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Happy Air
THE STUDENTS and the College exper
ienced something yesterday that left fine
after-effects, a good taste in the mouth,
and an air of expectancy and cheerful
anticipation.
Over 5,000 students crowding the steps
of Old Main were impressed and over
whelmed with the man who'll be eleventh
president of Penn State. So were faculty
members and administrators who met Dr.
Milton S. Eisenhower for the first time
yesterday. So were a host of townspeople
who joined the throng at Old Main.
So were the coeds who had milkshakes
with the president-elect, and so were the
individual students who were fortunate
in meeting him informally and talking
with him on topics ranging from philoso
phy to football.
And so were the students who encounter
ed the president-elect on the Mall and
heard their quick greeting rebound back
to them.
Such a welcome and air of good feeling
certainly cannot be unprecedented at
Penn State but it is undoubtedly the
best thing, we've seen happen for and at
Penn State in our transatory role of
student.
Kudos are in order for those who plan
ned the Eisenhower day and ; took part in
the welcome—James Milholland, acting
president of the College; Wilmer E. Ken
worthy, assistant to the president; Ted
Allen, all-College president, the Blue Band,
the cheerleaders, and—most of all—the
student body.
As one student put it last night,
"Things are in a rather happy state
around here." Every indication points to
an extension of that happy state through
the tenure of the eleventh president of
the College.
That's why we're sorry we're a senior,
and that's why we envy those who'll re
main when we don gown and mottar-
.board
Safety Valve...
Queries Collegian
TO THE .EDITOR: Why is it that many times
letters to the editor and news articles often
remain in the Collegian office for several days
before they appear in print.
Was it merely a coincidence that Mr. Mun
son's letter condemning Miss Whitesel's admir
able opinion on play reviews received prompt
attention? Did the fact that Miss Krebs was
night editor for that particular edition have any
bearing on the matter.
Congratulations, Collegian, on your prompt
ness.
• Ed. Note: Space is limited in the Colleg
ian. That is where editing and choosing the
day's "must" plays an important part.
We try to represent all views brought to our
attention in letters to the editor. The night
editor has nothing to do with content of the
editorial page.
OIK Elullll . Collegian
Buccoesor to THE FREE LANCE. sot. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings In
clusive during the College year by the stet( et The Daly_
Collegian of The Pennsylvania State' Ciliate.
Entered as second-class tastier Jrily 1. 1034. at the Shell •
College. Pa.. Poet Office order the act of March S. 18711.
Editor Business Manager
Tom Morgan 'X'?"' Marlin A. Weaver
Managing Ed.. Wilbert Roth; News Ed. Jack Reen;
Sports Ed., Elliot Krane; Edit Dir., Dottie Werlinich; So
ciety Ed.. Commie Keller; Feature Ed., Bob Kotzbauer;
Asst. News Ed., Jack Sonio'r; Aest. Sports Ed., Ed Watson;
Asst. Society Ed., Barbara Brown; Photo Ed., Ray Banter;
Senior Board: George Vadasz, Kermit Fink; Staff Car
toonist, Henry M. Progar.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor . Wilson Barto
Assistant Night Editor Lillian Cassover
Copy Editor Stan Degler
Assistants Joan Kuntz, Gerry Kassab, Nancy
Holden, Marguerite Kober
Advertising Staft James Cochran, Barbara
Sprenkle, H, R. Mandes
—John Baker
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Little Man On Campus
"It's no use to try to got 'fresh' with mel—l've heard about you
fraternity n enr
Magazine Uncovers
Latest Facts of Life
We happened to run across one of those publicity blurbs the
office receives every so often. This one was from Liberty Magazine,
pushing their March issue. Specifically, it promoted an article which
should need very little promoting, since it bears pretty directly on
your favorite topic and ours.
THE ARTICLE involved is a more or less scientific study on the
advisability of conceiving babies in the autumn and winter -rather
than in spring and summer. It is based on surveys of college fresh
men and the army of New Zealand, so it should prove a diverting
study if not a particularly pertinent one.
