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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN !
Published »emi*w«kly during the College year, except on holidays, j
by students of The Pennsylvania State College, In the interest of the
College, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends.
THE MANAGING BOARD
, ROBERT E. TSCHAN *33 ALFRED W. HESSE JR. *33
Editor ' Business Manager
RALPH IIETZKL JR. '33 ROBERT M. HARRINGTON '33
Managing Editor Circulation Manager
SIDNEY 11. BENJAMIN '33 PAUL BIERSTEIN '33
Sports Editor Local Advertising Manager
RICHARD V. WALL '33 WILLARD D. NESTER '33
Assistant Editor Foreign Advertising Manager
DONALD P. DAY '33 ARTHUR E. PHILLIPS '33
Assistant Managing Editor Credit Munagor
ERNEST B. ZUKAUSKAS '33 MARION I*. HOWELL *33
Assistant Sports Editor Women’s Editor
ROLLIN C. STKINMKTZ '33 ISABEL McFARLAND '33
News Editor Women's Managing Editor
W. J. WILLIAMS JR. '33 ELIZABETH M. KALB '33
News Editor Women's News Editor
Entered at the Postoffice, Slate College, Pa., ns Second-class Matter
Member Eastern Intercollegiate Ncrvspapcr Association
Editorial Office . 313 Old Main
Business Office-
Phone 292-W
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1983
A BETTER METHOD
The placing of the* Athletic association elections
under the same system as the class elections by action
of the board of control Saturday comes in part as a re-
sponse to student opinion. The degree to which dis-
honesty can be eliminated in elections depends very
largely on the system that is used. A second factor,
and one that can make the best of systems valueless,
is the personal element—the reliability of the committee
in charge. So it is that a good system can aid the com
mittee, can be a reliable check, and enable that group
to concentrate on other points which would otherwise
be necessary for correcting defects in the system.
•For a long time it has been general opinion that
scattered voting places make for a difficult supervision
of an election. It is impossible under this scheme for
•authority and responsibility to be centered in one man.
The result has been that if no evidence of dishonesty
came to the surface at least there was no one who could
vouch for the honesty and do so from actual knowledge
of conditions. |What is more obvious then than the ad-,
vantage of the central polling place in Old Main such
as was adopted for class elections several years ago?
The old argument that a larger vote can be secured by
going to the bailiwicks of the students in their different
schools is rather childish. Old Main isn’t so far from
any point on the campus that it becomes a hardship for
a student to use it as a voting place.
'A system has been effected for class elections during
the last two years which needs very little refining. It
has brought the first factor for a reliable election above
serious reproach. The second or the human element de
pends entirely on the disinterestedness of the elections
committee. The check and assistance of a good system
to work with insures a better working committee.
PANHELLENIC RUSHING
The revised copy of the rushing code submitted to
the women’s fraternities features the shortening of the
former two weeks’ rushing period, giving the frater
nities their choico between a one week and a three clay
period. If the one week period is accepted by the
majority of the fraternities it will mean that rushing will
bo on the same basis as in preceding years except for
the reduction by one week.
Since third semester rushing, which is the present
practice, allows both the fraternities and the rushces
enough time to become acquainted, and continues the
year of informal rushing practiced by each fraternity, it
is evident that a three day rushing period would be long
enough to meet the requirements. If this plan is chosen
by the majority of the fraternities, each fraternity will
not have a separate time for its formal party as in the,
past,-but instead, several fraternities .will-be entertain
ing at. time, making it necessary for the rushces
to choose which ones they prefer to attend. In this case
the rushces would also be limited jn the number of for
mal rushing parties they could attend and the possibility
• of one rushee stringing along three or four fraternities
• would be eliminated. It would practically l’equirc-each
rushee to'decide which fraternity she preferred, thus
{.•Bl JO Ji s !lh n S the former practice of having many rushces
undecided for the entire period of two weeks. It-would
also prevent the worn-out feeling of both- groups l for
• merly experienced at the end of- two strenuous weeks,
| and would not interfere nearly so ihiich with the studies
"of each group.
