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THE COLLEGIAN
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"For A Better Penn State"
Established 1940. Successor to 'he Penn State Collegian,
cntabli•.hed 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887.
Published every Friday morning during the regular Col
lege year by the staff of the 13aily Collegian of the Pennsyl
vania State Colige. Entered as second class matter July 6,
3914, at the State College. Pa., Post Office under the act
sf. March 8. 1879.
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Editor-in-Chief
Helen Hatton
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Fay E. Young Mary Louise Davey
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Customs Again
For more than four semesters now upper
classmen have been spending much time talk
ing about "what should be done about freshmen
customs." Nearly everyone agrees they should be
continued but there seems to be some diverse
opinions as to just how this should be done.
In the meantime the frosty have been drag
ging through sixteen weeks of. hazing, finally
losing the whole idea of the tradition and regard
ing their green dinks and ribbons as not some
thing to be proud of but as something to be avoid
ed at all costs.
Complaints echo from the upperclassmen
about lack of spirit and obedience. Yet few seem
to realize that ,this is not the fault of the new
comers. Whether subconsciously or not the
freshmen come to imitate their seniors. Thus
when upperclassmen show lack of school spirit,
the feeling is contagious to the lower ranks.
We do not advocate that students rush to
class whistling the Alma Mater or that they
should shout the College yell at the slightest pro
vocation. But we do advocate a renewed interest
in the College's affairs such as student govern
ment and activities.
• We propose,. too, that the students take an
active interest in the wearers of the green and
establish some program whereby customs would
be more concentrated and more strictly enforced,
Our idea is that if customs were executed effi
ciently with the wholehearted support of the en
tire student body for a period of about six weeks
the result would be more satisfying than that of
the past semesters.
The Aftermath
Now that elections are over, it is more than
probable that the party platforms will be promptly
forgotten. Granted that in most •cases this is not
too bad an idea. However this semester some
planks might prove worthy Of -being remembered,
namely, the Nittany party's promise to effect the
reestablishment of a non-profit student book ex
change to enable students to obtain texts at a
lower cost.
Now is the most opportune time to discuss
this proposition, with most students finding them
selves with flat pocketibooks, writing hurried let
ters home for more money. In other words the
setting and mood are established. All that re
mains wanting is the action.
Penn State boasts of being a most democratic
institution. The College welcomes students who
must earn part of their fees and even provides
part-time work. But of what use is all this if the
student cannot afford to buy his texts?
Cooperative movements have proved suc
cesful so far as living units are concerned. Why
not revive the cooperative system of a student
book exchange?
Al that is necessary is a little determination
and some leadership. Surely a school of this cali
bre is not lacking in these qualities.
So let us remember the campaign pledges this
time. And more than that, •let's see that they are
fulfilled. If enough voters insist upon this action•,
something will be done about it.
(Editor's Note—All contributions and letters
concerning The Collegian should be addressed to
the Editor.)
Business Manager
Elaine Miller
_Dorothy Ruthin
Louis Bell
___ Peggie Weaver
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_ Caroline Manville
---- David Nalven
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.Fenn Statement.
Now that the last few stragglers have returned from their vaca
tions at the shore or the mountains and the profs have jaunted off
on their vacations, the rest Of us have taken to putting into effect as
it has never been done so efficiently before—vacationing on the
job.
But it hasn't hampered the politicians who have patted backs
and autographed post cards until
exhaustion set in. Axiom says the
best man wins but politics is poli
tics wherever it is. Freshman elec
tions are coming up and individ
ual cliques will cast their votes
where they think they can gain
the most in placing a frosh. can
didate.
Now that the officers are ready
to take over their duties the most
important thing the student body
will be on the lookout for is the
opening of the Sandwich Shop,
the State flag waving in front of
Old Main, a book exchange, and
the other provisions of the prom
ised platforms being carried out
to some degree.
There seems to be no obvious
reason why an organization em
bracing complete student mem
bership—such as All-College Cab
inet—can't sponsor a successful
entertainment when smaller or
ganizations do so.
PSCA had a question panel for
freshmen coeds Tuesday night at
which tim e some prominent cam
pus leaders attempted to answer
any problems presented. But it
Old Mani.
And still they're being married.
With all due apologies, we find
we missed quite a few weddings
last week. ChiO Betty Robinson
married 'John Bertram, home
town boy.... Shirley Kohn be
came Mrs. Joseph Boscov. Joe is
a Gamma Sig alum.... Delta
Gam Anne Louise Decker and
Sgt. Paul Heberling were mar
ried in State College.... Ruth
Goldman married Lt. Israel Zel
itich... :Irene Stacy is now Mrs.
