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THE COLLEGIAN
"Far A Better Perm Slats"
Established 1910 Successor to the Penn State Coltes
established 1904, and tire Free Lance, established
Published every Tuesday and Friday; morning dur
ing the regular College year by the staff of the Daily
Collegian of the Pennsylvania State College Entered as
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:Mt Nittany’s Tradition
The quick action last week, on the part of
(Lion's Paw, senior honor society, saved one of
the College’s most treasured traditions.
When Russell E. Clark, alumni secretary of
Lion’s Paw, put a $3OO down payment of Mt.
Nittany’s top, he n(?t only preserved the beauty
of the old mountain, but he also prevented a roar
of disapproval from thousands of students and
alumni.
Nittany Mountain has been a pleasure spot
for student hikers for years. To transform hex
wooded slope into a 'barren hillside would be like
uprooting the grass on the College campus.
Now Lion’s Paw needs $l7OO to close the deal
and prevent the chopping down of trees on Mt.
Nittany once and for all. Will they get support?
The association is positive that alumni will be
able to provide all necesary funds to complete
the transaction, but if not, students may be asked
to help.
Lion’s Paw should be commended for such a
thoughtful action in the interests of the College.
We are proud of Mt. Nittany’s tradition. Let’s
make'sure she remains as she is today, a symbol
of beauty to the College. —A. R.
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Dorothy Leibovitz,
Mervin Wilf
Woodene Bell, Caroline Manville
Shirley Lyon
David Nalvon
Saturday afternoon was rainy. Saturday af
ternoon was dark and dreary. Saturday after
noon had nothing on us. You see, we were beeing
inspected.
Promptly at one the executioners came
aboard, each equipped with report slips, clean
hands, and a pure heart. But even so we fooled
them. Only a few fell beneath the dirt-searching
fingers. And they’ve just forgotten to dust the in
side tops of the lamps.
Gee whiz, everybody dusts there. Of course,
you have to unscrew the bulb and dismantle the
lamp . . . That’s not hard, is it?
Protection Plus
Have you ever wondered how State College
would be defended in case of airborne invasion?
If you’ve worried about it in the past, you can
rest easy of nights now. We’l protect you. We
have rifles now (that don’t shoot). We have plastic
bayonets now (that keep falling off). We . . .
we are the bulwark of College defense ... Is any
one interested in a transfer to the U. of P.?
Going My Way?
We won’t be allowed to leave here till twelve
noon tomorrow. And we really would like to be
home for Thanksgiving. Yet, there must be no
hitchhiking in the 4th Naval District. So, if you
see a sailor determinedly, walking toward Lewis
town or Altoona or Scranton, don’t flash by in
your Packard 120. Stop and pick the guy up.
Who knows, you might have a future admiral
with you.
And then again, you might not. But thanks
for the ride anyway—you’re nice.
Louis Bell
Penn Statements
With elections safely over and no apparent
casualities, we thought the handshaking, buddy
buddy-you’re-my-pal would come to an end too.
But no, hang on to your newly acquired pals—
you might wangle a ride home for Thanksgiving.
This vacation deal is quite a problem. The kids
who were going home are going to Pittsburgh,
the Pittsburghites are going elsewhere, and the
poor unfortunates whose vacation hangs on the
fate of the Greeyhound bus drivers are settling
down to a peaceful weekend in State College.
Who invented vacations anyhow?
Thanks for the Memories
Station WMAJ has a unique request program.
The AOPi’s asked that Thanks for the Memories
be played for the ATO’s. The announcer com
plied, but admitting he Was stupi'd and had for
gotten the title of the request, he. played for the
ATO’s, I Begged Her. .Ready to forgive and for
get, the AOPi’s repeated their request a few days
later, and this time poured their heai-ts out in
One Meat Ball.
THE COLLEGIAN
NROTC News
By JACK REID
By PEGGIE WEAVER
The
right note
A Lean and Hungry Look - v
Dear Brutus
‘ With so much talk about science now, I decided to do my part
to further the cause of the Whitmores, Hammonds, and Stiedels.
This treatise will be on Homo Sapiens, Pennsy Statetatis or , Joe Blow
in the Nittany Valley. Of course, I couldn’t cover the entire subject
in one short opus, but there are a few outstanding of fauna here
abouts that must be mentioned.
Genus number 1 is the Corner
Room social butterfly. He or she
(they exist in both sexes), will en
ter this glorified beanery just to
flit from booth to booth in search
of friends who would rather not
admit such relationship.
