PAGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" Established 1940. Successor to thte 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 of The Pennsylvania Slate College. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934 nt the Post-office at State College, Pa., under the act of March 8, 1879_ Bus. and Adv. Mgr. Gordon Coy '43 , r • Leonard E. Bach '43 Editorial and Racine:33 Office Downtown Office Carnegie Hall 119-121 South Frazier St. Phone 711 Phone 4272 Business Staff—Credit Manager—Philip Jaffe '43; Circa. lation Manager—Robert E. Edgerly '43; Classified Advertis. ing Manager—Roy E. Barclay '43; Promotion Manager— Jack E..McCool '43; Senior Secretary—Frances A. Leiby "13; Women's Advertising Manager—Sara L. Miller '4B; Assist. ant Women's Advertising Manager—Marjorie L. Sykes '43. PPPPP (MINTED ROO NATIONAL ADVRIRTIOING qY National Advertising . . Service, Me. College , Publishers Retireserttatite 420 NAOE3ON Ayd. NEW YOW.C. N.Y. CHICACIO • BOSTON • LOS AFI LLLLL • S►N FaANCulen Managing Editor This Issue Larry T. Chervenak Assistant Managing Editor. Stephen Sinkhole News Editor This Issue Fred E. Cleves. .A,Asistant News Editor ..-- Seymour Rosenberg Women's Editor This Issue Helen R. Keefauvei Graduate Counselor Saturday, June 6, 1942 Fraternities At Crossroads Simple arithmetic reveals that something may rip wide open next week. We hope these figures lie in their indications, but the present set-up points toward a period of competition and back biting. . On Monday 600 freshman men and women are r.s.Kpected to register. At the same time 47 fra ternities will be seeking financial salvation 'through freshman pledges. With registration (including first-year coeds) below last 310ar's !Pledging record, the total will be sub-par. Al most every house is looking for ten new brothers. The influx of fraternity prospects cannot average more than five per house. The IFC has done its best to facilitate the rush ing procedure .through its booklet and the new freshman directOry which will offer helpful in formation about the pledges. Many other ex tensive preparations have been made and warn ings issued on code violations. This situation undoubtedly presents a crisis; it also presents a test of inter-fraternity cooper ation. Reporting of house guests and recording of the pledge file as soon as possible is one way in which individual house's can contribute. Although most of the freshman men entering I Summer semester are probably financially secure and sincere fraternity prospects, there just won't be enough to go around. 'Rushing violations have already been reported and it is recognized that many more threaten. "Don't lose your heads" is good advice for harried rushing chairmen. The results of this tense situation are going to indi -cate whether inter-fraternity good-will is more than a written constitution. Shake hands and come out fighting, but keep • your punches clean. Nittany Honor Roll Twice a week, this column will appear in The Daily Collegian with the purpose of informing readers concerning the whereabouts of Penn State men in the armed. services of the United States. Although most of our information is obtained ;from press releases sent out by' the government publicity service, we will appreciate any addi tional contributions received from our readers. Second Lieutenants Shirley K. Smith and Carl E. Zeigler are now instructing aviation cadets at 'the Greenville Army Flying School at Green ville, Miss., while Robert E. Weser, a graduate of the Class of '42, reported May 27 for Naval Aviation Flight Training at the• University of North Carolina. If he successfully completes this indoctrination course he will be advanced to pilot training. Five Penn State graduates, who have left the IPield Artillery Replacement Center at Fort Bragg, N. C., to attend the Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill, Okla., are Privates Jesse B. Guttman. Charles L. Cline, Frederick C. Dorn, Jr., Werner Lange, and John A. Baer. These men have just completed a one-month preparatory officer can didate course, and if they are successful in com pleting their training at Fort Sill, they -will be awarded second lieutenant's commissions in the field artillery. Graduation ceremonies at Edgewood Arsenal, Md., saw 'Cadet David Warren Miller commission ed a second lieutenant in the Chemical Warfare Service. Graduation was held May 29. Navigation Cadet Charles J. Bradac has recent ly reported to the Army Air Force Flying School at Turner Field, Albany, Ga., for the final stage of training as an Army Aviation Cadet. -- ____ _____ —Louis H. Bell -H. J. Z THE DAILY COLLEGIAN 01111111011111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111, e I 3 :4 S ri Old Mania... t " : - 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111IRMM 111 1 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111 U 1111 Guaranteed Circulation!! They find fault with the editor, The stuff we print is rot; The paper is as peppy as a cemetery lot; The rag shows rotten management, The jokes, they say, are stale. The upperclassmen holler And