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TN E' DIMLY COLLEGIAN
"For A Better. Perm State"
Fl.l.ahlished 1940 Successor t' the Penn State. Collegian,
established 1904, and the Free Lance. established 18.37-
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Pixtp College, Enterel as seond-class matter July 5, 1934,
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Tuesday Morning, January 14, 1941
The Intramural System
The complete overhaul of the intramural system
which the Intramural Board proposed at its meet
ing last week was considerably belated in view of
the criticism which has been directed at the sys
tem.
There is still no new plan, only talk of one and
warm dtscussion now that everyone admits the
present system is unsatisfactory.
The major objetcions to the system are that it is
complicated and hard to follow, that houses never
Plow exactly where they stand and thus the ele
pnent of competition is weakened.
There are probably a thousand and one major
and minor criticisms all told. There is no score
l)oard on which a running score can be prominent
)y displayed. Weightings in the point scoring
;4:ern unfair. Last year the house that won the
paost intramural events. five, did not win the tro
phy because another house won on the strength of
pianagerships and varsity men (which some quar
ters rate an intercollegiate activity and not an in
tramural activity at all). The competition is not
adequately staffed. Scheduling difficulties often
forced teams to forfeit. The list is a long one.
Tomorrow night the Interfraternity Council
will be asked to tell what it thinks of the current
practice of including managers and varsity men
in the point.ecoring. With that to go on the board
can begin to study out ways and means of chang
ing the system so as to satisfy the most students.
Collegian 'holds no brief for any particular way.
It considers only two things important enough to
•e fought for tooth and nail:
1. The scoring should be simplified
2. A running score should be kept and publi
cized so that fraternities will know at all times
where they stand.
There are other things worth considering. With
its present budget it is almost impossible to give
the intramural program the staff it deserves. Al
though there were a total of 4,000 participants last
year there is not even an intramural office. The
complicated scoring system lends to incomplete re
cords. Perhaps some improvement can be achiev
ed by thrusting more of thee' burden on the Intra
inural Board which, until it made its proposal last
week, was a rather inactive group•
"People in Central and South America hate,
North America. They still think of America in
'terms of Yankee, which is still far worse than the
connotation carries here. If the United States is
to get the confidence of the South American coun
tries the people here must make an effort to show_
Ahem the Yankees are human beings without dol
4,xr marks and, above all, are not arrogant.. They
liosent the fact that you . do not speak their lan-.
..*cage because they think you consider Spanish
--ipinnecessary, and many of them attribute .arrog
--fnce-to ignorance. The best tool for winningtheir
friendship is to learn their - Language." The case
in behalf of the Spanish language s given a new
iiwist by Jean Autret; professor of romance lan
pages at Presbyterian College.
_C. Russell Eck
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LION
(sPe\'-'k7; TALES
It seems rather fitting to us to begin our first
column of the new year with the subject in which
we are most interested—money. Did you know
that Lindsey "Calamity" Arison has offered to pay
$lO to anyone who, without a death in his imme
diate family, can top his rinsfortuntes over Christ
mas vacation.
Arison left home the day after Christmas to go
on tour with Rockwell's Band. At Punxsutawney
a suit, a camel's hair vest, and a box of candy
were stolen from his car—a total loss of $4B. In
Philipsburg, he laid a cigarette on his music stand,
put his glasses down on the cigarettes and burned
the glasses. When the band played in Lancaster,
a drunk fell off the band stand and broke his brass
'sax case. In Greensburg. he lost his wallet with
$64 in cash, his matric card, his license, his draft
number, etc. in it. At Harrisburg he had two
blowout's, he lost a glove, and then the tailor shop
where he had taken a suit to be cleaned was closed
and he had to go to his best bias home dressed
in a pair of tux trousers and a green sport coat.
Any contributions or expressions of symapthy for
this forlorn creature will be received at the DU
hoUse. Applications for the $lO may also be made
there
Friday night the Greek girls had their dance at
the Nittany Lion. There wasn't much room for
fancy dancing , but in spite of the jolts everyone
seemed to be enjoying themselves. We were sur
prised to see Jack Good and Patty Chio .Patton
there together and even more amazed to heat that
Harriet Stubbs took Bill Armstrong's Phi Kappa
Sig pin.
Ed Wagner attended , Panhellenic Ball with
Eleanor Benfer and according to the girls, who are
apparently much interested in Eddie's activities, it
is just about the first date he's had in State Col-
S‘turday night, the Sigma Chis held their an
nual Costume Ball (this year it was a Boudoir
Ball). Many of the costumes were in keeping with
the theme. George Harrison came in a flannel
nightshirt. Tommy Allison came in tails without
the trousers and his date, Mary of the Corner,
came in a pajama coat over a street dress. The
most sensational costumesohowever, were the ones .
Jimmy Stagg (we can't seem to keep her out of
the column) and Jane Parsons wore. They ,con
sisted of a few square inches of cotton and several
whisps of straw. Yes, you guessed it—in the dead
of winter they came dressed as hula dancers.
We were talking to Don Kratzer about his social
life "Fifty-one week-ends out of the year," he
said, "I can't get one date, and this week-end I
had two." The girls were Helen Briola and
Betty DeFrain. Nice going, Don
You'll Enjoy
The
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Corner
unusual
CAMPUS CALENDAR
TODAY:
PSCA Freshman Council. Hugh
Beaver Room, 8:15 p. m.
PSCA Cabinet, Room 302 Old
Main, 8 p. m.
Liberal Arts Council, Room 318
Old Main, 4 p.m.
PSCA Freshman Program Com
mittee, Hugh Beaver R00m,.7 p.m.
PSCA Freshman Forty Forum
Cabinet, Hugh Beaver Room, 7
p. m.
Make reservations for Pi Gam
ma Mu initiation banquet Friday
night by calling Miss Dwyre in
Room 102 A Library. •
Election committee, Room 318
Old Main 8:30 p. m.
Book Exchange committee,
Room 420 Old Main 7:30 p. m.
Student Union dance, Armory,
4 p. m. •
Parmi Nous, Room 318 Old
Main, 7 p. m.
Tribunal. Room 305 Old Main,
7 p. m.
Alpha Tau Alpha, Room 418 Old
Main, 7:30 p. m.
Penn State vs. Bucknell court
trial debate. Room 10 Liberal Arts,
8 p. m.
Skating on tennis court rink
every day from 2 to 5 p. m. and
from 7 to 10 p. m. Admission
-15 cents per session.
Phys ed elective cards due in
Room 213 Rec Hall.
TOMORROW:
Freshman Independent Party,
Room 318 Old Main, 7:30 p.
Varsity basketball, Penn State
versus Syracuse, Rec Hall. 8 p. m.
At The Movies
CATHAUM:
"Love Thy Neighbor"
STATE:
"Four Mothers"
NITTANY:
"You'll Find Out"
Short Course To Start
The annual short course in ice
cream making will begin January
20 and continue for two• weeks.
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Start The NEW YEAR
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way.
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SUITS TOPCOATS
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