Monday, March 12, 1962
Nittany Narrator
By Dave Craley, NITTANY CUB Sports Editor
Toward the mountains, tall and baldy;
Toward the Parkland, toward Rec Hall;
Toward the College, awesome, fearsome,
Rode the Styxman, to the call•
Onward, onward, one for all.
Toward the Valley, lush and joyful;
Toward the Hollow, wherewithal
Metzgers runs the rowdy racket,
Rode the Joefield, toward the squall:
Behrend backs were to the wall.
Dedicated came the Woodsman
On to play some basketball;
One last bivouac, unsuspecting,
Rode the Nittannies toward the pall:
Hoping fate to overhaul.
Glory in Big Brother's Garden
Thought the Chargers, one and all;
Said the Pro, the one from Zanviile,
"Start the Kid, he'll kill 'em all!"
"Kill 'em, Kill 'em!" came the call.
Chef was there to do the carving,
Point by point they were to fall;
And, if things went ill at first, the
Knute could use the Behrend stall:
Force the Catmen to a crawl.
Came the Lockesmith and the German,
Onward Looper, onward all!
Run the Lions from the hardwood,
Desecrate the Nittany Hall!
Enter Catmen, twelve feet tall. . . .
First a bucket, then another,
Now a freethrow, stolen ball;
Goal on goal, the board was flashing:
T'was the Nittany waterfall—
Death the Cubs could not forestall.
OBIVIOUSLY, THE FOREGOING bit of versification is not
altogether befitting the actual circumstances. The basketball
players went to Penn State Saturday fully realizing the odds against
them. .And they were, as expected, trounced, But. painful though it
may have been, they completed the season honorably. It has been
a difficult winter for the players and the coach. Next year there
will be at least some consolation in making the University Park
trip: they will play the preliminary to the Lions-West Virginia
Mountaineers' game and then stick around for the Varsity go.
BASEBALL IS JUST around the corner, but don't go outside
to look: you might slip on the ice. Coach Gallagher is presently com
pleting the spring schedule. It looks as if the Cubs will open the
season at Altoona Campus on April 13 and then travel to State
the next day for the second game in the two-day road trip. Other
opponents will include Bryant-Stratton and Jamestown Community
College.
Ti-it: TOURNEY CUBS ran into a quagmire at Altoona two
weeks ago and only the chess team was able to escape—but just
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Homeward rode the Rugged, ragged;
Homeward from the basketbrawl.
Season's end and consolation:
No more laps in Erie Hall.
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barely. Ed Paauwe and Tom Hardes took the two opening games and
then held on for the victory, 2-1. The win virtually assured the
chessmen of at least a tie for the Western Division championship.
They could wrap up a trip to the finals at State with a victory
next term over visiting New Kensington, a team Behrend has al
ready defeated once this year.
The once-defeated table tennis players did not play at Altoona
due to a lack of participants. The match will have to be made up to
break the tie for the Western Division lead that exists between
Behrend and Altoona. Altoona's only loss was to the Cubs in the
first match of the year. Behrend lost a close match at McKeesport
three weeks ago•
Heartbreaking is the best word to describe the bowling match.
As Jack Brown put it: "We enjoyed the match until they started
adding up the totals." Out of the nearly six thousand total pins that
fell at Altoona, Behrend lost by two. . .pins. Altoona and Behrend are
now tied for the bowling lead with one match remaining.
ALLENTOWN - A poll of stu
dent opinion of the 10-week term
system at the Allentown Campus
resulted in a 50-50 division of
opinion—These results are interes
ting when compared to the
overwhelming support Behrend
Campus students gave to the
term system—The Allentown S.G.
A. is providing brewed coffee in
their student lounge daily for
$.lO a cup—A petition is being
circulated for a Thanksgiving Re
cess during the Fall Term 1962.
ALTOONA - A campaign is
being launched at the Altoona
Campus to raise money for two
new dormitories and a new Stu
dent Union Building Altoona's
Ivyside Players will present Sean
O'Casey's play "The Shadow of
a Gunman" on March 30 and 31—
A one-act play, Chekhov's "Swan
Song," will also be presented at
this time—The Altoona Circle K
Club presented a speech at the
city Kiwanis Club in February on
the value of Altoona Campus to
Central Pennsylvania.
DUBOIS - "Tiger at the Gates,"
a two-act satiric tragedy, will be
presented at the Dußois Campus
on March 9 and 10—The twenty
two characters in this play come
from a total student enrollment
of 131—" Cry, the Beloved Coun
try" was a recent presentation in
the foreign film series at the
Dußois Campus.
NEW KENSINGTON - The Alu
minum. Company of America
recently deeded 30 acres of prime
land to Penn State for construc
tion of a new campus at New
Kensington.
OGONTZ - The Ogontz Campus
is distributing a student hand
book, "Campus Life," to all stu
dents free of charge.
COMMONWEALTH CAMPUS NEWS
POTTSVILLE - The Pottsville
Center Literary Club recently
sponsored the showing of the
prize-winning Japanese film,
"Rashomon," to the student body
—The Literary Club also recently
toured the Reading Times-Eagle
newspaper building for a close-up
view of the many operations re
quired to produce a newspaper
every day The Spanish Club,
Library Club, and Chess Club are
other active student organizations
at: the Pottsville Center.
WYOMISSING - A combination
Roaring Twenties and Las Vegas
Night was recently held at the
Wyomissing Center—Each person
present was provided with $25,000
but few left with that: amount.
Ford Foundation
Gives PSU Aid
A $75,000 grant has been made
to the University by the Ford
Foundation to aid doctoral can
didates in the field of engineering
through forgivable loans for the
next two years.
The grant is part of an $B,OOO,
000 program authorized by Foun
dation officials to help an estima
ted 1,000 students, the equivalent
of about one-third of the total
number of present engineering
teachers who have acquired their
doctorates.
Qualified students will be eligi
ble for loans to a total of $lO,OOO
over a three-year period and the
loans will be forgiven at fixed
rates for every year of service on
an American or Canadian engi
neering faculty.
Penn State was one of 42 col
leges and universities authorized
grants ranging from $25,000 to
$lOO,OOO.
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