PAGE EIGHT THE COLLEGIAN "For A Setter Penn State" EFtablishedi 1940. SUCCOM3Or to the Penn State Collegian, calahlb,he , l 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887. Published every Friday morning during the regular. Col- MCe^year by the staff of the Daily Collegian of the Pennsyl v.mia State Collge. Entered as second class matter July 5, 1934; at • the State College, Pa.. Post Office under the act 9f March 8, 1879. Subscripttions by mail only at 8t a semester. Editor-in-Chief Victor Danilov Associate Editor 113. J. Cutler EDITORIAL STAFF Women's Editor _____ -- Helen Hatton Ruth Constad Feature - . Editor . • . ________ Gertrude Lawatseh rhoto ,, Editor • Peggie Weaver Fay Young 'Korb* Assistants—Woodene Bell,• Gloria Nerenberg. Doro- thy Rutkin, Pat Turk. Reporters—Leon Aaron, Barbara Ingraham, Lynette Lund quist, Audrey Ryback, Gwynneth Timmis. Craduato Counselor ADVERTISING• -STAFF Asaintant Business Manager Elaine Miller Asnintant Advertising Manager. Bernice Fineberg iditior,- Board—Mary Louise .Davy, •Phyllis,. Deal, Rosemary Ghantous, Helen Kime. • STAFF THIS - ISSUE iltfansuring • &Mtn! Helen- Hatton Copy- •Edltor Gertrude Luwatseit News. -Editor Woodene Bell Ansintant Advertising Manager—Phyllis Deal; Rosemary Ghantous. Friday, April 6, 1945 Abolish Fraternities? Never! The abolishment of all fraternities and soror- 44ies.in this country is advocated by Mrs. Glenn tgrank; "widow of the late president of the Uni- versity of Wisconsin, in an article entitled "Heartache on the Campus" which was published !in• the April issue of the Woman's Home Com- *anion Mrs. Frank demands that state legislatures enact laws abolishing Greek letter societies be cause they are undemocratic. She brands fraterni iies• and sororities as snobbish, discriminatory, prejudiced dictatorial, and Unfair. "The good these societies accomplish is far outweighed by the unhappiness and heartbreak which they inflict upon thousands of young peo ple—every year," stated Mrs. Frank, "and by class-consciousness, religious bigotry, and race prejudice which they foment right in those in vtitutions which should be the most liberal. They have—no - more 'place in - our public educational iystem than a Hitler youth movement." The Collegian disagrees with the article on vnapy- points: The crusade the Wisconsin woman i;; trying-to promote is one which should be- con sidered from all angles and not from one , view poiht..Tlie illustrations she• uses are outdated and fieldom • found on American college campuses at the present time. No longer does `it matter if a student's father a railroad • engineer or bank president This may have been true in the past, but the situation does • not exist today. Fraternities• and sororities now• consider students on a basis of personality, character, and scholarship. Mrs. Frank pointed out that sometimes a stu dent is not extended nledgeship to a •particular fraternity because the members do not want 'him. However, she also forgot to mention that this same individual is usually taken in by another fraternity. It isn't often that a student joins the first fraternity that invites him in for dinner. The feeling one gets from reading Mrs. Frank's article is that fraternities and sororities are un democratic because they don't accept everyone who wants to become a member. The interpreta tion is incorrect because any organization—Lions, 33oosters, Elks, etc.—selects its own members. There are always some who aren't chosen by the group. Then too there are a number of students who wish to remain independent. Catholics, Jews, and Negroes many times don't become members of other fraternities and sororities because they ult imately intend to join their own Greek letter societies. • Sororities are blasted by the author for their snobbish attitude—especially towards independ ents. It is difficult for one to explain this view because' it is an echo from the past. Snobbishness and sophistication disappeared long before the war. Of course, there are a few exceptions, as tar as individuals are concerned, but in general veither is found, today. The Collegian believes fraternities and -soror ities are as much a part• of college- as the text books• used in class. Business Manager Evelyn Wasson `''‘'' ' Sal' Managing Editor Nancy Carastro The first of April was just another day on the calendar to many Penn State students this year. Not only did April Fool's Day pass 'unnoticed, but Easter managed to slip by without a chocolate bunny in sight That Ag Hill Breeze.... Newest publication to appear on campus is the School of Agricul ture's monthly newspaper, The Ag Hill Breeze. The paper isn't the best in the country by any means, but it is a valiant effort :by Editor John Kunzweiler, Bill Folwol, Kathleen Ryder, Vera Owens, and others to put out an agricultural publication to replace the now slumbering