Penn State collegian. (State College, Pa.) 1911-1940, May 14, 1940, Image 2

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THE COLLEGIAN PLATFORM
'For A Bette' Pena State'
I. Open tne new buildings.
2. Pay higher faculty salaries.
2. Relieve the housing situation through in
spection and new dormitories.
4. Centralize agencies for student financial
help.
5 Change the College name.
G. Postpone Penn State's enrollment In
creases to allow hme for internal 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 curricular activities.
PAN-HEL AWAKENS
PANHELLENIC COUNCIL, awakened
ti am post-rushing tithe; nation, recently
toll, a step tonards a workable rushing
code
A foul-week period of nattn al contact
co ith freshmen -when College opens in the
Fall pi (anises to ielieve and benefit both
sra only women and the Class of 1944
Women best equipped to advise freshmen
will no't he cut of f and no longer will upper
class-freshman contacts be limited to Big
Sisters and Senior Sponsor groups
In pi 0% 'ding natural contact the council
look the load of get-togethers off sorority
shoulders The embarassment of looking
on while rushees eat was sti icken from this
years code, and a "Dutch it eat" basis of
entertaining substituted
Natural contact, if not abused, is a fea
ther in Panhel's rushing cap, but if abused
a hai e and hound race will undoubtedly de
velop , ,
The code, to work, must be observed by
each house and not perused fol loopholes.
—V L K.
TO PLAYERS, CONGRATULATIONS
T HORTON WILDER marked out a diffi
cult JO for would-be actors when he decid
ed his play, "Our Town," should he done
without benefit of scenery in orlei that he
cou'd show a whole town on a 90-foot stage
Fm tackling the task and succeeding,
Players won the praise of parents as well as
students who packed Schwab Auditorium
last week-end.
For acting special mention goes to Prof
David Mason who held the play together
with verbal seem y and Don Taylor fm his
intei pretation of moon-struck "George
Gibbs "
For staging, the honors go to the techm
cai men in charge of lighting With lights
they did what scenery could not have done
—rebuilt "Our Town" 'on full scale within
the I ;ruled dimen'nons of Schwab Auditm-
To the Players, celebrating then 20th
annwersa i y this yeas, congratulations
DEAR COLLEGE
Tnank you very much foi the splendid
time this weekend We Om oughiy muoyed
ourselves and we al e glad you had , aich nice
weather for the May Day exec cises
However, we didn't secs moi e than the
start of Lhe exercises in flint of Old Main
because we were in the third Low back and
soon our toes and ankles got tired and our
neck became stiff.
It was a shame, too, because we noticed
the grass was just as green and the sun
just as bright on New Beaver Field which
has seats for 16,000
Better luck next yeas
MUCH THANKS
TO TWO ALUMNI, George Down '37 and
Joseph Balls '36, the , College owes the same
debt of thanks that they owe the College.
