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Safety Valve...
"New Tradition"
TO THE EDITOR: ‘“Tradition Suffers as For
mer Girl Cheerleader Runs Rally.”
Hah! Tradition never had it so good. It seems
almost inconceivable that tradition could be es
tablished in one year. As a matter of fact, it
would be better to say, in six football weekends.
In 1948, the last of female cheerleaders were
seen on New Beaver Field. The spirit among the
upperclassmen seems to have definitely fallen
off. This of course can be attributed to many fac
tors, such as being seated in the vicinity of Bald
Eagle Mountain, or because we no longer have
as strong a team as in the past few years.
There is a tremendous difference in the re
sponse the student body gives to pleas from
male cheerleaders. After all, there are four
times as many men as women and it is to be
expected that the male would respond more
readily to the female. Any increase in spirit'
may be attributed to our new freshmen
women, who often cheer to have something to
do while the teams are out of sight at the
far end.of the field.
Last year, the graduate manager of athletics,
Ike Gilbert, issued a decree forbidding female
participation on the cheerleading squad. The
reasons he gave at that time ran something like
this: Women cheerleaders detract from the dig
nity of the squad, and the alumni have request
ed that their future participation be prohibited.
WITHOUT BELABORING the slur on the
coeds and their dignity, I would like to ask two
questions. 1. Who every saw a dignified cheer
leader? 2. Who are these alumni referred to?
Several that have returned this fall asked why
we had no women on the squad and expressed
disappointment over their absence. Maybe the
worthy Graduate Manager and I travel in. very
exclusive and opposite- thinking sets, but it
seems that one of us would have run into some
individual who. would express a different opin
ion.
It is the student body itself which does most
of the cheering, so it seems logical that they
should be able to express their preference aS
to the sex of the cheerleaders. This is a co
educational institution and so it is only right
that the women be permitted to participate,
. if only in this way, in our major sport.
I would therefore be very interested in having
the opinion of other students concerning this
■matter. Who knows, I might hear from one who
igrees with Mr. Gilbert.
• Three cheers. We too would like to see a
few distaff cheerleaders on the Nittany grid
turf.
However, there must be two sides to the
question, as evidenced by the fact that Pitt,
Penn, Michigan State and many other large
universities and colleges limit cheerleading to
to men, as does Penn State
Coejd cheerleaders at State were a war
measure because of the "manpower shortage,"
Then in '47 the Athletic Association commit
tee on cheerleading— not Gilbert alone—de
cided to revert to the College's traditional pol
icy of a strict man's world in cheerleading.
(No official alumni opinion -was expressed.) _
Comprising this committee, set up under the
AA constitution, are the dean of the School of
Physical Education and Athletics, the grad
uate manager of athletics, head football coach,
head of the department of music, president of
the Athletic Association (a student), and the
retiring head cheerleader.
The AA constitution mentions neither mem
nor women in speaking of cheerleader selec
tion. However, it implies strongly that Niliany
cheerleaders are to be male. For example, we
quote from article 5:
"...The uniform of the cheerleaders
shall be ’ white flannel-trousers and white
round-neck sweater with a two-inch band of
blue encircling the neck."
iatly Collegian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE, est. 1887
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The Gripes of Roth
There’s a saying among spoilsmen to the effect that' it’6 a
good, man who can dish it out, but it’s a better man who can take
it. The same might easily be said for women.
PENN STATE COEDS proved they could dish it out, last year.
Now that a few, a very few, have to take ity they’re proving
themselves sissies. .. ' ,
I refer to the letter published in the Safety Valve Saturday
in which two coeds, '.'who have dates, believe it or not," asked
for a ban on imports during "Big Weekends." •
That I am not alone in my opinion of these female “cry babies”
is evidenced by the stormy replies the letter evoked in subsequent
issues of the Collegian. Only yesterday, members of their own sex
condemned them for their infantile action.
WITHOUT TAKING into account emotional responses such
as coeds are “conceited,” “unfriendly," etc. it can be demonstrated
quite conclusively that the Chinese Wall a minority of the fair
sex wish to erect around the Nittany Vale is not the solution to
dateless weekends for our Penn State dolls.
From the astronomical man-woman ratio of almost 5 io 1
last year, the figure has dropped to the neighborhood of 3Vi to
1. In concrete terms, this means there are approximately 7500 Don
Juans on campus to only 2500 Helens of Troy..
