PAGffi TWQ THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "‘For A Better Penn State” jSstn'm.sheu 1040. tru* Fenn Scat-- Oolleyruia established 1004 n.Tul'tthc* Free 'Lance, established 135*7, Published daily except Sunday and Monday during tho regular College year by the students o£ The Pennsylvania fetnto College. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 193 t at the Post-office a!; State College. Pa,, under the James McCaughey '42 Editorial and Business Office 813 Old MWn Bids, Phone !?11 Vfomen'Q Editor—Jeanne C. Stiles '42; Managing Editor— John A. Bncc *42; St’Or*:.? Editor — A- Pat Nngelberjr '*42» Feature Editor —y/illiam .T. McKnijrht *42; New;* Editor— /Stanley J. 'PoKentpncr *42; Wonu.n’s Feature Editor—Alice M. Murray *42; Worsen,’:? Sports‘Editor- I *!’. Helen Gordon '42. Credit Manager—Paul M. Goldberg *42; Circulation slnn flffer —Thoma/j ;W. Allison '*42 f Womens Business Manager l — L. Embury *42; Office’Secretary—Virginia' 42 ;.Assistant Secretary—Fay E. -Reese *42. ' " Junior Editorial J3oard —Gordon L. Coy, Donald W. Davis, Domiiiiok ‘V. Gdlab, Jnrhes p. Olkein, David Samuels, JRbber* E. Schooley, Richard S. Stebbins, Samuel L.'Stroh, .W. Vozzy, Herbert J. Zukau3lcas, Emily LI Funk. Lottiste'M. Fuoss, Katliryri 'M. Popp, Edith L. Smith. r Mnn.itrincr Editor .This « Sscwr; Editoi 4 Issue Women's Editor This Issue ftopltomoro A'lsisr/.nks ... Clrnduate Counselor Friday, November 21, 194 L You Asked For It The All-College Cabinet has often been accused of wagging its tail when the College speaks, and sometimes it is said. Cabinet wags its tail when the students speak. This is the time that students rpeak and. Collegian wags its tail. - “What the devil does Cabinet mean by drink ing legislation?” students query. “What’s the news behind the laws?” they say. “Is the ad ministration" stepping on Cabinet’s tail, or is Cabinet a stooge for administrative policies?” .students want to know. “If Cabinet is a repre sentative body of student opinion, why doesn't Cabinet let, us in on the deep dark secret of its sudden legislature?” they cry. ' Students have a right to know what their representatives are doing. Furthermore, they should be acquainted with the motive and pur pose of any law made by Cabinet, especially the drinking situation which Cabinet now is ktiee qeep in attempting to solve; The facts? Here they are. The administra tion wants the student body to regulate itself be fore it steps in and takes over student conduct. .Cight now, the mixed drinking situation is critical. How critical? It is known by--every fraternity that drunken, parties are held in locked upstair.' rooms every houseparty. This isn’t limited to kouseparties, because every fraternity has its favorite “blue room" in which men can serve liquor to their dates. Apartment houses in town ax'e not dens of in iquities, but they also have their unofficial bars. Iti some private homes, liquor flows freely. Non fraternity as much advantage as fra ternity men in “bending the elbow. - ' B.ut students cry, “That’s the state's, College’s, unci student government’s fault. We can’t go to U legalized cocktail bar; we can’t visit a respect able drinking establishment to sip a few beers -and enjoy music and dancing'. You force us to go to Bellefoiite behind the College’s back, or Mieak liquor m the back wav!" That’s true. The state, in its stupid legisla ii loir, has forced drinking from near-fashionable ■and. respectable places to a fraternity cellar or an apartment room. There, the chances of coeds and men getting drunk are greater because there is no social hamper, no chaperoned place. Columbia, Cornell, Wisconsin, and other col leges and universities legalize reasonable and open drinking. Here, the state bans drinking. Consequently, .drinking behind the proverbial “barred door” is done. This .type of drinking, student government says, must stop. It must stop because it does more to hurt student morale and College reputation than any other social qisgrace. Is the Cabinet right? We say yes. Such par ties as these, which may be hidden from prying eyes in a .big city university, will bring reper cussion ou repercussion upon this isolated campus Must students drink? According to them, “Yes.” What is the answer then? On one hand, we have unregulated drinking which may. in time, throw student reputation into a benutuciled, (•odden condition. On the other hand, student mixed drinking cannot be stopped by iron-handed prohibition. It can be curbed, as Cabinet hopes, but not stopped. The answer? We say chaperoned parties. If total drinking cannot be stopped (and students .smirk when told that it can), if hidden drinking ■will flourish under the [iiv-sont conditions, chap- Downtown Office 110-121 South Frazier Su Phone 4372 Herbert j. jKuktuu'lcA.