'1 he two graduates of the department of
architecture by winning the 1939 Paris and
Rome prizes in architecture have perform
ed a feat not accomplished in the United
States for 13 years. The last time gradu
ates of the same institution were awarded
both - of architectural education's most cov
eted honors was in 1926 when Yale Univer
sity was honored
PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
"For A Bellnr Pnnn State
Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887
Published semi-weekly during the College year, except
in holidays by the students of the Pennsylvania State
College, In the interest of the College, the students, facul
ty, alumni and friends
Tuesday, May 19, 1940
THE MANAGING BOARD
ADAM A SMYSER '4l Editor
LAWRENCE S DRIEVER 41. Business Manager
VERA L KEMP '4l. Women's Editor
Managing Editor This Issue Stanley .7 PolCempner 42
News Editor This Issue William .1 McKnight 42
Women s Issue Editor Alice M Murray '42
Entered as second-class matter July 5 1934 at the post
office at State College. Pa . under the act of March 3. 1979
OLD MANIA
Mother's Day is a wonderful institution In fact,
we believe ve Editor should inecapoiate a bigger
and bettet Mother's Day in his "For a Better
Penn State" platfoiin
Crowded eating places, crowded stoles—that's
A , lothm's Day week-end Flat feet, flat pocket
books—that's Mothei's Day, too But somehow,
in spite of eveiything it's pretty grand to have
Mnthei time to give nei a little attention for a
change We certainly hope that they all had d
~ well time
Yes, Mothei's Day is a fine thing, BUT WE
DON'T LIKE IT'
A Clean Sweep
The 4,000 mothers that were here left less ,du t
than a brand new vacuum cleaner The Maniac
25 fin cad -, wide a ',tactically tintless column
As fat as we can ascot tam the only gal busy
drumming up business rot us was Eson Wilson
(those Thetas again) Petite Even relieved glam
our boy Chuck Huyck of his Sigma Nu hardware
Can it be that love has finally hit the blase and
sophisticated Mr Huyck or wa, it that motherly
touch',
Prize conversation tidbit of the week—Frash
Collegian candidate Jane Blackburn was ordered
to telephone a cei lain lady fru a news stoiy When
she , asked 'ls this Miss So-and-Soy" she was
greeted, 'Oh, didn't you heat' ) Miss So-and-so
had a baby at 12.05 this morning"
The Good Old Days
Confucius Was.' ight when he said that woman
an is as old as she looks and a man isn't old 'til
he stops looking A eel tam gentleman; who has
been around this neck of the woods foi many a
moon and is now a pillar of the community,
should hide his head in shame when he reads this
When asked it he was going to see the May Day
pageant he malted, 'Now, I quit taking in those
lungs when they tipped the gals off to wear
three slips"
Love and Stuff Dept.
An accolade to Peggy Seeds foi unhesitatingly
obeying the call of young love Peggy was stand
ing in the lobby of Old Main Saturday, demurely
I siding a bouquet of roses and waiting to take
her part in the pi °cession, when she suddenly
spied hei one and only D.stegarding the milling
eiowd of mothers and daughters, she :Itched head,
long ,into his waiting aims, roses and all, Then,
to the delight of the spectatois she him ally show
ered affection on hei blushing love:
Our Platform
Believing that it is easier to advance one idea
and keep pushing it than to advance many and
iet them shift toi themselves, we hereby an
nounce out one plank platform fot a better Penn
State
Our plank and platform Gloria Knepper for
May Queen in 1943 In fact, Gloria Knepper for
May Queen in '4l, '42, and '43 In case you don't
know who Gloria is she was that angel undisguis
ed with the smoky-black hair and the whipped
aerial complexion who attended May Queen Jane
Romig Satui day
Alumni Activities Dept.
Harry Henderson '36, ex-editer of Collegian,
breaks unto the news again through the columns
of "Friday"; new weekly maganne. Hairbreath,
according to his article, is a Democrat and proud
of it Read him and weep
Faux Pas Dept.
Pat (the speaker on the stalls) Nagelberg and
Wild Bill McKnight were the recipients of a rep
: imandmg lettei from the campus patrol leader
Captain Dennis, this week Seems Pat and Bill
dropped into the ladies room on third floor Old
Main at an early hour one morning last week on
their way home from a night of toil in the Col
legian office
Coming out they'weie accosted by a campus cop
,vho wanted to know whyinhell Cop asked Pat
Pat told cop Cop got nasty Pat got nasty (from
(he stairs) Cap Dennis wrote letter naming Pat
as the speaker on the stairs and even included
nasty void spoken. Oh, Captain
Moral If you gotta go you gotta go but watch
where you're going
,
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IT'S THE DOBBS!
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FASHION, AUTHORITIES HAVE
DECREED THAT THE DOBBS
STRAW HAT WILL BE "TOPS"
THIS SEASON'
SEE OUR WIDE SELECTIONS
IN LIGHT WEIGHT WEAVES,
WITH COLORFUL BANDS.
$2.95 to $3.96 ..
