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Penn State Collegian
Published semi•creekly during the College year by students
of the Pennsylvania State College, ni the Interests of the
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THE EXECUTIVE BOARD
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TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1927
FROM THE DARKNESS COMES LIGHT
For years the Penn State Athletic Association
has merely existed—more in name, appaiently,
than in fact. Up until the present time, the af
fair. of the Association were carried on by a com- ,
mittee of seven alumni without any faculty or
student representation whatever. This method
of management has caused growing dissatisfac
tion on the part of faculty, students and alumni.
It was to alleviate such unrest, that an athletic
advisory committee was appointed to investigate
existing conditions with the view toward finding
a solution that would meet the approval of the
three aforementioned factions—faculty, students
and alumni. The findings and recommendations
of the alumni committee together with that of the
faculty and student committees are printed else
whei e in this paper.
The Penn State Athletic Board of Control may
soon replace the present Athletic Association pro
viding that the Ancient body votes favorably on
proposed changes. The Board of Athletic
Control will be an active group where the present
Athletic Association was not—the latter solely
because of the difficulty in getting all the grad
uate members together for meetings. The Penn
State Athletic Board of Control (how well that
name sounds!) will number, in membership, thir
teen: three students, four faculty members from
the College Senate, five members from the Alumni
Association and one member of the Board of Trus
tees who also shall be from the alumni body.
Among the four proposed changes made by
the alumni athletic advisory committee was the
elimination of all athletic scholarships at Penn
State. Athletic scholarships have pi obably ex
isted here since the first recognition of Blue and
White teams: to do away with them, to abolish
athletic scholarships would indeed be a radical
Procedure but often the radical change is for the
bettei. The ,time is soon coming in college ath
letics %%hen the scholarship will have been abolish
ed entii ely In the olden days, the college athlete
used to be paid openly a stated salary in return
for valiant endeavor on the gridiron for dear old
Ralston. Nowadays a thing is mentioned
in' hushed tones. Professionalism in college ath
letics is not as open. nor,ag.pre4alent in the pres
ent 'day while in the fatine, Professionalism in
college ranks will have tieen loWered , into a forgot
ten grave. Scholarships; a 'Cough( to , profession-1
alism, will be the next institution to feel the axe
Should Penn Sate be the Vorfeer in this movement,
it would mean more teller esteem and name than
to harbor an entire football team of All-Amen
cans.
Anothei syggestion pi:oPoses the 'separation
of the Depfirtment of;'Physieal Bdueation from
the coaching of intercollegiate" teams This change
is holely for the purpose of developing intramural
spoils—an activity that thug far has been woe
fully neglected. Football,' foi example, is indulg
ed in only by students who are numbered among
those trying for positions in the Varsity. Intra
mural activity in this and other sports are prac
tically nil.
But these suggestions are not of the imme
diate present. It is with the proposed changes to
the constitution and by-laws of the Athletic As
sociation that the student body must respond with
a ballot that Mill indicate its acceptance or rejec
tion of the advocated amendments. It will be
necessary foi forty per cent of the student body
to vote on these amendments, and for a two-thirds
majoi ity to be cast favorably, in order that the
new Athletic Association constitution may become
effective immediately.
Three committees, an alumni committee and
separate faculty and student groups went to con
siderable trouble and tlfne in order to supply a
remedy to an organization sadly in need of just
that. Untold energy was expended on a project
by men who knew full well that there was nothing
in it for them in the way of personal gain. But
nost that the task is completed what satisfaction
must be theirs! What pride in the knowledge of
a job well done!
The proposed amendments and recommenda
tion of the three committees represent almost a
year's endeavor on the part of the men who serv
ed en any of the groups. They have accomplished
their part—and well. It is now squarely up to the
student body to show its appreciation for the ef
forts of a group of men who have made a tre-
mendous stride toward remedying a muddled ath
letic situation at Penn State
The issue has been placed before the stu
dents. On Monday; May ninth, at the regular
Athletic Association election on the campus, each
undergraduate will have the opportunity to make
his i e-action in the form of a ballot. Mdy the
members of the three committees be assured that
then combined efforts N% ei e not in vain by a rec
ord ballot—indicative of favorable undergraduate
re-action.
- - — President
- Vice-President
- - Treasurer
Editortn-Chiet
Assistant Editor
Managing Editor
Women's Editor
MOTHER-AND MAY SEVENTH
Within a few clays the population of State
College will have been temporarily increased by
the usual influx of the proverbial bevy of beautil
till girls—here for the Junior Prom. And exactly
one n eek fi om the coming week-end—on May sev
enth—another influx null take place. Again it
will be "girls" who will be visitors to this thriv
ing village in the Nittany Valley. This time hun
ch eds of mothers W. ill be entertained on Mothers'
Day at Penn State. The entire College willre
verberate in a hearty welcome on a day especially
set aside to welcome the mothers of Penn State
undergraduates
A balanced, v ell-arranged program has been
planned by the Mothers' Day committee. Noth
ing has been left undone in order to assure each
mother of a hearty reception on the occasion of
her visit to the place when e "hoc boy" or "her girl"
receiving the benefits of a higher education.
In order that the day may be a success, it is neces
sary that each student lend his co-operation—and
it probably no better way can he or she do this
than by seeing to it that ".Mother" be one of
'Penn State's guests on May seventh.
