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THE COLLEGIAN
Established' 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian,
established 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887.
Published every Friday morning during the regular Col
lege year by the staff of the Daily Collegian of the Pennsyl
vania State Colige. Entered as second class matter July 5,
1934, at the State College, Pa., Post Office under the act
sf March 8, 1879.
Subscripttions by mail only at $1 a semester.
Editor-in-Chief Business Manager
Helen Hatton Elaine Miller
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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 Nererherg, Audrey RY-
back, Patricia Turk.
Editorial Assistants—Lynette Lundquist, Doris Stowe, Barbara
Ingraham
Sports Assistants—Leon Aaron, Leo Kornfeld, David Nal-
yen, Elliot Shapiro.
Reporters—Kay BadeHet, Arlene Greene, Kay Krell, Caroline
Manville, Lois Marks, Suzanne McCauley, Kay
McCormick, Nancy Sherriff, Gwynneth Timmis, Ruth
Tisherman, Herrin Wilf, Jane Wolbarzt
Graduate Counselor
ADVERTISING STAFF
Junior Board—Phyllis Deal, Rosemary Ghantous, Helen Kime
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Managing Editor -
Copy Editor _
Caroline Manville
News Editor
Sports Editor George Sample
News Assistants --Shirley Lyon, Marilyn Jncobson
Assistant Advertising Manager. Ria Hanzlik
Friday, 'September 7, 1945
Crime Doesn't Pay
• Criminologists say that the better educated
people are the less likely they are to commit petty
crimes as common burglary, stickups, and pocket
picking. But, the recent outbreak of petty, robb
eries at Atherton Hall seem to indicate that eith
er the experts are wrong or college does not pro
vide a very good education.
Atherton Hall was once a dormitory from
which coeds could go to classes, town, or meet
ings without thinking of locking, room or closet
doors. Women who have been living there for the
past two months have found that they cannot
even go to dinner or leave their rooms to take
showers without, locking up everything of value.
Since the beginning of the semester alarm
clocks, wrist watches, rings, cigarettes, several
hundred dollars in cash, and many little knick
knacks which coeds value have disappeared from
coeds' rooms. Many of these thefts have taken
place in odd hours, when no outsiders could pos
sibly 'have been 'present in the dormitory. There
fore, the assumption has been made that coeds
themselves are responsible for the pilfering of
these articles.
Coeds are asked by dormitory supervisors to
lock their closet and room doors whenever they
leave their rooms for a fe.w . minutes. They are
also urged by the authorities not to keep large
sums of money in the dormitories. By being on
the look-out for suspiciously, acting people walk
ing in the dormitory halls and by listening to the
advice of hostesses and officials perhaps the guil
ty ones will be' apprehended and Atherton coeds
will once more be able to leave their rooms un
locked and unguarded.
Private Property
Heinz Warneke's statue of the Nittany Lion, a
gift to 'the College by the Class of 1940, is one of
•the outstanding works of art of which the Col
lege is justly proud. Not 'only because of its mon
etary and artistic value are students and former
Penn Staters proud, but because the Nittany Lion
has come to symbolize all the traditions and spirit
of our Alma Mater.
To all those who love and cherish the Lion
then, there is no possible excuse for the vandalism
which occurred Friday morning. Captain Mark
of the Campus Patrol reports that at this time
it was discovered that lipstick and brown shoe
polish were used to decorate the Lion's face.
Students were shocked to learn one year ago
after the Colgate football game that the Lion had
been smeared with black paint. After this van
dalism occurred All-College Cabinet appropria
ted funds to illuminate the statue at night hop
ing that this would stop any recurrence of this
act.
iEvidently the ;lights were not a sufficient pro
tectorate because since then three offenses have
been reported. On one of these ocasions a chip was
knocked off the Lion's nose by an empty bottle.
. If these acts continue, it will be necessary to
enclose the Lion in a cage of wire. Anyone who
has seen the imposing figure in its landscaped
setting wil realize how much such a contraption
would detract from the beauty of the scene.
Such actions will surely discourage future be
quests to the College—perhaps even squelching
plans for the proposed Student Union building.
_Louis Bell
---___ Fay E. Young
Dorothy Rutk in
Penn Statements
Even on a week-end when gobs of students flocked home or to
the shore for their last fling of the summer, Dry Dock was jammed
with couples having a wonderful time. Thanks to the efforts of Cab
inet and especially of June First and her hard working committee,
the answer to the campus's prayer for entertainment and fun on a
Saturday night got off to a good s
were Prexy Hetzel, Dean Ray, and
Dean and Mrs. Warnock who in
cidentally were cutting a rug
with the best of them.
It's Unusual—
The Corner Unusual has long
been noted for a lot of things—
chocolate cake a la, ham a la
Corners, peanut fudge sundies,
and slow service. The customers
have long since come to expect
a half hour wait before and after
orders have been taken. They just
come and saturate themselves
with the atmosphere, and inciden
tally notice who is entering with
whom those sacred portals. But
last week-end Tim Reed found
himself supersaturated with at
m•orphere and still no waitress
seemed to notice. Finally Tim took
matters in his own hands and
served himself cafeteria style—
juist like Atherton Hall.
