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THE COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State"
Establishei 1940. Succernor to the Penn State Collegian,
established 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887.
Published every Friday morning during the regular Col
hore- year by the staff of the Daily Collegian of the Pennsyl
vania State Cage. Entert.4l as second class matter July 5,
2934, at the State College, Pa., Post Office under the net
of March 8. 1879.
Suhecripttions by mail only . at $1 a semester.
Editor-in-Chief
Victor Danilov
Associate Editor
Bernard Cutler
EDITORIAL STAFF
Women's Editor.
News Editor
V`ettture Editor
Photo Editor
Ryrorte Editor ' . ... Fay Young
Rditorial Assistants---Woodene Bell, Gloria Nerenberg, Doro
thy Rutkin, Pat Turk.
Floporters—Leon Aaron, Barbara Ingraham. Lynette Lynd
twist, Audrey Ryback, Gwynneth Timmis
Graduate Counselor
ADVERTISING STAFF
Ansistant Business Manager __ Elaine Miller
Atalistant Advertising Manager Bernice Fineberg
Junior Board—Mary Louise Davy, Phyllis Deal, Rosemary
Ghantous.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
iKsnaging• Editor
4F,oPY • : Ed itor
14vvra•.Editoi' • • • • • . Woodene Bell
Assistant Advertising Managers ---._ Phyllis Deal,
Rosemary Ghantous
Friday, March 9, 1945
Fraternity. Somersault
The American college fraternities, which num
bered,•nearly 60,000 active members on..the college
'campuses of the country at the outbreak •of the
war, :contain only 20,000 -in their chapters at pres
ent; according to a study . recently completed by
President - Gilbert W; Mead of Washington College,
Met ,- • •
The actual figures show 58,320 active under
oraduate members in 1940..41, and 19;92G, at pres
ent. It is noted that while . the membership rolls
.tkave ,, declined 65.38 per cent, the national offices of
the fraternities have been- able to keep 64 per cent
of their chapter organizations functioning. In 1940-
41, there were 2,322 separate chapters, of which
1,489- still survive, though with much reduced
►nembeaship,• the decline in •chapters being 35.89
per-cent.
Chapter houses are being largely used , by the
Colleges for other than their original purposes, and
chapter membership is very largely composed now
of men not eligible, or not yet called, for military
Fluty.
Here at Penn State the situation is practically
the. same. Of the 47 prewar fraternities, only 18
are active •and many of these are not living in their
Own houses. The ASTP and V-12 occupy a consid
erable number of the fraternity houses, while
rnany of them remain vacant. .
30 Town Dormitories
Approximately one-fourth of the 2,000 women
students who registered last -weekend will live in_
off-campus dormitor-ies•during the spring . semester..
Thirty town dormitories will be used by the. Col
iege. to•• accommodate the coed .enrollment..- This
figure -is almost the same as the number used dur
ing—the 1944-45 fall semester. • The • houses can
handle from eight to 30-women each. Nearly all of
ftem . .have eating facilities.
The houses will be occupied mainly by fresh
tneni sophomores, and a few junior transfers. Al
though .the• total freshman coed enrollment is not
yet known, Registrar William S. Hoffman•believes
that there- will be about 100 first semester women.
There were 457 coeds-who , enrolled at the College
last semester.
Nearly 1200 women will live in campus dormi-
Feries while the remainder are graduate students
and others living at home or working in town.
No School Spirit
School spirit has been slowly disappearing from
the Penn State campus during the past four years.
Today there is only a poor imitation of "what used
to be."
No better illustration of the present state of af
fairs can be found than the 1944-45 basketball
ieason. The lack of enthusiasm displayed by Col
lege students during the home games was amazing.
There weren't more than 10 or 20 students who
Yang out with "Roar, State" and "Yay, State" when
the.theerleaders asked for a response.
