Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Sudces»or to The Five Lava', established 1887 Published neml weekly during the College year, except un hohdnye by stucknts of The Pennsylvania State College, in the interest of the College the students, faculty, alumni, and fr.emls THE MANAGING HOARD A WILLIAM ENGEL JR MO, Editor C RUSSFLL ECK 40, Business Mannger Helen L Cnmp 40 Women's Fdltor EMANUEL ROTH 40 BURTON C WILLIS. JR '4O Managing Editor Advertising Manager ROBERT I, WILSON 40 MORTON NIEMAN '4O Sports Ed tor Circulation Manager BERNARD A NEWMAN '4O DORIS GUTMAN '4O Ntws Editor Senior Secretary GEORGE U SCHLESS ‘4O JANET STORY '4O Tcature Editor Assistant Senior Secretary PAUL HALDEMAN, 1R ’4O W BRADLEY OWENS '4O Assistant Managing Fdilor AwUtnnt News Editor HERBERT NIPSON ’4O PH\I LIS R CORDON '4O Assistant Sports Tditor Assistant Women's Ed tor RSSAKSSNTBO FOB NATIONAL ADVIRTISINff »T National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publtilien Representative AaG Madicon Avc New York. N Y CHICAGO LOST On LOS ANSCIIS SAN FNANCIiCO i»*annnnr F-lltor This Issue j'et.s Flitor Tins I“*m Entered as second class matter July 6 19*14 at the poat office ot StoU Colk'tte Pn under the act of March 3, 18»9 Tuesday, September 26, 1939 THE DUST SETTLES WHIPPED AROUND faster than cream ill a separator, moic than 450 men settled down to then lcspective fraternities with the closing of the 1939 1 ushing season tat night It was a welcomed sigh of relief heaved by moi e than one That the 11-day period was “the cleanest i ushing season in i 1 years,” has been dis puted m many soul ees. That the code is anv liet-tei, if as good, lhan last year’s code is also debatable. Title enough, onlv seveial scattered vio lations have been leported to the Judicial Committee and no penalties have been met ed out by that group Last yeai one viola tion was repotted and punishment leceived, but that easily could have Jieen attributed to just plain, honest ovei sight by ah iridi vidual While idle tumor has been spread that the lush season just ending was far from "the cleanest,” the Collegian is of the opin ion that such a statement is exaggerated. Now that the hectic season has ended, it will be easy lor one liaternity to accuse othci I‘ratei mties ot mti actions of the code 'Yet, this is not exactly “playing ball’ with * lnlerfiatermly Council and the Judicial y' Committee The 1939 code, despite its 'obvious short - coming's and Loopholes, was neither too le nient nor 100 rigid to follow. If fraterni ties were considered violators of the code bv other houses, the time to report them was during the actual rushing period. - . But with the passing of the hotly-conte'st f ed season conies the mere beginning of an —oJ.ei pelio,l ot tension Theie is plenty ol time between now and the end of the school year to revise the new code and make it moie workable Numei ous impiowments were made over last year .s code 'Many moie can be made. l.'e 1939 code is built on a solid founda tion, hut such admitted blunders as the opening hour on the Hi st official rush day, the 10 a m Sunday conflict with Freshman Chapel seivces and the “cut-throat” inten sive rushing period, all tend to deeiease its eftec tiveness. < Action NOW wo! gifaiantee better le sults nexl year. MURALS- -A REALITY TIRELESS EFFORTS on the part of a few have finally been rewarded with the signing of the conn act for the painting of mui als in Old Mam 1 'or moie than tvo yeais, Piofessor Har old E Dickson of the depa’ tment of archi tecture, and seveial othei co-workers have struggled in an uphill tussle to seeme cul ture lor Penn State Pei haps it was trait ’void “culture” that ha I so many stymied In any event the pro gress was extiemeiy slow despite frequent campaigns in its behalf by the Collegian. Admittedly the nainting of the mural over the mam stanwnv m Old Main by Amei ica’s outstanding muralist, Henry Varnum Pool, does not represent the satis faction of all that ml elected groups had de sired But, it is a major step toward the original goal ARE YOU REMEMBERING— TO CONTRIBUTE toward the clothing of a Nittany Lion mascot—one of the most commendable displays of the revival of