Laurence Bender. Larry was re
cently discharged from the army
air corps.
The Sabys really -made it a
family affair. ChioO Margie Saby
married Clif Basteshek at Get
tysburg, Pa., while her brother
John and Gamma Phi Mary Long
were taking final vows at York,
Pa.
AEPhi _Harriet Morrison and•
Gamma Sig alum Bernie Cohen
are engaged.
AOPI Jo Campbell and ATO
Bud Brown are pinned—they
found a novel way to be pinned
they tell us.... Jan Neff wears
George Sample's Phi Kap pin....
Phi Kap Jack Strickland handed
his jewelry to Ann Grazier....
Sally Wills wears Thurman
Gates's TEE jewelry. Thurman is
serving with the navy in the mid-
Atlantic.
Robinson, SDT, visited
Pfc. Bart Krongold, Phi Ep, just
Faculty Limelight
Joe Bedenk , baseball coach, has been named cairman of the exe
cutive committee of the newly-organized American Association of
Baseball Coaches . . . Dr. Walter Coutu, of the sociology department,
will discuss "Population Trends and Some Probable Effects on Amer
ican Life" at , the Faculty Lunch Club meeting Monday.
Thomas C. Benton, associate professor of mathematics, and
Grover C. Chandlee, professor of
chemistry, left for Europe early
this month. They will teach
mathematics and chemistry, re
spectively, to American soldiers
in European univ ersities.,
"Ridge" Riley, assistant execu
tive secretary of the Alumni As
sociation, is attending a meeting
of the American Alumni Council
in Chicago this week Plcbert
E. Galbraith, acuity counselor
of veterans, •has moved his vet
eran's office from the. second
floor of Sparks to the old bot
any building across the mall from
Carnegie • Ha 11....
Julius E. Kaulfuss, professor of
highway engineering, soon will
make the same speech for the
50th time. For four years he has
been addressing Kiwanis Clubs
on the same topic: "The Third 'l'
in Kiwanis"....Henning Nelms,
a new merrlber of the drama de
partment, gave up a law practice
FFw•wFmrva
took no tabulation to note that the
girls were interested mainly in
how to meet tall, handsome men.
There's your chance, fellas! Bet
ter get on the ball since BTO Jim
Hugo has already threatened to
hand out his phone number.
Fraternity women were told
their houses would be closed for
the summer because of the neces
sity for repairs. Are the school
teachers inha'bitating some of
them doing the wall-papering and
painting?"
Although 26 frosh violators
were called before Tribunal Wed
nesday night, none of them were
accused of the more serious Of
fenses. Yet many fellows get by
every day with dating, insolence,
and indignation toward upper
classmen. Wouldn't it be a good
idea for all men students, not
only hatmen and Tribunal mem
bers, to clamp down on the new
comers now? This would not only
speed the removal of. customs but
it would also instill the true Penn
State spirit in their minds more
deeply.
returned from comtbat in the
ETO....Betty Johnson saw En
sign Clair Jewell in. New York.
State College Still holds charms
for lots of kids with visitors like
mad swelling our meager popu
lation this week.
A/S Neil Williams was' in town
visiting Sally Kohler .... Sgt.
Dave Cloud, Phi Sig. blew in to
see Theta Betty Shenk....Lt.
Ted Le Fevre, who was stationed
here in the air corps way back
when, came back to see Kappa
Dorky Newcomer.... Lt. Timmie
Gyles and his wife were visiting
....also Beta Clif St. Clair....
Lt. and Mrs. Edward Ryan spent
the weekend in town. Mrs. Ryan
was formerly Kappa Anne Chas
taine.
Kappa Margo Zollinger was
back seeing A/S Jim Shanks....
Ditto Kappa Hattie Leyden to
see. A/S • Jack Strange.... Lt.
Bill Smith. TKE alum; Lt. Sam
Crabtree, Phi Kap alum, and Lt.
Don Montgomery were visiting
their old haunts, ...Theta alum
Jeanne Irwin was visiting her
Theta sisters.
Theta Mim Rhein, now Mrs.
William Murphy is living in town
with her husband.
We've ibeen hastily and tersely
informed that Jean Knox no
longer wears Guy Ecicman's Sig
ma Chi pin. Oh, well it was fun
while it lasted. —MANIAC
for theater direction.... Mar
garet Witt is• the new technical
director, replacing Grace Clayton.
Among the notthles on campus
as visiting faculty for Summer
Session are: Ennis Davis, editor
of the Music Pufblishers' Journal
Eunice Hilton, dean of
women and professor of educa
tion at Syracuse University....
