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Political Farce
As a matter of custom, each semester political
candidates publish a platform of vague objectives
which they promise to fulfill if they are elected
to office. Also as a matter of custom, these plat
forms are promptly forgotten, following elections.
In this manner, party platforms have become
a farce.
Collegian feeis that now is the time for political
aspirants to throw off this asinine custom and
actually work out a feasible platform. Each
plank in this platform should be of value and
interest to a great number of students, as well
as being within the range of fulfillment.
Before the platforms are set up, then, the politi
cal committees should consider the interests of
the student body as a whole. They should make
an honest effort to learn just What the mass of
students would like to have done by All-College
Cabinet.
After the party knows exactly what the stu
dents want, they can select those items which
conform to the party’s principles and are within
the scope of Cabinet. This system, or one similar
to it, would lift political parties above the farcical
stage.
With the College still in the transition period
between war and peace, class officers are faced
with such problems as revision of the all-college
constitution, and freshman customs, completion of
the Henry Varnum Poor mural, and promoting
the Student Union building project, etc.
Collegian does not think that such proposals
as made by one political party several semesters
ago, to place bicycle racks behind Old Main, real
ly benefit the majority of students. Such pro
posals sound nice, but mean nothing to the Col
lege or to the students.
Book Exchange
Action on the part of the All-College Cabinet
about to vacate office made possible the return of
the co-operative book exchange to the campus,
and thereby partially busted one ■of State Col
lege’s most profitable businesses, the buying and
selling of used text books by the local book
stores.
.Ever since Lincoln signed the charter, Penn
State students have been taken for a year around
sleigh ride when they sought to dispose of their
old texts or purchase used ones; The book stores
offer the student 40 per cent cash for a used book.
Within a 'few days it goes back into circulation
again but not until the buyer puts twice the
amount it was purchased for on the line. After
the aotion is repeated for a few semesters, the
profits on that one text reach unbelievable
amounts.
The non-profit book exchange conducted by
students allows the seller to put a price ranging
close to two-thirds the original cost.. A five cent
fee is charged! to cover the wages of the students
employed to conduct the exchange. Some fifteen
hundred texts were handled in the basement of
the Main Library where the exchange will be
conducted until noon tomorrow.. Although that
represents only a fraction of the books used by
5,000 students, it does show that some took ad
vantage, while others waited in line down town
all week to pay higher prices.—L.G.F.
THE COLLEGIAN
• Pnhifched everv Tucsd&y and Friday morning _dur
mg the regular College year by the staff or the Baily
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 a, lavs.
Subscriptions by mall at jl a semester.
Editor-in-Chief Business Manager
Woodene Bell Mary Louise Davey
EDITORIAL STAFF
News Editor— Barbara Ingraham; Feature Editor—Jane
Wolbarst: Photo Editor— Gwynneth Timmis; Sports Editor—,
took Reid; Women’s Editor —Doris Stowe: Circulation
Manager—Jack Neel: Assistant Advertising Manager—
Phyllis Deal. Senior Board—Kay Krell Lois Marks.
Junior Board—Michael Blatz, Lawrence Foster. Maviiynu
Jacobson, Leo Kornfeld, Lynette Lundauist, Suzanne
McCauley, Kathryn McCormick, Lucy Selling, and Rutli
Tisherman.
Heportera—Jean Alderfer, Kay BndoUet, Allan Baskin,
Frank P Davis, Eleanor Fehnel, Ben French, Popsy Fried
lander. Elsie Harwltz, Shirley Lyon. Roberta Hutchinson.
Betsy Marshall. Marty Mosley Elaine Mittelman. Gloria
Parks, Joan Peters, Helen Reid, Lewis Stone. Jem Trump
er, Selma Znsofsky.
