PAGE FOUR THE COLLEGIAN ,Pithfished...every Friday during tht . regular College year by the staf of the Daily Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second class. matter July 5, 1039 at The Post Office at State College, Pa. under the act of bilarcr 8, 1870. ~ ~ 1. 11 ~1 II 114 N Editor-in-Chief Emil A. Kubek Advertising Manager Kathryn Vogel Editorial Board: News Editor Helen V. Hatton Feature Editor Nancy Carastro Sports Editor _ Victor Bentley Editorial Assistants—Peggie Weaver, Ruth Constad, Gert rude Lawatsch. Reporter Fay Young Assistant Business Manager Betty Federman Junin• Advertising Board—Bernice Fineberg, Elaine Miller Managing Editot Nnnofiinq Editor Assistant News Editor Sports Editoi Assistant Advertising Manager Evelyn Wasson News Assistants—Bennett Fa ror: h. Richard Glickman, Gloria Nerenberg, Richard Schlegel, Jacqueline Secol, Jack Townsend, Patricia Turk. Friday, July 7, 1944 Welcome, Frosh Well Freshmen, you came to Penn State and with that decision you made a bid to take part and live in what men of freedom today are dying for, that chance for individual advancement ac cording to your ability of adaptiveness, initiative, and interest in school and country. Your first problem will be to adapt yourselves to something that will prove to be quite different from anything you have experienced. The increas ed responsibility you have signed yourselves up to will test all that you have acquired previous to your entrance here at Penn State. Seek help whenever you need it. This is the first step in adaptation. Settle for nothing less than a com plete understanding of all bewildering elements. Then go on to the next problem. Problems exist to see what you are made of. Then there is initiative. High school should have planted the seed of constructive, intelligent inau guration' of ideas and hopes. College should pro duce the physical result of ambition. The fact that you have been slated in the Registrar's records as top scholastic people reveals that you have the necessary quali,fications for potential leadership. Initiative aro'ne will make you a leader. Democ_ racy will give you the chance. Freshmen, it is hop ed you realize that you are here to apply- your initiative and to strive for a better Penn State. Your job in this respect is admittedly difficult since a war has changed the usual routine you might have been introduced to here at school. But it brought about the need for increased initiative, a different type of initiative, geared to an accel erated program. You will spend less time as a college student than you ordinarily would have. A war is fast business, and people with initiative are needed more quickly to win this war. Interest in country and school have naturally become more predominant in your lives. Inhale that spirit now until it runs through your veins and harvests individual power. That is your debt to country and school. Combine that power for the I sole reason of productivity towards creating a better chance for the fellow who follows you. That's the serious side of collegiate activities.. 'Freshmen days also present many opportunities to anchor yourselves to social connections where new friendships ,will be established. Your green bows and dinks will identify you to the rest .of the stu dents. The "hello" spirit which you have been commendably practicing will bring about a fellow feeling of familiarity which has been one of Penn State's traditions. There are many other traditions which you will learn to understand and appre ciate by the time your degrees are handed to you. Welcome on campus, freshmen. During the past months a great deal of careful study has been given by the faculty of North eastern University to the matter of post-war cur ricula. The College Council has unanimously rec ommended a post war plan of operation based up on a ten-week term. Under the proposed plan, the freshman year would comprise three ten-week terms plus a five-week summer term. Upper classmen would have two ten-week terms plus a five-week summer term of academic work each year except during the senior year when the sum s mer term would be omitted. The proposed plan requires 130 weeks of college attendance and is susceptible of operation on either a cooperative or full-time basis. Endorsement: Recalled to the depository window in the can teen to endorse 'a' checic; - the V-12 scribbled, "I heartily endorse this check.". Business Manager Herbert .Hasson Managing Editor B. J. Cutler __B. J. Cutler _Nancy Cara Stab __Ruth Cims.tstia J. Minilov ummuumiumimmumnpuinommmunituummunituniimiuninonipun Collegiate RevieVy vitionnomummunnummimiumunomounimmluggifiliiimimmo, • • , • -....,. ~. Will Learning To Kill Make Us -Forget .How To Be Citizens Again? • ~f -• 1 The Midpacifican reports on this question in one of its recent issues. It insists that Gls of to day have been taught to kill only recently. They are not professional adventurers and killers. Nei ther, as has been pointed out often enough, Vivre they reared in that shallow, intolerant, gangster ideology with which their enemy has been steep ed almost since birth. Despite the killer instinct with which Gls have been imbued in dealing with the enemy, they will return to civilian life with the same democratic convictions they had before the war. They will be only too glad to forget about rifles, machine guns and other lethal weapons. Every serviceman will be driven by one desire' to make up for the war years. To do this, he'll rturn to an Arrierica as democratic as the one he left behind. * M * * A man and his wife, hiking in the woods, sud denly realized they