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THE COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State"
Established 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian, established 1904, and
the Free Lance. established 1887.
Published every Friday during the regular College year by the staff of the
Daily Collegian of The Pnnsylvania State College. Ettered as second class matter
July 5. 1934 at the Post Office at State College, Pa. under tre act of March 8, 1879.
Subscriptions by mail only at $l.OO a semester.
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Jane H. Murphy
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Larry T. Chervenak
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1943
Your Month
This is the month !
Although a year-round program is supposed to be in fOr
ce, citizens throughout the nation will take time off the "tak
en-for-granted" period to concentrate on a strong drive for
war bond and stamp sales the month. This is the month set a
side to cultivate the habit of buying, saving, and buying more.
An. All-College drive, similar to the one organized last
year for the Red Cross, will be conducted on campus now un
der the direction of Raymond Parks, chair Man, working with
District Chairman Harold Gilbert. The quota is high, btit past
efforts show that a sincere try from the students brings not
able results.
The need is great.
Propaganda movies may rub us the wrong way, but there
isn't much we can laugh at in a V-mail letter from "some
where in the. Pacific." There isn't much to justify our not
giving when we compare their situation over there with our's
here on the home front. Total all the things that we do for the
war effort and notice the unbalanced equaton you have if you
place just one of their hardships on the other side of. the
equal sign.
It's a temporary challenge for an extra hard push.
Here's the chance to catch up on patriot buying and the
opportunity to fire a little spirit, into a club, fraternity, 'or
honorary: Here's a place where raining day treasuries can
take root:Here's a paying proposition for the future and an
aid for savng lives.
Remember a few of the angles. Recall that every service
man is also giving his monthly share of money toward bonds
and the war effort. Remember that we aren't asking you for
your time, your life or yotir family's. We're merely reminding
you that, even though you are but one pebble on the beach,
Your contrbution can mean a great deal.
Realizing• the size of the campus at this time and com
paring it to the number of organized clubs and activity*
groups, one can imagine that large amounts of money are a
vailable. And recognizing too, the level headedness of to
day's college student, one would imagine that he would jump
at the chance to use stale money for an-anything-but-stale
project such as this.,
Our start in this war program has been strong and com
mendable, But it will lose its value unless the same quality
of work is continued. Three days of the drive have already
passed. In these last 27, we ask for cooperation, enthusiasm,
and the typical Penn State spirit.
College Capers - - •
We'd like to present a definite proposal to meet a very
definite need.
The need is for any method which can help eliminate pre
examination cramming and its attendant evils without reduc
ing scholastic: standards. It is a need which though always
present is now accentuated by a stepped-up study program
which includes even such traditional holidays as Ttianksgiw.
ing and New Years Day, which has put professors on a twel
ve-month-yearly work basis, and which has been crowded with
extra monthly examinations to meet V-12 requests.
What we are proposing is not a "for the duration" elim
nation of all final examinations . . . The College Administra
tion explained clearly last semester why such a temporary
expedient did not fit into a program dedicated to maintaining
normal pre-war standards.
What we do suggest is a reduction in the number of fi
nals on the basis of demonstrated merit.
Specifically, our plan is this:
1. That any student whose class and bluebook aver
age in any course is at least a "2" need not take a final
examination unless .he so desires.
2. That in case the student chooses not to take the
final .examination, his. decision. shall% have:.no . effect on , his final
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3. That in case the student does choose
to take the final examination in an effort to
raise further his grade, the final examination
will contribute to a possible change in the
usual manner.
We consider the plan a sound one principally
because
1. It would eliminate a portion of the all
night cramming sessions, with their admitt
ed dangers to health and with their "here
today-gone-tomorrow knowledge."
2. It would place a premium on consis
rent effort rather than on cram-sessions.
3. It would permit a student to concen
trate his attention on his "weaker" subjects.
4. It, would helplessen the burden on our
round-the-calendar professors, and help com
pensate for the new burden of extra V-12
tests.
5. It would still preserve final examina
tions for those average and marginal cases
where final- examinations are of most impor-
lance.