If every man, therefore, were to, date oqe of the available coeds,
5,000 male neurotics would stiH be surplus. Let’s face it, there
were nowhere near 5,000 imports trundled into State College last
weekend. Even, a Liberal Artist, then,, should be- able to see that
there were men around who could have escorted the girls to all
the gay weekend parties.
THEN WHY THE gripe? Because after two semesters of hav
ing the phone ring on the average of six or seven times per week
with men on the other end of the line clamoring for dates, the
ratio drop has cut weekly calls to four or fiv%. Our little misses
don’t approve of this situation and want it remedied.
_ Ah often-heard statement from coeds, who dismiss the ratio
as irrelevant, is, "sure there are three or four men. to every wo
man, but one's married, one-'s pinned, and we wouldn't date the
other one (or two) anyway."
This may surprise the powder puffs, but there are some men
who feel that not every lass who trips down the mall is Miss
America material, either. In fact, on occasion, I’ve heard terms
like “beast” arid “dog? dispensed rather freely.
IT WOULD SEEM, then, that if some of Dean Weston’s charges
are forced to remain manless for a weekend two, the fault lies
at least partly with themselves.
Two possible solutions lie with the girls themselves,' arid
either would probably' be preferable to the sensible one sug
gested by some male students. The first is io, do as Dr. Adams
once suggested to his class, and seek work in the coal iriines, the
only place outside of State there are more men per woman in the
country.
The second is to take up the idea of a quota system with
the administration,, limiting admittance of coeds to a definite low
percentage of, the student body.
Maybe five per cent would be satisfactory. Or is that too
High, girls?
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• We second the motion and add that the
Tarheel-Lion game will begin at 1 p.m.
It seems that soccer teams at Penn Slate
have always been playing—and winning—be-
fore notoriously small crowds. Domination
by football is of course the reason. This week
end is one of the few afforded the fool-ball
minded gentry on campus to see a soccer
game, since foe football team will be out-of
state.
The show put on by Coach Jeffrey's soccer
men is exciting even to foe neophyte, who
. can appreciate a cracker jack ballet oh foe soc
cer field executed by Joe Lane, or the figura
tive and literal headwork of Ron Coleman.
Soccer attracts lens of thousand in Britain.
Maybe we're missing something.
■ Coff Again ,
-TO THE , EDITOR: Behavior is caused or
hadn’t you heard? For the girls, it isn’t a mat
ter of “lowering their pride to go to a mixer or
dance.” It’s just that the girls don’t want to
waste the Evening standing around when the
men won’t ask them to dance. What girl—good
, looking or otherwise—wants to stand on one
side of a hall and look at the men,standing on
the other side. All men aren’t that goodloolung!
’ Two weeks isn’t too early to ask a girl to a
big dance. After all, she may have to earn the
money to buy a gown.
’ Naturally with a 3, to 1 or better ratio a man
can’t always get a date when he calls 5051. Don’t
be discouraged. Call again! The coeds are nice
girls if you take the trouble to meet them.
—A Coed
• Name withheld
Night Editor .... L. D. Gladfelter
Assistant Night Editor John Dalbor
Copy Editor .. i Dede Daly
Assistants Ellen Sperber, Paul Pootman,
Sally Miller. ,
Advertising Manager Bill Schott
Assistants Carl Lucyk, Pete Kalandiak, Sue
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1940
Safety Valve...
Stiff Undefeated
TO THE EDITOR: Here at Perln State one of
the best soccer teams in the East, guided by Bill
(“Mr. Soccer”) Jeffrey, is out winning all their
games so far this season. What glory do they get?
Even when there is no football game at Beaver
Field the students do not come out to cheer their
team through its tough battles.
SoCcer as a sport demands more endurance
than does fooibalL its great rival. The game
entails a great deal of skill. How many of you
could get out on the field and master a ball
as does Ralph Hoslerman or Dick Hannah?
These men are noted and have received rec
ognition by being classed as All-Americans
last year.
If the students here at Penn State would learn
a little about the game of soccer I am sure that
everyone would at least cheer one of the top
teams of the East tomorrow afternoon when the
team plays on main Beaver Field. The “Big
White” wiH play against the Tar Heels of North
Carolina. \
The game of soccer is an interesting one and
can only be appreciated when it is understood.
An easy way of learning is to watch.
Gazette ....
Friday, November 4.
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BLOCK AND BRIDLE Club Hayride, meet
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