PA GE EIGHT
THE COLLEGIAN
"For P. Bekter. Penn State"
llitablishei 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian,
tstablialied 1904. and the Free Lance. established 1887.
Published every Friday morning during the regular Col.
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vania St-tte Coilge. Entered an necond CiIISS matter July 5,
1914, nt the State College, Pa., Post Office under the act
Of March 8. 1879.
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Helen Hatton Elaine Miller
Managing Editor Advertising Manager
Fay E. Young Mary Louise Davey
EDXTORTAL STAFF
tlew n Editor
Women's Editor ____._ Peggie Weaver
I:mler- Board--Woodene Bell, Gloria Nerenberg, Audrey By
hack, Patricia Turk.
Assistants—Lynette Lundquist, Dods Stowe.
flports Assistants—Leon Aaron, Leo Kornfeld, David Nal
yen, Elliot Shapiro.
)teporters—Kay Badollet, Arlene Greene, Barcara Ingrahmn,
Caroline Manville, Lois Marks, Suzanne McCauley, Kay
McCormick, Nancy Sherriff, Gwynneth Timmis, Ruth
Tisherman, Jane Woli:mit
ercduate Counselor
Louis Bell
ADVERT XSING STAFF
junior Board—Phyllia Deal, Ronemary Ghantous, Helen Kittle
STAFF• THIS ISSUE
Alan tiling Editor
Copy Editor
Nowa Editor ____
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Wo‘ ntecl: Wise Voters
All-College elections which are scheduled for
»ex t. week bring up one of the most important
questions of student government, namely, how to
get the student body to cast its vote. All too many
Niudents seem to adopt the attitude that elections
concern only those immediately connected with
the political parties—th e clique members, officers
and nominees.
This semester, more than ever, it is essential
that the students take an active part in the elec
tion. In accordance with the revisions made last
semester of the College constitution, an old cus
tom of pre-war days will be revived. This is the
election of an All-College president and secretary
tha entire student body.
A democratic election cannot be successful un
less.there is a widespread popular interest in it,
and this interest must arise spontaneously from
Vie voters. It is not enough that students just
cast their votes. If Penn State wants student
government that it can be proud of, one that truly
represents the students enrolled, these votes must
he cast wisely.
To vote wisely does not mean to study carefully
the candidate's photos. Neither does it mean to
glance at the party he may be affiliated with. It
does mean, however, looking into his past record
ef activities and gaining a personal knowledge of
his attitude and personality if at all possible.
But not until everyone considers it his duty to
vote and to vote wisely will an election be com
.pletely successful. When a politician leads a vot
er to the polls, the result is not nceessarily an in
telligent vote.
Welcome Freshmen
Each semester it has been the custom of the
.Collegian staff to dedicate an editorial to welcom
ing the incoming freshmen. The "frosh" of the last
fccw semesters have been greeted in various ways.
Some editors just extend the short greeting of
`Welcome frosh." Others, feeling the weight of
the world .upon their shoulders, come forth with
fatherly words of advice and with Morose Warn
ings about the evils of exciting the wraths of Ju
dicial and Tribunal by breaking customs.
This semester the staff wishes to say as usual
(91i, frosh. We hope that you will be happy here
at the College." The Collegian also wishes to is
sue the usual advice to new students about obey
ing customs and regulations in order to hasten the
dates on which green bows and green dinks will
be removed, thereby making freshmen indistin
guishable from other students on campus.
But, more important than words of welcome
and advice is the plea for freshmen cooperation in
extra-curricular and social functions at the Col
lege. Students who enroll for the first time,
either as freshmen or as transfers, at the begin
)iing of the summer semester have an advantage
over fall and winter enrollees. Whereas, those
who join the College in the fall and winter us
ually have to wait until they are upperclassmen
to get a real chance to participate in the various
activities, new summer semester students have
the opportunity to show their abilities almost im
mediately. These openings for - freshmen are
brought about -by the decrease in uppercicass en
rollment during the summer months.
!New students owe it to the College as well as to
themselves to dig out their talents and put them
to good use working for some campus group.
Without the enlistment of freshmen aid many of
the organizations may have to become inactive
for the summer months.
__Dorothy Rutkin
Wooden° Bell
Helen Hatton
Barbara Ingraham
Shirley Lyon, Marvin Wilf
Statements
A few short weeks ago we kissed our dear friends goodbye and
Left this peaceful Nittany vale for a ten day leave. Time went by
fast and what seemed the next day we were back—that is some of us.
Stumbling off the bus we immediately sensed that something
seemed different. It wasn't the weather because it was typical of
State College. It wasn't the campus either. Aside from the bustle
of activity about the mushroom
like growing Navy 'building con
trasting with strangely stilly sor
ority houses all seemed much the
same.
It wasn't until we limped down
to the dorm dragging our suit
cases behind that we realized
what was different. It was the
faces. The personnel has changed
so 'ccmpletely in our absence that
we now feel like a stranger our
selves.