Not only was there no school spirit at the bas
ketball contests, but very little at the football and
other athletic events: In other extra-curricular
activities the calls for support .have gone• un
- •
Shall this situation - . continue? Maybe the AA=
C'ollege Cabinet' SW:Alla:consider this matter.•
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Business Manager
Evelyn Wasson
•
Managing Editor
Nancy Carastro
Helen Hatton
==M=
Peggie Weaver
_ Victor Dunilos
Fay Young
The College's wartime graduates are estimated today to be 4,435
following the February graduation of 168 students. President Hetzel
conferred 145 bachelor's degrees, 16 master's degrees, and 7 doctorates
at the 15th commencement to be held since the College instituted the
accelerated program in 1942.
"Twelfth Night" Success
The Penn State Players should
be commended for their excel
lent presentation of Shakespeare's
"TWelfth Night" on Febivary 9
and 10. The colorful production
will go down in the books as one
of the best performances in the
organization's 25 years of opera
tion.
Director Frank Neusbaum did a
superb job of molding together a
smooth-working cast with plenty
of "show business." The perform
ances of Sydney Friedman, Dick
Frontman, Mickey Hamer, Port
man Paget, Jane Staus, and Mar
ion Wilder will not be •forgotten
easily.
Constad
Louis Bell
The
‘ 275 coeds who pledged na
tional sororities at the College last
semester set a new Penn State rec
ord. The present group is the larg
est to be admitted since sororities
were first established on the cam
pus in 1922.
Of the 2,000 women students on
the campus, approximately 800 are
As any fool kin plainly see this
is a colyum where facts like delta
chi - Bill Johnson's pinning Bimr
Adams are printed . , . And if
Trudy Lawatsch goes to Annapolis
to see Midn. Scotty Schaefer, that's
printed too . . . Also, if A/S Mac
McNabb puts his Navy ring on
Theta Phi Alpha Pearl Trapanis'
third finger, left hand, that's art
item . .
A few other things worth men
toning . . . Gamma phi Jeank
Butz is engaged to Ens. Dick Rath-.
mell of the Merchant Marine . . .
ChiO Lois.Lunn will be married to
Midn. Robert Cowan when he is
commissioned in April . . . Ed
Williams, alpha zeta, is back to get
his M.S. degree, which makes him
—and AOPi Fay Young—yery
happy . . .
Phi delt Jim Dunaway has left
school to enter the service . . .
Adie Gluck, AEPhi, has been
Mrs. Jack Geist for all of two
weeks now . . .
Cpl. Blair Cochran came up to
see Woody Bell, who wears his
gunner's •wings . . . Naval Air
Cadet Jimmy Tolar• journeyed up
Bored of Education'
What the faculty is doing, thinking, and writing,
ings and goings . . . this is faculty news.
Prof. B. K. Johnstone, head of the department of architecture, has
been elected - president of the central Pennsylvania chapter of the
'America. ) institute of Architects
School of Physical Education and
County Association for Health,
Physical Education, and Recrea
tion. Miss Marie Haidt is presi
dent; John Lawther, president
elect; and Miss Jean Swenson,
vice-president.
Lt. Col. Howard B. Musser, in
the Army Air Corps since 1942,
has resumed his duties as profes
sor of exnerimental agronomy. His
job in the service was to rid air
fields of dust, and at the same
time control the drainage from
large hard-surfaced areas . . . Pi
Gamma Mu, national social sci
ence honorary,_ has accepted three
faculty members, Dr. Walter
Coutu, Dr. Wallace Brewster, and
Dr. S. Lewis Land . . . Dean Ed
ward.. Steidle; School of Mineral
Industries, recently attended • a
meeting in Washington to -deter
mine the winners of "war produc
tion- efficiency , awards" and
'tory production awards."
Diming 'the • heavy • snows; even
• the Army. couldn't get oVershoeS
hi - State College. Dean. Arthur • B.
THE COI s.rGIAN
Penn Statements
BV VICTOR DANILOV
Sorority Rushing
Old Mania
By NANCY
By WOODENE BELL
now affiliated with fraternal or
ganizations. This number is evenly
divided among the 14 sororities at
the College.
Run, Barney, Run!