th'at old College spirit? TO REFRAIN fiom walking on,: those ‘‘large expanses ot dark, green, luxuriant grass?” TO EASE the pressure on Stiidettt Tri bunal by keeping your eye focused for cus toms Violators? OLD MANIA Begin The Begin ne The Maniac is in a queci mood tonight He car think of nothing exceot that 1 ushing ser-on will be over by the time thib issue goes to bed A fun ny feeling creeps all over him when he thinks of how restless some of the bovs in the unfortunate houses slept last mghi aftei ihev pledged then total of two My, my Just the thoughts of keep ing that big bad wolf ,iwa> fiom the dcor when cold weather sets nr On the other hand, he pictuies the lucky boys beaming around here the next feu days about how many "smart” boys went then* house and how they’ll be able to get anothei stay on the mortgage this yeai fiom the bank But then we finally decide that eveiv dog gets his day, and that this whole business of lushing runs in cycles One yen it’s gieat, and maybe the next three it’s a stinkeioo Take the Phi Delts, the lucky do uppps! Now they led the field this yeai (as fai as pieference c.uds go), but remembei last yeai 9 So don’t take it too much to heait, bo\s And remembei, theie’s al.wiys un jce-m-the-hole m some wealthy ulunmus when things get too bad It’s all pvei by now, so we’ll spill some of the ( Recent Rushing Runarounds . Robert H Lane ’4l Adorn A Smyaer '4i A iusliee buint both ends of the candle when he piomised the Kupp i Sigs that he’d not onlv pledge then house, but help them walk on his two roommates He told the Sigma Nus the veiy same woids When piefeience cards come out, he had an entneiy dir<ienl house listed fust We heaul of one dope who Phi Delt because one of the f°llows in the house dnves each week-end to the kid’s home town to see his sweetie ' Now the pledge will be able to ride home with him . We wotidti if this Phi is like one of his former fmters who pulled the same swindle until after they put on the button, then charged the sap fui p the tups moie than the chnnot was worth Anothei greenhorn called Kappa Kappa Gamma soionty and asked which they thought; was the'' better house, Beta 01 Sigma Nu The sn club is still lejoicing ovei the goody goddy Kappa-, since they weie lecopnize.) ovei then campus neighbots, 4 1 Phi Kappa Tau’s had a treasuie hunt A freshman was sent up to the Joidan, feitditv plot and all that he found was an egg “What does an egg have to do with a feitihty plot''” was his complaint when he utinned Mmm, if he onlv knew 41 When Co Sweet told Deltuch' piexy, Bill Fishei, how he liked the boyi in ‘lie dx house, Fischei immediately salved th° fio.h about how the boys thought so much of him Blinking suddenly, Sweet very giavely sa'.l, ‘‘How extolmg l ” It’s old but still gootl. When some of the Signv* Chis weie speaking of the ‘‘lean piping” that goes on by othei finteimties during lushing season, on* of the dummies asked whethei thnt was the plumb ing system they used We’re still in the dark as, to whethei Wally Jones' kid brothei went ph gam oi beta And what a staunch fiji Willy’s always been One of the Kappa Sig prospects almost bioko his neck when a D (J veiled ‘‘button” as the glorified highschoolei was speeding mound a cor ner on one ol those scintei ‘bikes Irony Mary Ann Rhodes, ehmn of the judicial com mittee, came into Ath Hal’ five minutes late the othei p m Shell be the first case this yea ' to be biought bsfoie hei own cmnL , A Senate meeting was held the other night in lane Romig’s loom Dean Ray was piesent said mebting wn-» about to begin. Maiy O’Con noi called and delavcd things by telling them she was from Snigei Sew mg Maclvne A few mm uteslatei a shout cam** thirugh the window Horn someone downstairs who sounded like La' Romig\ date It went, something like this “Hey, Ro mig, whemnheJl will you be icady 7 ” The meeting w*as called when a ft ashman, hei kisser filled with gum and a cigai ette dangling fi om her lip*, barged in and bellowed, “Who’s gom’ to da movies 9 ” Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary Fifth Edition - $3.50 - Zipper Note Books Genuine leather - $2.95’ to $4.50 Drawing Sets - $8.75 to , $17.95 Log-Log Decitrig