It's not that we don't welcome
the frosh or summer sessioners
either. It's just the fact that 'we've
, spent seven semesters learning
names and faces and now we have
to start all over again. That's why
we're bitter.
Now that the ordeal of regis
tering is o'er, finding our way to
classes and buying books seems
to be the main objectives. Metz
gers have a new slogan this se
mester. "You can get it at Metz
gers—if we can find it." Clerks
01. Mani.
iHi frosh! It's good to see you on
campus—there's nothing like a lit
tle green to make everyone hap
pier and start the old reminiscing.
We've also seen some new V-12ers
looking over the campus. Glad to
have you aboard, boys.
But without our trosh this would
be a pretty sad place this semester
with no one back but the eager
beavers, the kids who decided go
ing to school is a better deal than
working, and the I-iwant-to-get
out-of-here-lbut-fast kids. They tell
me vacations are great things.
For anyone not familiar with
this journalistic enterprise, this is
a dirt column . . . pinnings, en
gagements, marriages, depinnings,
visits and what have you. Any
time you've got an item for maniac
just drop a line to the Collegian
office or call 167 Atherton. Thank
you.
Rice and Old Shoes
In June, the traditional month
of brides at least four coeds took
final vows. Kappa Irish 'Matthew
son became Mrs. Russell Day in
Trenton June 23rd. Irish and Russ,
a navy man, are spending the re
mainder of his leaive in town.
Rhea Silverstone, AEPhi, and
Lt. Murray Freedman, Pi Lam
alum, middle aisled it too.
Faculty P,imelz:~ ht
•
Greetings, Frosh!
This is Faculty Limelight . . . a weekly report on your professors,
what they are doing, thinking, sand saying.
When the College Board of Trustees recently held its annual
meeting, several faculty memfbers were granted leaves of absence.
Alfonse A. Brielmier, associate professor of civil engineering; to
serve the United States Army in
foreign service . . . Kalman J.
DeJuhuasz, professor of engineer
ing research, June 16 to October
15, to serv e the United States
Maritime Commission in the Eu
ropean Theater of Operations ...
Helen M. Savard, associate pro
fessor of applied arts, August 1
to October 34 . . . the leave of
Paul H. Wueller, professor of ec
onomics, was extended to permit
his to ccntinue as director of
the Commission to Study the Pub-
He School System in Pennsylva
nia.
Professor Donald Davis, of the
department of journalism, will
discuss "Advertising as a Tech
nique of Communication" at Mon
day's meeting of the Faculty
Lunch Club . . • Dean Arthur R.
Warnock explained "The Half
Colyum and How It Grew" to the
Kiwanis Club this. week . . . H.
R. Gilbert, assistant manager of
athletics, has been elected presi
dent of the Rotary club.
THE COT. r
By HELEN HATTON
go albout the store muttering to
themselves, "but they couldn't
have all burned."
Speaking of fire, the Alpha
Fire Company seems to de doing
quite a little 'business these days.
"Hum" Fish'burn seems to be
right at home running the horse
races.
Lf I hadn't seen it with my awn
eyes, I never would have believed
it. But I swear it's true. There are
new •benches on our very own
campus. Of course they're all con..
veniently cemented down under
powerful lights.
Then there's' the story about
the male frosh who called up the
coed in 405 Ath to find out it that
was the room where they were
having the open house—and like
a good PSCIAer, she gave him a
hearty welcome to Penn State.
Tis time again and
the Nittany and Keys are out
drumming up trade. Don't say we
didn't warn you.
By PEGGIE WEAVER
Kappa Jan,le Watson and Marine
Lt. Hal Paige were married . in
State College on June 21st.
Shirley Kohn and Joseph Bos
cov, Gamma Sig alum, were mar
ried on June 24.
SDT Irene Klein wears a spark
ler from Larry Schwartz . . . Al
lene Babbitt Delta Gain and Don
Swanson Phi Gam are engaged.
Only a few pins changed hands
between semesters Jean Knox
wears Guy Eckman's Sigma Chi
jewelry. And sad but true AOPi Jo
Lowrie no longer wears Jim Buick
ler's Lambda Chi pin, and A. K.
are pinned no more.
Lotza kids trekked to see their
men right after the last final. Kap-
pa Betty Meyer went to Philly to
see Lt. Don Bretherick, home on
leave from California . . . Theta
alum Betsy IVlerkle journeyed to
Florida to see Lt. Ed Kaiser, Phi
Kap . . . Kappa Charlie Martin
visited Teke Bob Gridley in Bea
ver, Pa. . . Kappa Goldie Skra
ban saw Pfc. Roy Herman in St.
Louis. Yes, she met him in St.
Louis . . SDT Shirley Levine saw
Pfc. Milt Feldman, recently liber
ated prisoner of the Germans.
By WOODENE BELL
"Coal-Heat," a magazine print
ed in Chicago, recently publish
ed an article by T. S. Spicer, as
sistant professor of fuel techno
logy, entitled, "Comfort Seal"
!Plan for New Homes.. ..
