AGE TIN(' Bring 'Em Back We like to take the, verbal jabs and give back in kind when we feel we're justified. The more we delve into - freshman customs, the more we feel that—on a sensible plane—they are a must for next year. Therefore, let us damn the torpedoes and go full steam ahead. WE QUOTE FROM one of the verbal torpe does launched at our recent pro-customs dis course: "You would have the College return to a period which can never return. You look back fondly to the days when college was rich man's institution, when horseplay was the order of the day, when freshmen came to college for fun, for laughs, and—only incidentally—to study." . . . Balderdash! We think that period, i.e. college boys full of brash and dash, is nearly upon us again if not already here, with the advent of Harry-straight-out-of-high school and the slow eclipse of GI Joe College. Sure, it won't be the same as it used to be: we wouldn't want it that way. Pockets of in fection—in the form of horseplay—must be swabbed out of customs as they once were, leaving essentially the prime meat in the .form of constructive, sensible freshman duties that will hasten the neophytes' becoming Penn statized. Foolishness involving pajama paradeis, paddling and pushing a peanut down Col lege avenue with one's nose—and other cus toms more dangerous to life and limb—is an anachronism today. It's that because the war has left a more mature outlook on what should constitute college life. Concerning the rich man: in the main, he certainly doesn't go to Penn State, as a little observation will attest. One of the fortes of this institution as a State school is that one doesn't have to come frbm the spats-and=Cadil lac set to enroll. • WE CAN SEE why freshman customs might not be welcomed heartily by a College GI who was subject for three years to the many-sided regimentation of the army, for example. Never theless, we know many "serious-minded, ma ture" Gl's who came to Penn State for the rah rah college life. They were disappointed when they spied very few manifestations of anything called Penn State spirit and comradeship. They saw cheer-leaders booed off the basketball floor. They heard about a "hello spirit" but nobody greeted them on the Mall. They saw only three per cent of a senior class attended an announced class, meeting. Thus, we want to see next year's, Penn State freshmen undergo . freshman customs that will instill some sort of Nittany spirit in them—spirit that will be manifested in their actions on campus and in student activities. Safety Valve ... TO THE EDITOR: Upperclassmen talk about the freshman class lacking school spirit. It is no wonder they do if they do when present cus toms are imposed . on theih. I am afraid to think what may happen if the proposed customs are placed on future freshmen. Is it not enough to be away from home for the first time and not know anyone let alone being made fun of and jeered at? I experienced it when I entered the Army. After all, freshmen are human too. For your information freshman girls, only a very few of the seniors last year for example attended a meeting to decide on a class mem orial. That is certainly poor spirit. I think we should criticize ourselves before we criticize others. I am wondering what psychologists have to say about the effect of freshman customs. • Name Withheld Edit Briefs . . . . College officials inform us that Penn State Is one of the seven large colleges in the nation that furnish bed linen in college dormitories. At others you bring your own sheets. • . , 24- HOUR SERVICE NOW! BOARD & ROOM irs He's racing over. . on all READER'S DIGEST AT HALF'PRICE " ! . FOR MEN KODAK WORK • between exams Inquire At "PACOLARGER" JUMBO / Eight Issues $ to order his PRINTS AT NO EXTRA For Only 1.00 MARILYN HALL COST Offered to new subscribers 317 E. Beaver Ave. FIRS PHOTO PENN STATE CLASS RING . ' FINISHING only Receipt by return mail. Presented by International ruin Club Telephone 3935 212 E. College Ave. ' Richard , Denoen . .-- - : , Ask For Mrs. Elleard BALFOUR OFFICE IN ATHLETIC STORE State College. Pa. 433 W. Beaver Ave.• T7TF; Dlrl V Cry "'l^.N 'T' I'!: Little Man On Campy Cub Critic Castigates ChaoticCollegiariCult •An amazing number of students on' this campus are of the opinion that the Daily Collegian is edited by a group of assorted morons. This is not entirely true. IF THE MEMBERS of the staff are seen beating their heads against walls, or mumbling incoherently, it is because they have been trying to explain to the members of the Hieroglyphics Club why Red Roth's •being hung from the pillars of Old Main is of more interest to the students and therefore deserving of more space in the paper than the announcement of the Organization's weekly meeting. • In order to show the student body just how , the Collegian is published, then, it might be wise to tour the office, which is lo cated on the ground floor of Carnegie Hall. TO REACH THE office, turn left when you enter Carnegie Hall, and walk down the stairs. You will know which is the news room door by the signs tacked on.the wall opposite it. Once inside the news room, you will notice a large, U-shaped desk with people sitting around it. The fellow sitting at the center of the desk writing a letter to his girl is the copy editor. He doesn't have any, copy to edit because the reporters are all down at the Corner Room working on stories. They will rush in at five o'clock, scramble for typewriters, and hack out their articles. Writing articles on any Collegian typewriter is a painstaking procedure because it is necessary to type with