PAGE TWO Glad You're Back Welcome, alumni! It’s god to have you back. Perhaps things seem a little different and you miss the wide open spaces of several years ago, but we can assure you the spirit of "dear old State" is still the same as it was when you were here. We’re sure you’ve retained the same old spirit, and it’s going to be great to have your help when we go. in there to pound Nebraska today. Have a good time, alums. We’ll be seeing you! —Bill Detwerler Orientation Familiarizing . a newcomer thoroughly with growing Penn State is replete with mote ramifi cation than explaining an intricate T-formation football play. ANY plan for orienting sophs and frosh as they arrive on campus is consider ed remiss if it treats lightly of Nittany tradi tions, social life and spirit; if it fails to include introduction of College officials whose jobs di rectly affect the student; if it leaves too little time for constructive- bull-sessions counseling by upperclassmen, and most important if it passes ineffectively over the countless oppor tunities available to students in extra-curricular activities that.are as numerous at Penn State as the leaves which now strew the Mall. This year's Orientation program tried to accomplish all of .these. On many counts it was successful, but in trying to be so wide sweeping it perhaps overlooked a few vital points. The session sponsored by student government and designed to present a general view of stu dent activities has been ineffective in recent years. Its virtual impotence this year! can be laid to the fact that scarcely 1500 sophs and frosh attended it, in comparison with the 3800 v who sat in on the initial meeting when College officials were introduced. ' . .THERE IS NO doubt that part of the blame for small attendance was due to technical diffi culties that delayed for .half an hour a girl’s .meeting preceding the student government ses sion mid consequently forced a delay of more than a half hour in the latter program, causing many impatient sophs to leave. Original plans to hold the All-College Cabi net-sponsored meeting at New Reaver , field . had to be scrapped when the new paint on the stands was not sufficiently dry. This site might attract a better turnout, barring bad weather, and should be considered by next year's Orientation committee. A better plan of introducing newcomers to student leaders and College officials would be to cut out a few speakers in each group, then incorporate the groups in one opening program instead of two. This would leave room for what we think should be a vital part of the entire week’s schedule a short mass meeting out lining student activities and what makes stu-. dent groups tick on campus, followed im- ‘ mediately by longer sub-meetings on different student interests. These would be 'question-and answer sessions conducted by upperclassmen vitaliy interested in the respective activities. * * * NEXT YEAR'S Orientation committee should schedule an all-College. mixer on the parking lot behind Osmond Lab and then cling to the hope that Jup Pluvius will be kind. Cold damp weather this year meant moving the mixer from the lot to the TUB, which bulged with the 2000-strong influx. Another point worth improving is tied up with fraternities. Their rushing week runs . simultaneously with Orientation Week, and often causes important Orientation Week ac tivities to be relegated to second fiddle as the houses schedule high-pressure rushing parlies at the same hours as all-College student func tions. It’s evident that the student being'oriented at Penn State is inundated by the welter of places to-be-at-certain-times and the hurrying to wait in lines, and the general lack of time to cram into Orientation Week all that he is supposed to. FOR EXAMPLE. Orientation schedules of a large group of new Commerce and Finance stu dents called for a couple of meetings with C&F student counselors. The first was well attended, but attendance at the second dropped 90 per cent because the sophomores had to spend the ”ay in registration and class-scheduling lines. The vicious registration circle of Advisor— to—Rec Hall—to—Carnegie—to—the Armory —to—Advisor may be alleviated somewhat next year if the new Willard Hall on Pollock Road is substituted for Rec Hall or used to complement the'present setup. Selection of student counselors might be im proved if applicants were required to say be forehand why they want the job, and if theii qualifications as far as campus interests and activities are concerned were heeded. An easy $lO for conducting a bull-session is by itself a poor excuse for applying for a job of counseling newcomers to Penn State; . , Another suggestion might be to extend part of the Orientation program beyond one week’s time. The counseling Sessions would fit well into such a plan, and would be more worthwhile when not competing with other first-week events for the time of the sophs and frosh. In any event, it seems futile to plan every hour of Orientation Week. A crammed schedule leaves everyone prostrate. THE DAILY COLIEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA t. * •Each Of ’Em Has A Whole Seat To Himself* Gleaned From Prints Now that ‘ most Penn Staters have read the latest issue of Froth and refreshed their memories with jokes they probably heard long before matriculating in the . Nittany Realm, it seems only appropriate to reprint what the Penn State Collegian termed the worse joke of the week, 19 years ago. , Here it is: Millionaire’s Wife—Say, will you read my mind? Visiting Mystic—Madam, I am no magician . ) Watch for this one. It’s surefire stuff for that rag and will probably appear in the next issue. - * * * FOLLOWING A lapse of three years, Clean-up Day- was' revived this week, 25 years ago. The job was to be accomplished through manual labors ot the freshmen and was in charge of the sophomores headed by the Stunt Night committee. Contrary to the system in vogue in preceding years, no part of the town was to be cleaned, the activities of the underclass men being confined ip College properly. In former yeafs some of the townspeople had depended on the freshmen to clean their back yards and rubbish piles. Consequently, claimed a writer of the Penn State Collegian staff at the time, many of them would allow trash of all, kinds and description to lie around until Clean-up Day, when it could be removed free pf charge py the yearlings. This was one of the most important reasons for the discontinuing of the custom