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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State"
Established 1940 Succes:or to the Penn State Collegian
established 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1807
Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the
regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania
State College. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934
at the Post-office at State College, Pa., under the act of
March 8. 1879.
Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr.
B.oss Lehman '42 James McCaughey '42
Editorial and -Business Office Downtown Office
313 Old Main Bldg. 119-121 South Frazier St
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Women's Editor—Jeanne C. Stiles '42: Managing Editor—
John A. Baer '42; Sports Editor—A. Pat Nagelberg
Feature Editor—William J. McKnight '42; News Editor—
Stanley J. PoKempner '42; Women's Feature Editor—Alice
M. Murray '42; Women's Sports Editor—R. Helen Gordon
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Credit Manager—Paul M. Goldberg '42; Circulation Man
ager—Thomas W. Allison '42; Women's Business Manager
.—Margaret L. Embury '42; Office . Secretary—Virginia
Ogden '42; Assistant Office Secretary—Fay E. Reese '42.
Managing Editor This Issue _ . David. Samueis
Assistant Managing Editor This Issue __ Richard B. MoNaul
'News Editor This Issue Robert E. Kinter
Women's Editor This Issue - _Emily L. Funk
Graduate Counselor
Wednesday, January 21, 1942
On The March
Approval of the proposed 12-month calendar
and third semester plan by the Council of Ad
ministration yesterday morning will initiate many
changes in the College schedule-and operation.
Administrators, bowing to . the inevitable de
mands of war needs and the necessary speeding
up of College and university education, ate tear
ing their hairs. The condensing of the College
program will also create many problems which.
cannot be solved in a day or a week.
Changes in the fraternity rushing code will
tiiave to be made. Probably, fraternities will be
compelled to rush students all year round, and
the sorority rushing code will be less strict and
Snore flexible than it is now.
The sports program will receive a definite blow
in the solar plexus. Athletes who 'were looking
•tforward to two or three years of -varsity•comPeti
tion will see action in only one or two years.
Sports schedules, including Fall and Spring
!sports, probably will be shortened to meet the
demands of semester enrollment.
The Alumni Association will find trouble de
signating the status of classes after the class of
1942 graduates. Not only the Alumni Associa
tion, but the Registrar's Office and Senate Calen
dar Committee will encounter difficulty in stag
gering the registration of freshmen to suit the
;various and required College courses.
For instance, required courses in Agriculture,
Chemistry and Physics, and Engineering Schools
may vary from semester to semester. When
shall the freshman enroll and in what semester?
Also, from now on, freshman classes may lose
their identity, because as the proposed calendar
reads, the class of 1945 would graduate in April,
1944, and the class of 1946 in December, 1944.
Imagine -the difficulty of The Daily Collegian
and the College Directorl in naming a person's
corrct class.
These are a few of the technical pioblems which
will face the College and the student body: What
of the personal and financial problems of the
students? Those are too numerous to mention.
War, with its eagerness for speed, has moved
on the campus, and the College, with its liking
for stability, will have to quicken its step to keep
up with the fast-moving god of. Mars. The Col
lege has a running start. •
Maintaining Morale
Seven rules for maintaining wartime civilian
morale have been outlined by Dr. Irving J. Lee
of Northwestern university, an expert on the psy
chology of anxiety. For a number of years Dr.
I..eie has applied the principles back of these rules
to many cases of stage fright with amazing suc
cess.
"The position of many Americans today," he
points out, "is analogous to that experienced in
Stage fright. This situation, if permitted to con
tinue, might lead to a deterioration of civilian
morale."
Points to be remembered by all civilians dur
ing the crisis are:
1. Center your attention on your task-at-hand
land seek new ways of h(elping.
2. Don't feel that the whOle burden rests on
: , .rou. Just do something, however small, and the
~ o-R result will be great.
3. Worrying about a situation dissipates your
en orgy, leads to more worry, and saps your elli
•cie:•icy for necessary work.
I. Don't expect too much. Prepare for bad
It isn't the pain, but the surprise coming
t: the pain that hurts. Remember that the anti
cipatio.t of danger has a protective effect.
G. Questior all umor.s. ITh.in't let them affect.
`Sergeant York' _Rated Best Illovie
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 20—Favorite movie seen
by college students during 1941 was "Sergeant
YOrk," the annual motion picture poll conducted
by Student Opinion Surveys of America shows.
Only slightly more than one-seventh of the stud
ents, 14 per cent, however, could agree. on any
one picture as the "best they had seen."
At that, "Sergeant York" lead in four of the
six geographical sections of the country used in
conducting the survey. Based on a scientifically
representative cross section of the U. S. college
enrollment, the .survey shows that students in the
Middle Atlantic,. East Central, West Central, and
Southern states chose "Sergeant York" as their
favorite picture. .
The top ten shows, compiled from the question,
"What was the best picture you have seen during
1941?" were not necessarily released during the
last year. In order of their selection,. they are
as follows:
Louis H. Bell
In 1940, "GOne With the Wind," easily ranked
best of the year, polled twice as many ballots as
the second ranking picture, "Rebecca." It is in
teresting to note that "G.W.T.W." is still fifth
among the top ten after another year.