Advertising Assistants—Claire Harvey, Sally HoL-mim. Dor
othy Leibovitz, June Rosen, Selma Sabel, Jeanne
, Thompson.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Woodene Bell
Jackson" Reid NROTC, Gwynnout. t immis
Shirley Lyon
Leo Kornfeld
Mar 1 ling .Editor
Cop. Flitor-
New li’.ir
Sport.! t; ‘ip
A Dark and Bitter Look
The evil of registration falls alike upon the just and the unjust.
For myself, it is all over; and so am I more or less. For it happened
cn a clear and lovely day . . .
Two twisting lines of impatient, eager students crowded the nar
row hallway of Sparks that morning. One contained ten people; it
was for second semester frosh. The other bent from wall to wall all
the way down the corridor, up
one flight of stairs, back through
the hall, into the men’s room, out
the window and down the side
of the building, it was for the
rest of the Liberal Arts school.
I took up a strategic position at
the end of the second semester
stupes. Then I slyly turned and
engaged a striking 'looking wo
man, charming example of high
er education’s effect, in design
ing conversation. She was a lov
ely creature . . shy and delicately
beautiful like an overgrown heif
er . . her voice, soft and soothing,
was a throaty mixture of pure
phlegm and broken English, vi
brant with .overtones of acute
nasal catarrh
I patted her on the head, and
she went “moo.” I stopped patting
her on the head.
After working for ten minutes
on the sympathies of my friend,
promising her among other things
Looking through old Collegians, Maniac discovered that it has
been a tradition to start this column at the beginning of each se
mester with a welcome to the new Froshi. But since there aient
any green bows and dinks around, we’ll just remind the upper
classmen that by calling.2B Atherton they can see their favorite
dirt in print. :
As usual at the opening of a
new semester there is a long list
of pinnings and engagements.
TKE Dave Lundy gave his pin to
ChiO .June Thomas . . . Bonnie
Lee Sherrill is wearing the Kap
pa Sig jewelry of Ensign Howie
Hartman. Howie, a former State
NROTC trainee, is now stationed
at MIT.
AEPhi' Bernice Nalven is wear
ing NROTC Carroll Baylson’s
Beta Sig pin . .. AChiO Pris Wag
ner and DU Bob Burge are pin
ned . . . Junie First is wearing a
Phi Kappa Psi pin from NROTC
Raymond Murphy.
Bands of Steel
The Chi Phi’s are an obliging
fraternity. Finding a maiden in
distress because alas she had no
fraternity pin to wear on her
sweater, they presented her with
a large safety pin. And now she
is bound by bands of steel to an
entire fraternity.
BSO Jean Diehl received a
ring from Dewey Brumbaugh . . .
Spoudekastor Anne Hay is en
gaged to Sgt. Robert Hatcher.
Bob was formerly stationed on
campus with the AST . . . Phi
Sig Sig Carole Gold is flashing
a sparkler from Pi Lam William
Klein . . . ChiO alum Ruth An
derson is pinned to Phi Kappa
Sig Bill Clemson . . . Jack Rich
ardson and Toni Hommel are
engaged.
It was J. Solvency Dingleberry, Collegian’s feline wizard on
meteorology and authority on what makes Penn State run, who
first broke the news to us that we were to be allowed to write a
regular column for this paper. We patted his furry head, emotion
ally over-whelmed as we were w:
But it was Dingleberry who
was to be an orphan column. We
kicked his furry tail, seeking an
outlet for the frustration his ex
planation caused
This is not to be a chatter or
gossip column as the name “The
Bullosopher” might indicate.
Dingleberry pointed out that we
already have an experienced
Maniac to handle the pins, diapers
and fraternity jewellery ex
change.
“More along the line of an edi
torial column,” he said, so dust
ing our soap-box and preparing
to climb atop it, we agreed eager
ly, “Yes an. editorial type of col
umn!” Hastily he added, “not
too editorial though, for we do
print editorials in this paper and
then too we have “A lean and
hungry look” to contend with.
