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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
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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
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kEELERI , •
Catlfium The'atre Bldg'.
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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
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Glemilinfißldg. 1• E. Pugh Street
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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
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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
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0 0 4 MAKE JUNIOR -PROM
A MEMORABLE
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EVENING
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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
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• Elmo
• , Gemey
• •fardlty ,
• Evening in Pans ' •
- REA DERICK'S
Allen
St. - Next to the Bank Clock,
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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
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