Page 1, a THE COLLEGIAN PLATFORM... ... Toe A Benet Penn State' 1. Open the new buildings. 2. Pay higher faculty salaries. 3. Relieve the housing situation through in. spectien and new dormitories. 4. Centralize agencies for student hnancial help 5 Change the College name. 6 Postpone Penn State's enrollment in creases to allow time for infernal devel 7. Build a strong, active alumni 8. Erect a Student Union Building and a Field House. 9. Improve student and faculty relations. 10 Inspire a growing College spirit and pride and encourage increased participation in extra ci.rricular activities. THE SOUL OF A COLLEGE WIIERE TS the soul of Penn State? Do students bring it here or is it some thing already here that they slime in on areival 9 Have they bi ought enough 01 is there enough almaly hoe? Is it on the athletic field? With the alumni? In the classroom? In the sheep boa ns' 9 hi the racul y 9 With the townspeople? In the Corner Room ? lii O'd Main? Tn the gond times and the big weekends? In the Library over big weekendi 9 In the power plant? With the President? With some little-known professor? With the School deans? In the Registrar's Office? In the Smear's Office? In the Boaid of Tokees? Tn the Legislature at Hawsburg? In the PSCA? hi the Health Some? In the initials? In the students' minds? In their parents' minds? In their pocketbooks? Everywhere? Nowhere? 'I he Collegian knows only that a dean here said this year Penn State has no soul', it has been so busy growing big it has lost li' soul He was talking about school spirit. The Collegian has changed his meaning, not to discount him, but to inise its own clues :ion, what of Penn State's soul'? If we were to look for it, whilt would it look like? A big round thing plumped down on the campus like a pumpkin in a miniature town? A. sunny day? A cloud hanging over the campus? The twinkle in an eye? Smoke from the power plant? lne Collegian would like to know It Penn State were to have no soul, what would that mean" Would the College break up? Would the students be something apart from the Col lege? Would the College forget the stu dents to the extent that the students would feel they had no share in it? Would the College toi get that it is dedi cated to the purpose of making Pennsyl vania and democi any workable by pi ovid ing intelligent leaders who ai e aware what t: , e work is? Would the professors fail to understand why they are teaching stu dents" Would the students forget of never know why they came to be taught? Would the College seduce itself to an inhuman, mechanical thing that could not consider any non-confoi mist, cope with any new sit uation? Would it discourage hew' ideas, original thought and intelligent' initiative on the part of students? Would the College expand its student body at a rate inproportionate with the growth of its other essential compon ents? Would the College hire faculty men because they bore the cheapest price tags in the market and forget the princi ples of sound economy that consider qual ty as well as quantity? Would the Co:lege force good professors into a rut -imply because it would not pay them enough to keep them in the proper health and frame of mind to do gcod work? Would the College let the slate forget why the College exists? Would it think only of I he. political implications of restrict ug student body and not care that hm irci facilities already handicap its work? Would the Coltege read its strength in ninn bei s instead of individuals? In jobs instead of student minds? What would the College do if it didn't have a. sou)? The Collegian does not have the answers; it can't distribute an answer sheet. Perhaps the mind of some leader will reply. PENN STATE COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn Slate" Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887 Published semi-weekly during the College year, except m holidays by the students of the Pennsylvanlp Stale College. In the Interes isf the Collage , the students, facul ty. alumni and frien Friday, May 10, 1940 THg. MANAGING BOARD ADAM A SMYSER MI Editor LAWRENCE E DRIEVER ML Businesa Manager VERA 1., KEMP MI, Wogien's Editor Managinglssue Editor This Issue News Editor This Issu . woo,aa's Editor e . Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1034, at, the post. office at State College, Pa , under the act of March 3;1879 CAMPUSEER BY HIMSELF THE CAMPUSEER PROGRAM .. i .. 'For A Better Penn State' Foi A Bettei Penn State' iEditm's note—Not to be outdone by the editor of this magnificent rag, Campy herewQh and with no fin thei ado presents his program for the innial, intellectual, spa dual, mental, physical, ideological, and inconsequential betterment of this fan institution in which we are at present :pending out happy, caiefiee, college days With a deep realization of the significance of this epoch-making step, Campy hereby dedicates his platform to an eager-eyed woi Id blushing in an 'icipation • I. Open the hearts of the coeds—to Campy 2. Put elevators in Old Main—Campy's feet hurt. 3. Break the PM Gams monopoly on the Thetas. 4. Break the Alpha Zatas monopoly on Marion Eberts. 5. Burn down the forestry building, the big beautiful engineering units, and assorted sor ority houses (oh. say, we're just kidding, all you Chi O's) 6, Get Campy a date. 7. Improve'Campy's relations with Dolores Paul (that guy Sleinhilber ain't so big). 8. Build a strong, active Campy 9, Inspire a glowing faith in the ideals of college life and a growing reallsabon that the most important function of college existence is not close acquaintanceship with Doggy. 10. Encourage increased participation in extra curricular activities 11. Send a saint of trained native glades to Pbtl adelphia to conduct the staff of the Inquirer on an expedition through the remote fast nesses of State College. Campy bows his head in silent tribute to those brave men who met then fate unflinchingly in the vicinity of the ski trail this week Nobly they fought then way to then proud positions of prominence and nobly they went to their reward Campy was especially grieved to hear of the sad fate of one Coleman "Cookie-pusher" Sweet, who, through no fault 'of his own, received an extra-red rumble seat,. last Tuesday night It seems the ferocious Frima were laying for one lootball player Swede Marcus, who had the temei ity to squash an egg in Fet ky's giant hand when asked to place his pledge ribbon in said "and When Cookie Sweet, aquatic performer, stepped tip to the thing line, the boys mistook Sweet for 'Swede " 'Let's give it io'him," they howled - At. last repot is Cookie was eating his cookies off the Deltactn mantelpiece ' TIPS TO THE TANNED • To Bob Wttson, phisigmakap boxing first—Pa tows taken to class the nett day dont do any good Grin and bear it It Campy flatly and unequivocably refuses to mention in this column that select group of fra ternity women (they only number about five of six hundred) who have been getting entirely too much publicity recently The Thetas are begin ning to complain (well, why don't they give me a date) Th'erefore Campy will hetein refer to this certain upstandmg group of young women with high ideals and bewitching personalities only by the designation, the X's Peggy Embury (x) made it a double-shuttle weekend by annexing the Junior Prom crown On the groove, Glen) and the SAE jewelry of Chuck Beatty Catohne Erb 04) snagged Bud Gehoe (the lov ers' DU shekel Joyce Goodale (x) 1 , , now spoiling the emblem of sigmapaN Rego Shaip (wish these lacrosse men would keep their minds on the game) And led-headed (x) Helen Cramer stuck her neck out the rut thest when she asked one of her Home Ec profs if she would make a good wife Quick was the comeback 'Yes, if you marry a chef" Pat Nagelberg 12 ROSS ia Lehman 12 R. Helen Gordon '42 WHO PANTS A HET? HOW DO THEY DO IT? PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Quiz Program Will Feature Four Experts Students Will Submit Ouestionsio Win $2.50 With Warren B Mack, professor of horticultuie, Joseph J Rubin, assistant pi ofessoi of English com position, Kingsley R Smith, as sistant professor of psychology, and Charles S Wyand, assistant pi ofessoi of economics, as the board of experts, plans for Alpha Lambda Delta's "I nfoi motion Please" pi ogiam in the second flour lounge of Old Main nt 2 p m next Sunday me. neap mg comple tion , Deadline Wednesday Any student aspn ing to win the $2 50 may still submit his question to stump the expel