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.
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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
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. . . 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
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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.
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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
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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.
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