•EIG-fiT THE COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" Establisheti 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian, catablish?.ll 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887. Published every Friday morning during the regular Col lege year by the , staff of the Daily Collegian of the Pennsyl vania. State Collge. Entered as second class matter July 6, 1034;-. at the State College, Po., Post Office under the act of March 8, 1879. Subscriptticms by mail cal: , at $1 a semester. Editor-in-Chief Business Manager Victor Danilov Evelyn Wasson • Associate Editor Managing Editor Bernard Cutler Nancy Carastro EDITORIAL STAFF Women's Editox )4ews • Editor Peature Editor Photo • Editor Flporte Editor _ Fay Young; Witorial Assistants—•Woodene Bell, Gloria Nerenberg, Doro thy Rutkin, Pat Turk. R.eporteri—Leon Aaron, Barbara Ingraham, Lynette Lynd- Quist, Audrey Rybnelt, Gwynneth Timmie, Graduate Counselor ADVEB:rISING STAFF Assistant Business Manager Elaine Miller Aii.sistant Advertising Manager Bernice Fineberir Junior Board—Mary Louise Davy, Phyllis, Deal, Rosemary ,Gkiantous. STAFF THIS ISSUE Stanagirul 'Editor 'Hewn , -Editor • •Barbara Ingrham Itavistant - Advertising Managers—Mary Louise Davey, Helen Kime. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1945 Are Feet- Necessary? At some time in life one reaches the conclus ion that feet are unnecessary appendages which could well be replaced with wings. One usually arrives at this decision. after snows have veiled !lie lofty Mt. Nittany and have buried the bor ough of State College. Some will scoff, at replacing the familiar, calloused, unsymmetrical foot with the graceful, streamlined wing. A nearsighted director' efif the bureau of patents in the 1870 s stated fhat the patent office might •as well close since every thing had • been- invented: Since then we have had--the- automobile, the airplane, radio, and a few - other insignificant inventions thrust upon us. Why not the wing? Women would be the first to support the move ment for replacing feet with wings. Every wom an who made the change could justifiably de mand a new wardrobe- on -the grounds that the old one hampered her. wings. "And, dear," she could say, "I can't keep up with Mrs. Jones un less I get clothes which give me minimum ground drag and maximum wingspread." Furthermore, wings,. would solve the unem playment —problem. Chiropody- presents an ex tremely limited. field. • With the rise of wine would come the "Wings of Beauty Shoppes" which would demand that the public let them arrange its feathers in the latest ethereal styles. From a strictly selfish- viewpoint, the sub stitution of •wings.. would be. wonderful. While the .world may inadvertently benefit from such a -change,. to ti the residents- .of State -College it would mean the beginning - :-of a new era during 'the winter months. When. • buses stall.- and-. trains fail to make connections to the town, the exact center of the state and equally inaccessible from all parts• of it," the natives. could- float above all the an noying realities of • life- in State College. Even though a city ordinance-forbids the ashing of the streets and the sidewalks-are worn smooth, the citizens could—sail serenely above • the ice and snow with the aid of -their. wings.—ES Coeds And Activities "How much longer will coeds be able to stand the pace of the accelerated program, ac tivities, and more•recently, rushing?" is a ques tion in the minds of many woman students. They have been wondering too if mental, phy sical, and psychological breakdowns aren't be . - coming more than mere case histories studied in psych courses. Innumerable coeds dash frenzied to class all day, attend meetings or initiations in the evening, and then return to the dormitory late at night and try to study for bluebooks and auizzes the fol lowing day. Most of the students aren't com plaining, but sometimes they queStion their com mon sense. Activities, particularly, have overburdened the average coed since- , the start of the war. Perhaps the forgotten WSGA point system should be • taken - off the • shelf s and • put. into use again. In that way a student Would-be limited in the isurnber ,, of extra-currieular,-activities that.. she:. • ; in;,... At, least- the - . 7 P0p1 1 044 1 ' ner:yous . ; . breAkdowtillw6!.ilti-'be , , ,, cut' o,ne4thir4. , the-point .swte44l , : rifi4ved•-11V4 • T 1 Pin Technically speaking, a new regime has taken over the Collegian (published weekly by the Daily Collegian staff) this issue. Inaugura tion of the selected few took place during a quiet ceremony known as the Collegian banquet. This semester Collegian added another "first time" to its long list when a coed, Fay Young, was appointed sports editor. Who said that it's a man's world? the end of this semester. (That includes the last day of Final Week.) It's about this time that everyone gets to wishing he were graduating so that he too could stalk about campus with that wide-awake-look gloating "No fi nals." Helen Ration Ruth Constad Gertrude Lawatseh Peggie Weaver But one thing about this accel erated program, it doesn't