Yep Ant OF •
P.R. 1 1 ........ cw T•eboaft
PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Trustees Pass Up Request For Dorm
WSGA and Mortar Board
Condemn Town Rooming
Hetzel Cites Lack Of Funds As Reason
For Action; Enrollment Increase Continues
Action on the Requests of Mel tat Boaid and WSGA Senate for a
new women's doinntoty was passed up by the Board of Trustees dur
ing their visit het e last weekend because no funds are at present
available, Pi esident Ralph D Hetzel reported yesterday
Mortal 'Boat d and WSGA Senate had mitten letters to the Boaid
last week asking for the new dormitory on the grounds that down
town (intim:tot ICS me divugani7ing to women activities
The women's groups pointed
out that the seven downtown dor
mitories make It difficult to keep
the women's program comdmated
Women's sororities cannot offer
a solution to the problem because
they house comparatively few co
eds and sevei al of the houses have
been condemned with the College
unwilling to. encourage further'
building, the Trustees were told
' It was pointed out in the ,let
leis that WSGA Judicial cont-
mittee found women living in
downtown doinutoi les entering
the excuse that they hadn't heard
about the rule when hied Joi in
ftactions of the WSGA code '
The present women's emoll
ment lags behind men's mote than
3 to 1, with no considerable im
provement possible until 'more
dormitories are provided, the let
tem said
Women's ernollinent has stead
ily increased since the opening of
Frances Atherton Hall in Septem
ber, 1938, and conditions now are
becoming nearly as crowded as
before that time
Us Gals
Rehashing the weekend might
have as much effect as petitioning
for an international disaimament
conference, but recording some of
the criticisms might help next
year's committees improve on an
es , ,ive but short May Dny
prom am
The dancing (what these was of
it) was good note to costume
committee—next year put the
dancers in COSTUMES (they de
serve it) for a change the poles
were wound without looking like
rag rugs in a ravelling bout,
More bleachers ,would have enab
led more'people to see the bevy
of beautiful bouquets, attractive
attendants, and the clowning of a
regal queen (who said Penn State
coeds are sad 9) more slips
would have erased the Petty-like
visions through flimsy gowns
Had the number of senior women
who signed up been in the hemlock
chain a good deal of color would
have added to the procession
Biggest weekend disappointment
—that so few freshmen turned out
foi the Cwen breakfast in Mac
Hall Saturday morning For the
first time in May Day history the
commons wasn't crowded If the
apathy shown is indicative of the
class in general all we can say Is
—give the strawberries and bacon
rolls back to their patches and
pigs
To Mortar Boards and Cwens—
what could be more ironical than
birds chirping cheerfully at 5.30
am
From the music played through
out the procession we judge that
as a music honorary Phi Mu Alpha
would make a better honky-tonk
band •
,
Senior Women's Dance -,
Surplus Goes To Charity
Funds alloted but not used for
the annual senior women's dance
will go to either the Red Cross,
Chinese relief, or Friends' com
mittee Final choice will be based
on a vote by senior coeds attend—
ing the dance at the Nittany Lion
Inn from 9 to 12 p m June 1
Res. Rockwell's orchestra ~will
play and chaperones are Dean
Charlotte E Ray, Miss Elizabeth
C Bell, Miss Matilda A Bentley,
Miss Laura W Drummond, Miss
Marie Maidt, MiS Grace L Hall,
Dr Harriet M Harry, Miss Ruth
B Mabee, Mrs Neva M Morris,
Miss Jeanette Oswald, Mr and
Mrs H R Pope, Mrs Ann' B
Searle, Miss Mary J Stevenson,
and Miss Ruth H Zang
Dr. Mack To Lecture•;
Dr. Pauline 'Beery Mack will
give the inaugural Marie Curie
lecture on "Evaluating Nutritional
Status In Human Beings" at an
operi, meeting of lota Sigma;nl.l,
women's national chemical frater
nity, in Room 121 Liberal Arts
Hui/ding at 8)p in Friday „,. :,
Lasser Speaks TomorroW
J. K. Lasser, certified public ae
countant, will address CommerCe
and Finanee students on "Oppor
tunities in the Field of Publia,and
Private Accounting" in Room.lo
Liberal Arts Building at 4 pf
tomorrow.
