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Another Hat
Blue Key tappings have always demonstrated
that it is not a broad junior -class activities hat
society, as many believe it to be. Actually, it is
'more a hat society of first assistant sports
managers, since at least two-thirds of Blue Key
tappees are usually drawn from that segment
of student activity.
As such, Blue Key does an excellent job
in the field of sports supervision and oven in
fields unrelated to sports. On occasion it, has
met, and assured a good welcome for, clergy
men and others visiting Penn State.
Probably its most significant recent contribu
tion to Penn State was a booklet prepared to
help acquaint visiting sports teams with the
College campus and athletic plant. Blue Key's
usefulness can hardly be questioned.
BUT, AS THE ONLY hat honorary limited to
junior men, Blue Key is painfully restrictive as
far as Players, Thespians, athletes, debaters,
politicians (for lack of a better name), certain
hard-working leaders in student government,
and many others are concerned. Besides the
top-heavy managerial category, Blue Key tap
pees include some junior publications men,
cheerleaders and one or two dubbed "general
activities men." •
EFFORTS TO ASK Blue Key to widen its
bounds. to include a broader variety of outstand
ing junior men have been unsuccessful, but this
is no affront to Blue Key.
It is rather a solid indication that another
junior men's hat society—if conceived• with a
good purpose—is needed on campus.
Part of the purpo6e of any hat society is rec
ognition of deserving students. One need only
scan the outstanding juniors in campus activi
to note that most of them gain little recogni
tion since they are not tapped by Blue Key.
BECAUSE OF A RAPID growth of the stu
dent body, there are no doubt many students of
all classes who receive no recognition, i.e., are
not tapped by a hat society, for their efforts in
countless activities. This need for another hat
society is most evident in the junior class.
GOOD INDICATION of a junior gap among
hat honoraries is lodged in the fact that Parmi
Nous and Skull and Bones—both considered by
many as senior hat societies—often delye into
the junior class to tap an athlete or politician
they believe worthy of the honor.
With the rocketing enrollment and ever
expnding student activities on campus, hat
societies—which are supposed to recognize
leaders in those activities and serve other
purposes to boot—are too few. Sphinx and
Friars, past hat societies, probably died be
cause they constituted a glut on the market.
Not a glut but a demand exists now.
Gazette .. .
Friday, February 24
SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS,
Student Group, 616 W. College Ave., 7:30 p.m.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
. Further Information concerning interviews and Job place
ments can 'be obtained in 112 Old Main.
The Ingersoll-Rand Co., Feb. 27, 28. June
grads in ME, lE, MngE. Applicants must have
1.8 or better average.
Shell Oil Co., Mar. 6, 7. June MS and BS
candidates in MngE and Petroleum and Natural
Gas Refining, MS candidates in EE and ME,
and PhD candidates in Phys.
Standard Oil Development Co., Feb. 27. MS
and BS candidates in ChE who will graduate in
June. Applicants must have 1.5 or better aver-
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Admitted Wednesday: James Barclay, Will
iam Santel, Israel Dinner.
Admitted Thursday: Regina Friedman.
Discharged Thursday: Sherie Rickel, Patri
cia Barnett, Bettina de Palma, Edward Shank
en, Kenneth Edinger, Everell Chadwick.
AT THE MOVIES
CATHAUM—Chain Lightening.
NITTANY—That Forsythe Woman
STATE—The Great Lover.
OIR Elattg Collegian
Kuccessor to THE • FREE LANCE. ut. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings tn.
elusive during the College year by the staff of The Daily
Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College.
Entered as second-class natter Judy 5. 1934. at the State
College. Pa.. Poet Office under the act of March 3, 1879.
diior Business Manager
Torn Morgan clgaßO'l Marlin A. Weaver
Managing Ed.. Wilbert Roth; News Ed. Jack Reen;
Sports Ed., Elli ot Krone; Edit Dir.. Dottie Worlinlch;
ciety Ed., Commie Keller; Feature Ed., Bob Kotzbauer;
Asst. News Ed., Jack Senior; Asst. Sports Ed., Ed Watson;
Asst. Society Ed., Barbara Brown; Photo Ed., Ray Banter;
Senior Board: George Vadass, Kermit Fink; Staff Car.
tomist. Beaty M. Paseigh
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Little Man On Campus
•
"Why? Well, I simply don't go out with just ANYBODY—and /
don't even know you! Besides, I don't go out on less than two
weeks' notice; furthermore, I have a coke date at 8, play practice
at 9, study session at 12, and a few thing's to rinse ... What? Who's
playing? He is! A new car . . . it is! Who were you calling?