Slide-Rules $12.75 —THE MANIAC All Standard Sizes PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Simplified Drill Adopted For ROTC Classes Here • ROTC classes this year will be introduced to the new “Drill for Foot Troops” which the Wai fl'epaitment has oidered taught m nil military establishments after Septembei 1 The simplified dull re places the old close ordei formation previously followed Tn connection with the drill f * + + + change, a change will be made in rtATp l?Kms*i«tAo the texts to be followed m „ the IV\/ I\J JD/lllllllldlvS basic ROTC classes Freshmen will use an entirely new text, em- UflllS r I*olll bodving the i\ew drill which will be sold foi $lBO Sophomores, T?rnnt since they already have books in- sjalllpllo eluding the old close order drill, New FleWs Are Announced will be asked only to buy supple- /n m , . « . mentarv texts uh.eh ate to sell For Classes This Semester for 30 cents Othei ROTC changes this yeai include the sepaiation of engineei and infantry legiments through the enure four Semesters of the basic course The sepaiations art listed m the time table Sections Made Permanent In an effoit to better company spmt, the organi7ations foimed this semestei will be maintained through the entire basic couise and no cross sectioning oi chang mg from one company to anothei at semesters will be permitted To facilitate this, six ROTC section-; instead of four have been eieated this jeai The change will mean that a student who schedule* a ROTC section this semestei must schedule the same section and same hours during the re mamdei of the time he is in the basic course The dull movement for foot troops js different mainly m that it is a simplification of the old method That the new 'drill is considerably easier to learn was evidenced Jus summer at Fort Meade, advanced ROTC training camp By the second day, the trainees had little difficulty. Fiehhmen new to military drill have only about half as much to learnd and the pait they do learn is easiei ‘ STUDENT ' OAPBOX What do you think should be done about Thanksgiving vaca tlon? J Kimber Grimm, Jr, '42, lowei division “What’s good enough ,for. the President is good enough for me r suggest a one day vaca* tion on the Slid ” Selma Solomon ’43, home 'eco nomics* ‘ Whether to have day or four-day vocation is a "mat ter of Home veisus College ' !a s a freshman I’d lathei go home, but I might change tnv mind in four years ’’ Murray Druck ’4l, Journalism "I think it’s fine Let s have one vacation over the 2Ti d and .an other over the 10th ’’ Robert C Welsch ’4O, horticul ture “I'd prefei a full Thanks giving vacation with no midvear holiday, because I usually wotk in a vacation at mid-yeai anv\\a\ I have a Job over Thanksgiving’’ Lois Hunter '42, lower division “I think It we had the longer va cation at Thanksgiving it would he a lot bettet I have a gill friend who’d like very ranch to go home to New ? Yoik State, and she can’t do it if we have only one day ” , William HursK '4l, twoyeai ag licultme “I’d like to have the whole vacation at Thanksgiving Otherwise I won’t he able to get liome to ‘’ee my parents” Sally Faber '4l, physical educa tion “The easiest thing to ’do would he to leave It just wheie It Is —on the 10th ” James W. Hitchens *42, lowei division “Let’s -have one day! at, Thanksgiving and the rest at mid year After all, we don’t want, to mess up Soph Hop and the Pitt game” ,i Dorothy Steinfeldt ’43, lower di vision * I don't know yet how awfully long it is until Thanksgiv ing it might notjte so bad?to have only one dnj and the iest| at mid-yeai ” —A A*S, I E ; S STDDY^AMPS COLLEGE ' HARDWARE CO.. ; 200 W. College - Dial 2940 ' No moi e can upperclassmen spend their sandwich hours watch ing ROTC classes drill -m front of Old Main They aien't going to (hill theie any moie Effcrtive this semestei new dull and paiade grounds have been °et up foi the military classes __ One section will drill on the field in back of ,the Aimory, two on the grounds west of Min eral Industt les, one in the area west oF the i ibrary, and two in the plot no* th of Phi Gamma Delta The only thiee sophonioie pa uides scheduled will be held-on the golf comse an Oclohei 4 IC, and 