Kirkland-Briggs Debate On Dishonor Ruled Draw

No decision was reached in yesterday's Kirkland House-Briggs Hall debate, "Resolved: That a woman should choose death before dishonor."

The affirmative Kirkland debaters would give no definition of terms, since they were "self-evident," M. Robert Lifson '57 claimed. Debating with him was G. Brian Wilhelm '57, while Sheila Chandler '58 and Brenda Radcliffe '59 upheld the negative.

Lifson referred to frontier days as historical background for his argument, asserting that "American men yearned for a soft feminine bosom, but had to live with dogies. Yet man cannot live with calves alone. Thus began the ideal of the American Girl." He said that this ideal has been shattered, however, and that "our Babbitts have become rabbits."

Miss Radcliffe warned that compromising situations be avoided, advising girls to especially "beware of the R.O.T.C. They combine the attitude of college boys with the experience of Army men."

In the rebuttal Wilhelm admitted that men go out with women who choose dishonor, but he added that "they don't marry them."