Hobson Pittman, noted artist
from Overbrook....W. F. Stew
art, head of the department of
agriculture at Ohio State Uni
versity.
Helen Camp, former editor of
the Centre Daily Times who dou
bled as journalism instructor, is
now working with the Associated
Press, bureau in London. ... James
Smith, general secretary of PSOA,
was in New Yonk this week attend
ing the national Intercollegiate
Christian Council. •
Campuseer
Once upon a time. a group of little black sheep
decided that they wanted to go to Sheep's Coll
ege to learn things that would help them be fine
citizens in. the democratic country .in which they
lived. They were very good little sheep, intelli
gent and hard-working, and, name froth good.
flocks. But because . they were black, and. in the.
minority, all the white sheep in the land consid
ered them an inferior breed.
When they go to Sheep's College, the
,little
black sheep saw that there were only about 20
of them, while there were some 2,000 white sheep
who were students at the College. They made
friends with many of the white sheep on campits,
but with the sheep who lived in the town, it was
a different story.
The little black rams had to find space in
folds with the sheep in town, for the College pre,
vided living accomodations only for ewes and let
the rams fend for themselves. And the .sheep-14:
town, who were all white sheep, were very relue=,
tant to rent folds to black rams.
So one day the little black rams, along with a \
group of white rams and both black and white.:.
ewes, got together and decided that they were:'
going to start a fold - of their own where both
white and black rams could live and work togeth : -
er in close cooperation. •
Everything was going fine until a goat with
the aspirations of a social worker stuck his horns,
into the .project. He was an extremely cautious
old goat, and immediately imbued the black and:
white sheep with enthusiasm to make the fold
part of a national movement that would prove
a definite step forward in eliminating breed and..
religious prejudices.
"But," he warned, "we must keep very silent.':
about the project. There will be much oppositiori.'
to it if it becomes known, so we must work very,:,
quietly until we are strong enough to withstarid;
the opposition."- •
That may have been a very fine idea, but the
rams who were to live in the new fold,, as well
as the advisory and executive boards, kept..so
quiet that they antagonized all the other shee4
at the College.
"Tell us what you are doing now," they urged,• . ,
"for we want to help you make a success, of •this.: :
fold that will be the exemplification of a
democratic spirit."
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"We are preparing an official notice," .arts : ,'
wered the sheep. "When it has passed the :
spection of the advisory and executive boards and:.
of all- the members of the fold, we shall releiise'l
it. No one member may give out any inforn* - : :
tion, for as a group we .must decide what we
want outsiders to know about this fold." • ''-
In the meantime, about 15 rams, both, blackf:i
and white, had moved into the fold which was-,c
spacious enough to accomodate at least 35. When:
the rams had moved in, they said that the,folP?
would be filled up in a very short, time.
"Our fold is going to be very unlike the otheif-it;;
sheep folds on the campus," they said. 4`,Anyunk;
will be able to move in with us, regardless
breed or religious belief or who his parentd: are 4
We are truly democratic." • ~
But time .dragged by, and still' only fifteek-`ls
rams lived in the new fold. When -autsiders.,-bi;:g.
quired why more rams didn't move in,' the'
cupants answered "Oh, we are being very,carp.i,":i
ful about who lives with us. They must-be oillY , b
rams who' believe in our democratic ideals."
And soon the new fold, which had• or-1
ganized with high demqcratic ideals, became: one
of the most select folds at the College.:.
Moral: Too much caution often leads to
Front and Center
Capt. Al Daykin '33, former Lion socder
has added an Oak Leaf Cluster to his SiWeil..
Star won in the European theater. He .was -. :in:'!
the Belgian Bulge battle. S/Sgt. Wilson R.
inger, ball turret gunner in. - a 15th Air Force , .:
Flying Fortress, recently received the Air Medal:
First Lt. R. A. Aubrey '39, Bougainville Amt. ,
eran, now with the Fifth Marine Division, is '
cuperating in a rear area hospital. Lieutenant Au-4;
brey stopped 16 Jan slugs in his leg. He reporteds;' ,
that the :qrst bullet naralyzed him and hewELS , :':
forced to stand hi the enemy range while 1 5 -;
more bullets were sprayed into his leg. Becatise:
of the delicacy of the operation, no 'anaesthet4e* - J,
was administered while the slugs were removeil,; : -
First Lt. Mortimer H. Menaker '35 was .a
ber of the Camp Huckstep Army -Rifle team if ,
which recently scored a victory in the secon*S`
International Rifle competition at Abbassia, ne*fg
Cairo,. Egypt. The American team beat the
ners-up, the Union Defense Team, by two pointie
and received the personal congratulations ; lit,
Egypt's King Farouk, who fired the first
FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1945