Professor William L. Werner of
the department of English lit
erature has been elected to the
College Section Steering Com
mittee of the National Council
of Teachers of English for a
three-year term. The committee
of six, chosen by a national bal
lot, arranges meetings and de
termines policies for this organ
ization . the department of for
estry has received a Nazi war flag
from Cpl. Clarence S. Coleman, a
member of th e class of 1924. The
flag may be inspected in the of
fice of Professor Victpr Beede in
the Forestry Building.
Carroll D. Champlin, profes
sor of .education, has delivered
129 commencement• speeches in
the past 24 years, to colleges,
high schools, and nursing classes.
Lock all doors and windows, stuff your ears
with cotton, and avert any and all strangers who
attempt to rush up to you enthsuiastically, clap
you smartly on the back, then ask, in an ingrati
ating tone of voice, "Who are you going to vote
for in this election?" Meaning that the time of
elections has come.
Each semester' at this time, a group of students
convene in strict privacy to decide who on campus
are, pompous, officious, and conceited enough to
hold class offices. The day after this meeting, pos
ters miraculously appear in store windows, say
ing, "Vote for Ebenezer Butt for All-College presi
dent;" students strut around town wearing sand
wich signs bearing the slogan, "Get out of the rut
with Butt;" and soon the name Ebenezer Butt is
on everybody's lips. Meanwhile, young Ebenezer
himself is doing his bit by seeing all the right
people, saying and doing the right things, and
generally making a nuisance of himself.
Young Mr. Butt has a small committee of 400
or 500 of his followers campaigning for him. Each
campaigner completes a 6-weeks' intensive
course on "campaigning methods." The first week
of the course is spent in teaching the campaigner
to be charming and persuasive; the second, how
to lie blandly; the third, how to become threaten
ing. During the final three weeks, jiu-jitsu is
taught, in order that it may be applied after all
else fails.
While candidates are campaigning, a party plat
form begins to be seen around the campus. It is
posted on,bulletin boards, placed on tables in the
Corner Room and girls' dormitories, and even
printed in Collegian, which publishes anything—.
when it's sort of news.
A typical platform might read as follows:
We; the candidates of the KnoW-All, See•-
All, Do-Nuthin' party, promise:
To haze all freshmen until not only they,
but we, are on the point of a nervous col
lapse.
To have a big dance every Saturday night,
and, recognizing the man-shortage on coil
pus, to import dates for all coeds who do not
have one.
To make the most of our opportunity to
serve the College by sitting back and refusing
to.do a thing but collect our salaries.
To quit bothering people as - soon as elec
tions are over, and rapidly forget that we
knew the persons who were our best friends
during the campaigning period.
Finally, and most important, we, the candi- •
dates of the Know-All, See-All, Do-Nuthin'
party promise to keep our promises.
Former Penn Staters, men and women alike;
have become prominent while in the service- 0-'4;l'
their country, at home and abroad.
Marine Capt. Dorothy M. Knox '3B is corn
mander of Worrien's'Reserve Company "A,"
, sta:-;
tioned in the Hawaiian Islands. Alice Thomp+,4l:'il
son '23, on leave of absence from the A1u1m4, , 1
Association, was recently awarded the philip r4 ',,:t-'4, 1
pines Liberation Ribbon. Miss Thompson wii44,
one of the first three American Red Cross WOM-Vi
en sent into Manila to aid Americans 'releasejitA
from internment' camps.
—Maniac .
Lt. John H. Thomas '4l is commanding
ficer of the new LSM 433 recently commissioned,
in Philadelphia. A veteran of seven invasions, :1!*
Lieutenant Thomas previously commanded:AM'.q.
When Maj. Leo Houck, boxing coaclir.7.bn;:i
leave of 'absence from the :College,. arrived -'in
Bermuda, he was welcomed by three 'alurnriii,,
Army Lt. Clarence Smith '45, - ,Navy Lt. Anti : Wily:l
Rubino '3B, and Navy Lt. Wayne Vonarx
Pvt, 'Paul Zinecoff '47 wears the Bronze Star:
which he won for action with an engineer bat
talion on the Elbe River. Second Lt. JesS : , •l',,
Hiller '46, co-pilot of a Flying Fortress with the
15th Air Force, has been awarded the Air Medal: : :
Capt. John Relic '4O, engineer with the 55th Air .
Force Fighter Group, recently earned, the Liigpip.
of Merit. ,
Recently promoted to a first lieutenant, , Sil
'Fpieget '46 has been awarded the Distinguisho
Flying Cross, the Air Medal, and three OalC.Toaf
Clusters. Eighth Air Force Pilot First 14
iet N. Myers '45 has been awarded phe siebiad
Cluster to his Air Medal.
Flight leader at the Chico Army Air riod
fighter training base,. First Lt. George
Merriman, recently received the fourth, Pah
and sixth Oak Leaf Clusters to .the Air M 441,
F/O Donald 0. Saunders, bombardier ,with. ithe
15th Aix Force,- has been •awarded=the All-140*,
— 9 11 40.4 ;*TEREIRPO,
FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1946
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