Another major change to be decided by the frater
nities is whether the rushing code should state definitely
that the forty-five dollars allotted to each fraternity
should include expenses of every member of the chapter
during rushing season as well as the expenses for en
tertaining the rushces. 1 In the past the rushing code
stated that each fraternity should be allowed that sum
for rushing season. Some fraternities permitted their
members to spend their own money on themselves if they
were willing, but always deducted the money spent on
■tho rushces from the allotcd fund. Other fraternities
of smaller membership included the expenses of their
members along with those incurred for entertaining their
■rushces. If the majority of the fraternities wish to in
clude the expenses of both groups it will only be fair
for Panhellenic council to compute the average chapter
membership on the campus and to establish a propor
tioned scale.
Notwithstanding the length of rushing season de
cided upon, over-night dates with rushees will be abolish
ed so as to save them from as much fatigue as possible.
In addition, the intensity of lushing season will he
lessened by limiting each fraternity to two informal
dates, instead of the four allowed this fail, in addition
to the invitation to its formal party.
Nittany Printing Building
be reduced to scrip poker
Gib Cosksry had succeeded in gaining the
wrath of the WSGA or something by sending a fresh
man over to the Delta Gamma Fraternity Tuesday
night at an unfortunate hour, with instructions to
obtain the signatures of the sleeping sisterhood.
However,- the freshman was rebuffed at the very door
by Miss Ifurlbrink, who happens to be guarding that,
portal at present. Wednesday night another fresh
man, professing to come from the Phigam house,
knocked humbly on the door, and requested the sig
nature of Miss Hurlbrink, on account of lie had to get
it for Hell Week. The lady probably doesn’t know
Mr. Coskery. But wc have an idea that she won’t
feel particularly'depressed when she learns that the
second freshman was Mr. Coskery himself, and that
he was the slightly nonplussed recipient of the three
sound thwacks which she administered with a paddle.
Our impression of a spectacle in the Coliseum—
Twenty thousand Romans, thumbing .their way to
Hell .... Si Sobler, once best of the best drest, is
married and Hying in Brooklyn .... Today’s the day
wo give goldfish away with forty-nine cents worth of
anything .... they seem to be in quite good health,
too,- in spite of the embargo .... Add Subtle Slaps:
"My, what large smoke rings you could blow” ....
Basket parties at the Angle are worrying waitresses
frazzlewnvd .... Wjc are informed that Professor
Markle, whom we twitted anent a worn-out door-bell,
has replaced the offending article with a new one,
with illuminated number and everything .... prob
ably furnished with indirect lighting .... Animal
nutritionist Ray Swift has built a model railroad which
ho is planning to put out in the yard when the robins
begin performing with a little more confidence ....
Most of those married ladies bother us no end in
classes .... The debaters continue to discuss inter
national debts, even though nobody has any money.
Freshmen!
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Additional Candidates for the
Business Staff of the Penn
State Collegian Will Meet in
Room 318, Old Main on Monday,
March 13 at 7:00 P.M.
Freshmen!
—R. M. 11.
CAMPUSEER
BY HIMSELF
Aesop’s Foibles
Once on a time (second semester of last year, to
be painfully exact) there were three seniors. The
facile analyst would say that there were more than
three seniors, and we would have to pause to explain
that for our purposes there wore three seniors,- and
only three, and. we would be pleased if he would keep
his observations to himself for a while.—There were
throe seniors. These three seniors reasoned among
themsclvcs and evolved a brilliant deduction. They
had all contracted habits of restfulness and procras-
.tination through easy class schedules in the past, and
the fact struck them obliquely between the eyes that
within a few short months they would all be out in
tho world, where lie’ who would live must work. So
they conspired together at registration, and emerged
triumphantly with schedules that would force them to
arise at seven o’clock every morning, and keep them
occupied until the shades of twilight darkened the
All went well. These throe ambiiious seniors
abandoned their old slovenly custom of cutting classes
and neglecting work. After a few weeks of early
rising the thing ceased to be a hardship. By the end
of the semester the three seniors had schooled them-
selves to habiis of industry which might well have
been the envy of any conscientious business man.
