PAGE TWO Just a gentle reminder to the 93 per cent of the students of Penn State who indicated that they were desirous of having a cooperative store estab lished on campus—see your local trustees and state legislators while you are home on vacation. Tell them what a co-op means to the children of taxpayers of Pennsylvania who wish to take ad vantage of the reduced cost of an education at a state-supported , institution Tell them how students at many other colleges and universities save as much a s one-third on the many items which are so necessary to obtain an education. Tell them how a co-op is not in opposition to private enterprise, but actually strengthens the American system which is based on competition, not monopoly. Tell your parents t o use their influence as tax payers to support a co-op at Penn State. And be sure and not forget to wish the trustees and legislators a Merry Christmas with the hope Are They Going? hvicience ana coup aini of Cotton Bowl ticket scalping by members 0f the stunent body have Lactieu the Daily Collegian. A ithilac.eipnia paper carried a report that one person was aisle to purchase 2,0 ducats for the game on the black market in that city. Even other stu dents have been forced to pay outrageous prices for tickets to the New Year' s Day grid contest. Many of these students were part of the hundreds whose applications were turned down in the recent lottery. At the moment, the lottery seemed to be the fairest method of distributing the limited n umber of available tickets. Many had entered requests for four tickets and it was felt that these repre sented parties traveling together. Whe n the ap plications were accepted, the number of tickets available was not known. With 3000 requests alrea'y in, it was decided by a student group that 1200 ticket applications should be drawn at random. Undoubtedly, many of the applicants never plan ned to make the long journey. Others expected to go to the game and pay their expenses by selling the extra tickets. Admittedly, it takes strong prin ciples to turn down an offer cif $4O for a $4.40 ducat but perhaps the possible repercussions are n ot taken into consideration. The Editor of the Daily Colle gian, All-College President. and Athletic Associa tion President talked for sometime to convince College officials that a large number of stu( 4 ents were planning to make the trip. Alumni ticket allocations were stricter than student limitation?. Very few of the alumni tick ets will hit the scalars' nalms sinre the requests were cher'•ed and rlouble-checked. Man. , eager alumni will also not be able to make the trio. One system which rould be osed in the future is the plan devised at Geortzia Tech. There. siticientg receints instead of tiolreic f-om the .A A trice. These -trot , cv-I - i'inrter . l en,. I;clrotq rctior ttm con 4 eo in tbis city vt‘ - ‘ere the frttme "laved. , T,4 „ .:—.1 , ti 0n cards are renuired as identific-tion at 111 , t time. roltee-,friet-tc• v .:11 1 , 0 border t, C`rnV;nrP of frn• iipl-otc 4 n frpines in the ftitore leFs Fenee vvill be nv , n-hie to the Tthea col , Tit of these <l ,,, fentc at 0. , e" ,, f 4 "n ^ , .. 1 T -,, . 1 and ~r nnare it --:th th. Inn() who bou ,, h+ t:,4rnt- While You're Home.. -B IF THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA that next Christmas you will have more money to Spend on presents. On behalf of the Daily Collegian staff, vA wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Cotton Bowl. Editor's Mai!call Karver Could Run Anyhow TO Ti-LE 1 have noted several letters and editorials devote° to the subject of the partici pation of Jerry Karver in the Sugar Bowl mile. There is perhaps one point you have not, considered. Bluntly stated: Jerry Karver could accept an invi tation to the Sugar Bowl mile no matter what the decision of the College. I'd wager that the Senate Committee dug up the rule concerning individual participation to save face. It is known that Jerry Karver is the number one candidate for the Olympic mile. It is.also known that' the winner of the Sugar Bowl mile will gain considerable ground towarK:s clinching an Olympic berth. Since Karver has accepted the invitation and had made up his mind to run, the only thing the Senate Committee could do was rule him ineligible for fur ther competition as a representative of the College. This would have meant a serious blow to Chick Werner and the varsity track team as well as con siderable unfavorable publicity for the College. The New York Athletic Club would be happy to have Karver run under its colors so that he would - dill be active in AAU track. Finally, I note that you say the College is pay. ing Karver's expenses to make the trip. My brother competed at the Sugar Bowl before the war and his expenses were un'erwritten by the Sugar Bowl, not by the college he attended. I'll admit that does not necessarily hold today. Personally , I think Jerry Karver is a fine fellow. He is well-liked by his team-mates and popular with trackmen throughout the country. Why don't you find somethintg else to editorialize? • Personally we, too, think that Jerry Karver is a fine fellow, and the editorial you are think ing of was in on way intended as derogatory to him. It in our belief that Karver woul ' not give up his eligibility on the track team to partciipate in the Suaar Bowl. Karver should be given oven, opportunity to nrove