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THE COLLEGIAN
Eetabliished 1940. Successor to the ,Penn State. Collegian.
irotabliabed 1904. and the Free Lance, established 1887.
Senior Editorial Board:
Service Editor Rita M. Belfonti
Feature Editor M. Jane McChesney
Sports Editors—Arthur P. Miller, -Rembrandt C. Robinson.
Editorial Assistants—Helen Hatton, ' Emil Kubek, Bernard
Cutler, Nancy Carastro, Victor Danilov.
AePorteh---Peggie' Weaver, Gertrude Le.watach,. Ruth Constad
Junior Advertising ' Board—Betty Federman, Bernice Flue
berg, Elaine Miller, Kitty Vogel.
Managing Editor Peggie Weaver
Assistant Managing Editor Gertrude Lawatseh
News Editor Nancy Carastro
Snorts Editor Rembrandt C. Robinson
Assistant Advertising Manager _ Betty Federman
News Assistants—Wooclene Bell. Bennett Fairoth, Barbara
Ingraham, Leo Kornfeld, Lynette Lundquist, Gerry
Marley, Gloria Nerenberg, Audrey Ryback, Jack
Townsend, Fey Young
Friday, May 26, 1944
All editorials represent the opinions of
the writer whose initials are signed to it,
and not the opinion of the corporate Col
legian staff. Unsigned editorials are by the
editor.
Excellent Discipline . .
Lt. Col. John C. Peth, University of Maryland,
came to the campus last week and dispelled the
opinions of certain individuals who have for quite
some time made remarks regarding Penn State's
ROTC unit. In. their light the ROTC students ap
pear to march about the campus with indefinite
ideas about the direction of, a column right
movement or an about face.
Penn State's ROTC unit received the rating of
excellent' in the recent inspection by Col. Peth,
which established it as one of the outstanding
ROTC units in the country. In comparison with
other colleges, these civilian students receiving
military training have been rated excellent for
many years. The returning of the blue star of
merit to the right sleeve of the ROTC uniformS
solidifies the fact that, in spite of the small a
mount of military training college students re
ceive when matched with the regular full-time
military schooling of the army, Reserve Offi
cer's Training merits congratulations.
The more disciplined the college student, the
more he will be prepared to meet situations that
Might necessitate use of discipline, excellent dis
cipline, acquired at such an institution as Penn
State.
Some students remark "Oh, I was only kidding
when I said the rotissie boys looked sloppy."
When the story is unveiled one sees no kidding
concerned with the whole matter. Returning
alumni stroll up the campus and immediately
stop to watch ROTC members drilling out in the
field. It is then and there they realize the weighty
part of constructive education ROTC played in
their collegiate days. Those few hours of march
ing as freshmen and sophomores perhaps have
helped certain future yielding opportunities to
march right into their lives. An alumnuS of the
college will recall the first squad he had under
his, command. He had a problem to tackle. A
siniilar situation faces him . later,on as he is asked
to take over the first hit of responsible work. The
influence of excellent discipline appears on the
scene and aids him in accomplishing his task. He
tackles the problem. ROTC, with its few hours of
instruction each week, gives at least a little push,
and the push in the correct place makes the
tackle Complete.
Indians And Coeds . . .
What is the difference between a college coed
and•an Indian on the warpath?
Before an attack the Indians assembled at the
council fire. The coed attends a sorority bull ses
sion to plot strategy for the evening. The Indian
then plunged into a stream to clean himself of
evil spirits, while the coed slides into the bath
tub to lose the effects of other spirits.
The Indian went to his tent to dress for the
battle; the coed retires to her boudoir for the
same reason. After smearing his body with hide
ous war paint the Indian was ready for the fray.
The coed's preparations are a bit more extensive.
First she dyes her hair to match her dress, and
paints her face a screaming red.
When her fingernails and toenails are enameled
crimson, she takes her fountain pen and'inks deep
purple shadows on her eyelids. Putting on her
furs, feathers and war bonnet, she hides on her
person a six-inch hat pin as deadly as a tomahawk.
What the Indians did was known as a massacre,
and they always settled for a scalp. But the coed
calls it a date, and puts on war paint to capture
the paleface and imprison him throughout the
years. B.J.C.
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"You're so different, honey. My last boy friend
took too long to say good-night."
"Lingered, eh?"
"No, stuttered."
What is the present-day collegian's version of
an "ideal professor?" To answer this question the
Holcad. student newspaper at Westminster Col
lege (Pa.) conducted a survey among men and
women.
Co-eds prefer a man, not necessarily young
and good-looking (although that does ease the
strain of an otherwise dull lecture) but one who
understands "why I can't comprehend the intri
cate workings of a motor," the newspaper learn
ed.
Expecting to find a unanimous appeal among
the men for glamourous young graduates of uni
versities, surveyors were surprised to learn that
boys would rather have middle-aged women
standing before them in the classroom. "Less
distraction from the books," one male explained.
Other requisites for the ideal prof are punc
tuality and accuracy, an enthusiastic interest in
his subject, and use of humorous incidents to
brighten up dry text-book material.
