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Princeton Freshmen Protest Regulations

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Princeton freshmen have overwhelmingly approved a statement drafted by their class officers blasting the social seclusion and drastic disciplinary system forced on first-year men.

The report, issued over the weekend, decried restrictions "in the social and extracurricular phase of undergraduate life." It calls for extension of 7 p.m. parietal rules and eased automobile regulations. It also attacked the disciplinary system which "attempts to make drastic examples out of a few students."

Class of 1957 President Frederick H. Borsch pointed out that the statement is an expression of sentiment, rather than an effort to argue out the problem. "If this paper does nothing more than to spur the Administration to give its side of the problem," he said," "it will have been a success."

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