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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.
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TUESDAY. OCTOBER 8. 1948
—Disgusted.
Pollock Circle Dorm 12.
Business Manager
Vance C. Klepper
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