Sad State of Affairs
It became ouite apparent that
“The Bullosopher” was in a sad
state of affairs ... gossip, but not
too much; editorialize, but we al
ready have a few soap-box ora
tors; tell funny stories, but be
careful for we have those sensi
tive humor magazines the Engin
eer and Portfolio to consider; if
THE COLLEGIAN
the largest pasture in lower Mont
gomery county, I managed to
sneak in front of her in the long,
long line. She kept nuzzling me in
the back till I slipped in to con
front the secretary 'and shut the
office dbor.. in her face.
“Where’s your receipt?” bark
ed Miss Efficiency.
“What? Oh,” I stammered, “that
little piece of paper I paid $lO
for last semester. I have it here
somewhere —let’s see, pipe, boibby
pins, occupation yen, receipt for
one pair of used nylons, two
cents . . yes, here it is. Should I
scrape the ohewing gum off, or
don’t you mind?”
She didn’t mind; she bit it off
herself in two chomps.
I told her my name. She looked
for my transcript in the senior
file . . the the junior . . sopho
more . . finally even under second
Continued on )p age twelve
Old Mania
By BARBARA INGRAHAM
Phi Mu Georgianna Holt is en
gaged to Dick Ha 11... . ; Bernice
Landau is wearing a ring from
her hometown - sweetheart . . .
AEPhi: 1 '.Bernice Kurland and
Danny Pomerantz, a Philadelphia
Ex-GI, are engaged . . . TKE Carl
Reichardt and Viv Judy are en
gaged. . ;
Odds 'n Ends
Marine Lt. Luke Gross was up
to visit AEPhi Elaine Dinowitz
. . . AOPi’s Alice Hooper and
Mary Anne Jennings will be back
for the weekend. Alice is en
gaged to Clair Hess and the
couple are planning a June wed
ding.
AEPhi Jackie Boder is engaged
to Stan Schoenbrun . . . AChiO
Jan Feistel was back last week
end . . . Seaman 1/C Howard
Schimek will be on campus this
weekend to visit Theta Phi Al
pha Anne Re . . . Former Spoude
kastor Prexy Kay Morris is back
at State . . . Phylis Zimmerman
was up to see the guy she’s pin
ned to, Phi Sigma Delt Teddy
Rabb . . . Sigma Chi alum Pete
McKallip was up.
Ex-Gl’s for whom the Phi Sig
ma Delt welcome mat is out this
semester include Noel Udell, Joe
Pappy, Ned Sonabend, Jerald
Fierman, Bob Finklestein' and'
Teddy Raibb. —MANIAC
The Bullosopher
By FERDINAND
ith the honor.
ilso pointed out the fact that ours
we get too internationally-mind
ed Pravda might object, cause
an incident,' and we’d be back in
the service of our country fight
ing the Russians all because of a
few careless words in the semi
weekly-Gollegian.
As we muddled over the prob
lem, we glanced over the crowds
of students on the walks below
our window. It was the com
mon man, the man in the street.
(God (bless -him) who gave us the
idea for this column. We would
write about him.
So with that idea in mind we
also decided to write under the
pen-name of Zeb Young, an im
aginary westerner we once knew,
who is famous for his statement,
“People are like livestock. They
love to be herded about, travel
in flocks and are continually moo
ing, bawling or baa-ing to the
heavens above.” To all of which
Zeb’s father,-Clem O. Young, a
one-time horse thief who later
made a fortune in Oklahoma by
robbing the Indians of their oil
lands, would say “Baa.” To our
pen-name suggestion the editor
had only one thing to say, “Baa.”
Off The Record
By Audrey Ryback
Guys and gals—if you’re in the mood for some
really hot or sweet music for your vie, take a peek
at some of the' currently popular records. Some
will put you in the mood to jump (jitterbug if you
prefer!, and others will make you want to look up
your favorite, smooth dancing partner.
