'AGE EIGHT TI-IE COLLEGIAN "For A setter Penn State" Established 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian. ratablished 1904, and the Free Lance. established 1887. Published every Friday morning during the regular Col• lege ;sear by the staff of the Daily Collegian of the Pennsyl vania State Collge. Entered as second class matter July 5, 1954. at the State College, Pa.. Post Office under the act pi March 8, 1879. Subscripttions by mail only at $1 a semester. Editor-in-Chief Business Manager 'Helen Hatton Elaine Miller Managing Editor 'Advertising Manager Fay E. Young Mary Louise Davey EDITORIAL STAFF News Editor _ ----- _____—____—_______—_Dorothy Rutkin Women's Editor Peggie Weaver Senior Board—Woodenc Bell, Gloria Nerer.h.rg, Audrey Ry back, Patricia Turk. Editorial Assistants—Lynette Lundquist, Doris Stowe. Sports Assistants Leon Aaron, Leo Kornfeld, David Nal van, Elliot Shapiro. Reporters—Kay Badoßet, Arlene Greene, Bareara Ingraham, Caroline Manville, Lois Marks, Suzanne McCauley, Kay McCormick, Nancy Sherriff, Gwynneth Timmis, Ruth Tisherman, Jane Wolbarst Graduate Counselor • ADVERTISING STAFF Junior Board—Phyll!a Deal, Rosemary Ghantous, Helen Rime STAFF THIS ISSUE Managing Editor Copy Editor News Editor ____ Newa Assistant Sport,i Editor ______ We Need You "School Spirit" is a topic about -which many students speak but 'which none of them can clearly define. But the term school spirit can be defined much more broadly than just cheer ing at athletic games or voting at election time. The student's general attitude toward the Col lege is tied up with his school spirit. Educators state that a spirited student will do his best to maintain the College's high scholastic and extra curricular rating. It is a well known fact that student clubs and activities can not be continued without full cooperation of the student 'body. This is par ticularly true during the summer semester when ,enrollment is at a minimum. Despite numerous calls for student workers, many of the campus ,activiCes report that few candidates have shown .up at the various meetings. Oftimes, students are heard complaining what a dull place college is. The majority of , those who believe it dull only attend classes, study, and go out occasionally. Students who seek an •outlet for their surplus energy in some extra curricular activity that interests them seldom complain of boredom at College. To get the full value of a college education is not to be a ha •bitual grind• in order to make a straight three av erage. A well-rounded college education includes the active participation in some student group as well as the maintaining of a •fairly decent average. If you suffer from college monotony or if you wish to display your school spirit in a diff erent way than just by cheering or !being a law abiding citizen of the College, sign up and be come an active memlber of one or more campus extra-curricular groups. According to psychol ogists, ft busy student is a happy student. —G.A.N. From Present to Future All-College elections were conducted last week. At that time every regularly enrolled stu dent had the privilege of voting for two officers to represent his ‘class and two All-College officers as representatives on Cabinet, the student gov erning body. Statistics show that only 60 per cent of the student population cast ballots in this election, which was an increase of 8 per cent over last se mester. Perhaps the political cliques have drum med up enough enthusiasm to start college poli tics on an upward trend. But the cliques are not the cause of the minimum of interest. It is a known fact that the students who take little interest in politics and do not find the time or necessity to vote also take little interest in extra-curricular activities. These are the ones who complain about "nothing to do on a Saturday night." If no interest is taken in who is elected to govern the body, how can one expect anything to be accomplished to benefit the group? The offi cers feel not only that no one cares what they do but also that the greater part of the student 9)ody is not Willing to cooperate to make social or political undertakings successful. It is not only the present which is in the hands of college men and women but the future. You who are considered the cream of the crop by society as a whole are expected to be ex perienced in democratic principles when you make your debut into society. Where can you get a better background than in a public institution governed by your clasmates? Helen Hatton Fay Young Lois Marks Gwynneth Timmis, Barbara Ingraham ------------_ David I4alven Penn Statenze ts Well, here we sit down at our trusty typewt'iter to bang out an nother colym .... Life is so exciting these days it's hard to know where to begin. TVlaybe a suggestion for some entertainment these corning week-ends would be a likely topic. a-low about having a dance or an excursion to Whipple's Dam sometime soon? • Bridge is an interesting same and all that but Leg Art Banned— Judicial is reforming again it seems. This business of walking up to the tennis courts or riding a bicycle (within