were lost. •Said the husband, "I wish_ Emily Post had been with us at the cross road; I think we took the wrong fork." * * * * * British Sentry: "Halt—who is there?" Soldier: "A British soldier." B. S.: "Pass, British soldier." B. S.: "Halt—who is there?" Soldier: "Who in hell wants to know?" B. S.: "Pass, American soldier." * * * * * Fact: Science is resourceful. It could not open Pullman windows, so it air-conditioned the train. * * "Stop, don't shoot! I'll marry your daughter. Oh, is THAT your daughter? Shoot!" * * * * * College women of today should include in their curriculum courses in history, economics and so cial studies, Mrs. Mueller, Dean of Women at Indiana University, advises. Since women in college now are carrying a double burden for themselves and for the man in the armed services, there is a great change in the type of courses taken. There is now a trend for cul tural subjects, such as literature and philosophy, to social sciences. • * * * All A penny for your thoughts, she said; Grieving, grieving, I bowed my head. Oh! the tears did lightly trickle, "My thoughts are worth at least a fickle!" THE - COLLEGIAN ----Mechanews Mechanews —Gamecock ipiimullunquilniu , Hiviiiimquipmouloommownilypilmillymmtinopppliniumujituommill ,A '-Lean • k . 111111111111111111111111111111 fills Deal. ambit, ; i is any .waste connected wi tr- - This nattier .of • starting e. new semester at: college is More com plicated than the 'Uninitiated would believe. • The first problem is meeting friends •on - the street who invariably ask, "Did you have a good time?" Immediately we start lying to one another about the riotous va cation we are supposed to have had. It seems that orie loses face to admit that he did not lap up all the brew in Philly or Scranton, and date all the neatly upholstered women, and get home at six in the morning. Then comes the grim .procedure of registering for classes. First the student must see his advisor. An advisor is a man who is paid to look at the student's pitiful grade sheet, remember his own college triumphs, and sneer. . The advisor also acts as a sched •uling officer. In this capacity, he and,the student discuss the many interesting, informative, and valu able. courses• offered by the Col- . lege (in which the students cannot enroll because of conflicting hours) and schedule others. As you know, not anyone can •successfully attend College. It re '.quires •a certain physical and men tal well-being. In order to ascer tain which students- possess these qualities a survival of the fittest test is made The students are herd-• ed into the Armory after their mo rale has been lifted by the sight of posters proclaiming the pay ment of fees being .due in a few days time. There each potential registrant is handed - 1000 large printed foims to fill out. The successful con- jestants in this filing-card mara thon are considered matriculated in the College, while the weak lings who fail to run the gaunt let are dragged oft by the waiting • campus cops. Naturally, due to lack of prac tice, freshmen are at a handicap in filling out "Grandfather's sec ond wife's maidenTname (Please Print)," and. Cwens are - delegated to help them. Cwens is a women's sophomore honorary society. In all freshmen classes there are tall, romantic-looking boys and short, homely ones. During registration, however, only the short ones can be seen 'filling out the blanks un aided, while here and there a horde of "traditional •gray _blazers, trimmed - with red" hide a taller specimen from view. 11 is not to be assumed that there okljunksartiiid Apo,..' -- ii,t,iigty,,,-: : L - .0 . 4.', 'A 1060 cards , eathi athidenf 14 out. They are used to heat up OldiMain .. _ op' cold mornipgs. ' - SiirvMpo:•registrption, thei •stu _ . .. m , dent attends the first eetipg . of his class, where the coeds site up the men and the prof and the, men and prof look over the coeds. When everyone has ogled hiS fill, the professor dismisses the class early so that it may run downtown and purchase the new textbook he wrote between semesters. Advice to the lovelorn service is proving quite successful. I have already been able to solve many perplexing problems of the heart. The last letter I received was typical. Dear Miss Cassius, My boyfriend does not pay alai" . attention to me anymore. He just sits around•- all evening drinking beer. What should I do? Befuddled• Dear Befuddled, You should spike your bey friend's- beer with. absinthe. As you . know, absinthe Inakes 'the heart grow• fonder. My Snooper - Dick • Deiec4Nre Agency is now, geared to handle cases especially for freshinen. We have been very busy locating — for them lost buildings on campuS and collecting evidence to' present when they are hauled up before Tribunal. Cassius - P.S.—Can you lend me five bucks? War Booklets at SU "The College at War," a series of articles which appeared recent ly in The Pittsburgh Press, will be made available to new stu dents at Student Union today and tomorrow, the Public Infor mation department announced. , These booklets, which, are in tended primarily for first semes ter freshmen and Navy V-12, new comers, describe the various ac tivities of the College since the outbreak of the war. New students are encouraged. to obtain extra copies to mail to , . their parents and friends. The booklets require only one and- a half cents postage. - Masquerettes Continue Masquerettes, women's Thespi,an auxiliary, will continue its activi ties this summer under the direc tion of Mary Jane Doerner; ' FRIDAY, JULY 7,41944 Auritie Cassius Your pal,
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