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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.”
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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.
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To maintain and improve America’s all-important
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