Penn State Farmer. Congratulationsi Tickets for Dancing 0n1y.... Louis Bell The Penn State Club's "Easter Ball" would have been a success ....except for one thing. Like so many dances in the past the stu dents whose fraternity, barracks, or organization did not purchase a booth were forced to stand or chisel from their friends. • Things are pretty bad when a couple who have bought a ticket to the formal or semi-formal are t umble to find seats because the dance committee did not provide for those groups who did not pay extra for a booth. The same was We. hoar tbdt All-College Cab inet will require the editor of the Engineer to hand out a fumigator With each copy. A similar treat ment of Miss Lynne Robinson, who wrote the nauseous Talk of !the Campus, might be in order. Back to the usual pleasantries ....KD Janie Page wears the phi kappa sig pin of Robert Jacobs, now of the AA_F'....Ann Boyles was pinned with A/S Art Komer's Delt pin when he visited her last week....lMarge Dyer, zeta pledge, is pinned with Donn Greiner's Theta! Chi jewelry, ...'Nother SDT is engaged.... Arlene Rabin owitz to Paul Friedman... .AOPI alum Peggy Lou Chapnian and former . All,4College. prexy Dale Bower; AGR, are•pinned....Both were up visiting.... Sara Dock, recent alum, . polar ried, Karl -Hermes: in Lewisburg Saturday .'...014.i0 Ruthie Ernst was married this week to Lt. Lou Nichols, formerly phi kappa sig, now AAF,....and the newly-weds- are in town - today; ... Which reminds us that more ChiO alums are here for their banquet tomorrow.... Rita Rokosz, Janet Graham, Bert Douthett Goerder, Gloria Duerst, Anne Lobach, Ruth Saylor, Marjorie Parks, Meg Cal vert.... Faculty Limelight Going one better on the Chinese, Henry L. Yeagley, associate pro fessor of physics, spends his spare time standings upright on pol ished mirror. . . . Raymond F. Tyson, assistant professor, of public speaking, will be one of three judges for the William. Randolph Hearst national oratory contest in New York City April 23. More than 800 colleges and high schools will participate. When Dean F. C. Whitmore speaks to the Faculty Lunch Club IVlondlay, his topic will be "War time Re's a re h".... Mary, W. Streyllifeler, assistant professor of home economlics education, ad dressed the State College Rotary ClUb this week on "International Relations Work of the AAUW." Chauncey P. Long, assistant state 4-H Club leader, has . been eledted secreitary4reasurer of the Omicron chripter of Epsilon Sig- Tria Phi, National honorary ex tension . frateunity.... John M. Amts, extension apiculturist - for • the last. two. years, has resigned to accept a new post as apiarist for the state. cif Tennessee. "Btillding' or Buyting .a • House" is the subject, of. a new book by B. Kenneth John Stone, profesisbr THE COT 3 Y.GIAN Penn Statements By VICTOR DANILOV Old Mania By NANCY BY WOODENE BELL true of the IFC, V-1.2, and ISC dances of the past year. Where's the Blue Band? Someone recently asked, me why the Blue Band doesn't play at all the athletic contests in stead' of just football games. Of course; I said I didn't know. How ever, he assured me that the ap pearance and music of the band would do much for school spirit. Perhaps he was right, eh Hum mel? • "lliss America 1945" I received a publicity release from the Miss America Pageant committee in Atlantic City yes terday. The officials said that the winner of the contest would re ceive a $5,000 educational schol-. arship this year. That's quite a. pile of dough for "the lucky con testant who has the health, beau ty, and talent qualifications to win the national honor of be coming America's most typical girl," as officials put it. CARASTRO Among the students who de parted last weekend in a mass ex cdUs were Kappa Betty Meyer' who saw Marine Pfc. Don Breth erick in Washington.... Gamma phi Jeanie Duncan who saw Lt. Glenn Hawthorne, also in D. C. ....and Ginny Tennyson who saw CPO Ski Wruvleuski, in ditto ....SDT Mae Lenchner went to Pittsburgh to see Sgt. Dutch Schultz, former All - American gridder.... • But State College wasn't too, empty.... Visitors made up for the dearth of undergrads.... A lpha chi alum Mim Ramsey came to see her fiance SPE Bill Win tersteen... .:Pfc. John Macri came to see KD Peggy Martin....Midn. - Tom Datz was visiting alpha chi Marilyn Globisch....Lt. Sol and Ruthie. Hannon, a former AEPhi, were . up.'