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THE COLLEGIAN
'Tor A Better Penn State"
Established 1940. Successor to the Penn State Colleg
ian, established 1904, and the Free Lance, established
1877.
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
second class matter July 5, 1934, at the State College, Pa.,
Post Office under the act of March 8, 1879.
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Woodene Bell Mary Louise Davey
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Peggie Weaver Rosemary Ghantous
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Women's Editor ; Turk
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Sports Editor George Sample
Senior Board Barbara Ingraham, Audrey Ryback
Junior Hoard Larry Foster, Kay Krell, Lynotte Lund
quist, Caroline Manvilie, Lois Marks, Sur.anne Mc-
Cauley, David Nalven, Doris Stowe, Gwenneth Tim
mis, Jane Wolbarst
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STAFF THIS ISSUE
Caroline ManviUe
Gwynneth Timinis, Nancy Shevrif
Lucy Seifinff
Kay Ktell
Manaping Editor
Copy Editors
News Editor
Women’s Editor
The Anti-Slack Campaign
Are you a slacker?
According to the latest daffynition circulating
around campus, “slackers” are women who have
surrendered one of the fair sex s duties in life,
that being to attract, and vamp men by exhibiting
her shapely legs. They have, the more rabid an
ti-slackers claim, forsaken their heritage for the
silly and mundane purpose of keeping their pins
Warm by wearing a pair of men’s baggy toreetches.
Some even wear pegged pants, which is rubbing
salt into an open wound.-
Most of the griping seems to come from ex-ser
vicemen on campus. After spending too many
months in isolation from women, they feel that
they are being victimized by the slack brigade.
‘.‘While in service, they gazed longingly and lan
guishingly at the works of art drawn by Messers.
Varga and Petty and hoped that they would some
day return to the States to do their gazing on live
specimens. And what do they find —women mas
querading as men. Ex-Gls don’t say much about
wartime slackers, but they have to wipe the foam
off their mouth when discussing these post V-J
Day “slackers.”
'Leaving the sensual and getting.to the more down
to earth reasons of the anti-slack campaign, a lot
of fellows get pretty angry when after they walk
futily from, store to store in pursuit of pants, they
make a date with their current choice, and find
her sporting a pair of grey flannels that he could
have been, wearing. The clothing situation is bad
enough without females helping it along.
The only merit in slacks is that they leave some
thing to the imagination. —CASSIUS
All’s well
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Louis Bell
Phyllis Deal
Dorothy Leibovitz,
Old Mania
By BARBARA INGRAHAM
This weekend the holiday dance season gets
uvfder way. The AOPi’s will celebrate Founder’s
Day with a dance at the SPS-ATO. house tomor
row night. Among the AOPi’s and their dates are
Jane Wolbarst' and THE Frank Schneider . . .
Charlotte Scibetta and ATO Bill Krauss ... Jo
Campbell and ATO Bud Brown . . . Kay McCor
mick and Lyle Wartz . . . Alice Hooper and Clair
Hess . . . Doris Stack and A/S Jim Jones . . Mi
mi Dowling and ATO Bill Hubbard . . . Gini
Pershing and Lyle Koenig . . . Ann McGovern and
Bob Steigle. up for the day from Franklin and
Marshall.
Lots of Penn State coeds treked down to Phil
adelphia for the Army-Navy game . . . Shirley
Bremi<?r, Dolly Breiner, Doris Dittman, and Bev
erly Joyce . . . AOPi’s Marlisse Muller, Ann Black
burn, Carolyn LeWorthy, and Jackie Struble who
saw Navy ple'be Meredith Nicholson, former Sig
ma Pi on campus . . . DG’s Jean Briner, Jeanne
Sickle, and Pat Bergey . . . Susy Braude saw An
napolis Midshipman Ned Cook . . . AEPhi Jeanne
Rich saw West Point cadet G.eorge Levenback.
