P rIE TWO ass Mishap Morton Snitzer's request for imposition of class customs on sophomores is a natural out growth of a disheartening mass act on the part of some 700 soph card-flashers at Saturday's football game. Perhaps the return of soph customs is not the answer, but Snitzer's blast at least points up a general discontent with the sophs' im pulse to fling hundreds of flash cards onto the field' and into other sections of the stands. Many cards were damages and will cost the Athletic Association, financial sponsor of the flash-card venture, money to replace. The cards are of such weight and size that they constitute a real threat to anybody safety when thrust into a capricious wind. As Snitzer pointed out, the act was a "wanton waste of man-hours." About 15 cam pus hatmen acting as row captains and eight cheerleaders spent a week prior to the game in preparing flash-card directions and plann ing the system. Carl Liachowitz, who incidentally cavorted as Frothy at the game, spent much time in the past summer arranging mass patterns for the card-flashing system. All this previous toil fell into a welter of confusion with the swirl of flash cards in the Beaver breeze. Outside of the act in question, sophies must be commended for their cheering tactics and spirit during the game. As some remarked, it was "surprising for a group of students new to the campus." But flying cards are not part of the pic ture of Penn State football spirit. If Student Tribunal decides to take no action now as a result of the flash-card mishap, soph card flashers should at least glean the hint that 'some "corrective" action was suggested. Ivory Tower Mount Nittany's Vale too easily becomes an ivory tower to many Penn Staters. Shut up in this beautiful valley, many students soon for get there is a world stretching beyond those green hills. At the beginning of the semester you'll prob ably read the newspapers even glancing at the front page before turning to the sports sec tion. EVEN THIS MINIMUM readership soon seems to wear away. Studies will take up more of your time. That extra five minutes of sleep, that you need so desperately, will deprive you of your usual chance to grab a paper on your way to class. Little by little the hills close in on you. Be fore you know it you're locked in your ivory tower. Perhaps the World Series will penetrate to the tower if there's , no important football game at the same time. And perhaps you'll even know how close you are to being draft ed. But for the most part your horizons will be bounded by Boalsburg, and New' Beaver Field. It's not entirely your fault, either. The Daily Collegian must take some of the, blame. As a newspaper it should keep you informed on national and international news. The Collegian tries: In the regular editions, starting today, you'll find a column devoted to late news. Limitations of various kinds, how ever, make it impossible to make this column as extensive and complete as it should be. * YOU CAN USE this column, though, as a stepladder to climb down from your ivory tower. Read this 'column and then follow up its hints on the radio and in the city newspapers. The next few months have been called one of the most decisive periods in the history of the world. To get out of touch with the news now should be unthinkable. Take a look at some of the things that the next few months may decide. Can you afford to get out of touch with them? Stay out of that ivory tower! by Elliot Shapiro . Managing • Editor, '4B liT4 Elailv Collegian Successor to THE 'ItEE LANCE, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturdny mornings in. !Naive during the College year by the staff of the Pennsylvania State College. Represented. for national advertising by National Ad vertising Service, Madison Ave., New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. San Francisco. Editor Business Manager Tom Morgan " Marlin A. Weaver STAFF THIS ISSUE Night Editor Stan Degler Assistant Night Editor Art Benning . Copy Editor L. D. Gladfelter Assistant Copy Editor Kermit Fink Editorial Assistants Roy McHenry Wilson Barto Advertising Manager Marlin Weaver Assistants—Lou Gilbert, Don Baker, Karl Borish, Norman Borish, Norma Gleghorn, Win nie Wyant, Barbara Sprenkle. I:=MO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA ''!" -411‘49 TUESDAY; SEPTEMBER rf, 19118 . . . Or Do You Want Me To Do The Talking?" Tete-a-Tete BERTRAM—My seats were just about as good as the game. You know, after two years of looking into the.sun's glare in hopes of seeing a little of what went on down below. I had hoped to sit where all the seniors before me sat, in the west-side . stands. But then comes ?along this guy Ike Gilbert (Graduate Manager of Athletics) and puts me right back where I sat two years ago. There just ain't no justice. CLABENCE—You know, I can't quite look at it the same war you do. This so-called Collegiate sport of football is a big time business new-a-days and you get iust what you pay for. Good teams hear . .big pricetags, Oshkosh Stale Normal comes gratis. BERTRAM—But I pay for my seat, I can't see why I can't have a good seat. I went to the Penn game last year and had to sit so far away from midfield that I had to use binoculars to see the opening kickoff and, again for this Saturday, I understand that of the 10.000 'tickets allocated to State for the Army game, more than 8,000 are behind the endzone. Why then do our alums and any other visiting team that comes to State College receive , the choice seats from the 50-yard line on down? CLARENCE—Somebody has 'to get priority. The alums must come first. You see we're only undergraduates for four years, but alums for the rest of our lives, so it's only proper and fitting that they get the best there is. As I said before.. to receive any financial gains, the choice seats in the house must be sold and cannot go to the students. BERTHAM—I can't see that. What about the old college try and spirit? How can we cheer and back the team when we don't even sit behind them. Who ever heard of partisom fans sitting hehind the visiting team . . . that's absolutely