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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.
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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.