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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Successor to The Free Loner, established 1887
Published semi-weekly during the College year, except
nn holidays, by students of The Pennsylvania State College,
in the Interest of the College the students, faculty, alumni,
and friends
THE. MANAGING BOARD
JOHN A TROANOVITCH 19. Flinn,.
FRANCIS A C VOSTERS, JR IS. Baldness Manager
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News Dinar 1 his Issue
iday, DPcembet IG, 19:18
SOPH FLOP?
SOPH FLOP!
FOUR WEEKS AGO today, a Collegian editor
ial pointed out that a financially successful Soph
Hop, under existing conditions, was highly im
iiiobabl---impiobable for the following reasons•
1 Name bands with adequate di awing power to
pay foi a big dance me seldom available before
the first of the yea'
2 Student finances ale usually all but sapped
by u socially active Fall season r eplete with
lion.epai ty, Penn and Pitt Weekends.
Ac per specification, Soph Hop again nose
dived beautifully into the red Ink—and to the
depth of an estimated $B9O deficit This loss
resulted through no fault of a Committee
which worked hard The dance was a social
success, even though it followed its financially
unfortunate predecessors' by losing almost en
ough money to build an inclined railway to Ag
Hill.
As fai as the Collegian has been able to find out,
Sophomote Hops held in December for the past
three yews have resulted in a gloss floppage of
$1,59, or an aver age deficit of $415 per yea,
which comes out of the common fund—lnterclass
Flnanef
Thus, the Collegian believes that became De
ember Sophs habitually flop and continually lose
money, r.omething must he , done to remedy an
obvious situation that is growing worse with each
yea'
IT IS IN view of these facts that the Collegian
submits the following plan as a possible solution
for lessening the yearly loss—and by still' main
taming a class dance
The Collegian advocates an All• Sophomore
dance, without a big name band, to dihich all
sophomores would be admitted free on presen
tation' of their matriculation cards
Under this plan, sophomot e men would he pet
mined to °semt women of any class as well as out
-ideN Sophomore women would be allowed Co in
vite men of any class as well as outside's In this
way, the Collegian feels, at least one member of
rvety couplr would be a sophomore
As lar as financial arc angements covering the
cost of such a dad& ace concerned, the Collegian
suggest.; that Interclass Finance handle the agair
i ntirely 4 local band could be obtained, the cost,
of an elaborate deco' ation scheme could be cut and
"the! expenditures could be reduced to the leasi,
ommon denominator—all of which would pioba
lily cost slightly more than $2OO
For instance, if this plan had been in use for
the dance just past, a deficit of only $2OO instead
of $OOO would have been carried over to next year
In ()the] words, in succeeding years $7OO less
would have had to be made up from other dances,
or by interclass penny ante
TO ALL OUTWARD appearances then, 11.9411M
mg this plan is adopted, a better balanced social
calendar would result, a lot of sophomoyes would
have a lot of fun at a dance which would be exclu
sively their own, the profit-making of the dances
which follow in the Spi ing would be bouyed con
siderably, and the necessity of scratching one of
the foul big weekends (since at least one of them
flops every year) would be tendered nil
Frankly, the Collegian believes that if it comes
to the place where one dance must be sacrificed
to save the other three, that dance, foi obvious
unisons, should be Soph Hop
Rather than have this happen, the Collegi
an hopes that some plan, even It it is not the
one suggested hereon, will be adopted to save
Soph Hop from absolute extinction.
Let's take the "flop" out of Soph Hop and give
the dance back to the sophomores
MISFIRE
WILSON S GEISLER, an engineei ing student
with plenty of ambition, received only 29 votes
in the Freshman Class elections last Monday
night
.A 5 a lone-wolf candidate on a "Progressive
Lion" ticket, without any organization backing,
this is not at all surprising. Whatever chance
Geisler had of being elected, however, he tossed
away by pi omulgating a platform,, which, when
translated into common sense,- meant absolutely
nothing Freshmen, therefore, proved wise in
not falling for personality and electing Geisler
on that basis alone
What the Collegian hopes, however, IR that this
defeat .does not prompt Geisler to quit politics
here. Perhaps with some additional time in which
to acquaint himself more thoroughly with the
needs of the student body, Geisler will comeback
next year stronger and wiser than ever. The
Collegian hopes so—became men like Geisler are
needed.
