PAGE TWO Give It A Chance ! The crux of the barber shop problem in State College seems to be that none of the barbers is willing to see if his business will fall off if he accepts Negro patronage. The Daily Collegian and CORE earnestly believe that any one barber can even increase the volume of business in his shop at this time by opening his chairs to a non-dis criminatory policy. Surely the plan at least deserves a trial. "Why do you waste your time fighting for an issue that will benefit, at the most, only 20 or 30 students?" a barber asked yesterday. "And what assurance do I have that student support is behind this?" The answer to the first question is as has been stated before. As long as one bit of discrimination exists in State College, certain citizens are denied rights to a public service only because the pigmentation of their skin differs from that of the majority. Other businesses in town have found that it is unnecessary. Support of All-College Cabinet, influential campus and town groups behind the CORE program answers the other question emphatically. It is not the desire of the backers of this CORE pro gram to force the barbers into a situation that wou d njure their means of livelihood. All they ask is the chance to prove that discrimination does not exist among students and townspeople. It is the duty of each person who believes that the pro= gram of non-discrimination can succeed, to stand up and be :•ounted and tell his barber now !—BIF rfly JcaJted Jai, ,-1 o,ys ago, 1. st summer we think, a man dashed up to us r.. e walking down an alley somewhere between Beaver and Ister. 'll-..:q's as mar as we can get to describing it because the 11 E1' Lo- , n't seen. to have a name. Anyway all the guys from the • All Ileuse will krcw v hat we mean because they use it as a kind short-cut to get on campus. We say kind of because a scien 'c survey recently determined al .0136 seconds can be saved using this short-cut. In other rds it take- .0436 seconds 'gt r if you don't use it. At any e that's the alley we mean twhaddya mean you n' t remember any man) turned ~ t to be Mr. Hoffman. He does . melting in the Registrar's of.- ic:. Anymvy Mr. Hoffman said to us, "See that sidewalk you're •;mling, on?" - That's not cement, you know?" "It isn't?" "It's concrete." Upon hearing this we kicked it a few times and naturally dis covered that it was concrete. "Yes," said Mr. Hoffman, "con crete blocks. These were the first non-wooden sidewalks in State College. Years ago students used to tear up all the sidewalks in town after winning a Pcotball game. At first the townspeople themselves replaced them with other wooden sidewalks. After a while they complained to the Col lege and the College replaced the wocden ones with these concrete things. This made the citizens happy, and the next thing you know some of them were tearing up the sidewalks themselves. Sometimes they didn't even wait for a football game." We were reminded of this in teresting bit of history recently AT PENN STATE SELMA LAMPERT smokes CHESTERFIELDS Selma says: "Chesterfields s a lisf y my cigarette taste thrills, arc mild er on my throat, and are top, on my smoking pleasure re quest list." A nation-wide survey shows Chesterfields are TOPS with College Students from coast to-coast. By Dave Adelman as we took a mid-winter stroll throuih Hort Woods. We won dered how many other apparently rdinary things had similarly overlooked histories. We were alone in the woods and it sud- •_'enly occurred to us that this place, this very place we were so casually strolling through, might once have been a bloody Indian battle ground. Think of it, we said to ourselves. Indians and set lers knocking each other's brains out and lifting each other's scalps (there was no discrimination then) right where we are now standing. It was fascinating. At this moment a caretaker ap peared on the horizon, and breath_ lossly running up to him we de manded, "Was this once a bloody Indian battle ground where In dians and settlers knocked each other's brains out and lifted each other's scalps?" "No," he said, "it wasn't." NOW AT YOUR WARNFP HEATER tocOgl .. ( liveabas a ta•ara Iv ot . ll 0. 01 OS 1,04 E -- Stakt io ' i $ 4 o.spii..o ' oo LARRY V' P' :°s n ixf.3 4 V.lO .- __,. . tfC 0°1'1" oVcte 4'14 C d i jp. .-- . _ ------ ~4 \ ARff-30.....„ , ... ~,,,... ~..., ME DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA ~~ ~~'".!