■PAGE TWO THE. DAILY COLLEGIAN ( 'Tor A Better Fean Slate" Kotublishe.l 1510 Successor U> the Peirn State Cotlcgian, •Tilabl’shed 1904. mill the 9 fee l.nnee established US i. Published dai'v except Sunday ami Monday during the res- Jlnr College year by the students of The Pennsylvania State •jo"ege. Entered as second-class matter. July 5. 1934 at the •Boat Office at State College. Pa., under the act of March 8, tm. Ediior-in-Chief Business Manager .•Paul I. ’Woodland '44 Philip P. Mitchell '44 Managing Editor Advertising Manager ifLchard D, Smyser '44 Richard E. Marsh '44 •editorial an»i Business Office Carnesie Hall Phone 711 Munuising Editor Nows Editor /.Rsintrint. News KdUor Nreshmmi Assistants Assistant Advertising Manager lirriduiite Counselor Wednesday Morning, February 17, 1943, fjfhe New Voice On Campus Cutting down on the social calendar so far has ) >een voluntary on the part of students. They have Limited the semester to two big dances and are nsking airiy other organizations sponsoring dances 1o confine the bands to local ones; they have ban lied student driving on campus and have taken a stand against imports. The curfew still exists, and any organizations desiring to meet on campus after 8:30-p. m. must first make application to Student Tribunal to do so. This regulation has been well kept, and fine co operation has been particularly in evidence this semester. ■Now a new controlling force threatens to move .in, Yes, it’s Uncle Sam and his Army and Navy •training programs. It is possible if service training programs are set up on campus that the Junior-Senior Ball may he abandoned completely, because of Army-Navy requests to use of Rec Hall to set up their recre ation programs. Don’t these developments make it useless to try 1,0 plan for something hot already scheduled, when few people know what conditions will exist? There is no certainty that any event scheduled after March 10 will he carried out, since no one knows what Army and Navy officers will demand for the soldiers and seamen on campus. When these new service units do arrive, they will set up their own recreation facilities, and run them themselves. One of the. main reasons why a compulsory physical education program is not being planned row for this Summer is because Army and Navy •trainees will have first choice on Rec. Hall, as well ms the hours they expect to use it. That is the background of the phys ed fuss, and the main factor in its failure to be carried through. For Men Only Penn State is experiencing something new this . week. During the past year it hasn’t been unusual • •1,0 hear that a new group of Ensigns or Signal Corps officers were arriving on campus to begin training but when the 125 Cadettes of the Curtiss 'Wright program moved into Watts Hall, that was - something hew. • Usually after a new group arrived there were f- all kinds of things said and written about the stu dents, relations .with these temporary. Penn Sta . levs. This Summer the .Summer. session students. and the regular body were mixed when the Sum mer semester coincided with the sessions. There were lots of things said about the relations be - tween students and “temporaries” then. And now it is Penn State’s duty to make the • Cadettes feel at home. While the women are al • ready carrying out - a welcoming campaign it would seem that the men could do a lot more. Remember how you were always reading about this and that sorority or dorm group entertaining ;} bunch of ensigns at a coffee hour or coke party? Well, now its the -fraternities and independent men’s groups’ turn. Although campus talk is to the effect that very ; few of the Cadettes had much trouble getting dates on their first night here, some organized group parties or dinners for the girls would seem • more in order. Men have long moaned dbcmt the • ratio at Penn State and tliis seems a good opptir • irunity to remedy -some of the 1 difficulties it .cahses. Groups interested in entertaining a group of. the Cadettes can make arrangements through the company, representative whose office is in 208 Electrical Engineering or Dean Charlotte E.. Ray’s office. At last Penn State men have something to coun teract the long joked about Ensign “date menace.” —R. D. S. Downtown Office 119.121 South Trnr/ier St. Phone 4872 Staff This Imim .Mickey Mints? -Peggy L. Good Artie Stolwsr Jean Nieslcy, Elite Strode Herbert. Hasson A Lean and. Hungry Look After carefully perusing the new instructions anent future air raid drills, about the only question we have is what do we do when the fire signal sounds. That old demon, fire, which news from Britain tell us, al ways follows in the wake of air ; * bombing, is doubtless without a doubt as serious, as the explosives l themselves. If, then, the authorities j4s>P in this village are so rabid in their realism, could they not perforce get r some differentiation in their warn- & ings. The last nightly black out went slightly askew when the good burghers mistook the tire for the all-clear. Our own little wilenagemole, or Cabinel if you will, just limited “big” dance hours, by no means a minor piece of legislation. Somehow that august senate seems to strike us as straining at gnats and swallowing camels,. to employ an 'Old figure of speech. And then here’s another good point which several of our iriore militant friends brought to. our consciousness. In this yetir of war, 1943, if dance you must, what could be more apropos than to make .the formerly small-time Military Ball into the magnificent and ali-bollege' affair it now deserves. It naturally follows then that the uni formed spectacle would not be just a preening place for the ROTC on campus, but truly a “Big” weekend dance, even thb’ugh a small band will probably play. Row romantic . . . white-gloved, glittering ofticei's dancing with ..stately and gorge ously gowned femmes, while in the distance is heard the rumble of gunfire as the rank and file keep the bai'barians at