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6-Fold Publicity
This year lor the first time, six school coun
cil elections are being held simultaneously.
The natural result is concerted publicity serv
ing to focus campus attention on the school
elections as in no previous year.
Eleven percent as a student voting per
centage in the first day's balloting may seem
100 meager, but if that many— ot more—cast
votes today indications are that over-all
school council voting records will actually
be smashed in the six participating schools.
Voting in past school council elections has
been notoriously small. A total two-day vot
ing mark of possibly 25 ' percent this year
would be considered, sensational in some
schools of the College.
THE EFFECTIVENESS of certain school
councils in past years can be called virtually,
nil. This was in great respect due to the lack
of interest and drive of their members, who
perhaps sought the post solely “as an ac
tivity I could list” and gained it “by default”
when the vote was microscopic and consisted
mainly of a clique of friends.
That school councils may not wallow in
ineffectiveness and possess a drive-less milk
toast character was one reason for press
ing this year for simultaneous elections and
the resulting publicity. The theory is that,
with the campus eye on the elections, in
terested, thinking students would run for
council seals and a large Voting volume
would lend to create councils with spark
in their makeup.
HOW SOUND THE theory is will be demon
strated this year when student councils begin
operating in'the Schools of Liberal' Arts,
Chemistry and Physics, 'Engineering, Mineral
Industries, Home Economics, and Physical
Education and Athletics.
How to Graduate
1. Bring the profesor clippings dealing with
his subject. Demonstrate fiery interest and give
him timely items to mention to the
you can’t find clippings dealing with his sub
ject, bring in any clippings at random. He
thinks everything, deals with his subject.
2. Look alert. Take notes eagerly. If you
look at your watch, don't stare at it un
believingly and shake it.
3. Nod frequently and murmur, “How true.”
To you, this seems exaggerated. To him, it’s
quite objective.
4. SIT IN FRONT, near him. (Applies only
if you intend to stay awake.) If you’re going
to all the trouble to make a good impression,
you might as well let him know who you are,
especially in a large class.
5. Laugh at his jokes. You can tell. If he
looks up from' his notes and smiles expect
antly, he has a joke. . i
6. Ask for 'outside reading. You don’t have
to read it. Just ask.
7. IF YOU MUST sleep, arrange to be call
ed at the end of the hour. It creates an un
favorable ■ impression if the rest of the class
has left, and you sit there alone, dozing.
8. Be sure the book you read during the
lecture looks like the book from‘the course.
If you do math in psychology classes, and
psychology in math classes, match the books
-for size and color.
9. Ask questions you think he can answer.
Conversely, avoid announcing that you have
found the answer to a• question he couldn’t
answer, and in your younger brother’s sec
ond grade reader at that.
10. CALL ATTENTION to his writing. This
produces an exquisitely pleasant experience
connected with you. If you know he’s written
a book or an article, ask in class if he wrote
it.
As to whether you want to do some work
in connection with all this, well, it's con
troversial and up to the individual.
—Robert Tyson,
' Hunter College, NEA Journal
Utye Satly Collegian
Successor lo THE FREE LANCE. eat. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings in*
elusive during the College year by the staff of The Dally.
Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College.
Represented for national advertising by National Ad*
vertising Service. Madison Ave., Now York, Chicage. Los
Angeles. San Franciscp.
Entered as second-class matter July 5. 1934. at the State
College. Pa.. Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879.
Editor atsSffia&o, Business Manager
Tom Morgan Marlin A. Weaver
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor Norm Goode
Assistant Night Editor Shiiiey Austin
Copy Editor Bob ICotzbauer
Assistant Copy Editor Hal Katz
Assistants Leonard Kolasinski, Carl Hub dr,
Bob Fraser.
Advertising Manager Owen Landon
Assistants Jackie Meyers, Loretta Stempin
ski, Mary J. Kauffman, Anita Ranallo.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA *
“Nigh
Atherton Resistance
Cracks Blockade
Now it can be told! The thrilling, often soul-stirring story
of the Atherton Hall Resistance, long a top military secret, can
now be laid bare. For, with the end of the totalitarian'regime, 1
its' blockaded ports and its thought police, the Underground has
been dissolved, and the story comes to the surface.
