PAGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN • . "For A Better Penn State" Established 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian. established 1904. and the Free Lance, established 1887. Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second-class matte July 8. 1934 of the Post-office at State College. Pa., under the etiet of March 8, 1879. Editor Bus. and' Adv. Mgr. Gordon Coy '43 Leonard E. Bach '43 Managing Editor _-___ News Editors _ Assistant Managing Editor __ Assistant News Editors ___ Advertising Manager Assistant Advertising Manage, Graduate Counselor Saturday, October 3. 1942 The Art Of Cheering When the Nittany Lions• take the field against i►3uckne'll this afternoon, Penn State grid fans will g,et" an extra treat in the way of sideline enter- tainment But. first, let's look over some background ma terial, which will show why Penn State football games have grown more colorful during the past few years. The mighty Blue Band has become the pride of Nittany Valley, chiefly because of its quick marching tempo. In the eyes of Penn State and other eastern colleges, the Band has attained par excellence, and places second to none. Then comes the Nittany Lion mascot, which has undoubtedly added that extra touch that had been lacking at Penn State football games of the past. Add while the College is busily engaged offering these extra colorful attractions to supplement the football scene, the team itself is battling into the national spotlight with other top grid aggregations of the country.' All in all, it now appears that Penn State is at taining the much dreamed-of heights on the Sat urday gridiron. But, until this year, there was still a glaring weakness in an otherwise' near perfect football program, simply because cheer leading and cheering itself has not reached a standard comparable to the rest of Penn State's grid program. Evidence that this weakness is also being bol stered will be shown on the gridiron this after mOn, when the cheerleaders will put on a show that promises to match the speC,tacular perform. ance of ,the Blue Band. Now, if the fans know ,the cheers, Perm State's football scene should near Lhe peak of perfection. The freshmen and soph omores will uphold their end of the cheering, but the juniors, seniors, faculty, and townspeople may he somewhat lax in their cheering, if performance of 'the oast is used as a basis of comparison. It is this second group that has the best seat at the game: yet it is this satire group that shows the krist spirit when it comes to cheering. Now that the College is in the orocess of im proving its cheerleading personnel, it may be worthwhile to revise its cheering sections at the same time Much Ado About Cyclists Bicyclists are getting to be as great a problem to. borough officials as autoists were two years ago. When automobiles began to disappear this year, cyclists tookk over the streets and sidewalks of both town and campus. Complaints received by borough police have forced them to impose restrictions on town cyclists and College students alike, and as has been the custom, students have failed to heed the warning. The fines that follow are declared "ridiculous", and "just another attempt by borough officials to fill their pockets." Such accusations of course, are foolish and en tirely unfounded. Borough officials realize that if cyclists do not obey traffic laws, accidents will occur and the police force will then be to blame. Is it any reason then that students who go through red lights are fined? These rulings bear-repeating Bicycling will not be permitted on sidewalks or on the wrong side of the road Riding two on a bicycle is prohibited. Cyclists should not go through stoplights and .hould obey all other traffic signals. They should use lights and horns at the proper Police in State College have never fined a ,3tudent without first warning the student body through the Daily Collegian or the administra tion that an ordinance is being violated. The warning has already been posted, so do not say ,)ou were not notified, if you are fined for som... fIOUIV ViOL:tion. —D. L. W. . Do»nld Webb Sally Hirshberg, Jane Murphy _ Steve Sinichak __ Lee Freedman. Lee Learner Philip P. Mitchell • John D. Neel .___ Louis H. Belt (The opinions expressed in this column are those of the columnist, and are not necessarily those of The Daily Collegian.) We, too, like to tell nothing BUT the truth. Sometimes it isn't quite so simple, nor so whimsi cal. Yesterday we went up to the library. But not merely to browse around the stacks like our sworn-in witness of Wednesday's columns. We were looking for a definite book for a definite assignment. • Without any trouble, we found the book's list ing. in the catalogue, copied down the numerals on a. card, and took it over to the desk. The clerk was gone behind the stacks for about five minutes. He returned, shrugged his shoul ders. No book. No book? But we had to have the book. The clerk was polite and very sorry. He would check again. • This time he returned with a slip of paper. The book had been missing since July. There was nothing he could do about it. This made us sore, so we decided to do some in vestigating. Report as follows: The 'missing' book problem is a bigger thing Than one would ordinarily imagine. .The actual amount lost in a semester is hard to estimate be cause in a building the size of the library it is im possible