They were ready for the world.
Two of them are unemployed. The other has
secured a position on a morning newspaper. He
sleeps ’til noon every day.
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THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
WALLER DISCUSSES
PROFESSOR’S CODE
Varieties of Faculty Members
Listed By Sociologist In
Second L. A. Talk
"The professor is almost never fir
ed for inefficiency aione and usually
is not chosen for what he does and is
able to produce, but for what he does
not do,” said Dr. Willard P. Waller,
associate professor of sociology, in
the second lecture of the Liberal Arts
series Tuesday night.
Dr. Waller explained that the pro
fessor is a creature of his college en
vironment, although he did not make
the environment. The colleges have
made him what he is, but no man
alive has had much to do with making
the colleges what they arc today, ac
cording to the speaker.
Classifies Professors
“One dichotomy separates pi’ofes
sors into two varieties according to
the groups in which he lives. One
type is immersed in the life of the
groups about his campus, and a sec
ond type is concerned with life in
groups outside his own campus,”'•he
pointed out.
Professors of the second tj'pe rare
ly amount to anything, for in the few
hundred or few thousand among these
groups, only a few dozen can attain
any degree of prominence. Teachers
falling in the'first classification never
amount to anything, lie declared.
"Because u professor gets his
knowledge from books, he is supposed
to get truer knowledge than anyone
else,” he 1 reasoned. “Public men are
fools, in the estimation of most pro
fessors, because they do not base their
actions upon correct theories,” the
speaker concluded.
Uniform Curriculum
Predicted by Steidle
(Continued from page one)
master’s degree,” he said.
Mathematics, English composition,
chemistry, a science with the student
given the privilege of selecting either
botany, zoology, or geology, and a
foreign language would likely consti
tute the range of subjects to be offer
ed in the freshman year, Dean Steidle
believes. A survey course on tempor
ary civilization is another necessity
in such a program, he pointed out.
“The common freshman-sophomore
curricula has three distinct advan
tages,” declared Dean Steidle. “It
will benefit the .student who ordihar
ily dbcsn’t‘«fecide until the end of his
second year what line of work he
wishes to pursue by enabling him to
change his course without losing cred
it for his first two years of work, and
the College will be able to aid him in
determining what line of work he is
best fitted to do.
“The plan also would enable the
schools to. make a better selection of
their students at the end of the two
year orientation period,” the Mineral
Industries dean stated.
“With common freshman and soph
omore years or a common freshman
year for the College and common
sophomore years for each school, the
plan of offering outlined
: curricula should bp changed to state
ments of major lines ’of specializa
tion, somewhat like the plan for ma
jor groups in the'arts and letters
curriculum,” the Mineral Industries
dean declared in conclusion.
DR. MACK ATTENDS MEETING
• iDr. Pauline Beery. Mack, of the
chemistry, department, attended an
executive committee meeting of the
Student Science club of America in
New York City Tuesday.
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Comedy Arising fron
To Feature Nex i
Comedy based on wit and repartee,
rather than on the conventional dram
atic situation, will be given for the
first time here, when the Penn State
Players present “The Last of Mrs.
Cheyney” on March 25, according to
Prof. Arthur C. Cloetingh,. who is in
charge of the production.
The action of the play is laid at the
country home of Mrs. Cheyney near
London. The story opens when she
is entertaining several members of the
nobility with the view of robbing them.
This provides the opportunity for the
characters to introduce the clever
repartee which, characterizes the pro
duction. •
Mrs. Cheyney, portrayed by Phyllis
G. Beidler ’33, was once a shop girl
who had a desire for better things.
She accepted the offer of Charles;
played by John F. Binns ’36, to take
up robbery as a profession. • She poses
as a widow entertaining the nobility,
with Charles as her butler.
