Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Pulillfthed srmi-WMkly during the College year, except on holidayi, hy fUudentfl or The Pennsylvania Stale College, In the Interest of the College, the »tuden<«, faculty, alumni, and friends. THE MANAI ROBERT E. TSCHAN '33 RALPH HETZEL JR. *33 Msnuging Editor SIDNEY H. BENJAMIN ’33 Sports Editor RICHARD V. WALL *33 AsaUtant Kdilor DONALD P. DAY '33 Assistant Managing Editor ERNEST 11. ZUKAUSKAS *33 Assistant Sports Editor ROLUN C. STEJNMETZ ’33 News Editor W. J. WILLIAMS JR. 133 News Editor FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1933 ULTRA-SPECIALISTS From all sides come scathing comments on the gen eral lack of information of college students. One dean of a law school says that students prepared in the pre iegal course know nothing of art, literature, or of any thing not directly in-line with the law., Graduates of journalism schools are scorned by publishers for their lack of basic knowledge which has been sacrificed for materiul that could be gained much more quickly in cctual practice. Graduates of technical schools probably receive the most criticism for their narrowness. Engineers are painted as knowing nothing but slide-rules; chemists arc lost without their tost tubes. Not even education stu dents are exempt from attack. Prominent educators claim that subject matter is lost in the welter of method that'year by year is increasingly emphasized by the teachers of future teachers. And somehow, hard though it may be to swallow such bitter pills, there seems to be something reasonable about these comments. Certainly the narrowness of college students is not all-inclusive. The more optim-. istic observers console themselves in the belief that, after all, the number of students who let themselves be come one-tracked is small. But pessimism would seem to prevail in a situation where the very curricula em phasize the wrong thing and thereby enable free and easy undergraduates to lend themselves as willing vic tims. 'An instructor of English, who must he shown before he believes most things, decided to determine for him self whether his freshman sections of engineers fell within the group of students who know nothing outside of their own field. Seizing upon the theory now being bruited about in .the metropolitan press, this instructor began a discussion on ‘'technocracy." ■No, they hadn’t read of technocracy in the news papers. They don’t read -newspapers. Excused. That was the way it went the whole class over—neither knowing nor caring. Although this instructor believes that anyone who claims to know too much about tech nocracy is probably fooling his public, he nevertheless holds to the opinion that the discussion was of interest to future technicians. And so he believes that if the world could ever be run*by technicians and if those men were as narrow as students of today seem to be—then certainly strange things will have come upon the earth. (Student attendance/ at the first home basketball game of the season seems to indicate that the sport has i;ot lost its grip on Penn State students., To the spec tators several things seemed missing. One or two cheers marked tho extent of the cheering-at the game. A band was not even present. Few students can recall- an athletic contest without a band playing in the past.. THE HARDSHIP OF LEADING It must have become a bit boresome by this time for the director of physical education and athletics to listen to.the inevitable wails and whines which time after time have greeted his comments before coaches and athletic directors of the country. A large portion of his proposals and suggestions arc greeted in this wise at eve 17 conference. Visionary, wild idealist, crepedianger are epithets applied to him l;y his brethren in conference. When, not so long ago, he stood up and advocated for all institutions the system of athletics - in effect here, he was shouted down by the meeting. Men, waxing prosperous on the old exploitation arrangements, called .him names and would not listen to him. And now, the colleges and universities are all joining the rush to be under the same banner of sweet reasonableness' in ath letics which he then advised. So it has been in each new step. Every advance in the return of athletics to the student has been cham pioned by him. Yet so many times has he been ahead of the rush in these movements that the coaches and di rectors have thought him the terrible idealist. Soon, however, the crowd catches up and then they are all busy patting themselves on the back for doing the very things which they booed down short months before. Again, during the holiday meetings, the director made another comment which was greeted .in the old critical fashion. Ife bid a good-bye to the days when football, by the great plethora of gate receipts, carried the whole expense of physical education and athletics. He pointed out that justice can only be done to the rights of tho student in athletics when physical education and athletics are. budgeted in the same fashion as other de partments, thus removing the strain of earning from the game of football. Judging by past success in his prophecies, it seems to be a step that f soon'will be real ized widely by colleges and universities of the country, even as it is being realized here. f It is with pride that the students realize that their college and their director have the courage to be in the forefront of progress in athletic policy.no matter what the howls from the old czars of the gridiron who feel their thrones wabbling. 