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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
"Tas A Better Fean State"
Eolabliahed 1940. Succescor to the Penn State Collegian,
VnUldished 1904. and the Free Lance, established 1887.
Published dally except Sunday and Monday during the nsg
nlur College year by the students of The Pennsylvania State
♦lollcge. Entered ns second-class matter July 5. 1934 at the
Cost Office at State College. Pa., under the act of March 8,
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Editor-in-Chia!? Business Manage*
PmxJ. L Woodland "U Philip P. Mitchell *44
Managing Editor Advertising Manage*
CD chard D. Srayrair '’44 Richard E. Marsh *44
editorial and Buninena Office
Carnegie HnU
Phone 711
Editorial Staff —Women’s Editor, Jane H. Murphy 44 J
Now) Editor. Larry T. Chervenak ’44 ; Sports Editor. Benia
♦iiin M. Bailey ’44; Assistant Women’s- Editor, Mary Janet
/Winter ‘44; Editorial Associates. Fred E. Clever ’44. Milton
flotinger ’44, Richard B. McNaul ’44, Robert T. Kimmel ’44,
Ilobert E. Kinter ’44. Donald L. Webb ’44, Sally L. Hirshber#
*4 4, and Helen R. Keefauver ’44.
Junior Editorial Board —Rita M. Belfonti, Michael. A. Blatz,
Alice R. Fox, Margaret 1.. Good. Lewis L. Jaffa. Lee H.
iiiMrnei-, M. Jane McChcsney, Serene F. Rosenberg. Seymour
fl-c.enhprg. Stephen Sinichak.
,1' 1 ilioiti■ iro Board—Benjamin L French, Arthur P. Miller.
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~ Kurtiie Donahue. Rose Schulman
-Laurette Schwartz. KaKthharin-? Krell
Counselor
Tuesday Morning, March 16, 111411
JEail, Alma Mater
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Well, what caused all this? Why should a group
<>f upstanding fraternity and some independent
boys want to destroy parking meters, lights and
-signs? Some say it was justtified because the
bouses were ordered to move on such short notice.
Collegian thinks not. Although they may not have
had specific notice, they all expected an adjust
ment of some sort. Besides, how can damage of
any sort rectify a patriotic duty?
Another erason may be mob rule. When a crowd
•gets together with a common feeling, almost any
thing is apt to occur. This is demonstrated by a
report from the IFC president that the several
alining room chairs fed to the bonfire in the middle
of Locust Lane were not put in the fire by mem
bers of the house which owned the chairs. They
were thrown in the flames by more than 10 fra
ternity and independent men who surged through
'the house and took them. That’s mob violence!
But the tfhird and perhaps most important rea
son lor the trouble is the abundance of parties.
3.1 linking has as much to do with it as any other
factor. It is hard to believe that such riotous.be
h ivior should occur had everyone been completely
.sober, That's a hard thing to do. To publicly ac
cuse a group of classmates of being unthinking
■drunks. To say they acted like babies. To say they
Joi: down a lot of fellow Penn Staters who were
•crediting them with ungrudgingly giving up their
3iames. To say the mattier was disgusting and a
%lack mark on this College's reputation. To learn
iiiuit perhaps the boys aren't as swell as they
tv ere thought to be.
Who’s going to pay the bill? very student in
■college, whether he was asleep, or out on the street
•acting like a savage, will share the burden of the
cost through the “breakage” fee. It will be that
Dnuch less money for the respective classes.
In September 1938, when thousands of students
■came outdoors to watch the aurora borealis and
ended up in a pajama parade and $5OO worth of
damage to parking meters and property, the Colle
gian had this to comment: “This college is an in
.sl.itution of higher learning. As a component part
of that institution, every student should feel it his
duty to augment he honor of it, not detract from
it; to respect -College authority, not rebel against
it. to retain a sense of responsibility, not evade it.
“.For your own good, remember once you’re out
of College, yu’ll find that life has no room for you
unless you have a sense of. responsibility, a re
.spect for authority, a respect for other people’s
property, a steeled defense against spur-of-the
xioment outbursts that may do more harm than
good.”
Collegian, 1943, merely says, “the army needs
a. You fellows ceTlainly didn't act that old on
Saturday night. You're losing a lot by parting
from your buddies, but remember there are better
ways to have last moments together. Your sacri
fice is nothing to what will be expected later.
