Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Published semi-weekly during the College year, eNcept on holidays, by students of The Pennsyhama State Colicce, In the Interest of the ecilege, the students, faculty, alt,_ni, and friends TAB MANAGING BOARD JOHN A TROANOVITCH M 9, rditor FRANCIS A C VOSTERS JR . 39, Businoto MLIIIIM HERBERT B CAHAN '39 JEROME SHAFFER '39 Sports Edit, r Advert kin, Manager ROY B NICHOLS JR '39 RICHARD 99 ICOOMAN 39 Managing rdlior Circulation Marion.- SALVATORE S SALA 10 RALPH H GUNDLACH "Pt News Editor Promotion Monona r ALAN G McINTYRE '39 DALLAS R LONG '3O rent(tre Editor foreign Advmtleing Manager THOMAS A BOA!, 19 MARY J SA MPLr, 19 Axeletant Managing Editor Senior Secretary BRITE M TR ABUE J 9 LUCILLE GREENBERG '39 AnoWant SPM. Editor Women s Editor RCITA 11 SHF,EN 'B9 Asiudate Women'n Cdater Managing ralltor Thss Issue News Fdttor This Entered as second class matte! July ( the postofflce at State College Pa andel tli art of March 3 1879 Tuesday. Apil 25. 1939 THE MIRACLE OF NITTANY VALLEY A PERENNIAL HEADACHE since its incep tion here has been the all-embi acing educational hybrid called the School of Liberal At t, Foi years students have veiled long and loud about the alleged incompetency and intolerance of members of the faculty, of the alleged misadmin istration of its educational p maples and policies and purposes, of the low wages that hi eed these, conditions, of the apathy which seems to eet any and all constructive suggestions As a result, the School of Liberal Arts has con stantly floundered In a stormy sea of strife— ittife between students and faculty, strife be t Ween faculty and adminictration, strife between faculty members themselves and strife between ailministration members themselves That the School has held togethei as one unit so long is the innacla of Nittany Valley NOW IT IS undoubtedly hue that Inn wages breed a lackadaisical and incompetent faculty and foster disc!ontent and shire But it is undoubtedly true also that low wages ale not the sole cause of the eyils which today tie sapping the very life blood of the School For certainly Penn State Is not the lowest paid school in the nation And figures prove that many institutions with as great an enrollment and as low a wage scale are not as inefficient In the administration of its problems as Penn State's School of Liberal Arts Is Thus we come to ask ourselves Is the admin mtktion the clue to the school's inefficiency? What the answer r: the Collegian does,not know But surely the ,adnunistiation is at least partially to blame Po, .nstead of unmoving, the -.condition's seem to he giowing NVOlge_s the weeks go.tby. A? AND WHY - IS the administration to blame? Because it has drawn Itself away from its fac ulty, from its students Because it has failed to recognize research as'one of the primary criteria on which to base the ability of its faculty. Be cause it has refused to recognize the validity of faculty opinion, of student opinion Because it has failed, above all, to turn the calendar at least once a year and realize that this is 1939 A D On the College Senate and on the Board of Trustees, where problems ditectly affecting the faculty aie , d , scussed mut acted , upon, the faculty has no representation—a condition which should be remedied to fit the chancing times To be sine, there are department head; on the College Senate But mary of these people do not represent the opinion of then staffs They are for the most part of consetvative lineage, living in some bygone age, claimi”g—perhaps even sincere ly—lthat then age and then "e•pet ience" qualify them to speak author natively on present-day problems facing the College, and all the Mule fro getting--ot else too stubborn Lo admit--that there may be another side to tee question and tlrit that side surely should have a healing Why today in Anna ica a common unskilled laborer in a dingy coal mire holds mote rights than a Penn State faculty member In Net, what Penn State needs, it seems, is not a hospitaliza tion plan so much as the CIO 'AS FAR AS this is concerned, the Collegian is powerless to do anything but present the facts. The situation is entn ely up to the administration. If the