Barney Ewell, who used to puff
hard for easy wins when he ran
for Penn State, is still picking 'em
up and laying 'em down—for a,
new alma
. mater, the Army.
The Lancaster Negro star, now'
Cpl. Ewell of Camp Kilmer, N. J.,
is enjoying one of his best years in
post-graduate running: While at
Penn State he. was once asked how
he got interested in running.
"I ran around with a pretty
rough gang of kids as a boy," the
ex-Lion ace blurted, "and when we
got into trouble, I always wanted.
to be the fust to get the futhest.".
Concert Singer Coming
An additional Artists' Course
number will be presented in
Schwab Auditorium May 12 when
Richard - Crook's, noted concert
singer, will give a performance to
which Artists' Course patrons will
be admitted for a special price.
CARASTRO
to see Pat Trester . . . Lt. Ed Kel
ser,-phi'.ltappa sig, is coming to. see
Theta Betsy Merkle . . . Another
Theta, Mary Ann Higgins, is going
down to Norfolk, Va., to see Ens.
Tip LyfOrd, delt . .
Everyone and her sorority sister
seems to have visited with the
boyfriend over vacation . . Delta
gam Pat McNally saw S 1/c Bobby
Willoughby, home after one year
in the South Pacific . . . Gamma
Phi Jeanie Duncan visited Lt.
Glenn Hawthorne of the AAF . . .
Alpha chi .Lou Schlicter visited
Pvt. Walt Bagnell,
,USMC, now
stationed at . Princeton . . . Phi Mu
Joan. Baker went to New York to
see Ens: William' Randolph . . .
ChiC Ginna. Schrader saw Midn.
Carl Otto at Annapolis . . . SDT
Ruth Constad. and Pfc. Danny
Kushner saw' the sights in New
Ydrk . . . Delta gam Allene Bab-,
bitt was also in NYC seeing phi
gam Don Swanson receive an .En_
sign's commission in the Naval Re
serve . . . Alpha chi Betty Wol
fram visited Jim Raymond at the
Merchant Marine academy in the.
same . city. —MANIAC •
. . Three .staff members of the
thletics are officers-in the Centre
Warnock had to get a pair for Lt..
Col. Guy Mills when he was in •
New York . . . Dr. M. E. John,
sociology professor, believes it
takes more than a war to rid hus
bands of the feeling that a "wom
an's place is in the home." "It's
largely a question of male ego,"
he says . . . Dr. Walter Coutu pre
dicts the turn of the century will
see a stable American population
of approximately 140 million
people.
Dr. and Mrs. Betts have com
piled a bibliography on reading
readiness and other related pro
blems, including 8,800 references
. . . Dr. Harold F. Alderfer, pro
fessor of political science, has just
co-authored a civics textbook for
high schools, with particular em
phasis on the Pennsylvania angle
. . . Prof. Charles Lee °Decker, In
stitute of 'Local Government; re
cently completed 'studies of Penn
sylvania-parking meter..S,* Showing '
the-take is a million dollars an-.
nually. •
A Lean And Hungry Look
Once upon a time in a lush tropical jungle in
central Pennsylvania there lived a tribe of very
intelligent monkeys. These monkeys had for many
years enjoyed a flowering and cultured civiliza
tion. No secret of the earth or of the universe
was well •enough hidden to escape the investiga
tions of their scientists. No question of morals
and ethics remained unanswered by their philos
ophers. In fact, they professed to know the differ
ence between right and wrong.
One terrible day it became apparent to the
elders of this monkey paradise that the young
monkeys and mcnkeyettes were behaving in a
manner quite unbecoming civilized monkeyhood.
It had been observed 'that the tender young ones,
under the guise of attending a banana party, were
wont to swill large amounts of coconut juice. The
sudden effect o•f this infamous draught would
turn the genteel banana parties into disgraceful
orgies. The little simians discovered that they
had a great deal in common, notably their differ—
ence in sex. This discovery gave rise to some
tentative necking, a. practice hitherto confined
• to
the outcast giraffes.
