3 1 6. GE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "Foe A Satter Poeta State" 411;:hi thliehed 1940. Successor to the. Penn State Collegian. ir::tahlished DOA, and the Free Lance. established 1887. Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the •ilogular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania Palo College. Entered as second-class mattr July 5. 1934 04 the Post-office at State College. Pa.. under the act of tiapth IL 1879. Editor-in-chief Business Manager Paul I. Woodland '44 Philip P. Mitchell '44 Managing Editor Adevrtising Manager isiialvird D. Smyser '44 Richard E. Marsh '44 and Bueinece Office Carnegie Hall Phone 711 Staff—Women's Editor, Jane H. Murphy '44: Nw.irta Editor, Benjamin M. Bailey '44; News Editor. Larry V. Ch,trvenak '44; Assistant Women's Editor, Mary Janet lr '44; Editorial Associates, Fred E. Clever '44, Milton Illobilm.tr '44; Richard B. MeNaul '4l. Robert I'. Kimmel '44. ltobn•t E. Kinter '.14. Donald 1.. Webb '4l.•Sally L. Hirshberg '44, and Helen R. Keefauver '44. Staff This Issas 111an.1,tin4 Editor This Issue Stephen Sinicbak Woment'a oditor Joan B. Piollet N.,lVii Editor This Issue Seymour Rosenberg I.4opionnore Women on Issue _.Lee Learner. Serene Rosenberg lioro..inan on Issue .Lee Coldstein .4i.aiatlot Ativertising Nlanaeer .. _....lierbert Hasson 6 7:t , 1 , 1,1:0: , ! Counselor ___ Tuesday, November tO, 194'2 4 1 i 1 ;000- That's That? , Would you like to see $5,000 thrown into a monument of stone or transformed .into a drink ~ng fountain for the quadrangle? Rather a waste (If money isn't it? For that amount of money one voight build a miniature rival to the Washington DVTonument or expand the fountain into a bird bath.. Silly ideas, you probably agree. However, .leniors are called upon to make their choice of three gift possibilities including the two mention ed above. WhTmust $5,000 be squandered? The third suggestion is for a scholarship fund i.o he established by buying war bonds and to be n:;ed by class members returning to college after the war. This possibility is little better than . the other proposals .but is the lesser of three evils. il;owed, bearddd, war veterans of the class of '43 'Would have a hot little time coming back to the campus on maturity of the bonds. In past years there has usually been a decent .(:)rportunity for interested factions or members of the class to present ideas for , consideration. This yoar, out of a clear sky, on "unknown" committee !Ore:3ent the suggestions via post card without pre iliouts publicity or discussion. From this, class »lernibers are requested to make a decision involv :mg $5,000. The procedure sems sliphod and un :rair. One look at the proposed gifts substantiates •,%lo:; observation. • The election is hurried and apparently with•- out sufficient preparation. Aside from this, aside :From the fact that seniors will be throwing away $5,000 without consideration, aside from the fact 'that an "unknown" committee gave little thought to the project, we can see little real'worth in any of the proposed projects. War-conscious students stepping from the % - .!l:P3sroom to the battle-field will receive little lift in knowing that a useles§,—probably unsightly— »mitument remains on campus to record the pass :big of brave men who consider death a necessary ttt companion. The campus is already well supplied with drinking fountains on the Mall and in College Still another fountain would be only so much money down the drain. At a time like this . %he logical solution is to invest in war bonds. :However, analysis reveals that a scholarship fund created would not last long. Changing the pro -4-)osal. to a revolving loan fund might be more practical but even then we doubt if few members of "accelerated '43" will be back to continue colt- Qge. That was the expressed purpose of the fund .1:; stated on the election card. • This writer has been criticized for some poin )ori;; in the past but he has commented in the hope that unfortunate conditions might be remedied. ie has objected only when it seemed that correc tive measures must be taken. Surely sornething ;;houlci be done in this affair. Stow can $5,000 be saved from trickling down i.ie drain? Fotuir Per Cenit • Efforts to train Penn State men f, - )r Army life. ill .1 pre-induction cburse seems to have met with I poor reception. Of the 720 students the College v.hc, preol 1.0 instruct ; 32 appeared fast night WI the cotts , zzo.ioft:. fiat a.? piio );Thy be dra!,:.)ecl. Maybe the boy.; b. 2. Downtown Office 119-121. South Frazier St Phone 4372 -H. J. Z 01111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111101MW111111111111111111111111. <N) Old „< I s