AO-E TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "Fox A Better Penn State" fo-Mblishcd U'H». to the Perm State Colletfian, sotnhHshed jOO4, and the l-'ree Lance, established JBB7. Published daiN except Sunday and Monday during the reg. ilr.f tXollege year by the students of The Pennsylvania State Oo’bege. hintored :ts second-class matter July 5, 1934 at the (Post. Office at State College, Pa., under the act of March 8, «.G79„ Editor-in-chief Business Manager Paul I. Woodland *44 Philip P, Mitchell '44 jManaging Editor Advertising Manager • te)hard D, Snvyser '44 Richard £. Marsh '44 •Hofaoviai and Business Office Carnegie Hall Rhone '7ll Editorial Staff—Women's Editor, Jane H. Murpby *44; ttiiWß Editor, Larry T. Chervenak *44; Sports -Editor* Benja rmn M. Bailey *44; Assistant Women's Editor, Mary Janet Winter ‘44; Editorial Associates, Fred E, Clever *44, Hilton Oolinger *44, Richard B. McNaul *44, Robert T. Kimmel *44, Robert E. Kinter *44, Donald L. Webb *44, Sully X*. Hlrsbbers f 4 . 1 , and Helen R. Keefauver *44. Senior Business Board: A. Kenneth Sivitz *44, Circulation Manager; George J. Cohen *44, Assistant Circulation Man ager; Donald H. Shancr *44, Assistant Advertising Manager; f'iagenia D. Burdick ’44, Senior Secretary; Mary Lon Keith Senior Secretary; Janet Ammevman *44, Assistant Secre tary. Staff This Issue Managing ftditor „ .. .... News Editor ... _ A."distant Managing Editor .... Ai-sistnnt News Editor Assistant News Editor Assistant Advertising Munuger Graduate Counselor Saturday Morning, February 27,. 1943, Faculty And Gas And Tires Everyone knows what car sharing is. But how many people practice it? Along with ‘Conserve this’ and ‘Save that/ ‘Share your car’ has become one of the civilian battle cries of the war. Defense workers as well as other employees have been urged and urged again by their ration boards to develop such an arrangement. Somebody raised the question recently, “Is the Penn State faculty and staff cooperating with ration requests and walking to work if they live within reasonable distance, or sharing their cars with others if they must drive to classes?” And then this someone proceeded to count 75 automobiles in a parking lot back of one of the buildings. He proceeded to make this a repre sentative portion of the campus. A little rough figuring showed that there are approximately 150 employees of the College who work in the two buildings to which the lot is most accessible. Therefore there was approximately one ear for each two employees. If the faculty is sharing their cars at the min imum rate of two to a car this cross section could fake care of the entire staff and no one would have to walk to work. But this' somebody also knew of lots of faculty and staff members who walked more than what would be termed reasonable distances to their work. He cited an agriculture professor who lived on West Fairmount avenue as an outstanding ex ample. Seventy-five cars for 150 people. Some of them walk, some of them are sharing these cars. Some of them live in isolated sections where both are impossible. But it would seem that there are many who could either walk or share a ride who don’t. Why? . . R. D. S. Big Dance Weather Penn State has a tradition which is fast be coming more than a tradition—if that is possible. It has become habit-forming with the weather man to turn on the worst elements when he sees that students in the Nittany Valley are set to have a good time. And this weekend is no exception, Several days ago one would have thought that Spring had arrived prematurely. Agrarians on the Hill feared lest the warm weather should con tinue and bring out buds too soon. But they forgot to consider that Soph Hop was due the following weekend, and with it all the bad weather. Weather is one topic which can always be dis cussed when there is nothing else to say. After the first “Hello” one can expect to hear “Nice day, today, isn’t it?” Or if it’s a big weekend, “Rain again.” Nothing that Penn State was getting a reputa tion for bad weather on special weekends, a Col legian reporter once went to the weatherman in ine Ml building. By comparing the amount of precipitation in State College with that in other parts of the State, it was found Penn State has ihe average, or slightly below the average of rain felt for the state as a whole. “What makes students think Penn State is a J'- ; iny town.” he stated, “are the big weekends Y'hen it always seems to rain,” Downtown Office 110-121 South Frasier St. Phone 4872 „ Serene Rosenberg Alice R. Fox Rem Robinson Gloria Wheyl . lloheit Huger .Raul Bender .