PAGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" Jbtublishcd 1910. Successor to thto Penn State Collegian, established 1901. and the Free Lance, established 1887. Published daily except Sunday and Monday' duting the regular College year by the students ot The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934 nfc the Post-office at State College, Pa., under the act of March 8, 1879. *■ • • Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr. Gordon 1 Coy'43 Leonard E.'Bach'43 JSditorinl and Business Office Downtown Office Carnegie Hall' 119-121 South Frasier St. Phone 711 Phone 4372 Managing Editor This Issue Donald L. Webb News Editor This Issue Robert E. Kinter Women’s Editor This Issue Helen R: Keefauvei Graduate Counselor Friday, April 17 t 1942 What’s Next Step? We commend the Senate Committee on Student Welfare for the forethought and involved consid eration which it displayed in approving, with restrictions, Panhellenic Council’s proposed first .semester rushing code. 'Although first semester rushing has obvious in herent disadvantages, it seems to be the best solution to the problem presented by the possibil ity of three new freshman classes each year. Because pros and cons of first semester versus delayed rushing 'have been presented innumer able times, it seems useless to reiterate them. The problem is apparent. We need a solution. First step toward a solution was the Senate Committee’s action. But details of no minor im portance remain unsettled. Desirous of safe guarding time and energy, netsded by freshmen lor orientation and by upperclass women for study and activities under the accelerated pro gram, the Committee requested that Panhel sub mit additional information, including definite provisions for limitations on time required of freshmen both before and after pledging. Suggestions are in order. Perhaps it would be 'better to postpone for a week or two the initial week of informal rushing, tentatively scheduled for the first Week new coeds are on campus.. We must remember that new frosh will have no Freshman Week as such but will be going to classes as well as taking placement exams and at tending mass meetings. This . suggestion would •involve no drastic changes but would simply de ioa'y the start of rushing. We liked the Committee’s request for limita tions on time after pledging as well as before. Panhel, it seems to us, is already endeavoring to out actual rushing activities to the minimum. ■ But can’t something be done to conserve 'time and energy after rushing is over, after freshmen are pledged and subject to the rules of individual bouses’’ Could pledge training be reorganized to include only essentials? Could meetings be scheduled less often and pledge duties kept at a .minimum? Is “Hell Week” a justifiable activity during' a national emergency? We realize, of course, that chapters have na tional requirements to meet. But national rulings ■were made for normal times. If this proposed conservation of time, energy, and money should violate national rules, 1 we feel that chapters .should petition their head organizations to waive pre-war requirements. Sorority activities, like everything else, must be readjusted to meet demands of the emergency. Wie feel that efforts towards this goal have been commendable but accomplishments still remain inadequate. The Lost Chords "For the glory of Old State, for her founders strong and great.” Those were the words which were supposed to echo at the annual inauguration ceremonies at the Old Main gate yesterday afternoon. Rather than condemn anybody 1 for not knowing the words to Penn State’s fdremost song, we. want to commend the handful who did sing when the Blue Band played the Alma Mater. In case they’ve been forgotten, here are the words to the first verse. 1 . For the glory of Old State, 1 For her founders strong and great, For the fo.tuvfe that we wait, f Raise the song, raise the song. ~ Afldi' tits many times the words were sung at football games last Fall, at certain mass meetings uni during Freshman Week, the Alma Mater should bfe known well by every Penn Stater. Then too. won’t it seem queer to attend four terms of coliege and still be unable to repeat the words t> the school song" A ur now class Di tYoshinen will sr-or. take 1 1;- 3■ o - a'. Paun Sl.'