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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Puhtbhcd femUwcckly during the College year, except on holldaya.
liy student* of The Pennsylvania State College. In the interest of the
College, the Mudi'iils, faculty, alumni, and friends.
THE MAXA<
ROBERT E. TSCIIAN *33
RALPH HETZKL JR. *33
Manngini; Editor
SIDNEY 11. BENJAMIN ’33
Sjiorts Eilitor
RICHARD V. WALL *33
Assistant Editor
DONALD P. DAY '33
Assistant Mamigint; Editor
ERNEST It. ZUKAUSKAS '33
Assistant Sport* Editor
ROLLIN’ C. STEINMEI7. ’33
News i-Mitor
\V. J. WILLIAMS JR. ‘23
Nf'vj i-Mitor
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1933
EVOLUTION
Umkrlying the proposal to weld together men’s and
women’s student, government, on the campus arc two
fundamental considerations. The first is the alleviation
of the strained feeling traditional between men and
women students here. To provide a political- situation
more neatly duplicating actual community politics is the
second consideration.
For many long and weary years, the men on the
campus have been resenting the feminine invasion with
a bored and unreasoned insistence inherited from the
days when hairy-chested farm students revolted at the
idea of having to cast aside evil-smelling and ancient
shirts so that women could exist side by side with them
in the classrooms. Many wilted jokes have been buried
in the files of the publications as the men fought their
losing battle. Some ardent crusaders for masculinity
have at rare intervals sworn off dates for the cause.
But the old fervor is gone. Only the pale ghosts of
tradition and faint humor of harassed humor editors
hold up the hollow mask of the Old School.
It is axiomatic among political theorists that the
neatest way of breaking down differences between fac-
tions is to join them in seeking some political ends. The
quickest and most practical action toward crumbling the
old Co-ed Complex is to merge the women into the men’s
political system. The common ground of identical po
litical ends would blow away the remnants of the old
feeling like the wall of paper which it really is.
Secondly, the women who are interested in the prob
lems of government and in the realities of the political
community are now being trained in a false atmosphere
when they deal only with institutions made up of women.
They, and presumably they are in student government to
receive political training, must learn how to deal with—
men in a political situation and particularly with the
perverse reaction of men to women’s social views and
activities. •
Women’s campus politics are just now entering that
nasty stage of surreptitious clique maneuvering from
which men’s cliques have emerged and which if left on
the present trend is sure to bring on a period of bitter
ness despite all artificial panaceas. So it will be no fall
from a pedestal of political purity if the women join the
men’s system which has provided for free and honest
party politics.
AN ENCOURAGING SIGN
Current sunport for honors courses in the School of
Liberal Arts is reassuring. It comes as an encouraging
sign to those students who, engulfed in the mediocrity
of the lecture system, have just about given up hope
that college could whet their intellectual appetites.
•Certain misconceptions about the honor’s course idea
need to be cleared up. 'Honors work would not attempt
to replace the lecture system entirely. Rather, in
dividual research—the essence of an honors course—
would supplement classroom instruction gained pre
viously; -In investigating a problem of his own selec
tion, tire advanced student would develop the intellectual
initiative that is the mark of an educated man. • His oc-
casional conferences with the instructor would, give him
more of the valuable personal con’tact which is' so often
impossible to secure under .the’present system. .'And the
ccmpfehonsivo examination at the completion, of the
.’course would be a better,measure of his capabilities than
innumerable ten-minute quizzes.' ’ ’
Honors courses will not be a' panacea 1 " for all our
educational ills. They will-do one/thingf.''-'- The/will give
the superior student an avenue of o'scapk from- the thre'o
times-a-week arrangement which too often regards the
undergraduate as a receptive unit intended to ,ba
crammed with information, quizzed periodically, and
then graded according to*“ sonic theory of distribution.
If one or two honors courses are to be made elec
tive in each department for only a select group of stu-
dents, there is no reason why a few cannot be put on
trial here next semester. Critics of the proposal may
say that it would take too much of the instructor’s time.
But only occasional conferences with the student would
he nccessaiy, since he does' the work on his own initia
tive. Furthermore, there arc few sincere teachers who
would not give a Coav extra hours to enthusiastic, capable
students. Other objectors may maintain that collego
students, and Penn State students in particular, are not
intellectually fit for such work. But certainly there are
enough students here who are deserving and capable of a>
little higher type of education than textbook recitation,
book reports, and" intermittent quizzing.
English universities have used similar courses for
many years. Likewise, the more progressive American
institutions employ some form of the honors course plan.
