If the American public formed its impression of college life solely by reading the comic strips and the average humorous magazine, it might have good reason to believe that our universities are places where half-baked young men in alcoholic stupors congregate to indulge in petty vices. But fortunately, most sane individuals are capable of discounting such pictures of the college student, and see in these caricatures nothing more than a grotesque and rather obvious attempt at humor. This is, however, a more sinister type of publicity concerning the undergraduate which is designed to catch the eyes of scandal-loving readers by distorting any item of college news which might be made to appear sensational. The tabloid and the so-called "yellow press" find in the most insignificant events of college life a wealth of material for the exaggerated tales.

Good taste and a proper sense of proportion are not to be expected in newspapers of this type. But when they repeatedly stoop to such methods of attracting attention, and advertise indecent tales of their own concoetion as being typical of university life, they cease to deserve the confidence of the public Yale News