3 AGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN • "For A Better Penn State" i•,..t:imished I 4 In. Suce---erto the Penn St ate Collegian, .11blished 1904, and th- Free Lance. eatablished 1..`357. rublished daily except Sunday and Monday during the reg. tla, - College year by the students of The Pennsylvania State .Col logo. Entered as seeond-elas. , matter July 5, 034 at the ova; Office at State College, Pa., under the act of March S, RISPROOHNT6O FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING! OY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representatite 440 MADISON Avg. NEW Yost. N. Y. CHICAGO • HosToti • Los ANG61.64 • SAM FISALNCIced Editor-in-Chief -Business Manager Paul I. Woodland '44 Philip P. Mitchell '44 0 41B 0° Managing Editor Advertising Manager 13. chard D. Smyser '44 Richard E. Marsh '44 Carnand Busines.3 Office egie Hall Phone 711 tiMitorial Staff.—Women's Editor, Jane H. Murphy '44; 44ports Editor, Benjamin M. Bailey '44; News Editor, tarry 'r. Cheevenak '44; Assistant Women's Editor, Mary Janet 'W inter '44; Editorial Associates, Fred E. Clever '44, Milton s) , )linger '44' R;icharcl B. McNaul '44, Robert T. Kimmel '44; Robert E. Kinkier '44. Donald L. Webb '44, Sally L. Hirshberg '44, and Helen R. Keefauver '44. Junior Editorial Board--Adolph L. Beleer, Michael A. Blatz. I.,cwis L. Jaffe. William E. Reimer, Seymour Rosenberg, Peter ilcott. Stephen Sinichnk, Rita M. Belfonti, Alice R. Fox, Joan Piollet. Staff This issue aeing Editor This Issue Hews Editor Women's Editor A s.ditant Women's ;Editor Assistant Women's Editor ' Lee Freedman J , i , mhman Assistant Ben Frencii Nan LipV A a.istant Advertising lvilning,er ------------ Irwiunte Counselor Friday Morning, December 11, 1942 Time For Action Perhaps it's untimely or unsound to -refer to this subject again, but Collegian would like to know what is being done with the $5,000 supposedly treed for a more comprehensive 'physical fitness -program for individuals when jayvee and fresh men sports were -- discontinued. If plans have been made to extend. the scope of the present, physical education program, nothing been announced. And with time passing as it is, the war may be over before Penn State wakes . up to a need as important as any other part of the war training progiam. This college needs more than mere learning from books or experience. It lieeds a program to put its students in better physical condition. The naval unit stationed here requires that each 'of the ensigns take one hour of exercise per day, their scholastic schedule is no snap. Going to cl. - isses from 8 a. m. to -6 p. in., they still manage to get in one hour to keep in shape, even if 'they have to do it at night. • It might have been just as well to continue the junior varsity and freshmen schedules, for under those conditions a lot more students would be get ting physical training than now. That $5,000 might just as well be thrown away if its present status as a dust-collector remains. The argument could be presented that persons .who want to get in good physical condition will Orr so without being scheduled periods and made 'to do so. That's true, but there are a lot of other 'persons who have a desire to be better fit, but 'who won't take the initiative. Perhaps conditions are crowded in Rec Hall, but lengthening hours to extend classes in the evening would partially colve this problem. Ts White Hall being used all the time? If not, why couldn't one or two days a week be set aside when only men IX , ould use it? Signs at the en-- trances could indicate it's "men's day," and with 4;5,000 to aid, someone could be posted at several strategic points in the building every day in case mixup. Put more hooks around Rec Hall and .have someone watch clothes. A lot can be done to stretch out present physical education facilities, 'despite cries to the contrary. When students come to the point later on where the last ounce of physical exertion turns the tide, the necessity of constantly being "in shape" then . wilt become apparent. It will be then that the • laxity of a Penn State physical education program -for upperclassmen will make itself felt. Student enrollment next semester is almost certain to be lower, thereby lessening the strain . on the gym's facilities and opening the way for compulsory physical education for juniors and seniors. Action on this must be taken soon so that periods can be planned on next semester's sched ules. The Collegian throws its columns open for publicizing a plan if the athletic head's could see • deir to spend that $5,000 on physical fitness for 'individual students. • Perhaps this paper is wrong about nothing be ing done to get more students in shape. and may ,;ifinething is being done with that . $5.000 ear ri•:e,.ifor a physical tutnes program. Neverti);?