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'May No Act'
Tomorrow dawns that Day of Days, when the
ravenous Nittany Lion, with all his loyal cohorts,
treks from his mountain lair, intent on stalking
the Penn Quaker and rending him to bits.
Penn State will literally be on view and on trial
before practically the entire nation. More than
80,000 are expected to watch the game from the
vantage point of Franklin Field stands.
Other thousands will bunch around television
-;creens. Perhaps millions will listen to the broad
cust accounts of the epic battle.
What they hear and see will largely influence
most people's opinion of the College, since they
are unaware of all its other aspects and activities.
We know the players will disport themselves
admirably by hard, clean blocking, tackling and
running. But what about the fans in the stands,
and around the city both before and after the
game?
Unsportsmanlike conduct by the spectators can
destroy the prestige so hardly won on the field.
Radio listeners, for example, unable to see any
alleged "dirty playing" or undetected rule infrac
tions by an opponent, will censure Penn Staters
as poor losers, if unfavorable breaks against the
Blue and White are always greeted with booing.
While such rude conduct in the stands is not
penalized directly, every Penn Stater stands to
lose by it. None of us wants to miss a job oppor
tunity on the grounds that "all Penn Staters are
bum sports." It can happen.
Our behavior in the Quaker City can also influ
ence our future relations with Penn. We should
not take any chances of endangering the continu
ance of a rivalry that means so much to us all.
Property destruction of any kind is always rep
rehensible, and never justifiable under any cir
cumstances. Many persons seem to think that goal
posts are a legitimate exception, but we consider
that attitude childish as well as antedated and
dangerous.
Injuries are inevitable in a goal post skirmish,
but so stupid. Unfortunately, it is the innocent by
:-tander who is all-too-often the victim of the
"fun."
Student leaders can give the reputation of the
College a considerable boost by discouraging acts
of unsportsmanship and destruction. They can and
should exert their influence by dissuading those
intent on showing Penn State in a distorted and
unsavory light.
Let's all make it possible to sing sincerely, "May
no act of ours bring shame to one heart that loves
Thy name," by acting accordingly.
Adult Measures
When students protest certain College rules
through the proper channels, one can see that the
situation is ironed out much faster than in adoles
cent strikes and gripes without an adult appeal
to authority.
Evidence of an adult-like attitude toward the
repeal of a College restriction was the recent
steps taken by the Interfraternity Council to lift
the ban on sophomore women entering un
chaperoned fraternity houses.
Because student organizations appealed to a
student body that had the power to act upon this
rule, their efficient measures soon proved to be
effective.
President of the Women's Student Government
Association, Janet Lyons has expressed her appre
ciation of the efforts of the IFC concerning the
dating code.
"We all realized how weak the code was en
forced in many cases, so this is why the restric
tion on unchaperoned dating for sophomores and
ihe rotating committee of house representatives
visiting fraternities was devised," Miss Lyons
said.
She also added that since the restriction on
sophomore women has been lifted, thanks to the
cooperation of the girls and fellows, we should all
take the responsibility of not allowing the dating
code to slip again.
If student reaction continues in the same manner
toward the IFC periodical checks of fraternity
houses and if the student body itself continues to
help IFC in enforcing the dating code, we shall
prove worthy of our right to express our opinions
un administrative policies.
Maybe this efficient manner of handling a cam
pus ruling which affected all of us, will give a clue
to those, who, in an unorganized manner, attempt
to achieve their desired ends by griping with no
`Tort toward proper action.
01le Batty Collegian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE, at. HITT
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Lew Stone
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-.porta Ed.. Tom Morgan; Edit. Dir. Arni Carton; Feature Ed..
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\eville; Photo Ed.. Betty Gibbons; Co-Promotion Mgr, Selma
.la.ofsky; Senior Board, Claire Lee.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
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Vance C. Klepper
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--Tracy McCormick
--M. ASO
-But We Tried
Well, we're getting a day off for a football game. Three cheers
to the administration. And we stayed in the Nittany valley the day
of the presidential election, which rolls around once every four
years. Once, during a college career!