is on the back of a bluebook graded "3" this year. Answer should be included, and the deadline for all enti ies is Wed nesday at Student Union Other events in the 10th anni versary celebiabon of the honor ary will be the initiation of 22 freshmen and 'three honorary members followed by a formal banquet in Atherton Hall al 5 30 P,m next Saturday 'Miss Peml Hoagland and Deim Charlotte It Ray will be the speakers at this dinner for acthes, initiates, alum nae, faculty guests, and menthe's of Phl Eta Sigma Speech Honorary Pledges Five New Members Five students have been Pledged to Delta Sigma Rho, na tional speech honorary Newly pledged are Thomas D Conway '4O, Edwat d G Couch '4O, Leon - - ard S Schneider '4O, David R Benjamin '4l, and Gertrude H. Hecht '4l , Initiation roi the'se students will be at the State College lintel at 6:30 a m Wednesday, May 22 Basis for election into the honor ary are active part and ability in speech activities and debate. Spring Brings Welcome Move-Up Day For Coeds' Saturday is you, day, fieshman women' It's May Day It's spring' It's move-up day' It's the day you will become "of age" heel It's the day you'll loin the ranks of , up perclass women' ' From Saturday on your social privileges will parallel those of the sophomores you envied You'll shed youi freshman shackles and be peimitted to date during the week until 10 p m , entertain men in dormitory lounges, and go down town with dates on week days—to off-campus eating places and to the movies It's the day that seemed eons away in the Fall—the day you will officially become sopho mores Rex Rockwell Will Play Senior Women's Dance Music for the senior women's dance to be held at the Nittany Lion Inp, June 1 from 9 to 12 p m Saturday will be supplied by Rex Rockwell, the committee has announced i Seniors in charge or the dance are M Beryl Hindman, Beatrice M Lowe ,and Betty ~T Strickler We Women A CRY WENT UP at the end of 1938 horn women students for mole dormitory space, and in the Fall of that year Frances Ather ton Hall was opened to about five hundred coeds But running parallel to other progress here the enrollment of women shot up and this Fall con., damns were again deplorable. Four coeds were crammed into rooms for three, and three wo: men's clothes into closet space for two. Several women moaned when herded into Grange play room made silo a ward. Even folding beds in Atherton's upstairs lounges were used Tt was nest to impossible to unite the woman student, body nand extremely difficult rot the dean of women's staff to super vise coed activity Tiansfet stu dents housed in downtown'dormi tomes couldn't be absorbed into the swing of campus life WSGA Judicial Committee re cently noted that women from downtown houses when tried for infractions of WSGA rules quick ly entered the defense that they "hadn't heard about the rule.", This excuse wouldn't have been usable had they been living on campus. Comfortable, guest looms in cluded in a new dmmitoly could coitect the present plan (that of several gills doubling MS and giv ing their beds to visitors) of car ing for out-of-town guests and delegations from other schools The enrollment of w omen presses to increase still furthei The present ratio of men to wom en, about 4 to 1, is not only incon venient but unnatural But how can this be col eeted and how can coed enrollment expand if there is no loom to expand° And so we women renew the cry in 1990. We want to progress but where to? We need a new dormitory! Coed Speech' Professional To Hold Initiation Sunday Bella Alpha Delta, women's speech piofessional, pledged Jose ? Thine H Beljan, Hilma It Eisen, Cecelia Farber, - R Helen Gordon, Mary 1 Greenberg„ Maijorie A' Kronick, Shirley L Leislich,Fileda Moskalik, Lois E Notovitz, Bar ba:a Val den, sophomores, and Edythe B Rickel, junior Formal initiation will be held in Room 20 Glennland Apartments at 4 p m Sunday, May 19, fol loWed by a banquet at the State College Hotel ARTISTS' COURSE (Continued from page 1) is rapidly completing the program In order to obtain the type of at tractions which appealed to sus cribers on last year's course,- it appears that the budget will have to be increased, including the ticket price Another change for next year