the lowerclassmen rail. But when the Collegian is issued (Say we with smirking smile) . If our subscriber doesn't get one, You can hear him yell a mile. Pin Jobs And Stuff Alumna Kappa Peggy Embury is the possessor of an engagement sparkler via fi gain Roy Man gel . . . and the Kappas are swamping the post man now that Charlie Mattern and Ray . Leffler are stationed at an Army Air Corps base in Cali fornia . Our Gamma Phi Beta agent reports that Doro thy Ellis has Bill Thompson's Lambda Chi Al pha pin . . . and Marion Owens now wears Hank Dietrich's Teke jewelry . . . fi sigma kappas Del Schreppel and Bob Roy are not minus their Bal four decorations . . . yet . . . but Rita Rokoez and Evelyn Koehler are in line. Edie Smith is twosoming with fi sigma kappa Dick Spurck, but the whole thing is STRICTLY platonic. She's still loyal to the U. S. Navy— she says. Ex-Collegian-Ed Bud Smyser, headed for V-7, was in town yesterday sporting a crew haircut and a bay window . . . doing well for himself on the Pittsburgh Press and still un attached . . . and Dotty Furman was seen on campus recently—reputed to be paying a visit to Buddy Loeb. Ah, Spring! Coeds In Pants A Wellesley correspondent inforrris us that Dr. Mildred H. McAfee, president of the Massachu setts 'Seminary, has stated that gals look awful in slacks. It's all a matter 'of opinion, a but Dr. McAfee is doing her best to get rid of the obnoxious pants. The fad hasn't hit Ath Hall so hard that our personal comments are required; but - one Yale man stated, "Katherine Hepburn is the only wo man who can wear them. All the. rest resemble the view you get when you ride a horse back wards." Naturally, only a Yale man would ride a horse backwards. Campus TODAY Rehearsal of all skits for fresh man sports rally, White Hall Gymnasium, i p. Penn State Club "All-College Dance," Rec Hall, 9 to 12 p. m. Hours for listening to records in Carnegie Hall, 1 to 5 p. m. Froth may 'now be obtained at Student Union. • Certificates for defense coursed' completed last. seniestdr Should' be obtained at Student Union im mediately. • Rehearsal for WRA Sports Day, White Hall Gymnasium, I p. in. Letters To Editor Equality, Economy Seen In Informal Dear Sir After reading the editorial. in the Vol. 39, No. 7 Collegian, I was rather. shocked to learn that there was going to be another semi- formal Soph Hop. A situation such as this always irks me because of the old say ing, "If you can't do it right, don't do it at all." Of course this ex pression tannot exactly fit the case, but it can be modified a bit so as to mean, if the dance can't be formal, have it informal. Since all effect is lost anyway when only half of the •persons dancing are considered to be dressed formal, why do the coeds (and maybe a few imports) have to go to all the trouble to dress for a dance as if -it were formal, while their escorts do not have to worry • about it since • they can wear anything from a sandpaper tweed to a burlap special? • If costs are to be, brought into this argument, then may I men tion the fact that there are al ways plenty of statements made about equalizing social opportun ities. These statements must have always been made without con sidering the pocketbook of thre little girl who must . scrape 'to gether some pennies that someone dropped and think about. buying a new evening gown. She must buy a new one be cause she has worn the old one to about fifty different functions. (I have been led to believe that one does not like to wear an eve ning gown more than a couple of times) FRESHMEN .Text Books c • new and Ued . , • • All College Supplies KEELEWS in the Cathaum Theatre Bldg. SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1942 Calendar TOMORROW Chapel services, Schwab Audi torium, 11 a. m. Freshman mass Schwab Auditorium, 7 p. m Record concert, Hillel Founda tion, 8 p. m. Portfolio staff. meeting Port folio office, 7 p. m. MONDAY Freshman registration, first floor lounge; Old Main; .9 m. to • 5 p. m. Summer Inter-Session registra tion, Erg, - floor lOunge, Old Main, 8 a, in. to 12 nobn. If these expense burdens cannot be shared by both parties con cerned, then by all means have the dance informal. F, Lloyd Conyers '43 Semi-Formal Called High School Stuff Deal' Sir: I assume by the statement that Soph Hop 'will be semi -formal, it is meant that men will wear street clothes while women wear formal dress. I had illusions be fore this announcement that the sophomores. had outgrown, their high school ideas, but I see I was wrong. While in high •school a semi- . formal dance may have been something big to look forward to, 'but• at • college it is, viewed, and rightly so, with ridicule. • I ask the sophomores, ."Why not make the dance enjoyable to both men and . women by making it inform al?" J. Lloyd Huck '44 . . i ingt. • eAll'il ?* ' s.,llNotliolg'Afhis Irrt , i al, i . ' 11 6 .. 74 2 COLONIAL , ~.--,, .12,3 W. NITTANYAVE. Ma,4,?Firrestaultilesicience . 1. l ecoxo t y c o s . cd% PlinnitlaJarei., ...r... “;leverr,„, / IMP ~..,,, 00...• • ea meeting,
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