A general recommendation or ruling by either
the Council of Administration or the College Sen
ate embodying the central idea of the plan could. ,
put it into immediate operation. We feel that it
deserves their consideration. L.T.C.
That Needed 'Clique'
Still analyzing for defetcs in the experimental
wartime elections code, Cabinet heard, at its
last meeting, a proposition for the return of poli
tical parties to the campus.
Current problem is whether they're worth the
bringing back at a time like this or whether we
should play politics down under the revised code.
However, there will always be elections, poli
tics, and campaigns. And there will be, unde - r
this new system, an excess of candidates and ef
fort spent without organization.
Although cliques might be tempted to put a
fellow up for office who would poll the most votes
rather than he or she best fit for the job, there is
an organization in those groups that we can't
hope to obtain without them.
These miniature parties in 4 &est many students
who do not necessarily car,. to obtain offices;
they organize' candidates and cut down on ex
tras woh would probably attract few votes. They
spirit a ccmpetition which gets people out to
e. They promote good ideas for the pol
set-up because they who are most involved are
grouped together an dcan speak as one.
Should cliques come again to this campus, they)
' - 4 111 have campaigning limitations on thei
and should strive to bring out the best persons
they have. Persons who like to play the political
game should be forgotten and members should
start early in a search for good student govern
ment material.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1943
c ßanless' Period
September first marked a temporary time-out
for pleasure driving bans, with emphasis on the
temporary
District Ration Board Head Ray V. Watkins
commented yesterday on the seriousness of the
situation and-the need for "students to use their
heads in their splurge during this "banless" time:
Although coupons will be plentiful now, the gas
they represent is as low as before and only sen-
sible saving now will mean a moderate amount
of gasoline later on
Students thus far have been cooperative in using
cars hardly at all—their continued economy •is
requested
Anniversary
A dean of me nis no longer the
,fellow who
just keeps the men in line. But - ours never has
been just that
For 24 years, Dean Arthur R. Warnock has
been counsellor to the men active in admini-
strative plans and programs, a strong backer of
student government, and an essential to Penn
State tradition
Tomorrow the Dean celebrates his 24th an-
niversary at the College
And with
.that milestone comes a futuke of
renewed challenge to a dean of men 'who has
played his part wall on a changed campus
she Women
Let's Shift The Shifts
Turn about is fair play and for 52 days "out
of Atherton" coeds have been eating their meals
on the "graveyard shift." They have done re
markably little complaining but it seems wise to
reverse the order for .the following ; 50 day 5.....,
It is impossible to begin the evening's work,
after eating dinner at 6:45 p. m., before 8 p. m.
Coeds at. Atherton do' not have to walk to and
from the dining room via Holmes Field. Ather
ton Hailers can leave their work and go directly to
the dining rooms.
There is no obvious reason for the shifts being
arranged the way that they are. However, if
there are reasons, it seems) wise to explain thOse
reasons to coeds so that the dream of eating at a
normal time again will not be continued.
Women's voting season comes again on Sep
tember 13. It can either follow past trends of a
minority vote or it can represent a mapority of'
coeds. The latter response would prove that co
eds have awakened to their "inalienable right"
and ar einterested in deciding who is , to tell them
what hours to corn in and who is to represent
them in All-College cabinet.•
It woul dprove that women are not interested
in seeing that their sorority sisters "make out" but
that the best person for the office wins. A strong
independent- vote has been an' unknown element
in past lections. '
Coeds ignore elections but when a ruling Is
made that seems umfair they rise in a body and
oppose the 'makers. The right to criticise is the'
basis for fiature improvement but the majority of,
coeds only begin to act when a matter comes to,
light which can be debunked. A9ctiOn should come•
at the beginning • . at primaiies and final elec
tions.
WSGA is the mainstay of women's government
and should represent every last coed. Its duties
were important in the past but it must take on an
even greater responsibility tomorrow when wom
en will outnumber men students. It needs a com
petent leader but even more important it must
have representatives who realize that their job
is a big one.
Will WSGA be the kind of governing body you
want or will it be one you will criticize? If it
does things you don't like ask yourself before you
complain, "Did I do my part by, voting, or am
beginning by criticizing my government . ?•
Because it is your government.
Buy War. Bonds
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