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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
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ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS
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Frederick L. Taylor M-1 Frauds Wnckcr M 4
WOMEN’S ASSOCIATE EDITORS
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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? £
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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.
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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.
Weekends would provide an opportun
ity for two additional 10 o’clock smok
er dates, and the silent period while
classes are in session would be bene
ficial to both-first year men and fra
ternity men/Ke pointed out.
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have no place in cigarettes
They are not present in Luckies
... the mildest cigarette
you .ever smoked
WE buy the finest, the very
finest tobaccos in all the.
world—but that does not
explain why folks every
where regard Lucky Strike as
the mildest cigarette. The fact
is, we never overlook the
l truth that "Nature in the
\ Raw is Seldom Mild”—so
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build bis bouse in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to bis door. RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
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these fine-tobaccos, after
propet aging and mellowing,,
are then given the benefit of
that Lucky Strike purifying
process, described by the'
words—"lt’s toasted”. That’s
why folks in every city, town
and hamlet say that Luckies
are such mild cigarettes.
“It’s toasted 0
That package
Tuesday, October 4, 1932
• - -Matinee at 1:30
Evening Opening at 6:00
TUESDAY— ‘
George Arliss, Mary Astor in
“A SUCCESSFUL' CALAMITY”
WEDNESDAY—
Clive Brook, Charles Buggies,
Lila Lee, ’Adriannb Allen in
. ’ “TIIE NIGHT OF JUNE 13” ’
THURSDAY—
Joel McCrea. Fay Wray in
“THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME”
FRIDAY—
Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall in
"BLONDE VENUS”
SATURDAY—
Lew Ayres, Maureen O’Sullivan in
"OKAY AMERICA”
THE NITTANY
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The Shame of a Nation” V
THURSDAY—
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FRIDAY—
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SATURDAY—
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