Anyway, as far as we can gather—without the desparation
move of actually buying the magazine—unless you are callous
enough not to give a damn whether your progeny suffer from
short stature, meager intelligence, hangnails, sterility and falling
hair, you had better make sure they are conceived in the fall or
winter of the year.
Now this sort of knocks the daylights out of the orange-blossom
tradition of June brides, since the fall and winter months are notably
short both of orange blossoms and Jane. It also deals a crippling
blow at the profitable Niagara Falls tourist trade—after all, who
wants to spent the cold months on 'the Canadian. border watching
dirty chunks of ice drip dismally over a precipice?
TOO, THE ARTICLE would tend to promote a vast revolution—
no offense, Harry—in the song-writing and soap opera industries.
Of course, moon, croon and toon rhyme euphoniously and conveni
ently with June, but what .the hell would you use with January?
And can' you picture the righteous wrath of millions of soap-consum
ing housewives if Portia, in the course of her ddily stint of Facing
Life were to trip down the aisle in radio's traditional June wedding,
dooming her off-spring to substandard existence unto the thirtieth
and fortieth generation?
There is, of course, a far more important aspect of this problem
to students now in college. Indeed, we would strongly urge that DIR
majors born in appropriate months would find purchase of the March
Liberty a remunerative investment. Thus, when Papa makes vari
ous noises about the latest transcript, you can merely wave Blue
prints for Better Babies in his empurpled face and cry, triumphantly,
"See? It's your fault!"
'Yet another result of this epoch making study of the advantage
of the cold start might very well be a radical—opps, slipped agaih,
Harry—revision of the curve grading system with a sort of handi
cap granted to unfortunates of warm beginnings, Since this system
would necessarily be based on a combination of birth certificates
and certain scientific facts, you• would have the interesting result
of one half the nation's students sitting back smugly while the
other half raced desperately from prof to prof, swearing, "But I
fell you, it's true; thirteen and a half months, no kidding!"
Now this whole thing has caused us far less ecstatic anticipation
of the forthcoming Liberty than might be supposed. In fact, until
tne magazine comes out with a well-illustrated feature article on
babies conceived some nineteen winters past standing 5-foot-5, and
abiding by the well known 36-26-36 limitations, we are fairly certain
to stick to our old favorite the Saturday Evening Post which we get
free through an aunt who works for Curtis Publishing.
—RON BONN
Safety
Shades of R 8
TO THE EDITOR• SHADES OF ROBERT BENCHLEY—and
all the other esteemed gentlemen who have eked out a living by
alternately tossing scallions and orchids at the theatre and its
artists—that a few years in college and a part-time apprenticeship
on a college newspaper should'
qualify a peiton as a dramatic
critique!
No doubt the review is, as Mr.
Munson states, "honest and un
slanted," but one wonders wheth
er an eight-year-old couldn't have
presented one as honest. and un
slanted and of about equal worth
to theatre-goers.
It would be interesting to hear
Miss Kreb's explanation of how
college can perform the miracle
of transforming her into so "ma
ture" a person and, at the same
Valve ...
time, neglect the comeuppance of
all those "immature" Players
whom she is presumed capable of
judging.•
In the future, it is suggested
that Miss Krebs give her reviews
orally to Mr. Munson and any of
her friends who may be inter
ested. Thus she will avoid any
further open avowals in print of
her own immaturity and inex
perience.
by Bibler
Pericola
'TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1950
A Chat With A.R.W.
An AP news story from Manhattan, Kansas,
says that President Milton S. Eisenhower "is
probably the easiest man to talk to at Kansas
State College." It says that he is an outstand
ing exponent in education of the open door
policy, and that he encourages students to seek
him out for.free and frank talks.
THEN THE NEWS story written by Al Dop
king says, "It's safe to assume he'll carry this
policy on at Pennsylvania State College where
he will take over as president on July 1."
That's welcome news to Penn State stu
dents, isn't it? But I can see that it will also
be a challenge to them. When one gets a brief
, chance to talk freely and frankly with an ablb,
broad-experienced, busy college president,
what does one elect to talk about? That's the
challenge.