Mania.. . immummunummuniumminutimmilimimminumwinimmimuith Away back in 1939 we came to Penn State to get the Collegiate atmosphere which Pitt couldn't offer. Little did we realize then that fate had des tined us to become a Collegian gossip columnist. If we 'had known, Pitt would have gotten another Penn State transfer. We found things about Penn State we liked and disliked. To our urban eyes it was a cloistered college shut off from the agitation of the world. It was a sanctuary in which the student may with draw into silent contemplation of the universe "away from the distractions of the big city." It was away from the midst of all motion, moving not as the world moves, but pulling you safely around the maelstrom, never through it. We are still of that opinion. We had contact with Penn State's inbred fac ulty. An inbred faculty is one recruited from the College's ranks. Inbreeding inevitably leads to in ferior stock. We met men with PhD's who were dull clods, men without the gumption to succeed in business, without the imagination to create. in their own right, without, the intelligence to recog nize the futility of their erudite scratchings, and without the courage to face themselves or the world. These professors taught each subject as if it existed in a vacuum to be pickled in various bot tles labeled "courses." One by one they are taken out, clammy with . death, and revealed to the stu dent, then they are put back in the pickle jan to be safely preserved until the next - term. Then we met.men like Joe Rubin, Ted Roeth ke, Hal Reed, Huin Fishbtirn, Eddie Nichols, Sam my Wyand, Bob Galbraith; Harold Alderfer, and a few others who put something of themselves in-. to their courses. They made the subject live and vibrate before your eyes. But, alas, they are so much in the minority: - We met students ‘Vhose only memory of coll ege will be a nightmarish mountain of greasy dishes. There were others to whom classes were an unwelcome interlude between hbuse parties and big dance weekends. We found house parties were overrated booze affairs where frustrated inhibites had a weekend to get stinking drunk. Big dance weekends do not justify their titles inasmuchas no one has any room to dance. If a big name outfit like T. Dorsey were present, you either stood a 'round and gaped at the performers or wriggled in two feet of , dancing space, Robert Ingersoll must have had Penn State in mind when he said, "College is a place where peb bles are polished and diamonds are dimmed." We have seen the scions of farmers and miners join fraternities, soaked 'with a thin veneer of culture (easily cracked under .heat or pressure), • taught how to handle a Steak knife and wear a tux, but not told how to think for themselves. Before enter ing the exclusive atmosphere of the fraternity house these boys were individuals. Then, not only their dress was standardized but their tastes and opinion. They were robbed of whatever personal ity they possessed and molded along the Frater nity's lines. They became essentially artificial decorated with silly snobbishness. We found that student activities was big bu siness and paid off dividends. The same insipid group was represented in all the high places—not because they so desired, but because most stud dents were too lethargic to exert the extra effort to make out. We met engineers who will graduate as excellent slide-stick pushers, who. will know how to test the tensile strength of a slab, but who do not understand the relation of the machine to social history. PENN STATE'S TECHNICAL SCHOOLS ARE BECOMING MONUMENTS TO, STERILE CONSTRUCTIVENESS!! . • • In our freshman year the LA facutly was be ing rated by the Collegian . . . The "College" was changing its name to "University"—ii the Trus tees came across . Collegian Sports Ed Bob Wil son was riding Higgins to resignation tor the 47-0 Loss to Cornell . . . "Keep America Out of War" rallies were being staged in Schwab . and Pitt- Soph Hop Weekend was a welcome substitute for Thanksgiving Vacation. We ask: "Why must the 'state university of the second largest state in the . Union receive the lowest appropriation of any land grant college??? How can a college professor do his best work at a salary that a Pittsburgh elementary school teach- er wouldn't aceept???" We have lust been informed that the Colleg,e willsusp_snd classes for !I) minutes M metary of Arrni; , :tif:- 'Ca!: and for thiy3te I.vho died in World W .1r 1.. V: - .? CI: V,'":rl. , i `.To c. it v; iLI ;-.) r 0 bah [7 r.:l t:.. 2;; r.'. ; i'.'.! L1...i. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN ---r_'A. VT. D S 1.,:11:.