PAGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN ' "For A Better Penn State" Elstablishei 1940. Successor to thte Penn State Collegian, established 1904. and the Free Lance. established 1887. Published daily except Sunday and Monday during tha regular College year by the Students of The Pennsylvania Slate 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. Cordon Coy '43 '''?r -1-1 • 1 ' Leonard E. Bach '43 Edikorial and Business Office Carnegie Hall - Phone 711 Managing Editor This Issue News Editor This Issue ____ Women's Editor This Issue Assistant Managing Editor Assistant News Editor Advertising Manager __ .A4;sistant Advertising Manager Qraduatia Courqielor ______ 4431.1 Tuesday, July 14, 1942 Pot-Pourri "Where the vale of old Mount Nittany Cheerfully and with feeling the words came clear and strong as a group of Summer session students strolled down the mall. In the short time !that they have been here these people, many from out of the state, have taken Penn State as their Alma Mater. True, it is possible that there is an other and dearer attachment from undergraduate days, but the Nittany spirit is making its empres ion. If they, then, have accepted us so uncondition lly as to consider Penn State a second Alma Mater, it is about time that we accept them not as guests or strangers but, fellow students. Unfor tunately this has not been the case. We have heard individuals mutter hostile re xnarks about the "intruders" who have swelled the College enrollment. Such misguided dunder lheads have created a false impression about the Penn State spirit. What does it matter that the Summer school students are a little older chron ologically and have slightly different interests? Penn State is a democratic institution. Every one from the sharpest Joe College on the mall to the shy farmer boy who enrolls in an extension course down in York county is a true Penn Stater privileged to honor the Nittany Lion and sing "For The Glory." Earning a degree in six or ten weeks is a hard job for most people, and stepping into a new col lege environment may be as trying for a high School teacher as Tt was to Freddie Frosh a few 'weeks ago. Summer sessions, post sessions, and intermis sions are not extras. They are a planned and reg * arly scheduled part of a definite" 'College pro- gram. • If we want to consider these people as guests, let us treat them with proper hospitality. ,Better ;yet, we can regard them as being one with us. Our Alma Mater is big enough to share. Are we? Stop, Listen, And Think Some Penn State students are too good for the V. S. That was . the Conchision we drew at ap proximately ten minutes to nine 'this morning when the Band School hand struck up the nation .al anthem during their early morning flag rais ing exercises. The stirring sight of students, faculty, :and grass gutters standing at attention under the sun-streak ed elms of the mall, on the reflecting steps of Old Main, and on the pleasant grasses Of front cam pus during that spine-tingling ritual was marred iby several indifferent students who continued to stroll to their class in the EE Building. On the mall we noticed two khaki-clad frosh continue to amble towards their nine o'clock ROTC class in Carnegie Hall to learn how to protect a country they evidently don't love. Penn State students are often too willing to back some controversial question, such as the Jap-American rowdy dow, and forget some of the simple truths like the Constitution or the Star Spangled Ban ner that are underlying reasons why we are fighting this war and speeding up our college 'work. Is it too much to ask real red-blooded Ameri cans to pause for a few minutes in the daily hustle litnd think about how good it is to live in a coun try that is "the land of the free?" Maybe it is weaker to attack these inconsider ate people with the editorial pen than with a good swift kick, but we wonder how near they came to missing most of their classes for the rest of the day. If •our interpretation of human expressions is correct, there were many in the patriotic group who would have supplied the swift kick. Is it too much to ask yolt to be patriotic, to go even farther than being polite; and pause for a :few minutes when you do get up campus at nine .111 the morning, or are you too big for the IL S.? Downtown Office 119-121 South Frazier St. Phone 4372 ---_Robert M. Faloon Benjamin M. Bailey _Mary Janet Winter -__- Mickey Matz Stephen Sinichak A. Kenneth Sivitz John B. Neel The C‘A \ lo , Campuseer at One Down, One TO Go Soph Hop came in like a lion Friday 'midst a terrific rainstorm, and went out like a lamb quite sheepishly Sunday. And in the interim many others came in and went out—like lights. Soph Hop broke tradition once again and cannot be called Soph Flop, since the second year lads chalked up a sizeable amount on the black side of the ledger. We still think the band stunk. Victory Weekend, here we come! Three's A Crowd Campy found it hard enough to get one date, but Lois Harper .didn't even consider two an achievement. The red-headed sophomore ended up with three escorts, one for each clay of the weekend. Pining—And Pinning Away Johnny Jones came.. back for the big affair to bestow his phi gam jewelry on Mary Jo Powell ... Lois Lohrke now has the chi phi pin of Paul Luckenbill to place beside her chio badge . . . Joyce Strope and Gene Cassel both took time off from their Summer siestas to crawl over the dance floor to the music (?) of Charlie Barnet . . Cy rene Newcomb, Theta pledge, received a sparkler from her Bellefonte beau.. Lucky Frog Cruelty to Animals Society please note: Beer must have been -flowing like water at the Delta Chi picnic, but there was enough left over to in toxicate a frog. We hope the old boy didn't have a hangover . . . The main attraction at Green- Wood Saturday were the antics of two dogs, each a mascot of one of the fraternities. In Like A Lion, And— We are abashed, or something! After plugging our senior administration for getting Lions Coats for the Summer, we shamefacedly discover that not many of our high-and-oh-so-mighty seniors are supporting the issue by buying the loafer