23 Fieshman parables will noc begin fw at least a month al though no definite date has been *oo. will be held on the golf cotuse , Sepaiated this year will be the mfantij and engineer legiments pnd tin-, yeai the two ROTC bands will be infantry and engineer in stead of freshman and sophomore Next semestei, aftei grass comes up In seeded portions of the plot we c t of the Library, the En gmcei parades will be held there and the infantry parades on the golf course Director Neusbaum Names Cast For Dad’s Day Play The cast of “Sqtrining the Cir cle” the Penn State Players' hilar ious Dads’ Day pioduclion was an nounced vesteiday by Director Frank S Neusbaum, piofessoi of dramatics Paul Rumbaugh '4l will play the pair of Vasya, a seiions mind ed young Russian who falls in love with and mai rieß Ludmilla, a beau tiful and abiet home-loving girl de picted by iTelene.Davis *4l -Vasya shares' his room with his etliemely frivilous friend, Abram, ployed liy Bud Yanofsky ’4O, who will nevei be foi gotten foi his now immortal portrayal of Kolenkov, in the sciewiest hit of last year, "You Can't Take It WJith You ” ' The veteian' Ruth Shtasel Ml, will cany the role of Tonya, Abinin's wife, too serious a young lml\ to he manied to the wild Abram. (Both paities find that out Intel) ,Rabino\itch, a young man with political asphations is portrayed bv Sol Davidson '4O Herbeit Dor oshow *4O Is cost as Novikov, the dfctiict ntganirei of the Bolshevik Pmtj The suppoiting roles in the cast of 12 are played by Malcolm Wein stein '4l, Billie Mai tin ’4l, Norman Bodies '4‘i Eleanoi Dill '42, and Bnrbaia Davis '43 “Squaring the Circle" is a‘ Rus sian fuice wiitten by Valentine Kataev, on a subject about which’ little is known, the extieme hous ing slioi toge in the "New Russia," a country where two couples are forced to live in one room, with one bed. a. situation which is al most unbelievable " Ray, Dean of Men Arthur R Wai- The Ancient and Royal Order of nock, and Edward K Hlbshman, Handshakers is a student organ- executive seuetary of the Alumni nation on the Niagara University .Association, will seive as ex-offi campus. cio i , Collegian Dance FRIDAY, OCI. 13TH , 9-12 ATRECHALL ADMISSION BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY ' ■ 1 ‘ . ,‘v - , , 1 , ’ , '7 $2.50 per year ' 1 1 ‘ $1.50 per semester ' Subscriptions May Be Bought From Solicitors or at Student Union MUSIC BY THE . » : CAMPUS OWLS EXTRA ADpED; AtißMTipit -- ; SAHNIV' GjAttli,. ail We Women We’ve'got a lot of oichids to tlno'w todaj and nothing to'gripe about, so it’s a pleasure to start FIRST OF ALL, we’d like to lead a few cheers 'for WSGA and its mixed freshman parties to help the new men and women get to know each other—and also for all the other organizations who have sponsored socials and get-togeth ers We certainly don’t ne'ed a Dorothv Dix on this campus with nil the cooperation wetoe had in helping the fies limen make friends ' PAN-HELLENIC deserves plen ty of applause, too, foi its guide booklet, already-piloted and to be distiibuted to the freshmen and tiansfeis veiy soon. Herein aie contained the much needed an sweis to all questions about sorori ties' uishing, and Pan-Hellenic — and we hope such a booklet will be an annual addition to the fresh man souvenirs LAST BUT NOT LEAST, come the results of the Pop-tn Night Admitted!}, some sorority women took theii guns on their shoulders and went a hunting,'hut it was all done in a nice, friendly w'ay The downtown doinis weien’t neglect ed, and eveiyone made a lot 1 of new acquaintances And food—it was wonderful ( The upperclass women will have to work nnrd to keep in step No-Date Glooms Get Bum’s Rush; WSGA Gives *He-She’ Party Novelty Affair Once Was Tradition Here By VERA L KEMP Freshman gills' Don’t let the no dating custom get you down WSGA provides a gland pickup by piesenting you with a “He-She’’ pai ty fiom 7to 9 p m, Saturday Instead of sulking because you can’t date that handsome upper classman, grab joommate and swing out to the music of the vie in the lounge You’ll need plenty of practice for theie’s going to be stiff competition when you enter the dance contests You should go in couples even if the