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Les Brown and his orchestra will play for an
lAll-College dance to ,be held at Recreation Hall
on May 24, All-College Cabinet announced at
its meeting last night. The contract was signed
?late yesterday afternoon.
Now What ?
According to tradition and their charters, Froth
is the campus humor magazine, and Portfolio, the
literary publication.
--- But during the war, campus publications went
the way of many campth activities, and were
either modified or suspended. The Daily Colle
gian became a weekly, Froth went out of exis
tence, and Portfolio drifted into obscurity. With
the beginning of the Fall semester, the New
Portfolio came out, stating as its policy, "to enter
tain," 'but making no mention of its charter com
mitments as a literary periodical.
The fact that Portfolio has the right "to enter
tain" is undeniable, but whether or not it has the
right to enter the humor field is questionable.
Humorous essays, such as those written by
Mark Twain and James Thurber, are both liter
ary and humorous. Portfolio has attempted this
type of article in its recent issues, and has every
right to do so. But Portfolio has also published
iokes and cartoons, which are not generally con
sidered literary.
Now the antagonist enters the picture. Froth
.is seeking permission to return as the official
campus humor magazine; and plans to publish its
first issue this semester. What will happen to
the New Portfolio?
If Portfolio retains its present policy, Penn
State will have two humor publications. And.
Penn State has no need for two humor magazines,
especially. twhen there is no literary periodical, •
collegian suggests that portfolio issue a clear
statement of its, policy for the futures
Does it' intend to stay in the semi-literary
'hurnor field and compete with Froth, or will it
return to its original literary policy?
Sign Em, Please t
Each week Collegian receives a number of
Letters to the Editor which never appear in the
paper, simply because they, are not signed.
According to Collegian's policy, all letters
BE SIGNED if they are published. 'How
ever, if the writer wishes, Collegian will with
hold the name of the author.
Many Of these letters contain constructive ideas
which• the staff would like to pass on to the stu
dent body. ($o if you write Letters to the. Editor,
won't you, please sign 'em?
THE COLLEGIAN
'Tor A Better Penn States'
Established 1940. Successor to the Penn State Colleg
tan, •established 1904, and 'the Free Lance, established
1877. •
Published every Tuesday and Friday morning dur,
•ang the regular College year by the staff of the Daily
Collegian- of the Pernsylvania State College. Entered _as
`Second class matter July :3, 195, at the State College, Pa
Post Office under 'the act of March. 8. 1879. .
. • .1- by a:. :t $1 e f •
Editor-in-Chief • Business Manager
Woodene Bell Mary Louise Davey
Member
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News Editor—Barbara Ingraham ; Feature Editor—Jane
Wolbarst ; Photo Editor—Gwynneth Timmis.; Sports Editor—
Jack Reid; Women's Editor Doris Stowe; Circulation
Manager—John Neel; Assistant Advertising Manager—
Phyins Deal. Senior Board—Kay Krell Lois Marks.
Junior Board—Michael Blatz, Lawrence Foster, Marilynn
Jacobson, Leo Kornfehl, Lynette Lundquist, Suzanne
McCauley, Kathryn McCormick, Lucy Seiting, and Ruth
,Tisherman.
Reporters-- Jean Alderter, Kay Badollet, Allan Baskin,
Frank Davis, Eleanor Fehnel Ben French, Popsy Fried
lander, Elsie Remits, Roberta Hutchinson, Shirley Lyon,
Leonard Mirlinowski, Betsy Marshall, Marty Mosley, Elaine
Mittelman, Gloria Parks, Joan Peters, Helen Reed, Diet;
Surge, Lewis Stone, Jerry Trumper, Selma Zasofsky.
Advertising Assistants—Claire Harvey, Sully Ho'strum. Dor•
othy Leibovitz, June Rosen, Selma Subel, Jeanne
Thompson.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Kuy Krell
Audrey. Ryback, • Jerry. Tramper
Kay ~ .B adeillet:
Ben 'French
Managing Er'litor
Copy. Editors
News Editor
Sports Editor
Friday, April 12, 1946
NEWS FLASH
Old Mania
It was a gala' affair at the DU's annual formal pledge dance . Satur
day night, with 175 couples dancing to the music Of Paul Groves.