Here, then, categorically, are the methods used by the Francis
Atherton Irregulars in foiling the oppressor who for three weeks
strove to make life unbearable for the wearers of the green.
7. Operation Nittany The Movie Method
Here, the dark of the local theatres was utilized as, a. coVer
for the clandestine removal of telL-jtale ribbon's and nameplates.
The picture houses then served a seebndary purpose in furthering
the master plan of boy meets girl. Through underground channels,
with social death the penalty, the rendezvous time was arranged.
Cautiously, the chosen representative of the Free Male Secret
Service would approach his objective, a pre-selected seat in a local
film palace. Then, after a sufficient interval, the Ath Hall coed
would make a stealthy reconnaisance.
If the black-hatted agents of the enemy were not in sight,
this brave girl would settle swiftly into a seat immediately
next to that of the male blockade runner. Hands would cross,
clasp, and secret messages would pass. . '
2. The S-M Sneak—The Side Door System
PERHAPS THE most - popular of dll methods. Conveniently
secluded side-doors at Simmons and McEl were entered by the
Irregulars. Ribbons disappeared in shady hallways.
At the appointed hour the male would stride jauntily -in
the front door,' putting a bold exterior on his quivering carcass.
Nonchalantly he would stride into a longue, and casually take
a seat. Seconds later, the frosh would put in an appearance at
one of the inside doors. Greetings would be exchanged, and the
outside world would know only that an upperclass woman was
strolling out on a legitimate date.
3. The Gate—-Meet 'Em in the Open
MALE AGENTS would post themselves on the long stone
fence flanking the College gate. They would smoke, consult a
book, in the most innocent fashion, for they played a dangerous
game. 1 .
Soon a ribbonless lady would put in an appearance. One of
the males would suddenly remember an errand, and slide quick
ly off the wall. Casually, he would fall in with the girl, and
they would strike up a conversation. Their path would lie
along Allen, through the very center of the town, on to the
highway beyond. Two agents ,had met.
When the Enemy withdrew, his forces last week, he was
smugly ignorant of the miracles wrought by this small band of.
toilers in the glorious name of freedom. As his slavestate sys
tem of Customs was finally scrapped, he little thought that their
calculated efficiency in isolating the freshman girls was an in
consequential .00000731 per cent, and that business as usual had
transpired in the very shadow of the Atherton watch towers. -
Gazette ....
Thursday, October 27
DENDROLOGY SOCIETY, 105
Forestry, 7:00.
' SIGMA i TAU Business Meet
ing, 203 E.E. 7:00.
SPANISH CLUB, McElwain
Main Lounge, 7:00.
YOUTH PROGRESSIVES OF
AMERICA, 8 Sparks, .7:15. ;
FROTH EDITORIAL STAFF
and Candidates, Carnegie, 8:00.
AT THE MOVIES
CATHAUM—Bad Boy.
NITTANY—His Girl Friday.
STATE—I Was A Male War
Bride.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Admitted Wednesday: Anthony
Orsini
Discharged Wednesday: Martha
Baltzall, Helen Benedetti, Don
aid Crummy, Betty Custer, Mar-
ily Night, Sleep Tight”
By RON BONN
garet Guthrie, Ray Hetterick, Ed
ward Hoover, William Whiteford
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
The American Cyanamid Co.,
Noy. 2 and. 3. Students receiving
Ph.D. degrees in CE or Chem
any time ini 1950.
Youngstown Sheet and Tube,
General Fireproofing. Timken
Roller Bearing, Ortho Pharma
ceutical Corp.. Nov. 1 and 2.
January grads in C&F, Arts and
Letters, Accounting, Pre-med,
Chem, ME, Mine E, CE. Appli
cants should be in the upperhalf
of their class. Positions available
are primarily sales.
Radio Corp. of Amer. (RCA),
Victor Division. Nov. 7 and 8.
January grads in Me, EE, C&F,
Accounting for specialized train
ing program. Applicants must
rank in upper-half of their class.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1949
Safety Valve,..
Letters to the editor should be limited to 200 words so
that oil contributors may be siren space. The editor reserves
the right to print In part all letters oyer that limit. Letters
must be signed and the address is requested.