"Sergeant York" did not .show such a clear-cut
plurality as did the winning .David Selznick pro-.
duction the year before, which polled 27 per cent,
almost twice the percentage recorded for "Ser
geant York." "Citizen Kane," with 10 per cent
nationally, came close to "Sergeant York's" 14
per cent.
Coeds Oppose Marriage Training;
AUSTIN, Texas, January. 20—While American
students are not ready to adopt the idea that col
lege education should train women to be primar
ily wives and mothers, neither do they want 'to
accept equality between the sexes..
Student Opinion Surveys of America, the co
operative weekly poll sponsored by college news 7
papers including The Daily Collegian, finds that
great majorities even of coeds themselves believe:
1. Women should not try to combine marriage
and motherhood with a career outside the home.
2. There would be more divorces if women
were given more nearly equal social status with
men,
When it comes to education, however, opinion
is divided on such a plan as has made Stephens
College of Missouri attract national attention:
training women to be educated and capable wives
and mothers rather than professionals.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Student Opinion Surveys
1. Sergeant York
2. Citizen Kane
3. One'Foot In Heaven
4. Meet John Doe
5. Gone With the Wind
6. Blossoms in the Dust
7. Honky Tonk
8. The Little Foxes
9. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
10. I Wanted Wings
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Zeigler Awarded
Tau Beta Pi Prize
The semi-annual Pledge Essay
award of the. Tau Beta Pi, engin
eering honorary fraternity, was
won by Warren D. Zeigler '42. His
non-technical essay, "Through
Another's Eyes," was selected from
17 submitted by first semester in
itiates by a committee of officers
and faculty advisors.
In addition to the five-dollar
book award which he received,
Zeigler will be in line for a nation-.
al award by the national executive
council of Tau Beta Pi. The top
ranking essays of the 72 Tau Beta
Pi chapters will be placed in com
petition for a $5O cash award.
Recently initiated into the Tau
Beta Pi were Franklin L. Bateman
'42, Roy A. Bay '42, Paul L. Burk
hart, Jr. '42, Saverio Fioravanti '42,
John (B. Gaenzle '42, James 0. Hin
kle '42, Fred E. Kindig '42, Salva
dore P. Lio '42, Charles H. Lund
'42, William H. Raser, Jr. '42, How
ard W. Smith '42, Ralph B. Straw
bridge '42, James E. Watson '42, -
Warren D. Zeigler '42 ; Earl R.
Booser '43, William S. Ivans, Jr..
.'43, and John P. Kearns '43.
Doak Exchange
Plans Cancelled
Lack of space in any centrally
located campus building has caus
ed the cancellation of plans for
the Student Book Exchange spon
sored by the Independent Party
each year, Frank R. Flynn, chair
man of the '43 Independents, an
nounced last night.
Scheduling Officer Watkins was
cooperative, he added, but con
struction work still in progress in
Carnegie Hall and heavy class
room schedules ruled out the use
of campus buildings. However,
there is a possibility, he said, that
space may be found in one of
the vacant stores downtown.
Future Farmers Elect
Five New Officers
Five officers for the year of 1942
were elected by the Collegiate Fu
ture Farmers of America at their
monthly meeting held yesterday.
The officers elected were Jack
F. Dolly '44, president; Junior D.
Hess '44, vice.president; Reno H.
Thomas '44,' secretary; Henry N.
Wenger '44, treasurer; and Earl S:
Fox '45, the club reporter.
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BUY DEFENSE STAMPS
AND BONDS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1942
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TODAY
PSCA hews staff meeting, 304
Old Main, 7 p.
Red Cross 'foreign correspond
ence blanks for personal Messages
are available at PSCA office, 304
Old Main.
MISCELLANEOUS
Numerals and varsity sweaters
for soccer, cross-country, and foot
ball will be available in 109 Old
Main this Week., '
Will the students who submitted
pictures to the Camera Club con
test please call for all those not on
exhibit atStudent Union.
. All-College cabin party at PSCA
cabin, Saturday: Cars leave from
rear of Old 'Main, 2p. m. •
ROTC Applications
Due February 2
Applications for advanced
ROTC training in both , the In
fantry and Engineering depart
ments are now acceptable at the
Armory and the deadline for all
applications will be Monday, Feb
ruary 2, it was announced by the
ROTC department yesterday.
Although no official word has
been received as to next year's
quota, all indications are that the
number of students admitted will
not be increased.
Cabinet Approves
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handle all financial affairs of the
dance, and WSGA indicated that
it would allow, freshmen women
to have 1 o'clock permissions.
"A dance of 'this nature would
coordinate all campus groups in
conducting' a concerted drive for
deflense activities and convince
Penn State students that they were
actually doing something worth
while for national defense," Ger
ald F. Doherty, All-College vice
president,, said.
In another defense effort Cabi
net adopted as Penn State's offi
cial student defense song, "We .
HaVe A Job To Do." Words to fit
the campus scene have been writ
ten for. this tune which is now
the slogan song for the Red Cross.
It was also resolved that all
funds *Of Fmiensic Council be ap
portioned to men's and women's
debate squads according to the
direct ratio of men's and women's
enrollment.
There will be no regular meet
ing of . Cabinet next Tuesday night.
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