That very night a monster-mass indignation
meeting was held to punish the culprits.. •The
wisest minds in monkeydom put their fangs to
gether and offered the errant youth an ultimattun.
This ultimatum was presented by the, three, spin
ster monkeys in charge .. of the .monkeyettes, see
No Evil, Speak No Evil, and Hear No - Evil. The
terms ,of their demands were simple: Either the
young squirts give up their disgraceful:ioconul,
juice and necking, or they would, forever.be ban=
ished froni•the colony..
The young.monkeys immediately rejected the
ultimatum• which they believed incompatible,with
the puisuit of happiness. It was only a matter .et
hours before they left , the colony of their• bitth,for
all time, taking care to provide ,therntelves with
a goodly number of coconut palms for replanting,
and an equal number of young . Monkeys and
monkeyettes.
They founded a colony. some miles away and
settled down to enjoy life. The replanted coconut
trees prospered and the juice kept the monkeys in,
tip-top shape, it being found to be an linportant
source of vitimin D. Healthy and prospetous, the
young monkeys became the envy of the jungle for
their amorous, good-natured ways.
In the old colony the remaining cravenly
young developed tuberculosis from long hours of,
sitting polishiing• apples for the three • influential
spinsters.- Sapped of its vitality, the colony. was.
easily liquidated by a band' of maurading,baboon.
The three old maids were subjected tp; the..usucit
outrages before they died. -
• MORAL: Spinsters had .better stay "Out. „of
mc•nkey business. • • .- • —:CA.Sitit.
, .
Second Lt. Lowell. Mason Boorsn 1 37. r re:tcentl:.!,'
graduated as an'aerial navigator at - tlie;SO.:Ao7p . .,
cos, Tex.,.-Army s* . .;Robert''.T.
been promoted,to technical.sergeant. .14e is:a . radiO,''
operator and gunner with the , I'sth :A.t. 1 0 1 . Italy
... Cpl. Dmitri' A. Sweetak, , who is in,ltaly,',with.
a B-24 Liberator bombing group, was cited 'recent
ly "for exemplary. behavior, efficiency; and -Melity."
their com-
Alice L. Veazie was commissioned a secondlieu7
tenant in the ,WAC •at Fort Oglethorpe, ,Ga.,.last .
month. She did her graduate work at the College;
. . . Cpl. William F..Ramsay.thas been advariced4a.'
•
sergeant. He is a nose turret gunner:: on. a ,
Flying Fortress in England:. . . Pvt. Martin Allen
has entered • the _Field Artillery, .officer• Candidate l
School at Fort Sill, Okla.
First Lt. William F. Holland Jr. '32 and Second
14. Charles S. Hines have reported to the Marine .,
Corps Air Station at Cherry Point, N. C., for. duty.
with the Ninth Marine Aircraft Wing . .
J. MacKenzie was recently commissioned an en- •
sign in the Naval Reserve at the Naval Air Train
inq Base, Pensacola, Fla. . . . Donald L. Webb, a .
Liberator pilot in Italy, has been promoted to the
rank of first lieutenant. „ .
Lt. Charles W. Ogle has reported for .duty at the
Carlsbad Army Air Field, N. M. He is an oyerseaS„:
veteran and has been awarded .the. Air Medal with-,:
two clusters . . . Samuel. J.,. Janet. '41 . . has.
pleted his•,training at the San: :Antonio Aviati94.:,
Cadet Center•.and. is , now..a second lieutenant. ,
• SeconthLt. Nicholas. M.: Ruha has ; • arrl.v.edi
seas -and”isi; now,: assigned ~to it-veterark,l:k:
- .
Air Forl:bomber: - grqupr..iw , the 'Med
iterreilean -
theater 44 . ; Staff; Sgt - Edward' W. :Fitzgerald - 114e , , ;
been .BW:titled ..tbe.,lleenze; ; Star:•Medal.i or -"ex
tremely• aneriterious-seiyipee,"! , !", -,
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FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1945
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