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TEE DAILY COLLEGIAN
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Wednesday, April 7, 1943
A Matter Of The Past
Climax of the student move for abolition of
final exams this semester, ending with the de
cision that final exam week will be held as sched
uled, brings to light the age-old teacher-student
differences.
In younger days of many students, the teacher
was the person who stood in front of the room
and made pupils do exercises which they, of lien
dreaded.. Many were the times, perhaps, when
the classroom disagreed-with’what the teacher
was trying to get across and regarded it more as
medicine which had to be taken rather than
something which would prove of valuable use
later in life.
Shifting the time years later when the same
fiupils are in college, and the place to a college
not as democratic as Penn Statej one would find,
possibly some traces of the same’ attitude. But
now that the student is in college he knows of
means to protest.
At some colleges, where students aren’t as level
headed as Penn Staters, students stage demon
strations.
Now change the scene to .Penn State. Many
students felt that this wartime semester could
well go without finals, and with mass support
•trom other students, decided to take steps to
change the plan.
But Penn State wet about it in a better way.
: Penn State’s students decided to draw up a
•Jettex to department heads and deans telling how
they felt; they originated a petition in the Liberal
'Arts School Council, had it sanctioned by the
other school councils, and presented it to the
.President. Arguments for the student plan ap
peared in this column.
The proposal failed. In Tact, many persons
would agree that such a late change would be
detrimental, while it might have succeded if pro
posed earlier in the semester or better, last se
ll nester.
! Although the College thought finals best, and
.defeated the proposal, administrative heads were
.impressed by the orderly manner in which the
campaign for abolition of finals was conducted.
The movement didn’t rub anyone the wrong way.
It was purely a project which students sincerely
'believed in, and tried to foster. If nothing else,
.they learned the best way to go about voicing
iheir opinions. Their methods helped smooth the
way for something later which the College might
he more apt to sanction.
They tried the democratic way. They were
■heard by the President of the College. They had
the matter judicated. And even though the plan
couldn’t be, they felt they had tried.
This editorial will have to end now. The matter
is settled. Besides, the writer, has to study for final
o sains.
Dig Still Deeper
The Red Cross is going to make one last try.
The State College area, including the campus, is
;:|.i!l several hundred dollars short of the quota
set for this area. The town drive was a success,
■"fid the campus, drive, although.it didn’t hit the
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A Lean.and Hungry Look 44f
By Milton Dolingec \J/
Sancho Panza, lackey and com
panion to Don Quixote, and some
what of an oracle according to the
Duchess, speaketh: “I never in my
life drank for any bad purpose; for
thirst, perhaps, I have, as I am no
hypocrite.” The good Sancho’s wit
will be specially applicable to this
blissful haven come weekend,, albeit
there will still be a clohk of hypocri
sy covering Penn State drinking. If,
like Quixote's equerry, everyone'ad
mittted he had “thirst,” mayhap the ..
odium of secretive Bacchanaliae with “
mixed drinking would be diffused. We-believe no
one drinks for any bad purpose—except when the
pall of ignorance is present, as is .the case here.
Knowledge of events always forestalls unpredict
able occurrences, and should all concerned come
into the open, then orgiastic “big weekend” rev
els could be cut in twain.
The earth-bound airmen have turned out to be
quite agreeable, in spite of the fact that they eye
coeds in the way the wolves and Shere Kahn eyecl
Mowgli at the Pack Meeting by the Council Rock.
’Tis at best a vicarious pleasure, and we're sure
the females will voice no complaints. , . Apropos
of the Air Corps is their entertainment, and
speaking of entertainment, ’twas with distinct
displeasure we read the Thespians’ report that
this weekend's opus will be the last for the dur
ation. That's hardly helping “the war effort,"
especially when we know the Players plan to
continue as long as possible with their retinue
of shows —which is, after all, their distinctive con
tribution to that self-same effort.
.Louie H. Bell
Along similar digressions is the overwhelming
selfish and pessimistic attitude of the students
and their self-styled leaders with regard to the
social functions of this semester being the last
for the omnipresent and Overworked duration.
Their, little world begins and ends with their own
pet pleasures. Know; you then that the College
plans to continue indefinitely without any major
deviations from ‘normalcy, and there, will still he
a great many students hibernating, here as. her
fore. Prithee, preface your blurbs,'O hedonistic
moths, with the statement that your excesses will
be the last for you only, ■
Selection of a committee of nine '45-ers to pick
the 20 outstanding Seniors appears to have had
the result of making the unfortunate Senior In
dependents plan for a mass hejira to the wailing
wall. For the nine good selectors and true are all
staunch Campus luminaries. Their list, doubtless
without a doubt, will prove to be most interest
ing. Wot?