Woody Herman and the Herd, band poll winners
of 1945, usher in their first pairing for the year
with “Love Me” and “I’ve Got the World on ai
.String.” The former features the famous Herman,
trumpet section of Candoli, Berman, Hefti, Lewis
and Rogers. Gold Award winning “Flip” Phillips
tenors through both sides of the record, Frances
Wayne does the vocal on “Love
Me,” and Woody himself handies
both vocals and the clarinet iri
“I’ve Got the World on a String.”
Turning to Boogie for a mordent,
Roy Eldridge puts a solid finish to
a Buster Harding. Tune, “Little
Jazz Boogie,” topping it off with
Woody Herman punching riffs and trills on his
trumpet. On the reverse he solos to a Gershwin
oldie, “lEmbraceable You.”
For your dancing pleasure Charlie Spivak uses
his “sweetest trumpet” style in “The Beils of St.
Mary’s.” Soft brass, which establishes the theme,'
supports his muted' trumpet. Jimmy Saunders
takes care of the vocals, and for the fade, the band
resolves into the pleasing tones of the Great Or
gan. The flip-over features Saunders singing “You
Can Cry on Somebody Else’s Shoulder,” carried
out at a lively and easy dance clip. • ,
Here is a hedge-podge, of old and new tunes
Which will probably last through the years be
cause of their distinctive melodies. Benny Good
man’s ‘.‘Stompin’ at the. Savoy" is an excellent
number for slow jitterbug dancing; with 'solos on;
the clarinet, sax, and trombone. Another good
fast piece (and really in the groove) is “Opus No.'
1 ” by Tomriiy Dorsey and company. There’s plenty
of rhythm in that one, and for you who like a good
dose-of drums with your, music, it’s tops. . ;
Harry James’ “Ain’t Misbehavin’” features the
beautiful violin' section of the band with'Harry
taking parts of the melody on his trumpet.. No.
vocals in this one; On the reverse is a number
which will really click with you hep-cats.. It’s
“9:20 Special,” played in James’ hottest style. .•;
Next week Frank Sinatra will take the spotlight
with one of the most popular ballads of the day.
Watch for it.
From the Files
September, 1923,
Graham and Sons located on the Corner are
celebrating their 27th anniversary.
Miss Charlotte E. Ray has been appointed the
new Dean of Women.
■Watts Memorial, Hall, the new dormitory, is
not yet completed.- The men are temporarily
occupying the Armory. *
Three sororities, Sigma Phi Sigma, Theta Xi,
and Alpha Chi Sigma are actively engaged in
.building new houses. . • ■ - • : .
The Penn State Mandolin Club is preparing for
a successful season. Many new members have
signed up for the current season.
John Philip Sousa and his hand have been
scheduled for a concert October 11.
The Girls Club will hold a rushing season in
hopes of introducing new sororities.
The Penn State Potato Crop i s attracting n<j>
tion-wide attention.
The College is giving extension courses to Rock
view inmates. The largest enrollments are for
the reading and- writing classs. ' ;
The Nittany Theatre has advertised two of its
coming attractions. They are “Three Ages,”
staring Buster Keaton, and “Just Passing
Through” with Will Rogers.
Hummel Fishburn, assistant dean of men, has
been appointed Faoulty Treasurer of Thespians.
An interesting advertisement in today’s paper
Automobile for sale—Closed and open cars.
Marmons, Peerless, Oldsmobiles, Champions,
Overlands, and Fords. You can hire them as low
as 15 cents a mile and drive the car yourself. Day
and night service Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday of this week. Bell 316. Drive-it-
Yourself Auto" Company, 224 S. College Avenue,
State College, Pa.
Student Tribunal announces that it has sent
enced 23 freshman offenders.
College Radio- Station WPAIB will broadcast the
Penn State-Georgia Tech football game Saturday.
400 students could not be secured for an 1 ex
cursion train to Philadelphia for the Penn-Penn
State -football game. "
Notice—Student . Tribunal - announces that
freshmeh may now.wear green toques,' but,the
headgears must completely cover both ears. "
FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1946