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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887
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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:
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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 ...
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I am against R. 0. T. C. in all forms
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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 . . .
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Twenty gallons , of.:coffee disappear
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