administration of the School wants better relations with its faculty mcmbers then it must grant them a gieatei voice in the shaping of its policies For the sake of liberal education at Penn State, the Collegian hopes that the administra than will grant them this right On the other hand, there is one thing which the Collegian can do. And that is to bi mg home to the Liberal Alts administtation the aggregate sentiments of the student,, 1 egpitei ed in that school ' For some time, the Collegian heats, Dean Stod dart has been anxious to lenin what students think of the school. In line with this, the Col legian has been championing the creation of stronger school councils, lepiesentative enough , to speak authoritatively fin the students vathin then school This is now being done TO CARRY tin ough the , wconil part of its priigram, the Collegian will launch on May I, a sweeping Mllvey of student opinion in that school, a , survey armed at evaluating teaching effectiveness of the Libei al Ai ts faculty. The, survey will not be a fishing trip bent upon hooking certain faculty men It will on the con ,trary, be a sincere attempt to gain a clear-cut 'picture of student views, results of which should be helpful not only in aiding the adMinistration ici - slilicre its policies accordingly but also in ;ad -1-4 ihe,fit'euity men to shape their teaching pro 'iiim to the needs and wishei of the stlidents. tie Collegxun rigiees that what_this Col: Wage' needs are the resources to solve its problems. But what It needs first of all is the courage, to OLD MANIA Editorially Speaking► We would like to din% the semot s' attention to a gift which would do mole foi this College than any g,ft given heretofore—mbrals in 'Old Main by Hem y Valium Pool With such a gloat Awn can al List painting missals hoe, the eyes of the suit world would fo cus his Stale - College, Notices would apnea) week ly in the New You k Tunes LIPS would ius pages on it, People N‘ould iod about, these mauls in all col nei sof the world They would atti act many maws who probably nasal head of State lege before Penn St. - at, a name lecognired in, every ram and gvd.m patch, would become mean t ngful to those int:: esied in a lichee cultmnl hfe lathei tlrm a lids Indust' one __Robert L Wdaon '4' Bermwd A Newman 40 It would cost $10,500 to put tilese mut rds the pet feet setting of (lld Main The Class of 1932 .111 endy has coot' ihnted $4,1100 If the sett no class would give $;,000, 'the tenmuung $3,000 will he donated by no Intel estrd outside founda tion Th s would mean tenth on non als could slat t .tabost nnmethattl'• The Cie, of 1941 glve then money towel ds a swimming pool It never got past the giving stage Let's not make the some mistake Let's give om money to a p 2 oject upon which wink will begin immediately—not one which will take an other live senor: class gifts so that we may see the initial tonstinetion wink when we come bath to: out fifthteumon Lot's lead about Penn State on the fine print pages and in the 50-cent maga zines—this yeah The Weekend in Brief: • The Freshman clans dance doesn't do so well The Cncus exceeds expectations 171 attendance Ficcen malteds take State College by stoup Pleasing Bobby Kelly Queens the Cues The, Weekend at Length: IVhile in Haltisbuig ittending a student gov erment conference, Sad Sam Flanagan was in tioduced to a Wilson College coed as the editm of Froth Co-ed pi omptly and frankly claimed the Froth t,o he the stinlcinesr, college Immoo mag azine outside of AI LT Tech's mag can't be that bad! Flanagan'q only claim to fame lies in the fact that when his hat blew MT Satutday, the kind gentleman who retrieved it turned out to be Gov, el not James Doim mouse Bill !geishall wanted a date, so he took the student .Inectoiy, and is sunning though it alphabetically Calling each coed in Loin and slipping hei the same lath To date, he has finished with the and D's—fi uitlessly After holding up t. 1,2 Pitt tennis match one hem Saturday when Cu' Bigot failed to an we, Coach Roethke sent too seconds Late' him They looked everywhere hut ,n Gus' room, where they finally found him in lied—dead to ,the'.world Dedicated To You: , - We don't know how they CVO] got Dick Ken naid's okay, but the Juinoi Prom flunkeys have been using a gi eat pub3•uty ,tunt in the Cm am Room lately—playing Tnmmy Dorsey iecordings Brame Newmati announecs each numbei and then applies it to someone within lading We suggest they play these Dorsey numbets for the following peoples ' I'm So Weary Of It All—Connie Smith An Old Cminsity Snop—Doe Tietz's Anatomy Lab Never Again—Beta Jun Bevan (apron la Pal dska) What Do You Know Annul Love—Maui ne Me -8 - Cann for Wally Dunlap This h It—Janet Twichell and Don Eyes _ You Taught Me To Live Again!