absurd. CLARENCE—We could argue all day but it all boils down to this, if we want name teams to come and ri . Ny at Beaver Field, we• must pay for them, and, if we want to tov around with Class "Z" college teams then we can all sit around the 50-yard line because no one will be there to watch the game. You can't kill the goose• that lays the golden egg. Gleaned From Prints - - - - MANY CHANGES AND additions were being Made to the equipment of the School of Physical Education and Athletics this month in 1938. The old wooden football stands were being re placed by modern steel stands; a new - track, and four new tennis courts were being built. Several carloads of stall girders had already arrived for the construction of the new stands, which when completed would seat 20,000. Director Hugo Bezdek was quoted as saying he "hoped to have the work completed before the first football game on the 6th of October." Among letters pertaining, to the early history of the College uncovered 15 years ago was one written by a student from Columbia . who enrolled on February 24, 1859. * • NE WROTE: "We are required to perform three hours of active labor every day, at whatever work they see fit to put us at—such as loading manure, cleaning stables, chopping wood . . . loading and hauling stones, carrying water, waiting on tables . . . sweeping out the College, emptying the chamber buckets, etc., which goes against 'some of the fellows' grain, but all kinds of work is equally honored and so we don't care. Optimism ran high with the appointment of a senior to attend borough council meetings, starting that day in Sept. 1934, with a closer harmony between town and gown interests expected to result. "If the student point of view is occassionally presented and considered," it was noted in The Penn State Collegian, "sioe glaring upleasantnesses of the past year should be eliminates...' "Yeah, that was certainly soiree football game Saturday after noon," a staff member of The Penn State Collegian wrote 15 years ago this week. "The team that is going to Smear Syracuse, Crush Colutribia, and Pile into Penn didn't look so hot. We got bored. Everybody eri imuseir. By AL RYAN 15 YEARS AGO Tracking Downlik\__4P-- Tales Tin With the Staff We hear from the grapevine that burly Chuck Drazenovich, Nittany Lion quarterback and Eastern Intercollegiate heavyweight boxing titleholder, and his roommate, Pete Borlo, have just redecorated the walls of their roan' in sage green and pink tones. Chuck and Pete disagreed over the color for the wood work the younger Drazenovich holding out for purple, while Borlo insisted that the wood, at least, be done in some "sane color." Could have been an interesting eXperience . . . . When Vivian Hartenbach, a McElwain sophomore, was assigned her big sister at the College. The card she received from her big"sister" read as follows: "Miss Hartenbach, I was in formed that I was to be a big sister to you at State this fall. I don't know if you were in formed of this or not. Just in case you were, I thought that I had better let you know that. I cant' do.this job because of a little misunder standing. I have a name that can be male or female and it happens to be MALE So I'm afraid that I can't be your big sister. If I can be of any help, let me know. I live at Delta Theta Sigma TURNABOUT Dean Haller of the Chem-Phys School re portedly answered a phone call to his office this week only to learn the caller wished to speak to his (the dean's) secretary. "She's busy," he replied, "but could I take a message.. . . . and the irony of it all. At Saturday's Villanova game a lady spectator fainted. When Line Van Sickel, a campus law officer, helped carry the victim to the ambulance some "inno cent" bystander proceeded to lift Van's Beaver Field pictorial out of his pocket. At least one fraternity rushee was sur prised to learn from his "brotherized" roommate that paddling an dhard hazing of pledges is frowned on at Penn State. His worried look melted while he blurted out: "But dad told me that when he was in col lege they . . . - Everything goes wrong. . Two weary coeds, haying suffered through registration and a losing battle with one of the local book stores, fought their way back to campus and the' haven of McEl Hall. In the 1 -)lphv, their hearts were momentarily gladdened by the sight of the letters in their mail boxes. Unable to „work the combinations, they headed in silenee for. their rooms. After a few futile attempts at unlocking the door, one of the coeds looked at it and nAuttared. "Alpha Xi Delta? But I'm a Phi Mu." The lig.ht dawned.,"Good heavens, we're in Simmons." In silence ahl Pmbprrassment they turned and headed for IVlalwain. You can't tell the use of all campiis build ings by their name! An obviously new coed, who, having in guyed about the Sparks Building, thought she was being ribbed when told the structure is dedicated to the liberal arts and not electrical engineering. ' . • In case anyone else is confused, Burrowes, has nothing .to do with animal husbandry , or mules and scheduling classes in Watts Hall 'won't teach anyone to manufacture light bulbs. • Last year a Penn State alumnus corn ola;ned something like this via the mails to. Ike Gilbla. grad manager of athletics: ' I. "Why, "Why, at the Penn game, in Philly, I sat co far behind the goal posts I was one-half hour om State College." Sazette Tuesday, September 27 COLLEGE GLEE CLUB, 200, CH, 7 • PAN-HELL, meeting, 316 Sparks, 7, p.m. BUSINESS STAFF, COLLEGIAN, 3 CH, 7 PENN STATE CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, 405 Old Main, 7:30 p.m. WRA EXECUTIVE BOARD, White Hail, 7 p.m. COLLEGE HOSPITAL Admitted Monday: Jean Duppstadt, Shirk"' Keller, Willbur Diefenderfer, Joseph Krum, Mary Romash. Discharged Monday: Arthur Ritts. " " COLLEGE PLACEMENT Students interested in part-time employment with student agencies should apply at the al ti ; dent Employment Office in the TIE, semester schedules have been completed. ;, AT 'rHE MOVIES C4THAUM—Mr. Soft Touch. STAT Muy's Hurricane. 11p • ,One. Carroll L.. Howes
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