PAGE EIGHT THE COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" E e tablklic<4 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian, established 1004, and the Free Lance, established 1887. Published every Friday morning: during the regular Col* fege year by the staff of the Daily Collegian of the Pennsyl vania Stale Collgc. Entered an second class matter July 5, T. 934, at the State College, Pa., Post Office under the net b>f March 8, 1870. Subscriptions by mail only at $1 a semester. Editor-In-Chief Business Manager Woodene Bell Mary Louise Davey Manaqing Editor Advertising Manager Peggie Weaver Rosemary Ghantous Member Pissociated Colle6iale Press Distributor of Golle&iate Di6est EDITORIAL STAFF - T Gloria Nerenbcrg News Editoi -- - Patricia Turlc Womens Editor Mervin wil£ Senior Bonn! Barbara Incrnham, Audrey RybncU Junior Board ----- Kay Krell, Lvnettc LundfiU'Bt. CHrollno Manvillc, Lois Marita, Suzanne McCnuley, David Nal ven, Doris Stowe, Uwy.nnelh Timmis, Jane Wolbaisi. Reporters Kny Badoliet, Arlene Omm. Elsie Har wit/,, Marilynn Jacobson, Leo Konnfeld, Shirley Lyon Kny McCormick, A/S Jack Reid, Nancy Shernff, Rum Tishermun. Graduate Counselor Louis Doll ADVERTISING STAFF Senior Board Phyllis Deal, Helen Kime Junior Board Uin, Hnnzlik, Sally Iloktrum, Dorothy Leibowitz, June Rosen, Selma Sabcl. ___ STAFF THIS ISSUE Woodene Bell Lynette Lundquist, Gloria Nerenbci'ij David Nalvcn Managing Editor Copy Editors News Editor —— Growing Pains In 1941 Penn State’s enrollment totalled more than 7,000. Why, in 1945, can the College not accomodate its 5,000 students? At present, due to the scarcity of rooms, many ex-servicemen are living on the fourth floor of Old Main, while coeds are sleeping three to a double room in the Tri-Dorms. And yet, the College enrollment is 2,000 less than four years ago. Many answers have been offered to this question, most of them inadequate. During the war many families moved into State College . . . For example, 145 Navy families. While these people were, moving in, due to wartime restrict ions, no new 1 buildings were erected to take care of them AND the increased College enrollment. All of the fraternity. houses are not yet open, including those used now by the ASTP and fNROTC units. ' Families in State College have been extrem ely helpful by renting their spare rooms to stud ents. However, not all is rosy . . . one X-GI and his wife pay $lO a week for a single room. Miss Charlotte E. Ray, dean of women, in sists that the housing situation-for coeds is not serious, nor is it any different from past semes ters. Each .year the College registers more girls than it can house, expecting many. last-minute cancellations. And that policy is providing true this semester, as the girl s are quickly being mov ed from triples in the Tri-Dorms to empties in the other dormitories. However, the situation is different with the men students. The College does not accept com plete responsibility for the men, and therefore, when a man registers at State, it is partly up to him to provide his own housing. The men who are now sleeping in Old Main knew when they came to State that the housing siutation was ser ious, but they wanted to come so badly they didn’t care. But the College cannot be entirely unsympa thetic with this problem . . . nor has it been. Thirty-eight veterans are housed in a College op erated dormitory which was formerly the Theta Nu Epsilon house. The trailer camp being erec ted on the east campus, will house some 90 vet erans and their families. By December 1, the College promises every Penn State student will be properly housed. Even then, the housing will be only temporary. As soon ns it is physical’y possible, the College must begin to build new and permanent dormitories, because the increased enrollment this semester is only the beginning. As more men are released from the armed forces, the enrollment will con tinue to mount. The present poor housing situation is only the first of the College’s growing pains ... but it pinches, especially to the men who have waited so long to come to State . . . and not to the fourth floor of Old Main. Penn Statements By Peggie Weaver Greetings frosh, cx-Servicemen, and all you other people who are still with us. Did you bring your tent or are you one of the lucky ones with a bed to sleep in and a place to hang your hat. With beds in Old Main, Rec