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VOL. 37—No
“I’m willing to fight in the next war,” Odette A. NeUman ’4l
declared, after she had passed her CAA flying course at Bucknell
Summer School. One of the few women in the nation to get her
“wings,” the'- College coed from Wilkes-Barre asserted that “since
women are gi fen eqi^rnghtsV'why'shouldn’t’they have"'the samfe'
privilege in war?” Janet Twitchell ’43 and Edith B. Sudam, Sum
mer School students, are two coeds who completed their CAA train
ing here. _ ;
Financial Caution Forced By Draft
Delays Adoption of Placement Bureau
'Trimming Our Sails/
Dr. Hetzel Reports
While the College ponders the
effect of the draft, all expansions
of program—notably the proposed
student placement bureau are
being delayed, President Ralph D..
Hetzel reported yesterday.
If the draft depletes Penn State
■enrollment it may place the Col
lege in cramped financial straits,
Dr. Hetzel said. Rather than ex
pand its program and then have
to cut back, the College is “trim
ming its sails all along the line,” he
reported.
The student placement bureau
■was authorized by the Board of
Trustees and was expected to be
set up over the summer. War in
dustries, Dr. Hetzel said, have al
ready done away with some of the
need for the bureau because in
creased industrial activity has
made job finding no longer a
problem.
Other points at which the Col
lege is marking time, Dr. Hetzel
said, are in research increases and
in proposed increases in the ex
tension division.
As long as Congress continues
its debate of the draft measure,
the College can make no very
definite estimate of i£s effect on
Penn State enrollment.
Figures released two weeks ago
by the American Council on Edu
cation, showed that a draft of
100,000 men, according to the na
tional ratio, would not take more
than 14 Penn State students.
t Dr., Hetzel; reported, that j last
£ear £,747 mein-out, of .the 4,770 en-i
rolled the; College .fell jiwithin<
.the - draft age limits of-211 to 31.
Of,»these -832 were seniors, 473-
1658 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1940
She Offers To Fight
were juniors, 308 were sopho
mores, and 134 were freshmen.
The American Council on Edu
cation report showed that the
draft would take only 1 mail in
120 within the age limit for every
100,000 called. The College ratio,
it was shown, might be increased
because few College men have
dependents, few are engaged in
essential industry, and few are,
subject to other exemptions. On
the other hand, the report said,
the ratio would be lowered if sen
iors or all students were exempt
ed, as has been proposed.
BUY COLLEGIAN NOW
Cabinet—Alumni Council
To Hold Joint Gathering
Announcement of a joint All-
College Cabinet-Alumni Council
gathering to be held on Friday,
September 20, at Harry’s Valley
Camp near Pine Grove Mills was
made yesterday by Arnold C.
Laich ’4l, All-College president.
Purpose of the gathering, ac
cording to Laich, is to help Cabi
net members and Alumni Council
members become better acquaint
ed.
The first Cabinet meeting of the
year, Laich announced, will be
held in the Alumni Room, Old
Main, at 9 p. m. on Tuesday, Octo
ber 1.
He stated that the main item of
business at the meeting will con
cern stop signs erected in the Lo
cust Lane section of town last
year at the request of the student
body. Calling the streets in that
section “speedways,” Laich said
ithat the attempt to regulate traf-i
fic has been unsuccessful and in
timated, that Cabinjet may ask for
removal' of the signs. ‘ " .
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Plans Progress
For Inspection
Of Town Rooms
With the Student Housing Pro
gram for inspection and classifica
tion of rooming houses submitted
to President Ralph D. Hetzel last
spring, definite plans will be made
soon, according to Wilmer E. Ken
worthy, executive secretary.
The Senate Committee on Stu
dent Welfare, headed by Dr. War
ren B. Mack, met with President
Hetzel this summer and discussed
possible methods for an approved
list of rooming houses, although no
specified time was set for inspec
tion to get underway.
Organized in January, 1939, the
Student Housing Board sought to
improve housing conditions and
cement relationships between stu-'
dent and landlady.
By routine inspection and clas
sification of houses, the Board be
lieved a better housing situation
would be established. This pro
posal was backed by the State Col
lege Student Housing Placement
Bureau.
Some of the achievements of the
Board during its short history are:
1. Encouragement of adoption of
rooming contracts.
2. Urging of non-fraternity stu
dents to seek rooms which are co
incident with the sanitary stand
ard proposed by the Board.
3. Asking potential fraternity
pledges not to procure rooms
which are rented on a semester
basis.
4. Proposal of a system whereby
all rooming houses will be inspect
ed by College authorities who will
publish an approved list distribut
ed free to all students.
The Penn State Christian Asso
ciation has released a list, avail
able at its offices in Old Main, of
rooms without any attempt to clas
sify them, in regard to any stand
ard of minimum requirements. '
This list includes rooms to be
leased for the school year or oth
ers for possible fraternity pledges.
BUY COLLEGIAN NOW
Collegian Begins Daily
Publication Monday
Collegian’s daily publication
schedule will begin next Mon
day morning when it issues a
special paper for the first day
of registration.
Papers next week will ap
pear five mornings, Monday
through Friday, and from then
on .will appear Tuesday through
Saturday. The publication
schedule calls for 150 issues
during the 1940-41 year.
Enrollment Again
Boosted By Frosh
Marking another year of unin
terrupted progress since 1934, this
year’s enrollment will again break
all Penn State records for the
seventh time in seven years.
Penn State’s new freshman
class, the largest in the school’s
history, is expected to exceed the
total enrollment of every institu
tion of higher learning in the
state except Lehigh, Carnegie
Tech, Pitt, University of Pennsyl
vania, and Temple, Registrar Wil
liam S. Hoffman announced today.
