PAGE• FOUR 'Editorials... A Classification Especially since the • beginning of last semester, it has been the policy of Collegian to refrain from printing editorials which would burden the Col lege and the student body with any unnecessary concern. Last week, an. editorial writer expressed the opinion that since the ASTP units on campus will not have classes on New Year's Day, it would probably meet with the approval of the students if New Year's Day were declared by the College as a holiday for all students on campus. The edi- torial, as it appeared, was not polite The writer was under the impression that the ASTP trainees were also to enjoy the Christmas vacation with the rest of the students. This is no apology. This is a clarification. The editorial, as it appeared, was in most respects, unfair and pre sented in bad taste. It did not attack .the ASTP in any manner, it did not imply that the ASTP trainees were receiving an enviably long vacation. It merely suggested the equality' of all students when vactions'are concerned. The ASTP certainly. should get their scheduled vacations. Its program is believed to be one. of the, most difficult programs to • pass• through •on campus, and has many limitations for its mem bers which would seem • - excessively difficult . f or civilian students to practice. Duty And Privilege The Sixth War Loan Drive is being sponsored . on campus by the Independent Student Commit ' tee. Bonds and stamps have been on sale in the lobby of Old Main for the. past week. In the past, ISC sold over $3,000 worth of bonds and stamps. The committee wishes to keep the figure mount. ing, which is common sense. The figure must go higher and higher because the war is costing the government terrific sums 'tof money daily. Students need not be urged to think of buying a few stamps any more than they need persuasion to drop in the Corner Room for a coke. The latter is an undeniable privilege. The former is a duty. The two go together—in consti tutions, documents and authoritative decrees. Buying war bonds and stimps is both• a privilege .and duty. And if you ever enjoy the insignificant _privilege Of buying a coke at the Corner Room, ClOn't . be sat isfied until you have practiced the privilege of purchasing some stamps or bond on your way out. The Gathma Phi Betas are there every afternoon from 2 p. m. until 7 p. m. They have set up a booth in Corner Room and are in business for Uncle Sam. Make it your business, enjoy a priyilege, and 'fulfill a duty. Buy' warbonds and stamps. THE COLLEGIAN "For a Better Penn State" • Establiished 1940. Successor to the Fenn State Collegian, established 1904, and he Free Lance, established 1887. REPRESENTED roh NATIONAL ADVERTISING lb, National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Represeutatia e 4;03 MADISON AVE. a NEW YOD IC. N.Y. CHICAGO • BOSTON • LOS AnaeLis • WI FRANCISCO Member - Pssociated Collegiate Press Collegiate Digest Editor-in-Chief Business Manager Emil A. Kubek Betty Federman ASO' Man4ging Editor B. J. Cutler Advertising Manager Evelyn Wasson Editorial Board: Women's Editor _ Helen V. Hatton Feature Editor Nancy Carastro Sports Editor Victor Danilov Editorial Assistants—Ruth Constad, Gertrude -Lawatsch, Estelle Simon. Peggie Weaver, ,I , ay Young. Reporters—'Woodene 8011, Bennett Fairorth, Gloria Neren berg, Pat Turk. I Managing Editor Nancy Carnatro Assistant Managing Editor _ - F,stelle Simon News Editor. ' Sennett Fairoroth Sports -.Editor ' _ • - . -- - • -Fay - Young Assistant . Advertising Managers, Mary - Louise Davey, Helen Kime. News - Assistants,.. - . -Barbara: Ingraham,- Millie •McAllen,.. Leatrice-•Strober.^ .----, • Frada~;• I~Cember~ ;' ~iti',lB , 44r~ ;•-. ;, r....,:.r.F... ~. ~.::.., Distributor of Staff This Issue Lynette. Lundquist, Old : Mail The weekend .promises . to. be lively with Town" .and "Spin ster Skip?: coming up. "Our Town". rehearsals looked pretty polished to Maniac who viewed them way back in the emptiness of Schwab Auditorium, and it should be just . as much of a hit as it was in 1939. Emily Webb and George Gibbs are certainly a cute twosome as play ed by Claire Cohen and Portman Paget. The two frosh area real find for Director Tucker who be lieves the audience will welcome the play as something different. Oh, Happy Day! Cwens and Mortar Board are urging all coeds With good red Sadie Hawkins blood in them to drag their men to "Spinster Skip" tomorrow. This semester's Skip brings to mind the similar dances of by-gone semesters when