Sh-h! Walk softly. The dreaded spectre of final
exams has finally assumed human form through
the ectoplasm of President Hetzel’s irrevocable
statement . . . there wilt be gamboling on the
green for joy at this—professors only, please.
Potpourri: Ted Roethke, now at Bennington,
achieved a poem in this week’s “New Yorker” by
name “Germinal.” Would make a swell remem
brance . . . Apparently it took a war to get males
into White Hall. We see by yesterday's paper that
the air corps is welcome there this weekend. It
also said “as well as those enrolled in the College
are invited. , .” Does that mean US, too? , . . The
military honoraries feel that this paper doesn’t
pay them the attention they deserve, as witness
a recent letter. We should be hearing any day
now from the Clover Club or the Deutscher Vere
in. But, never fear, the advertising staff will wel
come you gleefully. Ah, yes, the customers al
ways write. . . A bit of whimsy, things look black
for Senior Ball. . , We must be gone and live or
stay and die. —Cassius.
$5,000 mark set for it, went over fairly well.
However, there are persons who have not con
tributed yet.
And even if a contribution has been made, the
campaign chairmen are asking for just a little
more. “Give A Nickel” will be the slogan of the
anti-climax 'of..the campaign.
Tired of hearing about the Red Cross ■ drive?
Well, give a nickel to help reach the area quota
and no more will said,
Busy War Btmds Aiad Stomps
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Quota System Is On Greeks’ Fire;
Coeds Must Seriously Consider It
Panhollenic Council met last
night Cor an informative talk on
the quota system. They heard the
advantages and disadvantages of
the restrictive means used on so
many .university campuses
throughout the nation.
They heard- about how a quota
system would insure a start for
the . smaller,. struggling sororities.
They heard how it would equalize
Greek groups. They heard how it
would, stop some of the cut-throat
competition that is so prevalent in
rushing seasons.
They heard how it would pos
sibly put limits bn a now demo,
cratic system. They heard how it
may keep some coeds away from
the groups since the limit might
not include them. They heard how
it might tend to cramp the style of
the larger and already established
organizations.
They heard some of the testi
monies of those who have seen it
in action elsewhere.
Then they asked questions.
Ayid that’s what Greeks all over
the campys should be doing with
the quota system until the next
Panhellenic meeting.
Sisters will hear their prexies
discuss it at their next chapter
meetings. Instead of arguing aim
lessly aboiit a subject of which
they have just hearcl and not
known, Greeks should ask ques
tions, And out what it’s all about,
and then discuss it intelligently.
A few rambling comments have,
.bgeri that it would be a valuable
move on a campus of. this size
where activities' are so numerous
and -where women have so much
to do. Someone has'said that it
would make rushing more of a
pleasure thari a strain. :
' Another compientatbr mentioned
that no system' was heeded since
the .problem was a personal one
and should.be dealt with.by-indi
“That's what a soldier wrote home about.
Ask the man in the ranks how Coca-Cola
rates with him. Ask the man behind the
PX counter. They’ll both tell you,—when
it conies to refreshment, nothing takes the ,
place of ice-cold Coca-Cola. Energy-giv-:•
ing refreshment... quality you cab count *
on . . . distinctive, delicious taste*—all
combine to prove a point that needs ho
provingt The Only thing like Coca-Cola is , i
Coca-Cola, itself.” . 1
someo UNOER authority of the CQCA-COIA company by
COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OP ALTOONA
in State College call 2731
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1943.
vidua! groups themselves. Still
others suggest that 'it Would help
in housing coeds in their senior
years when it is most desirable to
live in the sorority house or suite.
The semester which is up ’n'
coming is one in which women
will play a large part. They will
take over the .duties of men. who
have left for the armed services.
They will comb, to exert their in
fluence .over the,. College student
body and no longer over a small
coed group. .
Therefore their moves within
these next few weeks and months
must be wise ones. They must
think slowly and steadily about the
slightest things that come up.
Thinking now will prevent mis- 1
takes later.
. Air Corps cadets who requested
issues of The Daily Collegian pub
lished on .the morning after their
arrival can get those papers at
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