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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 th,
regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania
Slate College. Entered as second-class matter July .5, 1434
nt the Post-office at State College, Pa., under the act of
March 8. 1879.
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Graduate Counselor -_
Thursday, July 2, 1942
Rating The Aggies
WHEN THE Ag School started its faculty rating
poll at the beginning of this semester, there was
considerable question as to the advisability of un
dertaking such a project. Many Administrative
officers, as well as professors, expressed beliefs
that the poll could be used as a dangerous weapon
:if not handled wisely.
But after learning the details of the proposed
p)an, the faculty on. Ag Hill were willing to co
operate with the Agriculture School Council,
which was sponsoring the.poll. Realizing that the
success of the poll would hinge on the type of
questions asked, the School Council approached
the College department of psychology which as
sisted in drawing up suitable questions that would
command the serious attention and respect of
.every person answering the questionnaire.
Preparing the poll was only the initial step,
?however. The real machinery went into opera
tion at the Summer semester registration when
every Ag student was asked to fill out the ques
tionnaire and to submit it along with the regular
:registration credentials.
The job of sorting the questionnaires was en
trusted to three students who were told to main
tain the secrecy of the information and to turn the
:results over to the Dean of the School, who was
authorized to use the information as he deemed
By taking this poll, the Ag Student Council did
:oot intend to rate the faculty in any simple one,
two, three order. ' Instead the poll was taken to
analyze the teaching methods used by various pro.
:lessors, and to see where improvements could be
made in different course presentations.
After checking the results of the poll, the Dean
considered it advisable to "talk things over" with
' five faculty members who had been subject to the
strongest criticism in the. survey. Other instruc
tors were offered mild suggestions pertaining to
teaching methods, while on the other side of the
fence, a number of professors were commended
.for their work.
Already, students are beginning to notice the
:remedies that a number of instructors have inject
ed into their courses. There is now little doubt
surrounding the 'tremendous success of the rating
poll, and there is also little doubt that the survey
should be extended to other Schools.
The Aggies have thrown out a warning that
such a survey will entail plenty of work if the
project is undertaken by other School Councils.
It may be' a warning, but to us, it appears as a
challenge, which several Schools might wet ac
cept.
Home-Front Battles
EVERY ONE has heard the. story which tells
why Penn State doesn't know there is a war be
ing fought at present. They tell us that we're a
bunch of idealists sitting up here in our mountain
Utopia, and that down in the eastern shipyards
;and the western steel towns, everyone is "all out"
for doing his share to win the war.
But did you ever hear the other side of the
story. It's insignificant of course, but just the
there are hundreds of Penn State students
•enlisted in Army and Navy Reserves; there are
'hundreds of students taking defense courses, hum.
Jreds of engineers preparing to take over vital
posts in American industry, and hundreds of pro
are teaching third semester courses follow
ing, a slice in salary.
.•\ fter all, we can't target th.at the third semes-
Penn State's greatest contribution to Amer
ica':, war effort.
_ ____ Ff.. Bell
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Bigger And Better
With Prexy Hetzers accelerated program et al,
froshmen have passed through one of the least
haze-perfect semesters in history. Advocating big
ger and better pajama parades (one was hatched
up Tuesday night but died en. route to Locust
Lane) we salute the forthcoming. march of the
semi-nudes. Rumor has it that BMOCs will stage
a freshman exhibit which the mighty Rose will
envy after this rag has called it a day.
Sorry, Joyce
I hope that I shall never be .
A teacher like the ones I see
A gal whose hungry heart is set
On a masters that she wants to get
A teacher who never gives a care
About the clothes she's going to wear
A femme who's fool .enough to pay
To hear those profs talk on all day
Critter Chatter
Carol Kane, ChiO, recently took unto herself
Ted Green's Phi Kappa pin. Jane Jones, Alpha
ChiO claims a double triumph -in the annexation
of Travis MacDonald's Sigma Pi pin and ring.
Polly Keller, AOPi, came out of the blackout with
Goodwin's DU pin,
Let it be known to all that Rich Jones, ATO is
recognized by the Thetas at •Purdue. Final proof
is seen in the Theta recognition pin he wears.
High school music students camped at the AGR
house continue to arouse Locust Lane and vicin
ity fraternities with their 7 a. m. root-tooting.
Just to please Mr. Robert Schooley; Esquire, it
should be noted that the doll on the front page of
a recent Life magazine cover is wearing a PiKA
pin tucked on her collar. Si Siebert, will visit the
Murfitt homestead come Saturday when this place
will become a ghost town. The elder Murfitt re
joices his son's pinning of the comely lass and said
so in the words . .. glad to hear your pin is com
ing home on a strong foundation. '
Sights To See And Hear
Cenci in his dubonnet shirt trotting quickly
up the Mall to preserve the hue from the elements
. : . Carolyn Erb, Kappa, without Jack Morgan:
Gehoe won against terrific odds. Bill Lundelius
on Shalemar perfume . . . "It should be called
. . Knock 'Em Down and Drag 'Em Out."
