The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, April 21, 1944, Image 4
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For Men Only The WRA Sweetheart Dance •in Rec Hall to morrow night may not at first glance seem to be one step in an insidious female plot towards world domination, but that is what it is. As soon as it is realized that the feature of the dance for "sweethearts" is to be the selection of a campus Pin-Up Boy the coed machinations be come quite clear. These women have for long been jealous of the free and independent position of men, and now that, they are a majority on campus they intend to make men their chattels. This is their plan: 1. Through Swetheart Dances and Pin-Up Boy contests they will instill in masculine minds the fact that men should be desirable, romantic little things 2. They will insist that it is the female pero gative to pursue men, that every day is Sadie Hawkins Day. . • 3. By continuing to buy up all the available slacks and dungarees, women expect to seize control of the trouser industry, and then to decree that only women may wear pants. 4. They will insist that men be more "man like" (a new word meaning , docile, cute,,helpless or fluffy) and retire from the business of the world to cultivate instead, the culinary, homemaking, and cosmetic arts. 5. They will next deprive males of the right to voote or•hold property, and future generations of men, pursued and conquered by women, will spend their lives slaving over a hot stove for their lady and master. Men must act promptly to ward off this revolu tion. The fight against feminism must not be lost. Victory will retain the masculine way of life. De feat will clothe men in tweed skirts and dickey blouses. Do not let them pin up your picture to leer at in their dormitories. Do not answer to their bra zen whistles on campus. Do not wash your neck or wear clean shirts. And thus will you escape their predatory attentions. Do not let them entice you to be a "sweetheart" with a pink ribbon in your hair. If in the battle with the encroaching females you should be tempted to falter, to take the easy way out, remember the fact of your birth and let it give yoou courage. You could have..been,bomva..,girL iIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIjIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIOIIIIIIIIMIIII I I IIIIIIIIII MIMIIM Buzzing The Field 1111111111111111101114111101111111111HIHIIHMH1111111111111M1111 1 1 111111111111111111111 HIIIIII "It 'may be Shanghai" . . . . 'Twas a peaceful - Monday - morning, the first Monday of this month. At. noontime•out on-•fraternity.row the boys were told to, repbA tciSpiiiks•building in the afternoon 'for an impbrtant'ineeting. • • 'Afternoon came and the meeting: There 125 air cadets' were informed that they were being given a "relief from air crew-training without pre judice." Then they heard: those who transferred to the Air Forces from the , Army Service Forces and Army Ground Forces will be returned to those components; those who transferred from induction stations will be sent to A. A. F. techni cal schools to be trained as aviation ground crews. We weren't one of the unlucky 125 that Mon day. Later we learned that those who had been members of the Air Forces Enlisted Reserve or Voluntary Inductees before entering air crew training would be retained in the program. The Thursday following "Blue Monday" a group of orange tags left for the A. A. F. technical school O at Sioux Falls, S. D. Monday of this week a group of buff tags entrained for Camp Pickett, Virginia, where they will be reassigned In the Service and Ground forces from Whence they came. What were the why and wherefore of this dras tic change in the status of these potential fliers? Theoverall war situation dictated it as exem plified, in the failure of the Allies to take Cassino or to make headway on the Anzio beachhead in Italy. Anzio and Cassino proved that more men are needed on the ground than now. As TIME magazine observed: "The Army has realized that in its haste to acquire new striking power in the tank and the airplane it had underestimated the role of the infantry—and neglected its develop ment on a large enough scale." With this new evaluation of a 'well-balanced Army, the Ground Forces have begun to get the pick of available maipower. The Air Force, be cause of the success of its air combat teams and consequent low casualty rate, has found itself with more men than it needs for air crew training. "Blue Monday" signifies the merging of inter ests of air and ground. So now they are gone. And a group of us lucky Joe's through some twist of fate, will stay round here a while longer and then ship out to pre flight school. "They" may or may not get to Shanghai, but chances are they will be seeing ac tion on some fighting front long before we do. Those silver wings "we" are after are a long way off, and the spectre of the "wash board" is ever present. But one thing that is certain is this: That if the exigencies of the U. S. were great enough to take us out of our former life, they! are great enough to determine when, where, and how we • shall serve. 'ilt ~ .