PAGE IMA4I With the Editor comet,, a let - ter recently from the Alpha Sigma Plhi's J. W. Putman that (to quote Mr. Putman) is in reference to the current `no corsages' drive which seems to :have your (the Collegian) staff in such a dilther." Mr. Putman then goes on to say the same things *rat brother Agiph'a Sigma Phier Alex Petrowski did in a recent letter , (wihich we publihed) alb'out the same subject. Since receiving the note from Mr. Putman we Nave made a careful search through the 55 issues ,ht the Daily Collegian put out last semester; no where do we see a direct reference by any Col- , legkan staff member favoring "No - corsage" 'lances. We have printed letter s from campus groups whichh said that suCh-qand-sudh a group was golltg to throw a dance and that it Was going to be "coy sage-less." We did get excited when pressme was brought to bear on such a group. They were told that ad vertising in campu s putaidations would drop off id they didn't stop a "no-Corsage" campaign of their's. We got excited, yes, because we believe enough in freed= of the press and thought to go down in defeat before giviing up these cherished y!lghts. atilt—we have never adVoCated (gas an individual or as a.group) "No-Corsage" dances. From a purely selfish standpoint, the question of Bowels or not means nothing to the Seniors on Collegian. To get personal for a few minutes: The editor has attended no formal dances this year, doesn't plan to and as a result isn't affected by the prdhlem. The managing editor is a woman; hence if she goes to any dances, her escort would have to worry about the Matter. The ~ p'orits e'd'itor, when quizzed, said, "Dances, what are they?" Our news editor is a fraternity man; so_he doesn't have much say if the house decides to iinrow a formai dance with flowers and all. And so it goes, all the way down the line. Hon el:A,. Mr. Putman, no one around here is excited; frankly, - I don't think they give a tinker's damn." But, Mr. Putman, wthen we get a letter (as we did today) from a group that plans a "No-Corsage" dance, there is nothing that we can do exicept print it. Tt's their dance and while the impression may ociten be given that we know everything over here, we don't try to set Poricies for other groups. We merely give them the space they hav e a right to. That's our job . . . to let students know what's going on around here. With that intriaditieim we print the following letter from Ray Robb, preSident of the Engineer ing School Donnell T4S.TLEIE . EDITOR: The annual Slldenule Ball will be held March 15 with dancing from 8 to 12. Otaude Thornhill will preside on the band' stand. .mtake the dance available to all on the Cam . - pus, the dance will be semi -normal, eltrnina'bing the need of a tuxedo. • The price of tiokets will range between three and our dollars and we recommend na .corsages, bo eliminate any , unnecessary ex penses. /axed Visiting Hoyrs TO THE RbITOR: Why can't a fellow visit a girl and: vice versa at the College infirmary? We're pretty lucky to have a College Healith Service with the privilege of spending a week at the infirmary free of change; but do w e have to pay for that eight by surrendering the rights held by non students to VIIS it whomever they please? —Marvin &clan Collegian Gazette All calendar items must be in at the Daily Collegian office by 4:30 p.m. on the day preceding publication. Tuesday, Feb: 11 • OUTING OLUB meetdng, 2 White Hart, 6:45 o'clock. . BADMINTON Club meeting, White Hall gym, 7 olclock.. • ASSOCIATION OF FRATERNITY Coun selors, 41.7 Old Main, 7:115 o'clodk. • • PERSHING RIFLES Society meeting, 3 Carnegie Hall, 7 o'clock. PANBIIIILLDNIC COUNCIL Meeting, 418 Old IVilain, 7 o'clock. • PENN STATE Flying Club meeting; 110 Home Economics, 7:30 oclobk. Movies will (be shown. • PENN STATE Club fbasiness meeting, 312 Old Main, 7 o'clock. •MILITARY BALL Committee, 105 Car-. negie Hall, 7 o'clock. THiETA SIGMA PHI meeting, 24 Atherton Hall, 6:30 o'iclock. CRITIQUE Editorial staff meeting, 5 Car negie Hall, 6:30 o'clock. , PENN STATE, Bridge Club, 401 Old Main, 7:30 o'clock. College Health Service Adulated to intimnary Saturday: Shirley Smith, Margaret Seyibert. Admitted Sunday: Jdim Ritchey. Admitted yesterday: Rita Cota, John. Gear hart, John Irwin, Paul Masterslon, Nevin Miller, Carl Sherman. . Discharged yesterday: Shirley Smith. . Discharged to Centre County Hospital yes terday: Nevin Miller. • College Placement Service Mr. W. J. Riley of the Westvaco Chlorine Producits Corploration will be on the taanpus, Thursday, Fell). 