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Four Years A Student
Four years a student—but an alumnus (or
alumna) the rest of vour life. This is but one of
many reasons for joining the Penn State Alumni
Association immediately after (or just before)
graduation.
Future well-being of both alumni and the Col
lege are intimately integrated. The continued good
name and reputation of the College will enhance
your job prospects and chances for advancement.
SIMILARLY, THE PUBLIC OPINION OF PENN
STATE will be influenced by the character and
worth of her graduates. In many direct and con
crete ways, furthermore, the Alumni Association
influences the College for good.
Alumni elect nine of their number to the Board
of Trustees and five to the Athletic Advisory
Board. The 57 district clubs sponsor scholarships
and encourage outstanding youth to attend Penn
State.
AMONG PROJECTS BEING PLANNED by the
Association are the Student Union building, a
Field House and improved recreational facilities
at Whipple’s Dam.
Association members receive many material
benefits, in addition to the intangible ones of
maintaining and expanding College acquaintances
and friendships, and keeping in touch with Penn
State goings-on.
THE ALUMNI NEWS, a seven-issue-a-year
magazine, and the Football News Letter, a per
sonalized play-by-play account, with statistics, of
each football game, are themselves worth the
nomihal cost of membership.
First priorities on reserved football tickets
should be a valuable incentive to those planning
treks to West Point or Michigan State in the fall.
But, whatever the motive, whether for personal
benefit, or for socializing, or to take an active part
in influencing the College’s growth, no senior
should overlook the advantages of membership in
the Penn State Alumni Association.
—Lew Stone.
Struggling Critique
Among college magazines, Critique is a strug-
Igling infant that had one strike called against it
before it was born in 1947. To secure a College
c!tarter, Critique, billed as a campus literary mag
azine, was made to incur a $6OO debt of its literary
predecessor, Portfolio.
THE DEMISE OF PORTFOLIO for financial
treasons in 1945 was indication that Penn State
(students apparently won’t swallow “highbrow lit
erary stuff’ as campus magazine fodder. “Students
■want cartoons and jokes, or technical stuff,” cried
■critics of Critique.
Yet Critique applied for a charter, assumed the
Portfolio debt, has since printed five issues, and
over the five-issue span has whittled the debt.
TO PUT ITSELF IN the black, Critique decided
not long ago to forsake its literary content and
present students a pictorial magazine the last
issue of the year. As a member of the staff put it,
“We learned -our lesson as a literary magazine and
tried to make a comeback as a photo magazine,
primarily."
Critique as a Penn State photo magazine, if it
'had materialized, would have been unique in the
College field and would have filled a need at Penn
State. However, printing difficulties and the fact
that it was late in the year prevented publication.
THAT THERE IS A NEED for a student pic
torial magazine at Penn State should spur Critique
toward several such issues next year. One answer
to Critique’s problems—and those of other stu
dent publications—will be the coming student
press at Penn State.
Collegian Gazette
Tuesday, May 17
PENN STATE Bible Fellowship Meeting, 417
Old Main, 1:10 p.m.
WRA Bridge, WH Playroom, 7 p.m.
Fencing, 1 WH, 7 p.m.
Bowling, WH, 6:30 p.m.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Admitted Saturday: Lewis Johnson.
Discharged Saturday: Douglas Kohlhepp.
Admitted Sunday: Siegmund Knies, Ralph Bren
ner, Louis Parent.
Discharged Sunday: Edward McFadden.
Admitted Monday: Paul Shealer.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Arrangement* for interviews ihould be made in 201 Old Mel
Joseph F. Finch and Co., May 18, June grads in
IE and ME. Positions open for management engi
neers and junior development engineers.
Pennsylvania State Employment Service has a
number of requests for persons interested in doing
farm work for at least six weeks, beginning Aug. 8.
Atlantic Refining Co., May 19, June grads with
mechanical aptitudes, are single, 25 to 29, and able
to move from place to place.
State Employment representatives will be on
campus May 19 to interview seniors interested in:
commercial teaching, education, structural eng,
mining eng, dietetics, chem (female), EE, phys
(MS with eng degree).
AT THE MOVIES
CATHAUM—The Red Pony
STATE—Little Women.
N ITT ANY—The Mikado.
Rags— Old Clothes—'
'Alt-
One of the scenes in the latest Thespian production, “Poor Mr.
Yarn urn,” gave me a real laugh—but it was out of the side of my
mouth,
The scene I refer to is the one entitled “We’re going to the Ball.”
That’s the one where the curvaceous coeds, draped in everything from
a capitalist’s idea of what Stalin’s women wear to a watered-down
sarong, cavorted about the Schwab stage throwing hips and legs
akimo and growling, as if they really meant it, we want MEN!
Then they raved on about how they hated watered-down col
lege boys and desired strong, manly beasts who would push them
around and make them love it.
