Faculty members took a bit more serious view of the situation. Dean Baldwin felt that "many of the students just don't have any discretion. There has been need for change even before this, but I think that this Spring Weekend was definitely more serious a mistake than others, and a change must be made.

"The University should set limits for such affairs," he continued, "but it hasn't in the past."

He pointed out that students became quite angry when reproached about Cornell's reputation, but said they have "no real reason to be surprised." The students bring it on by their actions, but are unwilling to face up to these actions or to change them, he explained.

Baldwin said that the main problem was the all-night party and the overly free mingling of the sexes in the late hours of the evening. He cited incidents in which a couple would just find a spot in the fraternity and "lie on the floor together all night."

"I want to separate the women and the men at a definite hour and see that they stay separated," Baldwin stated. "If the women go to bed in private rooms, the men will soon go to their quarters too. The women set the standards at such affairs."

He also suggested that fraternities group together for big week-ends and have the men sleep in one fraternity and their guests sleep in the other.

Baldwin further added that there should be adequate chaperonage from 9 p.m. on, although 8 p.m. is a rather arbitary line. "I suppose a fellow could take his girl up to his room anytime before that for two hours if he wanted to. But the line has got to be drawn somewhere just as it does in determining what hour the parties should close."

The 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.

The proposed changes in the social code also mentioned chaperones and sleeping facilities but did not appear to legislate in such a way as to alter the house party in any major fashion.

Change appears at last ready to come to Cornell, however, for on Thursday night the Committee on Student Activities, dominated by faculty members and primarily a faculty group, tabled the Fraternity Council's proposals "for further study."

According to Theresa Humphreyville, chairman of the Committee and professor of Home Economics, the committee felt "the whole social situation needs further investigation." The committee will now decide what changes in the social code will be necessary and this means that the suggestions made by Dean Baldwin will probably be adopted.

Until such a time as new regulations are put into effect, there will be no overnights allowed, and as Miss Humphreyville put it, "We, the committee, will decide ourselves what is to be done."

Thus, the matter of solving the basic social problem of overnight parties has been effectively removed from the students' hands, and administrative authority has taken over to a large degree.

Freedom at Cornell, as would seem inevitable at any university, will be a legislated freedom, working within set bounds. Although Dean Baldwin states that "we have faith in our students to do the right thing," this faith will be a much more certain one when the inevitable limits are legislated on to it.

This decision may well mark the end of "Laissez-faire" at Cornell