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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State”
Established 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian,
established 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887.
Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the
regular College year by the students o£ The Pennsylvania
Gtate 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.
Boss Lehman *42 James McCaughey '42
Editorial and Business Office Downtown Office
Carnegie Hall 119-121 South Frazier St
Phone 711 Phone 4372
Women’s Editor—Jeanne C. Stiles ’42; Managing Editor —
John A.-Baer ’42; Sport* Editor—A. Pat Nagelberg '42.
•Feature Editor—William J. McKnight ’42; News Editor —
Elanley J. PoKempner ’42; Women's Feature Editor—Alice
M. Murray ’42; Women’s Sports Editor—R. Helen Gordon
*42.
Credit Manager—Paul M. Goldberg ’42; Circulation Man*
eger—Thomas W. Allison '42; Women’s Business Manager
—Margaret L. Embury '42; Office Secretary—Virginia
Ogden '42;' Assistant Office Secretary—Fay E. Reese *42.
Junior Editorial Board—Gordon L. Coy, Donald W. Davis,
Dominick L. Golab, James D. Olkein, David Samuels,
Robert E. Schooley, Richard S. Stebbins, Herbert J.
Eukauskas, Emily L. Funk, Louise M. Fuoss, Kathryn M-
Popp, Edith L. Smith.
Junior Business Board—Leonard E. Bach, Roy E. Barclay,
Robert E. Edgerly, Philip Jaffe, Frances A. Leiby John E.
IVlcCool, Sara L. Miller, Katherine E. Schott, Marjorie L.
Sykes.
Managing Editor
!Newa Editor
Women's Editor
Sophomore Assistant
Edith L. Smith M 3
Jane Murphy M 4
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Member
Pissocialed Golle&icite Press
Golle&iaie Digest
Thursday. March 19, 1942
A Crying Need
What Penn State needs is a Student Union
building.
A Student Union building serves as a meeting
•> place for the entire collegiate population, it is a
jmecca for all campus activities, and it promotes
student-faculty relationships. Still further, it
.promotes recreation and physical fitness which
are vital in today’s line of defense.
. Old Main was purported to t>e a combination
administrative and Student Union building. Ne
cessity has turned its use toward administrative
channels. While it is conceivable thalt it could
eventually be turned into the students’ building,
its architectural makeup is hot completely adapt
able.
Assume that Cornell is a typical college. On
Its campus is Willard Straight Hall, the Student
Union building donated by the widow of Willard
Straight. Every Cornell student is a hall mem
ber; faculty and administrators are invited to
ynfembership.
Students elect from their number a board of
managers and governors Which has faculty super
vision. Facilities include a cafeteria, three din
ing rooms for banquets and special parties, a
theatre used by the dramatics department and
visiting companies, and a music and art room for
frequent exhibitions and concerts.
' There are activities meeting rooms, a library
of more than 1,000 volumes, two women’s lounges,
a Memorial Room used as a men’s lounge, a bil
iiaird and game room, and a barber shop. The
upper floor has sleeping rooms for parents, alum
ni, and other guests.
Penn State needs such a building. With the
vapid growth in students over a relatively short
period, activities have expanded beyond the fa
cilities available for them. Centralized organi
zation, a place where all groups could meet, have
exhibits, and the like is a necessity. The answer
is a Student Union building.
The answer is not enough. The principal
trouble is finding a means to fulfill the need.
Alumni help is the only solution. If all alum
ni, through a concentrated drive, would aid in
i nil eh a project, funds could be raised in a short
•Lime. It’s been a good many years since there
has been an alumni drive for a student project.
And a Student Union building would be the most
worthwhile contribution that alumni could make
at this time.
Missing Links
Where, oh where were the College students?
They missed the send-off for the - basketball
•team and they stayed home from the All-College
unass mfeeting. Still they expect the team .to
fight for State’s glory and they holler when stu
dent leaders are not to their liking.
Is it too much to ask that students support
Vanins that help build a good reputation for the
Caltoge? Is it wishful thinking when they are
expected to know students who will lead them
in Uieir student affairs next year?
Louis H. Bell
Distributor of
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The balmy, gaseous days of political campaign
ing are upon us once more. The fountainheads
of balderdash are open again. The fair-haired
lads and glib-speaking lassies are belaboring the
electorate. And to what ends, this writer timid
ly asks.
Behind personalities in other political cam
paigns wte are wont to find a statement of prin
ciple, accompanied by a suggestion of means to
attain the principles. These statements and sug
gestions are bound up in what is commonly
termed a “Platform.” Local politicos, over-fond
of dwelling over-long on “our great, democratic
student government,” have followed this practice,
but sadly enough, in name only. To be sure, we
are lambasted with verbious “platforms” to which
Old Main Rats refer vaguely when asked “What
are you boys going to do when you get in office?”