Now honestly, who are the adults around here anyway? May
be that's why cartoonists portray college students with a sack over
their heads. Because we stay at school instead of going home to
vote. Because we feel we can't afford to miss a four-hour lab or a
blue book, or even a ten-minute quiz. Because we take a day off
for a football game.
It certainly makes us red in the face when our college ad
ministration says no-no to election day, but sends us off with cheers
for a game.
It's all over now—but you can't say we didn't try, in an adult
manner, to exercise our greatest right, as adults.
Thanks, anyway, to the AVC for trying. And thanks to the
College, too.
In the Land of Jim Crow
Ray Sprigle, Pulitzer prize-winning reporter and staff member
of "The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette," recently disguised himself as a
Negro and for four weeks "lived black" in the South among his
fellow Americans. This is the fourth of a series of twelve articles in
which he presents his findings. Mr. Sprigle has changed the names
of persons and places in some instances to protect those involved.
She is worn and aged and bent
beyond her time. Nearly a quarter
of a century•behind a plow and a
mule under blazing Georgia suns
have done that to her.
In a haze of dull despair, this
broken, hopeless Negro farm
woman sits in this little parlor in
Black Atlanta ans tells her tale of
murder.
"When the white folks gave him
back to me he was in his coffin.
I held his head in my hands when
I kissed him. And I felt the broken
pieces of bone under the skin. It
was just like a sackful of little
pieces of bone.
"I put my arms around him for
one last time as he lay there. All
down one side of him there were
no ribs—just pieces that moved
when I held him."
Talking About Husband
That was her husband she was
talking about—Henry Gilbert, 42
years old, Negro farmer, murder
ed by the white folks of Harris
ans Troup Counties, Georgia, May
29, 1947.
Henry Gilbert was victim of the
mores of the white Southerner.
When a Negro kills a white man
and escapes somebody has to pay.
Henry Gilbert just happened to
1 )0 the Negro picked for slaughter.
Sunday night, May 4, Olin
Sands, a white planter, in his
pickup truck caught up with Gus
Davidson, a young Negro with a
bad record among both blacks
and white, driving his father's
car in front of the Union Springs
Baptist Church. Sands accused
him of driving over a calf lying in
the road and began beating the
Negro with a club. The Negro
shot ans killed him.
Henry Gilbert, a demos and
By Ray Sprigle
treasurer of the little Baptist
church, was inside the church
counting the evening's collection.
Mrs. Gilbert and the wives of the
other deacons were waiting in
front. At the sound of the shots
they called their menfolk and
everybody started for home in
short order.
Sheriff Appears
Two weeks later E. V. Hilyer,
Sheriff of Troup County, with two
officers from Harris County, ap
peared at the Gilbert home at
4:30 in the morning. They arrest
ed him on a warrant charging him
with aiding and abetting the es
cape of Gus Davidson, sespite the
fact that a short time before Gil
bert had had Davidson arrested
and jailed for creating a disturb
ance in the church. Davidson, his
father, Lovett Davidson, and their
white employer, Luke Sturdevant,
had all told Gilbert that they'd
get even with him. The officers
drove away with Gilbert just as it
was getting light.
Ans that last glimpse of him
in the early dawn, three gun-hung
white men shepherding him into
their car, was the last time Caro
lyn Gilbert was ever to see her
husband alive. He'd be dead
"when the white folks gave him
back."
For the next ten days Henry
Gilbert drops out of sight while
Georgia law drags him from jail
hurried to Hamilton. She was told
her hsuband has been "carried" to
Columbus, where "the F. 8.1.
wanted to talk to him." Not until
May 29 did Mrs. Gilbert get any
definite word as to where her
husband was being held. That
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State on Display
The greatest weekend of the year is about to
be a reality, giving rise to varied observations and
a few points especially to remember.
The combination of a grid contest between two
well-matched opponents who are classic rivals,
along with a week-end away from the very sug
gestion of academic problems is conducive to the
most expansive celebration.
Last year, our big week-end was in Pittsburgh,
where the memory of our good time is overshad
owed by recollections of the few people whose
idea of a celebration was destroying property and
being a general nuisance.
