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THIE" DAILY COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State"
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SsecesBor to the Penn State Collegian. established 1904. and
the Free Lance. established 1887
Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the
re2adar College year by the students of The Pennsylvania
Stite College. Entered as second-class matter July 6. 1934,
at the post-office at State College. Pa., under the act of
March 3, 1379.
Editor Business Manager
Adam A. Smyser '4l Lawrence S. Driever '4l
Women's Editor—Vera L. Kemp '4l; Managing Editor
—Robert H. Lane '4l ; Sports Editor—Richard C. Peters
'4l News Editor—William E. Fowler '4l; Feature Editor
—Edward J. K. McLorie '4l; Assistant Managing Editor—
Bayard Bloom '4l ; Women's Managing Editor—Arita L.
Hefferan '4l; Women's Promotion Manager—Edythe B.
Rickel '4l.
Advertising Manager—John H. Thomas '4l ; Circulation
Manager—Robert G. Robinson '4l ; Senior Secretary—Ruth
:Goldstein '4l ; Senior Secretary--Leslie H. Lewis '4l.
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Junior Editorial Board—John A. Baer '42, R. Helen
Gordon '42. Ross B. Lehman '42. William J. McKnight '42.
Alice M. Murray '42, Pat Nagelberg '42, Stanley J. FoKemP
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bet . '42. Jeanne C. '42.
JuniOr Business Board—Thomas W. Allison '42, Paul
Y(. Goldberg '42, James E. McCaughney '42, Margaret L. Em.
bury '42. Virginia Ogden '42, Fay E. Rees '42.
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tilanaging Editor This Issue George Sehenkein '4l
{ewe; Editor This Issue William J. McKnight '42
Women's Editor This Issue Vera L.- Kemp '4l
Sophomore Assistants __George Fredman. Herbert Zukauskas
Thursday Morning, October 31, 1940
Cabinet Studies Plan To Increase
The Dean's Staff
A matter of vital interest to students is the dis
cussion launched last Thursday by the Student
Housing Board. Student Housing Board, natur
ally and even necessarily. emph - as;zed what an
assistant or assistants to the Dean of Men could
do to improve housing conditions.
All-College Cabinet Tuesday night heard a pro
position to employ several assistants to the Dean
of Men. This seems like a sound proposal. The
points presented were good. •
It was pointed out that Dean Wainock. who
came to Penn State when its enrollment was close
to 2,000; has been asked to carry the burden alone
with the enrollment-boosted to 7,000' and an en
rollment of 15,000 already an established and at
tainable goal awaiting only the necessary expan 7
sion of the physical plant. •
It was pointed out that the possible expansiOn
of the Dean's functions reach even beyond the
ability of two assistants. .
It was pointed out that students who, after all,
have proposed this - move wotna welcome ; not
shun, the closer counseling an enlarged Dean'S
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office would afford.
It was pointed out that .students recognize the
impermanency of their own organizations which
must change personnel every year and would wel
come the stabilizing backbone that assistant deans
' could provide
It was pointed out that rooming inspection is
pht the only problem.
There is the matter of Interfraternity Dating
Code enforcement.
There is the matter of coordinating the work of
the Interfraternity Council and the Independent
Men's Association.
There is the matter of constantly prodding all
living groups to better scholarship, wider extra
curricular participation, better social life.
There is also the matter of prodding other fac
ulty groups into closer contact with students. into
helping the Dean's office do these same things.
The problem has two sides.
It is not that student leaders want to give up
any of the independence they prize so well. It is
that student leaders are aware of their own.lack of
knowledge, their fleeting stay as leaders, their in
ability to carry on long-time projects.
Most student leaders now seek-constant counsel
from faculty men on whom they rely. They recog
nize that college is not just a plgrce for unadvised
action, it is a place for counseled action, the train
ing ground for independent action.
Most student leaders come to prize more than
anything else the associations they • have with
these faculty men,- the opportunity to know, and
perhaps understand, more able and more 'mature
minds and men. •
Student leaders are aware, too, that in a large
university most students miss these associations.
There in itself is d wide field for several Dean's
assistants
These things .All-College Cabinet pointed out
These were students talking.
Let them be heard,
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Houseparty—glorious
is upon us.
Importation Department
As a special service to the thousands of Pennsyl
vania's 98 per cent of beautiful-girls..who will-flock
into town tomorrow, the Campuseer 'doffs his hat
and offers the following handy index of State Col
lege colloqualis. ms:7 . • . '
COEDS—those girls sitting over there and
, watching you out of the corner of their eyes while
they pretend you don't exist.
ALUMNl—fellows who, will be glad:to take care
of you if anything happens to your date accident
ally on puyPose..
BREAKFAST—something you eat before you go
to bed.
FERKY—something on the football field sort
like a blimp with legs.
DEAN RAY—something which makes coeds
hush their voices . and peer furtively behind sofas.
JUDlClAL—something which glues Coeds eyes
to clocks.
BMOC's—fellows who can handle more than
one houseparty date.
Poetry Corner
Time was the campus couple cooed
Like boidies in a twee
Now she hisses
when they meet .
For the dirty
lowdown cheat
Is importing a date fbr H; P.
Weekly Spies' Report
At last we have found out the name of the chap
who has been putting the charm on that loveliest
cf the lovely, • that idol of our most turbulent
dreams, that vision of—(who hooked my Roget's?)