to check the , complete inventory as often as would be necessary for this. However, the amount of invested capital that seeps out through these chanels is by no means anemic. Some of this is carelessness, soma plain stealing. A library worm picks up a book from the stacks or the Headlight collection, sits down somewhere to read it. Halfway through a chapter he may suddenly remember a class or an appointment down town. This worm can't be bothered to take the book back where he found it. He tosses it on the nearest shelf, or merely leaves it lying on a desk for someone else to pick up. You can see what that meats. If someone comes in for that book the next day, .chances are he won't find it. It doesn't make much difference to the worm, but the guy. on.the other side of the fence gets damned mad. And you can never tell when you're going to be the guy on the other side of the fence: , This is one situation where . there is no line drawn between students And faculty. It's hard to say who is the worst offender. . —Jackson Three Groups Get Late Hour Grants Permission for three campus organizations to extend meetings past the 8:30 p. m. deadline was granted, and one group refused by the All-College committee on late hours, Bernard A. Plesser, group chairman, announced. 'Campus. Patrol was given a blanket permission, Portfolio's monthly pre-publication meeting will be permitted to be late, and Tribunal was told it could meet until 9 n. m. each week permission is requested. Past decisions demanded that the Newman Club's petition for late hours be re fused. The report follows: The Campus Patrol will be given a blanket per- mission for late meetings due to the quick turn over in force, the subsequent rapid Te-training of new recruits, and its undecided nature. The Newman Club's petition for late request was refused. Such action was taken because it was felt that such an organization is. not a necessary one to the war effort, either directly or indirectly. Actual time requested had no bearing on the de cision; the refusal was based more on the princi ple and the precedent already set by refusal to such groups as the P. S. C. A., and All-College Cabinet. The monthly pre-publication meeting of Port folio' can be held on October 6, as petitioned for. Time limit will be set by the editor. Tribunal's second petition for lengthening its hours of conducting business was considered and granted with exception. The Chairman of Tribu nal will determine the number of cases to be re viewed and if in his estimation extra time will be needed, lie group will be allowed an extension to 9 p. m. at its regular Wednesday meeting. The Chairman must ask each week for the extra time limit: unless such a request is made, it will be the meeting will last only ;o 3:30. 'ISA' THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Native Hues 'Way, aren't - thimeTiebier - trees?" 1000 Cotiples Attend IF Ball More than 1,000 couples throng ed Rec Hall last night to dance to the offerings of Teddy Powell and his. "Surprise Band of the Year" at Penn State's first'`decoration less" wartime Interfraternity Ball. Marked Ly clear, warm weath er-=-a welcome departure from ty pical IF Ball weather of the past several years—attendance at last night's dance showed a corres ponding increase over that of the last several seasons. - Weekend festivities will be. con tinued tonight with:nearly a: score of fraternities holding dances 'Climax of IF Weekend activities will be the football game between Bucknell and State on New Beav er Field- at 2 o'clock this after- CAMPUS CALENDAR TODAY• WRA Open House; White Hall, 7to 10 p.• m. - • Wesley Foundation cabin: party, Ralph Watts Lodge, 5 p. m. SUNDAY Chapel Service, Schwab Audi torium, 11 a, m. Hillel Record Concert, Hillel, 2:30 p. m. Special student communion ser vice, Grace Lutheran Church, 6:30 p. MONDAY 'Beginners' class in Hebrew, Hil lel, 4:15 p. m. All are welcome. Independent '46 Clique, .318 Old Main, 7 p. m. Committee mem bers are urged. to attend. 1 The First. Ndtional- State College.. Member of • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1942 sh" . e nten, A Job , Done— Almost' Perfectly It _worked! A job that looked' like: a moun tain at a glance has been .done Successfully. • Five hu n d - r i e d' green-ribboned , frosh are full fledged College coedS . . . . and all because women's organization heads were put together and a wise division of "labor" resulted. One newcomer commented af ter. the first few weeks, We had chances to see' everything, and even had time' to talk things over." That • was the' BWOC's ahri. This is the first year that the namecard-bearing: crew found , a few - minutes to rest between physical .exams, psychology tests,. and-mixers. • - —•.•- Next week freshman wlethen, will be entertained by and will be. hostesses to downtown men's ‘ groups at exchange 'dinners, 'stion 2 sored under the same extensive' orientation program. Operating .their • activities; WSGA• . Freshman Council will go.. into active duty. If every. Big Sister had done the job she volunteered . to do, we' could' sincerely say that' the prb .gram was 99 44/100 per cent .per feet. . • • • ' —J: H. M. Campus 4-H Club mixer, 405 Old Main, •7 p. m. - • • MISCELLANEOUS "La Boheme" opera• tickets on sale at the Athletic Association:. Portfolio on sale at Student Un ion and the Corner Room.
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