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Potential Power
The Nittany-Independent Party is in—lbut the
icey clique isn't out
As a result of All-College Elections this week,
'both parties will have an equal number of votes
jn Cabinet; even though Nittany-Independent cap
'lured the All-College posts.
This set-up should create competition within
Cabinet, and competition couldn't do Cabinet any
harm. If both parties were in earnest about their
party platforms, there will be a struggle within
Cabinet to get the planks or each pushed through.
)3ut those which are feasible deserve a great
amount of consideration and hard work to prove
to the students, for a change, that political candi
dates are reaiiiy class officers and not just popu
larity men.
An All-College "name band" dance, Sunday rec
)7eation, and college spirit were listed on both pant
forms. Work for the Winter Fantasy was started'
during the Summer Semester, so if Cabinet hopes
to sponsor a similar affair this spring, it will have
to do some fast work. The possibilities of Sunday
movies were investigated last semester, and noth
ing came of it, but Collegian feels that if Cabinet
is really interested in providing Sunday entertain
ment, free Sunday movies on campus are still pos
:;ilble.
Revival of college spirit to its pre-war status
has already begun with increased enrollment, but
Cabinet has the power to revive such activities as
class days, senior baccalaureate, class parties, May
day festivities, etc.
However, the most important job facing Cab
inet this semester was mentioned only as the third
plank on the Key platform--,"Greater power in
the hands of student governing bodies by revision
of the All-College constitution."
Revising the, constitution is more than merely
q :hanging it back to the yearly basis. Mich of tl'le
power of Student Government was taken by the
College during the accelerated program, and the
situation is much like giving the baby a new toy
.• . once he's got it he doesn't want to give it back.
But if All-College Cabinet is to be a true student
government, the constitution must be revised to
include those powexs which Cabinet held prior to
the war.
These are just a fraction of the problems that
will confront Cabinet this semester, or more spe
clfically, confront Vaughn Stapleton. As All-Col
lege president, Stapleton has the potential power
of making Cabinet a true representative govern:.
anent. And again this semester, Collegian prom
ises full support if Cabinet starts the ball rolling.
/Lost: 3,000 Votes
Out of a possible approximately 5,000 votes.
only 2,006 were cast in the, All-College Elections
TUesday and Wednesday. This is just 40 per cent,.
of the student body, the usual number whO turn
out for elections. Does this mean that '6O per cent
of -the students at the College are not interested in
student government, but are willing to sit back
and "let the other fellow do it"? Collegian be
lieyes it does.
THE COLLEGIAN
"Tor\,Pn. Better Penn State"
• Established 1940. Successor to the Penn State Coileg
•{an, established 1904, and the Free -Lance, established
4877.
Published every Tuesday and Friday morning dur
-ing the regular College year by the staff of the Daily
Collegian of -the 'Pennsylvania State College. •Eritered• as
second class matter July 5, 193,x, at-the State-College, Pa.
Past Office under the act of March 8. 1879.
Subscriptions by mal,l at $1 a semester.
Editor-in-Chief _ •Business Manager
Woodene Bell Mary Louise Davey
Co -Managing Editors __Audrey Rybach, George Sample
Advertising . Manager _____ Rosemary Ghantous
News Editor—Barbara Ingraham; Feature Editor-Jane
Wolbarst; Photo Editor—Gwynneth Timmis •, Sports Editor—
Jack 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, Marilynn
Jacobson, Leo Kornfeld, Lynette Liindquist, Suzanne
• McCauley, Kathryn McCormick, Lucy Seifing, and Ruth
Tisherman.
Reporters—Jean Alderfer, Kay Badollet, Allan Baskin,
Frank Davis, Eleanor Fehnel, Ben French, Pop.sy Fried
lander, Elsie Hurwitz, Shirley Lyon. Roberta Hutchinson,
Betsy Marshall, Marty Mosley Elaine Mittelman, Gloria
Parks, Joan Peters, Helen Reid, Lewis Stone, Jerry Trump
cr, Selma Zasofsky.