This is the first time that Mothers' Day will
have been obsei ved at Penn State in the spring of
the year. With the campus and surrounding
side rapidly shedding its drab winter coat for an
atti active green—what greater beauty spot in
this state has the Penn State student to show any
visitoi than State College and its immediate vi
cinity' The fact that National Mothers' Day is
on the following day—Sunday—is an added in
ducement
W. Lord. Jr '2B
I'. R Snotltz '2B
Business Manager
Advertising Manager
Ciretdation Manager
It. 13. Knorr' IP
W. J. McLaughlin '2B
In the next letter home—sell the idea of May
seventh and Mothers' Day! Let Mother revel
amid the surroundings she has knotsn only by
mtrequeni, money-lequesting letteis; let Mother
grip the hand of your friends; let her enjoy a
iendlv chat with other Penn State mothers
NV ite her today!
PANTS SCRAP: A TRADITION
It must be evident by this time that the re
veled and time-honored custom known colloquially
ac the pants sci ap is not a tradition likely to cause
the underclass heart to flutter with any emotion
other than indignation of to heave with any loy
alty other than self-interest. And it is equally
obvious that something is sarong with either the
custom, the underclass heart, or else—tradition
foi bid , —N% ith both. Were it not for the delight
ful excess of Poverty Day one might be pardoned
his lamentable G-string pizzicato: customs at Penn
State are going to the dogs. If they are, the
cheerful response to one of them and the doleful
retort to :mother is more confusing than alarm
ing
o account for the popularity of Poverty Day,
ioi instance, and the bitter reception of the Pants
Sciar places one in the quandary of confession
Onc must admit, be he the least bit fairmmded.
that as he advances annually to new and delirious
privileges he is apt to color his own adventures in
custom; with all the glamor usually attached to
the most heroic exploits, whereas, in retrospect,
he confides to himself that those customs were
really pleasures, shattering thereby the ordealistic
impression iihich his Homeric paint have at
tained
But one admits more than this (be he the
least bit fan minded) : he confesses that the under
graduate is above tradition—he bows to it only
uncle' compulsion—hence the dink, the confoimei
unpaialled—and he avoids it with the quaint and
um easonable plea that tradition is often disam ee
able, inconvenient, and annoying . . . There is
ir e word, discontent. Even the Ti ibunal is aware
of it.
Last year, it will be recalled, the Tribunal
took it upon itself ,to get the names•aff, all sopho
mores who did not attend the class sckaps: That
at.least, scat its aim: Should it perform its duty
it will have to blacklist all but thirty-five sopho
mores. Since this is impossible, now that the
Pants Scrap is officially over, the alternative
would be to turn the sophomores loose and allow
them to tear off the trousers of the freshmen
without permitting the freshmen to retaliate. It
would be a delightful custom, but it would have to
be sealed by the Tribunal, a faithful believer in the
Shakespearian remark that the sauce to meat is
cei emony.
For though customs may temporarily em
barrass one, making him a liar, a hypocrite, and
what is worse, a •rebel, the embatrassment, and
indeed, the role, is only temporary and leaves no
scars... It is not that we are looking for some
one to blame for the poor showing of the sopho
moles that leads us to point out the enforcement
deficiencies—although it has been our opinion
always that the Student Tribunal should consist
of student representatives whose reputation is not
solely athletic: it is that we are anxious that cer
tain customs should be examined, and, if they are
beneficial, enforced. Otherwise we may become
like the University of Pittsburgh.
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TEE PENN STATE pOLLEGIAW
Propose Amendments
To A. A. Constitution
(Continued from first Inge)
are conducted by an Athletic Adi
ory Committee of seven with Alumni
centiol and no student and faculty
representation. It is proposed that ,
the student meriebers_of„this hoard'
shell he the PreSident and Vice Presi
dent of
,the Athletic Association n id
the president of the senior class.
It is provided that the annual bud
gets of the general :nssociation and
its depnitments and periodical finan
cial statements be
. submitted to the
President of the College for approv
al as well as the Board of Atruetic
Control sgbiect to the' appiaval of
the College Admllskration.
Amendments under Athletic Insig
nia advocate that basketball be mink
a maim sport, that certain minoi
sport teams winning intercollegiate
chanimomsups be awarded a straight
kttei and toil compareitiVely minoi
changes in track risiails.+,
Certels sections'in the by-laws that
base been obsolete pertaining to el
ection of song leaderflu i ra been el
=mated. Othea changes`' - are min.
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in character and for the most part
clear op matters of organization.
The iepoit of the alumni committee
follows•
In order to Inform it.elf fully of etery
plow of college life and tnthletlc nCli%
10111. h possibly could contribut condition,. or
distntisfoctlon exiating and
methods, the athletic mit ixor> entomb. mtt
ut the College Ott Aut,ton tuentl-elghth Oc
tober went> mecond of butt >cur
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nry twent>tfourtb of thl. >t ar septlons
tsare front one to three days In hngth Ind
assure that mitten, multi. Insemination ware!
gone into thurouhl, nod ulvan moot 1,1110 0
nnnlysiu oft. mord Trot., mentitcm
of tht foottity lowingninth.. nab eoll.re
athlete oak Ides. Innatt of 7011000 &part
menu, tin comptroller the director of pitruenl
animation the graduate mummer of othlettcs
coach, 01 lot presldt Mu nu min rit of the
',Want council, Intols of hatliny studcnt
goni.tion contain* and mann., of various
tt num. Individual Omit nt athlete* mentl trs
of
the t ßorough he 010111
of Stott. 111 Ausoc o
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to eonfera that the committee ml-ht
know something of the tlewpoint from eterY
angle to thlion e nutn>nsltk.l and compitts sllnm
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