-tS r i l;Wt7M7 7 rl With Roger Campuseer • • One'day--this week NVe were tellings.story aboutan.incident•that liappened:to:ua some time ago at the• Co-op. What . trolight it back to mind was.one Of. the boys . in clas's - suggesting; we •go home for heiwas anxious 'to liat ` out to the'Co-op and have some fun. Well, we were relating•hoW in a con.veriation• with sOme'people out there one.evening, we :remarked that the members teemed to have more social conscious ness than -the, rest of the •student body. Whereupon one girl broke in with . ._. • "oh, yes, we have lots of parties and dances and things." So just as we got to that part the other day when retelling it, this fellow who . was • anxious to get back to the Co-op said . . . "I like those parties .• ." But we still think the members of the Co-ops are in general more aware of social significance when they see it than most other students. • For the Blue and White . . . Talking to some of the freshmen after their first full dress class meeting Monday night, we found that they thoroughly enjoyed the session as long as the leaders stuck to songs and cheers. They seemed eager to master this . phase of school spirit' and to become proficient, at this vocal chore, perhaps in preparation for some future date when the choruses of "Where the Vale of Old Mount Nittany . . ." again resound thrOughlhe.toWn and on campus in the wee hours at the conclusion of a session. "Swell," they said. But one little girl said she just - couldn't see . why' the girls had to spend so much time just bitching about . no dating on Wednesdays which prevented them from going out with the sailors and marines. Even the blase second semester people, 'smarter than whom there is no one but sophomores, admitted to a pleasurable time. The First Thing I See . . The themes are legion which have been written including) those deathless words ; . . "and the first thing I saw when returning was the tower of Old Main, 'standing there . . ." Now the Penn State Engineer is making it possible to clip and pin up that self-same cover. The cover on the new issue due next week will feature a full-color photo of Old Main. Waddya Want, Bud? . . Some times when one calls 5051 and one of the cute kids is feeling playful, you're liable to hear some of the following greetings which have been reported to us: "Atherton Bakeshop, what cookie can I get for you?" "Irvin Barnyard, pick your own chicken." "Mac Hell Hole, which little devil do you' want?" • . "Graveyard, what corpse can I dig up for you?" "This is Heaven. Which angel shall I have fly down for you?" "Jordan Waterworks. Which drip can I get for you?" Hegira . . We've heard that the local branch of the Selective-Service Organi zation has • arranged for a mass expedition to Altoona tomorrow . for the college men to have their physicals. The group leaves early, very early in . the morning. For the past two weeks, the 1-A cards have been arriving, and when the boys come . back Saturday afterncTon, we should know pretty well the shape of thingS to come. If conditions remain as they are at present, the disappearance of the able-bodied male civilian from the collegiate scene is almost an assured' fact. Haven't They Heard . . . It is reported, reliably, we hope, that at WSGA meetings, the Cornell Student Union comes in for a great deal of discussion. , hope to live to see the day when we have a similar institution at Penn' State. One of the cozier situations we've dreamed about has been - the vision's of foregathering in the Sandwich Shop for a beer and 'good', conversation. We wonder if WSGA knows that this' is taken' for- granted in the Cornell SU. Old Mania We have - dome to only one profound conclusion this week. Coeds are not . aggressive as they used to be.l After scouting around for •al- Most four days, asking people about their intentions, regarding the WRA. Sweetheart Dance, all we could get were four admissions, "Please don't put my name in your column," from others. • Anyone who goes will see DG Sis Kehler with Ensign Herb 11,,Tar tin . . . Delta Gam Laurene Newbold and Roy Delaney •Bernstein and Al Weinstein . . . AEPhi pledge Ruth Rosenbaum' and . Beta Sig Lee -Edelstein.. •s' • • . . . . • • Net Much Cooking Fred Dietz, PIKA, recently pinned. Helen Kime . . Theta 'jean Purnell and Alpha Chi Sig Bob Greene are included among the mio. dle-aislers . . . AEPhi Alice Lother will marry Gabe Levinson Sun day . . , Olive Schnabel and Lt. John Provost, former Theta Chi,. engaged . . . and here comes the surprise of all surprises—Frosh HoW ard Cupp trotted home last weekend to marry hometown girl Bernice Naven . Front and Center - Things are really tough when one has to combine two columns - tor , fill up space previously allowed for one, so here we go with. news ot former studentd in the service. Nine former students have reported to the pre-flight school' at • Maxwell Field, Alabama where they will receive nine weeks of inten sive-physical, military, and academic instruction. They are Aviatiqn. Cadets Ira Coleman, Bob, Gegenheimer, Thomas Long, Hermali Iot#: stein, Charles MEicFarland, William Miller, Bill Stanley, Andrew' r; Weise, 'arid H'a'rry Weitz; By • 80:11 . :' KIMMEL By RITA M. BELFONTI FRIDAY, 'APRIL• 21, 194+