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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:
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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