bay . . . And then up dash es a courier on a muddy white horse with a dis patch crumpled in a bloody hand . . . and sighs and weeping among the wisteria and bougain villea as hurried' leave is taken by the now seri ous and heroic officei's. . . . Here make sound like in Bronx! Louis H. Bell Lack of proper planning on the part of Dry dock seems to be the only thing holding up Cab inet approval of the Club, according to one of the chief seneschals, Rube Faloon. The table of the issue until the next meeting was -done to allow Bill Cissel, manager of last yeai-’s soft drink night club to draw up the budget and other i-ed taped estimates so necessai-y in approving any all-college project. It further seems to us that with the pre-pi-e-flight navy kiwis joining us soon, Drydock will enter the military service by turn ing its entertainment facilities open to those wing less dodos. Cissel has already suggested he might invite the Ensigns . . . and with the Soldiers not far behind' (pretty girls, you know), there might develop some interesting saturnalian tomfoolery— in a soft drink tempo. Kipling, of ihe rag, bone and hank of hair group, and a confirmed misogynist to boot yet set him self up as a critic of fair womenhood, and in his “Certain Maxims of Hafiz” he passes on some ad vice which we think besi to ignore: - “My son, if a maiden deny thee and scuffingly hid thee give O’er, Yet lip meets lip at the lastward—get out! she has been there before. They arfe pecked oh the ear and the chin and the nosfe who firfe lacking in lorfe.” - .Still, Ruddy.oi’ top, she who has been there be fore, certainly knows a lot more. . . . —Cassius. “Lady, you ought to be gl&d we’re not using our TRUCK for small deliveries!!!” THE DAILY COLLEGIAN By Milton Dolinger $ >;t >!« Kid salvage CAM ITS CALENCAR TODAY Thespian dialogue and singing tryouts in Schwab Auditorium, 7 p. m. . Campus ’45 mets in Old Main, 7:30 p. m. WRA Bridge Ciub meets, White Hall, 6:30 p.m. International Church Council, Methodist Church, 7 p.m. Inter-church Council meets at the Wesley Foundation, 7 p.m. House of Representatives meets in 305 Old Main, 5 p.m. Fly Tying Class meets in 213 Frear Laboratory, 7'p.m. Home Economics Club • meeting, 110 Home Economics building, 7 p.m. TOMORROW Pre-med Society meets, 110 Home Economics building, 7 p.m. The Hillel Foundation will con duct a round 'table discussion at 4:15 p.m. Hillel-PSCA interfaith fireside meeting at Hillel Foundation,- 7 p.m. LETTERS TO EDITOR To the Editor; Yesterday on the ski trail—my second time on skis—l felt myself slipping down the steep incline at a rate of speed that reminds one of a steaiii engihe. going down a “bar bhe”'slope track wlth' thrbttle open. ' Scenery passed like mad; faster, faster until it seemed im possible that it could be I. Then the slope leveled off and I came to a perfect “landing.” Skiing is not expensive. The.en tire equipment costs, about , as much as two “big weekends,” lasts much-longer, gives more real plea sure, and affords a very appropri ate recreation for one who spends much of his time over books. For students who like change of scenery, there are many places that can be reached by rented bikes that are much more exciting now than the inside of a theater. Don’t let .the snow bother you: siifiply let. a little air out qf the tires, wear a pair of gloves and earmuffs, and ivith some good sport as a companion, let the coun tryside roll by! • ' In all we have three cabins nearby. I don’t see how * students can worry too much about reviv ing such things as drydock when they can get together a group of three or four couples, get on old togs, and ipke in crisp Pennsyl- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1943 Drl wri for OWI IAJe, VUoriieii What. Would Emily. t*bsl Say? Maybe some coeds are used.Jo . having butlers and maids serve them ,at home, but the number who receive such service is prob ably very small. The great maj ority of Penn State students-come from families who are used to do ing things , for themselves. Why, then, do studenfe in din ing halls constantly complain to waiters about .the poor service, or at least hint at it in their table conversation? ; It’s probably always been that way, and will, no doubt, continue 1 in the same vein. Those waiters, however, are students like your-. selves, ahd deserve a little com mon courtesy. If your mother failed to serve dinner at the exact minute that you had the urge to eat,,or forgot to put napkins on the table, \yould you scold her? The answer is probably, .‘‘No.” The waiters-ih dining commons should be treat e_d in the same way. , . With > crowded- conditions- in the dining halls, it is impossible for all tables to be served promptly. Coeds, however, fail -to .realize that their waiter cannot, be first all the tinie, -of even most, of the tim§. if once ifi a whilef jrbtit; whiter- is. a-little siow, it-migiit b|- that he was studying for a -bluei ibook the night T>efbre. : ' ; -. . •Db'n’-t. think -the ' Vv'hite-jhcketed' boy’s don’t know you’re talking about them, because they. do. Why not give - them a- break? A few minutes-more at-the table Won’t 'ruin your life. M. J.'W: '‘‘ ; vania air to a fireside in a morin-' tain lodge. Simple fun like cook-i irig your supper over the 'fire, and lopping it off .with some, merry yarns, stunts 'or skits, of some songs or poetry or other appropri ate readings-—these, are the things that will be'remembered when we are gone from Penn State. Hiking bafck in .a bfisk'bla'ck' 6f moonlit night' is a. kefenly enjoyable ex perience as -well, as' bfeing cbndii-' .eive to study thfe h'fext day. • ■ ' The PS'CA cabin is available for bo'fh: large organized parties and .small -groupa (the- foffher : takin| : precedence' over ■ the latter); the jr'ecreatioh lodge of the Phys. JEd. Dept, (at the ski trail) is used for formal arid informal groups as well, , (Continued On Page Pour)
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