Judge on Merit
TO THE EDITOR: In Wednesday’s issue of
the Collegian a letter signed by “A Vet” put
forth the argument that opposition to the state
bonus by the American Veterans Committee
was, in effect,, an argument for the proposi
tion. It was implied that this was so because
of widespread fear the AVC was a “Red”
organization.
In the first place, the bonus question should
be judged on the basis of its merits, hot on
the basis of the groups which support or op-'
pose it. The fact that the Communist Party
is supporting the bonus is no more of an argu
ment against it than is AVC’s stand an argu
ment for it. Incidentally, the fact that AVC
is in this instance across the fence from both
the Communists and the Legion and' VFW
should scotch once and for all the' slanders
and innuendos which“have so often in the
past been levelled it.
AVC is opposed to the bonus because, in
line .with its motto, “CITIZENS FIRST, VET
ERANS SECOND.” AVC believes that the
promiscuous grant of the proposed sum in
comparatively prosperous times would have
an inflationary economic effect not in the
general interest, because - any bonus tends to
set veterans as an artificial class against the
general interest, and to perpetuate this dis
tinction, and finally because it espouses the
extension of those other veterans benefits
which more fully and more effectively restore
to veterans the capacity to be useful, intel
ligent, and interested' citizens of Pennsylvania,
of their country, and of the world.
Objection Answer
TO THE EDITOR: The main objection to the
state bonus is the possibility of future taxes
of some sort. However, it isn’t necessary to
pay the bonus off by taking it out on the
poor, vet’s • children. Let’s take it out'on those
people who are throwing money around.
Where? How? At the race tracks,’ of course.
How many Pennsylvanians go to tracks in
New York, New Jersey, Deleware and Mary
land? How much do these same people spdnd
there? I don’t know, but it’s enough.
The next' step is to have horse racing legal
ized in Pennsylvania. Send a letter to your
legislators before you tef to the polls. Ask
for a law permitting gambling on horse, racing
in the state. Then vote for the bonus. If there
are enough letters, who knows what may
happen.? .Initial cost, three cents;- maximum
returns, $500.00, minimum returns $30.00.
1-lObO; what better odds do you want!
I dbn’t know how it will effect the futrtlre
of sotne Penn State grads who plan to enter
the “bookie” profession, but it can’t be . too
bad.
0.0 0
Hard Words
TO THE EDITOR: Those were hard words
you wrote about the team in Tuesday’s write
up— or even fair. Rogel' has
his good points, but the team is and deserves
better than was given them in your article.
,G. Migdon
With the Staff
Story behind a classified ad. ,Alpha -Tail .
Omega fraternity, Which ran a classified -in.
Wednesday’s Collegian requesting fraternities
to give empty fifth., and pint bottles to ATO
pledges Saturday morning, has method, be-.,
hind its seeming madness. Vice-President' in
Charge of Ideas John Erickson has dreamed
up a “Lost Weekend” party for the house 1
Saturday night. The empty bottles' are needed
to supply atmosphere. Incidentally the prize
for the house submitting the most bottles is
a return of one of the bottles —full.
A SURVEY of student tastes, designed to
aid the Executive committee of the second an
nual Artists’ Course in selecting features for
the Course, was being conducted on campus
this week, 15 years ago. A ballot containing
the names of proposed artists for the. course
was printed in the Penn State Collegian, When
filled out by students, the ballots were de
- posited in a box in Old Main and later tallied.
Such instrumental groups as the Cleveland
Symphony Orchestra and the London String '
Quartet, were offered for the students' con-I
sideraiion, as were such instrumental soloists
as Zimbalist and Levitski, Jose Iturbi, Albert
Spalding, Ossip Gabrilowitsch.
Among seven vocal number's they had to
choose from were Grace Moore, Grete Steueck
gold, John Goss and his London Singers, The
Westminister Choir and others.
Six lecturers were also offered for selection.
Dorothy Thompson, Hans von Kaltenbom and
The Martain Johnsons headed the list. Four
companies, consisting of dancers and drama
tics artists, rounded out the hat.
—Corbin A. Kidder
* •
—Joe Klein