Classifieds—
Just before the Collegian went
to press last week, a classified
was hurriedly excavated from the
form. The ad looked quite harm
less, definitely not the to-be cen
sored type. It read: LOST: AOPi
sorority, pin. Finder please return
Old Mania
The Navy swamped Maniac with
choice news bits as Sailor Larry
IVicGrael placed a sparkler on
Muggy Hall's left hand . . . and
ChiO Libby Fitzgerald accepted a
diamond from A/S Charlie Smith.
And may we quote a New York
society page saying ex-EDT prexy
Shirley Levine is now Mrs. Milton
Feldman . . . and . SDT Arlene
Rabinowitz was married to Paul
Friedman in New York Sunday.
Posie Schearrer, - theta, jour
neyed up from Washington to see
Dick Griffiths. Now she is wear
ing his phi tau jewelry.... Liz
Lowy and Lt. Bernie Weiner mid
dle-aisled it early in August....
Phi sig Howie Elet pinned Ethel
Winter of Hunter College....
AChiO Alice Mendenhall Is wear
ing a sparkler from V-12er Jack
Palme.
Around Town—
Lt. Rem Robinson, former
sports editor of The Collegian,
was visiting deltagam Jeanne
Barronett....Phidelt alum Lynn
Taylor and Theta Jo Sauerwein
spent last week in State College
....Teke alum Bob Gridley was
here....AoPi's Kay McCormick,
Charlie Scibetta, and Jackie
Struble will trek up this weekend
to see their sisters.... Alpha
Zeta Gif Pletcher, pfc., was in
town recently....
Carol Dickman and Barb Mc-
Cleary were seeing their Theta
ssisters over the holiday.... Vi-
Faculty Limelight
Frederick E. Snyder, Jr., formerly a research assistant in cera
mics at the College, was killed on Okinawa May 28, State College
friends learned recently. A graduate of the College, he entered the
Navy.in May, 1944.
Coach Bob Higgins caused a sensation among local
his hole-in-one on the College golf course Saturday. He
with his daughter, Ginger, and
made his amazing shot on the
200-yard 12th hole. . . . C. M.
Graff, assistant supervisor of in
formal instruction in Central Ex
tenSion, and Mrs. Graff. ihave
adopted a four-month-old baby
bnv, William Nelson Graff
Has New Position
Capt. Alvin R. Grove, . Jr., form
er member of the botany depart
ment who also was associated with
the forestry Fchool at Mount. Alto,
is now teaching biology at the
Army's largest overseas univer
sity, recently established at Biar
ritz, France. . . . . Also among the
College faculty members who are
now teaching overseas are a trio
at the Army center at Shrivnham,
England. They are Thomas C.
Benton, professor of mathema
ti6s; Ralph U, Blasingame,' head
of the agricultitiral engineering
MW ' MWaI : M
art. Among the celebrities present
to 405 Atherton. Then. we discov
ered that the coed requested not
to have it printed because she
had found her pin. "You'd nev
er guess where," she added. "It
was in the cuff of George's pants."
Dottie Dix—
Home Ec 405 is one of those
courses that settles all those little
problems where marriage is con
cerned. This week the class was
having a panel on a very impor
tant issue; namely, mother-in
laws and how best to .get rid of
them. The only solution offered
was made by the coed who ven
tured to suggest, "Send them to
an old folks home."
Trivia-
Zoszak tells this one • about the
coed who went up to the BMOC
and said, "Are you !the big bull
on campus?" When the BMOC
answered yes, the coed replied,
"Moo-o-o!"
Ens. Rem Robinson, former
sports editor of the Collegian,
was in town last week-end. He is
home from the Pacific on a 20-
day leave. "
iting Beta Sigs were Bob Kran
ich, yeoman third class; Bob Ly
ons, RT third class, and Al Apter
now in the V-12 at Princeton....
Herb Hasson, Ralph Snyder, and
Larry Koenigsberg, all phi sig
alums were here.
Phi Kap Bill Beam traveled up
to see Scotty Glenn .... Chi°
pledge Happy Weber entertained
Bob Burleigh, a West Point cadets
over the weekend.
DG Betty Rank journeyed up
to. see- SPA Harry Bassler ovzrr
Labor Day Seeing Johnny
Duich, SPA, was his hometown
At Club Sig Ep,—
SPE is holding its second post
war pledge affair tomorrow—a
formal dinner dance. Planning to
nightclub there are Tom Hutch
ins and Katie Powell, AChiO .
Ross Johnston and Spoudekas
ter Gene Gilmorg . . . Don Var
ga and Clair Robinson . . . Jim
Kane and Jo Broberg . . . Bob
Taylor and AChiO Jan Molle
nauer . . . and others.
Reno Bureau—
Rumor has been confirmed that
Phi Kap Johnny Sadden and
AChiO Jan Feistel are no longer
bound by the pin....
Jackie Irvin, gammaphibeta,
has broken her engagement with
SPA alum Joe Yavz.e.
department; and Groyer C.