Advertising Assistants—Claire Harvey, Sally Holstrum, Dor.
othy Leibovite, June Rosen, Selma Sabel, Jeanne'
Thompson.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Sample
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• Ben French
Managing Editor
CoDY 1.1 , 1 tors.
News Editor
Friday, March 29, 1946
Old Mania
By BARBARA INGRAHAM
Spring was officially welcomed to the Penn State campus .by
the Phi Sigma Delts who picnicked at the Duck Pond last weekend.
Among the Phi Sigs and their dates at the affair were Stan Seigel
and Arlene Artenberg . . Art - Jenkins and Bunny Rosenthal .. .
Marty Baum and Ruth Cohen . . . Danny Brecker and Mickey Hoff
man.
PiKA Welcomes
The list Of Ex 7 Gl's who are
back at the College this semester
still goes on. The PlA's wel
comed tack Glenn Bowers, Ker
win (Hyland, Paul Shanor, George
Tilghman, Bud Aull, Fred Sta'rth
meyer, Harold Hershey, Mick
Owens, George Roye, and Roger
Tobias. . .
AChio.llVfartilyn Globisch is pin
ned tlo Phi , Deft 'Torn (Smith . . .
Kappa Helen Feidler is wearing
Joe Steel's Dell, jewelry . . . SPE
Tom Botsford and Theta Mary K.
Reinard are depth - med.
SSO Audrey Cover now Rashes
a ring from Harry Conklin, a boy
tfrom back 'home. Kappa lalurm
Donis Newicomer middle-aisled it
with Sigma , Pi David Oland re
cently.
Popular Girls
The ChiO's were busy visiting
and being visited• this past week
end. Chii'O Becky Gill was visit
ed by her fiance, Lloyd Morton.
Lloyd is attending the University
from Erie . . . Chi() Elaine Sm,y
taugh was 'visited by Bob Broache
of Marylatnd . . . Ohl° Ruth Shop
ers Fugate was un to see her hus
band,'SFE Doc 'Fugate . . . ohio
alum. tSarnimiy Sanipson was back
on campus lto see her fiance, Jim
my Etters.
ROTC News
By TOM KELLY,
Putting aside their , plastiC bayonets and reverting to. the paths
of peace, Some score or more liberated I\III.OTC trainees have returned
to the campus as civilians. '
.
.. .
Currently decorating the classOoms in a . yariety of., striped ties
. , •
and colored shirts are Vince Pass, Bed Hopper, Dick Grimm, John
Zagoudis, Bob Kennedy and George Meeker.
Signs of Spring bouncing. start . (which is rather
. • hard on the alleys:)' . The league
If blue skies and that .old feel- opened Wednesday night and will
ing aren't indications enough,' the continue to meet • once a week.
trainees return to Beaver field for The exeiicises • ShoUld further de
their Monday and Wednesday aft- velop biceps .and - forearms, 'Jai
ernoon ,romlis should. cinch -the ready well muscled: from elbow
deal. ~
.calisthenics at the Skeller. -,
,
Francis "Stthis" Corrigan,
whose Celebrated simian imita
tions have endeared him to many,.
will once more conduct
formal .balibell classeS at Rec
Interested strong back& and weak.
minds can contact Corrigan in
his- arenabeside the basketball
score board. •
Vital Statistics ;
• When • the • transfers froth,
BloomShull arrived here the first
of November, there were 10 or 15
faithful hearts who made the
weekly sentimental! journey back
to Bloom. The number has now
dwindled to two or three. This
item is significant of something
though no one'knows just what:
The newly - formed inter-pla:-
toon bowling league is off to a
Letters to the Editor—
Dear ;Editor:
an a little more than , - ,tihrees„
weeks, it Awill be time for :the
Easter viadation. The dates, for
this are seat (rem o'clook
April 18 until April '
.21, or, • in
Other words, three sdays: • . ,
As things are now, many who
live either in, another part of
Pennsylvania or in. a different
State will have scarcely. two days
at home, due to traveling,• and
many Will halve to remain here ilor
the holidays. If we were given
Holy Thursday and ;Easter Mon
day , off, it would be much' more
worthwhile.
'The snsitn topic of conversarlon
now seen - ts to !be this vacation,
enpediallrly since it is 'the only
chance to go home before School
ends in the latter part of June.