—Diek Ewalt to Peggy Jones 1 H Hint Anyone Tlll You—George Hnic to Tat Witt? A New Moon But An Old Serenade—polittetang HCaven Can W tit—Ruthle Reynolds and Eddie ',owlet' The trouble with being the Maniac , Ot whatever you want to call him, lie's the only guy In the whole damn school Who doesn't make the column 13th—Anniversary--13th BOOK SALE April 15th to April 30th ' Hundreds of Volumes on All Subjects -- at Greatly Reduced Prices Art—Fictiim—Biography History—Poetry—Reference , 1 . Special During'Sale Only , Modern Library Books 69t. 3 fo'r $2.00 Select from 21? Titles . ' , kEELERI , • Catlfium The'atre Bldg'. • - _ Open Eveliinit , ' Lamenl PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Bleachers To Be Erected For May Day :Ceremonies; Will Seat 900 Spectators 3 Mcn's Societies And Cams Will Act AS Ushers Blzachets seating 900 ,pectabus will be an umnvation in the May Day,,Cletemony to, be held May 13 fiont catnip.; The newly tap ped Cwens will serve tu, ushers n the tenet ved cents, while Blue Key, Skull and Bones, and Lanes Paw, nienl, nppet cies% Mmu al w nnlw eel cc as 11,11 e) Preceding the colemony, which begins at 4 '3O o'clock, the coeds will gupei Vise the annual Mother s' Day tea to be held in norms Athei toil, Change and Woolen's /Nailing tiont 2 .30 to 2 MI o'- clock The Mae Queen, Cecile C Meth, will h ice in her retinue the new membe' s of Mm tat Bom d, - swum women in the heMlnelc chain, class attendants, holm' inch women, heralds, festers, Mry Pole danc e) s, interpretative dance) s, and Helen A Swanson, maid of helm Plower go Is, la am beat et s, and town children, will compete the pI neession Pali ieni M Altwatei '4O has been subqituted fm Mai gal et DeStlvei '4O as Junin, attendant to the May Queen The attendants Rout each class will he situ ed in ent calm s'-'—sen weal ing queen, illlllol4, yellow, sophomoi - es, blue; and fuevhnuui , iose hid es, A. Swanson, mud of honor, will weal anti:ma:me off the records The banner leered of the week Is Charlie Barnet's IN A MIZZ and NIGHT SONG The fist features a potent vocal by Judy Ellington and the second Chatlies hot alto sax Ills Is a bind Aide Shaw records Tin In Love With the Hon ()table Mi So and So on anethet Blueldid Helen Pot rest sings it and 'limy Pasta! etoalts Plosschal on the reverse Other Bluebh IN include a good Van Alexander tecolding of flow trange and r find It Cumin' to You, and °Me NC1.3011 . 9 Skipper and Ifrd Skien in the Might Decen t given -119 lit be); Crovly,thiq week; Stomp Olt and Let's Co and Song of tho,\Vini dorm Real sinling - jitterwax Ted Weemq revivey The Ohogt of Pic colo Pete on the other side of The Chestnut Tree Bing Crosby hoists ,the flag and sings God, Bless America on one side and J 4 he Strn Spangled Ban ner on ,the other lie lenity sings beautifully, and although the Mu sic is, stirring, It's - a little too flag gy and sentimental He does a meat mob with two classic pope tars, Deep Potpie and Stm Dust Maly Martin sings II Bade and - Om Love as well as sh'e sang My Heart Belongs to Daddy The Victors this week are head ed by Cray, Gordon's smooth re cording of the popular Vetere So De , ,attble Cliff Crass sings the vomit and also does the honors on the reverse, I Can't Get 'nt Out of My kiln() Jack Leonard voca tives Our Love 'for,T Dorsey pad }Myths Wn laid walble9 Only When You'te in My At ms Sam my Kaye's Tears Flom, My Ink woll features Tommy Ryan's lyr fes and a good muted ttombone solo ,Charlie Wilson sings Ai a Little Hot Dog Stand on the coup let Lohman Plays Harp At Annual Concert Featuting Barbara A Koliman '4O, hatpiat, the Louise Hanel Club heln their annual conceit in Atliet Lou Hall at 2 - 30 pan Sun day The pogrom opened with Once selections by the Louise Homer Quaitet, 0. Lola &iglu. '4l, Edith' A &nage 'll, Elizabeth A Ha\ t.SINICK '4O, and Grace 114 Hen cleishot '4l. Olive IL Blown '39 mid Eleanor L Robinson played a hio-piano.duet Thice 'piano spins pi:o'6llliy Bai barn' M''Tia \ el Ville!. Miss' two, hasp solos, the ensemble sang and Riith Shollenbergei played a violin solo , The pingram closed with Alviin T.. Kornplca ' '4l sinking "Ave Maim," accompanied by Grace Hendei that, violinist, mid Bat hal a Kolithan, haipist ,Visit they Remodeled, Glee nland,Grille 1 • '... ' Glemilinfißldg. 