jackets. On the ball, lads and lassies. After all, they are sharp, . . A Hot Hot Dog , Hot dogs may come and hot dogs may go, but Campy's nomination for a hot dog that will make the all-time team is George Washko, of trumpet fame. Maybe the lad learned fast at the fisigma kappa hangout. WATCH YOUR, DATE. SMILE • I • • The coRNER Unusual THE DAILY COLLEGIAN -CAMPY Adsit Asks `lap' Petitions By Noon TODAY Graduate students in education First round of the petition cam paign on the Jap-American admis sion controversy ends at noon to day, when all petitions are due back• to the volunteer committee, John R. Adsit '45, one of the lead-- ers of the student faculty group, announced last nighty Each student should return his petition to the committee member from whom he received it, accord ing to Adsit. "With 46 students and faculty members working 'on the cam paign," Adsit stated, "it is rather difficult to know exactly how Many Penn Staters have signed so far. The number, however, is already approaching the 2,000 mark, and prospects for the 'future look promising. • • "We feel that the great major ity of the student body is with us wholeheartedly in our protest against excluding American citi zens From Penn State because of their Japanese parentage," Adsit 'added. the current series of lessons, spon- Dancing Class Still sored by. the Penn State Club; be- gan a few weeks ago," Harry Open To All Students 'Coleman '44, PSC social chairman, 'announced last night. "A three .week course in the The course, held in the Armory fundamentals of ballroom dancing on Tuesday and Thursday eve will start tonight for those people nings, will cost two dollars for the who were too late in joining when three weeks. Letters To The Editor— Takes Opposite Stand On Jap Case To The Editor: I'm one of the several hundred students who took the narrow minded view toward the local Jap-American test for democracy. But unlike the fellow who was ridiculed as a "hypocrite" and a "race an tagonizer" for refusing to "sign up for_ democracy " in .front of the Cathaum the other night, I have no objeUiOn to the admittance of these two American citizens of Jap parentage to our college. To the contrary, I hold nothing but sympathy for these two students as indi viduals, for I realize their predicament. • I can even see the picture reversed, with my attempting to gain admittance to a Jap university as a Jap-American citizen. BUT, I am convinced that for, their own good, their applications for admittance should be turned .down, Let uS.for a moment suppose they were accepted and were to arrive on campus tomorrow. (President Hetzel will have to accept them anyhow, judging from the number of petitions the "classroorri crusaders fpr democracy" are steamrollertiv, thro44.) The college would greet then with open arms, there's no doubt about that. They wculd . l:;efetedand feedid by every flag-loving or: ganiseticp on campus. .Thls is democracy, you know, but we must continually be breaking our necks to prove . • Some of the faculty "crusaders" would entertain them in their homes. These same "crusaders" would hcit hesitate 'him down any burn of American parentage_ who tailed at their 'back door for a cup of coffee. Collegian would run several interviews and features on the evils of intolerance. But finally, the heat of the crusade would begin to cool. Every crusade is like that. They. would enjoy friendship; but not as we knoW friendship. They would - still be welcome everywhere, but not as studentl; they would be welcomed as public wards. The number of dinner invita tions would drop; they always do. They would make few if any gen uine and intimate friends, because there would always be that embar rassing wall of reserve between them and. us; Pearl Harbor, fifth col-: umnists, and nationalistic propaganda, you know. They would always be stared at. .tudents, yea, bat not in tba true sense of the term. They wouldn't want that. And I feel that if they had a little more American horse sense..they•would hunt a nice quiet and secluded corner and stay there"till t,hisugly mess is over. • The two students in- question have been vetrayed by their native people; that's unfortunate but no fault of ours. Let them stay out of the public gaze .as much as possible for the duration; that would be their contribution to democracy. . I have signed up to fight their people just as have millions of oth er American youngsters. To prove I'm for democracy I must fight their people. The martyr-eyed "crusaders" say they are citizens, why not find a place in the war effort for them. "Their, education can wait just as it must for millions of other Americans who have been assigned their "job" in this war. If they love America .they will gladly forego a college education till later when people see more clearly again. dertainly there will be other students, with friends who went to Bataan, to have another les son in democracy cut out of their insides in tno iorrn of American scrap, who will undoubtedly take. on "intolerant attitude" toward. these wards for that reason, The war effort could find a much more practical outlet for such burning energy as that shown by the vacuity "crusaders." signed: 1-A with My Draft Board For A SatWactory Service PENN STATE LAUNDRY 320 W. Beaver Ave. TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1942 CAMPUS CALENDAR and psychology who are begin ning the second half of their work towards the master's degree,, must lake the comprehensive exam in. Room 121 Sparks. 3 p. m. Faculty Fun Night at Rec Hall, 8 p. m. Portfolio meeting in Room . 6 of 'Carnegie Hall, 8:30 p. in. Centre County art show in MI art gallery from 10-12 a. m. and 1-5 p. m. • • A motion picture, "If I Had •A !Million," on the promotion of vis'- ual education, in Schwab Audi torium. 8:30 p. m. • . . • TPMPiftoW Meeting of Summer Dames in Robrn 308 Burrowes Building. 2:30 p. rn. Professor Free speaks on "Birds and Flowers •in This VicinitY."- - Picnic for" Summer session 'home eccers in Hort Woods, 4 p. m. Lecture and motion picture by Howard A. Gray in Room 10 Sparks. 8 p. in. Phone 3261
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