PAGE TWO It's Your Valve The best and most effective way to speak your piece about campus doings that either gripe or please you is through the Safety Valve column of the Daily Collegian. PLACED ON THE editorial page each day daily beginning tomorrow, the Safety Valve is not only an outlet for student gripes but the one place you can offer constructive criticism to the staff of the paper. If a particular editorial goes against your grain, you can present your side of the picture to the College by contributing letter to the Safety Valve. "FOR A BETTER Penn State" is the motto of the Collegian but responsibility for fulfilling that motto rests with the students as well. By intelligent and spirited contributions, the stu den body can actually work toward that sane objective. Many times you complain to a few friends ' about something that bothers you and then for get it. The idea that "I can't do anything about • it so why try" is too prevalent. But a move in the right direction may start the ball rolling and accomplish more than ever thought possible. LACK OF SPACE requires that all letters be limited to 200 words. Most things worth saying can be said within that limit. Anonymous let ters and those signed with false names nrtust be rejected. Telephone numbers and addresses must be included for identification. Names, of course will be. withheld on request. Send all letters to the editor, Box 261, Boro. Next time you feel like letting . off steam or throwing somebody a bouquet or two, do it through 'the Safety Valve instead of blowing your top to only slightly interested friends. Tracking Down__ ltr - -= Tales , With The. Staff It seems the fad of advertising for marital partners has reached the Penn State campus. At last, the following notice is scrawled on a wooden standard near construction opera tions east of the Sparks building: "Orie steel worker fellow wants to get mar ried. Ire has a bank account of $15,000." * . . * A young bewildered sophomore, being rush ed.by one of the high-powered fraternities, had reached a state of utter confusion. He turned to one of the beaming brothers hovering over him and asked, "How many fraternities can I join, anyway? If I pledge your house does that mean I can't join the Penn State Chris tian Association?" • Some things happen purely by coincidence, but Mrs. Cordelia Hibbs, assistant to the Dean of Women in charge of women's housing, as sures us that Audre Ann Rosenfeld was not assigned to 210 McAllister Hall just becaus' her, mother, Mrs. Dorothy Rosenfeld, or cupied the same room 24 years ago. * * Remember about this time last year when Football Scout Joe Bedenk went down "to Bucknell to scout the gridiron Bisons and came back with glowing reports about a Buckner drum majorette. A male sophomore wanted to know where thL girls' "MacAtherton Hall" is. "You must mean McElwain Hall," answere. the tried-and-true '49 grad now taking graduat4 work. "No that's not it." "Well, how about just plain Atherton Hall . . . that's down in that direction?" "Could be Atherton," replied the soph, I don't think so." "I know what you want. Ws McAllister Hall." "Right." And the soph scurried to McAllister Note on the State College housing situation' Last year's Daily Collegian editor—now tak ing graduate chemistry work—has set up living quarters in his landlandy's cellar, right next to the coal bin, while he scouts for another loca tion. Gazette Wednesday, Sept. 28 FROTH, 2 CH, 7 p.m. AG HILL BREEZE, Candidates, 103 Ag, 7 p.m. LA VIE, Senior Board, 412 Old Main, 7 p.m. PSYCHOLOGY CLUB, 405 Old Main, 7 p.m. KAPPA PHI, St. Paul's Methodist Church, 7 p.m AT THE MOVIES CATHAUM—White Heat STATE—Slattery's Hurricane NlTTANY—Beautiful Blonde From• Bashful Bend. -DOTTIE WERLINICH THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PERNSYLVANIA "Think This Crop Is Worth Saving?" Tete7d-,Tete ABERNATHY—Hey, you with the black sailor hat, what is all this stuff about activities and student government. and honor socie ties? Do you guys do anything or just run around making like wheels? 41LLINGSWORTH—Nocv, just a minute there,son, what seems to. be the difficultY? Registration and orientation been too%much for you? .Here's a nickel, go get a cup of coffee, you don't look so good. ABERNATHY—Aw, gwan, just 'cause we're sophs and new to the place you think we don't know what goes On. I've seen plenty of tinhorn politicians in my home town. What's your angle, anyway? BILLINGSI;VORTH—Before you blow youi top, lad, let me giye you a short scoop on the fact that I felt the same way when I first I came up here back in '46 ..just couldn't figure why these guys with hats and big blue sweaters had so much to say But it turned out later that those same wheel's really had plenty on the ball and were some of the greatest euys I've known.. ABERNATHY—OK, maybe so. but just what can you guys do —anybody knows that .the administration runs everything any way. We had a so-called Student government back in our home town high school. but they couldn't even lick a postage stamp without seeing the principal. , BILLINGSWORTH—WeII, Buster, you're going to, find that things are a lot different around here. Student government at Penn .. , State •is • a real lull-time job, and pretty sUccessfully handles most If the student problems which come up. In fact, student government eere is one of the strongest among Eastern colleges, and sure does a better job• for its constituents than the big-time' state and federal Jutfits, although on a much stnaller scale. ABERNA.THY—AII that may be OK, but what does studerit gov enment do for ordinary Joe College, for a guy like Abernathy Van 'rkleperrer, that's