1• E. Pugh Street • , Mortar Board Picks 4:Senior Woiiien For Mini Day Honor Arai - NI Carolyn Denteriy, .111nlY Imbeth lotoelc. Maly Alm Rt its .and Alatv lane Sample, are the lour ~ enlm 11,onien ellosen ,by Mortar !Maul to take part In the Ilkmor Al eh on ,Mal Day, May 11 Sixteen Mertes Board mem bers t onstllntlng the reel of the arch hulinle Eleanor 11 Acker, Ruhr) N Ilet Mlle!, Doris Diato mic Maijolle P bavicy, Italia A DeAngelis, Vivian S A Doty, fluerall P tlm helm, Lm ille I 3 Oreenhet g Margaret P 11eir -111.111, Phyllis Iles cog, Ellrabetli li Long Melissa Mlnnleb, June C I , llee L lean Stillwell, Jeanne ill Walker, Paula 11 Wohlfold We Women Panlie.tls plopmecl-ievision of the iushing code fits in well en ough with results of then recent quest:minim e. There is one weak spot, lowevei, which we feel has been ad led to the schedule Pre st semester open houses , hould- he satisfactoiy, but it .eenri foolish to include them ex- Pll4o' in with the entree rushing budget If each' house were al lowed a mit= sum fm these open 1 , 011.e5, much of the financial bon- Me usimlhr attendant to the con centi sled period, would he avoid cd Rushing exkluliture should be kept at a minimum That we eon cede Neveitheless, when too much Must he included in a cop.:at, the temptation to cheat home and these '.s sometimes too uigent to be, ig rimed We feel that the Couni;il se , ., this iealisticly and al low additional rands Al open houses The Pudiell lea,foi all interest ed WOlll6l will be acne effective dining Freshman , week Absence, 1 pins and scom ityi talk will make. (he alias what it should be meant Lobe, a help to new students period, over the ... fii s st, Ikeckerni 4- during:forriinl ru s hi ng ',Finnld, bere ehlXlrlg . moment Tot' ull conceined Restlicted association over first semestee 'with limitations undo stood at the' year's beginning .hould elmunale confusing gen t lemon's ' agi cements Women who ciiticize Panhell's collC turd year should remind themselves that the rule's evolved from their Wtitten preferences. Thecouniuttee did a good job with material offered Now, the people waist obey then choice.' Ernst, Booth, • Desk - Oink AWArds Carl W Mast '4O, Robert Booth '4O, and Ward W Hayes. Jr, '4O, 41tulents In the department or architecture, received first men tion places, highest award in - a New Yoik Judging or a Beaux. - Arts design problem Student al chitecni from leading achoola in the countly enbntitted ilesigns in this competition, only Mtn receiving first mention places` The pioblem, corked on for six weokv was a design fru a bas eta• lion iEtnst's award carried with ft'a aril° of $25 for being the second bast design submitted Booth's ranked. third Siveet Places First In Speaking Contest Charley C; Sweet '39 was:award ed first mire of $5O for his speech on "Pt ejudice" in the annual All College Extempoinneoia Speaking contest held over the week-end' * Second prize of $25 was divided between Pied" S Cazison. Tr,'3 o ;Ind Eddie Conch, Ti , '4l Cell. Kai ., (.0111C fez ,the dollgesStudebt," - Coneles, "Pothir tinlities of Sloe Eugene,H. Lederer -s-REAL ESTATE, 114 E. Beaver Ave. Dlsil'4o66 State College t , WHAT DO YOU KNOW? WHAT • DO YOU SAY? By EIEFWE NEWMAN Would you go to war In case the United States were implicat• ed in any way?