PACE TWO
Cabinet Action
Today's statement by the Messrs. Keller and
Allen points up two things. First, it shows
that Keller's pungent discourse last week was
not meant to make Cabinet out as possessing
no more action than a stalled hearse in a snow
storm.
Second, it shows that it was meant to
point out to Cabinet that a clearer adminis
tration stand should be sought by Cabinet on
several points.
Deeper probing on certain points of general
student interest is possible by All-College
Cabinet, but only to and through the College
administration. As for student affairs carried
on by Cabinet, all students are free to question
and petition Cabinet action, according to the
constitution, which is printed at least once
yearly in the Daily Collegian.
IN OUR MIND, the ideal result of all this
would be overflowing student galleries at all
Cabinet meetings that would force Cabinet
meetings out of 201 Old Main into a larger
room.
THAT CABINET is currently floundering in
lethargic inaction can be refuted strongly. As
Keller himself pointed out, this is a miscon
ception that has apparently been evoked by
his Ccibitiet speech, so let us puncture a few
boles in it. These are a few Cabinet actions or
projects this year that , are already completed
or are underway at present:
1) Room 204 Old Main has been set aside
by the College as a student government
room. to be known as the Ralph Dorn Heizel
Memorial Room. It will begin operation soon
as a daily center for coordinating student
z , government and all groups represented in
student government.
;) Plans for ice skating on the practice foot
ball field have been formed and are ready to
function when weather permits.
3) A STUDENT GOVERNMENT • handbook
to explain student government and its varied
functions is in the process . of planning and pub
lication;
4) A loan to Critique, camp — us literary maga-
zine, has been granted to remove plaguing
creditors from the backs of students and ad
ministration.
5). A committee is working on something •
apparently now dead to most students but
Still alive in Cabinet—a possible change in
th. football seating arrangement.
6) Other Committees—such as the ring, elec-
tions, Orientation Week and safety committees
—are consuming much time in accomplishing
their assigned aims. The newly-created dormi
tory and five-day-meal-ticket committees are
a natural result of student petition to Cabinet.
Robert Davis, who brought them before Cabi
net, said he would have done so Thursday re
gardless of Keller's prodding at that particular
meeting.
The outcomes of investigations and actions
undertaken by these Cabinet committees and
Cabinet as a whole may not seem important
to every student. But they are important to
Student government in its role as medium be
tween the student body and the College
administration. And they are important to
All-College Cabinet insofar as they are for
the student body.
Otte Elaitg Collegian
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Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings tn•
elusive duririg the College year by the Oaf of The Daily
Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College. I
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Jack Reen;
Snorts Editor. Elliot Kraals; Edit . Dir.. D ottie Worths.
ich; Society Ed., Commie Keller; Feature Ed.. Sylvia Ochner;
Asst. News Ed,, Jack Senior; Asst. Sportsd., Ed Watson;
Asst. Society Ed., Barbara Brown; PrAmotion Co-Mgr..
Charlotte Seidman; Photo Ed., Ray Benfer; Senior Board
George Veda's, Albert Ryan, Myrna Tex, Robert Roses
Staff Cartoonists Henry H. Prow: Staff Photographer
Ssm Vaughan.
AWL Business Mgr., Joe Jackson; Advertising Dir.,
Louis Gilbert; Local Ad Mgr.. Don Baker; Asa't. Local
Ad. Mgr., Mark Arnold: Promotion Co-Mgr., Karl Borleh:
Circulation Co-Mgrs.,
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Jane Hower; Office Mgr., Ann Zekauskas; Secretaries
Marion Goldman and Sue Stern.
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STAFF THIS ISSUE
Managing Editor ....Ray Koehlei
News Editor Lynnette Wilson
Copy Editor ..... Wilson .Barto
Assistants Audrey Lipsky, Paul Poorman,
Lee Edward Stern, and Norma Zehner.
