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APO Means Service
According to Webster, service is defined as the
■rformance of labor for the benefit of another.
With just that in mind Alpha Phi Omega, a
national service fraternity, was re-activated on
i-ampus recently. The local chapter was organized
in 1932 but has been inactive since the beginning
■f the recent world conflict.
After the Michigan State football game this
ear, Spartan students and grid members charged
liat Penn State students were not hospitable, in
'act a Michigan State editorial writer stated that
the Spartans hope to teach Penn State two les
ons next year, one on the gridiron and one in
hospitality.
With this as their incentive, forty members were
(edged by Alpha Phi Omega to plan a service
■ ampaign which would extend courtesy to visiting
• •.udents and athletes.
First project of APO was the meeting, by mem
bers of the fraternity, of the Temple football team
recently. Owl football players were met and wel
comed at Rec Hall, escorted around the campus
■md also guided to and from the playing field be
ore and after the game and at the half.
Twelve members participated and acted as
aides. They were identified by a white arm band
.-ith the Greek letters APO and a big “S" in the
enter. This of course stood for service and not
State as many had thought.
This act of courtesy was warmly received by
Owl football members and Harold Gilbert, grad
uate manager of athletics, and William Lawless,
Mi-College president, endorsed this plan of ex
tending hospitality to visiting athletes.
Alpha Phi Omega actually is a national service
fraternity for former boy scouts and therefore this
is a main prerequisite for joining the fraternity.
Many of the members are now working with
scouting in the State College area.
Another factor for membership is a sincere de
ire to serve others. Both fraternity men and inde
pendent men may belong to Alpha Phi Omega.
There is no discrimination as to race, color, re
igion or nationality.
Members are now performing many tasks of a
ervice nature which benefit the College, its stu
dents, faculty and administration. A tip of the hat
' in order for Alpha Phi Omega.
In Body, But Spirit--?
Nearly 3000 students went to the Pitt game, but
vnere were they between 2 and 4 p.m. Saturday?
i’he logical answer is Pitt Stadium, but from the
volume and effectiveness of the cheering section
■hey could have remained in State College.
The spirit displayed at Pitt was by far the worst
d the year. There were too few cheers and when
hey were called for they were barely audible.
Vhen the tides of fortune turned against Penn
State it seemed that all the fair weather rooters
nad gone home. All of this was in contrast to the
xeellent unity and spirit of the Pitt rooters.
In most football broadcasts the radio announcer
vill try to pick up a few of the cheers. He would
iave had a very difficult time indeed trying to
■ ick up a cheer from the Penn State cheering sec
' tn if he had wanted to on Saturday.
It appears that the student body uses the foot
.;11 weekends to have a good time only and for
ts that its big job is to support the team.
In any post mortem of the game it would seem
>nly fair to mention the complete lack of spirit,
•heering, and support of the team on the part of
he student body. There were enough State stu
!-nts present in Pitt Stadium to match the fine
'itt cheering section, but to our chagrin—failed
anpletely. —Dollie Werlinich.
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TO THE EDITOR: I thought journalism suf
fered enough with its election blunder, but the
Collegian pours on a little more oil. Saturday’s
Collegian had room for only football news and
advertisements, even though we had several hun
dred guests from many schools attending an Inter
national Relations Club conference. Our visitors
didn’t rate one line of type in the issue of rehashed
football “news.”
One of the IRC delegates asked if the Collegian
was edited by a Hollywood press agent.'-1 told him
the Collegian wanted to get even with the hat men
for their treatment of our Michigan State visitors
a few weeks ago. I will be watching for your ex
planation of this one. Make it good.
• Elaborate plans for “remaking" the front
page of Saturday's Collegian to provide an IRC
special were dropped because of IRC's inability
or unwillingness to defray the very reasonable
extra expense.
Saturday's Collegian was designed primarily
for distribution at Pitt Stadium.
News of the convention and a complete pro
gram appeared in Thursday's and Friday's issues,
while yesterday's presented full coverage of the
proceedings.
Any mention of Collegian's "getting even"
with anybody is absurd in itself, but in this case
we confess a complete lack of knowledge about
any unusual treatment of the Michigan State
visitors by any hat men.
TO THE EDITOR: Here follows the questions
which I put before the Veterans Administration
in Wilkes-Barre. On campus, the V.A. counselor
didn’t know the answers. Perhaps you can help
me out, for I should like to know the answers.
I laid out money for authorized books for which
I was supposed to be reimbursed by the govern
ment. However, the College dipped into the re
imbursement and helped themselved to $4.10. How
and why may the Pennsylvania State College do
this for what they refer to as non-college fees?
