PACE TWO
Ivory Tower
Mount Nittany’s Vale too easily becomes an
ivory tower to many Penn Staters. Shut up in this
beautiful valley many students soon forget there
is a world stretching beyond those green hills.
At the beginning of the semester you’ll probably
read the newspapers—even glancing at the front
page before turning to the sports section.
Even this minimum readership soon seems to
wear away. Studies will take up more of your
time. That extra five minutes of sleep, that you
need so desperately, will deprive you of your usual
chance to grab a paper on your way to class.
Little by little the hills close in on you. Before
you know it you’re locked in vour ivory tower.
Perhaps the World Series will penetrate to the
tower—if there’s no important football game at
the same time. And perhaps you’ll even know how
close you are to being drafted. But for the most
part vour horizons will be bounded by Boalsburg
and New Beaver Field. _
It’s not entirely your fault, either. The Daily
Collegian must take some of the blame. As a news
paper it should keep you informed on national and
international news. .
The Collegian tries: In the regular editions,
starting Tuesdav. you’ll find a column devoted to
late news. Limitations of various kinds, however,
make it impossible to m&ke this column as exten
sive and complete as it should be.
You can use this column, though, as a step
ladder to climb down from your ivory tower. Read
this column and then follow up its hints on the
radio and in the city newspapers.
College students are. theoretically, the leaders
of their generation. In order to lead, though, you
must know where vou are going. You must know
something about the world and your country.
The next few months have been called one of
the most decisive periods in the historv of the
world. To get out of touch with the news now
should be unthinkable.
Take a look at some of the things that the next
few months mav decide. Can you afford to get out
of touch with them?
Here is a partial list of some of the things you
could watch developing: the presidential elec
tions. the TIN General Assembly, the Berlin prob
lem, the “Cold War,” inflation in the United States,
the Palestine problem, the reconstruction of Ger
many. the soread of Communism in the Far East.
Each of them affects students—as members of
the world community and citizens of the United
States.
Stay out of that ivory tower!
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Successor to THE FREE LANCE, est. 1877
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive dur
ing 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. Subscriptions —s2 a semester, $4 the
school year.
Represented for national advertising by National Advertis
ing Service, Madison Ave., New York, N.V. Chicago, Boston,
TjOa Angeles, San Francisco.
Editor
Business Manager
Managing Ed.. Elliot Shaniro; News Ed.. Malcolm
White; Snorts Ed.. Tom Morgan; Edit Dir., Arni
Oerton; Feature Ed.. Jo Fox; Society Ed., Frances
Keeney; Asst. Soc. Ed., Claire Lee; Wire Ed.. Lois
Bloomquist; Photo Ed., Betty Gibbons; Co-Prom.
Mgr.. Selma Zasofsky; Senior Board, Elaine Nel
son. TiOretta Neville.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Managing Editor
News Editor ...
Sports Editor. .. .
Society Editor .
Advertising Manager
Circulation Manager Brett Kranieh
Editorial Assistants—John Bonnell, Sy Barash.
Betty Gibbons. Anna Keller. Elliot Krane, Red
Both. George Vadasz, Dottie Werlinich.
Advertising Assistants—Bobbie Keefer, Maggie'
Hifcce. Marlin Weaver, Betty Jane Hower, Louis
Gilbert. Ruth Edlestein.
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Orientation Critique
Just how well has Orientation Week fulfilled its purpose, of in
tegrating new students into the life ar.d customs of the Penn Sta'e
campus? Who is more qualified to say than those for whom the ef
fort has been expended?
Now, while the impressions of the week are still warm in your
memory, is the time fo r you to let us know honestly of what value
your time has been to you. For next year, and especially the year
aflei that, it will be your task to orient the newcomers.
Very likely, in fact, you wiil be confronted with the immeas
urably more important and more difficult task of welcoming fresh
men, who will be making the transition directly from high school
without the benefit of any college life or any indirect “orientation”
into things Penn State.
Last year, student planners were under a terrific handicap in
their attempts to improve orientation—where those improvements
entailed ohanges over the previous 20 years’ programs.