Known all over campus are the
“hot dogs.” These lazy key chain
twirlers think that the Hotel will
collapse if they didn’t support the
posts in front of the Corner. Ru
mor has it that the manager of
the Corner, known in the best
circles as “slice that damn cake
thinner,” charges them rent.
Then there is the freshman who
is actually proud of his green
dink. He thinks, it’s collegiate.
No classification would be com
plete 'without the BMOCs. Penn
State boasts some of the more
virulent type, those who count
hello’s and bite their toe nails in
worry if they don’t get at least
100 per diem (Latin for per diem).
Another type of BTOs is the hat
men who even wear their black
bowlers in bed.
Doggie’s Emporium is a peren
nial source of characters. Sitting
in the dark corners are. always
some thirsty underage customers
who hear the voice of doom in the
approaching footsteps of the wait
er or bartender. There too, are
the boys who give the ’Skeller as
their address at registration, and
the souses “on- the wagon” who
drop down only (?) for Spider’s
hamburgers. '
Everyone knows at least one
Back In Mufti
America has not forgotten the sinking of the destroyer USS
Reuben James by a German submarine on October 30, 1941—almost
six weeks before the entrance of the United States into World War
11. The James wa s escorting a convoy through the North Atlantic
toward England when the torpedo struck.
Electrician’s Mate 2/c Tom Turnbull was a member of the crew
of the James. Coming off his
watch about 4 a. m. that morn
ing he went aft for the usual cup
of coffee, and was standing in the
hatch of the after deck house at
the time of the first explosion.
Knocked down by the blast, the
young seaman regained his feet
and made his way to the deck.
First glance revealed that the ex
plosion of the forward magazine
combined with the original con
cussion had completely destroyed
all of that part af the ship to the
rear of the fourth stick
Almost immediately t'he oil and
ammunition supplies went up,,
blowing debris as high as 1000
feet into the air.
All of the “.Ruby’s” lifeboats
were shattered and only two life
rafts remained serviceable. Turn
bull managed to get overside with
a life belt as the ship started to
settle. Sdaroely three minutes
later the “Ruby” was no more.
However, as the ship went down,
depth charges that she had been
carrying went off one by one. One
of these charges threw Turnbull
high into the air. “I just said to
myself, ‘l’m dead.’ ” he declared
later.
Another destroyer steamed close,
by and picked up some of the
survivor Of the sinking had enlist
ed in the navy in August, 1939. He
without taking Turnbull. Some
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fellow who claims to have “made
out” with every woman he has
dated. Their stories are usually
90 per cent bull and 10 per cent
imagination. One I know of paints
himself with lipstick after a sex
less evening to maintain his repu
tation. His amative female coun
terpart lectures to others on eti
quette and how to remain virtu
ous, and then goes through acro
batic antics and field maneuvers
in the lounges as 1 o’clock ap
proaches.
One can’t go to a movie now-a
days without hearing shrieking
frustrated females who go through
orgies when a masculine face
flashes on the screen. These would
be paramours have to rely <on
films, Forever Amber (renamed
Forever Atit), and Soc 4 for ero
tic entertainment.
The Graham A. C. athletes. are
fun. to watch. To see some fel
lows pay a nickle to maul a help
less pinball machine is always
good for a laugh. There ought to
be a varsity S for the high scorers.
Always sure to head the popu
larity list is the guy or gal who
gets a 95 in a bliiebook, argues
with the prof for a 100 while the
rest of the class gazes blankly at
their awo bar twos. Lovely fel
low—ugh!
Then there’s Jim Casey—he's
in a class by himself.
Have to close now, my beer
glass i s empty. —Cassius.
five hours later he was picked up
and taken to a British army hos
pital in Iceland.
Diagnosfc revealed serious in
juries to the ears and abdomen
and damage to the eyes. “In fact,
it was only the burning oil in the
cold water that saved me from
freezing,” he said. And actually
Turnbull was lucky, for only some
25 of the original crew of 145 es
caped death.
A native of Rahway, N. J., this
survivor of thesinkinghadenlisted
•in the navy in August, 1939. He
saw action in the Carribean
aboard the ÜBS Texas before
being transferred to the Reuben
James. Trips to Iceland, Green
land, Northern Ireland and five
voyages to .Murmansk followed.
Although the United States was
not yet at war, the “Ruby” was
credited with sinking four Ger
man subs on these trips.
“Folks back home thought we
were neutral while here we were,
out sinking subs,” Turnbull said.
Following his discharge from
the service in April 1942, Turn
bull worked in the electrical field
for two years before starting his
electrical engineering work at the
College. '
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