-. u:I! 't:tin Downtown Office 119_121 South Frazier St Phone 4812 - ---__ Seymour Rosenberg Peter Scott Jane H. Murphy Shirley Rodale. Louis H. Bell ;: 1)1'.'.,.3 CLEVER COMMENTS liiiiiiinimmininnuniumummil By Fred E. Cleve). It really happened, and it took a Penn State man to do it. For weeks the favorite butt of jokes emanating from bureaucratic Washington has been the Army's new 43-acre hexagon building in the na_ tion's capitol. Stories of a "lost safari," "weekly patrols in the corridors," and ridiculous accounts of personnel carrying field rations to eat during long enforced stays in the gigantic structure, have been told and retold. Tuesday, between sessions with Washington's Army and Navy big-wigs, honietown-boy-makes good Bob McNabb captured the guffaws by getting lost in the hexagon. A fitting climax to the incident had a comely fe male messenger taking our boy by the .hand and leading him to the nearest exit. Journalism Dilemna Those long faces you see attached to worn-out looking frames that hobble around campus these days are not necessarily soon-to-be-drafted stu dents. They may be Paul Woodland, editor, and Phil Mitchell, business manager, disillusioned "bosses"? of this newspaper. Just when it looked as though Penn State was going to have a daily newspaper again next year, the Board of Trustees vetoed the one measure that would help make a daily certain. With vital information coming from Washing-, ton every •day concerning the college student and the war, we have been wondering what means the administration would use to inform students of latest War Department decisions if the Colle gian were to go back on the weekly basis. Perhaps the College can place in everybody's schedule next 'semester a daily hour conferende to be held in Rec Ball. There an administration member can read the latest communiques. lous, isn't it? • A Difference Of Opinion Recently there have been indicatiOnsthata dif ference of opinion exists between our nation's educators and the top men of our Army. It seems that the educators pi•efer•the status quo—that is, they - 13lieve they have the ideal so lution to the student-soldier problem. "We'll keep them in college," say the educators, "and over a period of time we'll give you men fit to be officers, and men that can help out in form ing the post-war peace." "Ixnay," say's the Army, "first let's win the war; Second, provide for a peace; and then, we'll worry about education." • 'Which, the educators argue, means exactly 'the same thing—seems to be simply a matter of opinion THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Reserve Status (Continued from pege one) Nabb stated that according to As sistant Secretary of War Dorr, those enrolled as juniors in ad vanced ROTC next semester will probably be called up, if the Army Plan to take the reserves in Febr uary goes through. Nothing was said about senior ROTC students. Yesterday, McNabb, who had an hour and a half private conference with Assistant Secretary of War Dorr. revealed that the Navy it planning to leave its reserves in college after which they will send them elsewhere for specialized training. McNabb also enlarged upon the proposed two year• post-war course for all college men which would be-paid for by the govern ment. The plank was incorporated into the Army Plan at the sugges tion of President Roosevelt and is designed to insure a steady flow of college graduates after the War. Suggesting to the assistant sec retary that definite peace aims should be• .set up, McNabb told Dorr that students could fight bet ter and study better if they -were. Dorr's reply was that the Army was first concerned with -winning the war, then the peace, -and after that education. However, he added that the armed services do want students in high school to finish. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1942 CAMPS CAIENDAR Hille', Chanukan iiestival, clay evening service, •Hiliel Found dation, 7:15 p. tn. • WRA. TM basketball final be tween Grange and ChiO, White Hall gymnasium, 7 D. tn. WRA Clistrnas Party,' White Hall lounge, 2 to 4 p: m. Engineers' Hop, music by Nit 4 tatty Lions, Rec Hall, 9 p. Skull and Bones Party, Beta Theta Pi House. 9 D. m. Student Department Sunday, 9:30 a. m. . Final Meeting Theme by J. S. Cobb, Jr., '43 ' Christmas Candlelight and 'Communion Service Westminster Hall, Sun day, .6:45-7:45p. m. Christmas Morning Breakfast Thursday; Dec. 17, 7 a. m. Fire Side Room Final Meeting Tuesday • Night Fireside Group - __Fireside Room, 7-8 p. m.
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