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An Open Letter to the Faculty
It’s up to you, professor. .
Tihe balance of Penn State prestige m the aca
, • unorld rests in your hands. Only you are re
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Letters from the Editors Mailbox
It Hasn't Died
TO THE EDITOR: May I add ray congratula
gsss^S^fifSrsM.'s
school has so powerful an outlet for student o*nn
““while I was home for the Christinas vacation
IWe article and asked our local news
papers to print it. just to add my bit to the hghi.
; *™ ~ tx mnirA it as strofng &« I wanied to tor
fear t hn * they wouldn't publish if *o I j«**
a few facts —enough to start people thinking and,
*H°fhe campaign is still on when I get home again
I’ll remind the flolks erf it again.
—Florian B. Yanoski
How About It, Girls?
TO THE EDITOR: Chivalry may or may not be
dead, but the much over-rated, friendly, hello
spirit of Penn State certainly is! At least it is care
fully avoided by nearly all Penn State coeds. Why
:s the coed so cold? Apparently any sign of fnend
liness on the part of a male student brings to the
coed’s mind immoral thoughts about his well
meaning intentions. ...
Luckily the mala mind doasn t function this
way or we'd all be silent strangers. Must a man
wear his credentials, signed by his minister, on
his lapel? Or ha* this poet-war surplus of man
hood made the coed so conceited and aloof that
she need follow no code of ethics, etiquette, or
even common courtesy?
In crossing the campus before Christmas vacat
ion two fellows expressed holiday best wishes to
ver a dozen coeds. Not one returned, or even
cknowledged the gesture! This is quite a contrast
o friendly spirit of students and townspeople of
ie colleges attended last year by this year’s sopho
mores. It is true that the townspeople of State Col
'■”e will only shake your right hand when yom
.ft hand is holding a dollar bill, but certainly
ampus friendship isn’t a financial business propo
ition. Or is it?
College Calendar
All calendar items must be in the Daily
Collegian office by 4:30 p.m. on the day pre
ceding publication.
Thursday, January 15
PJ2NN Sujte-SMU Movies, Schwab, 7 pjn
and 7:45 pan
POUL.TKY Club, 104 Hort, 7 p.m.
CHBM Society, 119 New Physics, 7 pm.
SIGMA Xi, lfil Sparks, 7 pan.
TAU Beta Pi, 107 Main Eng, 7 p.m.
AG Group, 100 Hort, 7 pm.
MATH Society, 216 Main Eng, 7 p.m.
CO-OP Joint Committee, 417 Old Main, 7
pm.
YPCA, 41S Old Main, 7:30 p.m. /
HOMEMAKERS’ Group, l'llc HE, 7 p.m.
CHRISTIAN Science o r £ anization > 200 CH,
7:30 p.m.
NEWMAN Cluib Discussion Group, Rectory
J pun.
ALL-COLLEGE Cabinet, 2nd floor, Old
Main, 8 pun.
WRA Aquacade, WH, 8 p.m.
THETA Sigma Phi, 107 Temp, 6:30 p.m.
STUDENTS for Democratic Action, 409 Old
Main, 8:1)5 p.m.
At the Movies
Cathaum —Pirates of Monterey,
State —Stone Flower.
Nittany—Diamond Jim.
College Hospital
Admitted Tuesday: Raymond Alleman,
James Havard, Larry Atkinson.
Admitted Wednesday: Paul Langham, How
ard Lee, Michael Filepas, Jean Frankenfield,
Edgar De Graeve, George Allan.
Placement Service
Equitable Life Insurance, January 19,
eighth semester men, C&F, A&L.
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Janu
ary 16, eighth semester men, C&F, A&L.
Carnation Company, January 20, eighth se
mester men, CE, EE, ME, C&F, San Eng.
