Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN I’ul>ll*hc<l .Htmiovcckty during the Collefre year, except on holiday*, hy MudcntH of The Penn*ylvnnia Slate Collorc, In the interent of the CuUejtc. the students. faculty, alumni, and friend*. THE MANAGING HOARD ROBERT E. TSCHAN '33 Editor RALPH JIETZKL JH. '33 Mnnauimr Editor SIDNEY H. BENJAMIN M 3 Snorts Editor RICHARD V. WALL M 3 Assistant Editor DONALD P. DAY M 3 Assistant Mnniiuinir Editor ERNEST It. Z.UKAUSKAS *33 MARION P. HOWELL *33 Assistant Sports Eililor . Women * Editor UOLLIN C. STEINMKTZ M 3 News Editor W. J. WILLIAMS JR. M 3 New* Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Charles A. Myers Ml Wm. It. I’rothen* Mi Wm, M. Slwrmcier M-1 Ceorye A. Scott Ml Bernard 11. Ronentwcij: M-1 James M. Sheen M 4 ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS Harold J. Batseii M-1 H. Editor Furman Ml John C. Irwin Mi Frederick L. Taylor M-1 Frauds Wnckcr M 4 WOMEN’S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Evn M. Blichfel.it M 4 Ruth M. Harmon M-1 Entered at the I’ostoffice. Slate Collcrd, I‘a., as second-class matter. Member Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1932 THE RUSHING SEASON .Complication upon complication piled up during the past rushing season to make it one of the most con fused and foggy periods during the reign of the present type of rushing code. Houses, caught in a strangle hold by the financial situation, rushed desperately to catch new resources that they might not breathe their last. Interfraternity Council, sensing the fierceness of the struggle, was not content to let the situation atone under the code they had first worked out, but tossed into the moss new complications in the form of additional restrictions and interpretations. The code was not simple in the first place. The fraternities, already tripped by the restric tions, became restive. Many of them tossed aside the whole code. And the whole stew was peppered by the necessity of going to classes and studying while rushing was going on. More, the question of violations does not come up because it is an unspoken custom among fraternities that no one tells because everybody-violates. The very rigidity and complexity of the code iriakos it impossible not to violate it at least a few times during the season. ■Now, what is the answer? The best system is, without doubt, rushing delayed until the second year. The fraternities know the fresh men, the.freshmen know the fraternities, and gency tactics won’t work. There is no need for a com plicated code or for an intense tiring rushing season. Studies are not interrupted or neglected. Fraternities cannot hide under false faces, nor freshmen under in telligent smiles. Under this system, the freshmen would have the best chance to choose the best fraternity and the fraternities would have the best chance to pick the best freshmen. Which is, after all, the most impor tant part of rushing season. ‘No rushing system could be without flaw, but sec ond year rushing, is. the best available solution difficult to bring on this scheme immediately because 100 many houses are 100 deeply in debt to have the re serve necessary to tide them over the change. Never theless, all such houses would do well to arrange for such a contingency. It is one of those reforms which arc so obviously needed that they are inevitable. The immediate need is that the new Interfraternity Council committee on rushing should make up the code for next year right away while the criticisms and faults of the old one arc still being yowled about the campus. And the ultimate arrangement of second year rushing should gain headway in each new code. .LILY GILDING After ten days of strenuous work, weary fraternity women and worn-10-a-frazzlc sophomores unite in con- cluding that the chief evil of this season has been over- 'A revision in the Panhcllenic Code last year stated that each fraternity might have no more than four dates, excluding the formal rushing party, with each rushee. Accordingly, fearful of seeing less of a girl than some rival group, each fraternity diligently signed up four .dates with its rushees. By the end of the sec ond date all concerned were sufficiently acquainted; by the end of the fourth all wore nearly physically ex-, hausted. In first year rushing, four dates may be necessary, but whore girls arc not bid until they are sophomores, both they and the fraternities have time to obtain a fairly good knowledge of each other. Two dates with each rushee would certainly be suf ficient, while shortening the rushing season, or at least breaking it in two with a silence period over the week end, would likewise be beneficial, relieving the strain and allowing time for catching up on sleep and studies. ■Although the pledging of women to fraternities is in itself a good thing and one necessary to the continu- anco of the fraternity system, it seems ridiculous that to accomplish this