coeds really • went all out in reversing the usual boy-ask-girl procedure. They sent their dated huge and ill smelling corsages of carrots, pars ley,• wilted lettuce leaVes, orange peels, and radishes too, for a touch of color. They called for their men, paid for the Corner. snack, took • them home, and kissed them good night at the door of, the fraternity hbune!' • „ . . - Don't Dress Up •: • . . • A quiet survey has showri that most coeds are • dressing 'for the affair, but, if anybody wants to know, Maniac thinks this certainly isn't in. keeping With the theme of the dance "Li'l Abner in Dog:- patch." For our $1.20 everybody would be more comfortable and have more , fun in real Dogpatch or Skunk Hollow style clothing. Among the lucky girls who snagged: a man for the occasion are Gamma Phi prexy Jeanie' Butz who'll be taking Dick Rathmell of the Merchant Marine . • . Delta Gam Scotty Glenn and phi kappa sig Bill Beam . . . Theta Phi Alpha Linda Alfano and A/S Karel Yed licka . . . AOPi Kate McCormick and A/S Jay Young . . . Theta Betty Griffiths and Welling Graul, phi kappa sig . . . Alpha chi Ruth LETTERS TO` THE EDITOR .To the Editor: We -of the "lucky" ASTP were surprised. to read about our. ov erabundance of .holidays. We're sorry to hear that you begrudge us one of our two days off per year. Somehow we can't quite see your point of view. If you .would have looked care fully you would have found that most of us even after four .to eight months in the field are look ing forward to our first furlough in• that time. Also how many of the civilians are from 1150 to 2500 miles from home, an impossible distance to, cover over a weekend. Another small point that might 'be brought to the fore 'is the length .of our Christmas holiday —one day. How many days are the. civil ian and V-12 students getting? Eight days according to the ru mor going round. Yet you com plain :of study fatigue less than one week later. Speaking of study fatigue, we get our share from a schedule of eight hours a day, five days a Week, four hours on Sat urday and supervised study five nights a week. We're not complaining, but we don't believe that you have the right to complain. ti , Pvt. Ralph B. Conn Pvt. Sam H. Philpot Pvt. Baylin H. Smith To the Editor: I'd like to take this opportun ity to remind the writer of the December 1 editorial, "Civilian Underdogs," that all is not a lark in . the AST. The AST will be free for New Year's Day and .Christmas Day too, but they will' attend classes all the rest of the 'holiday week. :There', ds . a . possibility - that the and. - consequent!' /3r4•4110,,N.42-=iits;:..3oll7.be,..,given• THE COLLEGLkIT By NANCY CARASTBO Kaufbnann..,and Charles: Reeder,:! SPE' . . ..Kappa Shirley:Painter and A/S Matt Szyller • . . Alpha chi Mim Ramsey and . SPE Bill Wintersteen . . . Theta Posie Shearer and phi tau Dick Griffiths . . . AOPi Jane Wolbarst and A/S Johnny• Hopay . . ..Theta Marcia Crichton and Bill Jaffurs AOPi Maggie Mayer and A/S Jim Jones . . . AOPi Shirley Camp and A/S Sam Lang . . . ChiO Laura Jean Davis and All-College prexy Stan Speaker, phi sigma kappa . . . ChiO Peggy Susanin and ATO Bill Kelley, 7th semester president and sec-treas . . . Correction, Please Maniac wants to correct a mis take in last week's column . . . It wasn't Elaine but Edith Freed that's engaged to Jerry Penzner, Navy V-7 student . . . So sorry, please! . . . Kappa Kit Dayton was guest . of a midshipman at the .Army-Navy game last week; lucky girl . . SDT . Vittia Berman 'was • visited by . Pvt. Eddie_ Borow Dick Turnbull, :former - V-I . 2er • here,. visited Madelyn. Applequist . :* Gairuna Phi Sally be' hailing :kris. Courtney SWindler.. . visit _her fromNorfolk,•,Va., - , this weekend.. . : Ens: Bill Baker.waS,,.. up to see - -icappa.. Margo Zollinger.. .• . Lt. - Bob Boedeek.er came up to , see Theta •Betty. . : Eileen Ershler ..entertained' . Stewart Kestenbaurn,..former phi sig. prexy at Ohio State,. for. the weekend . . . Pharmacists' Mate Joel Raleigh, stationed .at Bain bridge, will be seeing Alpha xi delt Helen Kerr this week . •. Ma rine Pvt. Johnny ,Peters trekked up to see AEPhi Audrey Peters ..., Miscellaneou Theta Elaine 'Miller has been down in Harrisburg visiting the guy she's pinned to, Naval Air Cadet Dave Young, former phi gam . . . Kappa Peggie Weaver has' gone to Pittsburgh to be with her man, Pvt. "Moon" Mullen, phi kappa sig . . an eight day holiday. New :Year's'. Day and Christmas Day are al most 'the only holidays 'that. ; ,the ' AST