-7:''L. Political Parade With LARRY CHERVENAK News Editor Outstanding political figure in the sophomore class, in most any body's book. has been one Walter C. Price, high-potentate of one of the. most dynamic political ma chines in College history. Price organized and built 'that machine; he was its first and only head; He cajoled, coaxed, bullied; and begged its members, and work ed with them 'through two class victories. He's reputed to have hand-picked its candidates and hand-Picked the committees they appointed when elected. He organ ized a, precision-perfect filing sys tem, and saw that it was used ef fectively to crush, all opposition. Each election Price's clique grew more powerful, apparent ly more completely subject to Price's ends. Sunday night was planned for the climax, the mo ment of victory. As his Campus clique, almost a hundred strong, assembled for its nominating meeting, word came that the opposing class clique was still without candidates and on the point of quitting. Victory was in full view now; only one detail re mained before Price would have conquered. . It was then that the clique head asked his party for the first favor in three campaigns—the nomina tion for the class tteasurership. ,The clique responded with one of this or any other year's top political upsets: Walter C. Price lost by a reported 18 votes— beaten by a comparative upstart in •the clique. Anti-slimax Came o . few minutes later, when the disorganized In dependents '45 gave up the ghost, without candidates and completely ,beaten. Price had lost, and won. WANTED: HISTORIANS •: Indecision still reigns along poli tical lane as 'to whether the class of '44 will have four or five new officers come November 19. One of the junior -class clique chairmen started all the 'trouble after final nominations Sunday by announc ing to a surprised Elections com- ALONG THE BATTLEFRONT mittee that the class historian had not been about campus for several Other-reports from the Political moons, and that 'the time had come dress rehearsals: That Larry Ghent to elect a new one. There's still adeclined the preliminary nomina possibility that both 'cliques might ton of the Campus '44 slate for give up the search for suitable his- vice president...that Bobby Wil torian candidates, since no, one hams was considered by both'lro_sh seems quite sure what the histor parties for nomination for '46 class lan is supposed to do, 'anyway. prexy...that Independents '44 are reaching off the deep end in an effort to pull a surprise ,combina- ORATION-,IN VAIN One of the most stirring political tion that .can compete with 'the ad- Orations and oration it was mittedly strong Grey-Leaman All 6. dame during the Campus '45 • final And 'the curtain doesn't rise of nominations. Johnny Graf, the ficially until this evening. Fresh Sweet Unpasteurized Apple Juic-- (Commonly called Cide;) L. iS available until Winter sets in. Use Apple Juice Now -- conserve your canned fruit juices for !ale% Stale College Grocers can supply you with 4 . tresh apple juke. Appalachian Apple Ser).ice, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1942 CAMPUS CALENDAR Senior editorial board meeting, 7:30 p. m. WRA Tennis Club meets, Col lege courts, 4. p. m. WRA Archery -Club meets, Holmes Field targets, 6:30 p.m. WRA Bowling Club meets, White Hall alleys, 6:30 p:m. WRA Intramural managers meet, WRA room, 6:30 p. m. . - IWA meets to elect officers, 412 Old Main, 7 p. m. Prof. Aaron Druckman will be the guest speaker at the Hillel Movie Forum Series, Hillel Foun dation, 7p. in. . . . College Calendar (Continued from prge one) Agriculture begin. • Jan.• 29, Sat. Fall S e me s ter Classes end 11:50 a. m. Jan. 31, Mon. Fall Semester Examinations begin 8 a. m. Feb. 4. Fri.—Fall Semester ends 5 p. m. Feb. 4, Fri.—Fall Semester Graduation exercises. • Spring Semester 1944 Feb. 8, Tues.—Freshman Week begins 8 a. m. Feb. 11-12, Fri.-Sat.--Spring Se mester Registration. Feb. 12, Sat.—Freshman Week. ends 11:50 a. m. Feb. 14, Mon.—Spring Semester Classes begin 8 a. m. - Apr. 1, Sat.—Midsemester Be low-grade Reports Apr. 7, Fri.—Good' Friday Be cess.- - May 20, Sat.—Spring Semester. Classes' end 11:50 *a. m. . May 22, Mon.—Spring Semester Examinations begin 8 a.m. : May 26, Fri.—Spring Semester ends:.s.p. m. ;May 26, Fri.—Spring. Semester Graduation exercises. .. only non-fraternity student being considered for the clique's slate, was pleading with all the sincerity at his command for the right of =the' independent man to have a repre sentative in student government. But a vote by the clique follow-. ed that speech, so Johnny Graf will not be one of the candidates "an nounced . officially for the first • time" at today's convention. .J ~S"~si~~Lf *"PiY 3, Today
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