Page T --"' PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887 Published sesni•n•eekly during the College Year. event on holidays, by students of The Pennsylvania State College. In the interest of the College, the students, faculty. alumni. and friends. Applied for entry as second eI3A3 matter at the State College Poet Office. State College, Pa. TILE mAxmaNG BOARD MARRY R. HENDERSON JR. '36 WILLIAM IL SKIRRLE '36 Editor Business Manager DONALD P. SANDERS '36 ROLAND W. OBERMOLTZER 36 Managing Editor Circulation Manager W. BERNARD IREUNSCH '36 WILLIAM B. HECKMAN '36 Sports Editor Advertising Manager VANCE 0. PACKARD '35 PHILIP . C. EVANS '36 Assistant Elliot Local Advert Mass Manager JOHN E. 3111.1.36 E Jlt. '34 LEONARD T. SIEFF '36 Assistant Mtintoting Editor ' Credit Manager ' ' , . . • .. , ~ CHARLES M. SCHWARTZ JR. '36 1.. MARVBEL CONAREE '36 AASIYUISI' Soot's Editor Wonicter Editor WILLIAM P. Alet/OWELL '36 RUTH E. KOEHLER 16 Newx Editor Wooten'. Motiottin6 Editor JOHN K. BARNES JR. 'l6 A. FRANCES TURNER 'B6 News editor Wonton'6 News Editor I=l Ceorne W. BIM '37 Kenneth W. Enrol . 37 Jean C. Hoover '37 Philip A. Seliwarty. 817 Alan 1.. Smith '37 Irwin Roth. '3 Johnson Brenneman '37 W. Robert Gmbh . 37 Philip S. Ileirler '3 Richard Lewis '37 E. Townsend S.rnlnt '37 WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Marian A. !liner, 17 Itecinn J. Ryan M. Winifred William's 17 NATIONAL ADVER'fISING SERVICE. INC. .IU North A VO.O. It—snn Francie , ro—l.ox Angele—Portia nil—Seattle 1935 Member r 936 Associated Collegiate Press Distributor of Collegiate. Digest gumming Editor T 1 Issue Kora Editor Tido Lome Tuesday, Febrtiary 18, 1936 GUILTY • Women's rushing this year has provided the col lege with the best show it has had since Colonel Leit cell was last on the rampage. The grand finale, Sun day morning's meeting of Pati-Hellenic Council at which Kappa Alpha Theta was found guilty of rushing violations, was probably the Most delightful to those who love mud-slinging and petty campus politics. The evidence against Kappa Alpha Theta is over whelming. Briefly, the fraternity "hasn't a leg to stand on." Certainly the members of Kappa. Alpha Theta realized the possibility of their actions being considered rushing-. However, they preferred to take the gamble and now are protesting bitterly against the wave of public criticism which has swept down upon their fra ternity. That the leaden; of Kappa Alpha Theta would per mit their house to go into anything which so endangered the house's prestige and reputation shows a lack of good judgment. And certainly in this case, a lack of knowledge of human psychology, ' It will take a long time for Kappa Alpha Theta to regain the position of honor and leadership which it held in the eyes of the student body previous to this rushing season. • But then' fintYLe a few' extra' pledges aid lioith it. Even if Kappa Alpha Theta had been found not guilty of violating the rushing code, its leaders would be guilty of having endangered the reputation and position of their fraternity. A MILESTONE ON THE PATH OF AMERICAN FASCISM .On May 13, 1935, the most direct attempt to violate American civil liberties ever put over on the American people slipped quietly through the U. S. Senate and was referred to the House committee on military affairs. It was the Military Disaffection Bill. As conceived by Machiavellian minds whose efforts to put through fascistic legislation under the guise of 1000 per cent Americanism would make the Foundling fathers twist in their tombs, this uncanny bit of legis lation is the most notorious attempt of the militarists thus far in time of peace to squelch public sentiment against war by fine or imprisonment. The bill itself' reads: "An act to make better pro vision for the governMent of the military and naval 'Three's' of the . United States by the euppressioit 'of at tempts to incite members thereof to disobedience." :Violating freedom of the press and freedom:of pub lic — expression, this fantastic imitation of Hitleriam makes it a crime to criticize the military or naval forces of the United Statjs. As the bill now. .rests.beforethe flonse, it imposes heavy fines and iinnriScinnient , for.nny' newspaper editor who publishes or any reporter who writes stories critical of the army, navy or their mili tary equipment. It is the preamble to the code of im perialists, militarists, and ordnance department graft- • Congressman Maury Maverick, one of the most outspoken opponents of the hill said of it;,". . . in my opinion, it is one of the most outrageous invasions of human rights ever attempted on the American people. It gags the press. It gags every liberty given in the Constitution of . the United States. It violates every precedent of American liberty." On this campus, any attempt to criticize the R. 0. T. C. could be promptly suppressed under this act as sedition. For, while