Mortar Board, Cwens
Tap 30 Coeds Saturday
Mortal Board, serum women's
honorary, tapped 12 juniors at
5 30 a m Saturday and 18 fresh
man women were pledged to
Cwens, sophomore women's hon
orary, at a breakfast for fresh
man coeds and their mothers in
Mac Hall at 7 15 a m Saturday
One honorary member was tap
ped by each society
New Mortar Boaids me M
Elizabeth Baker, L Eleanor
Benter, Betty M Brown, Edith
A Buriage, Eleanor L Fagans,
Ruth Goldstein, Marjorie A.
Barwick, Janet N Holteinger,
Vera L Kemp, Vera M 'Neal,
Hai net Singer, Elinor L Wea
ve', and honorary member Ma
tilda A Bentley
Freshmen wearing grey and
red Cwen jackets are M Jane
Blackbuin, Margaret R Comly,
Pauline Crossman, Louise M
Fuoss, Nancy E Gosser, Jean E
Hershberger, Ruth L
Marie L Kulp, Margaret M
Lams, Panicle Mac Kinney, Ruth
J . Moore, Elizabeth E Munroe,
Joanne M Palmer, I Jacqueline
Shafer,,, Mildred B Schmidt,
Margaret K Sherman, Marjorie
L Sykes, Lila A
,Whoolery, and
honorary member Mary ,T Ste
venson
Quiz Program Questions
Must Be In Tomorrow ;
$2.50 Given If Missed
No ti'Lxtops, coupons, or thea
ter stubs needed! Just ask a ques
tion and include the answer on
the back of a "3" bluebook, turn
it into Student Union by tomor
row, and if it's muffed, Alpha
Lambda Delta, .freshman women's
honorary, will give you $2 50
About $l5 will be given for
mistakes made by the experts—
Wan en B Mack, professor of hor
ticulture, Joseph J Rubin, assist
ant professor of English composi
tion, Kingsley R Smith, assistant
professor of psychology, and
Charles S Wyand, assistant pro
fessor of economics, in the "In
formation Please" program set
for the second floor lounge of Old
Main at 3 p in Sunday
The quiz program is part of the
honorary's tenth anniversary cel
ebiation which includes the ini
tiation of 22 freshmen and three
honorary members and a formal
dinner in Atherton Hall at 5 30
p m next Saturday when Miss
Pearl Hoagland and Dean Char
lotte E Ray will speak
Home•Ec Clull To Tea
Seniors And Faculty
The Home Economics Club will
tea seniors and faculty member,
in the College rose gardens next
Sunday
Committees include• Dorothy F
Beam, chairman, Jane M Berke
bile and Helen J Chiappy, pub
lictiy, Eileen M Heagney and
Barbara W Miller, decorations,
Hazel J Cressman, Betty M Dou
ple, Judy Lougee, and Frances
Rice, refreshments, Helen Gott
sheik, ' Natalie A Siebert, and
Betty D Yost, invitations, and
Eleanor P Heckman, Laverne D
Hewitt, Jean L Lininger, and Jane
M Roush," clean-up,
Club officers who will be hos
tesses are Doris A Anders, H
Kathleen Frazer, Charlotte A
Lowe, and Peggy E Middleton
ANNUAL MAY BOOK SALE
Hundreds of Titles from 29c
MODERN LIBRARY GIANTS 79c
EVERYMAN'S , 2 for $1.50
OXFORD 2 for $125,
RANDOM HOUSE PLAYS 29c
• , CHILDREN'S ,BOOKS—BIOGRAPHY—HISTORY ' -
WATER COLOR CONTEST!
All students eligible whether or not enrolled in la courses.