Advertising Manager .. .. Judy Krakower
Assistants Laura Mermelstem, Norma
Gleghorn, Winnie Wyant, Claude DePas
•lale, and H. W. Mandes.
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Reprinted from the May, 1947 issue of zsguntr.
"Windcrest to Rec Hall how much?"
Tete-A-Tete
ABERSOPHY: Hey, Bill, stop hustling around for two minutes
and answer a couple of questions for me. Ghee, you look , awfl.ll—
you ever get any sleep?
BILLINGSWHEEL: Nah, but what do you.want to know, kid?
ABERSOPHY: What's this All-College Cabinet that some wild
character named Keller has been raving about lately? It sounds' like
Congress being worked over again. .
BILLINGSWHEEL: Well, sir, you've core a long way 'An your
three months up here ... at least you read the Collegian. As fair
as the studen't body is concerned, All-College Cabinet is its Can
gressi and decides nearly all the problems relating to ettudent
affairs.
ABERSOPHY: Yeah? Do they really have any power to 'do
anything? Can they fix me up with a room in the new dorm, or a
better chow deal, or .
BILLINGSWHEEL: Easy lad, they're already working ori"those
things, but before any decision is reached, the Cabinet cbnimittees
must get all the facts and then the Cabinet will seek the best .loltk
ton for the student body as a whole.
ABERSOPHY: Oh, that's pretty good. But how well repre
sented are all the groups on campus?
BILLINGSWHEEL: Everybody is covered at least tree times,
once through his living group; class, arid also through his school.
On Cabinet are presidents of all eight school councils, AIM and IrC,
Leonides and Pan-Hel, the AA and WRA, the four classes, WSGA,
the Boards of Publications, Dramatics and ForensicS, and the :three
All-College officers. , •
ABERSOPHY: Wow! Sounds fair enough, if it works.
BILLINGSWHEEL: That depends on the calibre of the people
on the Cabinet, and proves that it is the responsibility of every
student to make sure the person representing him Is the best in
his group.
ABERSOPHY: Man, I certainly would like to be on that outfit.
BILLINGSWHEEL: All you have to do is get elected.
Those French Movies
The combined French classes at the College were recently
"convinced" that it would be to their best interests to take in a
triple feature being showh free for nothing at Osmond. The filths,
20 minute shorts, were imported from France, of all places, and
looked it. In line with its long policy of public service, the Collegian
prints the substance of these films.
YOUR CORRESPONDENT was hampered in his , efforts at
clear reporting by the unfortunate circumstance that the darned
movies were narrated in French ....without subtitles yet! However,
by conferring with other. advanced student§ of, the language of ro
mance, we managed to piece together the following fairly complete
narrative.
The film opened with some words flashed on the screen.
These too were in French, and are of no interest here. 'All of a
sudden, however, a large expanse of dull water. appeared, -and a
Frenchman on the seund track started-babbling frantically through
his nose. The water was almost certainly the Atlantic ocean, al
though a strong minority claim that the narrator called it Lake
Erie. 'Anyway, the film started 'roaming up and down the coasts
of-France—of which there are a lot more than you realize until
you've got to sit through this picture. Here are certain conclusions
to be gleaned from the glances• of the simple peasant life glowingly
illustrated.
- Basque girls wear skirts cut two inches above the knee, and
hasque cameramen are fond of low-angle shots. Basque girls, how
ver, wear large numbers of petticoats.
France imports immense quantities of something or other, but
exports even more of something else.
Either this picture was 20 years olci or its a lie about those
French bathing'suits.
All French cooks weigh 300 pounds
There Is a little white dot that bounces tip and dowh across the
lap of France and is exploited by movie directors to show where
'ley are talking about.
'The twin bed has not yet been introduced to the French peas
,itry.
The French peasantry do not miss it. '
It takes many years to produce champagne. Consumption is
ornewhat more rapid:-
It's all a lie about French girls.
All French movies close with the word "fin" splashed across the
screen. This may very well mean:
The End.
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Copyright !pa by Esquire. toe.