We must remember that on trips such as these,
Penn State is on display. The few who make the
greatest display of reprehensible action will be
termed as indicative of Penn State in general.
All of us who make the trip this week-end
should be particularly conscious of the impressions
we leave. We'should curb our fellow Penn Staters
when their behavior is not in keeping with the
minimum standards of proper conduct.
• There is absolutely no reason why we cannot
have the best time of the year without undue
destruction or thoughtlessness to others' rights.
Let's all cooperate to make this week-end one
,ve can remember without having a guilty con
-cience about property destroyed or having the
name of Penn State soiled with reference to the
inconsiderate actions of a few.
William Lawless
All-College President
TO THE EDITOR: As a loyal Penn Stater, I
want to say that I consider the action of Mr. Gil
bert, concerning coed cheerleaders, as backward
and reactionary.
thought we were living in a modern world,
but I am beginning to doubt it very much, since
there are still some old fogies in this world that
are living back some twenty years in the past. Does
Mr. Gilbert, graduate manager of athletics, know
that we are living in an age in which the weaker
sex is considered equal to the male, at least in
some respects?
With what earthly reason could• a minority of
alumni. convince him that we, the students of
Penn State, should not have coed cheerleaders? I
do not think that the female cheerleaders have
done anything which would derate the standing of
our College, but I think Mr. Gilbert's action is an
act which can bring disgrace to Penn State, arid
I don't think it is symbolic of the College's char
acter. I think Penn State is a liberal and broad
minded college, but when I hear of acts like Mr.
Gilbert's—l begin to doubt it.
Mr. Gilbert, as a faithful Penn State rooter who
yells his lungs out at every game, I am asking you
to think of us, the students, rather than a few
alumni and let us have our coed cheerleaders.
—Walter F. Munhall.
--Betty Gibbons
Monday, November 8
ENGINEERING STUDENT COUNCIL, 106 ME,
6:45 p.m.
Admitted Wednesday: Tom McDermott, Ralph
Hartman, David Doan and Frances Rogers.
Discharged Wednesday: Israel Dinner and Pat
Pomeroy.
Discharged Thursday: Robert Klein and Robert
Howard.
College Placement
Brown Instrument Co., November 9 and 10,
eighth semester men from EE, ME and Physics.
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Co., November 8 and 9,
eighth semester men from ME, lE, EE. CE, Metal
lurgy and Chem Eng.
Sylvania Electric Co., November 8, eighth se
mester men from EE, ME, Chem Eng, Chem, and
Ceramics.
Armstrong Cork Co., November 11, 12 and 13,
seventh semester men in lE, ME, Ph.D. in Chem
istry, Chem Eng and Physics.
Bell System, November 9, 10 and 11, eighth se
mester men from EE, ME and lE. 8.5., M.S., and
Ph.D. men in EE and Physics.
Associated Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Co.,
November 15 and 16, eighth semester men from
CE, ME, EE. IE and Chem Eng.
Shell Oil Co., November 11 and 12, men gradu
ating in January with B.S. in Physics and Chem,
M.S. in Pet. and Natural Gas Eng, Mining Eng,
Chem Eng, EE, ME, Physics and Chemistry. Ph.D.
candidates in Physics, ME, Physical Colloid or
Analytical Chem.
National Supply Co., November 11 and 12, eighth
semester men in lE, ME and C&F.
General Fireproofing Co.. Youngstown Sheet and
Tube Co., and Timken Roller Bearing Co., eighth
semester men from CE, EE, TE, ME, Arts and Let
ters, C&F. Metallurgy, Mining Eng, Chem Eng,
Physics.
Radio Corporation of 'America, November 17
and 18, seventh and eighth semester men in EE,
ME and Physics.
Armco Steel Corp., November 18 and 19, sev
enth and eighth semester men from CE, lE, ME
and Metallurgy.
Student Employment
Students interested in working as substitute
waiters and dishwashers, etc., over the week-ends.
Girls for light housework.
Veteran's wife to make beds.
At the Movies
ety Valve
Ike's an Old Meanie
Collegian Gazette
College Hospital
CATHAUM—Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
STATE—Saxon Charm.
NITTANY--Street Witty No Name.