PAGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN ".For A Better Penn Slate" )Crilri!>'iahed 1940. to t'n«? Penn State Collegian, establusheti 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887 Publish©*! daily except Sunday and Monday during the je.fular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania KLit? College. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934 »if. the post-office at State College. Pa., under the act of March 8. 1879. Editor a.. Bus. and Adv. Mgr. Adam Smysar '4l Lawrence Driever '4l and Business Office 313 Old Main Bldg. Phone 711 Women's Editor-Vera L. Kemp Ml •--Robert H. Lane Ml; Sports Editor—-Richard C. Peters ML; News Editor—William E. Fowler Ml; Feature Editor— JDdward J. K. McLorie Ml: Assistant Managing Editor—Bay *ird Bl*>om MI; Women’s Managing Editor--Arita L. iHefferan MJ ; Women’s Feature Editor —Edythe B. Itickel Ml. Junior Editorial Board —John A. Baer M 2. R. Helen Cordon '42. Ross B. Lehman M 2. William J. McKnight M 2. Alice M. Murray M 2. Pat Nagelberg M 2, Stanley J. PoKemp nor M 2. Jeanne C. Stile M 2. Junior Business Board —Thomas W. Allison *42. Paul M. Coldb-o’g ’42. James E. McCaughey M 2. Margaret Ij. Embury M 2, Virginia Ogden M 2, Fay E. Rees M 2. Credit Manager—John H. Thomas Ml; Circulation Man *;n»r -Robert 0. Robinson Ml ; Senior Secretary—Ruth. Gold i.b'ir ML; Senior Secretary—Leslie H. Lewis Ml. Won u*ing Editor This Issue John A. Baer M 2 Assistant Managing Editor This Issue -Richard S. Stebbins M 3 Kew.i Editor This Issue -..-Donald \V. Davis. Jr. M 3 V/omon’s Editor This Issue ..R. Helen Gordon M 2 A:.si-unit Women’s Editor This Issue Ruth Gerber M 3 |3£P.3£3£iNriZO FOR NATIONAL A OVI2Rri SIN'S National Advertising Service, fait. College Publishers RepresentMh'e LVIaOisOn Ave. NEW YOR'v IS. V Chic*«o • Boston • Los Ahogi.es • Sah Pouf":.j M«tab«r Pfoodoied Gollebiciio Press. Gjlleaide Diaesii Graduate Counselor Tuesday Morning, March 4, 194 L Cam The Fraternity System Compete With Ihe ta-Frateraity! For a variety of reasons the fraternity system is declining at Penn State and elsewhere. Added up, these reasons mean that the fraternity system is becoming less and less able to compete with the >ion-fraternity system. From a totaL of 57, the number of fraternities at Penh State in 15 years has declined to 46. The most obvious inability of the fraternity sys tem to compete with the non-fraternity system is in living costs. The average annual fraternity house bill approximates $460. A non-fraternity man can live (not as well it is true) on $360. At some colleges this difference would not be important, but it is important at a state-supported institution which is designed especially to provide an education for students from the Lower and mid dle financial, brackets who otherwise might not get to college. To a great many Penn State students the $lOO difference between fraternity and non-fraternity living costs is the difference between not coming and coming to college. As long as it remains true that most men would join fraternities if they could afford them, the fra ternity system is far from lost. Particularly is it far from lost if it can learn to compete financially. Collegian consulted a fraternity treasurer the other day who sees no reason why fraternities can not go into financial competition with non-fra ternity groups, although he admist they arent’ at that stage now. He represents a fraternity which, this year through good management on his part, will show » profit of $2,500. If that profit were divided among the 40 members who paid house bills in stead of being turned to improvements, the annual house bill would be cut to $4OO. That still isnt ’meeting the $360 price, but this treasurer sees plenty of faults in his administra tion. In other words, he thinks it is possible to xnatch the $360 figui-e, or at least- come close. Reasonably, he asks, why shouldn’t the same principle of lowered "costs per person apply to a fraternity as applies to other groups which econo mize by mass buying? I nother words, can’t fra ternities profit from mass production? The rea sonable answer is yes. The next question is why have they failed so far. The answer is poor