By JACK SENIOR
By RON BONN
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1949
Tracking
Down
Tales
With The Staff
DR. EUGENE A. MEYERS, economics prof.,
provoked a laugh with this one when he spoke
to the 'Philosphy Club last week on "Why
Come To College?"
To illustrate his point that a college educa
tion' will not necessarily guarantee vocational
success, he related a story about a Greek who
emigrated to the United States. Despite illiter
acy ana the fact that he spoke in broken Eng
lish, he became a millionaire - in 20 years.
When asked what he attributed his success
to, he replied, "Oh, I get a big idea, and then
I hire a college graduate to work out the de
tails."
THE STUDENT CLEANING AGENCY is
doing' fine according to all reports, but when
one over-optimistic student brought in a hun
dred dollar•bill to be changed, he was referred
to, the bank. •
STUDENTS ON the UCLA campus have or
cranized a new social club. Known as the "23
Club" it caters exclusively to oldsters who
have 'passed , their twenty-third birthday.
• * .
WHILE THEORIZING on what the first
electric refrigerator ad might have been like,,
one enterprising advertising major suggested
this• slogan—" Electricity now does what the
icemantdid before." Some assumption, that!
sifeti .Valve . .
A Christmas Wish
TO THE EDITOR: May . I please submit the
following few lines of verse as my Christmas
wish that someday soon Christmas will again
be a joyful season where people can rejoice in
peace throughout the entire world?
—C. 0. Calvin
ON CHRISTMAS EVE—A WISH
I looked out my window •
Towards a distant star,
'Twas Christmas Eve—the Holy night
• A' night, no man could mar.
And as I stood there watching
The star grew large and bright,
And brought to mind the mem'ry of
Another Christmas night
Then soon appeared the carolers.
Who sang of Christmas cheer,
"Peace to all—good will toward men
To all a glad New Year."
'Oh that men might once again
Rejoice on Christmas Eve, •
And sing the sacred music of
The things which they believe.
That good will might be common where,
Men gather to rejoice,
To worship God and all His works .
In the churches of their choice.
And again the song' of Bethlehem
Would to each one impart
An urge to say on Christmas Eve,
Sweet prayers from the heart.
Gazette . •
Wednesday, December 14
AIM Meeting, 409 Old Main, 7:30 , p.m.
ARCHERY CLUB, '124 Sparks, 7 p.m..,
CIRCULO ESPANOL, Hillel Foundation, 7
p.m.-
COLLEGIAN CHRISTMAS Party, Eutaw
House, 8 p.m. Buses leave Cornor Room .at 7:30
and 8:30.
NEWMAN Club Discussion Group, Church
easement, 7 p.m.
PENN STATE CHESS Club, 3 Sparks, 7
p.m.
SOPHOMORE CLASS Meeting, 3 White
(-14111, 7 p.m.
WRA Badminton Club, White Hall, 8:30 p.m.
WRA Bowling Club (Advanced), White Hall,
7 p.m . -
WRA Dance Club, White Hall, 7 p.m.
WRA Concert Group, White Hall, 8 p.m.
WRA Outing Club, 1 White Hall, 7 p.m.
WRA Swimming Club, White Hall, 7:30 p.m.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
ADMITTED MONDAY: Nancy Buen, Lois
Jean Condra, Richard Rittenhouse, James Gull
borg, Clifford Wheeler, Jacob Meckler, James
Darcy.
ADMITTED TUESDAY: Phillip' Spahr.
DISCHARGED MONDAY: Wilbur Hankey,
John BurtOn, Mary Lou Transue.
DISCHARGED TUESDAY: Lois Jean Con
dra, Thelma Evans, Walter Grimes, Jarlies
Wolk, Theodore Horner, Harry Swimmer,
Joseph Brown, Richard Rittenhouse.
AT THE MOVIES
CATHHAM—The Black Book
STATE—The Hatchet Man
NITTANY- w^o a Fullback