JANE JONES! I There's been a mistake!—This is Jagualla Chali.
mander, hold on a min ... Hello! Hello! This is Jane. be ready
in half an hour.
The. Gripes of Roth
Headline in the February 18 Daily Collegian:
39 Penn Staters
Receiiie Awards
The story Went on to relate how 39 students at the College had
acen awarded scholarships on the basis of scholastic ability and need.
What wasn't printed makes a better story. Tales of hardship,
rid sacrifice, and athirst for knowledge which words on a sheet of
qiier, alone, can't tell.
Stories like the one about a student who is so outstanding he's
president of his fraternity—the fraternity at which he also works
in the kitchen and fires the furnace so he can remain living there.
HE'S A NON-GI and he doesn't have that thin strip of green
cardboard worth 75 bucks in his mailbox the first of every month.
Still he values education so much he wants to gb 'on to gradupe
school. This outstanding example of what grit and determination
can do, maintains a 2.94. All-College average in geology and miner
alogy.
WOULD YOU , rather hear abdut the wife of a GI who lives
in a tiny, cramped trailer in Windcrest. Both she and her husband
go to school, pay rent, and bring home the groceries on the $lO5
Uncle Sammy kicks in once every, 30 days. Being a trailerwife, this
young lady could only maintain a 2.88 average.
Then there's a lad in the Engineering- School. His , mother,
who's a widow, works as a seamer in a hosiery mill, yet - both he
and-a younger sister are in college. He's.not a vet either. To make
ends come close together,,this young man has to work for his meals
and take whatever odd jobs he can find here at the College. No
wonder ,he only has a 2.93 All-College.
The Chem-Phys school is notorious for being one of the most
difficult, in point of obtaining high marks, on campus. There's an
other non-vet numbered among the lucky. 39 who has a 2.71 average
in chemistry. This future Frank C. Whitmore has been an orphan
since high school, and has been working since then. He's forced to
live with his brother, a GI, • and his wife, in a trailer, which makes
studying a trifle difficult.
MANY EX-DOUGHBOYS, gobs, and leathernecks like to brag
about how many summers they have seen. It's doubtful if many
can match the 32 years owned up to by one of the outstanding female
scholars in the Liberal Arts school.. Not lack of bfains, for she has
a. 2.6 All-College average, but lack of money kept her from getting
here sooner in life. She had to work for five years to accumulate
enough money to come to Penn State. Now that she's here, she
still has to work every day to keep the body that feeds the spirit
alive.
This young woman can't receive any help from home because
her father's a miner, now living on a small pension.
HARDSHIP DOESN'T KEEP all those people out of activities,
either. There's one young lady included in this group whose name,
if it were be printed here, would be almost as familiar to most stu-.
dents as Ted Allen's. She has to work summers to keep herself in
school and in the multitude of extra-curricular undertakings she's
part of. Despite all that, she still manages'to maintain a 2.54 average.
So you see, Mac, that measly 75 per you complain about and
try to stretch over the full month would look like marina from
heaven to some of the students up here—some of those I've just
mentioned. The next time you rip open one of those muddy'-brown
envelopes and make a wry face because it isn't more, remember, it
could be lots worse. For some people, it is.
No Churches in State College
Prior to 1887 there were no churches in State College, the people
attended services at the near-by hamlets of Centre Furnace, Lemont,
and Boalsburg. There. were chapel servkas at the' Collegel'lwile:
By RED ROTH
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by Bibler
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1950
Safety Valve ...
Not Sadists
TO THE EDITOR: It is indeed regrettable
that the proponents of freshmen customs have
been painted as sadists by their critics.
In the first place, the argument that upper
classmen show poor spirit in their attendance
at class meetings is an excellent one for the
advocates of customs. I can also point out the
inability of many on campus to sing the Penn
State .songs, in whole or in part. School spirit
and loyalty are built upon knowledge of the
above things and active participation in campus
life. Cuitoms foster both of these.