This means that some students
will lbe unable to he et home and
it will Make four months until
they can again see their [families.
Natunalliy, everyone is concerned
even more • new, as the time is
coming neater.
• Since .sdhool-does_not -end until
• June 29., as it• is. .114ne:think•itle
- least Alie :College -can do is in ex..
tend the . Rester vacation 40. in-.
cluide 'these -two days in order to
THE COLLEGIAN
TPA Yolanda West visitad
Thomas Daly, ,:NIROTC at Villa
nova . . . Kappa Marie Bower
Nelson• was back on caimiptts . . .
AN° Andy Anderson, now sta
tioned .at 'the Philadelphia Navy
Yard, was back. .Andy expects
to leave for Cuba soon.
Ina 'Fp alum Jerry Danchelsky
was back to see Luce Landes
berg . . . Seen around wearing
an ABRi pin. from. Sy Finkelstein,
a student at Penn, Was PM -Sig
Sig Rose Sherman . . . TIM Van
_Lundy, former All-College presi
dent, was back.
They Came - To Visit
CKD Betty Lindsay went to the
.lIFC pledge dance with Jack Ma
loy, her fiance from back home
. . , Fonmeir Air Conps lit. Merle
Edwaixls treked up last weekend
to see Mary Lou Mehtalifey . .
Quanterimaster 2c Kenneweg
came 110, to see Clem McMahan
. Bobby 'Tappers was kiip.
The Beta Sdgs were visited' by
Dick. Stovoroff, Dick Goldsbor
()ugh, Mary Schimmel, and Darn
Copetin . . The Kappa ;also had
a guest list. Alum Jane Dye,
now working in Wilmington, Del.,
was baOk, as were Helen Kime,
Hattie . Leyden, Maitc,o Zollinger,
and Reggie Weaver. ,
.•
Mystery of the Moment
. This week's problera dor the
Junior G-Men of the local chap
ter will be "what recently depart
ed co-ed telephoned iwbo at 1:30
Sunday morning. and talked fOr
03vvo hours, or about $ll2 worth?"
Bearuthiful , prizes will:be awarded
for the correct solution. :.SkitlY
tear dtf the top of Old Main, or a
reasonable • facsimile thereof, and
mail it With your ansaver to the
Children.'s Editor, care , of
. the Col
legian:
To conolude this :with a salty
touch, there's the story of the hard
luck aviator's war time radio
m csage, patterned atiter the fam
ous "Sighted sub—sank Same."
'This • lohe 'wen% "lSigihted
glutb, glufb.'
'ao . comodate-the students (who live
.at great dinces.
Twelve Coeds.
Student Union Building
beii- Editor: -
BAs,•a - 'recnt graddate •of. perm
State add a` student. mite Wats,' and
a graduate who' sti33. is,,ti.rirtereateci
in State, : Lib:ought you.nggnit pass •
on .this it of. in&ormation.te spur
ori , ••aaiontssward the emotion of
a Student 'Union
Yesterday :afterriciort! I visited
the • own - 10as • (two small 'city
blocks) df Akron University. The
enrollment 'is '9OO 'students and a
physical plant of seven or eight
buildings all the size - or smaller
than 'Carnegie • Hall. With this
small, and none too pretentious
campus is a Student Union'Build
ing larger than any of its other
buildings and very well equipped
for much a small - college; tin. fact
a building-of : lbis size - would Make
State better equippedlOS. Mere is
'lipping, we will soon see ,action on
'the. Student :Union ;Pui4iling for
State:. - a
A,accqp C 84,: hew 4. *4* .1 40 14
isig;:wfiY..ican'*.:Statet? '• • ••
•• ' tA.n iritereated "
-• Ony Newton'
off The Record
Before getting on the subject of records menr
tion should be made about a hew little band thatt: \ :
just hit the College campus. It's Sonny Roye's '
six piece Dixieland Band which made, its debut
on WMAJ Sunday night. The ensemble special
izes in blues favorites patterned after the former
radio program, The Chamber Music. of Lower„,
Basin Street. Betty Platt handles the vocals.