to the Olympic iudaes that he is one of the nation's outstanding milers, however, he should n't do it ac a representative of Penn State when the principles were uphel ' when the boxing and soccer teams were refused permissions to partici nata in the South. Nor, were they violated when the Cotton Bowl corr.ntad In let Negroes accom pany the Lion football squad. Tt is within the power o f the Senate Committae to allow Karver to compete unattached in the Sugar Bowl mile run without losing his II certainly sounds like discrimination when some teams are denied permission to compete under 'iscriminatory rules, while at the same time an indiv;d , lal is allowed to represent Penn State under the same regulations. Editorials and features in The Daily Col legian reflect the opinions of the writer. They make no claim to represent student or College opinion. An unsigned editorials are by the editor. To All the Boys Yours truly, Name W;thheld wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Hurry Back! HOWARD'S One Man's Mea A Christmas Story We were sitting in the Collegian office the other night, smoking our favorite pipe and strumming "Fight On, State" on our old beat-up banjo when the phone rang. It was Rhincas T. Glockenspiel, Collegian's feline authority on Christmas folklore. Inc. ~.• A r ki ' "Come on over," he invited. 2 X 7 - : - , . , ,S. -,.. "I'm decorating my Christmas fl ‘ 1 1i0 . 1k=.•,.',!*.- - - tree and I've some home-made ,: • ~, , - . ?:-AN` , 1!\ egg nog that's out of this world." '• ,•' - \‘' "Sound's good, Phineas," we - , • ,-; ..\:. replied. "We'll be right over." -- A little later we knocked on Pi sv 'TOR_ the little fellow's door in Pollock '' ' ' Circle The room was a sight to - behold—all decorated up with holly, mistletoe, and sprigs from the pine tree in the far corner. "You go all-out for Christmas, don't you, Phineas?" we asked him as we settled down in one of the Morris chairs furnished by the College. . s "Yes, I do," he agreed. "The Christmas spirit seems to do something to everyone about this time of the year. Too bad it doesn't last longer than just a week or two. By the way, did you hear that Santa Claus is being investigated by the House Un- American Activities Committee because he wears a RED suit?" A group of carolers were serenading outside our window. "Isn't that fine?" Phineas said softly. "But to get back to why I called you over. I want to tell you a little Christmas story. It's about a little boy and girl who didn't believe in Santa Claus or even the spirit of Christmas! One day they went to their father, a rich busi nessman, and asked him for the present they wanted very badly. The father, a wise old man, knew that the little boy and girl wanted and needed the gift very badly. But the - father wanted to teach the little boy and girl a les son and besides the present they had asked for was an object that, if misused, could be very dangerous to the father. So he told them this, 'lf you are a good little boy and girl, someday you may wake up and find that Santa Claus has put that present in your stockings.' "The little boy and girl weren't so dumb 'either. They realized that either they played ball with the old man or they wouldn't get that present. So they let on that they believed in Santa Claus and Christmas and played the game according to Hoyle. "Come Christmas Eve, they hung up their stockings and went to bed, just like their father had told them. And lo and behold, the next morning they went downstairs and were they surprised when they saw their stockings!" "Did Santa really give them the present they had asked for?" we asked anxiously. "Like Hell he did! There wasn't a damn thing in those stock ings. And the moral of this little Christmas story is this—if the students ever expect to get anything for themselves, they'd better go out and get it themselves for it's certain that neither Santa Claus nor the Board of Trustees is going to leave either a co-op or a Student Union in their stockings!" College Calendars Available at SU Penn State engagement calen dars may still be obtained at Stu dent Union desk in Old Main, George Donovan, Student Union manager, said today. The calendars, ideal as Christ mas gifts, feature over 50 photo graphs of the campus and sur rounding countryside, during each season of the year. These photos were selected from sev ral hundred taken by local pho tographers during the past few years. A durable spiral binding in sures that the calendar, which captures the College spirit, will last for the entire year. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1947 By Ben French THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Successor to the Free Lance. est 187', Published Tuesday through Friday mornings during the College year by the staff 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 March 3, 1879 $2.50 a semester; $4.25 the school year. Man. Ed., Lawrence G. Foster; News Ed., Dick Sarge: Sports Ed.. Ted Rubin; Feature-Photo Ed.. Dave Adelman; Women's Ed.. Kay Badollet; Ass't Women's Ed., Marjorie Mousley Alian W Ostar Donald W Ellis STAFF THIS ISSUE Managing Editor Assistant News Editor Assistant Assistants Advertising Manager_ Assistants - Editor Bus Mgr. Arnold Certon _Charlotte Seidman _Jim Neiman ____-Joanne Hobbs _Robert: Drucher Barbara Hellman Judy Dantsker -*ES*.
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