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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 ,
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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.
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