leave you much time to wonder how next semester is going to go. Be fore all the books you've had to order come in, half the semester is over and it's time to start selling that $5 book you've opened twice for $1.50. Point number two in favor of ac celeration is that the faces change so fast nowadays, you never have a chance to get bored with fami liar ones. We have a very good system of getting acquainted araeut this place though. One of the most efficient methods discover ed so fir takes place at the be ginning. of. each semester. Two or three groups of students Louis Bell Fay Young Nancy Carastro Commanding a battalion of com bat . engineers in Belgium during. Vie recent German breakthrough, V. Col. Dave Peregrin '4O won dis tinction for himself and his battal ion by holding an area until the infantry arrived. Half• of the battalion has been decorated for its successful stand, and Lt. Col. Peregrin received the Silver Star and the Purple Heart. Lt. Col. Peregrin was senior class president in 1940. Second . Lt. • Jackie Grey, 1943 AU-College president, now holds the Purple Heart for wounds re ceived in action in France. The foriner Lion athlete, who is attach ed to a tank division, is convalesc ing in a hospital in France. Cpl. John Egli, who captained Staters. basketball team in '43, was officially reported - wounded in ac tion in France. Cpl. Egli has been awarded the Purple Heart. Second Lt. Ray Fortunato, of Thespian fame, is .the owner of the Purple Heart - for wounds received in Germany on December 13. Lt. Fortunato - writes that he is im proving . and is convalescing in France. Looks like the semester is wind ing up in .a blaze of formals, house parties, sorority dances, et al . . . Bet Penn State coeds'•gowns have n't been danced in this much since days that went before . . . Theta formal was last week up at the Nittany Lion Inn . . . Jeannie. Weaver's escort was Ens. John .Stap Jr. of the Naval Air Corps who was visiting her this weekend . . . Bob Queen, a dark and handsome full-blooded Indian, was Ginger Sykes' import for the evening . . Also dancing were Lois Lyman and Judd Healy, pi kappa phi . . . Mary Beaver and A/S Roy Mattson . . . Jo Sauer wein and ASTP Pvt. Joe Clemson . . . Janet Taylor and Johnny Sadden, phi kappa sig . • . Jeanie Hirt and Jack Davenport phi delt —who by the way has given his president's gavel to Jeanie as a token of his-affection . WRA's annual Sweetheart Dance is on,:the calendar for to. .morrow night . Some of the coeds- e and their-valentines will b . ' Zeta pledge Betty Craven:and, Ed 't-onradr. . Cynthia - Johnston - and , ' GUY: Newton': • ~SDT :Hats •Milier E .kr4A l 4-iierbrT-0 43 cke' Pbi:/14 4, 1 , an an. rid:Elwooad aye e. • .AOPF Naricy .r. Eind• to/$i Fenn Statements By HELEN HATTON Two more weeks to go! Exactly 12 more days or 288 hours before ht 'The Service Old Mania By NANCY CARASTRO THE COT LFGIAN who want to make friends and- in fluence people get together and choose about eight promoters from each cliaue to represent them. Immediately these 24 nom inees and their disciples start to bustle all over campus, through Sparks, down to the Corner Un usual tacking up their names and pictures as they go. . Finally when the candidates have run • out of paper and pictur es, absorbed all the names they can possibly remember, and pro moted the 'Hello Spirit' to its maximum, a vote is taken. The clique with the most paper and pictures and best memory wins. To win means a lot though. Hen ceforth you area BMOC- and will be. rightfully • permitted to attend a meeting: composed of the other seven- snidents' who started out to make friends and influence peo ple. In this way all eight of you will get :acquainted - and be bud dies- until next semester when the vicious cycle starts all over again. Faculty News Prof. Simon Marcsori, .of the So oiOlogy. department, will be- on leave of absence from the College , ' next . •semester to do research :work at Harvard. Head of the :journalism department, Prof. Franklin Banner, was in Harris burg addressing the annual meet ing of the Pennsylvania Newspa per Publishers' Convention last .Friday and Saturday. Professors :Mahuran and Marbut were also there. Dr. B. V. Moore delivered the . third in a series of four lectures Wednesday night-to a group Of veteran counselors of the Greater New Castle -Association on the readjustment of veterans in the community. Professor Champlin addreses the annual - Public Forum of the Lewistown YMCA this Tuesday on "How Far Are We , From Permanent Peace?" Dr. Wayland F. Dunaway, professor emeritus of American history, has completed his history of the College, which will be published. shortly. Charles Nichols . . . Theta Phi pledge Connie Miceli and ASTP Pvt. Dick Zackerini . . . Zeta Joan Bower and A/S Jay Young . . . Last week six alpha chi's enter tained six members of the West Point boxing team . . . Estelle Brown, Betty Wolfram, 'Doris Huck, Ginny Klaus, Pat Halberg,• and- Anne Schlough . . . • Ens. Joe Mohan of the Merch ant Marine came up to see gamma phi Nancy Geisse . . . Lt. Jerry Thompson of the AAF was back seeing ChiO Mabel Parks . . . She wears his kappa sigma pin . . Alpha chi alums Jean Miller and Jean Ruess Swanton were back . . Ditto Theta phi alpha alum Claire Conway . . . Cliff Bastuscheck, alum, is coming to see ChiO Mar garet Saby . . Tom Henderson has been back seeing gamma phi Allie Miller . . . Cpl. Hy Rosen sweig 7.visited SDT Mae Lenchner . . . May Snyder, Zeta alum, was visiting . . . Lt. Karl Mentz iof the ,•A .F is coming to see his Pance,. AOPi . pledge Nancy Mc- Geary . . • . • • . Zeta; Kay Miller_•is wearing -the ,„ • , • pates :wingwrof...l4t;•Torrr Kralk.of Arlington; - •.