These “platforms” run something like this:
“We, the Old Main Rat Party, adopt the fol
lowing planks for a better Penn State: 1. We
advocate beautiful Spring weather for Junior
Prom and commencement.
2. We advocate special holidays for every
championship our gtfeat athletic teams win.
3. We advocate that the NCAA basketball title
be awarded to Penn State.
4. We advocate that the glorious Class of ’XZ
be provided with a lasting memorial worthy of
our greatness.
5. We advocate the availability of the Glenn
land Pool for pre-Navy training.
If you think that the planks enumerated above
are ridiculous, just take a look at the actual thing.
It seems to be a favorite pastime of campus ward
leaders to go seeking the most inocuous issues
possible and then write them in the platform.
For instance, I do not know of a single class in
the past two decades that has not left a “lasting
memorial” on the campus, yet bnef of the current
contending parties insists that this is; a contro
versial issue and stoutly demands that it is the
better party because it recognizes the need for •
such a memorial.
Nothing approximating a real campus issue can
be found in any of the platforms. ' All of the .
planks are about items which will be accomplish
ed without the help or even in spite of the poli
ticians. Few of the planks are even faintly with
in the jurisdiction of student government. And
none of the issues which have been fought over
in Cabinet are mentioned. Items which might be
controversial aite brushed over and no concrete
solution to any pressing campus problems is pre
sented.
The real issue of this campaign is: “Who’s go
ing to grab the gravy—Campus or Independent
ward-heeliers?”
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
BMOC’s Roast
At SDX Fry
An Irish humorist stole the show
last night from the tenth annual
Sigma Delta Chi BMOC Blitzkrieg,
with shades of Tom Dolan and pa
triotic plugs for the Selective Serv
ice Commission.
Con McCole, known as one of
the three best humorists in the
East, stopped the show with his
Irish, wit after it had been set off
by St. Patrick Zukauskas and
other honorary members.
First part of the program panned
in ways subtle and straightforward
every campus bigwig from Mat
tern to Donovan. This was fol
lowed by more refined after din
ner entertainment of McCole.
The banquet, held every year to
honor and expose “big shots,” was
St. Patrick’s own work of art in
terspersed here and there with
Raymond Scott’s recordings, the
banter thrown about by the SDX’s,
and hot apple pie and cheese.
Some symbolic gilts awarded to
bigwigs were a chisel to Bursar
'Clark, a large powder puff to Dave
Sharp and Bill Lundelius, a knife
to Bill Mazzocco, a shamrock for
Charlie Mattem, and a brown der
by to Tom Henson.
Steidle Will Speak
Dean Edward Steidle, School of
Mineral industries, will speak on
“Recent Observations in the Latin
Americas” in 121 Sparks today.
Dean Steidle was recently a repre
sentative at the First Pan-Ameri
can Conference of Mining Engin
eering and Geology at Chile, San
tiago.
—LOKI
Spring vacation this year is BE
HIND - TO - YOUR - CAR - AND -
TIRES-WEEK—in other words, go
home by Greyhound. It’s your
chance to be kind to your pocket
book, too—you don’t need a course
'■ in higher mathematics to figure out
you’re way ahead at Greyhound’s low
.fares. The schedules are convenient
the deep-cushioned' seats art\ as
rest-provoking as a dull lecture—and
the crowd’s sure to be a lot of fun.
Yes, sir, the right start for this
vacation is by Greyhound 1
GREYHOUND POST HOUSE
14S N. Athorion
THURSDAY. MARCH 19, 1942
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Grange meeting, 405 Old Main,
7 p. m. .
Philotes executive meeting, 302
Old Main, Philotes Room, 7 p. m.
Skull ahd Bones, 312 Old Main,
7:15 p. m.
WSGA House of. Representa
tives meeting, 318 Old Main, 5
p. m. Members please bring tin
foil. '
Clique chairmen meet with'
Elections Committee in 318 Old
Main at 4 p. m.
Sewing and knitting in Red
Cross workroom, 117 Home Econ
omics, from 6:45 to 8:45 p. m.
Swimming Club business meet
ing for old and new members
White Hall pool 7 p. m.
’43 Independents meet, 318 Old
Main, 7 p. m.
i '45 Independent meeting in 417
Old Main at 7:30 p. m.
Tau Beta Pi smoker at Lambda
Chi Alpha at 7:15 p. m. Dr. C. F.
Anderson will show slidbs and
talk on Hawaii.
MISCELLANEOUS
Sign up by Wednesday for All-
College Bowling with June Stein
furth or at WRA office, in White
Hall.
Players Present
Mr. & Mrs. North
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