PAGE TWO/ On Candidates In post-war Penn State, the regime of the "Corner Room Politician" has faded fast. A varsity letter no longer holds tremendous po litical sway over the student body, as it did in some previous years. Nowadays a "good guy" is a "good guy" and not necessarily a potentin class officer. World War II was the immediate cause of . many shortcomings on this campus—for ex ample, housing—but the war placed strong emphasis on officerholders who could pro duce. With the advent of wartime campus life and the deviation from "normalcy" which followed, the need for more efficient class officers became increasingly apparent. Prob lems confronting the students were many and perplexing and demanded action. Without realizirig it, wartime students put the candidates through a careful screening pro cess before casting ballots. The intimacy that accompanies a low enrollment made this ideal plan a 'reality. As it happened, "everybody knew everybody," or at least they had an op portunity to learn from reliable sources th merits of candidates. THE HIGH CALIBRE officers who were. elected then, as. well as their accomplishments, made for better student government. It also gave student voters a feeling •of honest sati fa cti on. • There has been a carry-over of similar na• Lure in our, present political .setup. More and more, voters are asking, "What has he done . to rate a nomination fQr class president?" and "Is he the best qualified one fOr the post?" All of which is good for the students. Big things are in the offing for this College in the period just ahead. It'll take the . right student leaders to keep up the pace. set by a College beset with "growing pains." TO THE PARTIES tliinking about spring candidates as well as the voters who will put them in office, securing the right man should mean more than a barrel full of platforms and campaign slogans. Our SU When anyone queries .us on what's news about the Student Union Building these days, we have devised a stock answer. Of course it's a rather jerry-built and dubious reply, but until that Student Union is erected our story goes something like this: Why. .I thought yin: knew. We've already lot the makings of a Student Union Building. Course it isn't in one building but if you look irefully you can see. it. It is the cabin of the Penn State Christian .ssociation, it is Whipple's Dam. It is Rec Hall when someone throws 'a dance . there. It is the Temporary Union Building secured three years ago to serve students at the College: in several capacities of a permanent Student Union. It is the desk in Old Main lobby where countless student questions are answered and where Joe College tells his friends he'll meet them. It is also the entertainment places in State College and ;environs. QUITE A LARGE Student Union—with 'a: - annex in Bellefonte, Bcialsburg and Waddle: A fine Student Union if you have a car. But there's more to this hypothetical Si But there's more to this hypothetical Stu dent Union we now have, for you see a Stu• dent Union is more than a mere social center AND THE BX, or Student Co-op—locatec: also in the TUB in combination with the "'used book exchange—is daily proving its worth a part of this "Student Union" we now have. So you see, if you really stretch your imagi• nation, we do have "a Student. Union Building' at Penn State. BaitH collegian Exchange News, Views Succissor to THE FREE LANCE; tut. 1887 . . Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings' n elusive during the College year by the .stuiii of The Dab Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second-class matter July 5. 194. at the Stet College. Pa., Poet Office under the act of March 3, 187: .40 0 , Business Manage• Marlin A. Weave, Editor Tom Morgan STAFF THIS ISSUE Night Editor Wilson Bartc Assistant Night Editor Jo Reist Copy Editor. Jack Boddingtor. Assistants Tracy. McCormick, Pat Ingham Marie Kleinknecht, Dick Kolbenschlag Advertising Manager Owen Landor Assistants Loretta Stempinski, Mary Kauff man, Jackie Myers, Dolores Horne, Judy Guyer THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLHICIE, PENNSYLVANIA LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS know—our sorority is so crowded this year new every day." • The Hows and Whys Of Column\Writing Have you ever wondered how and why a column like this gets written? We'll try to answer the first part of the question.. Here's how this one got started. - THE OTHER DAY, after puting in our daily three hours in ass and four hours in the Collegian office, we arrived horne• at 7 o'clock, did our six hours homework, put our books aside at 10, reached for our razor and nassed off a musing comment about mak ing our once-every-other-day sacrifice to the niceties of civilization. "It seems," we thought aloud to our roommate, "without the least bit of sense to haul ourselves off to be slaughtered at out...own hands And for what?" "Look at all the time, money and blood that could be con• served if all the men in the country suddenly decided to stop butchering themselves." my roommate said. "Yeah," we said, "I bet we could kick up a pretty interesting column by just figuring out the number of man hours, the tons o. steel and the gallons of blood that could be put to better use if the Congress voted to outlaw shaving." "WE COULD MAKE some crack about using the steel to start another Marshall plan and saving• the blood for the next • war,-'' ,aid our roommate, a wide-eyed radical. "Good. We could also throw in the usual run of gags that people use when they see someone Who hasn't made the sacrifice !or two or three days running. "Like . . . 