-.:SDT. alums. •Ny.lclWE;sleind,'will•hy•Alt . (W, 54trielcr, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1945 A Lean And Hungry Look This is the last Collegian of the semester and in it is the last lean and hungry look. Four years . of work and learning and fun at Penn State come to an end and the last column foresaking bitterness at this tremendous moment will be mellow and even maudlin. There are many things I will remember about my alma mater but none will retain its lustre against the trespasses of time as well as the one incident which has shaped the entire course of my education. I remember the time when disguised as a coed I attended a lecture by a member of the staff of the dean of women to a group of women transfer students. "There once were two beautiful red • roses blooming at the side of a highway," she said. "One rose allowed itself to be fondled and hand led by every passerby. Soon this rose withered and died. The other rose was a proud little rose and when a passerby attempted to handle it, it drew itself back proudly and showed its - thorns. "This little rose grew more beautiful as time went by and finally when its Prince Charming came, as the little rose knew he would, it opened. up its petals and withdreW its thorns, and lived happily ever after. Now don't you be like the poor little rose that withered and died. Draw yourself up proudly and Show your thorns until your Prince Charming comes." During the four years I have been studying at State I have devoted• most of my time, unsuccess fully it is' true, to solve a problem raised by that inspiring little chat: Just what the devil is a rose's Prince Charming? The other problem, whether this talk affected the conduct of its hear ers, I also carefully investigated with more sue-. cess. Another thing: for which I shall be forever grateful tti Penn' State and more particularly to the WOmenls Recreation Association is the oppor tunity to attend its annual "Sweetheart Dance! This dance is more . than the highlight of the so cial season. It is an important democratic event. No matter if a man is rich or poor, cute or ugly, clever or stupid, on dance night in White Hall he is a sweetheart. However, the "Sweetheart Dance" this year has given me some bad moments. The ingeniously worded advertisement in the Collegian read: "With the rhythm of the Campus Owls—Your heart will go pitter-patter from 9-12." I am•. n.of as young as I used to be and my: old heart , could never stand three solid hours cf pitter-pattering. Now as the time for farewell, approaches, it is with a weary. heart that I take leave of 'the Coll.' ege that hasbeen my home. It is - with a wearier heart that I admit that - =this column is one - damn hoax; that I am too dumb to graduate college in the normal eight semesters; that I will be back to plague you after finals. --(ASSIIJS Ship Ahoy That rumor about A/S Matt Szyller• weaiing' hash• mark• on his• pajamas is untrue . It's really, tatooed on his left arm . . . Bks. 36 presents A/S Gordon 'Juneau—everytime he bends over— Frenchman's Creak . After spending a fortune on his favorite sport skiing, A/S Curly Wolf has decided that ping pong and solitaire have their good• points . . . It must• be a shift in the tide that thrust A/S Sherlock Hyde in. the Brig. That new handle on•A/S Bob Rust is "Anna" ... That's short for Annapolis where Rust will spend his next hitch in this man's Navy . . . A/S Willie Powell is the latest to fall victim to the Charle Atlas course . . '. Purpose is to capture .the heart of his Janie . . . A/S .Abbie Lena reading, great American classics—" Studs Lonigan" and "Lady Chatterly's Lover"—to A/S Joe Haddock . . A/S G. T. Passananti letting publicity go to his head . . . A/S Les Jacobs going Luney up at Irvin Hall. "Dimples" Randall also known as Hubie is still running for Kappa's pin-up boy . . . A/S wgit Rahn tried to reorganize Navy customs . His presence in the "Bastille" was his only reward .. A/S Ki Reberkenny tells all that Brooklyn is the biggest Zoo in the world . A/S , Ed Fisher and Juke Box Sal making the headlines as the result . of a love tryst . . . A/S Bill Bowen's excuse Air: being a frequentvisitor• at Watts •is his love--for studying?: • ' • A/S George, Locates -turning -down• 3 -week-ends passes: rather, tbantiseeithe Pittsburgh; heilt!s, • Since those•3:merz.inales:l2o:have?beehAisttlarg from theinfilanark4and - 4hoevelreulated?theitstoi ! ; lesTr.tliptistiOwnslf,Agsrushlor-..}reseiNs*MiS;:7 l ; T,ll4teftlB4****/*•;:+kiaitgretelgoiit4s•
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