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Rec Hall Relic
When hundreds of students at the College
who wish to avail themselves of their right to
see a wrestling-basketball doubleheader are
turned back at the door, somebody in the
framework of Penn State is "on the hook,"
THIS FACT was put in focus as sharp as the
clean-cut wrestling victory and as sharp as the
competitive spirit displayed by the basketball
team.
Students who paid an athletic fee pounded
unsuccessfully on the Hee Hall doors, seeking
entrance that their athletic fee entitles them
to. That it is a matter of dollars and cents
adds more than a modicum of force to any
student plea for larger indoor sports facilities
—larger than those now in use which were
bnilt 21 years ago when student enrollment
arcs a third of what it is now.
Certainly there is the problem of the fire
hazard and other safety factors to be considered
when more student fans than the official Rec
Hail allotment of 5,500 demand a' seat. The de
partment of physical plant and the campus
petrol, which have assumed this safety factor
as their concern, have a knotty enigma to
figure.
THEY MUST FIND a place to draw the line
betl,yeen the safety factor, which would tend
to dictate closing the lite Hall doors as soon
as all available seats are taken, and the dollars.
ao.cents factor, which dictates that students
art entitled to seats because they paid for them.
We believe the shekels outweigh the' safety,
simply because for the present something
can be done and is being done, i.e. "no smok
ing," etc., about Hee Hall, safety, Since the stu
dents have paid their money, we say: try to let
all Nittany students who are interested enough
to attend a Lion Sports attraction be admitted
to Rae Hall, especially this coming Saturday.
Since Aloe is no basketball game on the
Red Hall agenda, more space is now made
available for installing bleachers inside Rec
These would help accomodate the ex
pected student throng storming the structure
to see Lion-Cornell wrestling and Lion-Min
nesota boxing on "Leo Houck Night." Tem
porary bleachers belonging to the College
could be erected on the west end of the bas
ketball court, creating hundreds of added
'seats.
But of so much more force than temporary
seating considerations is the need for something
bigger than Rec Hall as a P enn State sports
arena, AboUt 11,000 students are now on cam
pus; next year there will be at least 1,200 more,
according to rough estimates.
The answer to this increasing Squeeze upon
Hoc Hall is the proposed Field House, which
will reportedly' house at least 18,000 specta
tors. We need the Field House now, before
the Squeeze bursts Hoc Hall. Those who are
"on the hook" in the present ROC Hall crisis
are the College planners.
As the enrollment Mushrooms and sports fa
cilities remain statie, Rec Hall becomes More
and more a relic of another Penn State era.
Edit Briefs ....
Everything about brand-new. Willard Han is
fine until one's eye catches the eViderice§ of
doodling and scratching on a feW of the desk
tops. Already the new classroorn-adtninistra
tioh building suffers front human foible when
some students cannot limit their pencil work
to a sheet of paper before them.
The cheapest way for quick publicity is to
drop the collection plate lit chapel.
• Old Main Is like a mother. You don't notice
her beauty when you see her every day. But
if she were gone, how ugly the hole would be
that She would leave.
Milt Daily Collegian
Buettner to THE FREE LANCE, iist, 1887
• Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings tn•
dative during the College year by the staff of The Deily
Collegian .ot The Pennsylvania State College.
Entered as eetond-Glace matter July 5, 1954. at the State
College, Pa.. Poet Office ander the act of Mardi 3,187 ti.
Editor 40 0 , Business Manager
Tom Morgan Marlin A. Weaver
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor Ray Koehler
Assistant Night Editor Ellett Sperber
Marvin Krasnanskv
Copy Editor Kermit Fink
Assistants June Reinmiller, Jeanie Maginnis,
Ed Gildea, Lee Edward Stern
Advertising Manager Norma Gleghorn
Nilvertising Staff Claude DiPasquale, Laura
Meimelstein, Hugo Mandes, Winnie Wyant
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
1111,1 MAN .r.A.rlpus
rued him he was jumping
The Gripes of Roth
Despite an impressive array of rumors to the Contrary, it can be
safely predicted that no permanent president has yet been elected
by the Board of Trustees,
Nor is there any strong likelihood that the task will be accom
plished when the Hoard gets together for another of, its periOdic
chit-chats in Harrisburg the 20th arid 21st of this month,
THIS IS NOT to discount .the possibility of such action, As
Wilmer Itenworthy, secretary to the (ha-ha) president said yester
day, "everytime the Board nietts, the question of a president comes
up."
