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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State"
Established 1940. Successor M thte Penn State Collegian.
established 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1837.
Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the
regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania
State College. Entered as second-class matter July 6. 1934
at the Post-office at State College, Pa., under the act of
March 8. 1879,
Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr.
Gordon Coy '43 Leonard E. Bach '43
Editorial and Business Office Downtown Office
Carnegie Hall 119-121 South Frazier St.
Phone 711 . Phone 4872
Managing Editor This Issue Rolist*: T. Xlitmel
Hews 'Editor This Issue ' —Richard D. Swims'
Assistant Managing Editor Rill Reimer
Women's Editor This Issue Jane H. Mutpny
Advertising Manager A. Kenneth Sivitz
Graduate COunselor
Friday, July 31, 1942
revamping : Advisor
By pledging its siipport of a proposal to revamp
the College's advisory system, All-College Cabinet
has initiated action that should have been con
sidered several years ago.
Hundreds of students will admit that they only
See their advisor on the Monday before registra-
Aion, and then it is only a matter of form. After
alt, what good is an advisor if he does nothing
but check a student's schedule •to determine if
sufficient credits have been included to permit
graduation at the end of four years.
To say that the advisors in every School are
lax in their duties would be slightly unfair. We
will admit that the system. employed by the
Schools of Mineral Industries and Agriculture are
more commendable than the ones existing in the
other five Schools.
Because of Penn State's large enrollment, a
competent advisory system is practically imper
ative. Smaller colleges are not faced with the
problem because each instructor has plenty of
time •to devote to individual students. But this
:is not a small college, and it is not unusual for
a student to spend an entire semester in a lec
-I,uring class, and still not know the name of the
The size of Penn State deinaas that the Col
:lege be conducted on an impersonal basis—a situ
ation which can be partly remedied by assigning
each student to at least one competent advisor.
An Interesting Footnote
In. a college town whose history book is illus
,trated with full-color plates of students casually
and foolishly ripping up thousands of dollars of
parking meters, and burgesses just as casually
and foolishly fining students for minor infractions
of the law, Burgess . Albert E. Yougel's declara
tion of Victory Weekend as a borough holiday
makes an
,interesting footnote.
Just as it is satisfying and even thrilling to see
the concerted effort of Penn State students in a
'timely and American activity such as V-Week-
end, it is gratifying to see the traditional friction
between borough and College melt away before
the impact of a cause bigger than either. • The
!Flag of the United States will wave throughout
State College this weekend as they say for the
townspeople: "America, we love and salute you.
Penn State students we join you in your effort
•to help America."
Victory Weekend will be gone on Monday, just
et paragraph in the borough history book. Whether
or not the blank pages will be filled with more
anecdotes of student -borough strife will be • a
question for the future. It will seem more like
Penn State, more like the spirit evidenced in Vic
tory Weekend, if the unmarked pages will re
cord the student-borough cooperation.
A Nod Of Approval
When student originality and ability is coupled
With faculty guidance and energy, The Daily Col
legian is anxious to take some space to say: "Good
Work!" on behalf of the student bbdy. Today
. the editors are just as anxious to recognize the
efforts of one of The Daily Collegian's own.
Sunday night will see the curtain rise in the
Little Theatre as some of the best actors on cam
pus bring to life an original play, "Ephrata."
'several months ago Frank Neusbaum of the dra
matics staff asked Kathryn Popp '43, assistant
women's editor of The Daily Collegian, to work
on a one-act play of historical Pennsylvania.
The closing curtain Sunday night will tell
'whether Katie Popp's original script did justice
'to Frank Neusbaum's idea and historical re
,:earch. We just want to give a nod of approval
1.1 the idea of such student-faculty cooperation in
_ It. Bell
-B. M. W
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Through The
Needle's Eye
Last semester a couple of guys got an idea.
"This College needs to know that there is
. a war
going on," they said. "This Summer semester is
going to be a tough baby to handle. Kids are
going to be tired and lethargic at Penn State.
Let's fix up something that will let them know
there is a war going on; let's start something that
Will let steam off."
The idea grew a little bit, then a little bit more;
'and today you can' buy a stake in that idea for
$4.40 at the AA ticket windows in Old Main.
It was pretty hard to•get the idea going at first.
Campus organizations couldn't see beyond their
own publicity; but then a few-others began to
get the idea, and all the latent•strength and tre
mendous ability on the Penn State campus be
gan to flow in one direction: student leaders be
gan to feel the power of the democratic process;
student followers said: "We'll work, because we've
got a stake in the army, in victory, in Victory
Weekend." And tomorrow afternoon the stu
dents of Penn State through the efforts of some
twenty-seven campus groups will give the Army
of this nation thousnds of dollars for the army,
for victory, from Victory Weekend, from them
selves.
The deans of. the College have said students
must come out of the' clouds of activities and get
down to work for their country. Dean Steidle
allowed himself to be quoted condemning extra
curricular activities. We can't agree with some
of his points. 'lt seems to us that the heavy crop
of below-grades cannot be attributed to activities,
when there is as much going on in a regular se
mester as we've had 'this Summer.
But we do think that Dean Steidle is also 'right.
We think he's a sharp guy who knows what kind
of a job the country has to do, what kind of job
Penn State has to do. The problem is pretty
clear it seems to us: just as the strength and en
ergy of Penn State poured into Victory .Weekend
once the idea was explained, once the students
felt their stake in the idea, so will the strength and
energy of 'Penn State rush to do the work of the
school if the idea is made understandable.
Maybe Victory Weekend will help. At least
it's a more pleasant way of making the idea clear
than, say, taking the students to visit the mothers
of soldiers killed in action or through an army
hospital. If students will get the idea—that this
is their war—they'll put below-grades out of
existence. Their democratic stomachs won't,
stand them.
Make Victory.
Weekend Complete
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The
CORNER
Unusual
Fred
,Waring Broadcast, trans
mitted by loudspeaker in front of
Old, Main, 7 p. m.
Thespian-Glee Club Revue,
Schwab Auditorium, 8' p.
Dancing to Benny Goodman,
Rec Hall, 10 p. m.•to 2 a. m.
Crowning of Victory Girl by
Goodman at midnight
,intermis
sion.
TOMORROW . ,AFTERNOON
, •
Frosh-Soph tug-of-war, follow
ed by coed tug-of-war, New Bea
ver Field, 2 o'clock.
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Xlif;el avid Sfafe Coll de •Druipi;;and
#l4Fle ,Corps, .141;W Beaver Field,
2:30
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Siiiinitterport - coals
Wool Shetlands
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Allen St.
Campus
TODAY
Eat And Shop In Air. Conditioned
Breakfast Lunch Dinner
or a Between Meals drink or - Sundae
REA and DERICK, Inc.
FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1942
Calendar
Presentation of V-Weekend pro
ceeds to Colonel Taylor, Army
Relief fund representative, and
presentation of fraternity lawn
display award, New Beaver Field,
3 o'clock.
Varsity baseball, Cornell, New
Beaver Field diamond, 3:30
o'clock.
Varsity golf, Corpell, College
golf course,, ;3:30
Vasity Jentiis, Cornell, varsity
courts, Z o'clock.
~ T OMORROW EVENING.
Thespian-Glee Club Revue,
SdtiUialk ,7 0 44fir,inin, 7
134 ,bikuh,„•.lieU Hall,, 9 o'clodk
Until intdni4ht. • '
Comfort'
Next tO the Bank Clock