Your candid appraisal, coming at this most opportune time, will
be f orwarded to the administration’s Orientation Week Committee,
vhkh should be mosit forcefully impressed.
Orientation Bulletin
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
REGISTRATION, Recreation Hall, 8 a.m. to 12 noon, .1:30 to
5 p.m.
SONG Practice, all new students except Chem and Phys, Edu
cation and Liberal Arts, Schwab, 11 a.m.
PAN Hel and IWA, all new women, Schwab, 7 p.m.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
GLEE CLUB tryouts, sophomore men, 200 Carnegie Hall, 1 to
4 p.m.
TRADITIONS, all new women. Schwab. 7 p.m.
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 24
WRA Open all new women White Hall, 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
ALL-COLLEGE Mixer, all students invited, free, Rec Hall,
8 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22,1948
Pioneers
Pioneers, O Pioneers.
Class of ’5l will have a chance to blaze the trail
in a new enterprise which should grow into a
famed tradition—a flash card rooting section.
Through the use of brilliant blue and white
cards against a background of white shirts and
blouses, many spectacular and colorful designs
and maneuvers will augment the spirit and en
thusiasm of this season’s football games.
Consider the potentialities. Imagine a Nittany
Lion chasing a Temple Owl or a Bucknell Bison,
or squeezing a Syracuse Orange—all in motion
and in vivid color. Of course such intricate maneu
vers are many years in the future, still in the
dream stage. Much hard work and devoted en
thusiasm are required to change the vision into
an actuality.
A good beginning is of the utmost importance
to the eventual success of such an ambitious un
dertaking. The necessary hard work will, how
ever, be amply rewarded by the resultant increase
in school spirit, and in the favorable publicity the
College should receive.
The opportunity—and the burden and responsi
bility—of participating as rooters falls to the
sophomores for a very good reason.
When planning long-range projects, one of the
first requisites is to provide for continuity of
trained and interested leaders. Since you sopho
mores will be here longer than the rest of us, you
will naturally be the ones most able to continue
and improve the organization.
Mistakes will be made this first season, and
inefficiency will be evident; it will be up to the
sophomores to correct these mistakes _in _ the
next two years and increase the organization’s
efficiency.
It is our hope that eventually, the card rooting
section will be as well-organized and active a
group as the publications, dramatic, governmental
and musical organizations now are. After all, each
of them started out in the same way—with noth
ing but an idea and the will to succeed and
improve.
As an added incentive to sophomores hesitant
about joining, section L will be reserved for
signed-up rooters only. This -section, extending
from the 23 to the 35 yard line, is the closest to
the mid-field stripe of the three sophomore
sections.
You won’t be assigned specific seats in the sec
tion, either, but will be permitted to sit with your
friends, wherever you please. Furthermore, the
maneuver instructions will be so simple that no
practice sessions will be required.
So when the call is made next week, offer your
services to demonstrate your school spirit, to help
spread the College’s fame or to get a better seat
without going to New Beaver Field before noon.
But volunteer. Remember, it will be first come,
first admitted.
The Bambino
A little over a month ago baseball’s all-time
great, Babe Ruth, lay pale and wasted in .death.
Any tribute paid to him would sound as hollow
as the taoping'of a gourd when compared to the
mighty deeds which stand as permanent me
morials to the Babe.
The passing of the Bambino, baseball’s brightest
star, and a man as American as apple pie, was
mourned by people all over the country. Millions
of words were printed and spoken in tribute to
Mr. Baseball.
Now people all over the nation are streaming
into moving picture theaters to see and to idolize
the Babe in the new film “The Babe Ruth Story.”
The film gets off to a good start . . . but it is
cornv, it is hammy. It is inaccurate in detail and
in viewpoint. It makes a sweet sticky goo out of
one of the greatest baseball players of all time.
The best critics condemn it as unanimously as
Ho the sportswriters who knew the real Babe from
the day he came up as a rookie with the Baltimore
Orioles.
It is no more the Babe Ruth story than it is the
Frank Merriwell story. But it will make millions
for its producers. After all that’s what counts. . . .
—by Georg* Vadaiz.
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