Arrangements for interviews should be
made at once in 204 Old Main.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
We can’t help ourselves in this matter of cheat
ing. It’s so easy and the current is too strong. Even
though most of us know better, we resort to devi
ous means to keep a coanfortable position on that
grading curve of yours. Probably 90 percent of us
cheat in one way or another. A popular slogan
says, “Cooperation means graduation.”
So we think it’s up to you, professor. Would it be
too much for you to Cl) make up completely new
exams each time, (2) lock them up tightly until
exam time, and, until we can devise a system of
our own, (3) keep an eagle eye on classroom activ
ity while exams are being given.
You see. professor, since all of us don't har«
ihe opportunity to cheat on equal degrees, this is
the only fair way. Or don't you believe that true
capacity and earnest endeavor should count? You
certainly don't want any Phi Bela phonies.—BHS
How can a co-op, student union, or any other
project be realised if the students aren't even on
IpMking terms? Coed, would do well to read
pSravTtl and 42 of their little blue handbook apd
follow this with a few idle moments with Emily
peel' —Four Disillusioned Peasants
A Word to Mr. Lawther
TO tthjp. EDITOR: What’s the story on Penn
State basketball? This is the question that is both,
ering a few thousand students here who really love
thC Weren't profess to be authorities on basket
ball, but we have bean around since the days of
Cy Kasselman, Lou Spindell, Bobby McDermott,
"Inky" Lautman. Howie Bollerman and a host o*
other guys who really played the game.
We even gave it a try and got up as high as hav
ing “Moose” Krause for a coach. At present,
“Moose” can be found at Notre Dame, so maybe we
know a little bit about the game, maybe. If we
don’t, we graduated in the first quarter of our class
from a reform school and we know that you can’t
pick a lock with a sledge hammer, it doesn’t fit.
When you break it, you don’t even have a sledge
hammer left.
It’s the same way in basketball. You don t build
an iron-clad system and tiien bend five men to fit
it. You can’t twist them, stomp on them, or break
them. In the end, you may not even have a man
left, maybe.
We have seen four members of fbe present
Penn State squad play before they came here.
They played a fasl-movfng game, played it for at
least four years, and now in two months they are
going to forget all that, maybe.
We have seen John Lawther make basketball
players. Herk Baltimore, for instance, is doing a
fine job with the Wilkes-Barre Barons. When Law
ther first got Herk, the boy knew nothing about
the game and that’s good for the Lawther system,
maybe.
On the other hand, we have seen good boys walk
out on Lawther. Whitey Von Neida, for instance,
who led a Pennsylvania pro league in scoring last
year, refused to be broken by the Lawther system.
There are other guys on this campus who are in
the same position as Von Neida. They are good
basketball players, they love the game, and they
would love to play for State but they don’t want to
be broken.
The sooner Lawther gets away from his Stork
Club Ideas, six feet and over, and learns to treat
a basketball player as a man, the sooner he'll
have a team, maybe.
Curse your luck, John, but never your players.
(Names withheld)
Milk and Sandwiches
TO THE EDITOR: Here we are without a con
sumer co-op, without any means whatever ot fur
thering that meager allotment the government
gives us, and Sally’s has the audacity to incur a
charge of 17 cents per pint for milk. It can be
bought for 20 cents a quart in the city.
Milk alone is not the only item for which
exhorbilant price s have been asked. Although the
rest of this town has no bargains in sandwiches
at least they put something between the bread.
Let’s not stand by and allow these fine upright
business men, who are always thinking of our wel
fare, to empty our wallets. Here’s to a college c o-op
and a boycott of Sally’s. — Lou Goodfarb
At Other Co-ops . . .
• As of October, 1946 UCLA had five cooperative
housing units on campus. They also have an all-
Co-op newspaper called “The Chatterbox.”
• Recently the City of Chicago attempted to evict
a campus co-op housing unit at the University of
Chicago but the co-op was successful in the action,
operative pre-kindergarten play school on campus.
Tftis is a non-profit, low cost, self-help co-operative
scheme set up by the veterans and their wives.