27, to interview eighlib. se IrneSter dhean eng, chern, ME, EE Ones . Ph.D. candtdates.lin organic Armuge mends to'r..lntervtielms Should be Wide .81,1inee in 204 Old Main. . , . Ray Robb, Pres. Eng. School Council Herb Locke, Penn State Engineer. IMEE DAILY COLL/OMAN, sPritrz on,r_zoz, PENNSYLVANIA Letters 'Neatest Trick' Department TO THE - EDITOR: Credit l'or the "neatest trick of the year" goes to Registrar William S. Hoffman Oar his orders Io not have the transcripts copied for those students who allegedly have an unpaid bill 'at tfhe Bursar's Office. 'This decision was, I am sure, made on a sound enough assumption: that those people who owed the College were probably rascals, rogues, and scoundrels and the only way to make them cough up was to hold over their heads the linear/5f not being issued the previout q semester's marks and be thus barred from registering until eadh case coulld be straightened out in the usual contused manner. Tot the ,unfortunate minority who either had their bigs without duress, or who had never contracted any but managed somehow to get on the list, I presume he reasoned that if given half a Chance they tot would turn into rascals and it was bette r to teach them a lesson' before they fell into sin. Portrunately for many of uS, We had gotten Used to *his type of "alive Drab" rationalization An the 'past years; bat as I heard one student, say, "I did kinda 'hope people would be different on the off side." Allow me to 'say in closing that, in all my con tacts wililh the Registrar's office, I've received only a satchel df snide remarks punctuated with Utter, utter oibtfuscatlion. I want this letter to be interpreted not as being any future cause of bad feeling between Mr. Hoffman and myself(--since that already exists in an impersonal way—Quit as a result df the system he hes promulgated and ordered darned out. * Bursar Clark (a good Joe, who runs one of the most efficient offices on this camptis,. in our estimation) asks that he be given credit for the idea: According to Clark, one-half of one percent of the student body always holds out on paying bills. There was no such trouble this time. As to contacts with the Registrar's office, Mr. Irvine and others might be interested in knowing that they do have some very understanding people working there. Best procedure to follow is to speak to no tone as you enter; rather you should stalk down the counte r until opposite th e desk occupied by Mrs. Furst. In four years - a - battling red tape. and hundreds of trips to that (office, she has always been most sympathetic and understanding. Mr. Stewart is another understanding worker. Book Exchange TO THE EDITOR: The. facts that many students. have commented on high prices in State College, that many situklents work ilor extra money, ankl that ex-CA allOtinents don't Stretch far eniough Would certainly lead one to believe that students Would take advantage of an opportunity fo reduce their exPenditiirres •lthts cirporttm'ity avails itself at the beginning of eadh semester in .the form of the Student Book Exchange. Monday morning, men the bookstores down town were jairnmed, there were, when I walked in, exactly two students in the Book Exohange. • . • The exchange benefits the students in two ways. It enables them to buy book s cheaper, and allows them to get more money for the books they sell. In other words, the profit usually made by the bbokstores through the purchase and sale of used books ; is distributed among the s tudents. Ex-Gl's may feel that since Ithe government is paying for the books they might as well get new ones at the bookstore. If they take that attitude, who do they expect will buy their used books when they try to sell them? _ Aside from that, most d 6 the books at the ex &Mtge are in excellent condition. • at the beginning of a semester, you haVen't seen Positerts telling where"the exdhange tis !located, ask at the Student Union desk. This semester, the location is 40.1. Old Main. • lAA's platronlize the Student Book Exchange. "Buy someone else's bock, arYd. someone Wil2 buy yams." —Name Withheld •peri.SpcKie Penn State is bursting at the seems. • Twelve to fifteen thousand Students is the ex pected enrollinent in .foui or. five years. A huge bulilding program i A underwfay with a ten milliOn and•possibly fitteen million dollar budget covering the. eredtion costs of a great. educational plant. Pen n State will be a bigger Penn State. And will be a better Penn