Among those who were there . . . Fritz Troutman and Ruth Black . . .
Tommy Sica and Jackie Horan. . . Ted Lerevre and, Kappa Terrie
Kist . • . Jim i'&Nelis and Kappa Betty Schmitt.
Also seen at the DU house were Walker Cleeland and Kappa
- Minty Emfbicic . :Jack Cameron
and Sally Pollard . . . Bob Burge
and Pris Wagner . . . Bob Kim
ball' and, Mary Louise McNelis .
. . Archie Miller and Lil Skrabart
Rings and Pins
There are a Whole flock of pin
nings and engagements 'again
this week. Phi Bp Bert Selloff
gave his pin to SDT Shirley
Rubin . . . AOPI pledge. Grace
Fuchs is wearing Jinx Falkcn
berg's Chi Phi jewelry . . .
ABPhi Sonny Fuchs is pinned to
Harvey Barsha. Harvey is a
CCNY grad' . . . ABPhi pledge
John Kmneck and North Caro
lina ZBT Jack Moses are pinned.
SDT Elaine Fehr is wearing a
ZBT pin from Mary Sat•tler . . .
Beta Sig Dick Rosen gave his re
cognition pin to ISDT Polly
Kraw . . Junie First is wearing
a sparkler from Phi Psi Ray
Murphy . . AEPhi Harriet Rook
ni?an is engaged to Phi Sig alum
Moe Rothenberg . . . Phi Sig Sig
alum Midkey Glaser has a ring
from Bernard Somerman.
Emmy Lou Roaoh is engaged to
Marcel Farnout Millet He's her
roommate's brother . Gamma
Phi Beta Marian Doty has an-'
nounced her engagement . to
Harry Bieldord, ' University of
New Hampshire Student -
iI:AG Claire Hainilton is being
married. Saturday to .Sigmia• Nu
Bob Hall.. . Beta Sig Bill Pom
erantz middle-laialed it with. Dui
cey Feldman in Philadelphia
Sunday . . . Jackie Irvin said.
NROTC News
tElos. Howie Hartinan,•local - boy -who made out, .returned tothe
scene Of.his scholastic triumphs over• the.. weekend. Howie was seen
in various places about campus with a Gama Gama Glapaa" girl on his
The ancient art of bicycling,. Whoie sole adherent in - the, unit,
Hobart, was probably beginning - to feel lonely,'. now.. has. another
votee since Boots Stetler broke
his ankle. Boots really gets around
on that bike. -
Fcishion-• Notes
Peacoats. were once more in:
vogue 'at the beginning "of, the
week,. when the spring weather'
petered out and the' place began
to feel like the• upper. Stretches
of Siberia, with the Labrador cur-
rent superimposed , .
The Navy dress blues (bell bot
toms) long an integral item .41:4 1 e
trainee's wardrobe will be 'ken
no more . on eam;pus. , The: :final
blow to the "the old monkey suit
is good enough for met' boys came,
last Wednesday. Froth now
be highly illegal to wear the gar.
,ment. The Executive Committee'
Letters . to. the :Editor
Silly Platforms
Dear Editor: •
Your editorial in today's issue
of , The Collegian suggested that
`60% of the Students were not
interested enough in College Ixa
itics to vote. How did you eve:
guess that?
Frankly, the platforms,. ot. both
parties, were e . l.ctrentelly -silly and
one seriously wonders . when the
day -will coane when- our -"liberal
artists" wake' up. There are some
•serious problems -that the student
body • ought to , faCe: outrageous
rooming prices, lakk of dormitbry
facilities and the filthy state of
the campus (which -is due to the
carelessness of the Student body
and not to Grounds and ilaulltlings).
I wonder how many persons
signed the AVC sponsored peti•
ton ifor the passage of the pres
ent 'housing bill in Congress. I bet
you there were over 2,006. .
'College students all over the
country are working on real prob
lems and are trying to solve them.
.Fenn State students seem to be
worried (or rather. their '-repre
sentatives -faeoted. by 40% of the
student body) What •to .dO Sunday
afternoons.. lizpityttivase . pook . .soulai:
:who dotet , thirwei enough- initiativirtl
to do • something. liowever;
sidering the , quhlifleations of some
THE COLLEGIAN
By BARBARA INGRAHAM
"I do" to Ed Sullivan
'Happy Bachelors'
. The SPE "Happy Bachelor's"
club elected Bernie. Klein —his
torian. Fines will 'be levied.
q.gainst those members attending
'the Spring Nocturne, but not
the Dungaree Drag.