CAMPUSEER ,
EY HIMSELF
Dean Of Women Denounces Love
As Being Detrimental To College
Excerpt from the Collegian of 1944
December 13, 1944—Cailotto E Wraye, dean of
women of the Pennsylvania State College and Day
Nurser y School for Young Females, today denoun
ced love on the campus as being "entirely
sistent with the fundamentals of an education?!
institution "
"Love," she said, "is what every 'lady' tiles to
avoid If any gill is caught being in love she will
be subject to a court martial, hei patents will be
notified and the whole subject discussed to detei -
mine whether he, pi esence on this campus is
helpful or harmful to hei self oi otheis "
When asked how she will find out whither or s
not a gal Is in love, Dean Winye stated, "I have
an organwed group of twenty-five stooges who
snoop around every fraternity lounge and dm on
to) y parlor, who inspect each co-ed's lips when
she ietui as at night, who see whether of not her
face becomes flushed wheri asked if she is in love"
Susie Stich '44, pi esident of Women's Stooge
and Gime Association told 11 Collegian reporter
that, "love 14 all bosh, the only love L have is Col
my hooks and my dear professors"
IThe End (I hope)
Of emuse, we all Icahn that the to-eds lie
Young women in name only. As then ages range
horn 17-22 no one can expect thildien of that age
to know anything about how to live, let alone
love Evetything which these glowing cherubs
should know cannot be taught in this nunnery
because none of them will cvei face such situa
tions outside these walls and putting it before
them now is putting "bad ideas" into their heads
Furthm, in an inteiview with the Collegian
it - was said that seamen should not di ink because
this "institution" (well named) is "committed to
the task of educating young people fin places of
leadeashap a the woild— "
Evidently, 2nd floor Old Main expects the na
tion to be an autoci :icy before the co-eds ale
graduated, u nation which "allahs" at the Lead
commands, a nation that does not think for
itself but only know , obedience—oi i the filing
squad Since 2nd goof Old Main has the inside
dope on the coining autociacv, similar to the one
practiced on the students, I think Rep Dies should
get the low-down fm the "Revolution" Or betted
C,-Man lEllonven ought to tike a visit to
this Needing plave of fascism Even Adolph could
take some lesoons, paarnenlu ly the eapnvoge
elhilll
air, Air, AIR!
101 eng, they say is bottom than anything this
side of hell, what makes it muse is that some
profs won't open the windows handed to IrIP the ,
other dqy is this nt of, vei se
"AIR"
We won't asking for gold,
No, that wouldn't be fan,
All that we want is some
d__ Au
We aren't asking fm,women,
With nice golden hair,
All that we want is some
G_ d' __An
You tylant, Leffler, you rule your-lair,
You =Le us sweat and teal oui hair,
We don't mind that, Lefflei,
BUT WE WANT AIR , ,
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Happy New Year and Staff
Along with 130,000,000 others we wish you the
! Season's Greetings !ohms to the pks club kit
its annual s eliildren's Chtistmas patty . Bill
Bradford got his date with Ruth Bentz this week
end via westetunion, when phone set vice wis cut
at 10pm theme are lot of ugly tumors about,
but don't believe, them a "no necking" sign
has been placed in Mac Hall, I found out, maybe
the above "Excel pt' is not too far dated after
all . Manny Roth and Leah Goldberg ale * still
that way after over a yea'
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Ludlow Resolution:
