PAGE EIGHT THE COLLEGIAN Established' 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian, sntablished 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887. Published every Friday morning during the regular Col 4cga year by the staff of the Daily Collegian of the Pennsyl yania State Coils°. Entered as second class matter July 6, L 984, at the State College, Pa., Post Office under the act 'af March 8, 1879. Subscripttions by mail only at $1 a semester. Editor-in-Chief Business Manager Helen Hatton Elaine Miller ,41k(p. 1 , Managing Editor Advertising Manager Fay E. Young Mary Louise Davey EDITORIAL STAFF News Editor Dorothy Rutkin Women's Editor Peggic Weaver Senior Board--Woodene Bell, Gloria Nerer-h.rg, Audrey RY- back, Patricia Turk. Editorial Assistants—Lynettd Lundquist, Doris Stowe, Barbara Ingraham Sports Assistants—Leon Aaron, Leo Kornfeld, David Nal- yen, Elliot Shapiro. Reporters—Kay lladollet, Arlene Greene, Kay Krell, Caroline Manville, Lois Marks, Suzanne McCauley, Kay McCormick, Nancy Sherriff, Gwynneth Timmis, Ruth Tisherman, Idervin Wilf, Jane Wolbarot, Graduate Counselor ADVERTISING STAFF Junior Board—Phyllis Deal, Rosemary Glmntous, Helen Rime STAFF THIS ISSUE Managing Editor Copy Editor - - -.-- . News Dditor _____ David Nalven Sports Elitor __..Mervin Wilf _ News Assistants :Caroline Manville. Cwynneth Timms Assistant Advertising Manager Rosemary Ghantous Is This Trip Necessary? As soon as the news of the unexpected La bor Day holiday reached the ears of eager stu-. dents, many began making hurried plans for trips home. Without a thought as to travel conditions for the weekend, men and coeds alike, in their frenzied desires to get off campus, started mak ing arrangements to leave. Year after year the men and women of the United States have read reports of mobs of peo ple . crowding bus and train stations in an effort to go away for a Labor Day vacation. Statistics of past years show a great increase in automo bile accidents for this particular holiday weekend. This year, as in former days of peace, Col lege officials urge students to make the most of the Labor Day holiday, by enjoying it in activ ities in or near State College. Health experts have proved in the past that the benefits of a short holiday at home are usually outweighed by the strenuous exertion of many hours spent standing in the crowded aisles 'of packed buses and. trains. The College Health Service now also warns of - the dangers of traveling to areas in which cases of polio and other contagious diseases have been numerous during the past few weeks. Dry Dock, hikes, bicycle parti • es, the movies, cabin and swimming parties, tennis, golf, and picnics are all forms of diversion open to those students who choose to cooperate with govern mental and College pleas to refrain from travel ing over Labor Day and make the most of a holiday at the College. To give coeds a feeling of freedom such as they have at home, WSGA Senate and Dean Charlotte E. Ray have granted an extra late holiday 2:30 a.m. permission to all coeds who will be on campus Sunday night. This unexpected holiday should provide stu dents with a chance to do all those -things which they have wanted to do at college, but for which they have just never had the time. Dry Dock Renaissance At a meeting on Saturday College officials consented to the use of Old Main Sandwich Shop for the revival of Dry Dock. For six weeks a committee appointed by the All-College Cabinet was vigorously seeking the renaissance of Dry Dock or the wartime substitute Swing Inn to provide the much needed weekend entertainment for civilian and military students. Arrangements were made to have available mu sic, entertainment, games, and refreshments for a general weekly get-together. For six weeks the committee could not in itiate these plans because it was stalled by Col lege officials by the alibi that there was no suit able place available. The Armory was to be tak en over by the Navy. Recreation Hall and White Hall were out of the question. Summer session students were eating in the •Sandwieh Shop. The first floor lounge of Old Main was too small to accommodate the student body, and the fire places disrupting the open floor were not con ducive to Dry Dock plans. After severe aotion taken by the All-College Cabinet the Sandwich Shop was obtained. This critical contest, however, manifests the great need for a Student Union building to alleviate student social demands. Suoh a building should be one of the first to be erected when the alloca tion from the State legislature for additional structures is received within the next couple of years. Anything, yes anything, can happen now and we'll believe it. Who can blame us after going to school seven semesters through all sorts of national holidays, and now just like that we get Labor Day off. Going one better, Judicial has granted coeds 2:30 a.m. per missions Sunday—and to make the picture complete Swing Inn makes its debut in Dry Dock form Friday. night. We can't ,believe that it's really true, but that's what it says here. Engineer Dope One of our see-all, hear-all, and tell-all reporters let us in the dope about Mr. A. P. Although Donald Miltenberger copped the cherish ed title, Casey