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Monday, March 7,  I960 — Vol. 51, No. 40
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"THE CITY'S FOURTH DAILY"
Member of The Associated Press
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Sociologist terms
death ban YiaiVe'
Riordan cops trophy
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By DAVE LINEBARGER
Dr. Ralph Lane, assistant
professor of sociology at
ll'SF, complained yestter-
l(jay about the frequent employment of "prejudiced,
lfinotional and sociologically
paive opinions regarding
Hie issue of capital punishment."
J The penologist and sociologist
■have tried to approach the subject in terms of the complex
liactors    involved.    They    still
ive "insufficiently accumulated knowledge so that we
murderers as a group the
Imost varied in terms of culpability, he said.
"Any measure intended as a
■deterrent must take into consideration the psychological,
[physical and social characteristics involved in the issue. Ac-
Icording to modern criminology
I law must be adapted to the
Icriminal and not the crime,"
I' M'   said.
"Preventative measures, to
lave any meaning, must focus
pn the group of individuals
Ihat are predictably involved.
It is of no use to impose a deterrent law,  that attempts to
prevent the act of a crime
upon those who would not
commit the crime in the first
place. Only those who would
commit the crime are to be
considered in formulating a
deterrency law," Lane said.
This of course is where the
controversy actually arises—
capital offenders are a most
difficult to define group. In
England between 1900 and 1950,
one out of every 5 homicide
suspects committed suicide.
Homocidals, also, have a note-
able low recidivist rate. Thus
it becomes evident that "any
classification of potential capital offenders is tenuous at this
time," he said.
"This is not to argue against
the deterrent value of a law.
Some laws, for example, those
pertaining to certain types of
larceny, that fall into a predictably restricted range are quite
effective as deterrents," Lane
said.
Statistically, the nine states
that have abolished capital
punishment have capital offense rates that vary insignificantly from comparable states.
Detroit has a homicide rate of
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700 prep writers come      Newspapers ^bogged by
to campus for convention  own cliches^ writer says
The Riordan Crusader of Riordan High
was named the outstanding prep newspaper
in the city at the third annual San Francisco High School Press Conference held
on campus Saturday. 	
The conference, sponsored
by the FOGHORN and the San
Francisco News-Call Bulletin,
hosted over one hundred prep
journalists representing fourteen junior and senior high
schools in San Francisco.
The Crusader took down first
place in the overall competition, followed by the Polytechnic Parrot and the George
Washington Eagle.
The award was made on the
basis of outstanding make-up,
good reporting and excellent
news coverage. Judges were
Miss Margaret Ames, Lecturer
in Journalism at the University, Ed Orloff, News Editor of
the News-Call Bulletin and
Tom Eastham, Assistant News
Editor.
In a special classification for
girl's high schools, The Re-
flecter of Presentation High
School won first place. On the
junior high school level, the
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Twin bill to
be offered
by 'Players'
'An Evening with the
Gods' is the unusual theme
typifying the forthcoming
duo-presentation of the College Players in USF's Little
Theatre at 8:30 pm on the
nights of March 10, 11, 12.
Jean Giraudoux' comedy
"The Apollo of Bellac" and
Christopher Fry's "Thor, with
Angels" are to be performed
in the "round" using simple,
stylized sets designed by director John Collins.
Comments Richard Magary,
president of College Players,
"The cast is confident that
these plays are the best in
some time."
Tickets are available in the
Green and Gold Room daily
before 1 pm. In the afternoon
they must be secured from the
College Players Office in Campion Hall or by calling SK
2-1000, extension 249. All seats
are reserved and the advertised
price is $1.25 for general admission and 75 cents for students.
American newspapers are "bogged down
by their own cliches," a veteran correspondent told 100 high school journalists here
Saturday night.
         "The newspaper business is
not satisfying the public needs
at it might," Albert M. 'Bud'
Colegrove, western correspondent for Scripps-Howard newspapers, said in the featured address at the Phelan Hall
Awards Banquet of the third
annual San Francisco High
School Press Convention.
Colegrove laid the blame for
what he termed "superficial"
reporting in much of the nation's daily press on a reliance
upon pat journalistic slogans.
"Take the cliche: 'Local
News is Always the Best
News,'" Colgrove said. "This
is overdone of some papers
past the extent of boring people: it hinders their knowledge
of the world around them."
"When I read that an intercontinental ballistic missile can
reach 5,000 miles with no effort, then that's a pretty local
item to me," he said.
One of the biggest mistakes
—and the* "greatest shame"—
of the newspaper business today is its reliance upon "objective reporting." "This idea has
degenerated into a tendency to
swallow everything people in
authority tell you," he told the
assembled prep school journalists.
Colegrove cited his own experience in Viet Nam to underscore his charge. Last July, he
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Deltasig, ADG pledges
return stolen booty
Pledge activity reached a feverish point on campus this
week. It seems that Delta Sigma Pi and Alpha Delta
Gamma pledges were not satisfied with the usual nighttime marches to Petaluma and surrounding points but
decided  to  engage  in  a little     	
^elt&isig pledges proudly display war trophies they "found" during last week's initiations.
'• Moos\e acted as final intermediary in the peace talks between the two frats, watching that
P^v itet.n had been safely returned.
. F|,om left to right are: (back row) Paul Dezurick, Tony Cunha, Rich Barbazette, Ken Jen-
" s. Steve* Musich, Jerry Braun. Front row: Roger Luke, Jerry Gregoire.
inter-fraternity struggle.
A.D.G. pledges fired the first
shot when early Thursday
morning they successfully
stole three Deltasig pledge
bricks with only one casualty.
Deciding this was war the
Deltasig struck back by slyly
stealing the sacred fraternity
paddle of the A.D.G. wariors.
A.D.G. brothers felt the matter was getting out of hand so
they brought their own full
knowledge and ROTC training
to bear. Claiming this was no
reflection on their pledges they
took matters into their own
hands and proceeded to steal
FOGHORN has
new quarters
FOGHORN editors, the last
tenants to vacate Loyola Lodge
have moved into their new offices on the ground floor of
Phelan Hall's north wing.
The move of all student body
offices was requested by the
Director of Plant Services, Rev.
T. Coscroge, S.J.
one  banner and one Deltasig
pledgemaster.
The retaliatory mission of
the Deltasig pledges resulted
in the loss of the sacred secret
ritual book of A.D.G. This mysteriously disappeared from
A.D.G. pledgemaster Bob Dur-
ard's room.
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