* Richard S. Stabbing Knthr.vo M, ’’Potm Jay Gross, F.n*u Clever Louis H. ,THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Through The Needles Eye jiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiniiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHmuiimiiiimii Although some may cry “Wolfe!” we want to blow a slightly delicate note today. Each year at Thanksgiving we take stock of oui'selves, brood over the world a bit. and unashamedly shout hosannas for the varied blessings about us. It gets hard at times to maintain a blithe spirit: we were watching some chickens on the Hill last week; it was the same old tale of dominance and submission —one big cock maintaining sole rights to a tub of water, although there was room for all. The Collegian carried-a story of two negroes wounded in riots in West Virginia, and the scare heads in the national papers reminded us that we’re 21 and caskets are made for all ages. We drove two miles out of State College and found ourselves in Woodycrest, the local rural slum—bandbox houses huddled together, with Centre County stretching open for miles about: we looked at a schoolhouse, smaller than an Old Main lounge, where 63 kids are schooled every day by one harassed teacher, We talked to a picket and asked him if he was tired, and he said, “Hell, no! I’m used to it.” And we couldn’t help but reflect bitterly on his common denominator of dissatisfaction. We looked at the stink and the artifices of the world about us, leaking slowly through the cracks in the shell State College draws about it self, and were wrenched with a pang of alarm for the innocents and the opportunists who will pour out of this institution this year, to enter a world where men and women are having fear etched in their viscera. But, then we heard a faint but sweet note, and blew an answering trill; we decided once more to call out our thanks in a determined tone. Be cause we remembered the story of the fraternity lad who said, “We can’t pledge him; lie doesn’t wear argyles.” And a fellow told us of Tribunal members buying a frosh his Customs out of then own pockets; we watched the groups of oblivious lovers in the Sandwich Shop. So we took inventory and found the labels on the stock a little stained by mold, but all the goods in fine shape. Total assets to include all the Penn States in the world where young people are dis illusioned as gently as' possible. "We put down in black ink the sense of humor which the collegi ate lad or lass maintains. We bow down in thanks for the couples holding bands at the Cor ner, for the fact that we can wx-ite this column, for the fact that learning stands, for passivity and .conservatism, but thinkiixg stands for activity and advance, for the fact that the orthodox worship one way, the agnostics another, but we all can get together to say thanks with a common sim plicity. —GABRIEL Just Rightl We have installed a refriger ated candy counter which . keeps sweets at exactly the recommended temperature The Corner 3,000 Attend Rally; Lions Confident (Continued lrom Page One) mined to Win.” As the bonfire began burning more brightly, Dan. A. DeMarino, assistant dean of men, introduced Captain Len Krouse and other members of the Nittany grid squad. Krouse, who was attend ing his last pep l-ally at Penn State, said, "I’m not using my slide rule to figure how to beat Pitt. The team’s got that worked out ali-eady.” The climax of the i-ally came as the fire began to smoulder. Ac companied by a funeral march stx-ain by the Blue Band, Captain Krouse thi-ew an effigy of the Golden Panther headfirst into the flames. ■Slflt illflil "" % ' ''' if l \ , s ' **> vV S *V. •’s'"' S A A N .. s *• W S