~ Letters to the Eal,tor's Mail Call .mowu De limited to 150 words so that 11 comributors may be given apace. the editor reserves the right to print iii part all letters over that limit. Let ters must be signed and the address ind telephone number given. Names will be withheld from publication if requested. A New Party Is Called TO THE E..01.1:0R: Many have been wondering if we were going to have a one-party system or if another parLy would be formed. I, too, have been wondering what was going to happen. In the more recent past, I have been asked by many students what I thought should have been done and what / was going to do personally. 1 was of the opinion that my in politics were over, but on' ..nal analysis, I have come to the conclusion that if I could be of any help to Student Government, .t was my responsibility. A meeting was called for Sun day evening and it was decided chat something had to be done. the first step was to organize a Inew party. Another meeting is to be held in 405 Old Main, 7 p.m. Sunday. I have accepted the responsibil- FOR FOOD AND SERVICE THAT YOU'LL LlKE ittany Dell. • SANDWICHES AND SNACKS "TO GO" • SEALTEST ICE CREAM • PARTY NEEDS Across from Atherton Hall PHONE 3947 "Yes sir. I can always tell when they have a big dance coming up at the College!" 'Editor's Mail call ~:-~- f,. ity of temporary (and only tem porary) chairmen. Now then, what can you do? Here is your opportunity to ex press your opinion and help to create a functional campus politi cal party. This is not to be a meeting of pressure groups or a special in terest organization. It is to be one filled with the spirit of coopera tion—for a Better Penn State. —Eugene M. Fulmer Origin of Nittany TO THE EDITOR: Enclosed is a clipping which appeared shortly before the Penn State-SMU same on the sports page of the Phila delphia Evening Bulletin and which I believe of interest to the eaders: • Know where the name "Nit tany" in Nittany Lions comes from? Actually in modern usage the Nittany Mountains near State College, but the original name was Nita-a-nee, a legen dary Indian maiden whose ro mantic frustration caused her to leap from the peak of the mountain that her name naw identifies. —Joyce F. Jacobson. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1948 CALENDAR Friday. February 27 PENN State Bible Fellowship. 200 CH. 7:30 p.m. WESTMINSTER F o u n d a lion. Couples' Club. Fireside Rn'rn. 7:30 p.m. At the Movies CATHAUM—The Other Love. STATE—The Swordsman. NITTANY—Mildred Pierce. College Hospital Admitted Thursday: George Lukacs. Discharged Thursday: John Wilk. Chester Konnen•hauer. College Placement Allied Chemical and Dye Cor poration, Feb. 27, eighth semester men from Organic Chem., Phys. Chem., and men and women in Chem. and Com. Chem. Bell System. March 1-4, eighth semester men from lE. EE. ME. rNE DAILY COLLEGIAN Successor to the Free Lance. est IF7I Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings during the College year by the staff of the Daily Collegian of the Pennsylvar.la 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 schoc,l year. Alan W. Ostar - Donald W. Ellis Man Ed., Ben 1. French, Jr.; News Ed., Roberta Hutchison; Sports Ed., Ted Rubin ; Ass't. Sports Ed., Dave Adelman; Feature Ed., Eleanor Fehnel ; Woman's Ed., Marjorie Mousley. Photo Ed., Bennett Fairorth; Wire Ed., Howard Back ; Senior Board, Janet Adler, Helen Lewis, Helen Reed, Richard Sarge. J. Arthur Stober, Peter Warker. Ad. Dir.. Spencer Saheckter ; Local Ad. Mgr.. Barbara Reefer; Ass't. Bus. Mgr., Jack Strickland; Co-Circ. Mgrs., William H. Frazier, David Lambert; Sec.. Mary Lou Callahan; Clais. Ad. Mgr., Lucille Martin; Prom. Mgr., Mi chael --Horan. Managing Editor ______ Loretta Neville Assistant Tom Morgan News Editor Elliot Shapiro Assistant Dick Broseman Copy Editor _______ ___ Selma Zaaofsky Assistant Dot Ifunaberger 4E 0 . , HOW GOOD A SPORTS FAN wee pou? • How do hot dogs affect the pay of baseball players? • Who'll grab Jack Kramer's amateur tennis crown? •Who is the superman who threatens U.S. Olympic track laurels? •What does a "king-size" doorway have to do with basketball scores? * Name the "Big 4" threaten ing golfer Bobby Locke! • Who won the bitter battle for our top college football Brush up on all the answers. Read Bill Fay's new, lively sports feature exclusively in Collier's every week. Keep ahead of the headlines with the brilliant young maker of scoops. Happy cramming With fO'Ar NOW EVERY WEEK IN Collier's Got your copy •uch Frillboy •t your coll•go book ator• or newsstand. Ten waft. Edltoi - Bus. Mgr.
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