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Students at Penn State yearly pay $20,000
to join an honorary and dangle a key from
their vain chain. That's about three times the
amount each senior class has to toy with in
its Senior Gift Fund. It's about twice the sizr
of the yearly budget of All-College Cabinet, 10 .
student governing body.
OFFICIAL FIGURES ARE unavailable nor,
Although $20,000 is unofficial, it seems conser
vative enough since we reached it by multiply
ing these conservative estimates: 50 Greek
letter and other honorary and professional
societies; 25 members in each; at least $l5 for
initiation, a key and other fees. Much of .this
money goes to headquarters of national honor
•aries.
Bob Higgins. ex-Penn State football coach.
certainly was prone to wonder "Is it worth
it" when long hours of toil on the football
practice field produced little results in a few
of the lean years of his regime. The same
thing applies here, sans the physical effort
but with hard cash as a substitute. Students
who pay their. shekels to attach three honor
ary Greek letters to their names should also
ask "Is it worth it?"
Honorary fraternities doubtless have an im
portant function in that they inspire effort. BUt
the cost of inspiration should not be as great
as it is in many cases.
ALTHOUGH OUR CAMPUS suffers from •an
extreme malady known as "Key Craze," it is
probably no worse than the same affliction at
other colleges. But to say that we are no worse
than other colleges is beside the point.
What Penn State students who are mem
bers or members-to-be of honorary fraterities
should. do \ is demand a statement of just
where •the money goes that they send to na
tional headquarters of their organizations..
The custom now is to serve up the dollars
asked without a question or a shade of s
doubting Thomas.
This is one road that many students enter as
blind as the Cyclops. •
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Turn about is fair play, girls, so if the man you marry has been
wearing falsies there should be no mass gnashing of teeth and
ing. '
Sounds fantastic? •Terhaps; but .according:to .a recent announce
ment from New. York, City, one' of the., world's. leading meccas of
fashion, men will be wearing falsies in 1950. And as New York goes
n men's fashions, so goes the nation.
THE NEW DEVICE,- designed for hopew and flat-chested men,
onsists of a band of 'padding, two inches wide and one-quarter of
an inch thick. Strapped around the chest of the under-developed
male at just the place it can do the most good, it will give him the
manly qualities that nature failed to provide.. •
The development Of this sensatiOnal•new'product is the natural
outgrowth of the recent trend taken on, by what has been called
the "new- look." It puts curves, undulations. angles and slinky
shapes where neither God nor nature intended them to be. It is
only natural that man, for so long the victim of feminine decep•
tibn, should attempt to fight fire with fire; In effect, the male
copulation is saying: "What's good for the women is good for us."
' The more thoughtful among us may view the male falsie as
.;angerous threat to our morals, just as are the falsies worn
women. Why so?- Well, with women wearing falsies a man contem
)lating marriage could never be quite sure that his wife-to-be could
ack up her claims unless .
With the alarming• possibility now that Menwill also seport tt.
pis deception,:the iAietnen too will always' feel`.that there 'is that'
artain element of doubt. This crucial threat to :the morals of our
:omen—and consequently. to the moral structure, of our nation—
; aptly illustrated by the reaction of. one female :who commented
tat in the event that falsies were to beeorne• common with men, she
voulcl not marry a man until I were sure." .
Dismissing the impencilng collapse of our morals as a minor
iroblem whiCh can be handled by the office of the dean of women,
he' introduction of falsies for men is an insult to the virile man'. ,
hood of the nation. Falsies for men .is a backhanded suggestion
.hat the
,chests of men and in general fhe•delielopment of the male
Species are lacking.
What with 2000 newspapers and, thousands of radio station
daily proclaiming this the greatest nation, in'the world and an un•
countable. number of k,vomen- wearing falsies, -we're_ already the
chestiest country
n A. Weaver
NOW!
At Your
Warner Theatre
Cathaurn
Martha Scott
Jeffrey Lynn
"STRANGE
BARGAIN"
_ ate
Penny Singleton
Arthur Lake
"BLONDIE HITS
THE JACKPOT"
flatting
Ann Sheridan
Gary Grant
"I WAS A MALE
WAR BRIDE"
"They, always. show up around finals lime."
True or.. False
n the world. We don't need falsies for men.
—MARVIN KRASNANSKY
Teter Clearance Sale
Coats Skirts
Suits Raincoats
Dresses Underwear
Blouses Evening Gowns
co l och t m .
124 SOUTH ALLEN ST. STATE COLLEGE,PA.
A Chat With ARVV...
(Ed. Note: Arthur R. Warnock, emeritus
dean of men, has seen thousands of Penn
Staters progress through higher education on
these premises, and he has known many of
them personally. On the theory that, ARW—
who was dean of men for 30 years—sho'uld
have much solid thought to impart to present
Nittany students, we have asked him to
speak through the medium of the Collegian.
Herewith is the first of a series).
In 1911, in my first year as assistant to
Thomas Arkle Clark. famous dean of men "at
the University of Illinois, he left on April 1
for a trip to Europe, and was gone six months.
Unmarried, I was living at the University
Club, and during, that summer Dr. Edmund
Janes James, able president of the University,
took some of his meals at the Club. One warm
evening he and I were sitting on the' Club
porch, looking at the moon and enjoying the
cooling evening breezes.
HE SAID SUDDENLY, "Young man, you're
doing Dean Clark's job about as well as he
does it, aren't you?"
I mumble some reply, and he asked, "How
much are we paying you?"
I named two thousand dollars a year, and
then he said: "We are paying Dean Clark five
thousand. Why do you think we're paying
Dean Clark so much more than you?"
Again I mumbled a reply—something about
age, prestige and experience. "Yes, that's all
true," Dr. James then said, "but 'the real rea
son is that there is ten percent of the job
that Dean Clark can do and you can't do, and
we pay him that difference of three thousand
dollars, for knowing
,how to do that top ten
percent."
I was fortunate in getting thus early as a
young man that tip about how the top ten per
cent pays off. From that time on L began shoot
ing for that top ten percent. So' I am passing
that tin on. to aspiring students on campus now.
The tip still pays off.
—ARTHUR R. WARNOCK
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Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. at Oak
Ridge, Tenn., Jan. 12, 13. February and June
advanced-degree candidates in Physics, Chem,
ChemE, ME, EE, Metallurgy, Mathematics, Ag
3ioChem.
General Mectric atomic energy plant at Han
rord, Wash., Jan. 12, 13. February and June
;rads, in CheM. 'and Ch'emE. Applicants must
)ave 1.5 or better averagd.
The Hill-Roth. Co.,' Tan: 12: February grads
n Civil. Eng., Arch Eng., lE, ME, Sanitary Eng.,
or sales•prograni:;
National Lead Company, Jan. 9. February
Ind June grads at PhD., M.S., and B.S. levels
n Chem,. ChemE, and Metallurgy interested in
.esearch in field of titanium chemistry. High
?.holastic standing is . essental.
COLLEGE . HOSPITAL
Admitted Wednesday: Fred Wiker, Ronald
Coleman, Patricia Templin, Charles Grebey.
AT THE. MOVIES
CATFIATJM-4-Strange Bargain. •
NITTANY—L-Was - A Male War Bride.
STATEBlondie Hits The Jackpot.
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•
:hanging Times •
Around the. year 1890 the room rent charge
for a semester at Penn State was $37 and board
ranged from $2 to $3. per week. _ln town .the
regular price for a room was $1.50 per week
if there were but one in the room, and . sl.oo per
person if there were two.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1950
Thursday, January 5
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