PAGE TWO THE DARN COLLEGIAN "For A Better Peftn State" ntablished 1940. Successor to thte Penn State thillestan, established 1904, and the Free Lance. established 1887. Published daily except Sunday and Monday during .ths :regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania fltate College. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934 nt the Post-office at State College, Pa., under the act of March 8. 1879. Editor''' Bus. and Adv. Mgr. Gordon Coy '43 ''r l5 -v Leonard E. Bach '43 Editorial and Business Office Carnegie Hall Phone 711 Managing Editor This Issue _ News Editor This Issue __. Women's Editor This Issue Assistant Managing Editor Advertising Manager Graduate Counselor .Louis B. Bell Friday, August 7, 1942 Outbursts From The Dorms When the College announced that women may occupy men's dorms beginning with the Fall se• attester. there was a spontaneous outburst of dis roval among a small number of men now living :tu the campus dormitories. "What right have they to force us out?" was th.e cry among that small group, which was not only asking fiery questions but was.,threatening to avenge the proposed plan by ransacking the dorms. By living•in the dorms, the men claim that they !have found a cheap but valuable substitute for actual fraternity life; and now the College is at tempting to deprive them of their opportunity and •Lo shove them downtown where they will be forced ;10 accept rooms that are just as expensive but not 'nearly on par with the ones that they will be leav ing in the dormitories. Their arguments sound good—but did you ever stop to think of the other side of the story? This :is war-time, and we had begun to think that the average American was getting accustomed to ac cepting setbacks and hardships. Maybe we were wrong in assuming this—especially in the case of college-trained men. Before a handful of dorm men begin to assert •themselves, in draStic ways, we hope that they will hesitate and think twice about what they are doing. After all, the College is only proposing this project as a means 'of providing itself 'with the necessary security during a time of emergency. No one will doubt that women students are a far bet ter investment for a college at a time when prac tically every man faces induction in the army. By matriculating additional women, the College can continue to operate on a nearly normal. basis, and by doing so, will be able to offer the usual technical program for whatever men are not called into the service. This may sound like a roundabout argument, but if the enrollment drops, and the State and Federal appropriation is cut as a result, then the College and all its vital defense training 'facilities will suffer. Undoubtedly, the only safety valve is to insure a large enrollment, and this is being done by admitting additional women. • All over the country, women are replacing men jri business and industry on the home-front, while the men are preparing to protect American on the :foreign front. It has happened and will continue to happen in industry—and there is no reason under the sun why it can't happen here. Protecting Our Frosh When the Federal government hit upon the plan of gas rationing, little did it realize that such 'a program would benefit a certain group of fresh men who were going to enroll at Penn State for the 1942 Fall semester. Because of certain legal technicalities which prevent the rationing board from alloting extra gas to school buses, a select group of frosh will not be able to attend the Freshman Camp. Now :you may ask, how can . such a situation be termed a benefit? On the cover it appears as though the .1' cosh will be deprived of some opportunity. But first, let's glance at a little background in formation. Freshman Camp was held for the first ilme this Spring when 500 freshmen were being nriented in preparation for the accelerated Sum mer semester. Time was short: so the usual Freshman Week training was condensed into two oit 'three days. Since the frosh were being trained , for life at Penn State. we would assume that the 'hest place to conduct such training would be on the campus. However, one College organization offered to orient the frosh by taking them away to a distant camp, if the freshmen would pay for the trip. Some of the frosh liked the camp plan and thought it was 'the logical and accepted thing to do. So, off they went to the mountains to learn about the place mey were leaving—Penn State. And then they ti a y gas rationing has nc benefits: Downtown Office 119-121 South Frazier St. Phone 4872 _ Benjamin M. Bailey . Fred E. Cleve'. Jane H. Mutpny Pete Scott A. Kenneth Sivitz THE DAILY COLLEGIAN r Through The . Needle's Eye We looked all over the Golden Piazza this morn ing for the camel, and we finally found him, with his legs crossed, glumly looking at a recruiting poster plastered on the Pearly Gates. ",Camel, old dromedary," we said brightly. "Why the gloom?" He looked at us. snorted and flicked one ear to ward the poster. It said: "Join the Enlisted Re- serve." "Oh,". We said. "You mean those Penn State students again. You're always worrying about those kids. We figured out what the trouble is, Camel, old kid. "You've been worrying about that Summer semester and that accelerated program again. There're just gobs of freshmen and sophomores who aren't going so hot, you know. Penn State makes a major effort to help the war program, and some of these underclassmen don't realize that it's up to them to justify Penn State's willingness to give them a college degree in less than three years." The camel shrugged and looked up at the poster again. "Yeah," we said. "Most of these freshmen and sophomores are 18 and 19 years old, and they don't think their's much chance of their .getting drafted before graduation.' The camel nodded. "The trouble with that," we 'said, "is that we're going to really start fighting this war after Con gress finally gets itself re-elected, and the draft boards are going to come calling on these fresh men and sophomores pretty quick after that. Ws bad enough getting drafted before finishing a four year college course, without losing out on a di ploma before the end of two and two third years." We pulled one of