Alum Bob Schire came up to see ChiO Jean
Schrumpf . . . ditto Gordon Strunk to see AChiO
Ruth Bollinger . . . also Pharmacist’s Mate 3/c,
James Hutchison to see ZTA Norman Van Tyle.
Weekend Visitors
Alum Weezy Gwillum and Marine Pfc. “Jimmy”
Minchell were back to see their KD sisters . . .
On the SDT guest list' were alums .Teddy Rappa
port, Til Bronstein, Carol Ginsburg, Hats Miller,
and Raisa Poser . . . Beta Sigs back were Pvt.
Art Bohard, Capt. Dave Goodman, and alum ad
visor Lou 'Harrison . . . also AEPhi alums Helen
Beth' Orange and Lois Cohen . . . ditto AChiO
Alice Mendenhall.
Phi Ep Mel Livine visited.-AEPhi Sherry Feld
man. Lt. and Mrs. Geist visited on campus. She’s
AEPhi alum Addie Gluck. Kappa Audrey Hartley
went home to see recently discharged Marine Bill
Cahill. Jimmy Antinof visited Alethia Blanche.
Vail. ChiO pledge Jo Ann Beaver went to Pittsr
burgh to see Pfc. Walter Baxter.
Among the Gamma Phi Betas and then- dates
for an informal party at the Ski Lodge last Satur
day were Doris Strandberg and ATO pledge Ralph,
Schumack . . . Peggy Wasson and TKE Ed Fels . .
Sally Pollard' and TK Pete Haust . . . Carolyn
Currier and Delta CnlJEddie Hawn ._. . Marigolde
Kinney and AZ Paul Gift . . . Doris Handwerk
A/S Ted Cline . . . Ginny Gallop and Phi Kappa
Psi pledge Fred Keeker . . . Marge Dunmyer and
A/S Ed La Voice . . . Marge Seyber and PiKA J.
C. Ferm.
Ring Department
KD alum Jane Page is .engaged to George. R.
Jacobs, former Phi Sigma Kappa now in the Air-
Corps . . . ditto DG. Anne Siebrecht and PiKA
Alan Bentz . . . also KD alum Norma Lee Hoover
and PiKA grad student Bob, Graver. DG. Mary
Lou Waygood is pinned to A/S 'Bob Foote, Phi
Psi. DG alum Allene Babbitt will say “I do” to
Ensign Donald Swenson in Erie tomorrow. Ed
Sullivan will visit Gamma Phi Beta Jackie Er
vin' this weekend.
THE COLLEGIAN
Back In Mufti
Four years ago today Japanese bombs rained down on Pearl Har
bor. Four years ago today' American ships were carrying British sol
diers destined to fight the Japanese. Singapore was the destination of
the 15,000 Tommies jammed aboard five troop transport's, three fly- >
-ing the Stars and Stripes,, and two, the Union Jack.
Protected by the bulk of the US Atlantic Fleet, the. convoy slipped
out of a Nova Scotian hanbor on
November 2*7. Its coursewas to
circle the Cape of Good Hope and
deliver its precious cargo to the
British stronghold before the Japs
would strike. The race against
time was lost as, on that fateful
December morning, the 'convoy,
had just sighted Capetown, Union
of South Africa.
Largest of: the three American
vessels was the USS West Point,
former luxury liner of the US
Lines. At 111 :45 that morning the
loudspeakers of the eamoflauged
ship reported the news to a start
led crew. Then there was silence.
Moving swiftly, the Atlantic
Fleet headed full steam back to
the East coast of the United States.
As bllalck as the situation was in the
Pacific, there would be trouble
ahead in the Atlantic, and it had
to take up “ defensive positions
against the German threat. This
action left the five troop trans
ports in Capetown with only a
few English' ships for protection.
