Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887 1,,. Published aatni•weci.ly during the College year, except on holidays, by students of The Pennsylvsnitt State College, In the interest of the 1 . 1 College, the students, faculty. alumnL and friends. i' THE MANAGING BOARD q HARRY B. HENDERSON JR. '36 WILLIAM H. SKIRBLE '36 4 Editor BUSII.B Manager ii DONALD P. SANDERS '36 ROLAND W. OBERHOLTZER '3G Managing Editor Circulation Manager •' t'. W. BERNARD PREUNSCH '3G WILLIAM B. HECKMAN '36 Sports Editor VANCE 0. PACKARD '36 Advertising Manager . PHILIP G. EVANS '36 . _ . • . , _ . Ansistant Editor Local Advertising Tinnager it .701 IN E. MILLER JR. T 6 LEONARD T. SIEFF T 6 j Assistant Managing Editor Credit Manager V CHARLES M. SCHWARTZ JR. '36 L. MAItTEIEL CONABEE '96 I. Assistan' Sports Editor Women's Editor WILLIAM P. MeDOWELL '36 RUTH E. KOEHLER '36 News Editor Women's Managing Editor JOHN K. BARNES JR. ..36 A. PRANCES TURNER 'MI News Editor Women's News Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS J. Kenneth Beaver '37 Lester AL Benjamin '37 Johnson Brennemnn '37 W. Robert Grubb '37 Philip S. Heisler '37 Itiohnrd Lewis '37 E. Townsend Swaim '37 WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE VETOES Xnrion A. Ringer:37 Regina .1. Ryan '77 M. Winifred W'illinms '37 George W. Bird '37 Kenneth W. Engel '37 Jean C. Hoover '37 Philip A. Schwartr'37 Man L. Smith '37 Hobert J. Siegler '37 Sole and exclualve National Advertising Representative NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE. INC. 420 Madison Aconite. New York City 400 North Malaga:. Avenue. Chicago Assotiated:gliate 'Press -.1934 (61, - jh os i M 35.- Friday, September 6, 1935 "FLASH" IN THE FRATERNITIES Without doubt the most serious problem facing the newly-matriculating freshman on this campus is the question of whether he should go fraternity or not. And without a-doubt many freshmen striving desper ately to find a solution to this question by themselves bungle it so seriously that the damage done is of the type that cannot be repaired, and they regret their action to the end of their collegiate careers. Yes, and even afterwards. The reason behind this editorial, beyond filling space, is to tear aside the camouflage and hysterics of "Rushing Season," which are so carefully and subtly protected by the rushing code and the freshman coun -7-.t selors, and to show as clearly as possible some of the mere important factors involved in joining a fratern ity, by pointing out, perhaps it's revealing, some of the dazzling camouflage which the freshmen are subjected to the first few weeks of their college life. The worst thing about rushing season is that it is so exaggerated, so extravagant, and so artificial that there are few freshmen who do not lose their sanity '* and sense of values and readily believe that college just isn't worth-while unless they can wear a fea r. te nity pledge pin, walk down the campus with last :4. year's sophomore class president, and speak to three or "I , four:hat-men: „ •!• Bushing season brings about the super-glorifica tion of the so-called campus big-shot and adoration of bigger and flashier keys. Usually the campus big : shots are quite ordinary momzers, frightened by the height of their own elevation and consequently scared to death for fear someone will find them out. But if one were to believe the freshman counselors, and the fraternity men who rush them, they are a quality of brilliant super-Man, and who are the height of per fection in "smoothness," and personality. And then, another of the biggest factors of camou flage invented by the fraternity system is the movie-set fraternity house, the very luxury, size, and situation of which are enough to stun the average freshman coming from a modest home. There are few students, two hun dred at the most, and that is the most liberal figure, whose homes are equipped with the dazzling array of luxuries that practically every - house on thii campus considers essential. All this camouflage, this array of great wealth and luxury, the hat-men, big-shots, key-men, politicians, staggering good fellowship, and reeling and reeking .fraternalism can be compared to the "flash" of the boardwalk concession owner and the man who runs a wheel at the carnival. It looks like good stuff, but it really isn't. It has but one purpose; to rope in the customers. But, the fraternity man will argue, that isn't al ways the case; that isn't always the truth: It isn't all That is true. It is, perhaps, unfortunate that it is true. Because if it were not true,•the evil could be more easily removed. Thus the good is mixed with the bad. How, then, is the innocent freshman, •and what is he but that, to determine - the good from the "flash?" There have been a million answers, and all of them have probably been more or less right. But it appears most logical that if the freshman is to wait a short time, until the hysterical and frenzied friendships of rushing season are over, and he has seen the decline of hubbub and interest of the fraternity men in him: self and his classmates who have not pledged them selves to a fraternity, and he has had a chance to inves tigate the actual conditions and men in a house, then he will be more capable of deciding whether he wants to join any house - at all, and if so, which one? 