An all-out sweet arrangement Of "I'IM Always.
Chasing Rainbows" is one of Harry James' latest
contributions to the record world. On this platter '
the James' horn is heard in a groovy style, SuP
ported by the band in a highlY.,' .
'anceable beat, with the vocal by
tddy Di Vito. By the way,
Fle number. is taken from °NV
's "Fantaisie-IrdpromptuP in "I' :
se you're interested. On the re-- 4 , - ;
ase, chirper Kitty Kellen sings
tabyi What You Do to Me."
Harry James comes from a long
line of circus performers. When he was just. _..;='_
kid he became famous in the circus world by be
the youngest contortionist in the business.
He gave up his "human pretzel" career at the'',,
age of six though, and soon began taking trumpet-.
lessons. via classical music. Some of the lighter
classics still stick with Harry's arrangements
day.. He especially likes "Ciribiribin," "Flight,
of the Bumblebee," and "Carnival in Venice."
He-doesn't go for the deeper type though. As he
puts it—"no heavy stuff, because there's no re
laxation in it!'
Up and coming Johnny Desmond, - formerly,.::
singer for the Glenn Miller 2W', band,
voice to •the Funes - of two brand new
The Moon Mist", -and its platter 7 mate,;`To'-tou., - :
Love Me." Perry Cionio comes out with "
Through the . Dae -paired, with ,`Prisoner:nd,..,;,
Love." Incidentally, Como was.-named the
standing singer of •19.45• by several magazineand:-
radio polls. • ' • '
--Maniac
That eminent feline authority on ri
soorty
_
rushing and child psytchology, J. Solvency
berry, "rHeh-heh-e,d"' through his whiskers,? .
swished - his tail. roguishly against the •Editor's leg,
and than jumped 'atop the teletype machine.
Grinning like .a Cheshire cat, he 'said "the
ter to sorority women in Tuesday's issue was the- .
most informative article I've read in months.'!
When we explained_that_theletter was written
'by the Dean of Women and not'.as a joke_
snarled nastily, arched his back and'..spit out. a
weak "Good Lord! NeXt • you'll be'
that the Letter to the :Editor on page. 2 .wasn't
,
joke either."
Too modest and shy to read other people's "rnall;1. 1
even. when they're open, letters, we had skipped
the letters in question. - • • -
We read- it and felt properly chastised.. Our
wrist had been slapped gently by the good, kindly
Dean Ray.' We had been-trapped like the little
eight-year-old with his 'mitts in the cookie lir.
As the farmer's daughter said when the travedi...,,
ling salesman disappeared in -the early morn; -"If
I'd a only known." All Of these years - we had
looked upon sorority rushing as - a knock-em::
down, kick-em-around annual 'brawl. It
chance to let the . fairer,sex get rid Of a little_
steam and indulge in legalized back-off-the-scene
hair-pullirrg and name calling: : Now we find - that
-there is a possibility thit "the fraternity system
has a place in edu,tiori" if-the 'girls Invollsied get
their beauty sleep and, attend 'all' claSses. - •
Surely the. good. Dean Iriciws after. many, many,
years of experience that the conduct of wolnesi.
during Rushing Week has no bearing what-so
ever on the justification of fraternities--Janymore
than,fipal week exams are to blame for the
gard •expressions, unshaven faces (of 'male stu
dents naturally), and dark .circles or bags under
the eyes of countless students. '
To be realistic: both are the resultants of mis
conceptions that will exist as long as students
think that getting into the Eta Bite •Pi fraternity
or cramming for exams are the real purposes of
a college eilutation.
J. Solvency, who has the nastiest habit of read-:
ing between the lines, suggested that the letter
appeared' to be a' threat to sorority women to be
good little, girls or else -their sororities would . be
taken away from .them---zwe 4on't thi,nk that , - *l•,°. ,
• the ' c a s e . lust thftt•,tbe':eirciternent of. It4s4
.
Week , has.:-itiso ...infected .the . 4)ean of 44910;
:aftfioe :and , . even they.-. coop
muniques. • • :
FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1940
By AUDREY RYBACK
soflospip . hei
BY FERDINAND