the Military Disaffection Bill does not specify the reserve corps in text, criticism of the R. 0. T. C. on this campus could be construed as a criminal of fense because such criticism would inevitably reflect upon the instructors who are rtgular army officers. FOR STUDENT UNITY On December 29, five hundred students from col leges and universities throughout the United States met in Columbus, Ohio, to form the American Student Un ion, the first attempt on the part of college students to solidify student progressive thought on a nation-wide scale. Since its inception, the American Student Union has met with overwhelming response from that cross-section of the American student body representing liberal opin ion. Chapters have sprung up in hundreds of Amer ican colleges and universities as a definite challenge to the threadbare thinking of the forces of reaction. A local chapter, which has been organized here, is now petitioning for recognition. It will embody the two objectives of the A. S. U.: to submit progressive stu dent opinion in a manner conforming to the standards of academic freedom of expression and to support and further legislation against war and fascism. Fantasia It may have been just the reaction of the last two cups of coffee the night before or possibly the sub conscious result of talking te, too many persons who arc taking Greek 26. Anyhow, we woke up the other morning after a nightmare in which we dreamed that Penn State had turned into a Greco-Roman theatre and the faculty were players. Here was the cast as nearly as we can remember it: Scene: The Parthenon (Old Main) located in a valley (Elysian fields) between Mt.. Olympus (Mt. Nittany) and Parnassus (Bald Eagle). Argument: Furnished by Prof. John Henry Fria cell. Jupiter, the king Jun:), his queen _ :11i:wren, goddess of wisdom Plutus,god of wealth Mars, god of vat• ____ Oracle of Delphi __George Donovan at Student Union Ceres, goddess of the earth Sacred cow Augean stables Hercules Neptune Orpheus Bacchus Vulean, celestial workman _ -Philip S. Reb., '37 W. Robert Grubb '37 Apollo _ Pluto, ruler of the <lead Stygian realm The Three Fates Dean Ray, Dean Warner k, and Neil Fleming Cerberus, guardian of the gates of hell Scylla and Charybdis _ Calliope, epic poetry __Werner C:io, history Euterpe, lyric poetry Terpsichore, choral dance and song. _Seek Kennedy Polyhymnia, sacred poetry Prof. Mason Long Melpomene, traget• . Urania, astronomy _ Erato, love poetry _ Thalia, comedy _ Morpheus Prof. Oscar Smith Charon, ferryman of the Styx Resides Taxi Pyramus and Thisbe Mr. and Mrs. Bob Bassett Siren • Prof. Lucretia V. T. Simmons Pan • Prof. Hum Pishbarn Wood Nymphs _Does Kern, Hill, Overholts, and Kelly Cupid Willard P. Lewis Mercury Air. Adrian 0. Morse Satyrs All forestry profs Chimaera Any Bluebook ++ + • Campusights Ruth Edgar and Tat Humes building up Newell Townsend's hand with loud plaudits at the Red Cross Dance while they wait for Price Longstreet and Towny to stop playing and dance with them . Christy unintentionally pulled the switch that put out the lights on Bottorf's band . . . If you happened to pass the Theta house just after five o'clock Sunday afternoon the screams of joy coining from the porch told you that at least one East Campus sewing circle made out in pledging, and how! (See page 1) ... The 21 Beta Shamrock Hotel pledges who moved out on Thursday because they were getting paddled too much are back and have not been whacked since ... Walt Freunsch, in his soberer moments sports editor of this sheet, has disappeared leaving a cryptic message, behind. Knowing his fondness for winter sports we - are offering odds that he is lost in a Gar misch-Partenkirchen hofbrau . Dean Grant followed the score of every number the National Symphony orchestra played . from a perch in the balcony . . Ditlthey;-make, any. mistakes, Dean? NECKWEAR Styles of Tomorrow for the College Man of Today MORE OR LESS, EVERY HABERDASHER KEEPS UP WITH THE• FASHIONS. THIS ESTABLISHMENT REGARDS IT AS AN OB LIGATION TO THEIR REPUTATION AS STYLISTS TO KEEP AHEAD. WE DON'T DELAY TO SHOW A. NEW NECKWEAR FASHION UNTIL IT BECOMES SO FASHION ABLE THAT IT CEASES TO BE A FASHION AT ALL. OF COURSE, WE ALSO DISPLAY THE SMARTLY CONSERVATIVE STYLES FOR THE MAN WHOSE MOTTO IS, "BE NOT THE FIRST BY WHOM THE NEW IS TRIED, YET NOT THE LAST TO LAY THE OLD ASIDE." • kia STARK 13W.S.MARPERD HATTERS HABERDASHERS TAILORS CAMPUSEER Chas qeters President tletzel _Mrs. Hetzel Miss Nitzky _Treasurer Murtorlf _Colonel Venable ____Dean. Watts _Penn State . Jessie __The horse barns Bezdek Mahatma Galbraith ..__Dean Grant ___..