I wonder how many of the critics have gone
through freshmen 'customs at Penn State.
have, and several of my associates have. In dis
cussions concerning this problem we have been
in Complete accord on the following points:
1. We never felt that we were "being made
fun of and jeered at." In fact, the attention
given us in making sure that we were throughly
acquainted with the campus and its traditions
gave us a feeling of belonging—a welcome feel
ing for. a lonely freshmen.
2., That knowledge of Penn State served as a
foundation for a love and loyalty to Penn State,
not only as a college, but also as a home.
3. At no time were we forced to submit to
cruel — and unusual punishment by' a group of
sadistic upperclassmen.
Customs serve a definite and admirable pur
pose. It would be a mistake not to bring them
back.
• Letter Cut
Misinterpretation
• . •
.TO ;THE EDITOR: : I know it is not exactly
cricket for. an engineer to take pen in hand, and
proceed to deride one of .the members of your
staff, but the time has come where something
must be done,. and I shall attempt to show you
what I 'mean. ' • _
In the Saturday morning, Feb. 18, 1950 issue
of the Daily Collegian, there appears at the
bottom of the front page, a masterpiece of mis
interpretation, and a sound .demonstration on
how not to' write an article. This article, titled,
•"Players Drama Below Par In Centre Stage
Production," and written by one Deanie Krebs
is the article and author to which I am refering.
I suppose this article is considered a critique •
or review of the show, but 'if so, it is a very
poor one, technically speaking. • (Espershad,
Gates, and Mallery, Essentials of English Com
position, page 347) "One kind of exposition,
known as the criticism, is often misunderstood
to mean mere faultfinding. In , point of fact, the
word criticism means nothing more than judg
ment. To criticize a given thing means to evalu
ate it, 'to determine its worth, to point out its
merits and defects according to some reasonable
basis or'standard of judgment.
• In that last part of the quoted section lies
the whole trouble. She does not take into
consideration that she is not watching a group ,
of highly paid professionals, but a group of ,her
fellow students, who are only doing their best
to give the public what they conaider the best
they have.
All those that saw, the show, or are even
connected with the show know of •its faults,.
but it , seems that none can find. the Mistakes
of which • she speaks, even those that know more
about: it• than she, (myself excluded). It is evi
dent That Miss Krebs has neither worked' or
acted iii a show, arid knows nothing at all about
dramatics. .
—Mal Knott
• Letter Cut •
Defends Froth
TO THE EDITOR: I've never. read such non- '
sense as appeared in Red Roth'scolumn in yeS
terdays Collegian. FROTH is the funniest maga
zine published. If, as Mr. Roth intimates, FROTH
isn't any good why do' so many Students buy it
every month. I understand that •they sold 4000
copies yesterday which is more than the Colleg
ian was able 'to give away.•• If Roth•can write
such nonsense it's no wonder-that FROTH • at
tacked•-him. And I imagine - that those other
two aren't much good either If they have any
thing to do with the "Red Menace."
Vosel
Alpha Tau Omega
Too s Much Bitterness'
TO THE EDITOR: •Bitterness in the columns
of the Daily Collegian seems to be the/rage,lis
witness the diatribes of both Red Roth and Ron
Bonn for situations that seem to alarm only
these two. gentlemen, both ,with column space
delegated for comments on,life here on campus.
Granted they 'have the right to rant about
whatever pleases their sensibilities of the mom
ent, but there should be, no passing that there is
a responsibility to the entire student body that ,
should not be ignored in favor of personal '
gripes that seem to make trivialities grandiose.
, That is a whale of a lot of , space for telling .
the students that the debators were qualified
and that the rotation principle for the presi
dency .is absurd. The humor, wry or subtle or
whatever .you call- it, was bedraggled enough
for two humorists with reputations to..uphold—
not fall back upon.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor Harry Endres
Assistant Night Editor George Glazer
Copy Editor L. D. .Gladfelter
Assistants -- Louise Caplan, Sonia 'Goldstein,
Lowell Keller, Moylan. Mills
Advertising Manager Al Adelman
Assistants * Norma, Gleghorn, Judy Krakower,
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—Paul Thayer
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—Joseph G. Hudak