And if the fees are compulsory, and apparently
they must be damn important if a vet’s integrity
won’t stand $4.10 worth of credit from the Col
lege, Arhy isn’t the V.A. standing the costs as a
part of the $5OO a year tuition and related fees
allowance?
Needless to say, every G.I. here would like the
answers to this puzzler. The situation could stand
some research.
_— Joseph H. Robbins.
• The Veterans Administration pays only fees
assessed by the College. Those levied by the
student body (for which the College acts as a
collection agency) are not considered as essen
tial to the pursuit of an educalir-a, and hence
non-payable by the VA.
The results of a comprehensive research into
the disposition of the "$5OO tuition allowance"
will be published in the Daily Collegian after
the Thanksgiving vacation.
Collegian Gazette
Admitted Monday: James Simpson, Walter Dif
fenderfer and T. R. Bunnell.
Discharged Tuesday: Walter Diffenderfer and
T. R. Bunnell.
should be made in 204 Old Main Arrangements for interview*
at once.
Standard Oil Company of Indiana, November
30, Ph.D. candidates who will receive their de
grees during 1949 in Chem Eng and Chemistry.
Standard Oil Company of Indiana, December 1
and 2, seventh and eighth semester men in ME
and CE.
Standard Oil Company of Indiana, November
30, Graduate students in ME.
S. S. Kresge Co., December 6, eighth semester
men in C&F and Arts & Letters.
U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, December 7
and 8, seventh and eighth .semester men and
women in CE, EE, lE, ME, Metallurgy, Chem Eng,
Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics.
Dixie Cup Co., December 7 and 8, eighth semes
ter men in lE, ME, C&F and ADV.
Line Material Co., December 8, eighth semester
students in EE and ME.
Dede Daly
IRC, Slighted?
—Name withheld.
A Vet's Integrity
College Hospital
College Placement
Turkey in the Straw
Shigley Retires
After 25 Years
Dr. James F. Shigley has re
tired as veterinarian and profes
sor of animal husbandry at the
Pennsylvania State College after
25 years of service.
A native of Michigan, Dr. Shig
ley came to Penn State in 1923
to teach veterinary science. In
addition to his regular classroom
duties, he was responsible for the
health of the College herds and
flocks, handling clinical duties
until two years ago.
Dr. Shigley organized the pre
veterinary curriculum at Penn
State in 1929 and also organized
and developed the animal path
ology unit at the College.
During his years as College
veterinarian, Dr. Shigley came to
the rescue of many sick and in
jured animals. He saved wire,
nails, staples, washers, and even
a six-inch calcium' ball that he
removed from the rumen of a
cow.
One of the strangest items he
removed was a dime.
“People could truly say I oper
ated on a cow for a dime,” Dr.
Shigley says jokingly.
Poor Completes
Plans for Mural
Henry Varnum Poor, in a let
ter to M. S. Osborne, chairman
of the Mural Committee at the
College, says he has completed
plans for the remainder of the
mural in Old Main and will begin
work here on December 1.
Poor said that he has had a
chance to develop the plans with
leisure and feels that the mural
may develop into his best piece
of work. He will resume his work
with the panel on the west wall
which will depict Pennsylvania’s
treasure in land, crops, and live
stock.
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 2*. 1948
Ag Students
Judge Crops
Three agriculture students and
an alternate represented the Col
lege at the National Intercollegi
ate Crops Judging Contest m
Kansas City, Mo., yesterday.
The team consists of J. Austin
Fides, William C. Gerhart and
James C. Sentz, with William E.
Angstadt as alternate. Prof. J.
Stanley Cobb is their coach.
Later this week the team will
move on to Chicago to participate
in the Collegiate Crop Judging
Contest of the 26th International
Grain and Hay Show, which is
scheduled as part of the Interna
tional Live Stock Exposition to
be held in the Chicago Stock
Yard November 27 to Decem
ber 4.
Graduate Student
Finds New Method
A new method of predicting
maximum usable frequency, the
highest radio frequency that may
be utilized for transmission over
a given path at a given time, has
been reported by Arthur H. Ben
ner, graduate student in electri
cal engineering at the Pennsyl
vania State College.
Operators of radio circuits now
are dependent on the Central
Radio Propagation Laboratories
of the National Bureau of Stand
ards for maximum usable fre
quency data. The material con
sists of charts for three world
zones, published monthly, and
including material assembled
three months in advance of the
month to which they apply.
From an hourly check of the
maximum usable frequency, the
operating frequency for the fol
lowing day could be predicted,
Benner explains, thereby mini
mizing errors inherent in the sys
tem of predicting months in ad
vance.
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