It is no now idea in educational circles. Six years ago
it was recommended for trial here by the Liberal Arts
faculty. Aside from an honors courso in advanced phy
chology, nothing has been done. The time for some
definite action has come. Little aside from lack of in
terest stands in the way.
lING BOARD
ALFRED \Y. HESSE JR. ’33
Hutiinm Monnccr
ROBERT M. HARRINGTON '33
Circulation Manager
TAUL I3IERSTEIN '33
Local Advertising Manager
WILLARD D. NESTER '33
Foreign Advertising Manager
ARTHUR E. PHILLIPS ’33
Credit Manager
MARION P. HOWELL '33
Women's Editor
Isabel McFarland ’23
Women’s Managing Editor
ELIZABETH M. KALB *33
Women's News Editor
for the safety and comfort of the male population of
i this hamlet we advocate the universal adoption of
preventionary slogans such as, “We Refuse!” or “We
Shall Not Serenade!"
OLD MANIA
"With all due respect to the co-eds we think that
there’s such a thing as spoiling them. We have ref
erence to that trio of violin, saxaphone and voice
specialist that spent its nights during the recent
Hell-week in wafting forth sweet music under the
windows of dormitory and sorority house. It was all
very nice, but what will happen if the ladies demand
the continuance of such tactics? Can’t you just fancy
yourself in the wee hours of some bitter morning, vig-
orously ooniping away on a sax or chanting mourn
fully, “Why Can't This Night Go On Forever?” The
situation has all sorts of unpleasant possibilities, and
* W <! $ S>C *
The palm for the best “Hit of the Week” goes to
little Mary (Dynamite) Simpson. It seems that
there’s a part in the new Thespian show in which
“Buffalo” Bill Edwards insults the little flower girl,
Mary, upon which she calmly turns around and slaps
his nasty cheek, so there! They carefully explained
the act to Dynamite.
"Do I hit him hard?”
“Oh, sure
sure . .
"How hai'd?”
“Well, pretty hard. Aw yeah, hit him as hard
as you like,” the last with a glunce at Mary’s mere '
five feet of height.
Whereupon she did. It’s taken a crew of work
men three days to get the the Auditorium back in
shape; and Doc Ritenour, Doc Dietterich, one dentist,
v. crutch-maker, and three plastic surgeons to fix
Edwards so that he can struggle around again.
That’s technique!
******
Leo Houck and Nate Cartmell have organized a
brand new type of fraternity. The pledge pin. is one
of the pink or blue contraptions which you find on the
non-business end of a lamb chop in any of our higher
class eateries. All you have to do to become a mem
er of said group is to pay at least sixty cents, for one
chop, ami then report to either of the founders for
pledging.
******
With the long-threatened union of the- Student
Governments looming up as an actual possibility,
we’re becoming rather worried, so we are. Just sup
pose they get a feminine official in there and someone
starts a sale of new spring hats. Then, too, suppose
that the feminine and non-feminine contingents just
can’t get along. What a picture it would be to see
r. bobbed-haired treasurer chasing the-bresident down
the campus waving a rolling fas’des or something, and
crying, "Down with Vincent (Burp) Lopez and his
twelve bands. We want Guy/ Lombardo!” Just
suppose.
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Flotsam & Jetsam
Good old Red Mathews is back at the Door again
. . . that deadly ladies man “Barny” Barnhart with
Isabel Loveland at the A. T. 0. affair . . . congratula
tions Angie . . . wish this Allen girl would leave so
we’d stop getting her mixed up with the Kappa pledge
. . . who started the pajama-pants fad among the
co-eds? . . . the Hell-week freshman who refused to
shine shoes and took them all down town to have it
done . . . firemen smoking cigars while working . . .
Juno Brown taking the Belleville Boy for a joy-ride
. . . guess we’ll get us a leather coat like McAndrews’
.• . . hats off to, "Jingles” and Heist, . . . who called
Marge- Miller. /'..i.-Ave’re
Nagann say any more/; i- / \ //i’.
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THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Champlip Finds Puerto Ricans More
/ Eager To Learn Than Students Here
“Students at the University of
Puerto Rico are more desirous to
learn-and to'cultivate knowledge than
are students' at Penn State,” said Dr.
Carroll D. Champhib of- the School
of Education, who returned from
Puerto Rico recently. “Although
handicapped with a meagre supply
of literature and lack of technique,
they.* are filled with enthusiasm in
politics, law and science," he added.
The institution, of .Spanish origin,
has an enrollment of 2300 students,
more than half of whom aic women.
In commenting upon their expressive
temperaments the educaiiou profes
sor pointed out that.they are fond of
mild publicity.
“The Puerto Rican is given no
chance to work his way through col
lege, because of the relatively low
wages paid on the island,” remarked
Dr. Champlin. student is eith
er aided - by scholarship or financed
by some rich sugar plantation owner.
The institution has four social frater
nities.”
In commenting on the athletic pol
icy of the university, he said that few
contests are held because of the hu
mid weather. While there are’no in
door activities, a little baseball, truck,
tennis, and soccer is played on an
intramural basis.
