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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-
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,THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Through The
Needles Eye
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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
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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.
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To assure coast-10-coast telephone facilities adequate
to meet future defense needs, the Bell System is con
structing a 1600 mile, &20,000,000 cable line, between
Omaha and Sacramento.
Several newly developed "pio w trains,” working from
opposite ends of the line, are burying the cable for
maximum protection. They dig deep furrows, lay two
cables in them and cover them with earth—all in one
continuous operation.' Their meeting will mark com
pletion oi' the first all coble line across the continent.
Carrier systems will he operated in the cables one
direction of transmission in each.
This vast project is just one of thousands iu which
the Bell System is now engaged to provide additional
communication facilities so vital to
Army. Navy and defense industries
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1941
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TODAY '
No Engineering lecture today.
Next lecture will be on Friday,
December 5.
Penn' State Club dormitory ex
change dance, Mac Hall lounge,
8:30- p. m.
A Kitchenette shower will be
held at Wesley Foundation Par
lors, 8 p. m.
PSCA Freshman Council com
mittee meetings, Hugh Beaver
Room; publicity, 4 p. m.; pro
gram, 7 p. m.
Hillel Foundation-PSCA joint.
Thanksgiving ' Service at - Hillel
Foundation on Beaver avenue,
7:15 p. m.
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