P.A.GE EIGHT THE COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn Slate" Establishe4 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian, rttablished 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887. Published every Friday morning during the regular Col lege • year by the staf f of the Daily Collegian of the. Pennsyl vmda State Collge. Entered as second class matter July 5, )934; at the State College,- Pa., Post Office under the act er March 8, 1879. Subscripttions by mail only at $1 a semester. Editor-in-Chief Business Manager Victor panilov Evelyn Wasson Associate Editor Managing Editor B. J. Cutler Nancy Carastro EDITORIAL STAFF Women's FAitor Elowip • Editor Feature• Editor • • Gertrude Lawatsch Photo• Editor • Peggie Weaver flports - Fay Young editorial Assistants—Woodene Bell, Gloria Nerenberg. Duro- thy Rutkin, Pat Turk. eporters—Loon Aaron, Barbara Ingraham, Lynette Lund • quist, Audrey Ryback, Gwynneth Timmis Graduate Counselor ADVERTISING STAFF Assistant Business Manager Elaine Miller Amistant Advertising Manager Bernice Fineberg Junior Board—Mary Louise .Davy, Phyllis Deal, Rosemary • Ghantous, Helen Kime. STAFF THIS ISSUE tlaunging Editor Nancy Carastro Friday, ;March' 23, 1945 11945 Red Cross War Fund Colleges and universities have made a mater ial contribution to the American Red Cross in its tremendous expansion in recent years. Today more than 7,000 men and women are serving with the Red Cross overseas, while additional thousands are stationed in this country. Their jobs require not only skill in human yelations, but in many Cases professional and technical training of the highest order. Thanks , to the academic training furnished by American institutions of higher education and the all-around development which our way of life provides, the American Red Cross has been able to carry on its world-wide duties in a manner which has brought praise from every quarter. The blood donor project, the program of services to the armed forces, and the never-end ing work at home which looks to the improve tnent of health and happiness of the individual and community, have been continued and ex panded as needed. Each new job has been tackled with a will borne of the belief that if •it is to be done it must be done well. With the advent of peace the Red Cross will face new tasks. New people will be needed to carry on, and it will be largely from American colleges and universities that these people will N- drawn: In the meantime, however, the Red Cross must continue its wartime work. It must maintain an increasing flow of blood plasma. It must continue to serve in every theater of op eration. It must provide for our men in training camps and in hospitals. It must maintain its ac tivities on the home front. To do this during the next 12 months the fled Cross needs $200,000,000. Last year thous ands of dollars were contributed to the Red Cross American colleges and university students. 'his year will be no exception. Give generously to the 1945 Red Cross War Fund. Don't Forget to Vote The foundation of the American democratic system of government is based orr elections. The same is true here at the College where the stu tents go to the polls each semester and elect their officers. Once again Penn State students will select officers when the spring semester elections are iteld in the first floor lounge of Old Main on Tuesday and Wednesday. Approximately 2900 civilian students will be eligible to cast their bal rots next week. However, past records have shown that on an average less than 50 per cent of the College enrollment takes advantage of its right to vote. As a result, many times politicians have been elected to office despite the fact that a majority of the students did not favor the candidates. Last semester 3100 students were enrolled in the College. After the ballots were counted it was discovered that only 1322 civilian men and women voted in the fall semester election. The 'response was typical of previous wartime elec tions at Penn State. There is a definite lack of interest in politics on the campus. The war may be blamed for this indifferent attitude, but it shouldn't be. Even the men at the front were interested enough in the national and state elections last year to mail home absentee ballots. . Why shouldn't you take an interest in who is to represent YOU on the 29.1 -College Cabinet? Venn State's student government was organized o benefit the students and not the politicians. Once again campus politicians •are beating their campaign pro paganda drums. Clique candidates are wearing their best suits, dis playing their widest smiles, and doing more handshaking and , back slapping than ever before. I suppose is is only natural for it's wonderful to be elected nresid often class officers forget the , pledges they made as candidates prior to election. Take last semester as an ex ample. At that time there were three parties—Key, Lion, and