All class lectures are conducted in
Daily Laundry Boxes
Would Pile High as
Power Plant Stack
Laundry cases which are handled at
the. Stata College post office in a
single day would form a pile higher
than the power'plant stack if they
were placed one on top of another, ac
cording to - figures announced by
Postmaster George Glenn.
Approximately five thousand of tha
cases are received at the local office
each week,, and as many as one thou
sand five hundred cases are handled:
during the busier days. Tho average
cost of postage per case has been es
timated to be fifteen cents.
The majority of the students mail
their laundry on Monday and Tues
day, while the delivery men find their
duties. the heaviest during the other
four days. Three tracks are required
to make the-deliveries.
• State•• Cottege-is the smallest town
in Pennsylvania to claim the distinc
tion of having a first class post of
fice. With the ratings of the offices
based on the receipts from sale of
stamps, money order and cash on de
livery fees, the local, office compares
financially with offices in towns sev
eral in size' .
•Statistics also reveal that Penn
State students spend much of their
time in writing letters, for more than
two hundred thousand letters ’ arc
mailed eachtmonth. More letters are
mailed Monday than on any other day
ofthe.vveety-’ „
BRACKEN TO SEEK DEGREE
Prof. John R. Bracken, of the de
partment of horticulture, has been
granted a' leave of absence for this
semester to work at the University of
Michigan as a candidate for a mas
ter’s degree in landscape architecture.:
He-will conduct detailed research of
plant structure, specializing in work
concerning the landscape trentment’of
small farms and its future develop
ment.
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"FOR YOUR EVES SAKE"
English because it is the official lang
uage of the university, he continued.
Curiously enough, however, all bulle
tins, communications sent to profes
sors, student conversation, and stu
dent meetings are held in Spanish
tongue, he pointed out. Dr. Champ
lin stated that while English is spok
en at faculty meetings, when heated
discussions arise, the Spanish tongue
is immediately adopted.-
114 Co-Eds Earn
Total of $10,555,
' Survey Indicates
One hundred and fourteen women
students, enrolled here during Inst
semester, collectively earned a total
of $10,555.05 in various forms of part
time employment, a survey conducted
by the office of the Dean of Women
reveals,
Twenty-five of the women students
were engaged in dormitory service,
ten worked in the library, four aided
in the care of children, eight earned
money doing general housework, and
three as saleswomen. The occupa
tions of waitress, office worker, clerk,
and telephone operator each gave
part-time employment to two women
students, while one student engaged
in musical entertainment and sixty
two earned room and board in private
homes.
Women students found employment
during the summer of 1932 in all the
types of work listed, except dormi
tory service, selling, and musical en
tertainment. Additional summer oc
cupations were mill and factory work
and summer camp and playground
positions, while one' student was a
governess and another an assistant
in a chemical laboratory.
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Of
Books
“Fewer and" better books” Is the
slogan of the book publishers as they
are meeting: the economic crisis. The
total number of titles of new hooks
published in the United States (luring
1932 was 7,550, a decrease of 1,250
titles from the preceding year. But
more carefully chosen and interesting
books in many fields are coming from
the presses.
The second volume of Arnold Ben
nett’s “Journal” has appeared and the
third and last is promised for April.
In the Journal he recreates himself
as a character more vitally than any
of the well-known characters of his
books, and his adventures in author
ship are an inspiration' to all young
authors.
“The Bright Land” by Janet Ayer
Fairbank is a historical hovel pictur
ing the story of westward expansion
and the Civil War in the life of an
American family. The stage coach,
the canal boat and the primitive rail-:
way all appear as means of transpor
tation. v •
The place and purpose of the men
of great wealth injhe American scene
has often been the subject for heated
dispute and they have not always been
faithfully presented in biography.
“God's Gold” telling the story of John
D. Rockefeller by John D. Flynn pre
sents the oil king in relation to his.
times more justly and impartially
than the average biography of wealth.
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NEW YORK SAFETY CONCLAVIf
Prof. J l . Orvis Keller, head of thi
department of engineering'
will deliver the ,opening address at
Greater New York Safety
in New York City tomorrow. \ “New
Methods of Employee Training, ans
| Their Applications to .Safety. Instruct
tion,” will be his subject, <
Following the New York uddresS,
Professor Keller will address tech
nical students at engineering exten
sion department branch schools .jn
Reading and Allentown on the subject
oi' “Implications of Technocracy.” "
It also goes into great detail in de
scribing the development of the oil
business and credits Mr. Rockefeller
with unusual business and /ixecutivo
ability in his work.
: !
Another volume bearing on inter
national relations tells the story of
“John Slidell and the Confederates in
Paris.”' The intrigues* of Mason and
Slidell in the Trent Affair arc well
known. But not so well known are
| the ..further adventures of Slidell-as
he plotted and schemed for the con
federacy in France afterwards. It is
a historical account which is fully ex
citing as fiction.
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