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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
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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.
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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.
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STAFF TEBS ISSUE
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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
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