But judging from past performances of the worthy body, after
the last trustee has departed froth the state capital it's a safe bet
the College will still be floundering around in its headless state.
In the 28 months since "PreXy" Bali% Dorn Retzers death ) .the
special totriMittee appointed to select candidates for the presidency
11E4 submitted eitactly one mane for consideration by the entire
Board. That one man was Acting President Jarries Milhohand. -
HIS NAME HAS been voted on—and rejected—by the Trustees
not once, but three times. You'd think this Might discotirage both
George Deike's nominating committee and backers oil
the Board, but apparently the uMilholland for president" movement
is still going strong, if not arnong the faculty and sthdents, at least
with the non=agricultural trustees.
Which brings up the question, what is the attitude of the stu
dents, and more important, the faculty toward IMr. 14 as the next
permanent inhabitant of the president's office?
One of the men who is in a good Oath% to report on the faculty
attitude is Dr, Robert Bernreuter, president of the All-College
faculty, committee which Was elected to supposedly have a voice in
naming HetZerS successor,
ACCORDING TO Dr. Bernrettter, the attitude of the Molders
of minds has improved considerably towards Mr. asa
result of ecineessiOns to the fatuity, in the font of a salary AchedUle
and, two small pay hikes, since his temporary administration took
over.
When asked if Mr. M lived up to the standards his eonunittee
subtnitted to the Board of Trustees as a guide to the seletiticni of any
new president, the good doctor offered only a crisp, "no oonithent,"
Student opinion, if they've thought about the matter at all, is
not so wittily gauged, If H were, ii would AIM have no more influ
ence with the Board than a WCI I U' resolution at a bartender's
convention, •
And While the controversy raged among the trustees, indecision
and lack of positive policy contiMie to dominate Old Main, delaying
vital decisions and holding up much-needed constructive prograMs,
Maybe, before the boys hike themselves down to Harrisburg
for their neitt confab, they, should look at the slogan• on a bag of
Gold Medal flair. It says eVentually—why not now."
Safety Valve...
Victory Not Important •
TO THE EDITOR: By this time the "Monday Morning SportS
Specialists" have undoubtedly chewed, swalloWed and digested the
Colgate-Penn State basketball game last Saturday night. 13tit just
in case no one else has said it, this observer would like to offer the
suggestion that probably few, if any, Penp State teams in any sport
have stood more magnificent in defeat than the boys In blue and
white who walked off Ree Hall floor after losing by one point to
Colgate.
Some of the spectators seemed
to have a little difficulty in rea
lizing that our 'boys were play
ing their heads off in one of the
few manifestations in some years
of what some of us would like to
think of as the REAL Penn State
spirit. Colgate put on the floor
a smoothly operating, well-bal
anced team that by all odds
should have w6n by a comfort
able margin if it had not been
for the fact that they tangled
with a lion that didn't stop roar
ing until the last second of that
too high for Thos
by 11ED ROTH
overtime period was over.
Somehow, when a team can
stay in the game all the way, can
come from behirid to tie •Up the
score and go ahead and then keep
fighting even when they lose
that lead; when a team and its
members Can shoot fouls and
handle the ball so well when the
pressure is on, it makes the mat
ter of final victory or defeat kind
of unimportant
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rebounds."
—Ted Horner
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1950
Gazette . .
Wednesday, January 11
WRA ADVANCED Bowling,Club, White Hall
Bowling Alleys, 7 p,m,
WRA DANCE Club, White Hall Dance Room,
7n.
'WRA OUTING Club, 1 White Hall, 7 p.m.
WRA SWIMMING Club, Beginners and In
termediates, White Hall Pool 7:30 p.m.