____Serg. Ryan _Mr. Ebert _(What am I bid?) _Jack Richards _Doc Ritenour The Infirmary ____Registrar Hoffman ____Leitzell and Yougel The Nine Muses ____Doc Martin ___Doc Doraltz Prof. Cloetingh Yengley hiss Brill Prof. Julius Kaulfuss MY, PENN STATE COLLEGIA.N Women's Fraternity. Violates Rushing Rule ( Continued from. Page Ow) has not decided what the Penalty will be but the house will he penalized. We have not decided the penalty becauSe we have never had , a case like this before," • • The incident which the Council held as rushing by Kappa Alpha Theta was a dinner at the Delta Upsilon fraternity house last Wednesday, a si lent period. The dinner was attended by approximately ten members of the women's fraternity and eight fresh man women, rushees of Kappa Alpha Theta. Women Invited by. Jane Parker '36 - According to members of Kappa Alpha Theta,.. it was not a rushing party, in that:meMbers of Delta Up silon had asked that these freshman women be invited and that they (Del ta Upsilon members) had accompa nied these freshthen to and from din ner. llowever, it was shown at the Council meeting that. Jane A. Parker '36,,Kappi Alpha Theta social 'chair man, had called the freshman women and invited them, and that the mem bers of Delta Upsilon fraternity were assigned freshman women to enter tain. The freshman women who attended the noW-much discussed dinner are: Helen V.: Anderson, Helen R. and Jean M. ,BleakleY, -Elizabeth A. Ev ans, Julia C. Schubert; Mary C. Thornton, Ann Very, and Barbara A. Wood. Only the MiSses Thornton and Wood were not-pledged to Kappa Al pha .Theta Sunday afternoon. A. Frances Turner '3O, president of W.S.G.A., and a member of Ramie Alpha Theta, -said at the Council meeting that she had called Miss El len M.. Burkholder, assistant Dean of Women, before completing plans for the dinner, for her approval. Miss Burkholder is said to have said that it was within the letter of the rush ing sole but that she questioned whether it was . ethiCal or not. • S. Elizabeth Shaffer '3li, Eappa Al pha Theta president, then called Miss Diehl after hearing that' Miss Burk holder had said that it was within the law and asked • for her permission. Miss Diehl is said to have asked her what Miss Burkholder had said in the matter. Miss :Shiffer •is then said to have told her that it had met 'with Miss Burkholder's . approval. Miss Diehl then gave: her approval. Other • WITTANY' Evenings at 6:30 and 8:30 Last Complete Show . 9:10 Matinee Saturday . . 1:30 TODAY WEDNESDAY DEATH STRUCK WITH THE CLOCK! TRAPPEDIN A HOUSE OP DEATH, • CHAN IS COR NERED. BY THE WEIRDEST MURDER RING THAT EVER STRUCK 'UNSEEN! THURSDAY ONLY •1 A return engagement of, the Num ber One Picture of the season— Also: a Musical 'Short 'with Phil Spßainy and his Girls' Band Council members charged Sunday that the case was'misreprespnted to bliss Diehl and that she was not told all the facts. Kappa Alpha Theta representatives, with lim•t looks on their faces, claim ed that they had acted on the assump tion that council had. - approved and so they never considered it a rushing party. Only Theta Phi Alpha voted "not guilty," along with 'Kappa Alpha Theta, the other houses being unani mously of the opinion that the fra ternity was guilty. '~' ysi 4 Each p uff. toss-.-:40.4..4...4,-.0.'40--40.- A::::EIGHT''..:SM4,:iIKE: OF 'RICI-1, RIPE-BODIED TOBACCO For ii,i , erity4isie years ihe'reSearch , staff of The American Tobacco Company has worked steadily to produce a measurably finer cigarette—namely, a cigarette having a minimum of volatile com ponents, with an improved richness of taste • —"A LIGHT SMOKE." ••= show•thatotherpop bronds hove ari:>, excess Of CiCidfily OWN' 1. , ` Lucky -:Strike Of , from 53rto 100%, it . `. OF RICH, RIPE-BODIED TOBACCO -IT'S TOASTED" Co-Edits Julia M. Brandt '3B has been named general chairman of. the Mae. hall dance 'to be held at Mac hall Friday, February 21, with Bill: Bottorf play ing from 9 to 12 o'clock. Tickets may be purchased at,thnBtudent.l.ln-: ion desk or from any, woman living at Mac hall.: Admission is one dollar Members of Alpha ,Chi Omega were disappointed to yeeeire, word that We believe.tbatLueliy Strike Cigarettes ethbody a 'number of genuinely basic improvements, and that all these im provements combine to produce a superior cigarette-7a modern cigarette, a'cigarette made of rich, ripe -bodied to baccos—A Lighi Smoke. Luckies are less add Excess of Acidityof Other Popular Brands Over LuckiStrike Cigarettes .; 3 3 , • 4 • g *RESULTS VERIFIED BY INDEPENDENT CHEMICAL LABORATORIES AND RESEARCH GROUPS a 4 h 4-. Tuesday, February 18, 1986 Miss Jeanette Rankin was unable to ,eoniO to , Penn State. Miss Rankin was to visit at the Alpha Chi Omega suite.' Alice - J. Parkinson '36, Phi Mu,•has left school to join her parents in Puer to. Rico.. Miss Parkin.son's father, Prof. li. G. Parkinson, of the. depart ment of agriculture, now on leave of absence," is serving as Dean of the School of Agriculture at the Univer sity of Puerto Rico. Dartmouth made $36,609 on foot ball last season. Coarrlchtl9lB, The American Tolima Comm), ;::
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