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Lost One Policy!
Just about a year a go, Penn State refused to play
the University of Miami in the Orange Bowl in a
regularly scheduled football game. The reason, of
course, was racial discrimination in the Soyith.
Southern football players wouldn't play against the
Nittany Lions' two Negro players and the Higgins
men wouldn't make the trip without them.
Now. with Cotton Bowl arrangements com
pleted and the Lions (with their Negro players)
set for an invasion of the South. the story is
somewhat different.
In a way, that is as it should be. Had any other
~vhool but Southern Methodist been host in the
Cotton Bowl, it is doubtful that the Lions would
have received the invitation.
SMU was also the flyst Southern team to come
north to play teams with Negro players. The MlAs
tangs should be commended for throwing over
those age-old ties and taking o n a liberal aspect.
They have made an important and precedent-set
ting decision.
But all is not so complacent within the Nittany
Lions' own confines. When the Athletic Advisory
Board decided against the football teem playing
Miami. it set a precedent which supposedly clpsed
College Calendar
All calendar items must be M the Daily
Collegian office by 4:30 p.m. on the day pre•
:eding publication
Wednesday, December 10
SKI Club, 110 EE, 7:30 p.m.
AVC, 121 Sparks, 7 p.m.
IFC, 405 Old Main, 7 p.m.
ASCE, 219 Main Eng, 7 p.m.
STATE Party, 417 Old Main, 8 p.m.
PARMI Nous, 418 Old Main, 9:30 p.m.
DRUIDS, 415 Old Main, 7 p.m.
CAMPUS Unit Red Cross, 409 Old Main,
7 p.m.
NEWMAN Club, membership committee,
305 Sparks, 6:45 p.m.
PRE-MED Society, 105 Freer, 7 p.m.
VARSITY Rifle Team, Photo Shop, 7 p.m.
NAVAL Reserve, Surface Unit, Armory,
8 p.m.
OUTING Club, WE, 7 p.m.
At the Movies
Cathaum—Lured.
State—Jezebel.
Nittany—Honeymoon.
College Hospital .
Admitted Monday: John McCreary, T. R.
Jamison.
Admitted Tuesday: Howard S. Gilliland,
Charles Hazen.
Discharged Tuesday: James Fluke, Clyde
Mater, Julia Kalbach, Irene Dopfeld,
Placement Service
Hazeltine Electronics Company, December
11, EE, Phy (degrees to be received in Jan.).
PhD receiving degree in June also eligible.
Standard Oil Company of Indiana, Decem
ber 15, eighth semester men, CE, ME, EE, Pet
and Nat Gas.
Campbell Soup Co., December 11, eighth
semester men, Ag Bio-Chem, Chem Eng,
Chem, Comm Chem, ME.
Baldwin Locomotive Works, December 12,
eighth semester men, ME, EE.
Boy Scouts of America, December 15,
eighth semester men and undergraduates in
terested in working as field executives in
C&F, A&L, Ed, Phys Ed, For, Ind Ed.
Ingersoll Steel Division of Borg-Warner
Corp., December 10, seventh and eighth se
mester men, lE, ME.
Arrangements for interviews should be
made at once in 204 Old Main.
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, N "Get Set" for a
Beautiful Weekend
.
0. Pledge dances, Christmas parties, and
'‘, 7 your last big weekend on campus until
,next year—are three gocci reasons why
you'll want to look your very best.
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Make yuur appointment now—and
st•e how an hour of your time will re
ward you with days of flattering com-
plirnen to
NO ONE 15 TOO BUSY TO LOOK
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the door on Penn Slate competition in the South
in any sport.
This, at any rate, was the excuse given when Leo
klouck's boxing team was denied permission to par
ticipate in the Sugar Bowl Sports Tournament,
Dec. 29 of this year. Although there are no Negroes
on the team, the Board held that it was "unable to
accept due to the present situation."
The Sugar Bowl invitation contained a phrase
saying that it was understood that there would
be no Negroes on the Lion boxing team. Bowl
officials had contacted Houck before extending
the official bid.
The Tournament would have been equal to the
Rose. Bowl game in the eyes of Leo Houck and the
boxing team. It would also have been the highest
honor that Penn State's "Dean of Boxing Coaches"
or the boxing team had ever received. But the pol
icy was more important, the Board decided.
Still adhering to this policy. the same board
denied Jerry !Carver, Lion national track cham
pion, permission to run in the same Sugar Bowl
Carnival. This was worked out finally and !Carver
was given the go-ahead through an over-looked
phrase In the Student Rules and Regulation s that
allows individual students to appear In commer
cial enterprisei with College permission.
So while the Cotton Bowl bid acceptance is a step
in the right direction in the racial question, it is a
move that has lett the College's athletic policv in
doubt.
Editor's Mail call
Everyone's Help is Needed
TO THE EDITOR: One of the avowed pur
poses of Who's Who in the News is to give de
served recognition to students who have devoted
a large portion of their time to serving the Col
lege. The majority of the students whose names
will be included in the book, however, have had
only the edge of the spotlight rest on them. This
is a situation that, of necessity, has to exist. The
lion's share of publicity is almost automatically
drawn to a few men Who serve in a few capacities.