A string ,of pearls owned by Mrs.
Ebley, portrayed by Lillie Kelt '3O,
is the .object of Mrs. Cheyney’s atten
tions. Kutzer L. Richards '36 in the
role of Lord Billing discovers her
plans and exchanges rooms with Mrs.
Ebley for the night. Finding herself
trapped, Mrs. Cheyney arouses *thc
household and tells them the truth.
Members of the houseparty, in
cluding Lord Dilling, Hon. and Mrs.
Willie Winton,- played by Wilbur E.
Disney jr. ’3O anti M. Theresa Baer
'34, Lord Elton and Lady printon,
portrayed by Benjamin L* Wise ’33
LIENBACH TO GIVE
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Will Speak on “Place of Prayer” at
Regular Services in Schwab
Auditorium Sunday
Speaking on “At the Place of Pray
er,” Dr. Paul- S. Leinbach, editor of
the Reformed Church Messenger, will
address the chapel audience in Schwab
auditorium 'at 11 o'clock Sunday
morning.
The speaker is a graduate of
Franklin and Marshall College, and
of the Reformed Theological Semin
ary at Lancaster. He has served con
gregations in Altoona, Pittsburgh,
Easton, and New York City. While
in New York he was pastor-of one of
the several Collegiate churches.
As president of the editorial coun
cil of the Religious Press of America,
Dr. Leinbach, has had wide , experi- I
once with students as well'as'gradu-j
ate members of his profession. He I
is also a member of the Board of|
Home Missions, and an executive 1
committeeman of the Federal Council I
of the Churches of Christ.
Immediately following the World
War, the speaker made trips to the
Near East as a member of the Ameri
can Relief- Commission. . Since then
he has served ns a lecturer on several
Mediterranean cruises. He is a mem
ber of Phi Beta Kappa, and the Phi
Alpha clergical organization.
20 PRISONERS TAKE COURSES
More than twenty inmates of -the
Federal prison at Roekview have been
granted correspondence courses in the
School of Agriculture, according to
Prof. Thomas I. Mairs, director of the
department of agricultural extension.
NEW MUSIC COURSE OFFERED
Upperclassmen in the music educa
tion department .will be offered a
course in practical orchestral direct
ing, according to Prof. Hummel Fish
burn, of that department.
Wif, Repartee
Players’ Production
and Marjorie I. Kuschke ’36, turn out
to bo a disreputable set much worse
than Mrs. Cheyney and Charles.
She has in her possession a letter;
written by Lord Elton which describes
in detail the various members of the
party. If she were to expose this, all
would be ruined. In view of this,
both factions compromise. Mrs. Chey
ney is forgiven, whereupon she
promptly marries Lord Dilling.
Indifference Causes i
Ills, Ritenour Says
Indifference on the part of tho stu
dents in taking cure of first signs of
disease is accountable for roughly
eighty percent of the number of cases
treated at the dispensary, according to
Dr. Joseph P. Ritenour, College phy
sician.
“This year, 14,160 cases have been
treated at the dispensary, an increase
of 1,226 cases over the same period of
time last year,” Dr. Ritenour said.
“If students would apply the know
ledge of hygienic measures that they
already know, they would not need to
come here so often,” he added.
In commenting on the present prac
tice of requiring students to take phy
sical education classes at 1 or 11
o'clock, Dr. Ritenour said that it was
r. poor hygienic measure, but because
of crowded conditions and lack of
class room space, the situation is un
avoidable.
This is shown by the fact that three
fourths of the students seeking ad
mission in 1920 were admitted,, while
last year only one-fourth of the ap
plicants were permitted to enroll. The
two highest ranking students in tho
present senior class are transfers, he
revealed.
IRWIN ADDRESSES A. S. M. E.
K. M. Irwin, technical engineer of
r. Philadelphia, company, addressed
the local section of the American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers on
“Steam Plant Versus Hydro-Electric
Plant,” yesterday.
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