PAGE TWO The *>afly CoT|pg!fn Editorial Page I ilnmim appearing in The Daily Collerfan represent the oplmai.r at me writer. They make claim t« reflect student »r tTnlre ratty eonsensas. Unsigned editorials are written ny the editor. Tickets, Brrr! Have a cough drop, Buddy. If you’ve stopped sniffling long enough to think about the problem of ticket distribution, you must realize that there are ways of side-stepping yesterday’s tiring ordeal. After the Cotton Bowl experimental lottery sys tem resulted in many humorous and sotne not so humorous complications, one would expect the Athletic Association to blossom forth with a more painless allocation method. Instead they’ve re verted to the nrimitivo “first come-first served” system. Thanks to this outmoded method, you may have seen your first Penn State sunrise, or maybe you’re not a coed who because of restriction to the dormi tories until 7 a.m., gained nothing more than an imaginary membership in the “turtle club” for walking the Mall in the record speed of six hours. The solution appears almost too simple. First of all seniority rights should be honored. Applications could be filled out and deposited in boxes at the time of registration. Groups wishing to sit as a unit could place their applications together in one envelope. A limit of one ticket per person would cut into the distasteful practice of "scalping” In case of a ticket shortage, which would be unlikely with the limit imposed, sophomores would be the first cut. Broadminded sophomores will agree that this would be fair. All surplus tickets could be put on open sale. Maybe some imports will be left out, but the students at home will have been treated fairly. Maybe this solution was too obvious to be dis covered before. But there’s still time to install it before Pitt weekend ticket purchases. And while the more industrious will laud the fact that they need not cut morning classes to get priority num bers, we bloodless ones will watch the thermome ter drop and cheer for that extra hour in a warm sack. COLLEGIAN GAZETTE Brief notices om meeting* and other events mast be submitted to The Daily Collegian office in Carnegie Hall by 2 p.m. of the day before the issue in whieh it is desired to appear. Tuesday, October 5, 1948 ENGINEERING Student Council, 106 Main Eng, p.m. EARTH Science Club, 121 Mineral Industries, :30 p.m. RESERVE Officers Association’s College chap ;r, 3 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m. DELTA SIGMA PI, Alpha Tau Omega frater ity house, 7:15 p.m. DRUIDS, 415 Old Main, 7:30 p.m. DELTA SIGMA PI, business meeting, ATO ouse, 7:15 p.m. LA VIE, art staff, 225 Eng. F., 7 p.m. IRC, 2nd floor Lounge, Old Main, 7 p.m. PRE-VET Students, 206 Ag, 7:30 p.m. PI TAU SIGMA, 105 Main Eng, 7 p.m. College Hospital Admitted Saturday: Albert Berger, Harold Chad wick, Robert Hicks. Discharged Saturday: Jerome Lieberson, Wayne DeArment. Admitted Sunday: Jacob Schwalb, Bernard Campbell, Thomas Jenkins, and Marial Boyar. Admitted Monday: Rudolph Matyas. College Placement Service Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., October 11 and 12, eighth semester men from lE, ME, and Chem Eng. Erie Railroad. October 13, eighth semester men from CE, EE, and ME. Corning Glass Works, October 15, eighth semes ter men from ME, and Physics. Arrangements for interviews should be made in 204 Old Main at once. JUST WHAT YOU NEED Sturdy Top Grain Leather NOTEBOOK —Jo L. Fox, KEELER'S Cathaum Building Reaching for the Stars Much has been said and written about the College library in the past few years as enrollment grew by leaps and bounds, while books in the library have increased at a very much slower rate. A scarcity of books is one of the greatest of obstacles that the College must overcome on its road to greatness as a university. The true university, it has been written, is a collection of books. And the saying is in great measure still true. Most lower class courses, in most Schools of the College, do not require too much library work. But these are not the courses that spread the fame of a university. It is the upperclass courses, where learning is combined with widening the field of man’s knowledge that contribute to the great- ness of an institute of learning. And these upperclass courses require much reference to books. Students trying to widen the field of knowldge must know what has gone on before. They must be able to refer to other works written on their particular fields. it is discouraging for a history student, for example, who is working on early American history to find that there is only one copy of a certain vital work he needs—and that is on two-hour re serve for a lower-class history course. Research and original theses, in the more liberal fields espe cially, would be encouraged if general and reference works were more readily available. The major problem, no doubt, is one of the size of the appro priation. There simply isn’t enough money available to the College to provide the necessary books. But the expansion of the library is one of the prerequisites to placing the College on the highest possible educational plane in the country. Where the College belongs. -IT WILL LAST YOU A LIFETIME 3 Ring - In Saddle Brown & Tan Book Shortage TODAY - AT —Elliot Shapiro. Safety. *\Jalve Not Bitter TO THE EDITOR: My application for a ticket to the Penn game was accepted by the Athletic Association, so I’m not bitter. The price was $3.90 plus four and a half hours of standing in line, but I’m not bitter. I do feel, however, that four and a half hours is too much time to ask of a student on a class day, and to remedy this situation I should like to make the following suggestions before Pitt tickets go on sale: 1— Continue to limit the sale to two tickets to eliminate scalping. 2 Instead of letting two overworked girls handle all the applications, set up 25 desks in Rec Hall and get these troops out of the hot sun. 3 Make Philosophy 3 (Ethics) a required course for the coeds who think it shrewder to buck the line in front of their boy friends than to sweat it out with the peons. —Richard M. Smith. No Seconds TO THE EDITOR: While in the Army I ate in many different mess halls, some of which were none too liberal with their food, but not until I ate in the Nittany dining hall did I ever see a man refused a second cup of coffee. Isn’t that carrying the no-seconds rule too far? Most GI mess halls also had mustard and catsup placed on each table, the mess sergeant apparently believing that we could be trusted not to steal them. But Miss Fall has no such faith in the students, and decrees that we eat a flavorless meal such as scrambled eggs, for instance, with no flavoring but salt and pepper. And why not cut down the amount of milk we’re getting? Did the Pollock and Nittany dining halls operate at a loss last semester? The authorities will have a difficult time convincing anyone who ate there of that. • A personal investigation is being conducted by the editor to determine what manner of fire is producing so much smoke. Another letter, pro posing a "Junior Planning Commission" for the College, cannot be published unless the author forwards his name to the editor. At the Movies CATHAUM—WeII Digger’s Daughter. STATE—Tap Roots. NITTANY—Last of the Mohicans. 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, 14 the jchool year. Represented for national advertising by National Advertis ing Service, Madison Avc., New York. N.Y. Chicago. Boston, Los Angeles. San Francisco. Editor Lew Stone Managing Ed., Elliot Shapiro; News Ed., Malcolm White; Sports Ed., Tom Morgan; Edit. Dir, Arni Gerton; Feature Ed., Jo Fox; Society Ed., Frances Keeney; Asst. Soc. Ed., Neville; Wire Ed., Elaine Nelson; Photo Ed,, Betty Gibbons; Co-Promotion Mgr.. Selma Zasofpky: Senior Board, Lois Bloomquist Claire Lee. STAFF THIS ISSUE Managing Editor News Editor Copy Editor TUESDAY. OCTOBER 8. 1948 —Disgusted. Pollock Circle Dorm 12. Business Manager Vance C. Klepper Barb Brown John Bonnell Ray Benfer
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