Yet we feel that the efforts of the others, the
reserves so to speak, should not go unrecog
nized. Lou Bell said it in an editorial about the
football reserve twenty years ago when he com
pared the importance of the reserve to the
amount of publicity they receive. Mr. Bell wrote,
and it was reprinted in the Dec. 4 Collegian.
"Yet it is usually only a word or two eagerly
devoured by the famished reserve whose pub
licity nourishment is sadly lacking." One of our
most important functions is to. at least, give
them that word or two.
In order to continue the publication of Who's
Who in the News, however, the assistance of all
those whose names will be included in the book is
absolutely essential.
—David J. Adelman.
—Joseph F. Ruciick.
Co-editors. Who's Who in the News.
Protests Co-op Decision
TO THE .EDlaukt: 1 think the trustees of this
institution mace a grave mistake in rejecting the
proposed campus co-op, which ninety-three percent
of the students favored.
I think it would be an excellent idea if the
names and addreues of the trustees could be
published for the information of the students. If
they are really interested in having a co-op, they
should then write their protests to the respective
trustees, i n the hope that they might re-consider
the mistake they have made.
This school needs a co-op very badly. We need
something on this campus in or'er t o save the stu
lents frcm continvally being over-charged by the
*.own merchants, who continually take advantage
f us.
—Sherman 1). Kaplen
• See page 1 for the names and addresses of
the Executive Committee of the Board of
Trustees.
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College Physicists Trap
New 'Ultrasonic' Sound
Dr. Harold K. Schilling. acous
tics laboratory director, and two
assistants. Clayton H. Allen and
Dr. Isadore Rudnick, have come
up with sound that can be "seen
but not heard."
The sound. called ultrasonic. is
too high pitched for the human
ear to hear but it has sufficient
energy to start a fire, kill a mouse,
or keen as many as 20 glass
marbles suspended in mid-air.
This super-sound is generated
in a small lantern-shaped siren
developed by Mr. Allen and Mr.
Rudnick, working under Dr.
Schilling. The project wait started
during the war under a contract
with the Signal Corps of the War
Department.
The siren works somewhat like
this. Compressed air in a small
chamber escapes through 100
small cone-shaped holes equally
spaced around a six-inch circle.
As air escapes, a wheel spins at
18.000 r.v.m. The sound has a
Pitch of 30.000 cycles, which is too
high for the human ear to detect.
The sound will burn a wad of
News Briefs
Naval Reserve
The Surface Unit of the Naval
Reserve will meet in the Armory
at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. All
reserve members and others in
terested in naval ordnance are
invited. .
Critique
All complimentary and sub
scription copies of Critique must
be picked up at Student Union
by Thursday, said Alex Gregory,
editor.
Outing Club
Boxes for clothing to be sent to
Europe have been placed in the
girls' dormitories by the WRA
Outing Club, said Lou Frazier,
president.
Miss Frazier also said that
members of the club interested in
skiing will hear Miss Mildred A.
Lucey of the physical education
department explain the use of
skiing equipment in White Hall
at 7 o'clock tonight.
Hillel Program
Hillel Foundation will present
a dramatic program over WMAJ
at 7:15 tonight.
niE DAILY COLLEGiAN
successor to the three Lance set 187'.
Published ruesday through teriday
mornings during the College year by
the staff of the Daily Collegian of the
Pennsylvania State College Entered as
Lecond class matter July 5, 1934, at the
State College. Pa.. Post Office under the
act of March 3. 1879 $2.50 a semester:
54:25 the school year
Alian th Ostat
Donald W Ellis
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Managing Editor
News Editor
Assistant News Editor --- Betty G.bbons
_ Dotty Werlinich,
Auiatanta _
Elaine Eats, Bill Kauffman
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1947
cotton in aix seconds in open air.
It can light a Dinerul of to: acco
without a match or bring a cup
of coffee to the boiling point in
seven , minutes. It can also POD
corn.
With the cooperation of Dr. Hu
bert Frings. entomolo
at the
College, scientists 1e .led that
ode
white mice placed in the sound
field died after a one-minute eX
posure. A mouse that survived 30
seconds exposure appeared to be
normal eight minutes later. The
following day. however. its outer
ear had deteriorated.
The silent siren also was found
effective in killing insects. Mosgut
toes died in ten seconds in the
sound waves.
Possible uses for ultrasonic
sound in the world of tomorrow
are for the sterilization of foods.
homogenization of milk. medical
treatments and surgery. treatment
of seeds to increase food nroduc
tion. elimination of smoke men
ace, speeding of chemical reac
tions and acceleration in the slow
nrogress of aging whiskey.
Scabbard and Blade
Initiates 13 Members
Thirteen members of the Ad
vanced ROTC Corps at the Col
lege were initiated into Company
"H". Ist Regiment, of the Na
tional Society of Scabbard and
Blade, military honorary, at a
dawn ceremony Sunday after suc
cessfully completing a night prob
lem that began 8 p.m. Saturday.
Also formally initiated as asso
ciate advisor to the Penn State
chapter was Major John Stewart.
AC. who will assist CarPtain Har
old W. Yount, CE.
The cadets initiated were Rob
ert Anderson. Thomas Botsford.
Lynn Christian, George Dorrance.
Norman Farrell. Robert Harbison.
Howard Hagler. John Holmes.
Robert Lauer. Donald Miller,
Thomas Monaghan. Richard Weil.
and Melvin Widrow.
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