Judges• Henry Varnum Poor, Harold Dickson,' Eleanor Ru
bin i
Deadline and judging next MondSy evening, May 20th.;
' , THE:COLLEGE BOOK STORE
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- 129 W. BEAVER AVE. 1
New Pan-Hei
FIRST SEMESTER
A Fiee Association
l There shall be flee associ
ation with freshmen and trans
fers during the first four weeks
of school, including Freshmen
Week Dui ing this time fresh
man and bansfer women will be
allowed to visit fraternity houses
and suites, but fraternity women
will be ,allowed to spend no
money on their entertainment
while in the house Any expen
diture of money on associations
outside of the house will be on
a "dutch treat" basis -
2 Freshmen and transfers will
not be entertained in frateinitv
houses after this four-week pet
.iod except at the designated
times of open houses
3 Absolutely no money will be
spent on freshmen and transfers
dui mg the first semester with
the exception of open houses
No cats may be used
13 Panhellenic Party
I A tea will be given - by the
Panhellenic Association the Sat-,
in day after the first pop-in night
2 All fraternity,women, trans
fers, and fieshmen are invited
3 Erste' nity women me asked
not to wear their, pins to this
affair
' 4 The purpose of this party
is to assist in h eshman and
tt ansfer, orientation
5 There will be no segregation
of girls into separate fraternity
groups
C Open Houses
1 Each fraternity will have an
open house two weeks after the
Panhellenic tea -
2 Every other week there
after until Christmas vacation,
each fraternity will have an open
house
3 Freshman and transfers will
be notified of the dates of these
open houses through Collegian,
Co-Edition, and by special no
tices _
4 Each freshmaivand transit:l
is allowed to remain 30 minutes
only in each house It is the duty
of fraternity members to see
that they stay no longer
5 Expenditures for the open
houses shall not exceed $lO
G An itemized account of all
expenditures on a regulation
sheet shall be handed to the
Panhellenic' Rushing "Chairman
the day, following each' open
house
D Restrictions
I There shall be a limited as- ,
sociation from Christmas vaca
tion until examination week
which means a There will be
no open houses, b No visiting in
Zooms of freshmen or transfers,
c No visiting on part of freshmen
and transfers in the rooms of
fraternity women /
SECOND SEMESTER
A Free Contact 1
1 There shall be free contact
from Wednesday at noon, the
first day of second semester, un
til the week after the following
Thursday at 9 p m
B Informal Parties
1 Each house is allowed no
more than five parties
Co-Edits
Pi Lambda Theta elected Betty
Brown, president, Edith Burrage,
vice-president, Janet Holtzmger,
secretary, Janet Gillespie,-treasur
er, Helm Hazard, keeper of rec
ords, and Thelma Kluger, member
at large ,„ -
Omicron Nu initiated Doris At
nold, Annabel Boyd, Frances Hohn,
Janet Holtzinger, Darline Neu
hauser, and Betty Willits, at the
Nittany Lion Sunday -Miss Laura
Drummond and Miss Mable Jones
were guest speiikers and Miriam
Dorff, toastmistress
The annual breakfast for home
ec freshman with ,a 2 average or
better will be held in the home ec
cafeteria at 8 a m next Sunday
Rex Rockwell will play for the
Zetas' dinner dance at the Nittany
Lion, 7 pin Saturday Thetas
will be entertained at' a garden
party by Janet Twichell after 'a
faculty tea, Sunday . Kappas
picknicked the SAE's yesterday
The typical college student has
a vocabulary of 60,000 words
Rushing Code
2 The rushing chanman of
each house must sign up for the
day and hours of each party with
the Panhellenic chaliman This
will occur at a meeting during
January
3. If any houie has a patty
other than on, the day for which
it signed, it will be penalized
4 Absolutely all invitations
must be written Invitations will
be issued through the Panhellenic
post office
5 The expendituies foi the
dice contact pet and must not ex
ceed $2O
6 An itemwed account of all
expendituies Tor each day on a
regulation form shall be handed
to/ the Panhellenic Rushing
Chan man
C Panhellenic Post Office
1 All invitations must be dis
tributed through the Panhellenic
post office
2 The post office will be lo
cated at Student Union '
3 Frateinity women will bi ing
all invitations to the post office.'