The convoy moved out of- the
security, of the harbor on the sec
ond leg'of its odyssey. For CPO
Joseph Dunst, ths was the curtain
raiser of battles against' the.ene
my that were to carry.him to all
corners of the. globe. Bombay,
India, was the, next stop, land there
was-no : Christmas-.for-Dunst and
his shipmates-aboard the. West 1
Letters to
In reference to your “Letter to
Editor” on page three of Friday’s
Collegian, II 'feel that some com
ment Should be made. Perhaps one
cure for the members of the Bur
"sar's Office would be to enter the
armed forces '.where they would
learn the. art of .living together and
helpyig their fellow men. As an
Officer, I can say-this war was won
by men working together, helping
each other out in time of distress.
In looking over the men Who won
the Congressional Medal of Honor,
I am sure you will find that most
of them won it through violation
of the “rules” or in an attempt to
help a fellow soldier for whom he
would risk his life. (No deed is for
gotten—war or peace—that comes
from the bottom of a person’s
heart, even if he' must violate a
“rule” in order to do it.
In a case such-as the one pre
. sented, I feel that some allowances
should have been made. Since I
-started to work my way through
Penn State before the war, I know
how it is to under-estimate your
expenses. In short; I shudder to
think we fought a war to make in
human people, such as we .have in
the Bursai’’s Office, free to keep up
their activities, .
Sincerely,
\ An Ex-GI
Dear Editor:
Prof; Charles Winthi'op Copp’s
Chapel address -on Sunday caused
several whispered comments
throughout his . entire talk and
many heated discussions at its
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J. J^JUui
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1945
Point that December as the crew
had to be on ‘constant alert in. the
sub-infested waters.
In Bombay, the English troops
went into jungle training for the
new:brand of’flighting that was.to
face them. Training over, they
embarked 1 to meet the real stuff,
and were landed at 'Singapore on
January 30, 1942. Fifteen thous
and., men left their-transports to
meet their -death or imprisonment
by- the Japs.
Subjected to enemy.. - air born- -
bardment while unloading the .
troops, the West Point came
through without physical damage,
but a few of the crew were woun
ded by shrapnel. ' Singapore sur- .
rendered just five days after the
giant liner cleared the breakwater.
Christmas caught up with Joe
-Dunst in Aden, Arabia. All the
mail and packages arrived on April "
27, and he had his Christmas din
ner under the sun of the Near
East. Four months late, but ths ,-
will be remembered longer in the . '
mind of Joe than 42 months of
combat against the enemy.
'The 24. year old' Erie student.,
was discharged on points in Sep
temiber and entered the. College,
this semester.. IHe is. enrolled in ,
the School of Liberal Arts, maj
oring in • industral psychology,. .
the- Editor
His statement that, the number. '
of Japanese killed by the':Atomic:
Bomb ..,was equal to,'the entire
number of Americans killed in the
Pacific. War brought -smiles and.
sarcastic remarks! from his' listen
-ers. “The Jap toll, should have
been higher” attitude was evident
in'the face .of every ex-service
nian present. The mere mention of
more lenient American immigra
tion laws, for the Japanese people
appeared shocking to many..
Professor Winthrop "pointed out.
that many of the Japanese were
good,, hard - working : people, and':
that the military class ara for theO
most part' responsible for Japan
ese aggression. He related, that ihis.;
Japanese' cook had- hiked three:
-miles each day to-bring him food?.
duritigTSis - five-months- internment'-
in a prison, camp. • h,'.'. -
Yes, it seems to me .if- we are
to secure the world peace and
harmony w-e are now- demanding,'-’
we.should lay aside at least some
of this war- hatred - and prejudice
and try to visualize the Japanese-;
through the -eyes of someone who
really knows them. . : ,'f
Professor .Winthfop: has ..lived
and taught-in Japan for-19 years.
He "survived five months in a" Jap
prison camp. This I mentionto'as--
sure-you-that-he.-knows both sides
of the Japanese people.-: .
Do we really want - ah. enduring
world peace? " Our attitude -in the l
occupation of Japan- willfdeterm--.
inei-this. -V- 1
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SMART SHOP
—JBRfRY THUMPER
A student.