Chandlee, head of the department
of chemistry.
Teaching Overseas
' Dr. L. A. Peacock, former assis
tant professor of English compo
sition, has accepted a position as
head of the school of languages
and letters at Ottawa University,
Ottawa, Kansas. . . . Among the
many vacationing faculty mem
bers are William 0. Rogers, asso
ciate professor of mathematics;
Stuart A. Mahauran, assistant pro
fessor of journalism; William L.
Werner, professor of English lit
erature; R. Hadly Waters, asso
ciate professor of economics; and
Jacob Tanger, head of the politi
cal science department, who is in
Lancaster and expects to spend
part of his vacation at )the sea
'dhore.
To those students who weren't here before the
war, peace seems to have had a strange and almost
unexplainable effect on the College and its rule§
and regulations. Vacations and holidays,. which
were rapidly becoming obsolete terms in these
parts, have been thrust at them fast and fur
iously, and most persons, students and faculty
alike, have spent them just sitting around being
stupefied at the thought.
The one day V-J holiday that was originally
proclaimed didn't •much surprise anyone, for all
had been looking forward to it for a long time.
When it was extended to two days, however,
everyone was completely surprised and delight
ed—especially those persons who left town• Tues
day night for an extended weekend and came
back to find they hadn't cut as many classes as
they thought they had.
It took a long time before the campus returned
to its former routine after those holidays. Many
were the profs who were beard to say, when
students failed •to show up for classes or came
unprepared with the day's assignment, "Oh, well,
I guess we have to make allowances • for V-3
Day" for days following the great occasion. But
just as the situation was getting 'back to normal,
look what happened. The College up . and pro
claimed Labor Day another holiday.
Not only was that the first one-day vacation
that has been granted since the College went on
its accelerated program, but it was probably the
first time in (history that Labor Day was
. made
an official holiday. Then, to top that fact off,
coeds were granted 2:30 permissions to attend
the midnight show on Sunday. '
"How did this happen" asked innumerable, dis
believing women students, who had planned, to
sneak out of the dorms to attend the show any
way.
"It's the war, or rather the peace," was the
only explanation. It's made everyone light
headed."
To older, pre-Pearl' Harbor students, however,
these happenings that so amazed underclassmen
brought back memories of the Penn State that
used to' be. They remembered the times, that
coeds were given three o'clock permissions on all
big weekends, to attend dances or fraternity par.;
ties.• They remembered too, two-week Christma
vacations and five-day Easter and .Thanksgiving.
vacations.
, Back to mind came all the little things that
added up •to a peacetime Penn State that wartime
students only read about in books. And they
thought, "The College is . quickly returning to
what it used to be, to the way I'll always re
member it."
And .follow,ing that thought for those who will
be
. graduated in October was a regretful : one:
"Gee, I'm: sorry I won't be here to see it."
Jacob M. Geist, former instructor in chemical:;: ;
engineering, was recently commissioned a spc? .. l
and lieutenant at the Chemical Warfare. Servi*At
Officers' Can — didate School in Edgewood.
nal, Md. . . -. Bill Wood, former Perm-Slate , . 106 , ,,1
ball star, is resident chaplain of the world tatrioiii
Sailors' Snug Harbor at Staten Island, N. Y. . 4
.
John Napoleon, former Penn . State Intercolleg
iate boxing champion, is a recreation offic6r. , 4:,
aboard an LST in the Pacific . . . . First Lt. Ed:(4
ward A Zack.s is in charge of the Air TransiortA
Command's North African Division Station
Tunis, Tunisia.
Lt. William J. Dorworth Jr., was awarded the
Bronze - Star Medal at a submarine base in tilie;
Pacific. . . . M/Sgt. Gerald Firestone earned a
similar achievement badge for service in
Mediterranean. . . . •First Lt. Raymond P. john
son '42 •is wearing a Bronze ;Star'which he won in
the Mediterranean Theater.
-MANIAC
William Soose; former Penn State boxing cham-`,
pion who later became a professional, is await
ing discharge from the Navy, mainly on points he,
earned in the Aleutians. He has stated that he •
does not expect to return to the ring, but rather
intends to g 6 into business.
Second Lt. Robert V. Gildea '42, a B-17 Flying:,
Fortress bombardier, recently achieved the 'Air:
Medal Training as a flight engineer on.:a
•
B-29 Superfortress at Randolph • Field, Tex.,:..is:
Lt. William McKenna,
golfers with
was playing
Kappa Delta Rho alumnus . Ralph AL Yeapie.
was recently promoted to warrant ,officer junior::
grade in the Army Air Forces overseas:: - ...
E. Meyer Jr., '35 was promoted to corporal at t. 4 : ,!
advanced engine pilot school, Napier Field.
Lt. (j.g3 George N. Rumsey recently arrived*; -
an East Coast port after serving.l.7 months aboa4.. ,
an LST. . . . Lt. Col. William H. Fandel,.holder'
the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Crosi li ,
is awaiting reassignment in- San Antonio..
spent 14 months in the ETO. • •
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1945
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