1 JING BOARD ALFRED W. HESSE JR. ’33 Business Manager ROBERT M. HARRINGTON ’33 Circulation Manager PAUL BIERSTEIN ‘33 Local Advertising Manager WILLARD D. NESTEK *33 Foreign Advertising Manager ARTHUR E. PHILLIPS *33 Credit Manager MARION P. HOWELL *33 Women's Editor Isabel' McFarland ‘33 Women’s Managing Editor ELIZABETH M. KALB '33 Women’s News Editor , Crumbs from a.loaf of the bread ol life: Miss * Bobbie Rhodes, whom you may.remember as having been mentioned here in connection with freshman class elections, was highly elated when she heard about all itho publicity .... so much so, in fact, that she pur chased a paper from Jerry Parker .... Have you tried the new "Battleships" game? . T. . one of the greatest ’little time-wasters yet invented .... There’s a move on foot to make attendance at the Intercollegiate Eall fin Pittsburgh a legal excuse for coming back to school late .... It’s tough when you really do have to blow your nose during one of these weepy fillums .... Ruth •Niebel, who is getting out of this college after three and a half years, is planning to study in Paris .1. she likes pastrami on rye and garlicked.dill pickles .... It’s an ill window that sells nobody any goods . . . The SAE’s Fred O’Neill is a double for Boris Karloff, ex cept that Fred knows that he's not an actor ... Senior Ball .... a Puddy Good dance .... Bucknell has changed its mind about Waynesburg, the little team it never heard of ... . But Mr. Warnock, this “un chaperoned girl problem” really isn’t any problem at all if you know how to handle it ... . Who-wns the bright little missy who said her ho-hum was a Com munist, on account of he writes the Old Maniac? For Winter Sports Basketballs—ss-$lO-$l5 Boxing Equipment Wi-estling Equipment Special price on all team V equipment , " The ' Athletic Store, Inc. ■ •• On Co-op Corner CAMPUSEER BY HIMSELF There are lots of ways of filling up a column like this when you don’t have anything to write about. We might do as our contemporary on the Daily Penn . sylvanian, who writes about two paragraphs and leaves about eight paragraphs of very decorative white space. Or we might simply resort to that old expedi ent of running a lot of big type, like this HAPPY NEW YEAR On the other hand, we’ll probably get into’ less trouble from the editor if we run something humorous sort of, rich but not bawdy. Wiherefore we give you a few of our acid observations upon general conditions. The Beer Boys may think it’s tough convincing the Supreme Court that the 3.2 stuff isn’t intoxicating, but wait ’til they start trying to convince themselves that it is. Trouble with our cheek and balance system is that that there have b6en too many chocks, leaving too little balance. 'Anent the current popularity of technocracy, we are beginning to be convinced that the country is suf fering from a technical knockout. , The politician who goes around with his tongue »in his cheek can’t say very much without biting the end off. Tho Back-to-the-farm movement seems to have changed to a Back-to-the-wall movement. *** * * * Having just called up our co-ed friend, who has been given up by all the leading alienists, we are in spired to dedicate a bit of verse to the lady. Besides being pretty good, it takes up some more room. For wor<ls that inspire Hymns of hate, These are the worst, “I’ve a tentative date." *** t * * The graduate student who left his Botany note book in a hash house of a nearby city can obtain same by calling at the Collegian office, if we remember to bring it with us. The waiter who picked it up orig inally couldn't figure it out at all. He referred it to an anthropologist who wandered in, and the anthro pologist happened to knows yours truthfully, and so here it is. You’re welcome. We enjoyed this more than you did. On second thought, we’ll leave it in the upper right-hand drawer of SHB’s desk, which is the first shambles to the left as you enter the editorial sanctum sanctorum sanctorum. ****** THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN FACULTY TO HELP STATE INDUSTRIES Morse Will Head Temporary Group Planning Study of Business Needs in Pennsylvania Following a recommendation of the College committee on relief, faculty members met Wednesday night to for mulate plans for a committee on re habilitation of Pennsylvania indus tries. Adrian 0. Morse, executive secre tary'to the President, was named tem porary chairman of the committee, which will be selected from a group of faculty members whose work touches on ths field to be studied. An intensive investigation of the needs of the industries now having difficulties will be made, Mr. Morse said. Twenty faculty ' members attended the preliminary meeting Wednesday night at which an informal discussion of the plans in other sections was held. President Ralph D. Hetzel had suggested that the meeting be held immediately following the Christmas recess. 1 First reports of the faculty drive for relief funds were submitted at a general meeting of the committee on relief yesterday afternoon. The Letter Box Editor, Collegian, Dear Sir; Shortly before the Christmas vaca tion, a petition was published concern ing the curtailment of expenses and the reduction of the subscription of the Senior Ball. Accompanying the petition was an editorial which doubt ed the success of the proposed plan on tho ground, that the stu.dent body would object to paying $2.50 to dance to orchestras to which it has free ac cess several times in the year. I question whether any more ob jection would follow than to paying $4.40 for a dance given by such or chestras as are brought around here as high class. 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He plac ed all the blame - for the failure of the small banks on mismanagement, since there is nothing inherent in the big bank that makes for financial strength and nothing in the small bank thqt makes for weakness. Endorsing the system of branch banking, Prof. Dye admitted that it would tend toward cpnsolidation but he proposed a state-wide limitation few really great bands in the coun try, but since our class purse is not fat endugh to purchase any in that class, where is the advantage of pay ing exorbitant'prices for poorer or chestras? ,Our campus bands are not that inferior. ’ If the committee cannot see the: plausibility of the-plan, *;at least let it put the question to public senior vote] and. find the true status. Maybe its! members are right, but a change mustj be made eventually, unless we are sat-! isfied to sit back and watch one failure after another. - —L. R. C. ’33 GET YOUR PAPER at . 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