Larger than the combined fresh
man classes of any two schools in
the' state except Pitt and Penn,
the class of ’44, 1575 strong, is the
largest freshman class in the state
by at least 400.
Academically high, 794 of the
freshmen graduated from high
schools in the first fifth of their
classes and 1250 of them were in
the upper two-fifths.
For the first time, 30 freshman
engineering , have been
admitted to Mont Alta, previously
reserved for ‘forestry students.;
The past six years have seen
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Spotlight Hits
'44 Coeds Tonight
Tonight’s the night for 12 lucky
freshman girls who last night
were singled out of the opening
mass meeting throng as likely
candidates for queen of the fresh
man class.
Their names still a secret, the
coeds, each sponsored by a
brawny senior BMOC, will be in
troduced at the activities mass
meeting in Schwab Auditorium at
8 p. m. by Arnie Laich, All-Col
lege president and master of cere
monies.
Selection of the queen will high
light The Daily Collegian sub
scription drive which gets under
way this morning. The freshman
queen will vie with two other co
eds, a sorority queen and a dorm
queen, for the title of 1940 Col
legian Queen and the privilege of
reigning at the Collegian Dance
on Friday, October 11, which
opens the winter social season.
The queens will be chosen in a
battle of ballots waged by Colleg
ian subscribers, each of whom will
be allowed to cast one vote for
either of the three queens.
In summary, this is the way the
plan will work:
1. Each Collegian subscrib
er gets a ticket to. the dance on
October 11.
2. The subscriber takes this
ticket to Student Union and
casts one vote for his favorite
candidate for queen. (His ticket
will be punched as a precaution
against stuffing the ballot box.)
3. Votes will be tabulated
and three queens will be chosen:
The highest freshman girl, the
highest sorority girl, and the
highest dorm girl.
4. Just before the Collegian
dance, a committee of sharp
eyed faculty men will pick one
of these three as Collegian
queen.
5. All three of the queens
will receive loving cups to be
presented at the dance.
Beginning with next Monday’s
Collegian, daily reports of the
progress of the balloting will ap
pear, in the paper. Reports will
also be posted at the Comer Room
and at Student Union.
BUY COLLEGIAN NOW
Swanson Literary Talk
Cancelled By Library
The freshman literary meeting]
at which Neil Swanson, author of
"The Judas Tree,” was scheduled
to speak is cancelled due to the
illness of Mr. Swanson, Willard
P. Lewis, librarian, announced
yesterday.
The meeting was to have been
held next Monday. Movies and a;
talk by Prat Robert E. Galbraith'?
of the English composition.depart
ment were other scheduled fea
tures of the program. 1 ■ ‘ " A •
47 Fraternities
Start Pledging
At 8 a.m. today
EDITOR’S NOTE: A list of
fraternity pledges will be car
ried daily in the Collegian be
ginning next Monday and con
tinuing through Thursday. The
Monday list will include all the
pledges registered up to 9 p. m.
Sunday and subsequent lists
will include the pledges for
each additional day until rush
ing season ends.
Official pledging of freshmen
will begin at 8 a. m. today as the
47 fraternities start their seven
day campaign to pledge a record
number of freshmen. No data
were available as to the progress
made by the fraternities since the
official opening of the rushing
season at 7 p. m. Tuesday but
from all indications it appeared
likely that the largest number of
incoming students since 1936 will
join fraternities before the close
of the official rushing season at
noon next Wednesday.
While he urged all freshmen,
who desire to join fraternities to
do so within the next seven days,
H. Edward Wagner ’4l, Interfra
ternity Council President, stated
that they may accept bids
throughout the entire College year.
In encouraging freshmen to join
as soon as possible, Wagner point
ed out the advantages of belong
ing to a fraternity from the very
outset of a boy’s college career.
Early membership facilitated
study habits and enabled fresh
men to make friends as soon as
possible, Wagner said.
Freshmen who know that they
are going to become fraternity
members were urged for the sec
ond time by the Interfrateriiity
Council not to sign rooming con
tracts but to get rooms advertised
for rushing season only.
The IFC rushing committee, of
which Thomas Ainsworth '4l is
chairman, will be at the Student
Union desk in the Old Main Build
ing to advise freshmen and answer
any questions concerning rushing
and pledging.
The new rushing code does not
have as many restrictions as here
tofore and permits immediate
pledging instead of waiting until
a certain period of time has
elapsed. It also enables the fresh
men to be guests in fraternity
houses before pledging.
BUY COLLEGIAN NOW
New Equipment
Half Installed
Although equipping of the new
buildings is only about half com
plete, according to Samuel K. Hos
tetter, assistant to the president in
charge of business and finance, all
buildings will be ready for use
when classes start next Wednes
day.
However, “conditions will not
be crowded,” Ray V. Watkins,
scheduling officer, stated yester
day. He said that laboratory class
es will suffer mostly from the lag
in equipping.
Plans call for $612,000 worth of
equipment to be installed al
together. Materials yet to come
are mainly of the movable type—
desks, chairs, microscopes, and
similar equipment.
Offices in the Liberal Arts
Building have been occupied by
the dean’s staff, and the English
composition, English literature, so
ciology, and other departments.
Books, magazines, and other
contents of the Carnegie Library
have been moved to the Central
Library Building.. The old tables
and chairs are being used but will
be replaced under the equipment
program.
The 11 new buildings bring to a
total of 13 the structures complet
ed wjthin past two. years.
Those. notfinanced by the GSA
are Mary Beaver White Hall and
Frances Atherton Hall.