'Pf course, the fraternity men will fight and argue to keep the freshman from waiting, and try to make it appear that if he does not join a house at the time they say, he will forfeit his chances of joining a house. They realize that the chances are that if a boy doesn't join a fraternity his freshman year, he probably never I. will: And certainly, anyone who has even studied the Isituation casually, will not say that that is caused since 4 the fraternities wouldn't take a man after his fresh- OLD MANIA We've been writing this colm all too periodically since sometime last April and have never made a public declaration of policy. It is high time we did. We shall now discard the editorial "we" and take a stand on divers matters: +++ I believe that Robbie Galbraith puts on a bet ter show than any prof on campus .. : That Penn State is probably the largest Babbitt factory in the state .. . That a great deal should be said for the swiss chocolate almond sundaes in Rea and Derick's . That Old Main should have an elevator for pub lications men ... +++ I am against R. 0. T. C. in all forms + + + I am glad that no one enforces customs, because they are bunk ... I believe that Bob Higgins gets a lot of unjust criticism as football coach, and that the poOr records made by Lion teams are the fault of the school's athletic policy and we may as weh resign ourselves to them or play teams in our class . . . I wonder how many students know that Edna and Ruth, of the Corner, are sisters; they don't look it . I believe that Bucknell is not quite as rustic as it's usually made out to be on this campus . . . I think that Jerry Freudenheim should be boycotted and I propose to do it. He lives on publicity . . . I like olives, especially stuffed ones . . . I am very grateful to the afore-mentioned Gal braith for advising me to read Norman Douglas' "South Wind." Prom what I have seen of it, the new "Old Main Bell" seems to be the best for quite some time . . . "Stardust" is probably my favorite tune . . . James Thurber's drawings of Shakespearean situations in the current "Stage" are worth seeing—but then aren't all of his? . . . I think that the value of fraternity life is greatly over-rated . . . I am always bewildered by Mr. Lewis' library; things are continually being moved around, seems to me . . . I dislike debating . . . I subscribe fully to George Jean Nathan's statement about patriotism, and reprint it here from memory. "I have no patriot ism, for patriotism; as I see it, is too often an arbi trary veneration of real estate over principles." . I once came nearer asking Ginnie Ryan for a date than she suspects ... Bill Werner is an even tougher marker than I had heard . . I believe that , every student should, visit the College barns some but; 'Mier having dorM so, I may be : wrong about this ... I make good fudge . . . I am glad to hear that Frank Neusbaum is now in the drama department ... I have only twenty type-written lines to go. (An old gag, but it fills up space). I want a dauschund . . . I had trouble under standing Prof. Blanchet in French 3 . . . I don't like turnips . I must reread the . Sherlock Holmes stories more than any other book . . . I hope Sock Kennedy does the theatre column for us that he's partially promised . . . Local ath letes are more conceited without cause than nay other class of persons . .. Most college columns are pretty sad jobs . . . If Eddie Nichols gives me another in vitation to hear his records, I plan to jump at the chance . . . I am terrified by Kappas . . . 1 have tried and tried to make a Corner straw into a musical .instru ment like Hum Fishburn told us in Music 55 class, but I can't do it . . . FIRST SEMESTER Get Our Prices Before Buying Your For All Courses . . . . . . New and Second-Hand ENGINEERING SUPPLIES Drawing Sets Drawing Boards T-Squares Triangles Slide Rules • ART MATERIALS Water Color Sets Oil Color Sets Papers Pastels Charcoal Pencils TEE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Potato .Barrel Emptied at Each Mac Hall Dinner Imagine' eating.:a 7 barrel of- potatoes at one . meal!- - Sounds euttdneus, but that's what. the' co-eds do each time they sit down to dinner at McAllister Hall, Mrs. Edith ,M. Johnson, super visor of the commons, has revealed. Twenty gallons , of.:coffee disappear each night, and every day twenty four loaves of.blead, each as long as an average person's - arm, go the way of-all dough. Every time canned veg etables appear on the table, it means there are three. crates less of said greens in the storeroom. - • • Ice cream is b.far,the most popu lar dessert with 'tapioca pudding at the tail end of the liSt. Lettuce is absolutely the bane of the co-ed's ex istence, and' thakt's where the fifty waiters and kitcha workers go them one better. - • Rea .& ®crick Inc " The Students Drug Store" 121 South Allen Street Next to the Peoples National Bank • z. DELUXE LUNCHEON and - FOUNTAIN SERVICE Daily Luncheon Platters and Sea Food Dishes + • PARKER VACUMATIC PENS AND PENCILS $1.25 to $lO.OO • + • MONTAG, KEITH AND EATON'S STATIONERY Sealed and Plain All at Cut Prices 'WITHIN YOUR BUDGET . By.ivatching our windows and counters for r . Friday and Saturday Specials! a 'WHITMAN'S 'CHOCOLATES Fresh Eyery Week • A COMPLETE PIPE DEPARTMENT Showing Kaywoodies, Yello Boles, Medicos, Comoys, and the new $l.OO Micano. "Buying more we buy for less, . Selling more we sell for less." -THE NEANIAC Class Finances Here Controlled by Board Class finances at Penn State are controlled and. regulated by a com mittee of students, which includes the various class treasurers and Neil M. Fleming, graduate manager of' ath letics, as ex-officio member. This group, known as the Inter- Class Finance committee, controls the incomes from class dances and from interclass sports on the campus. It is the policy and aim of the commit. tee to bring the finances of all extra curricular activities under its control so that those doing the work will receive .proper remuneration. Chairmen of class dance commit tees and the presidents of the classes sponsoring dances receive salaries for their services, the chairman and clasS president each re2eiving $6O fdr the dance sponsored by their class. Mem bers of the dance committees receive complimentary tickets to all class functions. 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Dietrich - • 3 Squares off Campus • Welcome, Old Filen& and•New' The State College Dry Cleaning Works We are now able. to serve you at two places with even better than our former excellent service. + Cash and Carry • 113 Pugh St. Call and Deliver Phone 955. "The only Dry Cleaning plant in or around State College." LOOSE LEAF NOTE BOOKS Fillers—All Sizes Smith—Corona PORTABLE TYPEWRITERS STATIONERY WITH PENN STATE SEAL 49c and up Friday September 6, 1935
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