On one occasion of feasting in Cervantes' Don
Quixote, Sancho Panza--"a short, pot-bellied
rustic, full of common sense, but without a grain
of• spirituality"—chose cow's heel and pretended
to like it.
I'M NOT QUALIFIED 'to say what any col
lege president would want students to talk to
him about; but I think it is
. probable that no
college president thinks of being a combination
dean of men, housemother, psychiatrist, father
confessor, scheduling officer, referee, janitor,
policeman and Mr. Fixit.
Oldtime presidents of small colleges "don't,-
led in brass" in those several duties,' but it
would be a man-killing job today.
And so I think that if President Eisenhower
should become the easiest man to talk to at
Penn State, the challenge to students will be in
the nature of a test of their values—that is
specifically, of how best to utilize any occasion
al, though ' brief opportunity to talk' with the
boss, and benefit most largely from it.
APPARENTLY I WAS in error in stating in
one of my chats that Bill Lawless was present
in the meetings of the committee which pre
pared a recommendation of policy for the new
men's dormitories. When I typed that state
ment in my Puddintowx home I seemed clearly
to call seeing Bill sitting in on, those meetings.
very
courteously
his letter in Friday's Collegian Bill very
courteously said that I was in error. I am
sorry about that because I don't like to be
victim of a lapse of memory.
The idea ' for a' freshman dormitory system
goes back to the Dr. Hetzel years. He and those
of us who liked the idea were aware in advance
of arguments now being raised against it, but
frankly we were most interested in equalizing
freshman opportunities.
• ,* *
WE BELIEVED THAT it would be of ulti
mate benefit to the making of• a worthy, demo
cratic student body if all male freshmen could
be housed for their first year under the - same
conditions in 'well-supervised dormitories and
subjected to the same helpful kind of training
and housing. •
That plan is perhaps idealistic and does not
properly weigh, the rights, of upperclassmen, but
as an idealistic plan it was evolved out of a
desire to improve the critical freshman year as
a means of improving the whole student body
as freshman became upperclassmen.
—A. R. WARNOCK
Dean Emeritus of Men
Gazette . .
Tuesday, February 28 .
COLLEGIAN' BUSINESS Staff, Candidates,
I CH, 7 pm.
COLLEGIAN ADVERTISING Sales m e n,
Sophomore and Junior Board, 9 CH, 7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN BUSINESS Staff, Sophomore
Board, 9 CH, 7:30 p.m. '
PSCA BIBLE Study Group, 304 Old Main,
2:10 . p.m.
PSCA Commissions, 304 Old Main, 7:30 p.m.
COLLEGIAN Junior Edit Board, 2 CH, 7:30
p.m.
STAFF CALL For New Photographic-Literary
Magazine, 8 CH, 8:30 p.m.
PENN STATE BIBLE Fellowship, 418 Old
Main, 7 p.m.
PENN STATE CLUB, 405 Old Main, 7 p.m.
PSCA COFFEE-FORUM, 304 Old Main, 4 p.m.
HANDBOOK Candidates; 304 Old Main, 7
p.m.
LA STUDENT COUNCIL, 8:30 p.m.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL'
. Admitted Monday:. Keith Shaffer, Robert
Housewortli, William Glov, Lois Braden.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT .
Farther information' concerning interviews and. Job plane.
ments can be - obtained in in Old Main.
Shell Oil Co., Mar. 6, 7. June MS and BS
candidates in MngE and Petroleum and Natural
Gas Refining, MS candidate in EE and ME,
and PhD candidates in Phys.
Duquesne Light Co., Mar. 13, 14. June grads
in EE, ME, and CE.
General Electric Co:, Mar. 13 to 16. June grads
in EE, lE, ME, and Phys. for its test engineering
program.
Those seniors who' furned in a company
preference 'sheet and indicated GE and/or
Duquesne among the employers of greatest
interest may schedule interviews, immedi
ately. All others will be scheduled beginning
Thurew Mar. Z. • ,