...Kappa delt alum Dor is Anders stayed for the wetkend ....So did Theta Phi Alpha al ums Pat McCormick, Mary Ellen Sheffer .... Gamma phi alum Shirley Gawker....Midn. Arthur Kaplan visited . aephi • Sydney Friedman,...Seaman Bud- Ruhinfield also came to see an aephi, Esther Greenes.... TPA: •pledge Flo' Seese is trav eling this weekend to see her fella, Jimmie Marshall, U. S. Navy of ardhitedture, and associates— Clinton Harris, R. M. Gerhardt, Louis A. Richardson, and Elliot L. Whithaker....Dean M. R. Tra bue, head of the School of Educa tion, has been elected president of the Council of Guidance and Pensonnel associations. Dr. Wiayland F. Dunaway will soon - have published a history of the College, which he has spent the last three •years compiling. Dr. Dunaway recently - retired as professor emeritus at ''American hidtory, after 24 years of service with the Oollege.. ''Ralph C. Wood, assistant pro fessor of Gernlan, was formerly an editor on the Bethlehem Globe--Times. - • • • A Lean And Hungry Look There is a solemn note of warning contained in this column. It is: be satisfied with what you are. Whether you be a drunkard or a 'college profes sor or a manure salesman, do not try to change things. You are better off at your natural calling. I found out. Of course nobody gives a tinker's damn but, merely to clarify matters, I am an inertia appara tus, earning my living by acting as a demonstra tion of the validity of Newton's First Law of Mo tion (a body at rest will remain at rest) in the freshman physics lectures. After class the other day a coed came up - to where I was reclining on the lecture platform to gether with several other inert substances. She said that I was looking pale and suggested that some roller skating would do me good. She had green eyes. Therefore I said okay. . That evening, bright and early, I presented m*- self at her sorority house and was favored with a satchel full of roller skates and old scrap iron .to carry. How we ever walked fifteen miles along that road without reaching Bellefonte is incred ible. We finally arrived at a grey structure called, the Coloseum and- staggered in, with one of my arms six inches longer than the other. The Coliseum, taking it's name Iran that slaughterhouse of ancient Rome, was just that. It was entirely populated with young hoodlums from the high school and college majoring .in mayhem and sudden death. For the meager sum, of fifty cents the proprietor was willing to furnish me with a pair of infernal machines, on_wheels which he fastened upon my feet by the simple expedient of rapping smartly on my toes with a mallet until the feet fit the skates. Then the fun began. While my companion glid ed gracefully between the young cutthroats in tent on killing one another, I took a step and on my face. Rising slowly from the floor, and tak ing care to keep my weight well back, I fell again, turning the other cheek as it might be described. The rest of the evening was a hideous night mare ounctuated by a sore nose and a stinging posterior. My reason for soinning thii tale in . detail is to impress on every mind the importance of sticking to one's own racket. This was suggested by the article in last week's Collegian to the effect that WSGA had come out of its hibernation and made its annual suggestion: That the diagonal walks leading to Old Main be deseignated "hello walks" and every student shall say hello to all and sundry upon these walks. Realizing the• impossibility of explaining that: school spirit,,comes from the heart and not the - mouth to the particular type of woman politician found in a Prominent position in lace, pants goV-• ernment, I have a • counter-suggestion to make. Let's all take a bath Saturday night. —cAssrus Ship Ahoy With most of- the unit ashore (that means they went home) over the Easter Weekend life was rather dull; but those who were here came out of hiding , for the Easter Ball. Among the intelli gentsia present were "Big Bill" Bissell with Hark riet Haas, "Archie" Craft with Barb 'Smedley, and Bill Nugent (representing Gaffers Inc.) with Mar-‘ nie McCall. Raving on, about dances we submit a schedule of coming 'barracks affairs: !tics., 13 and 36—April 14; Bks. 26—April 28; Bks. 37—May 2,6; Bks. 9-I-- June 2. Coeds please reserve these weekends for the Navy! After Henry Brenner camel:iack from a 19-day rest at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital another of the boys, "Hank" Bennett, left to replace him. Two strong men, "Lard" Nelson and George Meeker, twisted their knees in early- season prac tice. Bob Parker tells us that Meeker did it just to get out of marching• to chow; nobody knows why Nelson did it. 'When Glenn Orndorf ran out of cash late last month his buddy, Bruce Sloan, helped out,by en-,- tertaining Helen Jo Peoples for him . . . NEWS FROM GREAT LAKES: .Claude DiPasquale writ-, es to say that he may end up as a soda-jerk on a battlewagon. Frank Steiribrink doesn't know yet what he'll finish up as (he said something about a spot commission.) • Our chow hall was honored Sunday by the Map Hall coeds who went through the chow line with us. They had Mike Ciarlmella, a bit excited for while. Remember the unit, dance on May 5 Apr-a swer time, # t FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1945
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