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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
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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
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Stephen Sinichak
A. Kenneth Sivitz
John B. Neel
The C‘A \ lo ,
Campuseer
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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
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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