Other persons have lost things more valuable:
firings which perhaps tore them farther apart in
wurdly than this will—without losing their heads.
1< oop yours too."
Downtown Office
119-121 South Frazier St.
Phone 4372
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Judging from the permanent dimo.ut in the
fraternity section, the Saturday night last-week
end-in-the-house celebration must have been quite
a festive affair. The mob, in what appeared the last
vestige of the old .Rah Rah Days, was probably
one of the wildest ever to keep. the townsfolk
from its solid I's hours of sleep on Saturday nights.
What with. bonfires at practically every comer,
including Co-op Corner, and one or two demon
strations at Atherton, they had a fairly complete
going-awa.v party. The only catch, in the works
was the local gendarmerie. John Law’s august
representatives succeeded in catching up with
only one little fellow who was released on bail
to the tune of “20 berries with trial impending
probably Friday. He will, no doubt, be saved,
though, because five of the student pre-legal
eagles have graciously consented to act as coun
sel for the defense free of charge. We would like
very much to see the show when the eagles go to
work toying to make fools out of Squire Hart
and Burgess Yougel, and wish them all the . luck
in the world. We’re going to borrow the Alpha-
sigmaphi rowboat after they use it tomorrow
night, and row out around the section through the
beer foam to get one last look at the place before
the army turns it into just a bunch of barracks.
Vacation Remembrance
While we’re on the subject of the borough of
ficials, we hear they got not a few complaints
from fraternity house managers for the forty some
fines they imposed on the houses for not shovel
ling the snow off their sidewalks during vacation
in compliance with the borough ordinance re
quiring that action. Not expecting any great snow
fall over the SPRING vacation, house managers
probably made few arrangements for the clean
ing which the borough apparently wanted. At
$4.40 per, the returns from that cracking down
with the long arm of the law will amount to quite
a tidy little sum. Incidentally, we hear that
they’re doing over the borough offices.- Maybe
they need the dough more than'the fraternities
did anyhow.
Skipping Semesters
We finally made it to one of the women’s dances
after three years in college Friday night and find
that the informality of them is something to be
appreciated in no small amount. They also appeal
to us as a columnist because they serve to point
out to us what judies want to run around with
what guys around here. Very interesting. Yes,
very. Some of the faces we picked out in the col
orful crowd help no end to add to that interest...
Dotty Jones DG with Frank Kilcoyne Alphasig
prexy . . . Polly Graham arid Red Marsh . . . Kitty
Vogef Kappa and another Red Marsh, this one a
Teke . . . M. J. Winter Theta and Woody With
erow Lambdachi ... Jo Ellen Loop and Lou Bor
ges Phikappatau . . . Ann Caruthers and a Cadet
picked up at the dance . . . Doric Stevenson Theta
and Lew Nichols Phikappasig . . . Marie Bauer
Theta and Ralph D’Aurio Sigmapi , . . Marilyn
Globish and Moon Mullan Phikappasig.
Aw NutzU
To get back to an old, old story, we were a little
shocked to hear that, after so graciously deciding
to give Dry Dock a break, Student Union board
gave It a date on one of the heaviest social week
ends in the calendar. Harvest Ball and Pan-Hel
Ball on the same weekend are nothing at all and
should give the coke night club quite a chance to
make out in its fight to get back into circulation.
We were scooped, really scooped, when Harry
Coleman pulled All-College prexy Grey’s marri
age out of the hat Saturday night. Our spies have
been severely reprimanded, if not fired, for miss
ing out on that, the biggest story o fthe year. Rube.
(Eligible Bachelor) Faloon informed us the other
day that Bob Davis, his former political opponent,
is about to take the marital vows and become a
member of the firm of Coleman and Faloon, Inc.
bn their ranch next to Centre Hills Country. Club.
One pinning to report to the public—Evie Wil
liams is now wearing Gena Yeager’s Sigmapi
commando badge. Jim Casey, typical Froth man,
is still swearing about his Saturday night Cadette
date. It wasn’t too bad if she didn’t drink herself,
but when she wouldn’t let Jim drink, that was
too much.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
—MANIAC
Army Considers
More fraternities
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•Lane group is in the zone - for
Army Engineers who will arrive
April 1.
Other fraternities will be taken
over as needed and will be or
ganized into zone units. By the
time the quota is reached probably
511 houses, will be rented by the
Army or Navy.