Hall, and a trailer camp in the. oiling it looks as though State College faces a housing shortage to rival Wash ington at its peak. There’s a war over, you know. Frosh Bewilderment At first glance the frosh seem to be lost in the mob. But even a smaller name card doesn’t change that look. A bewildered green dinked frosh sadly stood - by Old IMain gazing at the clock. Finally taking the bull by the horns he approached an austere senior and meekly asked whether he - could please tell him if it was Tues day or Wednesday. That’s all right, frosh—a little agitation and we’ll have calendars install ed on the campus. No Flirting, Boys Mac Hall is blossoming, out with white table cloths and dishes no less. Sort of mis s screaming over the banging of navy trays though. The new waiters are strictly business since they were im plicitly instructed that the management frowned on flirting with the coeds. So if your smiles bring blank stares, you’ll know you havn’t lost your appeal. A Skunk Slept Here The AKPi’s are still recovering from an odor familiar to State collegeites with a sensitive ol factory system. It seems the usual dog tangled with'the usual skunk but Fido, too proud to dry off in the air, slept before the air vent of the furnace in the. AKPi cellar while the fumes de licately perfumed the house. The Voice With a Smile Collegian Staff was much amused Sunday night by a pert telephone operator who was hav ing difficulty in connecting the office with the outside world. First she thought the phone was out of order and then she was sure we just weren’t answering. She even cut in on a call to tell us all about it and then cut off our call in a moment of exasperation. And maybe We weren -1 exasperated. We hope you’ll like getting your Collegia! twice a week. It should result in more time v news, and who knows, maybe another semester will see the old daily back at the Student Union desk. Old Mania By Barbara Ingraham Hi Frosh. It’s good to see your green bows and dinks decorating the campus again. Mostly for your information this is a dirt column pin nings, engagements, marriages, depinnings, visits and stuff. Any time you’ve got an item for Maniac just drop a line to the Collegian office or call 28 Atherton. There should be lots of gossip coming up now that the ratio is no longer one-half man ofr every three coeds. The faculty was just as amazed as anyone. One prof just in his office saying over and over, “Amazing, we re registering men again this semester.” Highlight of between semester social activity .was the engagement of Collegian Editor Woodene Bell to Air Corps Cpl. Blair Cochran now off for occupation duty. Also on the spoken for list is Doye Pachelbel.. Charlie Harmon, former air cadet on campus and leader of the Air Corp (Band gave her the ring. Aletheia Guttman is wearing Ira Kristel’s phisig jewelry. His fraternity brother Alan Pot tasch said good-bye to Helene Bierman last sem ester when he left campus to enter the V-5 pro gram. Seen around town were S/Sgt. and Mrs. Ken Hunter, She was Angie Place, a Home Ec. Stu dent. Pi-KA Jack Neilson now an army private was up to see Lynette Lundquist. Kappa pledge Dee Kilcta and former SPA president and Collegian Editor Vic Danilov are no longer pinned. Vic is doing graduate work in journalism at Northwestern University. While looking through old Collegians for hints on how this column used to be run, Maniac found this poem. “The worst thing about the end of the summer Is returning to Penn State sod, Where the Kappas speak only to the Thetas And the Thetas speak only to God.” —Maniac. THE COLLEGIAN Faculty Limelight By KAY KRELL ' Two College history professors and a former member-of the de partment were elected to offices in the Pennsylvania Historical As sociation at its annual meeting held recent’y in Harrisburg. Dr. Asa Martin was elected to the council and Dr. J. P. Selsam was ore elected first vice-president . . . Samuel Bayard, instructor in English Composition, presented a paper on Pennsylvania folklore at the His torical Association meeting. Four members of the College faculty, Victor Beed, Henry S. Brunner, S. W. Fletcher, and M. R. Trabue, have been named to the permanent advisory com mittee of the Pennsylvania Con servation Laboratory for Teach ers. The following committee has 'been appointed by President Hotzel to study possibilities of establishing a conservation