1-4 id riN;;, PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance. established 1887 Published semi-weekly during the College year. except On holidays, by students of The PennryLeonia Stote , College. In the interest of the College, the students. faculty. /alumni. and (ennuis. NATIONAL, ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC. Chicaao—lloslon—San Franeisee,..Los Angeles—Vortland—Seattle Al ptied for entry U 9 second elaad mutter at the Slate College Post ark, JOHNSON BRENNEMAN 'l7 ALAN L. SMITH '37 Editor Business Manager E. TOWNSEND SWAMI '37 ' KENNETH W. ENGEL '37 Managing Editor Advertising Minager PHILIP S. HEISLER '37' PHILIP A. senwahrz '37 News Editor Pinmotion Manager W. ROBERT GRUBB '37 GEORGE W. 111110 '37 Spurt, Editor Circulation Manager RICHARD LEWIS '37 IRWIN nom '37 Feature Editor Foreign Advertising Manager MARION A. RINGER '37 Women's Editor JEAN C. HOOVER '37 Secretary M. WINIFRED WILLIAMS 37 ' REGINA .r. RYAN '37 Women's Managing Editor Women's News Editor. ASSOCIATE EDITORS Woodrow W. Bierly 'BB Francis H. Szymczak T 8 Jerome Weinstein . 38 Charles Id. Wheeler Jr. '33 ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS Jay ft Dankla '3B Carl W. Diehl '3B Robert E. Elliott Sr. '3B Kathryn M. Jenniugs '3B Robert S. McKelvey '3B John C. Sabena 'BB WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS .Shirley R. Helms 1$ Georgia. 11. rowers '3B Caroline Tyson '3B 1936, Member 1937 Associated Collefsiate Press Distributors of Collegiate Digest Nannrring Editor This Issue. Charles M. Wheeler. jr. '3B News Editor This Issue Francis ll.'Szymcsak '3B Friday, March 5, 1937 YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE THE EVENTUAL order of things is that the new replaces the old. Campus politics are now. go ing through an evolutionary stage. The Inde- pendent movement is subordinating party to princi ples; thus pushing out selfish personal intrigues. The organized hypocrisy of the fraternity cliques over-organized itself. instead of the promotion of, the best interests of the claps, the chief concern of the cliques has been to satisfy the ambitions of office-hun gry, egotistical, and money-seeking members. The basis of the fraternity clique system is too weak; each house tries to out do the other; therein too much jealousy. Popular student government should derive its pow er from the students. The Independents are not fight ing the fraternities, but the unfair practices and crook ed dealings which have characterized the clique system. The best way to achieve democracy in student govern ment is to see to it that the representatives of . the stu dent body are truly representative. The Independents are seeking a governmental set up where the offiedrs will be answerable directly to the electorate. The chief end of the movement is in the,pro motion of the interests of the students. The success of student government hinges upon the fulfillment of mu tual obligations by the government and its student elec torate. The present Independent group has sworn not to "sell out" to the undemocratic clique set-up. But free meals, "treats," minor committee appointments, and hearty back slapping will be the near experiences of the non•fraternity voters. Upon the individual student rests the responsibility of good government. —F. H. S DRINKING RULES OUTMODED “CO-EDS AND WOMEN students in general have lost their moral revulsion toward drinking ... As a rule, the larger the col lege and the higher its academic standing, the fewer its regulations for the consumption of liquor and the less their observance.” In these words does the staid, conservative Liter cry Digest. Corroborate for the college world „es a whole the.. liojtiOni'which the .(ILLEcIAN haSi.tidten. toward drinking on + lthis campus. 'llysiSed , ..tipOn the replies of 646 college-Presidents,' deans anestudent leaders, who represent 581 Amer ican colleges of every type of sectarian and non-sec tarian school in the country, the Digest survey is fur ther evidence that the rule here against drinking is outmoded. "Eyerywhere, teetotal enforcement in colleges ap pears to be' crumbling," says the article, pointing out since repeal the use of both hard and light intoxicants has increased Both these conditions nre true here, as the Cm.- LEMAN has pointed out and as our own poll demonstrat ed. But we believe that it is also true here, a.s in, the nation as a whole that, "Because liquor could be got ten so easily, with none of the thrill of law breaking once Prohibition fell, hardened carousers drink more temperately than did their older brothers in the days of bathtub gin. "Drinking is on the increase everywhere, but there is relatively less drunkenness. Students abhor the drunk, admire the man who can drink like a gentle man." continues the Digest. And for that reason, we add, restrictions and rules are far less important in maintaining . temperance thari are social opinion and It is inevitable that the rule here against co-ed drinking will some time be repealed, just as was the restriction against smoking. (Did you know that four years ago co-eds could be campused for smoking in fraternities?) W. S. G. A. will have