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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."
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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-
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"Yes sir. I can always tell when they have a big dance
coming up at the College!"
'Editor's Mail call
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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.
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$4.25 the schoc,l year.
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