Nit tany. Each clique proposed a num ber of plans "for the betterment of Penn State." However,-of the 23 points in the platforms, only three were carried through by the victorious candidates. Helen Hatton Constad Louis Bell A few of the things which were sidestepped by the officers are the erection of a war memorial to Penn State men killed in service, the promotion of College spirit, restoring the College book ex dhange, :and cooperation in bring ing a big-name band to the cam pus. It seems that it has been the practice in the past for political parties to make promises but never keep them. Politicians seem to forget that they are elected to office for a reason, and NOT for the honor that goes with the of fice. It would be nice if the can didates who are chosen this sem- Everyone and his date who at tended the Theta Phi Alpha' for mal pledge dance St. Patrick's Day at the Chi Phi house had one bang-up time from all reports... All the little TPA's were there dancing and drinking . . . punch nacherly ....Jean Klinikowski and A/S Andy . Merrick.... Anne Pattersoti and PiKA pledge Ricky Englert....Landa West and A/S George Lacantas....Connie Mice li and Pvt. Dick Zaccagnini.... Marilyn Perdinand . "lnd Sigma Phi Alpha Pudgy Shutt....Julie Pas tewka and Bill Stover.... Bea Glover and Ernie Sladics....Anne Uhrick and Joe Leonardi.... 'Nother pledge dance coming up this weekend. ...KD's are holding theirs at the Nittany Lion ....Dorothy Jaun is importing Bob Meagher, an ADPhi from GCNY....Weasy Gwillin will be going with Bill Thomas, phi kappa sig, coming up for the dance.... Dee James and delta chi George Yoder....Pegv Martin and phi kappa sig pledge Fred Walker.. —Jean Dalton and Paul Thayer, phi kappa sig . . . The Delta Gamma house was George Leetch, director of College Placement, and H. R. Riley, assistant secretary of the Alumni Association, are attending the alum ni conference in Binghamton, N. Y., today. They will give a picture of the College at war and information about placement service. David R. Mitchell, professor of mining, engineering, has been named to honorary membership by the International Mark Twain Society for his contributions to technical literature. Professor Mitch ell's name is listed along with such leaders as General Eisenhower, Winston Churchill, and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek. Prof. Robert E. Galbraiths, name was written on a shell shot at the Germans by Pfc. Mitchell Williams, a former Penn Stater. Pfc. Williams writes "this should give you as much thrill as buying a $l,OOO war bond" . . . Professor Galbraith, faculty counselor of veterans, and Louis Bell, director of Public Information, have just completed work on a veterans' booklet for ex-servicemen atten ding the College. Dr. Hans Neuberger, director of the meteorology department, is conducting the first phase ' of • grouodschool , instruction for pro's pective • pilots . at Ridgway . . . THE COLLEGIAN Penn Statements By VICTOR DANILOV Old Mania By NANCY CARASTRO Faculty Limelight By WOODENE BELL politicians to act their parts. Sure, ent or secretary-treasurer, but too ester would fulfill the pledges they are now making. Let's consider some of the things the clioues are promising this election. There's the Key party, which has been yelling for school spirit semester after semester, but has done nothing about it. Its project this college term is a "get ac quainted policy" in respect to the school and its ftmctions. The cli que hopes to accomplish, this deed by class meetings, coopera tion from students, enforcing freshman customs, and all-college sings. The Nittany party intends to bring back that "old Penn State spirit" by bringing a coast-to coast radio show to Bee Hall, class meetings, promoting week end activities, publicizing the so cial calendar, and encouraging in tramural sports. Both programs are excealent, but let's do something about them this semester for a change. bulging with alums back last week ,for Founders Day.... Bess Paine, Sammy Phillips; Carol and Mar go Blass, Marjorie Cherry New ton, Jeanie Ward, Skeets Knecht, Marty Albert, Peg Deiner Stover, Ginny Cooper Vogel, Frenchy Moerschbacher, Janet Hertz Drake, Marge Zint, Peggy Lou Johnston, and Lt. (j.g.) Kay Polite of the SPARS.... Jim Redmond '44 was here see ing Theta Ginger Sykes.... Ens. Johnny Lucas visited Gamma phi Sally Pollard ....Radio Technician 2/c Ted Miller; former phi gain, journeyed up to see Delta Gam Helen Hatton. ....Pvt. Jack Geist has been visiting his wife AEPhi Adie Gluck Geist....Pvt. Kenny . Thompson, pi gamma phi alum, and his wife, the former Joan Mil ler, AOPi, have been around all week.... Ens. Jim Bell, former All-College president, was up.... Pvt. Val Grady, beta, alum, came to see AOPi Louise Zimmerer... AOPi Annie Blackburn went down to see Pat Lentz, psi omega at the U of Pa.....Alnha Z deft Pat Reiff went home to see Phar macists Mate I/c Paul