work shop for teachers at the College: Dr. Trabue, chairman, Dr. Brun ner, Rose 'M. Cologne, George Free, H. G. Pyle, end Edward Steidle. ... Miss Evelyn Hctnsel, assistant librarian, has been appointed a member of the Decimal Classifi cation Committee of the Lake Placid Club Education Founda tion, which publishes “Decimal A Lean and Hungry Look October 25, 1045 Dear Buddy: After three years of uncertainty, living in fox lioles, ;and Army red tape I am going to spend my next four years in the quietness and fastness of the -Nittany Valley. My battlefield dreams of a peaceful, restful, and comfortable life are at last going to come true. _ Cassius October ?-6, 1945 Dear Buddy: I arrived in!State College tins morning and: am now waiting ,:n line to see Mr. Galbraith, the vet erans advisor, about a few minor details such as getting a room, registering, and obtaining my books. „ Cassius . October 27, 1945 I am still waiting in line. October 28, 1945. The line is starting to move. October 29, 1945 It’s the men’s-room. October 30,. 1945 Dear Buddy: ‘ . , After straightening things out with Mr. Galbraith I went to “choose” my room. As I was strolling down the Mall, an aver age Penn State coed grounded me with a Hying tackle, put her foot on my chest and screamed, “He’s mine, he’s mine.” > I gathered my teeth from the dirt, straightened my nose, and asked her, “Whatever made you come to Pehn State?” She smiled' bashfully and re pl'ed, “I overslept the morning J was supposed to enroll at Tem ple-” , , - A . (Leaving her to her fate I opti mistically set about to find a room with atmosphere, a private- bath, and maid service. Upon knocking upon the 2314th front door, the landlady said she \J Going (j Somewhere? hotel state college travel bureau By Appointment —Phone 733 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1945 Classification”, most widely used system for the classification of books and related materials . . . . ■Charles 'F. Lee Decker, assistant executive secretary of the Institute of Local Government, is serving as editor of “The Authority", ofc ficial quarterly magazine of the Pennsylvania Municipal Authori ties. • ■ Eugenia Gravatt" Kimmel, 're search assistant at the Institute of Local Government, has pre pared a 25-page report on “Fire Protection Outside Muncipal Boundaries in Pennsylvania:”. The report,, a study of fire protection -practices-in Pennsylvania munici palities with between 5,000 ana 25,000 population, may be obtain ed at the Institute, office, Sparks Building, for one dollar. had a cot for me if I wouldn’t mind climbing a few stairs. ■; • After kissing her. hand and lap ping her face like a pUppy, I start ed the ascent. Twenty-two mhutes and 14 seconds later I had to-give up because of lack of oxygen. ' Following my climb into the stratosphere I happened to be walking down fraternity-row when - the pavement gave way. foupd myself at the , bottom og'a ; tank trap. (This is rushing week.) I was rescued by a P.'KA pledge; the same one who has a telescope in-his room aimed at the Delta Chi house. I.paid my ten cents, looked, and left. . - Giving up all hopes of finding a room, I dug myself a fox;hole in 'ront of Old Main, and crawled, in for the niglit. October 31, 1945. - Dear-Buddy: ■ ' , , I walked into my advisor’s office, to plan' my schedule. The first ;--:: thing he asked me was if I; had a/fy time table. .V ■ V. i-S! “East or west bound?” I in-. mured. . : ' ' . I. . -'T He then suggested a course, Soc ;: •919, “How to treat civilians;who, read books oh how to treat ex-. servicemen.” V \ . •■My advisor, being a kind; and softhearted , old. gent, gave:.m&’29 4a credits with 55 hours. He sa d that: .- he didn’t want to .'burden tne.?«&s* this was my first . semester:.; a#:,•£ school: -■ : "-'rt'-fil I went to the Corner. Room meet some coeds. I decided to em- .i~ ploy the same technique we used'j.:-- in France. I waved a -chocolate-bar;;-'. v until it:melted. Tftese u PhnnvState >:i ft g’rls are, particular; one with al monds did the trick. November. 0, 1945 Dear Buddy: " . ■I finally found a room in anatue. : •I wouldn’t say that it is too'far from the. campus, blit the cost Of commuting daily from Alt Oona does add up. The young lady who owns the house had a s’gn out-in- •• front, “BORED AND ROOM,”. v Cassius Cassius CassiuS':*' \v l 't i
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