end principles of health, scholarship, and personal comfort need be sacrificed. Surely the Panhcllenic Council can contrive a remedy for this evil of over-rushing. • After listening to an abundance of high grade cursing at the taste of local water lately, we decided to get the low down and find out just what has been causing all the trouble. Well, we looked up a chemically inclined friend of ours and put the question to him point blank. He said bo didn’t just know for sure, and changed the subject, so we let the idea drop. In the course of the conversation, he began to fill the air with theories he’d picked up while studying, 'and wc gradually drifted into sort of a dazej punctu ated now and then with intelligent “uhuh’s” and “sure, that’s rights”; until suddenly out of the fog we heard the phrase “Sewage Disposal Plant,” upon which wc perked up immediately, this being some thing familial', as it were. “Sure,” he was saying, '“believe it or not the water which comes out of that plant is absolutely chemically pure .... pure enough to drink!” AI.FRED \V. HESSE JR. ’33 lluHint;xn Manager ROBERT M. HARRINGTON ’33 Circulation Manner HAUL liIKRSTEIN '33 Local AilvtTtisinx Manußcr WILLARD D, NESTKR ’33 Foreign Advertising Manngor ARTHUR K. BHILLU’S *33 Credit Malinger Isabel McFarland *33 Women'* Managing Editor ELIZABETH M. KALB *33 Women's News Editor Mac r. Kaplan *3l ' Then there was the fraternity house which had a brother drop in from Louisiana, or someplace like that, during the recent rushing season. They gave him the glad hand, and made him welcome according to the traditions of the organization, and in turn he became a great help, taking an active part in the pushing, giving useful suggestions in meetings, etc. All the brothers were agreed that he was a great guy, until .... came the dawn, when he disappeared ..... with several nice suits of. clothes. One of our smartest sorority sisters pulled a boner the other day. This young lady, familiarly known as “Bearcat,” was hanging around the pub lication offices in Old Main, striving mightily to ap pear busy and conversing with some friends. Sud denly she dashed over to a phone and called a num ber, only to turn away disgustedly. “Why don’t you try the pay phone?” suggested someone kindly. : “No,” says thc-Bearcat, “I just wanted to find out if we were having a meeting. I don’t want to make the girls pay any money.” Hey! Hey! A position this colyumniator has at best only dreamed of is one where cutting classes comes as a necessity to attending others. One'of the satellites (bro, you mollusk) at a local patio scheduled fifty two hours this semester, so figure it out for yourself. !Fivc days a week times eight hours a day equals forty, plus four hours for Saturday makes forty four hours per week. In addition to that this fellow 'is holding down a job. (Other graduates please note). ' From‘ the sweepings' of ‘registration comes this quaint old ditty. Scheduling difficulties found fran tic rogistrarial assistants referring a frustrated •freshman to the College Examiner for untangling. Three days later, shell-shocked, forlorn, and his clothes half torn off, the same frcshmariVwas at the head of the line in the Infirmary. Sho, hoy, ain’t Doc Ritc nour the College Examihor? £ * # * t- $ * Pearls: We like this one—“ Consider the lilies of the field, they toil not neither do they MJeek” .... and-have.you.heard.about.the.two girls, that visited tthc Phi Ep lodge t’other night .... Did you know that the name of that little blond girl who has you all aflutter is . . . Connie (nots-to-you) Russell .... that a dry Martinez is not a Spanish mixture cal culated to induco pleasurable jitters .... a certain Phi Sig does not enjoy being called “lover”— ... if they paint the new posts on the campus blue it’ll be bard to tell them from the campus (Royal-North- Wcst-Mounlcd) cops . POLO COATS^”'^ THAT ARE RIGHT OLD MANIA And suddenly a ghastly suspicion began to dawn. * £ * * * Stc # * # if * $ $ * THE MANIAC Just the proper length Just the proper lapel Just the proper fabric Just the proper coat for fall $2O $25 $3O JL Montgomery at Itrrn State THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Ebenbach Advocates Changes in Rushing (Continued from page one) to the letter of the code this year, the spirit was violated innumerable tintes,” Ebenbach said. “Despite the fact that a number of violations were reported, it is almost impossible to have the violators officially turned in to Interfraternity council.” ‘“I see no possibility of shortening tho length of the rushing period,” he continued. “Even fifteen days of, rushing does, not permit-the freshman to visit the houses he is considering enough.” Tho silent period between the first and second period of rushing should be observed-during the week instead of falling on a weekend as was the 1 case this year, in Ebenbaeh’s opinion. 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