See Editorial
Hundreds of dollars of damage
resulted Saturday night when
Penn State’s fraternity section
went on a “last fling” rampage as
they prepared to evacuate for
more than 1,200 incoming Army
l pre pre-flight, Army Specialized
Training, and advanced R.O.T.C.
Students. The number has in
creased since then.
Borough officials were consider
ably aroused after a survey of
damage from broken parking me
ters, street lights, street signs, and
damage to homes.
“If any more of these occur
rences come up, we’ll have the
State police here,” one town offi
cial said. He also stated that an
other episode such as that Satur
day night might result in calling
approximately 1,400 students in
the Enlisted • Reserve Corps and
Army Air Corps Reserve for im
mediate induction.
College mixed drinking rules
were abandoned in many houses
involved and created a problem of
maintaining discipline during the
next two weeks. Observers report
ed noise in the early hours of the
morning, a bonfire in Locust Lane,
heavy damage to at least one pri
vate residence, and a general care
free attitude.
Parties were plentiful. The inci.
dent marked one of the most riot
ous evenings the college has wit
nessed in at least the last three
years.
CAMPUS CALENDAR
TODAY
Liberal Arts Student Council
meets in 9 Carnegie Hall at 7:15
p.m. The new faculty advisor will
be introduced.
PSCA publicity committee will
meet in 304 Old Main at 6:30 p.m.
PSCA Forum meets in 304 Old
Main at 6:45 p.m. Curtiss-Wright
Cadettes invited.
Sophomore board meets in Col
legian office, 8 pm.
Hillel “Dateless Tuesday” dance,
4-5:30 p.m.
Alpha Lambda Delta will tutor
frosh in 318 Old Main, 7-8:30 p.m.
Alpha Lambda Delta meets in
Dean of Women’s office, 5 p.m
Junior-Senior Ball committee
meets in 309 Old Main at 7:30 p.m.
WRA Bowling Club meets in
White Haii alley at 6:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1943
EAT
LESS
Rationing Will Follow
England's Method
Schettler Declares
- “Follow England on the ration
ing situation and you may well de
cide the methods the United States
will follow,"''stated Dr. Clarence
Schettler in a brief discussion af
ter his talk to All-College cabinet
last night.
Schettler described very brief-,
ly the problem of the consumer
in wartime which was keeping,
down the. cost of living to keep up
morale and consequently stimulate
ing production to the highest peak.
“Many, colleges have started lec«.
ture series and campaigns to in
form not only students but client
el, faculty,’alumni and adminis
trators,” Schettler. said. .
' Dr. Schettler was brought here
to be part of the Consumers Prob
lems Conference sponsored by the
PSCA and the Home Economics
department. ; ■ l .
■Complete programs for the On
tire week featuring Dr. Benjamin
R. Andrews, Columbia
Loma Barber, Regional Nutrition
ist, Dunae Ramsey, Field Repre
sentative, F. H. A., and Mrs. Con
way Zirkle, chairman of Advisory
Committee bn Consumers Inter
ests, may be had in the PSCA of
fice.
IN Cage Results
SUNDAY'S RESULTS
Fraternity
Sigma Nu, 20; Beta Theta Pi No,
2, 6.
Phi Kappa Psi, 14; Sigma Chi, 8,
Sigma Pi No. 1, 18; Phi Sigma
Kappa No. 1, 7.
Beta Theta Pi No. 1, 43; Kappa
Sigma, 14.
Independent
Vagabonds, 17; Ingleside Club,
Fletcher House, 25; Gi-übersville
V., 19.
Podunk Prep, 12; Bell A. C., 11.
Lions Den, 36; Allen Co-op, 13.
MONDAY'S RESULTS
Fraternity
Sigma Nu, 20; Phi Sigma Kappa
No. 1, 10.
. Sigma Pi No. 1, 16; Sigma Chi,
12.
Kappa Sigma, 20; Beta Theta Pi
No. 1, 10.
Beta Theta Pi No. 1, 26; Phi
Kappa Psi, 11.
Independent
Fletcher House, 14; Allen Co-op*
11.
Bell A. C„ 14; Ingleside Cly.b,
12.
Lions Den, 17; Vagabonds, 9.
Podunk Prep, 27; Grubersville
J. V., 25-
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