was right up in there fighting. Better luck in the coming semesters, Casey. Speaking of the new Engineer (the Press is democratic), Mrs. Warnock was probably as sur prised as the Delta Gams to see a picture of the DG house labeled "Dean Warnoek's residence." And we thought the frosh were the only ones on campus who didn't know the buildings. Twisted Vocab _Louis Bell Helen Hatton Dorothy Rutkin In Polit Sc 10 etas:: this week, the professor was telling the class that the President has been put ting some of his old cronies in Cabinet. The class seemed absorb ed in taking notes on the lecture when: a fellow in the back of the room spoke out, "What's your Oefinition of a crony? I always that it was an old woman." After the students auieted down, the professor took time out to explain the difference between a crone and a croney. Dan Cupid stopped over in State College for the past week judging by all the pinnings, en gagements, and weddings that have occurred recently. Rosema rie Crock is now wearing a dia mond from Pvt. Fred Beirsdorf er, kappa sig....Liz Griffiths has become the fiancee of hometown boy S'gt. Bob Miller with a sparkler... .AOPi alum Mignon ette rederick was married to Harland Gover in July... .beta si.g Lt. 'Morry Freed middle-aisl ed it with a hometown girl last week. ... and gamma phi alum Dot Shigley and Ray Farwell SPA, took the vows in town recently. Little Fraternity Pin John Sadden, phi kappa sig, has placed his pin beside Jan Feis tel's AChiO jewels. Both were visiting last weekend.... Jane Noll now has Frankie Schneider's Teke pin....SDT prexy Betty Berman is sporting Hal Hein's phi sig jewelry....DT l D George Smith, Air Corps, pinned Theta Libby D0y1e.... and on the pfffft list is Carolyn Lerch and SAE John ny Dibeler. Visiting Folks Phi Mu Clara Jones dashed home this weekend to see Chuck iGalligan just back from overseas Several members of the Reading Clinic staff have accepted posi tions in the Baltimore city schools. iMiss Carolyn Welch, who has been supervisor of the Reading Clinic Laboratory 'School, will begin her duties as director of the Reading Clinic in Baltimore tomorrow Miss Mary Shapiro and Miss Mary Mc Collura, graduate assistants in the Laboratory School, have been appointed reading specialists in Baltimore. Ray Conger, one-time mile k education staff at the College, was guest of the "Sports Parade" 'ra dio program on Station KQV at Pittsburgh Saturday. . . . I. C. Boerlin, supervisor of audio-vis ual aids in Central Extension, has been re-elected for a three-year term to the board of directors of the Education Films Library As sociation, New York City. New Alumni Head William K. Ulerich, editor of the Centre Daily Times and a part-time member of the journal ism faculty, has been elected• president of the Penn State Alum ni Association for the forthcom ing year. . . Miss Julia. G. Brill, associate professor of English Composition, was elected second vice-president of the association. Lt. Col. Guy G. Mills, ROTC and ASTP commandant at the College. who will receive his dis charge shortly, expects to return THE COLLEGIAN Penn Statements Old Mania Faculty Limelight Science Over in the EE Lab they, were running some tests on motors. A group of layman spectators watch ed them while they ran the first test. Fascinated they waited• for the second one to begin. They stood on one foot and then the other. Finally one asked what they were waiting for. The EE studont murmured something about. thermodynamics and the questioned stared with awe at such knowledge. Summing up more courage, he asked the en gineer to explain the term. "Hell, I don't know what it is," was the answer, "all I know is that you've got to wait for it to happen." Back to Normalcy Everyone is talking about how the end of the war is going to af fect this or that on campus. Every department, club or fraternity seems to have some post-war plans—and Collegian does too. At present Collegian has one major goal•—to get back to the Daily Col legian instead of the Collegian published by the Daily Collegian staff. with" the Army ....Ensign Frank Thompson visited Kallozetia Bev McNaul recently . ... Also seen around campus was AOPI Lou La made. ... Pvt. Jimmy Antenoff visiting Blanche Vail. .. .Marilya Lunitz seeing Sailor Les Jacobs .Leon Aaron.... Phi sig alums Cpl. Duke Meiman and Lt. Mery Krenzman....and Beta Sig En sign Lou Ullman. At Log Rhythm Don "Mr. Accelerated Program" Mjltenberger with Dot Richardson from Shamokin.... Theta Betty Shenk and ex-V-12er Tony Hale ....Dot Fischer and Chuck Cul nane....Jean Nichols with Phi Delt Jack Forbes.... Lambda Chi Bill Luxion and Edith Moffet with a . MORON sign hanging on his back.... Dottie Davis and hometown lad Bob Ginger.... Madge Rohrbaugh and Jack Se ymour, theta chi.... A/S Paul 'Trax and Mickey Keuhner.... A/S Joe Eastlack and Martha Conley.... Rosemarie Waggner with Bob Hewitt, ASTP....HeIen Bautman with AF.,. 