celebrates at leisure. During. the year we attend classes six days per week, averaging 35 to 40 per week. Do civilians or V-12 students attend .classes for such extended periods? Being in the army, I had sev eral months of. field duty before being sent to Penn State; being sent here two.. weeks before my outfit went to P. o.' E. It .has been almost a year since I have been home for more than 24 -hours. Is the fact, that I can now be home for 48 hours, too much to be tolerated? The writer claimed that the school program ha's been accel erated for military reasons. For the benefit of the navy, it has. The army program is completely independent of all others. It con sists of four twelve week terms a year. Even were it plausible to com pare the ASTP to the civilian or- V-12 programs, I believe that the above aptly answers the writer. But, as it stands, we are an army unit, using the College facilities, to be trained for specific military duties. Whatever orders we re ceive or what free time we are given is i no concern of anyone other than army personnel. In the words of our Commandant . . . "We are soldiers going to school, not students in uniform." Our commanding officer decides our procedure and we follow his or ders notwithstanding the opinions, thoughts, or ideas of anyone out side .his jurisdiction. It is my . belief,that the , Col legian made blunder' . ing' the • editorial.. the tone, the innuendo, ;: in. fact . the... entire edi-.. torial were , -in •:very , ...peor: taste..- 41144.136g).-.:09/.4e11-. „ . . Leitii Andllu may:: This colmin• is .supp.osed t04,1e-humoroui;* . imd when I write dt every week I.try to be as funny as I knoW' how to .give a feW:lreaders . a: chuckle now and then: I hope- these - reiderswill forgiveme fi.l do , not try 'to be amusing .today because any. thing funny I could say would stick in my throat. Almost everyone around here has a friend or someone dear to him in the armed forces. My friend is. a fellow named Julie whom I have known all my life. We went to high school and college together. For a short time we were In the same training company in the army. He means about as much . to me as one of my brothel's. One might not think so much of Julie as a sol dier from his appearance. He. would just be a kid in uniform, of below average height, with curly hair and a big, friendly grin. But I know that Julie came through basic training on guts alone, after surviving an illness that caused most of the other men in his hospital ward to be medically dis charged. • . I received a letter from my friend Julie •toi day. He wrote to me so that he could let out some of the , bitterness and despair he has found in the front lines :in trance: He could, not: iNLrite,.this home, becaUse:ie would never, add , to his moth= er s worry. .... , . . The. kid is no articulate- .writer. lle .canni?t , tell.' .. of: fear and death in the polished and moving of a 'war :correspondent... But` imoause It i j - Julie: wi:iti4;;•-the, sin'itile . y . vords , are .noie.moirin - `.- - - -'l6 :me. Itt:ccinld he 'a .. yid: yog - went:t6 . :schoor wit?' 'talking. . , ,• • .. • .- -. . . •. • : 1 . "You can't imagine what 'it is• like' to . lie in al water-soaked,. or ..to be more exact,. a water4filledi foxhole all night with machine guns . firing at you,i around yo, and just everywhere, with - morfarsl lobbing in shells at you from every direction, aridi artillery shells whistling and crashing around .1 7 1 To hear a guy you've been with scream, 'Me4ici' l and, lie there and groan till one comes. Then when t morning comes and you can see again, you're! surprised that almost everyone is still O. K. anal you're off to attack again. "I don't know how long I'll last. As it is still in one piece, luckily. One piece of shrapnel lodged in my head gear but just bruiscd zne—an other bounced off my face but just.' , burned me. l I'm still without scars—just memories . . . , I 9 know, what•Ws like to see qfripnd. die : ... L arid to pump eight - rounds into a inan'shead : . . , 1 YoU. just have to take an impersonal attitude : to-, 1 ware'everyOne- , -yoUr :friends ,and enemies ..•... . ' You can like a 'guy; but not becoMe too `attached ' ;to •him or you're lost mentally . -..:*133.ght nowl'm I sii jumpy , that if ..a. guy whistlesol•practically' hit i theground or look fora ditch ... I "I believe that my religious beliefs were more (Continued on page. eight) . • -MANIAC FRIDAY,,DE,owpFA: a, • IRAC;• , - •-•
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