Show New Court Metes letes Out Punishment to Delinquents Every Defendant Found Guilty But Some More So Than Others Like the Irish juryman who brought in a verdict of guilty from the fact that the prisoner had been brought into court the student body court assuming assuming assuming as as- suming every everyone one guilty until proved innocent and then inflicting a penalty regardless continued its prosecution of U day delinquents Friday morn morn- ing A brand new court had been appointed ap- ap appointed ap ape pointed for the occasion due to the fact fact that the faculty discipline committee committee com corn objected to the regular judges mixing up in the affair And adhering to the new sweeps new superstition superstition superstition super super- the members of the new court swept everything before them in a burst of bloodthirsty enthusiasm Norm Hamilton was the chief justice justice justice jus jus- tice and his associates were Flagel Paul Skidmore Travers Montgomery and Jones Lon ILon Watson Vatson was persecuting ing attorney and he acquitted himself admirably refusing all explanations that he thought would weaken his case and rushing his victims through speed limit The trials were brief and to the point and from the spectators spectator's viewpoint viewpoint viewpoint view view- point were highly entertaining No one got sore except one haughty junior who had been insulted by having having having hav hav- ing his name listed among the sophomores sophomores sophomores mores and whose dignity was further trampled upon by his being dragged whose jurisdiction he into a court gravely and strenuously disputed I demand a trial before a court authorized au- au authorized authorized au au- by the student body he asserted asserted asserted as as- tearfully but though he be thus iterated and reiterated Hamiltons Hamilton's heart was of stone and he insisted on his right of jurisdiction Continued on Page 3 NEW COURT MEETS Continued from Page 1 One unsophisticated freshman proved his innocence but got second degree for contempt of court The henchmen had a joker up their sleeve in the famous third degree Those who received this sentence congratulated congratulated congratulated con con- themselves upon getting off easy until they approached the scene of execution then alack and alas they perceived their mistake Ten men with young trees lined up and as the victim ran the gauntlet on hands and knees they applied the lumber where father used to do it Barbarous Well VeIl v but then so are the turkey trot and the slit skirt The first degree was perhaps the I easiest penalty of all It consisted in having the word du dub painted with iodine on the forehead and adhesive tape bound about the head It was painless and easily removed with a afew afew afew few harmless chemicals The second degree was a high dive div into a large tank filled with cool water and the fourth degree was a ducking depending in In its severity upon the pleasure of the henchmen Some Seme merely got their heads wet while others went in to the waist A large crowd of morbidly curious students witnessed both trials and executions executions ex ex- ex- ex and in all it was a highly enjoyable enjoyable enjoyable en en- occasion for all except the victims and after all it is hard to please everybody I |