Miller.... MANIAC' Dr. W. A. Weyl, professor of glass technology, summarizes a year's work with the Glass Science Re search Foundation, in this month's issue of Mineral Industries . . . Dr. George L. Leffler, professor of economics, and Mary Virginia Brown, statistician, have prepar ed an analysis of labor costs in Pennsylvania. Samuel Bayard, new member of the English Composition de partment, is a son of Edward S. Bayard, editor of the Pennsylva nia Farmer . . . Conrad Link, as sistant professor of floriculture, will discuss "Teaching the Three Ws- to: the :Army' , at the Faculty Lunch Club meeting , Monday , A Lean And Hungry Look It has become quite common for various IoW types around! here to speak and publish dispargt ing remarks abotit the noble crew of batmen gracing our campus. Things more or less ,came to a head last week when my old friend Victor Danilov printed an imaginary conversation be 7 bween'two nitwit coeds to the general effect that hatmen are a do-nothing lot. Nov I do not .want anybody to think that I am down on Victor because his editorials and columns crowd my unparalled prose out to the very end of this page. I think he is a traitor. Victor is a hatman himself and the journalistic body-iblOw he has dealt his brothers is unpardon able. ' There is only one honorable action for, the hatmen to take concerning this calumny. At high noon tomorrow afternoon they should form a hollow square in front of Old Main. To the muted roll of drums Victor Danilov wearing sackcloth and ashes, in addition to his hat, will be marched to the center of the square. Then before• the. whispering multitude the president of the Hat Societies Council shall read Danilov a proclamation of his treason, comparing him favorably with Benedict Arnold, and tear the . hat from Danilov's head. If his head comes off with it so much the better. About this time of the. year a young man's fancy turns to campus politics. This recalls to mind the story of the Nittany Party and the tele phone. Jerry Ciarrocchi, the ex-clique chairman, and three cohorts had recently moved into a new apartment without a telephone. Setting, out -to remedy this intolerable situation, Jerry found that there were no private telephones available and that he. would have to wait several months to get one. But Ciarrocchi was not in politics without ability. With the ingenuity of a far older hand, he promptly applied for a business phone. ' 'Exactly what business are you in?" he was asked. "I am the chairman of the Nittany party and I have to do a lot of Phoning to tell the members, about the meetings," Jerry said. "I see. And do you make `many long distanbe calls?" "Yes, I have to phone out of town to have tags made for the members to wear on their coats and things like that." Jerry got the phone. So far I have been un-, able to determine if the boys .use a pay phqne: when they dial 5051. Note to all young swains: I was talking to a pretty coed the other day. We were discuseing,... the current crop of passionate lovers on the cam. pus. She seemed quite impressed- by what she- • had heard about the technique of a recent into portation who bites girls on the neck. "I wish my date would be more passionate,'? she sighed "He never bites me." --CASSIUi ' Front and Center .; Recently commissioned in the Maxine Corp 4 !,, .-" at Quantico, Va., were ' Penn Staters Bill McKee-;; and Dale Hamilton. Dale was a member of Phi: Delta Theta, Bill, an Alpha Tau Omega, and both::. were stationed at State under the V-12 program. Marine Lieutenants Paul Frey '44 and Art:; Gladstone '45 are bunking together on an islan-d -in the South Pacific. Capt. William Frantz. '4O is recovering. from wounds which he received from machine' gun'', fire in the South. Pacific. • Alice Noll '4O is with the Red Cross in •Alex andria, Egypt. Her picture, broadcasting with,Lt 7 Col. Gordon Hittenmark, former Washington ra dio announcer; recently appeared in a Maryland ' newspaper.. , Lt. Jack Grey '43 writes from somewhere in France that Al Moses '43 and Sol Harris '43 . are • his "tent neighbors." Al Bollinger '44 has been reported wounded in action in the invasion of France. Lt. Abner Rainbow '45 is credited with knocking out two Nazi supporting trucks on the , , Normandy beach-head. P/0 Karl Yohn '45, reported missing in ac tion by the War Department, cabled his pareri4, : that he is "safe and well.", In the Chicago Daily News a story appeared , _{? about Mickey Beckett, former Penn State diver.. : Mickey had ,been injured by mortar fire, and, when he gained consciousness on the operating table, he learned that his surgeon was another„ Penn Stater. Mickey has since been wounded' an two other-occasions. Lt. (j,g.) Thomas Burke .'42 received two • } , f.; bronze stars for c 9 Opt, duty. in the. p A cific, , • r.-4PEGGIE: WEAM.C.;: , ?4) • ' FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1945
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