to take notice of what goes on in the collegiate world. One more item should bp quoted, though we might used it for a "What's Wrong with This Sentence?" de ?artment: "Women's colleges are most liberal because so many sf their students come from cosmopolitan drinklng. CAMPUSEER Maybe Queen We had quite an interesting time playing news paper reporter last night, it being one of those nights after a quiet week-end - when nothing happened—at least nothing that is fit to print and still interesting. Anyway we decided that the student body should be informed as to who was elected May Queen.instead of being made wait until March 11 as is the custom. Employing a trick which had on several other occasions succeeded in giving us news which wasn't to be printed 'we succeeded in at least.causing quite some commotion. Knowing that the only persons who knew the results of the May Queen election were those girls on the election board, and knowing that they had pledged themselves to secrecy—we were sur- _ prised to learn that they try to keep it a secret, there by giving us the only alternative of making them tell us unintentionally. Selecting one of the election board, we called her up on the phone and said "We have a story here at the 'COLLEGIAN office that - - - - was elected May Queen and we would like you to confirm that story before we print it tonight:" In case you haven't already guessed the answer, it went something like this, "Ohl But you can't print that she was elected yet. That isn't to be an nounced until March 11." Then there followed the very emphatic and flustered statement that she would by no means give away the secret which she had promised dear old W. S. G. A. to keep unto the 11th. It all ended rather sadly with prolific discus sions of newspaper ethics, traditions, secrets, cus toms, and whether a hat looks better with or with , out a feather. o Who was elected May Queen? ... well, the Man iac will have something to say about it next issue ... Comedy of Errors The . next time you make a blind date you had better take along sonic identification. Walt Krape did just that and still it didn't do him any good. , When one of her friends asked her to look up Walt Krape, Charlotte Lowe decided that she would do just that, so she asked him to come around and see her. Walt immediately agreed that it would be a good idea but some of his fret bros decided that they would like to go also. At the set time they ap pear before Charlotte introducing Ted Winkler as Walt Krape. Everything was going along fine until Walt comes in. Winkler immeriately introduces Walt as Jack Hutchinson but Walt isn't to be put aside so easily so he pulls out his driver's license from his wallet as identification. Winkler, posing as Krape,.ac cases Krape of stealing his wallet. As far as Charlotte is concerned Winkler is Icrape, Krape is Hutchinson, and Spring is here even if this is only March 4th. Jack Rex, Sigmanu, has been trying for several weeks to get some fellow sigma nus to go along with him to church to attend Christian Endeavor and af ter several weeks of failure decided to go alone.. .. he went and while there someone hooked his hat . When the Phi Kappa Sigs recently 'celebrated the withdrawal of one of their members from school it ended up with one broken nose . . . a dozen broken windows . .. Married: Bill Brosha, soph E. E. and Thelma Smith . . . Latest addition to the delta chi menagerie is George Simon's baby alligator ... Nom inations for the senior who got through college with the least amount of work and most amount of bluff— 'to be awarded the Brown Derby at the Gridiron Ban- quet March 18—are now open . . . Latest reports show that the Gridiron griddle is going to be rather hot this year . Most of the fun • . At Senior Ball. cc . On the second floor hall Will YOU Miss the BOXJNG INTERCOLLEGIATES THIS Year? Syracuse, March 12-13 There is no need to stay home when you can reserve a seat in advance on a spe cial Greyhound bus for only $8.95 round trip. Two special buses leaving State College. One Friday morning and the other Saturday morning. Returning Sunday morning. • • • For Further Information Apply HOTEL STATE COLLEGE TRAVEL. BUREAU or- STUDENT UNION OFFICE '.ent; COLL'etliAl4 Library Displays `America Today' Contemporary Graphic Exhibit To Remain on Display Until 'arch 21 in Room K An exhibition of contemportiry American graphic art entitled "Amer ica Today," is.on display in the lower and upper lobbies and room h of the College Library. The exhibit will re main at the library until March 21.. The prints were selected from hun dreds submitted to the American Ar tists Congress from all parts of the country. The object in arranging this exhibit was to bring the artist and public closer together through a mu tuality of interest by making the prints relevant to the life of the peo ple. Covers Wide Range Although comprising a wide range of both subject matter and technique; the exhibition as a whole may be characterized as "socially-conscious," according to Willard P. Lewis, Col-: lege librarian. The artists have portrayed their reacAons to humanity about them— street scenes, farm scenes, coal