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Ed School
Plans Confab
School of Education will con
duct a Conference on Instruction
next Tuesday and Wednesday
nights, July 7 and 8, according to
!Marion R. Trabue, dean.
A panel discussion will be held
in Room 10 Sparks Building at
3:15 p. m. Wednesday on the sub
ject, "What Should the Activity
Concept of Learning Mean to
Classroom Teachers?" Partici
pating in this forum will be Dean
Trabue; Charles► B. Mendenhall,
professor of education, Ohio State
University. • .
Margaret A. Neuber, Teacher
Trainer, East Stroudsburg State
Teachers College; Phyllis A. Pea
cock, teacher of English, State
College High School and in
structor in education and psy
chology, Penn State; and Carl E.
Whipple, principal, Keith Jun
ior High School, Altoona.
The conference is intended for
all persons interested in instruc
tion. All who wish to attend are
invited..
Ag Hill At War—
School Grows. Rubber
America's critical rubber short- were stepped up to double time
age may be licked by a dande- with the approach of war.,
continuing theiy tra di tiona
Penn State's Agricultural
School, working under the sup- search for methods pf increasing
ervision of the United States De- farm, production, began concen
partment of Agriculture, is at- Crating on. the most pressing• war
tempting to grow Russian dande- needs. Overcoming gasoline and
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lion as a new_ source of rubber lire shortages, the : extension
to help meet America's war workers reached . even more of
needs
Russian dandelion, close kin of letins, mass demonstrations, . and
the common American weed, has lectures on modern farm meth
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roots whose sap is almost pure vuti
,
rubber, according to Charles F. Adjustment to this wartime
Noll, head of the department of role began when
still an "ernergencY the war //was
-." The change,
agronomy, who is supervising the
according to Stephenson W.
Ag School's present experiment•
Fletcher, dean of the Ag School,
Seeds being used in the test
.
crop of dandelion were flown di-
was accomplished quickly and
rectly from Russia, where over quietly, .Without thought Of pub
-2,000,000 acres of the • rubber-
licity or .acclaim.
expe •
producing plant - is reportedly be-!
The School's present rll-
ing cultivated. ments with Russian dandelion
are not yet far enough advanced
Although exact facts are veiled to/ be conclusive, but excellent
by the blanket of offiaial censor- progress has been made with the
ship, it has been estimated that first planting.
the Reds. derive over -150,000 tons Whether experimental Success
of rubber from the "weed" each can be transferred to -rubber pro
year. duction on. a commercial basis is
A distinct, athlantage of the' highly problematical, according
plant as a source of rubber, ac- to Noll.
cording to Noll, is that it bebornes Early experiment results indi
productive within a year, rather .cate that conditions in the East
than in five years as in the case should be favorable to the Red
of rubber trees. If a crop pro- , weed's cultivation., The vast
ducing over a hundred pounds. farms of the mid-West, while
per acre could be harvested in lacking. somewhat .in rainfall,
America, certain Department of have a climate that seems ideally
Agriculture officials feel the suited to ..the dandelion's growth.
United States rubber 'shortage ;Irrigation might' be necessary in.
might be oil "the way .out" in some cases, Noll admitted, but
short order. " with the rubber shortage so acute
Search foi a new source of •itS adoption is entirely possible.
rubber is but one ph'aSe of. a "itesults of present experi
vast program of cooperation in ments," the agronomy depart
the war effort being''condUcted by anent head added, "will go a long
the School of Agriculture. way toward giving us the facts."
The School's services in in- America's critical rubber short
struction, research, and exten- age may be licked by a dande
sion, seeking always to increase lion—and an Ag School that
farm production and efficiency, went quietly to war.
SUMMER TIME SCHEDULE
Lv. State College 11:10 A.M. 4:35 P.M. 7:00 P.M.
Ar. Lewistown 12:20 P.M. 5:45 P.M. 8:10 P.M.
Lv. Lewistown 12:30 P.M. 7:2.8 P.M. 8:50 P.M.
hr. Slate College 1:35 P.M. 8:30 P.M. 10:00 P.M.
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State College Hotel Dial 733
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THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1942
CAMPUS CALENDAR ,
TODAY
PSCA-Hillel Bible Study group
meets, Hillel Foundation, 7 p.. m.
Hillel Coffee Round-Table dis
cussion, Hillel Foundation, 4:15
p. m.
Student-Faculty Relation com
mittee meets, Hugh Beaver
Room, 7:30 p. m. •
'46 Independents will meet in.
405 Old Main, 7 p. m.
Herbert . C. Lanks, noted auth
or, lecturer, and traveler, will
present an illustrated lecture,
"Our Neighbors Down the Road,"
Schwab Auditorium, :30 p. m.
The lecturer will include a color
sound film on his recent trip by
motor car from the Caribbean
Sea to the Straits of Magellan.
A question forum will follow.
A meeting of Summer session
students interested in horseback
riding will be held at the Stock
Judging Pavilion, 7 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS
Seniors should get their La-
Vie proofs as soon as possible at
the Photo • Shop. Seniors who
have proofs should turn them in.
immediately.
Ag School research
Pennsylvania's farmers with bul-
workers,