management, lack of knowledge, buying by students who have never studied buying, managing by boys who have never managed before. Should anyone expect (tig. ulti mate in economy there? tnterfraternity Council is in a position to study this problem and to do something about it. Should it achieve a solution—and there are several that seem obvious—it will make up in a few months what has been lost over more than a decade. The best agencies to do this mighi be the treas urers’ and carterer-,* departments newly created Downtown Office 119-121 South Frazier St. Night Phone 4372 Managing Editor Div.ributor o: .Louis K. Bell iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimHiiiiii (The opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily re« fleet the editorial policy of The Daily Collegian.) iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim Just to be in step with the policy recently adopt ed by the other Collegian columnists, ..we will fol low the new plan and present a gripe, support a May Queen candidate and .then proceed to gossip a bit. Fix It, Please Will someone of authority please do something about the clock in the tower of Old Main? It seems to us that since the whole town sets its clocks by Old Main, the time should at least be accurate. But it isnt. One day last week it was a whole fifteen minutes off radio time, and even now the chimes ring five minutes before the hands show tlfe hour. Can’t something be done? And now for May Queen! Let other columnists support who they will. We’re for the girl admit ted to be the nicest in college, voted to be the most popular, and obviously one of the best looking, Eleanor Fagans. it’s About Time We were very pleased to see that Jean Craig head, who is undoubtedly one of the most out standing women in the senior class, was finally recognized when she received the title of “Cap Girl’’ at the banquet the Theta Sigma Phis gave for the lady shots at the Lion last night. It is hardly to their credit that the women of the col lege have taken so long to acknowledge their debt of gratitude to Jean. We have been given to un derstand that she has been responsible for the decorations at many of . the coeds dances. She was secretary of her class last year. She has been a cultural leader on campus through her work on Portfolio, her art, and her interest in interpretive dancing. We should like to add our congratula tions to those given Last night. Here's to Jean Craighead; Penn State’s all around girl. The campus politicians are back at work—the boys who read every line twice to find all things bad in it. Ross Lehman, Collegian’s political expert found that out last week after the opinion poll was published showing Len Krouse, Campus hope, with a 64 per cent corner of the senior class presi dency. First Tom Henson, Campus chairman, burned the wires: “Whaddya mean publishing that stuff? You’ll make our boys overconfident.” Gerry Doherty, Independent manager, was on the wire as soon as Henson hung up: “Whaddya mean pub lishing that stuff? You’ll discourage our boys and put everybody on the Campus bandwagon!” (P. S. —When the editor heard about that, he swore bloody murder and reminded whoever cared to listen that the Collegian and 'not the politicians would determine how Collegian would handle election news.) THE DMLY COLLEGIAN Letters to the Editor — Librarian Explains Difficulty With Novels To the Editor: I would be gratefuls jf the Col legian would publish this com munication in some issue when space becomes available. The primary purpose of the Library is to provide material for the program of the College, and almost its entire appropria-' tion is used for that purpose. Many college libraries do not provide current books in both fiction and non-fiction fields. Here such books are provided in two groups— Books in connection with courses. b. Books for the recreational reading collections. The question of availability for the borrower of a popular vol ume in current demand is al ways difficult. The Library has three possibilities— a. The postal card reserve system in use now. An extra copy of the book in demand is provided for each 10 postal re serves, thus insuring the reading of a particular