any reason for having any part in choosing what he shall get from the university or in dictating how the university shall be an.
As far as the student car rule goes it seems logical to suppose that it is only a temporary measure. There surely can be nothing permanent about something that strikes at an extreme and unthinking minority through the entire student body. It is reasonable to suppose that there cannot be universal penalties for local offenses.
If the student car rule is judicious, fair, and the only alternative time will show it to be such. If it is not, the presumption of trust in the administrators is in favor of the proposition that they will admit they are wrong if they are wrong.
Right and wrong, after all, are to be judged over a long period of time and anything we say is to be considered merely as another opinion." That is as far as one can go in commenting on Liberty's reaction: it is an opinion. The Dally Illini, April 6
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