paity is strietlv for women One of you dress as a man" and don’t let tlie lack of men's apparel keep you at home Slacks ni pa jama pants, a blouse and a llhhon for a tie will do Fox trot. wait/, polka, jitterbug, shag, and novelty contests will make up the' entertainment ‘ So, come on all you rug-cutlers ’cause Saturday is your night to shine, with -qo admission fee and plenty of eats for everyone* - Coeds have missed then "He- She" parties which used to he a tiadition ’round here It's up to you fieshmen to help jevive a giund custom v Cabinet Continued From Page 1 tries, and Joseph C Mveis '4O, Physical Education , Cabinet, members to be elected this fall are the representatives of non froternitv Women, the chair man of the Board of Dramatics and Forensics, and the I'M Class Piesldent / Claience H. Evans ’4O, president of the Independent Men's Associa tion, will Jake office as representa tive’* of the non-fraternity men No lepiesentntioh will be granted'ln terfraternity Council due to the lii ' eligibility of tbht organisation’s piesident _ . _ Dean of Women Charlotte E Pan-Hel Lists Rushing Don’ts, (inkle Book Explains Rules Concerning Association Duimg First Semester-. Just when and how sorority wo men may associate with new stu dents during the informal rushing period has hcen explained by Pan- Hellenic and published in their guide booklet to be distributed at the Pan-Hcl’emc Party next week. The provsions of the lushing code, designed to foster a freej easy relationship between fresh men and upperclass women, static that there shall be limited contact with fieshmen and trnnsfeis-dur ing the fiist «emester until Jan uary 3 ”” . Sorority women may, talk to freshmen and tiansfers for 15 minutes before and"ls minutes af ter meals but may not sit with them <u tables in the dormitories They may talk to freshmen m classes,-between classes, and dur ing athletic games and may go to chapel and spoits contests with them They may not visit freshmen and transfer looms, except to see their little sisteis, and they cannot entertam ft'eshmen or transfeis in then own rooms oi their'soronty houses except at designated times of Open Houses and Get-Togethers Senior sponsor giou’ps, however, may meet in sorority houses No soiority woman shall take or be seen with a freshman or trans fer at any ,of the public eating places m or off campus or at the movies although little sisters are excepted in this case The getting of foi freshmen by upper classwomen is also banned because no men may be used in lushing The rew national defense pro gram will result m a 50 percent' increase in ROTG enrollment, Harvard officials predict. ALL KINDS OF DO-NUTS Chocolate, Sugared, Plain, Rais ed, Coconut, Whole Wheat. H. & W. Dd-Nut »5* kip j - Shop 117 S Pugh St. , ' • NIGHT FOOTBALL! ' • -" '‘ i ' ! Williamsburg High, • State College High,/ Friday, Sept. 29th ; ’ - 8 P.M. '• f ,a( Hie '' . 7'—., ‘4' HIGH- SCHOOL STADIUM - " General Admission, 50c' - ‘ Reserved Seats, 75c 1 x ’ f- Tuesday, September 26, 1939 Crowded Glasses - May Forcfe Some ‘jj To Drop Courses 1 : With oven the slaughter room in the Dairy Building housing classes. Scheduling Officer Watkins’yesteW day continued his fi antic search, for'clnssroom space to date the swollen student body - - The- prohahility that some stu dents %vonld be forced todrop'out of overclouded courses until next*, semestei has he'en dlsclose’d by Watkins No courses, however,' me<exptected to he discontinued • Requests for larger rooms are jstiUjpomlng in, while there is; a marked shortage of rooms to house’' advanced appointment 'classes it, was announced Some tin ee lioni _ appointment courses me being held in diffeient roontsi' each lioui The conference room and Die giaduate' loom in Main Engineer ing building have now, been' con verted to classrooms, Watkins stat ed, as well as'ail library.alcoves* ) Elective lecture courses'in psy chology. with over’loo students’in' some sections, must be, divid|(l * -AT PENN STATE (, oloma! ' 123 W NITTANY AVENUE ML ROOMS WITH RUNNING WATER '- 'When In ( } < Doubt About a Room • - v* H 4,\ Select Booms Avails able-Atfer Rushing.?;
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