mines, Flood, dust, Supreme Court. Among tfie artists represented are Lucienne Bloch, Niglio] COvarrubies, Wanda Gag, Raphael Soyer, • and Abbe Os trowsky. Letter Box To the Editor May I, as a humble +member of a faculty family, whose health is even less guarded than that'of the great student body, say •a word in regard to your highly 'commendable• cam paign for better• health service? Since my arrival in State Coliege, I have suffered.all the torments and anxieties of wondering what would happen if any member of ray family needed emergency hospitalization. To be bumped over thirteen miles of ser pentine road with acute apbendicitis might be expected in Alaska, but I find it hard to understand that a col lege town which boasts of some five thousand students should have no fa cilities for emergency operations, ei ther for them or for the less import ant faculty. ' If the College health facilities are as slack as you point out in your ex cellent editorials, 'if that imposing in firmary is just another building, if I believe your 'satisfies regarding the number of doctors . and nurses here in comparison with other colleges (which I do), then I am even more concerned about our appendices. If it is hard on the students, think what it means to the faculty. We have to depend entirely on the town doctors, the demands upim whom are already so great that they can scarcely fol low an individual case . to its comple tion. Of your constructive suggestions, the need for young doctors, with their way to make and experience to gain, is a very sound one, but adequate hos; pital facilities must be supplied if the better type of younger men are to be attracted to a town of this size. The graduates of our leading medical schools are repeatedly and rightly told that the need for .young doctors in the small towns far exceeds the de mand for these same men in metro politan areas. Por example, gradu ates of Penn, Pittsburgh, and Johns Hopkins, who are accustomed to the modern laboratory 'and cliotealfacil . i... ties of ; city; are, flott, M`erSti; Oiled practice towns :Which!l:fo At ec' f to .414 these-eenvenienees. If the State College will not sup port a modern hospital for both stu dents and faculty; there is little rea son to hope that the health service will be raised tq the level of a civi lized community. LOUISE C. BLAIR (Hrs. J. H. H. Blair) Corsages . for Senior Ball • We are prepared to take care of your fast minute orders in Roses ; Garden-, ias, and Sweet Peas. $l.OO :and up STANTON "the student florist" Dial 2553 We Women By MARION A. RINGER Now is the time for all the fra ternity women to voice those criti cisms and suggestions for the revision of the rushing code for next year. The more thought they put on it now the more satisfied they will be.next year. To go.beck several years and ana lyze the present. situation you'll find that this concentrated rushing arose when' rushing was shifted; in 1935, from the third to the second semes ter. Prom that time on parties grew more numerous and snore organized. Rushing, as a result, has become an over-emphasized and too important part of fraternity life. Many of us seasoned and experi enced seniors, after seeing both sys tems in practice and their results, ad vocate a return of the third-semester system. •We realize, with regret, that there are too many fraternity women brought up in the new school of thought to allow a return to the old system. We definitely don't like the way the present period breaks down our I • resistance for mi&•yeari exams and gives us a bad start in the new se mester. One solution is to have lush- ing terminate before Christmas. The only drawback to that is that no grades would be available. But most other college's have rushing the' first two weeks and seem to succeed. Well, then, why not try the middle of the second semester when there is a lull after the first eight weeks? We take another stand against more open-house parties. Any more than • four would be •too much of •a drag upon the fraternities. There are still rumors that some like the pref erence list system. That is gratifying to hear and we still heartily advocate it. All of these things could be worked out and installed if the girls consider it seriously now and be sure that their Panhell representatives carry out their ideas. CERNERD'S are now showing GABARDINE SHIRTS by Eagle -‘.;•••>, • . '2l MONDAY, MARCH Bth IS . FASHION PARK- A representative of the Fashion Park. Custom Staff will be , her with a showing of the newest and most highly rated Custom fabric produced. Come in while he is here and It us show you - the way t , greater clothes satisfaction. — • • . • PAUL A. IVIITTEN, All.en's Apparel As seen in "Esquire" „ . • Grouped stripes in sateen . or polychrome . ors reflect one of the . most significant style ' trends reported - during' the . • mirren't London season. The gentleman' seated is wearing Arrow's Duke street. Model -with stripes•• on . . bfdadcloth: '52.50: •His compenCep--,wearSethe;.-NPWIIRP4I?.-L....424, - • ,• • hlitogd—tailoied - to fit '. Sanforized Shrunk - 4'riday;:March-5, 1931 ROW IRTS •• ; . ~;;;;; 1
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