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PAC;F. TWO
Alumni: Advantages
Seniors-about-to-graduate should give serious
consideration to joining the Alumni Association,
for what it will mean to them, and for the service
they can give to the College.
Membership in the association is the only way
to maintain contact with your classmates and the
campus. Through its publications you will be kept
abreast of the many accomplishments of Penn
State and her graduates.
Alumni News, a seven-issue-per-year magazine,
was last year rated among the top ten of its class
throughout the nation. Penn Stater, a quarterly
newspaper, offers round-ups of current news.
Especially outstanding and unique is the Foot
ball News Letter, issued the week after every
football game, with sparkling play-by-plays and
interesting side-notes by Ridge Riley, executive
se"retary of the association.
Personal contacts with classmates and other
alumni, many of whom are in positions of impor
tance and influence, are maintained by the activi
ties of the District Clubs in all parts of the state,
as well as in major cities throughout the country.
Penn State graduates have the unique oppor
tunity to elect trustees from their number. and to
serve on the Alumni Association Council, the Ath
letic Advisory Board and the Board of Trustees.
Students probably seldom consider how much
they really owe to the College—how much that can
never be repaid in dollars. His future financial
and business success, as well as social standing and
security, have been enormously enhanced by his
attendance.
In terms of actual dollars and cents, he is far
ahead. Because of state and federal support, the
student (non-veteran) bears less ttian one-third of
the actual educational expense.
Association membership gives alumni the best
opportunity to advance the College and to reduce
their "debt" by service.
Annual membership is only three dollars a year.
(A graduating class gets a special rate of one dol
lar for the first year, if it votes for a blanket mem
bership from its gift funds.)
Every graduate, whether a member or not, can
materially aid in the association's job of maintain
ing contact, by promptly informing it by postal
card of every change of address.
alte Bat* Collegian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE. est. 1887
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 6, 1954, at the State College. Pa., Post Office under the
act of March S. 1879. Subseetiv lens —s2 a semester. 84 the
school year.
Editor
Lew Stone
Massing Ed.. Elliot Shapiro; News Ed.. Malcolm White;
Sports Ed.,, Tom Mormon: Ed it. Dir. Arni Gerton; Feature Ed.,
Jo Font Society Ed.. Frances Keeney; Amt. Soc. Ed.. ■.oretta
Neville; Photo Ed.. Betty Gibbons; Promotion Mar.. Sehas
ZasoLek": Senior Board. Claire Lee.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Managing Editor_
News Editor
Con, Editor____ __ _
Bob Rose
Assistants __ Helen McNally, Kermit Frank, Deanie Krebs
Advertising Manager Norman llorish
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Assistant __. June Snyder
PICKETS, SHMICKETS
We're Still Going To Have It
Defying the threats and boyott of the powerful
Guy Lombardo Fan Club, the Tru-Blu Sextet will
appear as scheduled for its Jazz Concert at
Schwab, 7:30 tonight. Tickets fifty cents, at
Student Union.
We Will Not Be Intimidated!
Antes Motor Sales
Route 322 Phone 2505
1 / 4 Mile North of State College
Business Manager
' Vance C. Klepper
_Selma ZasofekY
Dede Daly
"I've worked out your schedule. Muelansloski you take
Fundamentals of Phys. Ed., Elementary Phys. Ed., General Phys.
Ed., Advanced Phys. Ed., Finger and Arm Exercises II and 111,
Sports, Recreation and then of course you'll get some credit for
football."
Experiment B-X
The first days of February will mark the opening of experiment
B-X at the College.
It will also mark the test of a program started over a year ago
which will finally be brought to fruition at the beginning of the
spring semester.
B-X is the abbreviation for the Student Book Exchange, an
organization which will eventually develop into the Student Co-
operative Stor.e
The B-X will be small, just a few shelves in the Temporary
Union Building, but it will grow—that is, it will grow if it is sup
ported by the students.
Last year when the plan for a co-op store was brought before
the College Board of Trustees, the Board decided to allow the stu
dents to start a co-op store on a small scale.