the camel's ears. "That's why Bob Galbraith can't understand why these underclassmen don't come to see him about the enlisted reserve. Here these undergradu ates not only have a chance to finish their college education, but also to finish it in a way that will directly help their country in the war effort. Of course, these frosh anel sophs are probably too much interested in the short-range difficulties of overcoming below grades, to take time out for the long-range obstacles which might waste their edu cation if they do pass the courses." The .camel twitched his nose and coughed. "Not that anyone who is drafted isn't doing something for his country. Not that anyone who tries to stay in college is a slacker either. But it seems funny that more of these youngsters don't bring the two closer together, before the local board does it for them." The camel got up and slowly walked away. —GABRIEL A Real_ • Refresher The • 'W CORNER Unusual Staff Changes Announced (Continued horn Page One) home economics extension repre sentative. Also appointed were I.E. F. Wil lis,' instructor in history; C. D. Nuebling, analyst in the Mineral Industries Experiment Station; C. G. Seashore, assistant professor of engineering extension; Glenn Au miller, assistant supervisor of ex tramural classes in Central Exten sion; Margaret C. , Raabe, instruc tor in clinical speech; G. M. Graff, assistant supervisor of informal in struction in Central Extension; R. J. McCall, assistant professor of agricultural engineering extension, and J. E. Walter, instructor in phy sics. New titles and. promotions .were approved by the trustees as fol lows: Hugh R. Riley, Jr., to •be as sistant director of the department of public information; 'Margaret H. Buyers, to be assistant publi cations editor; and R. 0. Wicker sham to be associate professor of aeronautical engineering. Six leaves of absence were granted as follows: R. W. Kerns, associate professor of rural sociol ogy extension, to serve as Senior community mobiliation advisor, Office of Civilian Defense, 3rd Service Command; L. L. Newman, assistant professor of fuel tech nology, to serve with the War Pro duction Board. G. E. Brandow, assistant profes ' sor of agricultural economics, to serve as consultant in the Office of Price Administration; F. E. Hy slop, Jr., assistant professor of fine arts; F. V. Grau, assistant pro fessor of agronomy extension, to serve as assistant chief of the Turf Unit, U. •S. Army; and R. W. Brew ster, assistant professor of history and political science in undergrad uate centers, to serve with the Office of Price Administration. Twelve resignations were an nounced as follows: Mary 'E. Rich ards, home economics extension representative; R. M. Roney, Int structor in English composition; F. C. Todd, assistant professor of petroleum and natural gas engin eering; D. V. Ramsey, assistant professor of sociology; E. R. Van Sant, assistant professor econom ics; J. L. Dilworth, instructor in mechanical engineering. Esther Knowles, instructor in home economics; Kent Forster, in structor in history; Martha S. Suter, home economics extension representative; Mary Jane Steven son, assistant to the Dean of Wom en; J. D. Surmatis, instructor in chemistry; and W. R. Forster, in structor in mineral preparation. Campus Calendar TODAY Hillel Friday evening services,. make the five-dollar deposits on Hillel Foundation, 7:15 p. m. their caps and gowns at Student Panhel Ball, Nittany Lion Inn, Union. 9 p. m. to 12 p. m TOMORROW Philotes cabin party at WRA 120 who are expected to graduate. Cabin. Meet at 2 p. m. in front Ridge stated that a refund will Of Old Main. be made on the return of the caps Tennis match with the faculty, and gowns the amount of which 2 p. m. depends on the number graduated. FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1.942 Hetzel Confers Degrees On 187 Session Grads (Continued front Page One) ner, which was conducted by Pierre Henrotte, then Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," led by Dr. George S. Howard, associate pro fessor of music, extension divi sion. Singing of "Blue and White" by ithe audience marked the close of the impressive program.. Degrees included master of ed ucation, 71; master of science, 15; master of arts, 15; doctor and en gineer degrees as mentioned; .bachelor of science, 64; and bach elor of arts, 15. Seniors in the . 'four-ydar course who made scho lastic averages of 2.4 or higher were Margaret Patterson, Jean W. Ranney, and 'Clarence M. Sykes. For the first time this Summer, the session program was conduct- - ed with a normal College semes ter, and most regular session ac tivities were sponsored as usual. Weekly concerts by the band school as well as student sings highlighted the six-weeks course. Special programs, recreational events, lectures by faculty and outside speakers, and two con ferences on psychology and edu cation also were scheduled in the session program. Neyhart To Teach Army Drivers Amos E. Neyhart, nationally famed expert in auto safety re search, has been invited by Brig-. adier General James A. Warden to go to Fort Francis E. Warren in Wyoming to teach American army officers the intricacies of driver education and training from August 17 to 29. This is the second of two war tasks that Mr. Neyhart has under taken in his role as administrative head of The Pennsylvania State College Institute of Public Safety. While preparing for his Wyoming assignment Mr. Neyhart is corn pleting work on a test which a nationally recognized committee will utilize to determine the abil ity of a school bus driver to oper ate his vehicle efficiently. This program has been 'designed to as sist school districts in inaugurating conservation measures as their contribution to the war effort. At Fort Warren, Mr. Neyhart will be assisted in his work by Dr. F. R. Noffsinger, educational con sultant of the American Automo bile Association. Cap And Gown Fee Due At SU Today Thomas Ridge '43, acting head of the senior caps and gowns com mittee, emphasized last night that today. is the final day for this month's graduating seniors to So far only 30 seniors have paid the deposit out of the more than
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