PAGE TNTP Others Say... Unique SMU Exam For a long time a number one complaint from students has been that professors never cover in examinations the material they give in lecture. If one progressive SMU prof is any indication, then this era is at an end. There is an instructor on the campus who is an avid follower of the "L'il Abner" comic strip. Occasionally this instructor likes to start off his classes with a discussion of this comic. He isn't wasting class lime, either, for he always has some point to make relat ing to the subject at hand. The surprise came when Tis instructor in cluded several questions on' "I'll Abner" in a recent exam. The Campus would like to mention this pro fessor's name so that he might receive public praise for the fair manner in which he conducts his course. However, there are those who Might raise their eyebrows so it must be suffi cient just to mention that ,he exists. We need more instructors like Professor X. Wtien all the profs start giving on the exams what they cover in the course, life will, indeed. be a bowl of cheeries. Flunk insurance Students at San Franciscb State College now have "flunk insurance." Members of Alpha Phi Gamma journalism fraternity at, the Golden Gate school have worked out risk tables based on classes and grade-point averages of students. The higher your grades the lower the prem. Wm. " The average Joe College will pay 50 cents into the kitty on a particular course, and if he spins out, collect $l. All incoming freshmen are charged a flat rate—regardless of previous mental prowess. Proceeds go for a journalism scholarship for high school graduates ' Hotels, Not Dorms New Jersey students must live in hotels, not dorms, according to the N.J. state legislature. That is how they classify dorms, and it cost Princeton an extra $75,000 in safety devices, the Daily Princetonian pointed out. Some of the things corrected: exits marked, fire sprinklers' installed in old dorms, fire eX tinguishers in all entries, a manually-operated fire alarm system, doors swinging out. —NSA News gite Batty Collegian Successor to THE FREE LANCE, .at. 1887 Published Tuesday through SatUeda, mornings in• elusive during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College. Mitered as itecond-dace matter July 5, 1934. at the State College, Pa" Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879• Editor 'Business Manager Tom Morgan 'OP' Marlin A. Weaver , Managing Ed., Wilbert Roth; News Ed., Jack Reen; Sports Editor. Elliot Krane; Edit. Dir.. Dottie Wcrlin• tat Society Ed., Commie Keller; Feature Ed.. Sylvia Ochner; Asst. News Ed., Jack Senior; Asst. Sports d., Ed Watson: Asst. Society Ed., Barbara Brown; Promotion Co-Mgr. Charlotte Seidman; PhOto Ed., Ray Benfer; Senior Board George Vadase, Albert Ryan, Myrna Tex, Robert Roie: Stiff Cartoonist: Henry M. Progar: Staff Photographer Sim Vaughan. AWL Business Mgr., Joe Jackson; Advertising Dir. Louis Gilbert; Local Ad Mgr.. Don Baker; Ass't. Local Ad. Mei., Mark Arnold; Promotion Co-Mgr.. Karl Borish: Circulation Co-Mgra., Bob Bergman and Tom Karolcik Classified 'Ad Mgr., Thelma Geier; Personnel Mgr., Bets, Jane Hower; Office Mgr., Ann Zekauskas; Secretariee , Marion Goldman and Sue Stern. Letters to the editor should be limited to 200 words • mat all contributors may be given space. The editor reserve the right to print in part all letters over that limit. Lettet must be signed and the address is requested. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night Editor John Dalbo Assiatant Night Editor Pat Nutte Copy Editor Ray Koeh]e Assistants Sally Miller, Phil Lurie, Su( Neuhauser, Cordell Murtha Advertising Manager Bill Schott Assistants Carl Lucyk, Peter Kalandiak 15 YEARS OF UNIQUE COLLEGE SERVICE SALLY'S STATE. COLLEGE CANDY CO. 140 S. Pugh St —The SMU Campus —NSA Nein from 'tate College THE DAILY C's-. O .LEGIAN. STATn COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA "Practically the' only enjoyment he has anymore is malting out finals." Christmas and Radio Well, it's started. Tens of millions of watts of Christmas cheer are racketing across the nation's ether. Peace on earth burbles from every local and long distance microphone, one lungers right up to the fifty-kilowatt powerhouses. White, Christmas has just made its thirty-seventh electronic bow here. So, like a pestilence of. old Christmas descends on American radio. NOW, I'VE GOT nothing against Christmas per, se. But I'll rant and rage and roar, and rant and rage some more, at the awful metamorphosis which radio undergoes in the . last month , before December 25th. Christmas, unrelieved by• any form of entertain ment, reigns an absolute and dreadful monarch. Consider the carol. Few forms of music are lovelier. But when the cast of a soap-opera, which he engaged for 11 months in auditory incest, carnage, and organized unfaithfulness of man to wife, suddenly erupts into The First Noel; I reach a quivering claw for the knob on the left. Or when the Spirit moves a disc jockey. Through three and I half seasons, he contents himself with the irreverent discord of Dixieland band. Suddenly, however, Waxy gets r'el'igion. In an of fected bass rumble, he intones: ' "Well, folks, it'll soon be Christmas (he wants us to be the first to know) and with the world in the condition it is today (here z. sad throb for the world in the condition it is today), I think (unusual occupation normally avoided by radio personnel) it is, only fitting that we play a few • beautiful carols to commemorate the occasion So here's Stan Kenton, playing Artistry in Bethlehem." BUT THE ABSOLUTE in imbecility comes in when you con sider the real, old fashioned bloOd-and-entrails detective saga. Up until the broadcast before Christmas, the detective gets bludgeoned with a high degree of regularity and P. Henry Nasty, thief, em bezzler, and despoiler of women gets a just comeuppance, plunging into a vat of molten steel in the last three minutes of the broadcast. But not on the pre-Christmas show. For then, instead of taking out after a bloody killer, the hero,' abjuring for once all illicit relations •kith the wives of his clients, swings a heartwarmer•. With perfect timing, a 1.) Poor but honest yOung mother, 2.) Poor but honest young bride, or 3.) Poor but honest old scrublady with an Irish or Italian descer. 'm the slums approaches Spam Sade, pleading tearfully that he 1.) Find her missing baby, who vanished from, the poor, memade carriage while she was off waiting on tables, 2.) Prove that her poor.- loyal husband, did not kill his :eedy, pennypinching employer and then 'run away with another •oman, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, or 3.) Dig up her wandering boy Who disappeared ibirty ! seven :ears ago and to whom, she fears, something might have happened. Well, we take it. So far, we've taken it in silence. But one of these days the great American public is going to rise up and sudden ly discover what really fine yule logs "genuine, mahogany-yeneered cabinets with 12 tubes" make. Up To 40% • Don Kepler Boots • Hunting Clothing • Wool Hunting Shirts • Men's and Women's Hunting Suits . • • Ammunition • .22 Rifles • Fishing Equipment • Ski. Bindings • Tennis Shoes Open Every Night Until Xmas DON KEPLER, Inc. Pre-Xmas Sale That Will Save You Underneath the Corner . • • • • :.......: 1 ••••... °•7,". ••...:. 0 .....,,t,»::47 .......:: ~,. Tracking Downo. 0 . • 40 , NN ..,.... a , . •-. • •••.• -- \.4) , ..- :', - ": !;: . . : :;;: - ";: 4 4 1, - ..! ...• • • 0.: . ..----:- •--:-...., vrivd %.4 • ... ...... .... Tales., '. . . Credit for 'one of the semester's most quot able quotes goes to Dean Lyman Jackson of the School of Agriculture. As the band•sudden ly swung into a fast jazz number at the recent Harvest Ball, the Dean was seen dancing past a group . of ag students. Noting their astonished expression, he turned and ciuipped, "All in favor of this motion say T." Thar. Sigma Pi, woman's journalism honor ary: recently invited Miss Kay Springer to their Christmas Tea. Imagine their surprise when they received the following ,polite reply: "I will be delighted to attend the tea in Simmons Lounge on Sunday. P.S., Please ad mess future correspondence to Mr. Kay Spring er. P.P.S. Is my NROTC uniform proper for the occasion?" Dinner table conversation isn't always mo notonous-as a McElwain coed proved recently. The much-discussed—or should we say dis gusted—subject of men was the topic of Con versation and a complaint was issued by one girl to the effect that her favorite male, hadn't kissed her of late'. Then she added "But he kissed me today." Silence reigned throughout the dinin,g hall when suddenly the strains of "Congratulations to you" rang forth. Unsuspecting electrical engineers walked into a class in thermo dynamics the other 'day only to find a surprise awaiting them in the form of an unannounced quiz. The engineers took their seats in dead sil ence. Then a voice from the back of the room inquired, "How much credit do we get- for originality?" Safety Valve... Feeble Attempt TO THE EDITOR: This evening I have ex perienced that sickening feeling of disgust. I read Froth. This magazine is even more than a waste of paper, it is a crime. Two years ago enjoyed spending . time as a member of Froth's art staff. The magazine was average then; not, up to the standards of around '4O and 41, but something I could be proud to have a 'art in. Last year I dropped this relation and this year I'm actually ashamed that my name vas ever connected with Froth. If this is the best Penh State can produce as humor magazine I am in favor of destroying their charter and giving the literary and photo magazine another chance. I'd much rather be entertained with photographs and literattire than to be irritated with Froth's feeble attempt it sex. , • Ed Note—Froth sold out its Christmas issue this week in a day and a half. Penn Staters must go' for it. Gazette •• . Friday, December 16 CHESS CLUB, 3 Sparks, 7 p.m. • GERMAN CLUB, Home•,Ec. Living Center, '3O p.m. LIEBIG • .CHEMICAL .SOgETY, 405 Old ,lain, 8 p.m. , COLLEGE, HOSPITAL , Admitted Wednesday: • Harriet Rubenstein, ack Hildebrand. Admitted Thursday: Kalman Harnick, Wall ce M. Maurer. AT TiflE MOVIES CATHAUM—Bride For Sale. NITTANY—White Heat. STATE—Crooked Way. After Graduation; what will YOU do? 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