If this small store were successful, plans could be made for a
larger and more complete store similar to the co-ops in other col
leges the size of Penn State.
After receiving the green light from the Board, the co-op com
mittee, headed by Lee Burns, secured a loan of $2OOO from All-Col
lge Cabinet, a niche in the TUB, and shelving from the College.
Next semester, the store will sell student supplies and used text
books. Prices will be set by charging the lowest price charged for the
article in the down town stores, but the profits will be returned to
the students purchasing items in the B-X in ratio to the amount of
their purchases.
• Experiment B-X has to succeed or the work and plans of over
a year will be destroyed in a few months. In a survey taken in 1948,
almost the entire student body was in favor of a co-op store at the
College. It's here. Will you be there? —Elliot Krane.
THREE ROOM furnished apartment
with bath, Bellefonte. Write Box
261 State College. Available Feb. lat.
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Twelve days and 900 of us plunge into the out
side world—that huge refrigerator for cooling hot
rock college graduates. Our weapons?—sheepskin,
four years and about $4OOO worth of brain cell
cultivation, and a five-year plan for making a
million.
Pretty darn trite that motto about "time fly
ing" ... "Only yesterday" (another cliche) I re
member running back to a town dorm to don
forgotten Frosh customs. Seniors were a fero
cious lot then. You "buttoned" respectfully or
explained before the merciless inquisition.
"How many pillars in Old Main?" Not to know
this obviously important fact meant the shame of
wearing gal's clothing . . . with a piece of toast
dangling from each ear for the chic effect. Maybe
you'd remember where the Jordan fertility plots
were after you'd Worn a nightshirt, and barrel
slats on your feet for a week.
Tests, tests, tests. Answer "yes" or "no," would
you rather build an igloo than cut out paper dolls?
Very well, then, become a fireman, said the psych
department.
Remember the first big weekend? Charlie Spivak
. . . Queen Ellie Roberts . . . the party rat race.
Around the town on a Saturday night . . . by sea
at Delta Sig, docking at Sigma Nu, reversion to
diaper days at the Delt house, dancing in P.J.'s at
Kappa Sig, home on the range at Delta Chi, horti
culturists' heaven at Teeek, to hell with the Pi
Lams, the Bowery at Phi Delt.
Remember Whipples Dam and the perennial
goon who'd swim it in April for $2? . . . the
newly hatched spring batch of convertibles ...
the seasonal exodus from the Corner to Senior
Walk . . . the catastrophe of 1946. Graham's
missing bench . . . bluebooks join the other
inevitables, death and taxes . . . Eddie Csekal
wears the Pin Ball Crown.
Khaki shirts hide under corduroy jackets. The
"I was here before the war" boys return. There's
"Zuke" and Casey and the Foote-Sheehan regime.
Clique meetings in the Corner Room with coffee
consuming politicos kissing all the babies. Satur
day night at Rec Hall means Tiger Tighe, Glenn
Hawthorne.
Then the Iron men of '47. Steve Suhey . . and
the Cotton Bowl. "This is the year." You Were so
right, Hig.
1948 . . . Penn and Pit. The happiest moment of
a college career, and ten thousand broken hearts.
Together they totaled empty pocketbooks.
'Bye Old Main. They said you were an archi
tectural monstrosity in art class, but you look
good to me. 'Specially when you're wrapped up
in snow ... or 'specially just any old way. 'Bye.
Collegian Gazette
PENN STATE Bible Fellowship, 410 Old Main,
I p.m.
NEWMAN Club Discussion Group, Catholic
church Rectory, 7 p.m.
At the Movies
CATHAUM—The secret Land.
STATE—AngeI on the Amazon
NITTANY—Dear Murderer.
The Paleface
Wears 'urn
Smell Good
Food?
t 4 THAT DELICIOUS
AROMA IS COMING
FROM R & D'S
Stop in at Our Counter for Lunch
and See!
Rea and Derick's
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 19 1949
Corner Rumors
By Jo Fox
The Last Mile
Wednesday, January 19