-1,,. Lei’s uii on the A little gypsy just came over and swatted us on the back with a wilted petunia and shouted: "The third- serrfester’s gonna getcha, ef ya don't watch out!” And watchin’ out is our specialty. Of course, we won!t able to see until we wipe ■the sweat out of our dyes (or is it snow?) but.'orig thing we can see coming is that summer semester. Brother Jones, pass the talcum powder and ain aspirin. Louis EL Bell W!e think a summer semester is fine, for thems as what need one,’ and that includes just about everybody in the Penn State student directory, except a couple of freshmen who sneaked in when they were sixteen. But, somehow, we kind of hainker after the idea that it at least be a se mester, or anyway, at least a reasonable facsi mile. (Just tear the top off Russ Clark and send it with s7s'Worth of cancelled stamps to the bur salr’s office.) This third semester is a fine way to help people adjust to the draft, but we don’t like the idea that we might suffocate. Come April 26th and this town will go on Daylight Saving Time. Add that to Eastern War Time ?jnd you have one hell uva headache for Margie Sykes. Now 'she’s a pretty nice kid, and it’s not her fault that the girls elected her Judicial head, and, for every ten o'clock curfew in the girls’ dorm just at the time dusk is starting to settle, she’s going to need an other bottle of aspirin., i Now, if we’re going to treat our wartime college ’lassies like children and tuck them in every night, maybe'-we’d better use child psychology. Our favorite text says that if children want to do something, and you forbid it, they’ll do it any way, but they won’t let you in on the secret. And guess what happens? Aw, you guessed it. You lose any chance you ever had'to control them in that particular problem. For exaimple, when a parent says: “No, children, you can’t have an Easter vacation; you stay home and do your les sons,” you’ve got trouble. Rules are made to be intelligently broken. But, you can’t even 'break a rule if it’s not- in exis tence. Now WE think—you krifew we’d get to it! —that Dean Ray and her henchmen might as well get busy now, and call off those 'ten o’clocks while Margie Sykes still has an average and the rules haven’t been broken. We think’ a third semester is necessary, but we at least want it to be a semester, and if '.that means adapting the rules, then somebody had better throw out their ratebooks while they still have what our Chinese allies call “face.” lllinil!linnilllll!l!in!l!!l!1inilllll!IIIIHlillil!lli!llllll!!lllllllilim!l!llllllllllH! I j-wnenti i ' L. M. F, :■' .' ' . i i l ., i .'. i i' j 111 i i 11! ii! i) 111 ii! 11!. il!'i 1, ;■. 11111111111 jl,t! I! _.p [ v THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Wll-L ENJOY EMJN(3 HERE SOMETIME DUR- ING MOTHER'S m WEEK-END. 3le Corner Through The Needle's Eye —GABRIEL CAMPUS CALENDAR -TODAY; - - Special evening Mother’s serv ice. Reception following. Hillel Foundation, 7:15 p. m. The LaVie junior board holds its annual briquet at the Alien crest, 7:30 p. m. All members of the board are requested :to attend; Annual Spring party of. the Wesley Foundation in the Foun dation gym, 8 p. m. Baseball wij:h Gettysburg, 4 p. m. Freshmen Mass Meeting Com mittee, Hugh Beaver Rpom, 4 p. m." ' : ’ Coeds and their, mothers are in vited to play bridge during Moth er’s Day Open House in White Hall from 3. to 4, p. m. MJSPEJXAJJEQHS* Invitations and announcements for graduation exercises may now be obtained by seniors at Student Union. Cinemania Bud Abbott and Lew Costello reach a new hilarity high in their highly explosive comedy, “Rio Rita,” which opens at the Cath aum Theatre .Saturday. Balance is supplied by Kathryn Grayson and John Carroll furnishing the romance for the show. * 1 ■A. tiny pin-liole in a telephone cable can admit •' l • # 1 t to moisture, capsmg sport circuits and, service inter ruptions. But l|ell System.men have found;a,way of. beating this trouble to the punch. They charge the cable with dry nitrogpn under pressure. Then should.a leak develop, the escaping gas keeps moisture out. Instruments on the cable detect the drop in pressure ... sound an alarm at a nearby station... indicate the approximate location of the break. A repair crew is quickly on its way. To maintain and improve America’s all-important telephone service, men of the Bell System are con staiitly searchiug for the better wav. Pioneering minds liud real"bpportunity in telephone work. Does Racket %g(| or Re^ritig^g.? SEE DICK AT RED HALL I MOTHER Th@>, ! • 'll'if'Nj \Prm. ¥ r f tf >, \H*<m e f % : /RIIEAPAp ! LUNOTON. ‘ Tißi PAST HOUSE 146 N. Atherton State College s" w 1 „ i ' ' J ' to stop < of water! FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 194!
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