WRA CONCERT Group, White Hell Dance
Room, 8 p.m.
WRA BADMINTON Club, White Hall Gym,
8:30 p.m.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Further information concerning Intel-viers and job place•
menta tan be obtained in 113 Old Main.
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. at Oak
Ridge, Tenn., Jan. 12; 13. February and June
advanced-degree candidates in Physics, Chem,
ChernE, ME, EE, Metallurgy, Mathematics, Ag
tlicChetn.
The Hill-Rom Co.. Jan, 12. February grads
in Civil Eng., Arch Eng., lE, ME, Sanitary Eng.,
for sales program.
• National Lead Company, Jan, 20, February
and June grads at PhD., M,S., and B.S. levels
in Chem, ChemE, and Metallurgy interested in
research in field. of titanium chemistry. High
scholastic standing is essential.
The General Electric Atomic Energy Plant
at Hanford, Wash., Jan, 18, 19. February and
June grads in Chem and ChemE for develop
ment work. Applicants must have 1.8 or better
average.
The Sylvania Electric Products Co., Jan. 12.
February grads in EE, ME, lE, and Ceramics
for production with electric manufacturing.
The Bureau of Reclamation, Jan. 12, 13.
Sophomore, junior, and senior Civil Engineers
interested in summer or permanent work. There
will be a group meeting for all interested stu
dents at 7 p.m, Jan. 12.
Dupont Co.. Jan. 18, 19, 20. February and
June PhD. candidates in Chem, ChemE,
Bact, ninChem, and Phys. . •
The General Electiic Co., Jan. 16. February
grads With accounting backgrounds, for their
business training program. Applicants must
have 2.0 or better average and be between 21
and 26 years of age.
North American Ine u r ance Co., Jan, 19.
Febr u a r y grads in AL, CF, ME, BE, and
ChemE, •
McMillen Feed Mills, Jan. 17, 18. Pebruary
and June grads in Ag courses or any men With
farm backgrounds, for sales positions.
June grads in IE who are interested in gen
eral industrial engineering work with The
Armstrong Cork Co. should report to 112 ,Old
Main at once to fill out preliminary applica
tions,
June grads in ME arid It who are interested
in sales engineering positions With The Indus
trial Insulation Divition of the Armstrong Cork
Co, should• report to 112 Old Main at once to
fill out preliminary applications.
The Fidelity Mutual Co., Harrisburg Agency,
Jan. 13. February grads for careers as life
agents in counties around Harrisburg. Inter
views dark be arranged for other - dates if tietta
sary,
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
AdMitted Monday: Lyman Skory, Paul Li.
liar.
Admitted, Tuesday; Charles Eckert, Soseph
Swartz, Nellie May Davis, Shirley Siegal.
Discharged Tuesday: Richard AceiaVatti,
Richard Pleischauer,
AT THE MOVIES
CATHALIM--The Story Of Molly X. •
NlTrANY—Edward, My Son.
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With The Staff
Students in a Cothp 1 class which is held in
the forestry Minding were reviewing a recent
bluebook. As an example for one of the sen
tences eoptaining a noun clause, the instructor
Said, "I don't see what . . . "
At that moment the door opened and a for
ester Wearing a wolf's mask Strolled in. He
looked around the room then left as the in
structor cotrißleted his sentence, "I don't see
what some idiots are doing in college,"
After much confusion the Philip Morris win
ners were announced this week and the prizes
awarded.
This year's third place winners Alpha Epsilon
Phi have won for two years In a row. Last year
they came in first. But both years they have
faced alphabetical complications. Last year
their radio *as delivered to the A E Pi house.
This year the first results of the contest listed
Alpha Sigma Phi, a fraternity which had no ,
entered the contest as winners.
The Alpha Sigma Phi's on the other hand
have a complaint to register too. Several of
the fratera have been listed as A E Phis in the
Student Directory.
When Kit Thompson went up to the library
in search- of pews for Collegian she asked
brightly, "What happened at the library this
week?"
"Well," Miss O'Connor replied, "people came
and got books and people brought books back.
What do you expect to happen in a library?"