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S..fety Valve ...
Very Childish
TO THE EDITOR: We think that the contro
versy between La Viee staff and Cabinet is
very childish. When there are 3000 students
and only 32 are picked as" personalities," it is
just human nature that there' will be hare
feelings developed over the selection.
Just what do you consider a "personality"?
In our humble opinion, it is a person who will
be remembered by his fellow students for his
outstanding achievements long after they leave
the campus. Francis Rogel is known as the
"man on the Mall," but we didn't see his name
mentioned. Some of the names on the list
are relatively unknown to us and others.
We know that it is impossible to develop a
method of selection by which no one would be
offended. Since there are three members of the
Cabinet on La Vie Board of Directors, we sug
gest that Cabinet work harder on the problem
of obtaining better seats for the students at
home football games, and let La Vie put out
the yearbook.
• Ed. Note: We agree that "Punchy" Rogel,
if anyone, should be a Campus Personality.
We don't understand part of your conclus
ion. La Vie Senior Board, and not La Vie
Board of Directors, chode the "Personalities."
The Directors are a faculty-student advisory
gtoup divorced from the operation of plan
ning the yearbook.
A Cabinet committee on seating arrange
ments appointed last October has investi
gated many angles of Beaver Field seating
and neccessity of College revenue from foot
ball games. Full text of the committee's
report to Cabinet was printed in last Friday's
Collegian. Cabinet will act finally on the
committee's proposed seating change at to
morrow's meeting; you - should be there
(Cabinet meetings are open) with construc
tive criticism if you are dissatisfied, so that
in the end Cabinet may present the best
possible student view on the subject to the
Athletic Advisory Board, which has final
seating authdrity.
Another Relic
TO THE EDITOR: Rec Hall is, indeed, as
you pointed out in Wednesday's editorial, 'an
outgrown relic of a by-gone era. But not by any
means the only one on our great campus.
Schwab Auditorium's even greater inade
quacy becomes especially apparent whenever
Community Forum speakers of Carl Sandburg's
caliber, as well as numerous musical and dra
matic attractions, are presented throughout the
year. Perhaps its dearth of seat's contributed
to the unfortunate demise of the Artifts'
Course.
Whether the long-awaited• Student Union
building will include an auditorium, I do not
know. If so, expedition of its construction
would solve this problem as well as • many
others. In any event, further delay in approval
of its plans and inauguration of the fund-rais
ing campaign is inexcusable.
During a Schwab performance of the Penn
sylvanians about the time of his appointment
to the Board of Trustees, Fred Waring ex
pressed his awareness of the desperate need for
an adequate auditorium. Has he since forgot
ten, or has he been out-talked by older and
more conservative Trustees?
Or is the sluggishness along these and other
lines of an anticipated progress connected with
the prolonged vacancy in the president's chair'
—Lew Stone, '49
Seating Figures
Official seating capacity of Recreation Hal]
is 5,500. On page 2 of Saturday's Daily Colleg
ian it was incorrectly listed as 4,600.
Six hundred more seats were added to the
official capacity of 5,500 for the wrestling-boy
ing twin attraction on "Leo Houck Night."
Contrary to Fears
In 1928 required attendance at chapel and
church worship at the College was superceded
by a policy of voluntary participation in re
ligious activities. Contrary to the fears of many,
chapel attendance did not fall off. On the
contrary, both chapel and church attendance
by students increased.
Own an Evening Gown?
If you don't, then we will drape you in a most
effective manner. Call now to make an ap
pointment for a distinctive formal portrait.
Remember . . . If your proofs don't satisfy
you completely, you are under no obligation
whatsoever .
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THE DAILY RIFIEGIAN. STATE COl'Vtrz. PENNSYLVANIA
Little Man Oh Campus
"See, Louise, I told you this was a friendly school—Here come
some more boys who want to meet you."
The Gripes of Roth
For two semesters now I've been letting off a lot of verbal
steam about everything from kissing to the Community Forum
series. It's only natural that all this printed furor aroused comment
from members of the student body, as well as outsiders.
TODAY, IT'S THEIR column. Following are some of the com
ments from readers who approved or vehemently disliked what I've
written, and let me know about it.
Of course the first
,big, controversial issue raised was that of
dating. I .must•have received at least 15 or 20 letters from mem
bers of both sexes concerning my attack on the feminine gender
at Penn State last year.
Coeds wrote in to call me everything from a hideous, misshapen
;houl who couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a date, to a neurotic with a
persecution complex about women. Probably tops among the replies
was one anonymous coed's criptic comment, "Dear . Red, drop dead,
coed."
DATELESS MEN, on the other hand, showered me with adjec
tives of praise for "daring to bring out the personalities of the per
verted Penn State women."
A real surprise was the note I received from a clergyman in a
small town congratulating me for having the nerve to call down
the fair sex•for drinking. . Which proves once again you can gef too
subtle for your•own good.
The criticism of sorority "teas" entitled 'Red Roth to be zt,onii--
mated for "Most Hated Man of the Year" by at least one sorority—
the one whose tea at our house I used as an example. Most of the
comments received on that one were delivered in person, and most
were highly uncomplimentary, to say the least.