To all this I utter a hearty “poof.” Talk to most coeds and they
say the same thing—give me a REAL he-man, one who’ll slap me
around and make me like it.
Give them their ideal in file flesh and they'd despise him. It's
all very well to see Ray Milland, Alan Ladd, and the rest ot the
Hollywood profiles bash in their ladies' pusses on celluloid but it
one of the men on campus ever tried it there'd be a hullabaloo
that would bring Juba and the remainder of the Slate College
police force running.
This wild man act just doesn’t go any more. If you think I’m
wrong, gals, imagine your dreamboat picking you up in Ath hall,
turning his back and saying, “Slob, follow me.”
Then going through the rest of the night getting cuffed around
whenever you performed some act that your cave man hero didn't
exactly approve of. No, chicks, I think one night of that would be
more than 99 3/10 percent of you could stand.
The paradox goes even further, however. Women, much as
they like to be dominated by men. more often than not would
call a really domineering male uncouth or horrid. The so-called
weaker sex still likes to do the dominating, even if lhey perform
that function in a subtle manner.
It’s really not the fault of the female sex that they think as they
do. It’s more the fault of our American society which forced men to
be almost the namby-pambies that the comic strip artists portray.
So my advice to those coeds who still desire the strong, silent
type is to put up with these milk-fed college sons just a little
longer. After all, it’s not their fault if many of them have done
nothing more daring than tangle with the pride of Hjtler's Wehr
macht or the Sons of Nippon.
Then when you leave the Nittany vale, 1 know just the place
you can find what you’re looking for. I think it’s called Timbuktu.
• The freedom of most of our people to seek the truth and
jxpress themselves freely is a vigorous, healthy reality. No press
iias ever been freer of government control than is ours. Freedom of
religion, aside from discrimination against certain sects, is today
remarkably secure.
—Report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights.
• The American people have traditionally shown high national
regard for civil rights, even though the record in many a community
has been far from good.
—Report of the President's Commute* on Civil Rights.
Your Lion
By Red Roth
Edit Briefs
DL Safely VaL
No Timo for Review
TO THE EDITOR: Final exams start at 1:20
p.m., Saturday, May 21. The last class of the se
mester is over at 12:00 noon of the same day. I
know of many students who have an eleven
o’clock class and a final at one-twenty.
With classes continuing almost to the hour of
the first exam, a student with finals on the first
day has little time to prepare for them. Admit
tedly, some students are able to take a final with
little or no review, but these are in the very small
minority. In order to prepare properly for an
exam, the average student needs to spend much
time in review of the work covered. This cannot
be done well if it is necessary to keep up with
regular class work at the same time.
At Alabama Polytechnic Institute, which I at
tended last year, the last day of classes before the
final exams was a Friday. Finals started the fol
lowing Monday. Thus the student had sufficient
time to spend in review, and didn’t have to sacri
fice class work to get ready for exams.
I know of no reason why such an arrangement
can not be made at Penn State, but if there is one
I would like very much to hear it.
—Bruce W. Tharp.
• Prof. E. W. Callenbach. chairman of the
Senate Committee on Calendar—the gxoup that
arranges alt dates for the College, admits that
even the committee itself does not know all the
answers in "developing a calendar which will
enable the College to meet its commitments and
discharge its obligations while at the same +imn
satisfying all groups on campus."
He states that appreciation of aO angles in
volved in fliis particular case leaves no other
workable arrangement of dates. Included on the
Calendar Committee each year are two students,
whose views are considered.
Commencement Day
Old Penn State, w© now must leave yon,
Our task with you is done—
Our life’s work now lies before us—
Ere shall rise another sun.
Mt. Nittany’s crest has been our shelter—
These few short years just passed—
And on this day of graduation,
We say “farewell” at last.
Tho sometimes the way was weary
And your goal seemed far away—
’Tis with sincerely treasured memories
That we take leave of you today.
The memories of a yesterday
Take on an immortal glow—
When our Alma Mater we leave behind
And on through life we go.
So, farewell, Penn State so mighty—
Beside Mt. Nittany fair,
Your honor and your glory
We shall guard with deed and prayer.
—Philip A. Mark.
Pudding It Plainly
The system in schools of final exams
Is a fowl, despied gloom-caster
They say, now don’t you pupills cram
But unlettuce we sd, we’re in a jam
And inevitably meat with disaster.
We’d like to cheesel, but we’re chicken
And know that it’s butter to study
Our consciences all egg us on
We apple-y ourselves until the dawn
By which time we feel plum-nutty.
Aware that our future is at steak
We use all our book soup-plies
I really corn’t tell you how we do it
But it ap-pears that we olive through it
And end up worn—but wise!
Just Food for Thought
—Dolores Drucker.
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