boro limits) dressed in shorts certainly was a disgusting habit anyway. It !cer tainly isn't done any place else. There is only one problem that Judicial hasn't solved for the well dressed coed, namely, what the hell do you do with the skirt when you get out of •town? Playing the part of Helpful Hannah, this re porter sent out a questionnaire to a fairly representative cross-sec tion of the College coeds. The answer came back loud and strong, "Bury it as you would a para chute!" •So that settles that. Thanks. Eat and Run— Louis Bell The waiters up at Ath Hall cer tainly are an anxious bunch—to get home, that is. If you are the last one sitting at your table, you're just a hopeless case—con demned to starve. It is a cinch you can't enjoy your food with waiters closing in on your table and shooting dagger eyes with every mouthful of food you swal low. It's best to station guards at your table at all times. Just ask Summer in state College brings a dearth of dances and all-college affairs—a true calamity twith a predominantly ma le population that smacks of pre-war days. But 'cupid has been working fiendish ly with the material at hand. Kallozetia Helen Grace IMdCol gin is married to .Capt. John Wi ley....AolPi Mona Shibley now answers to Mrs. Kilbert . Betty lAnn McGinnis and Pfc. Stephen (Mikle were married July 6. Steve was an ASTP. here.... the same day Binx Adams mar ried home-town boy Ernest Sul livan, U. S. Army ....Florence Linker and Cpl. Bob Clayman were married Sunday. Making your head whirl? Take a deep breath—here come some more. Lt. Johnny Jaffurs, formar grid star and Zeta Mary Elizabeth McCurdy were married at Ithaca, N. Y.. ...AChio Barb Painter was in town with her husband, Lt. Lyle Baker, Alpha Zeta, who spent 10 months in a German prison camp ....Also seen in town were newly weds AchiO Doris Payton and Lt. George Elder, Alpha Zeta.... Gamma Phi Bobby Killbury and 'SPA Ensign Robert lßitzman mid dle-aisled it too. . . . Bee Spector married 'Pile, Sherman Faber, re cently returned from the BTO. Faculty limeli:ht July is a month of vacations, so this week we find many pro fessors leaving State College ....Mason Long, professor of English literature, is now in the Adirondacks ....Raymond 3D. Bloom, as sistant• professor of industrial engineering, is vacationing in Maine ....Charles C. Wagner, acting head of the School of Liberal Arts, is fishing in Canada, while 'Edward K. Hibshman, executive head of the Alumni Association, has just returned from the land of the maple leaf. Franklin C. Banner, head of the department of journalism, will return this we6k from Mexico . it isn't strictly a vacation, but Homer T. Kistler, associate pro fessor of hydraulic engineering, and Lawrence Perez, associate professor of civil engineering, are spending this month at civil engineering camp near Peters bore. Neil. M. Fleming. graduate manager of athletics has just re turned from Omaha, Neb. . . . George N. P. Leetch, placement director, is back on campus after vacationing in Riverhead, N. Y. Margaret Sanger, birth control expert, is in town visiting brother Bob Higgins, football coach . Charleq ILee Decker, of the Insti tute of Local Government, has THE COLLEGIAN the kids who went back for sec onds only •to return to an empty table. •ld Mania Pre-War Ratio Now we know why some coeds struggle through ungodly courses such as civil engineering. Take the case of Margaret Bitnex. What more could you ask? She's out at civil engineering camp now with twelve fellow students—all male and two professors to iboot. That's a better ratio than Penn State had even in its heyday. Odds and Ends— Here is one more for the books on the frosh. Asked where he was living, one first semesterer scratched his head to rememfber and then soberly replied, "Stink Street." Speaking of nomenclature, who ever christened the new sororities, on campus? Greek names mould be tame comtpared to those orig inals. All-College Cabinet met this week in an unofficial capacity. That is the new officers were not officially sworn in because the constitution states that the ceremony must be witnessed by the Dean of Men and Mr. Warnock was out of town. Engagements? Oh yes, and pins changing hands. too. SDT Flip Grossman wears a sparkler from Lt. (tig) Lowen Droun....Sgt. John Ludlam was visiting his fi ance Dee-Dee 8u11.... Dottie Shoemaker and Chi Phi Mike iCatanis are pinned.... Ka ppa Charlie Martin wears Bub Grid: ley's TKE pin....AoPi iGinny Ladd and Lambda Chi Bob Hirzel are pinned. Lt. (jg) Paul Wheeler was in town visiting Mary Ellen Diehl.. ..S/Sgt. "Oky" IMathans was up seeing Gloria (Rosenberg.... Phi Delt Wally Sheffer, Ensign Dave Doane, :former V-12er, and Phi Gam Joel Crouch, now in the Merchant (Marine. were all seen casing the campus....Chio Rita Rokosz was visiting her OhiO sis ters.... Theta Chi Bill Renton was in town seeing ChiO Bailb Smith ....Bib Jacobs was visiting Kal lozetia Patsy Nelson.... Theta El eanor Roberts and Mary Hayden were back too. Chia Anne Henry saw her ma rine, Ed Meyer, former V42er.. . . . SPA Hari Bossier jounrney to Pittsburgh to see Delta Gani Betty