_ Ralph- Sapp 'II, inolegni "If I could get mu of it, definitely no': ~,IYla'ynard Bloom, '4l, incittatlial engineer "Not If it v.ele on for eign gni] ' George Konstantinids civil ongineei ' Yrs if the United Sties heutine involved In a oat. I guess v,e'nould aul him- to go" H Jack,Allen 'lO, rommetee and finance ; 1 notildn t. cute In light • iinlau% the 17 S Isme (matted, or If 10ngland or Fiance, out allies, wino In Minuer of liemg conquered by 4otne other Entopean power The conquering nation 11.otild be come all the sponger and In ,i po ultlim to Invade this touchy'' Homer Struble '42, tigionomy "Only In ()Menge or this country I do not believe In pt electing eom c 1.11 Intel gists abroad" Sheldon - Frey 'l2, theinhilly "Yen If the liven of 11016111 States citizens uele dhoetly of mull Indhetlly endangered" Boyd Bell 'l2, agionnm.V "If It were a war In ought about man) In the past, I would Probably ho forced In go; but un willingly In the ~tso of a defens ive war, I would be willing to fight " , - Don Cressweil 'lll, Inlveltislng "I would think twice befol'e enlist ing, 'Mir the Il p ited slates 'wet being invaded" Letter Bax To the Ethtot fit iesponse to the ~eclitcnial, "Let ;Ent Eat Cake" (Aim] 18), I would like to state the views held by myself nil many of my nstinctntgs - We feel that the At lists' Course is doing a noble job of presenting its selections to the student body Their, moments have been good And since the pm pose of this in ginvat on is, "educational us well as entertiimmg . " and,the membeis of thd c,Milififttee.hOpeJOAstill the ,heartAl'of: then audienteitii taste fo, ,the, "culturhl and why`tm it up,with mime o It would seem that a popular 'eichestia would be much mole greatly ~pnreciated on the dance floor - of Recreation Hall, foe to listen to one m ,the` confines of Schwab Auditorium .would be gleatel toituee foe having to sit still The Migehiled raise in price of the telcet for such a featthe en them_ - progi aril would not' be soith the pain of maintaining one's composure When you Conk)der that the Players and Thespians instill humor and drama with their pin auction., and our dance weekends being u, sell-known orchestras, isn't the lightei end of enteitain ment petty well taken came of') I'll gi,.ntt that operas sung tn Pi ench, Spantsh, of Usher: ate only plelsing to the eye Zo the average student, but study Ttuch Schoop was human enough for us all to understand and appreclate —and the opera can not huff us So , my suggesh6n is to keep Ai tiqs' Course as It it, and,bring the tiawe in where it tits MARGARET GILLETTE 3 Bills Passed By Delegates Student Legislators Active In College Government , Confab Saturday 'Mlle.,. Inapt bill. introduced by the Vern State deleg.'ation, affect rig labor, agateultute and finance, wet e pat,sed by the annual Intet collegiate Conference no Covet n meat, meting as a model um minim! legNiatute at Ilatmburg over the Weekend , The mll= were spongoi . ed,)Mhtly by John A Tronnovitch dole gallon cnonmon, be) L B Co han '29, focniber of Lbe labor elm- Inatee, .Inlin At Byrily '4l, :mt.]. Lultnie, ma" Cbatles Leellecket 19, Im 1114.0 Othci membeis of. ihe deleim tmn we. e, Chai , W Flanagan '39,, loud government,_ .1 Russejl Smyth MO, education, Leon Clastet Kahle Mang '.19, who sei vied as I mond'!" dnectin and ,channuin of the Cominttee oil P,„ulthe I.nd Ledo , ., Shollenbeiiej "19, e memos, of the state kbyet nMent Ind 2 tiles commiteces-,and cant a Y t ,firms ' - 0 0 4 MAKE JUNIOR -PROM A MEMORABLE •<• 4i* EVENING - - A shiriniolin'g gloWil and sweepipg coif fur'e are not enough Only the inetic§' and pei.iumes will givC,til'at: filial ,` fetich of file :fissured tif Llic cati4deitiiin of yc;tirfii'voille .al;ati • Lerithirie , di Lucien Lelonk . , • Early American 'o Doi • Othy Gray , • 'RevhM - • Cara Nome • ,Max Patter , , •, • Elmo • , Gemey • •fardlty , • Evening in Pans ' • - REA DERICK'S Allen St. - Next to the Bank Clock, - r. '-' ' • Tuesday, Ap•il 25, 1939 To Interview For Air Corps Li B T 'Talbot, IT c. N, com manding rl. MVO Hon the egniptiq nt :1 p In tomortim to Interview 4enlorn who m e Inter ovtod In, enrolling pi Nnval rrylng (\ldris at thr Navql Aviation' nothing School at Pongacola. Fla SPnlnts ,isilerrsio(l Almitl.l :paw. 'holt irtmog .ind .ldrp‘irg with Col A it Enutly at tho Armory • -" ' foi• _FRATERNITIES ' AND CLUBS L'ETTE'RBiIADS '-ENVELOPES STATEMENTS Publiohing Coinpatly 170 West College Avenue ==!!=!4
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