• Last year 31 students delegated from five re
gional federations of campus co-operatives met at
Plymouth, Wis., to form the North Aemrican Stu
dent Co-operative League. Headquarters are at
Chicago.
• At the North Dakota Agricultural College, the
members of the student Co-op Assn, are building
a $150,000 housing unit, all student sponsored.
Junior Honorary
Slates Disc Dance
A record dance, spotlighting
William McTurk, noted Thespian
star, as master of ceremonies,
will be given February 7 by
Chimes, newly organized national
women’s honorary.
The College has ben selected as
national headquarters for the
organization.
The mixer, which follows the
Syracuse basketball game in Rec
reation Hall, will be informal,
according to Wilma Brehm and
Lois Resler. co-chairmen. Dance
benefits will be used to aid the
new-born group, formerly Junior
Service Board, with the orienta
tion of incoming sophomore and
transfer women students.
Men students may buy their
tickets for 25 cents from Chimes
members now or at Recreation
Hall dufing registration. Women
students will be admitted free.
Dance Committee*
Formulating dance plans are
the following committees: adver
tising, Jo Fox, Fran Keeney; pub
licity, Mary Hodgeson, Jean
Moore, June- Snyder, Beverly
Williams; tecords, Jane Fouracre,
Janet Gustafson, Ellen Miller,
Lorraine Munz, Jean Nye; tick
ets,, Eleanor Kelly.
A national constitution was
drawn for the embryonic honor
group at a convention held at the
College preceding Christmas va
cation. Ohio State, University of
Pennsylvania, and Temple, whose
delegates attended the conven
tion, have also become charter
members.
Miss Edith Zinn, who served
as Junior Service Board advisor,
will continue in this capacity
with the national group.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAK
Successor to the Free Lance, est. 1877
Published Tuesday through Friday
mornings during the College year by
the staff of the Dally Collegian of the
Pennsylvania State College. Entered as
second class matter July S, 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.
Allan W. Ostar
Donald W. Ellis
Wire Ed., Roberta Hutchison; Senior
Board, Howard Back, Eleanor Fehnel.
Ben 1. French, Helen Lewis, Joan
Peters, J. Arthur Stober.
Ad. Dir., Spencer Scheckter; Local
Ad Man, Barbara Keefer; Ass't. Bus.
Mgr., Jack Strickland; Clrc - . Mgr., Robert
Kranich; Sec., Mary Lou Callahan;
Class Ad Mgr., Lucille Martin.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Managng Editor Ralph TempJce
As&t. Managing Editor
Koecmary Squillante
Janet Adler
Tom Morgan
fewß Editor
Asst. News Kditor
Assistants Myrna Tex, Eliot Krune
Advertising Manager Selma Lampert
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, I®4B
NS A-
(Continued from cage one)
uip to students in State College to
make the program work here.
Curricula reform . suggestions
which could prove valuable to the
College include a student commit
tee to study curricula and make
recommendations to the adminis
tration about courses which are
valuable or worthless to the stu
dent.
A central file of graduate study
opportunities and summer insti
tutes will be set up at national
headquarters along with cpmplete
information on opportunities for
foreign travel.
■ Penn State will materially ben
efit by the exchange of informa
tion on curricula, discrimination,
and graduate study. NSA, how
ever, can only collect and distrib
ute material and set up general
policies. Students here must work
for -any of these suggested re
forms to make them effective on
this campus.
Spencer Scheckter. advertising
manager of the Daily Collegian,
was recently made account execu
tive of the Phillip. Morris Co.. Ltd.,
for State College.
AT PENN STATE
H E LEN
LEWIS
smokes
CHESTERFIELDS
HELEN SAYS:
“I like Chesterfield because
they are packed well and burn
evenly.”
A nation-wide survey shows
that Chesterfields are TOPS
with College Students from
coasl-to-coast.
Editor
Bus. Mgr.