Bank.... tDIG Scotty Glenn saw her man, Phi Kaip, Bill Beam. That's all for now. —Manias completed his leave of absence with the American Municipal As sociation in Chicago. "Newspapers of Tomorrow—A Summary of Probabilities," by Donald W.' Davis, associate pro fessor of Journalism, was featured in the June issue of the Journa lism Quarterly . "Hunky John." the new novel by Edward J. Nichols, professor of English com position, is just off the presses. Simon .Marcson, assistant pro fessor of sociology, has returned to his duties at the College after . spending a semester in special work at Harvard University. Dur ing his leave Marcson served as so ciological consultant to the Com mittee on the Study of Teaching Materials for Inter-Group Rela tions, and headed the study as It applied to the college level. Campuseer Six - nmer semester enrollment shows that for. the first time in several semesters the men stu dents outnumber women by an almost 2-1 ra tio. The girls are delighted at the thought, and begin to think that things are reverting to pre. war days (when every coed was a social !butterfly. Put when they look into the situation, they find that things aren't as bright as they appear' on parer. One look at the sad creatures wlio turn out to be men students !confirm them in their opinion that it might just as well be the fall or spring semester (when there were three . . coeds to every man on campus. ' Then, at least,. they could berate the fact that they \didn't have dates because of the man shortage rather than: admit that there are few men around worth dating. Take, for example a freshman who was thrust upon a quartet of lovely coeds by some fraternity brothers who were rushing him• at• the Comer (Room early in the week. They were Obviously bored with his scintillating (?) conver sation, and hoped that the presence of some women would brighten - up the situation. -The coeds eyed the freshman, decided that here might be a prospect, and began to make small talk. "What's your name?" they queried. "Uh.... Herman Byrd, but my friends all 'call me Birdbrain," he answered in . a basso-Iprofuncio The four coeds looked at each other, a bit i .. startled. After a Short pause, one of them made another try. "Where are you living?" "Uh.... Smell street or Stink street or ; some 7 , thing like that. I don't remember the name," was Birdbrain's intelligent answer. Everyone at the table was bewildered for a moment. Then a light came into one 'coed's eyes —the blonde one. "Oh, you must mean Pugh street," she told "Uh....yeah, that's right. Pugh street. Don't ask ma whose dorm I live in 'cause don't know the name of it, or the lady who runs it. . - Alll,. know is that there are foui• babes who live on'•' the second floor, and boy, are they sharp charl l % , acters. Phew," and he let out a long whistle. — This time the pause lasted much longer than. — the former one had. Then the red-head'asked,", "What are you taking?" "Uh....we11, originally I just came itp take a test to see if I could enter the College . in', the fall, but my advisor got mixed up and signed:: me up for this semester, so here I am. I wanted!-f to take hotel administration, 'but my advisor. got mixed up on that, too, and !I'm in Liberal Arts.'.!,i "Bat hotel administration is in the home - ecc;„?: nomics department," the brunette reminded "Uh....yeah, I know. But I guess 'it dori't make no difference," was the froih's concerned ';* reply. At this point, the coeds gave up. They start 4 ed to leave but the freshman stopped theni,' ing if any of them would like to go to a iiicieio.*?r: that, night. "No, •thank you," they chorused. "We're, alt busy tonight." And the four coeds walked ba.9lc to Atherton to get up a hot game of bridge. (Ed. Note:—Any resemblance between Bird.-" brain and any living freshman is purely inten: 7 , tional.:• —CAIIVIP7" Front and Center Capt. Ernest Kristof, wearer of the Air Med., al and holder of a Presidential Unit . Citation,- was recently transferred to AAF Training Com mand Headquarters at Fort Worth, Tex. Lt. Nestor E. cleQuevedo '3l, USNR (MC),, has been selected to serve as a flight surgeOfi 4 - with the first all-Marine Aircraft Carrier Group. His squadron is now in training at the Marine Corps Air Station, Santa Barbara, Calif. Lt. Henry O'Karina '44 serving in the ETO was wounded a second time. Also recently re? ported wounded were: Lt. Arden Emerick Jr. '42, Luzon; Lt. Wayne C. Shaffer '42, Pacific theater.; Lt. Clayton J. Smith '46, Germany; and Lt. bert Olewine '44, Germany. _ Capt. Gilbert Radcliff '4O, survivor of the: Japanese "March of Death" after the fall of Ba taan, is. still . a prisoner of the Japanese. A fel low officer who was released when the pines were liberated reported that Captain Radz . cliff was moved to the Japanese mainland last. October. Marine First Lt. Joseph S. Alexander '',303 landed on Iwo Jima as a forward artillery .4:44 server with the 1 1 2th Regiment. This group - , struck the island on D-Day plus one. "-;.',:.;;5. FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1945
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