When And Why Will
U. S. Declare War ?
(Continued From Page One)
propaganda; and, perhaps, to end
all wars
if five go to wai again undoubt
edly it will be fin these reasons
and if we do so, the war must be
fought either in Europe 'or Asia
in upon the high sees far from
om mainland Few if any experts
and few ieasonable people believe
that as things ale likely to stand
dining the next decade there is
much danger of an attempted in
vasion of count' ies in this hemis
phei e oi of om ability to meet it
if it should come But oui present
foreign policy and conception of
"adequate defense" is based upon
the presuraption that we must and
will engage in wai if the above
mentioned "1 ights" and "Intel
ests" are trespassed upon
This 'Jolley persistently pur
sued lb the face' of increasing
disillusionnient over the results
of the World War evokes the de
iljnd on the part of many for
additional guarantees They are
asking that they who must do
the fighting, pay the bills, suffer
the inflation, loss of liberty'and
t he concentration camps that
are certain to follow another in
ternational war, be permitted to
vote on the proposition
The Ludlow resolution will pro
bably fail of passage since the Ad
ministration is unalterably op
posed,to it and it must obtain the
approval 'of two-thuds of both
houses of Congress and ultimately
of 36 of the state, Its discussion,
hoWevei, may have the effect of
foicing the Administiation to
dimly and modify its foieigu
iinhcy
If Its consideration forced us
to reconsider our interests, to
discover what we are willing and
able to defend, to abandon the
hope of policing the world, and
to discontinue trying through
war to make the world safe for
anything except dictatorship and
anatehy, then it will have served
a good purpose
Society Holds Dapce
In an attempt to establish a
o custom and to ciente a close'
Irelationship among its members,
Skull and Bones, honniniy:itctiv
i its society, will hold a "ilosed
dance Satin dny night at the Phi
Ktippu Psi house
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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
To the Edam
During the past seven months,
the Collegian has been conducting
a campaign, inging honorary or-,
ganirations to justify then• exis
tence To date, most of the spe
cific references have been to
campus hat societies. It might be
of interest td the Collegian, as
well as to the student body as a
whole, to learn of the activities of
Phi Lambda Upsilon, national
honoi ai y fraternity.
Since September, the local chap
ter has had three business meet
ings, a smoke] ,_an initiation and
an initiation banquet
Dining the nest semestei, the
activities of the oiganmation will
bo tiimilm to those listed above'
In addition, a seises of five scien
tific lectures will be given by a
lectmei of national teknown This
annual Seises, known as the
Pi iestley Lectures, was inaugui
:act! in 1926 Since 1931, PM
Lambda Upsilon of this campus
ha, been financially suppoiting
them -
To sound out a full progi am,
individual scientific lectures by
members of th•' local faculty, or
visiting scientific lecturers, ale
sponsm ed from time to time
These, as well as the Pi testley
Lectures, me open to the public
As an incentive to high schol-
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Letter Box
ui ship in chemistiy, the name of
the highest 'finking sophomore in
chemists) , or chemical engineming
each year is engraved on a schol
arship cup,. which is on display
in the chemistry libraly.
Regarding the Collegian's com
ments as to the method of hand
ling money received fioni initi
ates, it is in point to make known
the affairs of the last meeting of
the local chapter of Phi Lambda
Upsilon, which was held Decem
bei 8 Since the still t of the school
year, there were discussed at
meetings vai ions possibilities 'of
seducing a sut plus, which had
accumulated in out treasury din
ing the past yeah due to' an un
usually Mtge number of initiates
At the last meeting, these mea
sures were voted upon, special
emphasis being placed upon the
inadvisability of moiects which
would not be of a stimulatingival
ue to the society, such as beer
panties, etc. The final results of
the meeting were the passage of
three motions (1) The 'halation
fee.is 'educed bum $2O to $1750,
(2) The sophomore who wins the
scholar ship award given by Phi
Lambda Upsilon is to be given a
imam of the cup on which Ins
name is engraved, -(3) A PM
- Lambda . Upsilon, shelf of scien
tific books'is to be installed in the
CE!E3
chemistry library, money', lot
these, bogks being regulated by
the statui of the chapter tieasm
at the beginning of each school
yea)
The local chapter comp' uses over
70 undeignaduates, over 79 glad-
uates, and mote than 40 faculty
membeis Qualifications foi mem
bei ship are based on scholarship
lating and recommendations-from
professors who know best the can
didate's character and Addy In
itiates ale drawn from the "jun
to' and senior classes and froth
the graduate school Initiations
e held twice each 'year.' -
I hope this letter will be ac
cepted, not'as mei ely a'news item,
but as an answer to the challenge
given in the Collegian to the hon
oi societies to awake ham their
lethaie. Let this be put in evi
dence that Ph; Lambda Upsilon
r. not one of - the Rip Van Winkle
mgaturations, nor has it been
A C MEUNIER, Secietary
C S. \ CARLSON, President
(Ed. Note—ln.view of the charge
made try Friars in their letter:to
Collegian (page 1) your letter
could not have come at a ,more
appropriate time The Collegian
therefore offers this letter as an
answer/ to• Friars' statement'
"Ask them (honorary fraterni•
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Friday, December 16, 1938
ties) to 'Justify their-existence ',.
The fact that they' exist Is just
fication in Itself" 'Apitarently' r
Phi Lambda Upollon-,an honor
ary itself—dots not believe sop
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