one hand and hold the keys in with the other. THE FELLOW or gal sitting at the desk in the corner trying to get two six-inch stories into a space five inches long is the night editor. He or she is thinking that maybe 'it would have been a good idea to major in fuel technology, and wondering if there'll be time to gulp some coffee before going down to the print shop. The people, writing headlines at the other desk are candidates for the editorial staff. They are wishing they could be night editors and have their names in the masthead of the paper. When one realizes the earnest effor,ts which g 6 into the publi cation of the paper, it is very easy to understand why staff mem bers emit loud, heart-rending. sobs when a student, bound for Rec Hall and a basketball game, shouts to his companion: "Hey, Joe, don't forget to bring a Collegian to sit on." —ROSEMARY DELAHANTY Westminster Foundation Kyoung Ho Lee, a student from Korea, will discuss his na tive country and its problems in a Fireside Seriiinar at 8 p.m. Sat urday night. Following the dis cussion LaVern Seth will show slides taken on a recent trip to the West. —A Junior The regular Student Depart ment Service will be held at 9:30 a.m. Sunday followed by Morn ipg Church Service at 10:45. Student Communion, marking CZ /All ( % re LI 4 14. C .'. CG I tit( "I can always tell when finals are over." Church by Bibler r 3arety Valve • • • alendar the close, of another semester, will be observed at 6:20 p.m. Sunday. On Friday, Feb. 10, at 7 p.m., all are invited to particpate in a Scavanger Hunt that will start from the- Foundation qnd end "in the strangest places and with, the strangest things." Young Friends The Young Friends are meet ing Sunday night at 7 p.m. at the home of John Ferguson, 555 W. Ridge avenue. S VY, J.." - "J.^.7.1.Y 28, 1850 TO THE EDITOR: You undoubtedly know the parking violations on campus that. a lot of people get away with. So do I, but last night (Thursday, Jan. 26) it came to a head with me. Some "gentleman" hit my right rear fender arid dented it to the. extent that it will cost me at least ten dollars to get fixed. This was all in the West parking lot next to the tennis courts. I wish to inform that gentleman that if he had only left his name and address, his insur ance would cover it instead of my having tc spend money I can hardly afford to get it fixed. I am appealing to his sense of decency on reading this to get in touch with me. My car is a 1939 gray Plymouth coupe and my ad dress is 201 Jordan Hall. Radio Disgust TO THE .EDITOR: Kindly consider a sug gestion that your writer Ron Bonn use his Col umn space either more wholesomely entertain ingly or more, factually accurately. ) To get' the case straight, WMAJ does •not dedicate the. 5 to 6 p.m. hour exclusively to the kids. Programs clipt (basic English?) from the Centre Daily ., show ,that each day about •half of that hour is music for the resting student. Remind Ron Bonn again that newspapermen (yea, even Collegianmen) enjoy a position from which they, can effectively teach and influence the eager populace. And that you'll go. a let farther teaching good things than eating away time with sharp teeth of derision. Teach them these things, Mr. Bonn: ,that when you tire of six-guns and arrows you can be - entertained by bebop and ,light reading; that when these begin to drag you can .get a lift from Richard' Wagner and Shakespeare; and that ,when` you've honestly and earnestly sought afid found, the riches of each, level of progression you just sit back and dwell on the knowledge you've gained and amuse yourself with your own newly-brightened. imagination. By that time you won't just say to the kid, "Don't lissen ta tliat junk, kiddo!" you 'can say, "Now look kiddo, here's something that'll really interest PP y,a • Letter Cut Well Spoken . TO THE EDITOR: Well spoken Waldriiiri- Rubin, et al! Maturation of the "Hello-Spirit" should reign over survival . of the reminiscent "Antique Frosh Spirits " Gazette . . . Sunday, January 29 NEWMAN CLUB, Discussion, Group,, 305 Sparks, 8 p.m. • , COLLEGE PLACEMENT'. Further information containing interviews and Job pitico ments can be obtained in 'll2 Old Main. ~ . General Electric Co., Jan. 31. PhD candidates in Metal, Cer, and Solid State Phys. , . • Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., Feb. I,,Febru ary grads, single men 22 to 26 years of age pre ferred, for claims work. • ...' . Pratt Whitney. Aircraft, Feb. 1. February grads in Aero and ME for work in field of. ex-. perimental testing and development of aircraft engines and gas turbines.. COLLEGE HOSPITAL Admitted Friday: Wayne Pears, John ,Me 'Gramm. Discharged Friday: Forrest Blakesley,. James Doughty, Robert Farris, Nancy Baylor, Joseph Wentzler, Clarence Farabaugh. AT THE MOVIES Saturday CATHAUM—Prince Of Foxes. NITTANY—Son Of Old Mexico. STATE—She Wore A Yellow Ribbon. 01It Elattg Collegian Bucceotior to THE FREE LANCE, at. 1887 • Published Tuesday • 'through Saturday mornings tn• elusive during the College year by the stall of The Rail) Collegian of ' The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second-class natterly 5. 1934. at the State College. Pa., Poet •fflce under the act of March 3, 1819. Editor Torn Morgan- STAFF THIS ISSUE Night Editor; Bettin'a de Palma Copy Editor Bill Detweiler Assistants .‘, Joe Breu. Bill Boyles Advertising Manager • Herb. Blough Assistants ...... .Ed Singel, Martha ,Ross Appeal —Mr. Paul H. Gayer —Witt Yeagley —Joseph E. Kuntz 2s.47itisol. Business Manager Marlin A. Weaver
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