-..Louis H. Bell HiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmimimiiimmiiMiiiimniiiiiiiiimnmiiiiiiiiiimniniiii By M. J. WINTER timiiiiiuimtiiiiiiitiitmiiitimmmmtmmiiumummmmmmtmimimmimmi What’d we tell you—the weatherman timed that snow storm just right. It’s a good thing the imports remembered to bring their snow shoes this time . . . Rec Hall was really rocking last night, and the most unusual thing about it was the dirth of cars outside the big red barn. At least the war is saving the pedestrians. But think of all the shoe leather scraped off on the walks and floors. More dances like that, and there won’t be any 17 stamps'left in Centre County. Reverses All you dear readers are probably searching this column to see if The Cub might have includ ed your name in the “Among those beating it out at Soph Hop last night” drivel. Sorry, a columnist makes too many enemies that way. If a name’s put in, readers say they don’t like the publicity. If it’s left out, we’re accused of favoring a certain few. So, we’ll finish that off with the one com ment that. agr Junior Hess finally came out of retirement to drag an import to the affair . . . Ed Pennington ’4O, former BWOC is in town this weekend with a new wife and a new second lieutenant’s commission . . . Former All-College prexy, Bob Baird middle-aisled it with Jean Alex ander the other day. 'They’ll live in Tennessee . . . the Bob Galley, phikappasig—Peggy Smith affair is off and on. Latest reports have it that she has the hai'dware now . . . Jim Drylie Phi kappasig and Jean Niesley are pinned or about to be . . . Ducky Swan didn’t get to Sopl£Hop be cause his home town girl picked an inappropriate time to get sick. Here And There At last Penn State is getting some good pub licity. Did you see the Collegiate Digest last week with Betty Christman, Theta, on the front page? Well, the boys at West Point did, were impressed, and Chris heard about it via fan mail. What the Cadets are wondering is why she’s hiding herself here . . . Rumor has it that former Player and now movie actor, Don Taylor was accused of be ing a wolf. Standing in line at the movies in Hollywood the other day, he was making con versation with his newly pinned girl. He asked her what kind of further coat collar was made of, and she answered, “Wolf.” An eavesdropper dashed over and said to her, “That’s all right. I’ll take care of you.” In The Dorms For years there’s been an ugly rumor that one of the Greek mansions within view of Ath Hall (we didn’t say which one) has a telescope trained on the coed domicile. Recently Campus Cop Ed Koval got wind of a similar astronomical instrument housed in the dorm. No one has .con fessed yet, but .it’ll be mighty funny when the operators meet eye to eye on of these days . . . Then there’s the tale of the Ath-Hall .coed who likes to eat newspapers.' She’s particular, thought Her favorites are the . New York Times and, of all things, the Collegian. She eats- only the white margins, of fresh papers. If this fad-became’ gen eral, it might solve the food shortage, except that the government has rationed newsprint, too. Wait till they hear about this: - Exodus It seems that the boys leaving for the wars remember to get the money back on their AA books, turn in their ROTC uniforms, sell their books, and kiss the girls goodbye. But if things keep up as they have been, there won’t be any books left in the library. Give the kids that are left here a break. They may need those books for reports like you did. How about turning in your books before you hit the road? —The Cub Again, -during the next year, one of America’s most urgent needs will be for nurses. Paul V. McNutt, Manpower director, pointed qut the other day that 65,000 young women must enter nursing schools between June 30, 1943, and July 1, 1944, “if even minimum civilian and military needs of the nation are to be met.” This number exceeds the 1942-43 group by 10,000. Where state nursing laws permit, schools are being urged *to reduce the usual period of. training from three years to 30 months, or less. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN LETTERS TO EDITOR Dear Woody, One of the fellows here had a few Collegian?, and we were going through them I noted by the tone and reference in a gossip column that the students are getting peeved at the Ensigns taking their girls, and in general not treating them too well. It might help you to know that while at the Navy Pre-Flight School at the University of North Carolina, the sororities, fraterni ties, and'dorms did all they could to make us feel at home. . There were 38 of us Penn Staters there and we were welcomed cordially. I’m in my advanced squadron— dive bombers —at the NATC in Corpus Christi. In about five or six weeks I’ll have my wings. This is wonderful training we are re ceiving. Emmet Fletcher, Dean Fletch er’s son, is in the room next to mine. Ned Corman, John Dufford, John Heckman, Bill Collins, Jimmy Leyden, Dick Juve, Paul Bealefield, Earl Johnston, Homer Davis, Robert Q. Wallace, F. H. Wallace, Ralph Sayre, Tom Alli son, Dick Carleton, Jay Hammon, Archy Brown, Jim, McGough, Bill Batten, Glenn Bowers, Boyd Thompson, O. Russel, Tom Lynch, all Penn Staters, are. here in ad vanced squadrons. Best regards, Don Krigger Dean Hamond Clarifies Credit Rules for Engineers (Continued from Page One) Dean Hammond made the follow ing statement:'' “The present war extends beyond the trenches into every phase of our lives. The more trained men there are who can expedite the flow of production, the more Efficiently our nation can function. “There must' be a .correct bal ance between nerves and muscle, and right now there is a definite need for coordination in industry and in the armed forces, and in the government; coordination is a function of the nerves, and the nerves of our war effort are the trained men who can evaluate, and make correct decisions on the basis of facts, and those men are engineers.” The Dean completed his talk by saying,. “Stick to it fellows, the present situation, the uncertainty with which we face the future is a crying example of our country’s need for you.’’ To Collegian Subscribers Collegian will not be issued Tuesday and Wednesday, March 2 and 3, because of va cation. Regular publication will be resumed again Friday, March 12, Philip Mitchell, .busi ness .manager, announced last night. The FIRST NATIONAL BAN K of STATE. COLLEGE Member of Federal Deposit insurance Corporation SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1943 'Engineer' Offers 2 Cash Awards All technical students on cam pus will be given a chance to dis play their writing talents in a new contest, sponsored by the “Penn State Engineer,'’ Charles R. Am-, merman, editor of the publication, said last night. * - Ammerman explained that since many students in the College are undoubtedly good writers on tech nical subjecls, some plan should be launched to encourage the de velopment of this field. For the best article submitted each month, the editorial staff will award a first prize of $lO, and will give an award of $5 for the next best. ■Articles' on any subject will be considered bv the judging com mittee, but Ammerman said that stories on various technical matter will be preferred. The length of the article is optional to the writer, but should 'conform to the normal, length of 1000 to 2000 words. Since the next issue of the mag azine will be printed soon after vacation is over, applicants for the award money must have their com pleted article in before March 15, the editor concluded. Engineer School Lists Honor Roll Students (Continued from Page One) M. Hessemer, M. E.; William R, Menzie, E. E.; Stanley L. Siegal, M. E.; Cyril M. Stein, I. E.; Robert F. Wheeling, E. E.; Robert B. Widder, A; and Joseph S. Wilhelm,, Jr., I. E. Freshmen: James I. Adams, M. E.; Francis J. Accorsi, M. E.; Zei mar Barson, M. E.; Ray F. Boe deker, M. E.; Kenneth E. Glessner, M. E.; M. J. Gollub, E. E.; John C. Jones, M. E.; Martin A. Kutler M. E. Norman H. Marlin, I. E.; Carl R. Larson, Jr., M. E.; Leon I. Lock, M. E.; Robert P. Marshall, I. E.; John S. Murphy, M. E.; John B. Nesbitt, C. E.; Clarence R. North, E. E.; Alexander Petrowski, M..E. Athlea J. Schaffer, M. E.; Mat thias J. Schleifer, S. E.; John W. Schrage, E. E.; Rollo G. Smethers, M. E; Gale E; Stockdale, M. E.; Robert W. Whitall, M. E.; John S„ White, E. E.; and Stanley- Wirt * shafter, M.- E. - - - • CAMPUS CALENDAR ; PSCA Cabin Party leaves.- : OM ; Main, 1:30 p. m. ! WRA Playnight, White Hall, H . to 10 p. m. -Ai 3i« CATHAUM—* “Immortal Sergeant” STATE— - “Lucky Jordan" NITTAN.Y—• • “Haunted Ranch”
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