'against those rived into going to
Beta Sigs Jerry Kreuger and
lazy Richter were back . . . Art
Albrzsmson treked up from Phila
delphia to see ABPhi pledge-Ruth
Kraftzow . . . the' Phi Mu's for
mer treasurer Jean Hoover was
up . . . CHID Jean Thomas was
in town to visit TKE Dave Lun
dy . . . the Phi Sig Dells enter
tained Ensign Shelly Marks and
Hal Chadnoafif last weekend . .
Al Silver came , up from New
York to see his fiance Arline
Geriber.
. Other campus visitors were
Theta alum Pris Schautz . . .
Jack Stafford to see Theta Phi
Alpha Flo Seese . . . DG's Stella
Riddle and Sally Holstrom and
IJampede Lorraine Zimmerman
went to Buc'meal Tor the prom
last weekend . . AChio Joan
Harrington went home to see her
fiance. Tom - Moore, a Pitt Phi
Delt.
aIT ,Lee Shane will be up to
see NEOIC Sid Dickstein - thi's
week-end . . Affter semesters
and . Eein.eSters,. Theta • Chi-
Renton and Chi b Bath Smith.
are pinned. , _
By TOM KELLY
of the .."Oh,, a wish _I , was , (back
1 , at sea with- the spray rne.
in the mush ,Chowder axid.mareh
ing club"' sPend .a• half. hour'
crying, in their, 'beer :Saturday
,night - in. corrariernoration. of, the.
'event. The meeting: wilLta.ke place
at the :Skeller, Karl 'Van Delvin,
presiding. ' • ' - •
.Plans.
,are stakgering. forward
for. the establishing. of ' a 'Nagy
•paper on , campus. At. the.•;prz...sen4,
time' various amounts .of obstacles,
11.51 . ve. to overcome, :but, it is,
hoped
,'the.- journal will rear it's
comely head shortly- afters the
~aSter : :leave. Lieutenant , (jg)`
Slaughter twill supervise- the pro
duction. - •
. •
.the. candidates really .agree
that the platfontna . were 'equal -to'
the prablerns t:hey c. 4 .an-, handle,
and S 'don't mean many. •• • •
Therc,at'e many_ serious Koh
loins. on . 2fand; d mentioned '.- same;
of them.. Why not: try:: to meet
those rater than horse-around? ,
'The Collegian.Conad .helip's _great
Beink - the: only paper on .
'Catopus,' is- the: dut - of, the
•Editor - to leOlc<iitt:fOr student wel
fare:Won% you-'try?' •
ilippeftely
". • ' - Amuted , Non-Voter.
Dr. H. Klenower
. director of teacher educa
tion and certification of the State
Department of Public Instruction,
;will address the dinner meeting
of the School of Education fac
ulty at the Allencrest, West, Bea
ver avenue at 7:301 pan... Monday.
German Conversation Club
.. . 'meet 145 ,WeatsHom-,
lltou ‘Aveate : ;afr7;3Ql),° 21 1:•'VueSt :
11 ,W •• !Nail- • Yali , j4 o eidetip,
will. weak to - the- group 'du 'Gel-'
• niany -frani:l9B6qoll939;
J. Solvency Dingleberry, foremost feline au
thority on horticulture, read a blurb put out by
the Public Information department the other day
that set him to thinking.
The article quoted a "College expert". who• sug
gests that communities and. municipalities. plant
large tracts of trees as a fitting memorial for the
dead . of World. War It.
Even mare fitting, thinks Dingleberry,
.would
be for some of our experts to come out of the
woods where they are stumbling, and. tackle some
of the problems now facing, us.
For instance,. it might be more practical to plant
'a stop light at the corner of Allen and College
,avenues. in this community instead of more trees"
:Of course no man-made stop lights will ever look
as lovely as a tree but , they are to be preferred if
they save as much as one life.