To add a bit of humanism, students appreciate
the touch of "absent-mindedness" so traditionally
associated with college professors. For example,
forgetting that quiz he intended to spring as a
surprise, or failing to call for that list of physics
problems.
The fat man and his wife were returning to
their seats in the theatre after the intermission.
"Did I tread on your toes as I went out?" he
asked the man at the end of the row.
"You did," replied the other grimly, expecting
an apology.
•
The first man turned to his wife.
"All right, Mary," he told his wife, "this is our
row."
From Khaki Klips at University of Oregon
comes the profound statement: There are many
things about eating that are interesting to a sol
dier . . . mostly food and frequency.
That holds good fot civilians; tool
* '* *
A few old members of the Everyday Is Quarry
Day Club bundled up well in their bathing suits
and went out to proVe it was "warm enough."
After wading carefully in the icy water, they let
out a few screams and chattered back to indulge
in a game of bridge, feeling very much like fu
gitives from a refrigerator.
•TI
.—The Log
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—The 'Utah Chronicle
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—lndiana Daily Siuden
Dr. Hans Enoch, Hendon, Middle Sex, England, shown working on
his new "wonder drug," vivicillin, claimed-to be potential alter.: -- z,'
native to penicillin. Dr. Enoch, who left Germany. - when- Hitler
came into power,.is one- of - bia - chemists:whardeveloped•Ahe,,drug, - •.'2.;
which has. saved life-of boy - pronounce&doorned..:- • - : -
Campuseer
With this opus we conclude our
career as collegiate commentator
and begin, to look forward to
More serious work. No more will
the characters need to rush to the
print shop late on Thursday night
to see if we have managed to get
our nose into something that we
shouldn't have. No doubt the by
play behind the scenes will con
tinue, and rid doubt there will be
someone to raise the curtain on
them.
. We know that we have made
many people unhappy in that we
couldn't agree to keep quiet when
something was cooking. But these
are far outnumbered by those who
have expressed their apprecia
tion of our deathless prose. Of
all the things we dug, up, the one
that burned the most was probably
the column, we did at the instiga
tion of the then editor -of the pa
per, Paul Woodland, on the a
mount of money one Harry Cole
man was collecting for his various
activities. The sum total, collect
ed from an inter-class finance
report, was a tidy one. .
Harry told us the first time he I
must us' after that one that we
ought to .learn to keep things to
ourselves that didn't concern the
student , body. For that column
we . paid the price Of being left
off the picture of the Collegian
staff in La Vie. Harry was La Vie
editor. And there was another
angle to it. The past editor, Wood
land, mentioned above, was very
thick with Coleman, and would
never admit that he had anything
to do with it.
Delightful .
It is .a rare privilege to be per
mitted to' break into print each
week with our innermost thoughts
and ideas. But with this' privi
lege there are responsibilities, too.
It doesn't take' long to find out
that printing things just to be
malicious 'doesn't pay. Nor can
you use your column to square
personal' differences and dislikes.
We can,honestlY say here at the
end of the line that we have never
printed' anything which we knew
was false, nor have we needled
merely for the sake of needling.
Many people have told us stori
es that would have embarassed
someone else if printed, but un
less there. was a point , to be made,
we reftised .to be a party to it,
And we learned, too, that it
pays• 10-check-arid double-check.
There was one incident a few se
mesters back that had us on the
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ropes for a while, and it st a. ndi
out like a beacon pointing to the
time: when we learned not to ac ,
cept rumor for fact. •
No doubt there have been tim
es when we have said things that
were unfair or did not present an
unbiased point of view. In th 6 for
mer case, we have never hesita
ted to offer our humble apologies,
and in the latter,' Viz' 'mutterings
never pretended to be ansrthilig
else but our own personal opinion.
Famous Or Infamot
It's been fun to watch the faces
of people to whom we were intro
duced; they would repeat the name
as if they had heard it __some
where before, and soon 'there
came a gleam of light. "Oh, yoU're
the one . . . " and the rest was
good or bad according to whether
we had ever been bitter with
them or not.
But most of the people whom
1 we knew and liked have gone and
are now spread out around the
world so that the addresses sound
like names picked at random
from the pages of an atlas. There
is the little group with whom we
- practically lived when Collegian
was a daily. One is on the front
in Italy,
.another in Georgia, one
in Utah, another in Nebraska, and
still another, the last we heard,
about to take off for foreign ter
ritory..in his bomber. He phoned
long distance last week to say
goodbye; he had started out 'once
before, but because, of a -slight
mishap, had to come back.. It is
for friendships like these that we
shall always be grateful for the
opportunities Penn State' hai giv
en us.
Fun Or. Work . .
- This business of writing is not
all play, but there is that feeling
of excitement that comes , with ap
proaching deadlines and thd sense
of satisfaction when the finished
product' comes from the preises.
As we now come to our last dead
line, we realize how fortunate we
are to have been. permitted a Part
in all this. Because of the unusual
condition prevailing, and as 'the
saying. goes, "almost anyone 'can
make out these days," we have
had more than our share of jobs
on publications. Four of them
haVe presented us with tokeni of
service, and in goodbye, we' want
to say that' it's all been fun, and
as to how educational, we expect
to find .out in the very near fu
ture.
PRIDAV, IVIAY 2%, 1944