4 Members of Panhellenic As
sociation will deliver the in
vitations to freshmen and trans
fers in the dormitories Town
girls will be notified by phone
and asked to call for their invi
tations at the post office.
D Silent Periods
1 There will be a silent period
on Saturday at 5 p m. until 12
noon Monday during , the week
of informal parties
2 There will be absolutely no
further communication during
this time between fraternity wo
men and rushees •
3 There will be a silent period
from 9 p m Thursday until 5
p m Saturday, preceding the
foritial parties
E Formal Parties
I Each house will have two
formal'dinner pasties preceding
formal bidding
( 2 Invitations to these patties
will be distributed after 9 p m
Thursday
3. Replies to these invitations
must be in the Panhellenic post
office between 1 and 5 p rn
Fri
day
4 The rushing chairman of
each house will go, to the Pan
hellenic post office at 5 p m
`day to receive the replies to her
house '
5 The first parties will extend
frotn 5 30 to 7 prn , the second
parties from 7 30 to 9 p m •
6 A rushee may attend 'two
parties, having designated such
on her replies She may stay at
each house no' longer, than one
and a half hours
7 The expenditures for, these
parties shall not exceed $3O
This shall include expenses of
actives, rushees and all particip
ants
8 An itemised account for ex
penditures will bie submitted to
the Panhellenic Rushing
_Chair
man '
9 The list of bids from each
house must be handed in to the
Office of the Dean of Women not
later than 11 p m Saturday
night -
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SPRING SALE I[ !
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Tuesday, May 14, 1940
Pan-Hel Code"
Revised , For ' i
'4O-41 Rushing
Piovldmg free association dur
ing first semester and retainin - gi
the second semester stipulations
of last year's .code, Panhellenic,.
Council last week adopted the
1040-41 rushing code
Unrestricted associations b eo
tween sorority women and fresh 7
men and transfers in sorority
houses and suites, in dormitory
ooms, and downtown will be sanc
tioned dui ing the first four weeks
of the fast semester, but no money•
may be spent and no cars used for
the entire semester
A Panhellenic tea foi Greek WlT
men, transfers, and freshmen, set
for the Saturday afternoon aftei
the first pop-in night, will replace,
the originally scheduled coffee,
hour
Front Christmas vacation until
final week these will be only limit-7
ed association—no open houses, tip
visiting in looms by either soror
ity women oi ft eshmen and tram=
fers
Beginning Wednesday noon cif
the second semester and extendihg
to the following Thursday at;9'
pm , there will be free contact,'
with the exception of a weekend
silent period from 5 p m SaturciaY
,.
to 12 noon Monday
Mowery, Cro'hit Win
In Annual Dairy Show
Grand champion in both fitting'
and showmanship at the annual
Dairy Show on Saturday was Asa'
G Mowery, tw_o yam ag, and th'el
coed milking contest was wonthy j
Thelma - M Crofut '43
First' places in fitting dairy,cat
tle went to Alman X Birth '42,
Ayreshires, Mowery, Holstein-
Friesian; Howard J Merrill '42,r
Guernsey, George B Moser Jr„
two yeah ag, Brown Swiss, and
Robeit A Powers Jr '42, JeJrse9
In showmanshiy, Earle G John:2
stun '42 won in the Jersey clas§,'
and Mowery in the Holstein ;
Friesian - A Tune Decker ''42
placed first in the co-ed fitting of
Holstein-Friesian calves, , „ . -.,..
Fordham UnrversityL
SCHOOL OF *LAW
New York
Case System - y F
Three-Year Day Course` ".4
Foul-Year Evening Courseql
Co-Educational , •
Member of Assn of ,
American Law Schools: ,
College Degree or Two Years of
College ,Alloik with Good Grades
Required for Entrance. '
Transcript of Record Must Be:
Furnished
Morning, Early Afternoon anal
Evening Classes
For further information addrei;:
Registrar of Foidham Lawr7i
School ;22?e,
233 BrOadway, New York;?.