FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, '1047
Editor's Mail call
In Answer to 'Spectator'
TO THE EDITOR: It is not a habits of mine to
bandy remarks with such a bantling as.the Specta
tor presents himself to be but I - feel that this occa
sion warrants a special exception.
In his inane letter to the COLLEGIAN the Spec
tator takes the stand that we should not criticize,
reform, and rebuild State until we have achieved
the proposed "Better Penn State," but that we
should blindly close our eyes, give three boisterous
Hurrahs, and forget our sorrows ina mug of di
luted brew. Maybe he's right ! !
Maybe we should not have things such as the
Short Skirt Skip and the last issue of FROTH,
both of which are concerned with the utterly
senseless matter of the length of girls' skirts.
Let's not worry whether the football players
stand or not. Aren't they one of the top teams
in the Nation? Let's not criticize the women's
regulations. Let's all sign our Insurance Policies,
as well as our checks, over to the Nittany Dorms
and Pollock Circle.
What's wrong with Penn State now? Why go to
all that trouble and effort to make a better State?
Let's just sit back and backbite everyori!e who
writes to the COLLEGIAN . . . and just so that
no one knows who we are, we won't sign our
name.
—Earl C. Supple. Jr.
To the Spectator: I have just this little post
script. Let's not carry this any further. I'm out
of stamps. I just took what little bit of money
remained from my check and gave it to the
Bursar, and he neglected to give me any stamps.
When I asked him for some, he reminded me I
wouldn't need them ... I'm going to be too busy
shouting, "Hurrah! 1 1"
—E. C. S.
• The name was signed to the letter but we
were requested to withhold it.
Ho Joins The Crowd
TO THE EDITOR: Everyone (I hope) is com
plaining about the Pollock Circle mess hall—why
shouldn't I? My complaint is not about the food—
I expect ulcers anyway—instead, it is about the
serving schedule. Breakfast is served from 7:00
to 8:30. Get there before 8:30 and everything is
fine. BUT! try to sneak in at 8:31! If they have
stopped serving, and a student is from ten to fif
teen minutes late, I wouldn't have much of a
complaint. But when there is still food, and still a
"chow-line," I can't see why a student is turned
away for coming in late.
I presume that they make enough food for
every man in the Circle: then why can't that
food be eaten instead of thrown away? Those
who saw the propaganda picture "Patemkin"
know that a revolution was started by the cry
"for a spoonful of soup." Beware! Or the cry
Here's another great record!
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, S'T'ATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
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By Howie Back
Tops on the gossip list today is, of course, Pitts
burgh—the town and the college of the same name.
A mass migration is planned by most of the stu
dent body for Friday evening. Although there
were no official 'protests after last week's battle,
student leaders and College officials are worried
by the upsurge of destruction and vandalism
which took place Saturday night in Baltimore.
Any recurrence of this type of public exhibition
will probably bring strong censure and perhaps
action from the authorities.
Incidentally, with the fire Wednesday morn
ing at the transmitter putting local station
WMAJ on the blink for at least two weeks, stu
dents remaining in State College may have dif
ficulty in tuning in the game. However, station
officials have ,Informed us that WMRF in Lewis
town. and KDKA, Pittsburgh, will air the game.
The so-called big men in campus politics, the
clique leaders and powers in the know seem
pretty well agreed that a decisive defeat of the
Nittany-Independent candidates at today's elec
tion (No results are in at this writing) would
mean the end of the N-I party.
Purely in the rumor category is talk of an
extended Thanksgiving vacation should our
gridders defeat Pittsburgh tomorrow. Now don't
quote me, but an extra day's vacation, perhaps
starting Tuesday at noon, could be in the offing.
Results on the poll for a campus co-op store
showed a sweeping majority in favor. And it does.
seem certain that most students would be in favor
of such an enterprise. But I do think the voting
method was very poor. In the first place, the ques
tions were so worded that, psychologically, the
"Yes" answer could hardly be avoided. And then
the distribution method was poor.
Now don't get , me wrong, I think the co-op
idea has a lot of merit. but the polling method
was very poor.
"for a mouthful of coffee" will turn the Circle
into a den of mad men.
There will always be late-comers, for various
reasons, and they should be taken into considera
tion. They're paying for the meal, it's not a gift
from the mess hall; why
. can't they eat? The sup
ervisor should use the "come late, serve yourself"
method s if she wants the help to stop working on
time. Instead, everything is taken back to the
kitchen, and a "tough luck, try again" atitude is
implied.
I'm not complaining for myself, as, so far, I
have gotten there just before the executioner
drops the knife. I'm complaining for those whom
I have seen get their stomachs cut—and pay for it
too!
Ohl oh! I've spent too much time on this. It's
8:29! I'll never make it by 8:30! Where's my
luger? —LEX
After Pitt, What ?
A post-season football game between Penn
State and Rutger's University to be played in New
York City's Yankee Stadium has been suggested
by Stan Lamax, Mutual's sports commentator.
Since Rutgers has turned down bowl bids be.
cause of the ban on Negro gridders, and Lion
coach Bob Higgins has stated that his team will
not play where Penn State's Negro players are
not welcome, Lomax suggested that a game be
tween the two schools could be billed as the
"Freedom Bowl."
"A football game should be played according to
the quality of the players, and not on the pigment
of their skins," said Lomax in his Tuesday broad
cast.
Last night Bill MacKenzie, editor of the Rut
ger's Targum, telephoned the Daily Collegian and
said that student enthusiasm over the possibility of
a •"Freedom Bowl" game is tremendous despite
the administration's policy to play no post-season
games. Petitions are now being circulated among
the students at the New Jersey school.
The game would be a "natural" as the sports
scribes say. Rutgers, while not receiving too
much national publicity, is having an impressive
season since dropping the opener to Columbia,
40-28, in a wide-open contest. Since then the
Scarlets have downed Western Reserve, Princeton,
Fordham, Lehigh, Harvard, Lafayette, and NYU
by healthy margins. A Thanksgiving game with
Brown remains to be played.
Lomax claims he can obtain the New York
Stadium for either December 6 or 13 and believes
that the game would draw a capacity crowd.
Since the College has committed itself not to
participate in any bowl game that would not
accept Negro players. and regardless of the out
come of the Pitt game, some arrangements
should be made to play a post-season game.
Among the suggestions to be carefully consid
ered before the football togs are put away in the
mothballs are Freedom Bowl plan and the pro
posed game with the Nittany Lions' traditional
rivals—Penn.
Empty Glasses
TO THE EDITOR: In reference to "Spectator"
(who won't sign his name): "Sound the alarms!
Man the guns! Call the police and notify Alcoholic
Anonymous! The "Hurrah Boy" undoubtedly
meant three Beers for State.
We're giving odds that that raised beer mug
was drained before he wrote the noble com
position.
Editorials and features in The Daily Col
legian reflect the opinions of the writer. They
make no claim to represent student or College
opinion. All unsigned editorials are by the
editor.
MAYBE you've heard other good disks of
this tune—but that was before Joe
Mooney waxed it. His record is a standout.
Another record that stands out is the
record of Camel cigarettes. More men
and women are smoking Camels than
ever before!
You'll find the answer in your "T
-Zone"
(T for Taste and T for Throat). Try
Camels. Discover why, with smokers
who have tried and compared, Camels
are the "choice of experience."
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—Deep Freeze Unit 14.
Pollock Circle
—Phillip Preston.
—Ronald Saxe.
—Steve Vargo.
—James Rockwell.