State, too. With in creased enrollment. competition in scholarship and activities will be keen with better general leader ship and ability resulting. With additional bulild inigs, there will be More facilities for wider and more praCticel instruction. • Now, the Board of Trustees is considering chang ing cur name to Pennsylvania State University and adding law and medical sdhools. A new busi ness school has been advocated. Penn State is cording into its CWII. But, the pro Posed location of the new facilities . preclude the maintenance cif. our Penn State Cam pus. The Campus is being taken away from us. With buildings planned fo r practically all the present beantiful, open, grassy areas between En gineering, Ag Hill, Rec Hell, and Atherton Hall, Penn State migfht just as well be located in the center of a Vast, dirty city. Many us enrolled at Penn State because we Wanted the doliege town and spacious earnipLus at mnsphere with. 4ts free, unhurried life. We want to keep that atrnosrihere as I stx as ft ts.poastble. Therefore, beulikl. 'on toe golf coyulse, 4ear Dolt wegtis,.-a*l-I*aiii. l 7o4 :WO 4 / 4 X:tiA'T 034 4Nic},9l l §:#44 • - 4°379 6 4::0t0-iXtilr , 2''9l4"q# f, 1 4 ).:,,W4T44:60;.:-.144 . 11 1 40.40 sbaltored::4oo4,oo,;l:4 ' hOe' campus, with trees; ittegriatV . itsliatittnatbeialtii,: •• • • —Thomas F. Irvine, Jr. O'Brien Plugs Oratory Value Oratory has profoundly influ enced the. course of world his tory time and again, Prof. Joseph F. O'Brien, voting head of the College, speech department and adviser to the men's debate team, said today. In discussing the power of speech as a social force, O'Brien cited+Winston Churchill's address at. Dunkerque, which he consid ers the turning point of World War In this dynamic speech., the British prime minister renewed the waning confidence of our Al lies 'who were on the bilnk of de feat and incited them to shbve baek the enemy from their front doors. - "Churchill is the world's greatest orator today," O'Brien declared. Professor O'Brien, who was re cently appointed to a committee of the Speech Association • of America, will help to prepare, solicit and edit articles analyzing the role of discussion in the for mation of public opinion. Ohio State, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Oberlin and SyrEcuse are other institutions represented on, the committee. Articles prepared by them are printed in the Public Opinion Quarterly and later in book form. The College debate team under O'Brien's lealderShip has become one of the most successful varsity groups on campus. Its greatest season to date wss '44'4.5 when it emerged victorious in 25 out . of Z 9 encounters with opponents like Navy, Pitt, Seton Hill and West Point. ?oft) Ara Match your mood with the j bubbling fragrance of your BATH DIARY bubble bath. Be a wood-nymph On Mon day l ''''`... an exotic siren on. Tuesday and so on right through_the_weeo 7 bottles to the box' SIAO plus redeniil Ettit' me..ory TUESDAY, FEBRUARY- 1.1,• 1947 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Successor to the Free Lance, est. tart Published Tuesday through f'riday mornings during the College year by the statt 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 Match 3, 18'19. $2,50 a seines , - ter $4.00 the school year. Represented for national advertising by National Advertising-Service, Madi son Ave., New York, N.Y., Chicago, Elostori, Los Angeles. San Francisco. Michael A. Blatt Bator Rosemary Giumtous airr. Mgr. Ed., Lynette Lundquist; News Ed.. Lawrence. rooter; Co. Sports Eds., 'Stephen Sinichak, Arthur M i 1.1 ar; Feature E 41., Frank Dayis. Photo ral:. Suzanne McCauley; Women'a FAI., Marilyn Jacobson : Aust. Wanien`a DI., Ileteir Marithell: Wire 1.2., Sernour Roan - berg; Sr. Board, Lucy Sating. Ad. Mgr., rhylliti tocal; Asst. Bi n s. Mgr:. Sally Re'strum; MO. Ad. Mgr., rivrothY Leibpvitz; Circ. Mgr, Paul Bender. STAFF TEBS ISSUE Managing David Adeliner' Assistant ---- Ben Fran& News Editpr Allan ofitir Assistant . StAar Ad Managor___,. Ikon Fllis Plitorials and features in The Collegian reflect the opinions of the writer. They make no claim to represent student or University opinion. All un signed editorials are by the edi tor. • "41 ' ti jv-t- I c_ 4l l !' -•" I c ep 0 A) • iO,- I a ABLE BATH pro, 'u with tantalizing, . . . a distinc- 1 tively haunting fragrance., foreach day of the_week.l / An excellent gift; too::: as et bridge prite. a Miami' *gal clad travelleg /Weed. 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