during the past three years, the Writer pointed out. M ushrooming College D’ja ever notice how many guys lately seem to be spending most of their spare time sitting around watching the College “mushroorti? VJust. about every third day a local daily which will modestly remain nameless pops up with a blazing scoop on some joe who. “The last 'years has seen the College mushroom from -a tjny enrollment of students to its present massive student body of .... .” THE STORY USUALLY takes the form of an interview and generally rups something like: ■ ■«/ One of the most uninteresting characters of the faculty is the dean of a little-known division of the College, the School of Regenerative Corpuscular Toxicology Dean Ignatius P. Zilch, who has headed the School, since its inception early in 522 S. D„ has watched the total enrollment mushroom from its original insig nificant two to its current inconsequential three. "Enthusiasm is tremendous," Dean Zilch reports. "The School invariably shows one-hundred per cent attendance at football games, sometimes chartering its own motorbike for. the away events." '* * - * \ THE DEAN IS proud of his home. He says,. “Our door is 'ways open to students in trouble.” Tastefully decorated dicta ihones and carefully concealed motion picture cameras lining the vails help these worried ones feel right at home when they come i discuss their private problems with their mentor. The School proper nestles picturesquely in a large pothole, \ scant three miles from Old Main. It is conveniently located .vithin crawling distance of the chicken houses' which provide an almost inexhaustable supply of specimens for the School's research on nights when there is no moon. One of the School’s main functions during the last few, years has been to prepare all foods served in the College cafeteria. It has, of course, been the butt of many good-natured jokes on this account. Rumors that barks may be heard coming from the kitchen on quiet nights, however, carry things a bit too far. . - In Dean Zilch’s concluding remarks, he stated, “I have en joyed my long years of association with the School of whatever the-hell it’s called, and look forward to a happy future of watch ing it mushroom.” Be sure to read the next in this series of interviews, when you will be treated to an informal view of the little man who grows the mushcoonhs. By At RYAN 19 YEARS AGO 25 YEARS AGO —fiocffiotfir ’SATtfftDAT, OCTOBER VS, -tMB Gazette COLLEGE HOSPITAL Admitted Thursday: Bruce Wadsworth. Rich ard Pioli. ' . . Discharged Thursday: PhylMs Her best, Dorothy Noll. Admited Friday: Anita Goldberg. Discharged Friday: Phyllis Yedinsky, Frank Sklenar,; Donald Murray, Betty Porter, Carolyn Griffith, Betty Ann Cooper, Mark Givler, Ken neth Shull. COLLEGE PLACEMENT Further information and appointments for interviews can be made ( in 204 Old Main. A representative of the General Chemical Divi sion of ' Allied Chemical and Dye Corpora tion will be on the campus Thursday, October ,27 to interview February graduates in mechan ical and chemical engineering as well as chem istry. Also interested in 'a few civil engineers interested in structural work or sanitarjr waste disposal. Must have a 1.5 or better. , , A representative of the Procter and Gamble Company will be on the campus this fall to interview Feburary graduates in mechanical, electrical, chemical, and industrial engineer ing as. well as chemistry. Applications must be submitted to the College Placement Ser vice, 204 Old Main, not later than October 21. . AT THE MOVIES CATHAUM—Come to the Stable STATE—Lost Boundries NITTANY—Big Sombrero \ Tracking m i Down jL.Mjgp.. „„ ■ Tales 0— With The S*a& After a jostling hour in the saddle, a mem ber of Captain Garlyan’s riding class remarked that the attainment of a credit in this course would bring her to “no good end.” , Overhead in lines in front of the tellers’ window a* fee payment in Willard Hall— “ Ought to refer to this place.as the ‘Gashbar’.” Another sidelight on fee payments—dis gruntlecT students who stood in line for half an afternoon, can’t’ help wondering why the room ’is Willard Hall was closed’ just as they l l’eached the door at 3 p.m. yesterday. They _ were told to come back at 8:30 a.m. today. 'Later those same students who were told the ' office was closed discovered that it was reopen ed after they had gone. One .hundred-twenty'early birds: the Chapel choir, which has long,, since • begun rehearsing / for its presentation of “Elijah” in April. Movies playing in S. C. yesterday: “Come to the . Stable,” “Christopher Columbus,” and “Suddenly It!s Spring”. With a little imagina tion, could be an invitation for'Chris to view the annual springtime influx of newcomers to‘the barnyard world. Or could it be a manifestation iof spring fever. : .. f v - * How eager can you be? Even -though, a class in the modem British novel had been called off recently, 11 were there, wondering where the prof and the rest of the class had disappeared. And after a trip to Ag Hill for a lit class. Very discouraging. Curt O'Shell, married student, was placed on the steering committee in Ed. 189 with two charming gals. His mistake of' the' day was to bring his little girl to the meeting with his two classmates. Daughter reported to, mama that papa was with ( two, pretty'girls. This post war, era! ' >• • ' y ■ ■ , Glee Club members'-should not be too sur prised if they find a feminine member in.their midst. Because’ of Martha McMillen’s. “bari tone” voice , a prof in music advised her to try out for the men’s club' instead of Treble Sing ers.. . '• \ - ; ’ ' ; “* Stye Satlg CoUegtatt Successor to. THE FREE LANCE, est. 1887 Published" Tuesday through Saturday monjlnga in clusive 'during, the College 1 year -by -.the staff of the Pennsylvania -State College. ' Represented - for national advertising by National Ad vertising Service, Madison Avc., New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco. . Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934- *4 the State College, Fh., Post Office under the ait of March 3, 1879. Editor - r -ww fr . Business Manager Tom Morgan Marlin A. Weaver Ass’t. Business Mgr., Joe Jackson; Advertising Dir., I.ouls GUbert; Local Ad Mgr.. Don Baker; Ass’t. Local Ad. Mgr., Mark Arnold; Promotion Co-Mgr., Kar| Borlsh; Circulation Co-Mgra., Bob Bergman and Tom - Katolcik; Classified Ad Mgr.; Thelma Geler; Personnel Mgr., Betty •lime Bower; Office. Mgr.. 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