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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
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Wednesday, August 5, 1942
Headlines Of Tomorrow
While the campus is still being cleared of rem
:nants of Victory Weekend, and everyone is busy
commending the organizations that combined their
efforts and talents in the interests of Army re
lief, we would like to take time out to glance at
Several other projects that are bound to . flare up
in the headlines within the next several weeks ...
There is no doubt that the present advisory
system should be revamped, and substituted by
same similar program that would be conducted
6n a more personal basis. The Senate Commit
tee on Student Welfare has recognized the neces
sity of a better system, and student government
bas started preliminary action on the problem.
According to the Senate Committee, "During
'Elie year .we have made a thorough study of the
atudent advisory systems as they actually exist
throughout the College. The Committee believes
lliat the scheduling officers give valuable service
:hi professional and educational guidance but in
general do not take the initiative in the personal
and welfare guidance of their advisees. The
need of a more confidential relationship bet Ween
the faculty advisor and the student appears to be
,greater now than ever before."
We can not: repeat too often th - at a better ad
visory system is needed, especially in a College
as large as Penn State, where a large enrollment
I)as bred a decided impersonal feeling among
students arid faculty. •
, Another, new headline in the week's news in
forms us that the second' AllXollege convocation
since Pearl Harbor is being . considered by stu
dent government 'leaders. The plan was pro.;
posed at last night's Cabinet meeting, but only
tentative arrangements were considered because
it was not definitely known at the time of the
meeting if President Hetzel would be able to
siiak at such a convocation. •
• The need of a convocation for all students and
:faculty is imperative, since there has been ,pome
evidence during the past several weeks that the
:3cholastic standing was dropping and that ,stn
dent-facuity , morale was reaching a low Point
fbcciuSe of the increasing grind of year-around
studying.
To be effective, the convocation should be held
within the coming week. Although the i)re.)iy
could not be contacted prior to Cabinet meeting,
we feel that he will accept the opportunity to
speak at the request of students who believe that
la convocation wouldprovide, the necessary shot
in the arm that is necessary to insure the success
of the accelerated Suinmer semester.
rack To "Where It Came From
It's on its. way out so grab your cameras and
take a few, last shots for the book of memories.
rot. 17 years the hideously painted monstrosity
squatted, before the armory, serving no better pur
pose than to remind the boys who were "over
•Lhere" of things better forgotten. Of course, lit
tle children found it an admirable plaything upon
which to climb. •
Now the 15 tons of steel has been designated
for an active war role. , New life will be given
to the old German howitzer as it is returned to
its makers in the most potent manner possible.
Dewy-eyed sentimentalists, if there be any to
:mourn the passing of the pile of junk, may re
concile themselves with the thought that it
'leaves behind something intangible but nonethe
:less powerful.
An unsiglltly landmark may now be removed
*with the consent of the trustees. In its place
will be a glaring vacancy pledged to the glorifi
,zation of a new relic—a souvenir of victory from
World War IL As the old traditions fade, new
'resolutions will be made to justify the return of
such a symbol of victory.
Thus another minor hut significant gesture has
iieen made to make Penn State war-conscious,
_Richard D. Snwser
_— Walt Fischman
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Pete Scott
Helen R. Keefauvel
Donald H. Shatter
Jolla D. Neel
-H. 3. Z.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
A Worm's Eye
View . . .
An ex-Penn State student was sitting in Schwab
Auditorium watching a Victory Weekend Thes
pian rehearsal last Thursday. This guy had been
turned down when he tried to enlist in the army
because his eyes were' bad. He had also. been
stopped by strangers in New York subways and
asked where his uniform was. He thought the
show was a little futile.
"This is Penn State's idea of how to win a
war," he said.
And also last week, one of the faculty members
was burned up because he had heard that cer
tain campus personalities had started a •petition
to permit students to be graduated before they
were drafted. •
"Is this Penn State's idea of how to win a war?"
he said
We thought about these things for a while. Then
we talked to a student after the tumult and the
Shouting of Dantz-a-poppin had died. This stu
dent said that Victory Weekend had been a lot
of work and had made a lot of noise. But in
spite. of this, he had felt good when he saw so
many people having fun and knew that the mon
ey they were spending for their fun was going to
make many more people happy. And we thought
about This, too:
We decided that maybe Penn State isn't right
out on the front lines, but that it does have some
ideas about how to Win 'a war. We figured that
the spirit behind the front line is just as import
ant as the actual fighting.
We think that those individuals who can see
only Penn State shrubbery and think that's: all
there is to the campus had
,better dig under the
soil a bit. There isn't much a student can do
about a war except accelerate his education'
. so
that he can meet the draft. And that's what
Penn State students are doing. There's no other
choice for them, either, when they, believe that
such thing's as education are important and last
ing in spite of wars.
No, Victory Weekend isn't any way to Win a
war, hitt it helps. it, helps to 'build up that word
that gets kicked around so .PersiStently in public
places, "morale." It helps people who have lost
relatives in ;this war.
. ,
So when Colonel Taylor hirnSelf says that there
aren't enough Victory Weekeryis s to take care of
such rehabilitation, maybe Penn State isn't so far
off the beam, —FERDY
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Atentiang: In . Fog
By MILTON DOLINGER
Described as . the "Achille's Heel" of the United
States is the region of the North i'acifiC—the ter
ritory of the fog-bound Aleutian Islands, and the
territory where 25,000 Japanese are Supposed to
be encamped.
Undefended until that fateful 7th of December,
Alaska is at the same tine the Point Most to fear
in case of the expected Jap invasion, and the
most logical point for• Uncle •Sarn to retaliate on
the vulnerable Japanese empire. Along the out
er-most extremity of the Alaskan coast stretch
the Aleutian Islands which, strangely enough, are
of the same pattern as the islands of the• Japanese.
•In fact, Japan has a naval base only 700 miles
from the closest ot i the Aleutian's. JaPan proper
is slightly farther south from this point. With a
population of 72 millions concentrated along her
coast line, the center of Japan's population is ac
tually much nearer to Alaska than our own.
Bounded on one side
,by the cold, treacherous
Bering Sea, the only product of the Aleutians
seems to be a fog that would make London ap
pear a city of perpetual high noon. Weather ex
perts have compiled figures showing that the is
lands are fog-bound two-thirds of the days in
the year.
The importance of Alaska and the far-flung
isles of the Aleutians can be readily realized by
a look at distances. The shortest great circle
route from Tokyo to Seattle passes through Dutch
Harbor; the shortest route from Tokyo to Wash
ington, D. C., passes north of Nome, Alaska.
Fairbanks, one of the principal communities of
the Alaskan plateau and drained by the vital Yu
kon River, is the same distance from Tokyo as it
is from New York City. Here also is a railroad
which leads into the interior of Alaska and points
toward the West coast of the United States.
What is going on in the Aleutians is veiled in
as thick a fog of military censorship as the atmos
pheric conditions of the islands.
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