THE DELUGE OF mail started up again with a column ques
ioning coeds' fears of imports. It was after that I received the
nonicker of "The Red Menace." At least one gal supported, me in
chat argument by sending a letter to the editor defending importing
—she imported a man for a dance, herself.
An unsigned group of freshmen started off this semester's
mail by hailing my condemnatisn of freshmen's customs and
speculating as to whether fear end jealousy. on the part of the
upperclassmen could be the reason for discrimination. Note: it
wasn't.
A ,column decrying the Oxford (debaters?) on their Thespian•
ike antics brought forth a howl from an aroused student that I, not
the Anglican visitors, knew nothing about debating. He said he was
content to be amused at a debate, and if he wanted to be informed
he'd go to the library.
BUT IT WASN'T till last week that I hit the big time. At Thurs
day night's Cabinet meeting, Eugene Fulmer, program chairman of
the Community Forum and former secretary-treasurer of All-Col
lege Cabinet, took the floor for 15 minutes to defend the program
against what he tailed "an unfounded attack."
Maybe Hal Boyle of AP was right when he ca:
existence "The Loneliest Industry on Earth."
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Hy RED ROTH
Love Pays Off
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY' 18, 1950
Gazette . . . .
Wednesday, January 18
BAR BELL CLUB, Rec Hall, 7 p.m.
PHI SIGMA lOTA, Simmons Lounge, 7 p.m.
KAPPA PHI, Wesley Foundation, 7 p.m.
WRA BOWLING Club, Advanced, White
Hall Bowling Alleys, 7 p.m.
WRA DANCE Club, White Hall Dance Room,
7 p.m.
WRA OUTING Club, 1 White Hall, 7 p.m.
WRA SWIMMING Club, Beginners and In
termediates, White Hall Pool, 7:30 p.m.
FROTH EDITORIAL Staff, 3 CH, 8 p.m.
WRA CONCERT Group, White Hall DanCe
Room, 8 p.m.
WRA BADMINTON Club, White Hall Gym,
.8:30 p.m.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Further information concerning Interviews sitd lob Disc*.
'lents' can be obtained in 112 Old Main.
'National Lead Company, Jan. 20. February
and June grads at PhD., M.S., and B.S. Jlevels
in Chem, ChernE, and Metallurgy interested in
research in field of titanium chemistry.' High
scholastic standing is essential.
Dupont Co., Jan. 18, 19, 20. February and
June PhD. candidates in Chem, ChemE, ME,
Bact, BioChem, and Phys.
North American Ins u r anc e Co., Jan. 19.
February grads in AL. CF, ME, EE, and
CE.
Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co., Jan. 20. Febru
ary and June B.S. and M.S. candidates in Chem.
Applicants must have 1.8 or better average.
Aircraft-Marine Products, Jan. 24. February
grads in IE for positions as sales correspond
ents leading to sales engineering.
Mergenthaler / Linotype Co., Jan. 26. February
grads in ME for sales positions.
Haloid Co., Jan. 20. February grads in EE
with 1.8 or better average, and M.S. candidates
in Chem.
- COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Admitted Monday: Yale Friedline.
Admitted Tuesilay: 'Forrest A. • Blakesleyi
Helen Lineaweaver.
Discharged Tuesday: Yale Friedline, William
Hanley, Henrietta Kievan.
AT THE MOVIES
CATHAUM—Undertow.
NlTTANY—Barkleys of Broadway
STATE—Hasty Heart.
Tracking Down Tales
Male studerits aren't the only people who
have difficulty recognizing Simmons from.Mc-
Elwain.
A hostess from one of the older dorms was
invited to a party being given by the hostesses
in Simmons. Unfortunately, she couldriq tell
the difference either so she went to McElWain
and ended up at a party being given, by the
hostesses there.
But that's not all. Not only did the good lady
crash the party but she also won first prize.
MR 'flatly Collegian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE, S. 087
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings in
clusive during the College year by the atta of The Daily
Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College.
Entered as second-elass !natter Jnly 8. 1934.. at the State
College, Pa., Post Office tinder the act of Mare's 3. 1879.
Editor , Business • &nage
tom Morgan Marlin A. Weaver
Managing Ed., Wilbert Roth; News •Ed. Jack Rees;
Sports Editor. Krone; Edit. C/Ottie Werlin•
ich; Society Ed., Commie Keller; Feature Ed., Sylvia, Oehler;
Asst. News Ed., Jack Seni6r; Asst. Sports Ed.; Ed Watoont
Asst., Society Ed., Barbara Brown; Promotion Co-Mgr.,
Charlotte Seidman; Photo Ed., Ray Benfer; Senior Board,
George •Vadasz, Albert Ryan. Bob. Kotzbauer, Myrna Tog,
Roy McHenry; Stiff Cartoonist, • Menry M. Progar.
STAFF THIS ISSUE .
Night Editor John Ashbrook
Assistant Night Editor—Dorothy Anne Bennett
Copy Editor Stan Degler
Assistants Marie Kleinknecht, Joan Kuntz,
Charlaine Schwab, Norma Zehner.
Advertising Manager Norma Gleghorn
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ower, H. M. Mandes, Laura Mermeistein,
Winnie Wyant.