3 T Jesse Zellner....Mar ion iOrth and. Dr. I Lie Q. Zos zack.... Terry Hague and ex-GI . Stan Cohen.... Shirley Welshans and Sailor Bob Bastian... .and gobs of others. —Maniac ng and a member Of the physical to State College as a civilian for a few months of rest. . . . Dr. Con rad C. Link, who has been associ ate orofeEsor of florticulture at the College since 1938, has accepted a position as horticulturist at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, New York. Faculty Committee The steering committee of the Faculty Lunch Club for Septem ber, October, and November, will consist of Charles A. Eder, assis tant professor of civil engineer ing, chairman.; Miss Winona L. Morgan, associate professor of home economics; Miss Mary L. Willard. associate professor of chemistry; R. Wallace Brewster, associate professor Of political science; and George N. P. Leetch, director of the College Plasement director of the College Place ment Service. • FRIDAY, AUGUST , 31, 1945 Campuseer ' The world is getting far too scientific for many average persons today. Not that they mind the automobile, airplane, radio, telephone, and other modern conveniences, bid. they to object' to the part science is taking in the more intimate part of their lives. Psychology, for instance, is becoming the blight of many a happy youth's future. It's bad enough being psychoanalyzed and told that he is an in trovert or an extrovert, a moron or a genius, or that one possesses an inferiority or superiority com plex. But these tests that men such as Terman, Burgess, and Cottrell have come out with, at tempting to determine, vocational aptitudes or chances for marital happiness carry things one step too far. Take the vocational aptitude tests, for instance. A person can spend two hours telling which coed she would most like to be in the world, which wo man she would like least to be, whether she would rather breed horses or take long walks in the rain, whether she would prefer picking flowers or listening to a good symphony orchestra. Before she took the test, the coed knew 'perfectly well that her one burning ambition was to be a good wife and mother in future years, but the results come back telling her that she has all the makings of a brilliant international lawyer. So the young lass decides to forget about a home and children and studies law. In 20 years time, she is a medi ocre barrister, alone, lonely, and frustrated. A career woman who has never ceased to . regret following the guidance written on -a piece of paper. Marriage tests are just as bad. A couple can sit up until the wee hours of the morning answer ing some 500 auestions along these lines: "Do you day-dream?" "Are you afraid of water?" "What season of the year-do you . like best?" Next day the weary couple take their tests back to the psy chologist who plots a line from the answers. If the lines follow each other closely, the couple are well-suited for each other; but woe unto the pair whb enter. the holy bonds of matrimony if the curves of their marriage tests are far apart! In theory, the tests may not be too bad, but think of where they are are 'leading. Twenty years from now, a young man feeling ready for mar riage will probably drop in to see a psychologist, ake the test, then match it up with the one that follows his most closely. Then he'll look up.that person and announce that they are going to be married. No courtship, no romance, no moonlight and flowers, no fun. What a future! One person summed 'up her views on the cur rent test-giving trend with the words, "I prefer to drop two pennies in the slot and let the Mystic Pen psychoanalyze me. It's probably just as accur ate and far less expensive." Front and Center Visiting at the Beta Sigma Rho house last week end were A/S Allan Apter, S2/C Robert Kranicb,. and Radioman 2/C Robert Lyons. Ens. Lewis Ull man, now in the Merchant Marine, spent a few days with his brothers at the College recently. Newly commissioned Ens. Andrew Anderson ited the Alpha Tau Omega house this v.rekenit: Killed in Action Lt. (j.g.) Robert M. Johnsbn '4O died at 5ea...., Wounds received on Biak Island, in the Pacific, proved fatal to Robert A. Angelo '39 Lt William A. Root '3B has been reported killed in Germany, as has Stanley S. Szyachelka . . . Rob ert A. Reichelder died in action with the Air Corps. Lt. William T. Raffert, previously reported miss. ing, is now listed among those killed in action. . . . First Lt. George R. Willforth '39 was killed when his plane crashed in England. Liberated Previously reported missing, Lt. George E. Wil liams '42 has been set free from a German prison camp. . . . John M. Graham '42 and Lt. Robert B. Walker '4l have also been released from prison camps. Promoted Among the many alumni now spqrting new ranks are: Maj: William Sandston '42, Capt. W. D. Zahrinist, Capt. Donald Bievenour '39, Capt. Harry L. Lee '32, First Lt. James E. Hawkins 111 '43, First Lt. The - odore Taylor '42, Capt. Wood row Hock '42, Capt. Rudolph Janeck '37, Capt. Donald Horton '42, Col. Frank ?ethic Jr. '2B, and, Ens.. Norman H. Marlin Jr.' '46: Returried from Overseas• • • Marine First Lt. Brooks. D. Kaufman '44, Who piloted a Mitchell medium bomber .with / the First Marine Air Wing at Emirau and New Ire land in the South Pacific, is now stationul in Mir amar, Calif. . . . Also at this base is Marine First;. Lt. Homer N. Davis '43. A Tau Kappa Epsilon;, alumnus, Lieutenant Davis piloted • a dive bomber. over the Philippines.
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