will be to increase the seating cap acity by the use of approximately 140 stage seats as was done foi Kreislei's recital The present committee in addi tion to Dr Marquardt includes Walter F Dantzschet, Miss Jessie I,Camei on, Henry S Brunner, I Wheeler P Davey, Hummel Fish burn, Neil M Fleming, Burton Johnstone, Adrian 0 Morse, Ed ward Steidle, William 'K Ulerich, li and William L Werner The appointment of studen members has not been made yet. Women's Debate Squad Completes Season Atter Holding 40 Discussions Have you eve! persuaded an audience 9 Have you ever an swered rapid-lire questions with out contradicting ,your previous stntements9 The varsity women's debate squad, made up of 12 coeds, par ticipated in 40 debates, parlia mentary discussions, and swim°. smms this year on basic blame for the European crisis, Unite'd States' foi eign policy, democracies' place in avei ling the war, un-American activities, and ilia third term , Meets, were held with Alle gheny, Boston, Bucknill, Cornell, Gettysburg, John Carroll, Loyola, Mount Meicy, Ohio Wesleyan, Oxford - Cambridge, Pittsburgh, Princeton,' Randolph-Macort , Syr acuse, Swai thmoie, Ursinus, Vil lanova, Washington and Jeffer son, West Virginia, and, Western Reserve Debates were mainly Oregon style 20 - minute constructive speech, 14-minute ci oss-examina lion, and six-minute summary for the affirmative and negative Audiences could question, speak ers in open forums which follow ed. Scanty Relief En Sight- For Fashion Hounds Who Protest Style Pirating , Even if the saleslady did per suade you to pay $6 more than you intended to for that new dress, you can expect to find' a cheaper model in another store tomorrow No relief is in sight for manu (Relit] ers of women who protest against style pirating, according to Dr Kenneth D Hutchinson, as sistant professor of economics, in his investigation summed up in Harvard Business Review "All styles are imitative," he said 'We select styles in order to look like others whom we think are stylish Fashions need not be beautiful In fact, they flequent ly are ugly. As long as they look like what the style leaders have, we accept them "There is no such thing as orig inality, in styles. Every style is an 'adaptation of some previous one It is the copying of styles which makes them into fashions To stop copying would be to stop fashions When a style becomes too popular, the public seeks ,a new one."; - Yale Professor To Speak In Mother's Day Chapel Dr Henry H Tweedy, professor of practical theology, at Yale Uni versity Divinity School, will speak on "The Greatest Profes sion" at the Alother'3 Day chapel service to be held in Recreation Hall in - stead of Schwab auditori um at 10 30 a m Sunday A graduate of Yale, Dr Tweedy attended the University of Berlin and the Union Theological Sem,. mary He 'has been a regular chapel speaker each year since 1923, and Is the author of several noted religious works. Alf end Home Ec Meeting MISS' A Elizabeth Boyd, Miss U Vivian Crow, Miss Laura W. Drummond, Mrs. Elizabeth W Dye, Miss Pearl° Haas, Miss Mil dred E Seigel, and Miss Mabel E. Westgate, all the home eco nomics staff, attended the State home economics meeting in Phil adelphia last - Fu day and Satur day , The Charitides dessert party, bairmaned by Catherine L Hag rty"42, will be held in Atherton Hall at 045 p in Wednesday : , Columbia University is expand log its department of Chinese and Japanese ' i Coisages, Cut. Flowers, Potted Planta for Mother's Day , M _ R E. 0 - THE FLORIST, 222 W Beaver Ave. , Dial 987 - We Wire'Plo , ,,ers• - Amiwhere DeMammas Win Cup The Delta Gammas walked away with the Panhellenic bridge cup by winning first and s e cond places in the tournament Wednes day night. Champions' are Pali icia M Alt water "40, Harriet L Burkholder '4O, Anne M Horton '42, and M Elizabeth. Shelly '42, first; and ''SGR '-" RYISOULO N' GET 11100E -TO SEE YOU THIS WEEK ENO, MOIRE*" irriday, May 10, 1940 Dorothy 1 Kalb '4O, Mary H. Ash by '4l, Eleanor T Dill 'll, and Mary E. Hunsicicer '4l( second A Hat—Don't Mass "OUR TOWN" Tonight and, Tomorrow Night ' "NEVER MIND, DEAR. IT'S ALMOST AS poor,' 70 NEAR YOUR VOICE. I'M SO OCAO YOU effißM
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