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--Beautiful Boluptuous Barbara Bowes.
We hereby nominate for the title of Lover of
the Week, carrying with it an honor ary member- .
ship in our very own hat society, Paimi Woo, none
other than Erik Duffy '4l—the man - who made
good (and Barbara).
.And if a little note of envy creeps into our voice.
as Ive say this—if our eye glistens ever so slightlY
-ivho can judge us harshly?. .
We, too. are human. • •
Lest We Forget • •• • -
We feel obliged to record a few details. of that
super-delightful Penn weekend- for posterity: the
pa'rty Larry Higgins threw at the Penn AC—Alice
Jahoto thought it was pretty swell, we understand •
—the crowd of freshman girls at Bunny Bundick's
plar.e (she acquired a new nickname over the
weekend)—Nick Thiel telling what a double-'oross
the Sally Rand deal was.
Caterers . . .
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glamoroUs houseparty—
Letters to the Editor—
Editor's Note: Collegian can
not publish unsigned letters on
controversial matter. On request,
however, it will refrain from pub
lishing the names of writers who
prefer to remain anonymous. Writ
ers "Joe Lanter '43" (not register
ed with the College) and "Antag
onized Reader". may be surprised.
Despite their protests that "thit
won't be published anyhow," their
letters will appear 'if• the editor
receives their names.
Freshman Questions
The Penn State Spirit
To the Editor:
On Sunday afternoon a large
number of students turned out to
welcome the football team on its
return from its victory over Tem
ple. But on Friday morning when
everyone should have turned out
to cheer and encourage the team
when it left at 7:30 . from. the
Corner Room, only 125 freshmen
and three or four sophornores were
present.
What is wrong with the Penn
State' students? Where is the Penn
State spirit that I have heard • so
much about? I must admit that
unless the spirit improves by the
time of the 'Syracuse and Pitt send
offs, I will be greatly disgusted
with rify fellow/ students. -
Roy P. Hothdn '44
'Dont Make Paths,'
Pleads Dean Of Men
To the Editor:
Mr. Hostetter has called my at
tention to a developing practice
that may make an ugly path across
the grass terrace between Atherton
Hall and College Avenue. 'Students
who live east of that point are cut
ting across the terrace in increas
ing numbers. The campus people
try to avoid the making of ugly
paths by locating walks wherever
they . are consistent with good
dampus planning. Obviously this
is not the solution on that terrace.
We are wondering if you can make
an appeal to the students to - avoid
making these paths.
Incidentally, Mr. Hostetter is
giving attention to :the ugly path
across the Armory corner at Pol.:.
lock Road. This problem can prob
ably be taken care of by building,
a walk.
Yours very truly,
A. R. Warnock
Dean of Men
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TODAY:
A Student Union dance will be
held in the Armory at 4 p. m.
An Engineering Student Coun
cil meeting will be held in 101
Main Engineering Building, 7:30
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p.
Tryouts for All-College women's
swimming championship will be
held in White Hall, 7:30 to 9:30
p. m.
The International Relations Club
will meet in, room 124, Liberal Arts
Building at 7 p. m. Dr. A. E.
Pnndt, department of history, will
speak on "Territorial Changes in
Europe since 1933." All students
may attend.
Freshman Independent Party
meeting in 405 Old Main at 7 p. in.
PSCA debate forum in Home
Economics auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
Phi Beta' Kappa meeting in
Room 19, Liberal Arts at 4:10 p.m.
PSCA inquiry trip meeting in
04 Old Main at 4 p. m.
WRA executive board meeting
in White Hall at 7:30 p. m.
Campus Freshman Party meet
ing in Room 318 Old Main at 7:15
p. m.
Swimming club meeting in
White Hall at 7:30 p. m.
TOMORROW:
Senior engineering lecture in
Room 110 Electrical Engineering
building at• 4:10 p. m. Harmon
Martin, personnel department,
National City Bank of New York
will speak on "Your Job Assets
and Liabilities."
Lakonides slack party in White
Hall at 6:45 p. m.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1940
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• NIBBLING
AT THE NEWS
Protest
News item: James M. Moffet,
vice-president of the Standard Oil
Company. of California, protested
to the state department at Wash
ington against Italian bombing 'of
American-owned properties of the
California-Arabian Standard Oil
Company in- Arabia recently.
By this ' time every thinking
reader of this paragraph from
Tuesday morning's news has prob
ably asked himself at least a dozen
times, "Just exactly what does Mr.
Moffet expect the state department
to do?" Definitely that is a prob
lem.
Of course, the -government could
lay a carefully-worded•protest on
Mussolini's doorstep, but current
history seems to indicate that a
protest without immediate pros
pect of tanks, guns, and bombs
backing it up receives about as
much attention • as--an advertiSing
"stuffer"- - tucked iti'lhe folds . of a
-long-overdue bill. '
On the other hand, the United
States could stand behind such a
protest with the help of the 800,-
4100 young men who will be part
(5f its artily by June 15, at least
709,999 of whom have probably
said at one time or other,
never go to war for an 'oil com
pany."
The government could do that,
but, unsafe as it is to make pre
dictions in this 'day, we doubt if
it will. The state department's
action will probably be to tell Mr.
Moffet that it is extremely sorry
that some of his oil tanks were
blown up, but, since Arabia is
quite a 'distance outside the area
of Ankerican defense, he will do
well to write any loss on the red
side of his ledger and in the future
hope for the best.
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