'What's the matter, your razor broke'n?' " "Or 'What crop are you growing?' " . "What are you going to do, try out for the House of David?" "What about the gag about the traveling salesman?" ' "You know they'd print that one." "Why not do it right?" said our roommate, his eyes growing - iven wilder. "WHAT DO YOU Mean?" I asked sceptically. "Just don't shave for three or four days. Then all you have to is note the comments that people make to you." "That sounds like a pretty good idea," we said. Turning to lut..our. razor away, we saw ourselves in the mirror. "We don't )ok too good with a beard you know," we said. don't look any better without one," he said in rebuttal. "It might not be too good an idea at that", we said, ignorinL im. "It'd lead to too many complications, and what with those given women New York we have enough complication's right 'ow." We looked at the mirror and our beard again and decided it .'asn't worth a column. We talked it over with the editor and he greeded. BOSTON UNIVERSITY NEWS, Boston University: ft is with agrin that the NEWS feels called upon . . . to devote its editorial ilumns to the subject of the cleanliness of the student lounges. What should be a perfunctory, natural instinct i n all of us has ached the point of becoming a distasteful mess . . . * . * THE HAWK, St. Joseph's College: Purchase cards are now or le at St. Joseph's College. An item in a recent issue of the Nevi Orleans TIMES PICA• UNE relates how a thief stole a $25,000 Guanerius violin and sold almost immediately in a local tavern, for $lO, most of which nount he consumed in beer, The states of Maine, New Jersey, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, WisconsiA and Wyoming specifically prohibit the sale of beer in grocery stores and delicitt,w,spos, Fiddle for Foam by Bible, I meet someone —Marvin Kransnansky THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1950 Safety Valve ... Let's Win TO THE EDITOR: I have to disagree with Mr. Horner's comments 'on the Colgate-Penn. State basketball game on two grounds. First, he gives the impression that Penn •State did not belong on the same floor with Colgate which is entirely wrong to my way of thinking and from watching, the game. ,If Colgate had not had an unusually "hot" night they would have lost the game 'by 12 to 15 points. Consider their shooting percentage of 40 per cent. The pros would be glad to have such a percentage.' Secondly, he said that winning wasn't the important thing. I feel that winning is import ant itt an' informal ping-pong game. Let the idealists ramble- on about magnificence in de feat... P.S. Do we have to be subjected to Ron Bonn's great philosophical diseussions???? exemplified by "Men's Faisies," and "What we don't need to. kribw. about Earthworms?" . ••. Approval • , . . TO THE 'EDITOrti I read with approval your statement in 'a - recent- 'issue of the Collegian "that" action is being taken by All-College Cabinet toward creating a photographic liter ary. magazine at the college." • ;Regardless Of 'the fact that Froth seems •to. be populat'on,the aainpus, many of the students desire a good, all-around literary photographic magazine that 'will be a credit not only to Penn. Staters,• but - to _everybody concerned. • "You can't 'Satisfy all .of the people all• of, the titiie,','„'but'mori'Students will be satisfied with the advent'ofifi'college "mag" than at the pres ent time. • . Let's have a magazine that we all will enjoy taking 'back: home, secure in the knowledge that :; our • fainilies;'.friends, and relatives will read andoenjoy it, top. - . Let's start this year , off on the right foot by starting the.' ball. rolling for a college magazine that will .enhance Penn State's reputation and add•troie respect to the public's eyes whenever ,State•is in the .limelight: Yours for a. better 'arid more eminent Penn State,during the'next fifty'years. • , A special student. ' John C. Barner Gazette . . Thursday, January 12 PHI SIGMA lOTA:Election of new members , Sparks, 3 .p.ni., • 'WRA BADMINTON Club, White Hall Gym, .FRENCH SONG SESSION, 100 CH,. 6:3T ri4M AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ,NGINEERS, 109 Agriculture Building, 7-p.m. CIRCULO ESPANOL, SE Atherton , Lounge, ' p.m. - N.S.A., 20 Sparks, 7 p.m. WRA BOWLING Club, Beginners, ; White fall Alleys, '7• • p.m. WRA FENCING, 1 White. Hall, 7 P ; ru. - WRA SWIMMING Club, Advanced, ',White Ball Pool, 7:30 pan COLLEGE PLACEMENT . . ratifier information 'concerning intervie w s ' a n d' ob place nents;can be obtained, in' 112 Old Mali. . • National Lead Company, Jan. 20. F,ePruarY and. June grads at PhD., M.S., and ,B.S.' in Chem, ChemE, and Metallurgy interested, in research in field - of titanium chemistry. 'High scholastic,standing is essential. The General Electric Atomic Energy Plant it 'Hanford, Wash., Jari. 18, 19. February, and June grads in -Chem and ChemE for develoP- • rnent work. Applicants must have L 8 or better average. ' -•-• 54 Dupont Co., Jan. 18, 19, 20. February and" lune PhD. candidates in Chem, ChetnE, ;ME;,, :act; BioChem, and Phys. The General Electric Co., Jan. 16.. February .grads with , accounting backgrounds, for,"their;; ousiness training program.. Applicants must nave 2.0, or better average and be between 21:. and 26 years Of age.' North American In su r ance Co., Jan. 19.. • February grads in AL, CF, ME, EE, and McMillen Feed Mills, Jan. 17, 18. February and June grads. in• Ag' courses or any men with farm .backgrounds, for sales positions. gene eral grads in IE who are interested in 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 . and IE who are interested tri sales- engineering positions with The Indus., trial' Insulation Division of the Armstrong Cork Co - . should report to' 112' Old Main at once to fill, but preliminary:applications. 's The Fidelity . Mutual C 0..; Harrisburg Agency, Jan: 13. .February' grads •for careers •as agents in counties around Harrisburg. Inter views 'can be, arranged for other, dates if neces sary. . COLLEGE HOSPITAL Admitted Tuesday: Warren Lazarowitz, Frank Geleskie, Marjorie Park. Admitte,d Wednesday: Mary Veldzque z, Agnes •Barth,.• 4lizabeth Green. - )IPischaigecPi Wednesday: Marilyn • Stewart, Lynn Malrnifid, 'Sonia, Goldstein, Jan9t Fried man,-.Charles Margolf, Charles Eeker. • • —Bill Summers
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