me? BILLINGSWORTH—PIenty, Jocko, it does more than 90 per lent of the stUdents even dream of. The great privileges and liberty enjoyed by Penn Staters are due to administrative faith in' the sound student government, faith in its ability to take care of things before they go too far. It has taken a long time to get here, but right now the regulations governing students are made by themselves. They are much easier to take that way than if they came right out of the College office. ABERNATHY—OK, OK—my poor ears feel like pulp. How did you ever get into the racket, if you say you felt like I did when you came? BILLINGSWORTH—Just kept my eyes open, smile on my face and my big mouth shut. and finally , came to realize that there was something to it. A little interest and a lot of work does the rest. • ABERNATHY—Check, Big Shot, I'll have my secretary send Jou a campaign button after I get elected all-College president. Right now I've got to go manicure the head at the fraternity house . .. Boy, things sure changed fast when we signed those pledge cards. Buildings Burgeon Signs of expansive times at the College: Now a Daily Collegian man at the office in Carnegie Hall must point through superstructure of growing dorms to point out Rec Hall to the, inquiring_sol*wacse. WEIMPPAY, SEPTEMBER; Gripes of Roth By RED ROTH Remember Clarence Darrow? He was the late famed criminal lawyer who, legend had it, could send juries the country over into convulsions of laughter with a jest from his whip-like tongqe. Or, on the other hand, he could make the twelve peers of the accused break - out in banshee-like wails of grief as he depicted , how environment and circumstances made some doe-like creature stab his, mother through the abdomen with, a crowbar. . WELL IF THE ARTICLE .in the current (September) issue of "Changing Times" maga , zine is correct, few if any of the, Penn Statqrs now in pre-law courses will get a chanci t emulate the fabled defender of justice. ' : Titled 'Where to Aim for the Best Jobs," the feature gives the lowdown on possibilities ,for college graduates today. Prospective laviyirs, for example, are warned that already 40;0 are too• many young lawyers for the openkno available. • The same is true for such professions as Jour nalism, airline pilots, engineers and architects. If the current trend continues, journalipn graduates will soon be out in the world'thinking up new nursery rhymes to sell, pilots will ha*e to content themselves with flying model planes, and engineers can start devising more elaborate erector sets. FLEDGLING ARCHITECTS get a real break, however. They still have one undeveloped field open to their. We can make our dogs the best housed in the world if all our would•-be Frank Lloyd Wrights, frustrated from designing build. ings for humans, devote themselves to the.ca nine housing problem. . There are a few fields that are wide open. These Include bookbinders, carpOnteil and veterinarians, among others. ,So if you. .are handy with a glue pot, can hammer a ten.; penny without leaving your thumbnail dang ling on the edge, or know how to sai.:,'oPip . ; to a horse, 'you're set. Actually, there are 20,000 ways of earning a This, of course, does not include those lucra tive, but unlawful, professions such as - booking horses, breaking into banks, white slaving and the like. Of the approximately 50 million job-holders in the United States, the professiona account for only four million, or about six and one-half per cent. FOR A LOT OF college men the best course of action, at least 'for those who got into the habit of eating at 'an early age and still retain it to any degree, might be to discard their regi mental ties and camel's hair jackets and, get into the "blue shirt" profession. • , . - Mue•shirt" is a term, used to describe those men in skilled or semi-skilled jObs who don't have a college cllploma and who suffer from the lack of itby-making twice as much money as the boys who used ; to loaf in the Corner Room. Dismal as the situation may look to future college grads, just think of the effect it will hive on the coming generation of kids" still in grammar school. When • most of the current Penn Staters were still learning the• ABC's it was Contid 9red fashionable for , young boys to aspire fo be locomotive engineers. The next generation fastened their hopes for the futtve' on becoming airplane pilots. But "now—imagine some little cherub piping up with '"I want to be a bookbinder when I' grow up." Post-College Spirit Penn State •'grads take a little chip of the Nittany spirit with them when they leave catn pus with a diploma. Through later life 'they maintain their • ties with the College. This is the proof: Penn State ranks among the first cozen colleges in the nation in number of paid- . lip members of the Athletic Association. Successor to 'THE• TREE LANCE,, eet. 1887 , Published Tuesday through- Saturday' mornings . in• elusive 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, Meese, Los Angeles, San Francisco. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934. at the Stahl College. Pa.,' Poet Office under the act of March 3, 1879. Editor Busineis Manager Tom Morgan Marlin A.-Wimeer STAFF THIS ISSUE • ;• 1 .--,•• Night Editor ' Bob Kotzbauer Aspistant Night Editor • Blinked Copy Editor John Ashbrook Assistants .... Bettina de Palma, Ellen Sperber Advertising Manager Marlin A. Weaver Advertising Assistant Dan Boker. Advertising Manager Marlin Weaver Assistants—Lou Gilbert, Don Bakery -Karl Borish, Norman Borish, Norma. Glegho,ru,,Wirr. rile Wyank, Barbara Sprenkle. ,„,, I 4.',..i. , ..V., ' . At.l44V•it4t. • * • •
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