, The same goes for the X-G-I Club which is
•planning "to purchase a memorial ,placiite dedi
cated to, and listing names of all. Penn State mph
'who gave their lives in World 'War IL" .A very
tangible memorial no doubt, but Dingy.haS:a•rmcire
practical proposal for the proceeds front the X-
G-I dance tonight.
(Ed. Note: Collegian policy doei not necessarily
hold with the hard realism of J. Solvency. Dingle
berry Tor it must be remembered that •cats do.not
have souls; consequently they placeless emphasiS
on the 'aesthetic.)
Says Dingy, "that money could be used to Kaye
little booklets printed before the Fall semester
begins. Contained would" be 'the names - Of "Pelin.
,State men - killed. in our latest war, with pictures
and. descriptimrs of each."
.
•
To every returning veteran who comes room-.
.hunting next semester a_ cófiy would.- be-given.
; Room hunters luckt enough 'to. -find a. nice un
'finished. attic for rent at-'s,4'..s4;per, -week: or a cozy..
•
nook _in the basement for $5:00 (because ,it's near
the furnace) could-then-pull. outAhe-bOskantirreadi;
passages tol,local lai dgorgers . alOneihis
'lihe of -patter:
IVIANIAC
"Perhaps you remember Joe Etaoin, Shrd
lu? used.to have this room at - Jme time. Paid
two -fifty or three bucks for- it.: Of coursell - was: -
,rather nasty of him ;to leave. without.. giving you
much notice 'Rather, inconsiderate of him
_and.,
his draft board, don?t, you. agree?, .I\,/fust. have
been a wfully..rough toWnspeoplelaulting those
';lean war, years;when; they had nO-rooniergr•• '
-
I but those , days are over!. No- * doubt: you thank
•God:that your homewas 'saved-by gilysilikeEitoin.
• • • •
,What. did- you . say - you Were- goine tci. do- with the
money yon're , making , by - dbilfilifit . .your rent?
You're. going to plant .a,tree with• a- becirize 'Plaque
Cri it. for.Tde .. ." , . •
It , the X.-G-I:.Club does not, carelfoa this idea,;
. .
'Dingy suggests, they donate the moneTto-the•AATC-
CommAttee, intiegtigating. „the . - liour4g,.
Whenever. ..the. ornmittte diScov* ; iia , ::case- ,where f ..
;the rent - •has been raised diaProilortiOnatelY,. it
-would make arrangeinents to pay•the- difference
between prewar. and •poStwar-rates:. - -,‘They: . wcifiid
, pay the amount by cheek; 'each - cheek 'embpsee4.
Fund in Memory of Penii:. State
Men. Killed. in •World War II.", ' . .. •
From the- File.s
Seprember and October 19294
s .
The engineering . and chemistry buildings - and_
Grange .thirmitory. were being used , f4w ; the first
'
- •
"Old Main Bell,"...'.eollege literary. ptalication,
was - increasing' its staff. ' • ; • • '
Penn State. *eleciiiied 1200 2tErash in the :fifth
annual Freshman- Week. • •
Daniel was, entriaiiiing- , 6Dilegian readers with
"Mei Lion's Den.""
. „
. .
Penn State Players presented "Is Zat ! So?"; fistie
Efforts were being, riiade to obtain. a Phi .Beta
*Kappa chapter for Penn State. -
The , College held the seventy -'first • annual-COn
vocation'in Rec Hall. This was the first - time' in
recent College hittory that any meeting had : been
held in
.a building large enough to hold all the
student body.
Dr. Frank C. Whitmore ctunelfrcm Northwest
ern University to be Penn State's Dean of Chem
istry. and Physics. • ,
, Official opening of the Mont Alto branch Of the
new Pennsylvania state forestry school; formed,
by merging the state' forest *school at Mont Alto
and - that here, took place.
. .1ln : was, the fourth, : PanheJlelliC , groug 4f;:
women's .national fraternities. tO,enter-F!ennßtate
vihen .04.ibr.1*Nzarne--Alie443eta:MCl.
:C•PAP*- • • • •
• ' ;5: - .1040ds- Inan. Dads! .I)ay.l3ol:?*.irn.t:forziy.laitingi . , !
Mothers': was. the boadi:On , a., story. "-
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FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1946
Bullosopher
BY FERDINAND