book if the bor rower is willing to wait for his turn. Many such books are lim ited to seven day circulation. Some time is lost when a bor rower fails to call for his book even though notified of its avail ability. We cannot purchase an adequate number Of copies so that everyone of the postal card reserves can be filled immedi ately for Library funds are far too limited. It is also true that if we purchased a large number of copies at once many of them would become dead wood on the shelves after current demand was over and every time a copy is duplicated it prevents the pur chase*of another title, perhaps in a different field. ' b. A second alternative is to eliminate the postal card reserve system and place all new addi tions on the shelves at once. This might help the borrowers who happened to come in soon after the books- were placed on the shelves but it would have two disadvantages. (1> It would force the student to come to the Library a number of times if the book he desired did not happen to be in when he first came and (2i it would deprive the Library of an' opportunity to gauge the demand for certain titles. c. If you are just interested in good reading, why not consult Miss Knoll, circulation librarian, for other desirable titles which are available? The Library administration is anxious. to find out what books are needed by the students. There are three ways by which a student may make a request for a new book or a suggestion about improving library service or reg ister a complaint— a. Through the Student Li brary- Committee appointed by the All-College President. This Committee consists of Samuel Patterson ’43, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity; G. Ruth Hoffer ’42, 314 Grange Dormitory; Charles Elder ’43, Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity; Marjory Harwick ’4l, Delta Gamma Fraternity; Stuart Garfinkle ’4l, 424 W. Beaver • DANCE PROGRAMS • CIRCULARS • SHOW CARfiS t * WHO f w Printing Done For All Occasions ?'_y NITTANY PRINTING AW) PUBLISHING (®. 119 S. FRAZIER ST. TUESDAY, MARCH- 4; 1941 CAMPUS CALENDAR TODAY Pre-Med Society Social, Sand wich Shop from 8 to : Nutrition exhibit in Room”21)9 Home Economics, 8 a.m. to noon? All College Cabinet meeting. Room 305 Old Main at 9:15 p.m. Radio Club, meets in Roonx;418 Old Main, 7:30 jyroi Student dance in—the Armory at 4 p.m.;, . .... Priestly lecture, Room 11.9 New Physics at 7 p.m. .■ ■ Campus ’44 meeting in Room 318 Old Main,/7:30 p.m. .... Meeting of Portfolio staff in Room 416 Old Main at 7 p.m, PSCA Forty Forum meeting in Hugh Beaver Room, 7 p.m. Campus ’44, Room 318 Old Main, 6:45 p.m. Elections Committee meeting in Schwab Auditorium, 7:15 p.m. Campaign plans, and budgets due at Student Union, noon to day. '. TOMORROW Coffee Round Table Houf, Hillel Foundation at 4 p.m. •lota Lambda Sigma smoker for industrial education s t u d e n t.s, Sandwich Shop, 8 p.m. , Open meeting of Delta Sigma Pi, Room 121 Sparks Building, 7 p.m. MVMABY CASES A checkup last night revealed that 11 people are confined in the College Infirmary. They are Shirley L. Hayes ’44, Donald M. Reynolds ’44, Charles H. Seitz ’43, grippe; Louise K. .Schrope ’43, bronchitis; Isadore . Zipkin, graduate, sinusitis; William F. Ramsay ’42, Robert R.. .Dickey ’44, Gayle E. Starr ’44, observa tion. . Walter E. Snyder ’4l, John Fowler ’43, William H.._Matz ’44, cases not diagnosed?- -; £-; ~ Ave.; David Finkle.J4l, Beaver Ave. b. Through a suggestidrUplac? ed in the suggestion box on the main circulation desk; This box is inspected every two ;.weeks. Book .requests are-taken, to a Book committee meeting ahd', 'if fe'asi'-' ble, such books are purchased and the borrower notified: c. Through personal -confer ences with the librarian'. "Such, conferences are welcome. If the student telephones in' advance for an appointment. Very truly yours! Willard P. Lewis, Librarian VILLAINEROO • Is The Villain A Cad? • Is The Hero a ? • Is The Heroine Ruined? • Can She Pay The Rent? • Does She Pay The Rent? ? ? • For Answers *—See— “THE STREETS OF NEW YORK” Presented By The Penn State Players March 7—3 Tickets SOa J _ ..Jr? DIAL 4&59- 426_ E.
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