Safety Valve ...
A Cheerful Smile
TO THE EDITOR: Mr. Garretson-Butt makes
it seem so hard to smile in his obviously humor
ous column, but I'm sure that if he would have
contacted the right people, he would have seen
that not all is woe and misery as he put it. It's
hard to make people realize that the one preci
ous thing left in life when all is sOOOO sad as
your "boys" put it, that a smile or a cheerful
word to someone goes a long way.
I think the real purpose of the campaign
waged by Mr. Errigo and the Student Councils
(if you • would have investigated. A good re
porter always gets both sides of a news story)
was to revive 'the traditional "hello" and cheer
ful spirit of Penn State.
The Penn State "hello" spirit did exist here
when all our blessed freshmen started on our
sacred campus soil and were' indoctrinated from
the beginning into the spirit of friendliness and
good spirit. This will probably exist only when
the constant habitual gripers of other schools
are out. Now, think it over .. . Isn't it better to
stop a minute from the daily grind and say
"hello" to a girl or a friend .. . Smile and think
it over.
—A supporter of the "hello spirit"
• Letter Cut
• Name Withheld
- Beta To Burrowes
Before Burrowes Building was erected the
School of Education was housed successively on
the first floor of Old Main, in one end of the
Engineering F; and in the old Beta Theta Pi
house.
Gazette . . . .
Wednesday, Maich 29
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Club, 105
Willard Hall, 7:30 p.m.
NAVAL VOLUNTEER Electronics Warfare
Co., Naval Lecture Room, EngE, 7 p.m.
CA ROUNDTABLE, 304 Old Main, 7:30 p.m.
NITTANY BOWMEN, 207 EngE, 7 p.m.
RIDING CLUB, 317' Willard, 7 p.m.
PRE-MED SOCIETY, 217 Dairy, 7:30 p.m.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
reetior baforatation concerning interviews and job place.
meats .eau be obtained in Ll 2 Old Main. / -
Seniors who turned in i preference sheets will be given
priority in scheduling interviews for two days following
the initial announcement of the visit of one of the com
panies of their choice. Other students will be scheduled on
the third and subsequent , days.
E. R. Squill}, & Sons; Mar. 30. Juniors in
Chem, Biol, Phys, ChemE, ME and Sci. inter
ested in summer work, with possibility of per
thanent employment after graduation. Candi
dates must have an average of 1.5 or better, and
show:leadership in extra-curricular activities.
Iniurance Company of North America, Mar.
30. .June grads in A&L, C&F, ME, EE, and CE;
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Division. Mar
30; 31; June grads in Chem E and ME.
Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Co., Mar. 30. )
June' grads interested in insurance sales.
General Aniline Co., Mar. 31. M.S. and PhD
candidates in Organic Chem; also, women June
grads in Chem who have a knowledge-of Ger
man for abstracting work.
Westinghouse Corp. April 11, 12, 13. June
grads in EE, ME, IE for openings in salei and a
few manufacturing •openings. Also a few jobs
in highly technical engineering, requiring out
standing analytical ability, for EE and ME.
There are no openings in routine or service en
gineering. Openings also in Metallurgy for ma
terials, development and application.
Philadelphia Electric Co.. April 12. June grads
and juniors in EE.
Marathon Corp., April 12. June grads in IF
for time and motion, and wage incentive work. ,
General Electric Business Division, April 12.
June grads in C&F for their training program.
A great deal of accounting will be involved dur
ing the first three years. Applicants must have
an average of 2.0 or better.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Information concerning these positions can be obtained
at the Student Employment Office in Old Main.
Couple with no children wanted to worh in
Centre County for entire summer.. Husband to
work as guide and wife to assume household
responsibilities. Excellent salary.
Substitute waiters in college dining commons -
leading to permanent positions in the fall.
Summer camp counselorships for men ant,
women. Interviews available March 25.
Direct Selling field. Products include Mutua;
funds, baby equipment, chemical products
sterling silver, and others.
Fuller Brush Co. Full time positions open for
summer. Various counties in Pa. available
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Admitted Monday: Mary Lou Larpenteur,
Barbara Schulz, Royal Bell.
Admitted Tuesday: Edwin Carpenter, Mary
Louise Kendall, Robert Bowen, Joseph Michal
ski, Vivian Bitner, Suzanne Frings.
Discharged Tuesday: Richard Haupt, Robert
Helfand, Ross Libengood, Stephen Kalatucka,
Philip Barker, Blair Green, Robert Free, Robert
Gabriel, Joseph BUbernak, George Barber,
Walter Grimes.
AT THE MOVIES
CATHAUM—Father Was a Bachelor
STATE—Woman in Hiding.
NWAANXQA Dola
Little Man On Campus
"Remember how happy you 'Pledges' were when the council
ruled out paddling?"
College Backsliding
In Coaching. Setup
Evident student concern over the College's football coaching
situation prompts us to look to a pertineni discourse,delivered by
a Pittsburgh sports scribe.
Chet Smith, sports editor of the Pittsburgh Press, enjoy's the
reputation hereabouts of having a sensitive finger always on; the
Penn State sports pulse. His observations, for one 140 miles away,
are often uncanny. With this preview, we delve into a recent
Smith column on the , College coaching setup: \
Si .
• • Our opening understatement will be that Joe Bedenk's
recent retirement as the football coach' at Penn State has left the
Lions, in a predicament that would be hilariously ludicrous if it
didn't carry serious implications for the future of the school's foot
ball.,
"State s now in the position in which the old Brooklyn Dodgers
under Uncle Wilbert Robinson so often found themselves.
"Too many men on one base. •
"FOR AN INSTITUTION that had its house in such good order
only three years ago that it produced a Cotton Bowl contender, the
Mount Nitts certainly have done a paramount job of backsliding.
"When Bedenk told authorities he didn't want to coach foot- •
ball any longer and would concentrate on baseball, Earl Bruce was
called in from California Teacher'S College to whip up spring
practice. Patently, this was an interim appointment for the able
and likable Bruce, who got his start at Brownsville High School.
"Bruce •went to California when State chose that school as its
freshman farm during the period after the war, when •no yearlings
were permitted on the main campus.
"If he is now at State on a trial basis, that's only another con
tributing factor to the
,mess. It would be the first time such a plan
had been tried, at. Penn State or anywhere 'else.
"THE LIONS NOW have this weird setup in their laps:
"Bob Higgins, who pulled in his neck after 19 years, bn March
12, 1949, because of poor health, is still there as a professor of physi
cal education.
"Cap'n Robert builds good will among .the State parishioners,
for which he is eminently qualified. Bedenk is the baseball coach
and also a professor of physical education. ,
"Some 12 months or more ago, John Lawther gave up coaching
basketball but remained as a professor of physical education.
"The assumption is reasonably safe that there were no salary
cuts involved in any. case. Who's left in football?
"ASSISTANTS AL MICHAELS and Jim O'Hora from the Hig
gins regime, Sever Toretti and ex-Pitt Panther Frank Patrick, Who
were Bedenk appointees.
"Tangling the snarl:to restore some semblance of order may well
turn out to be an involved process, if it is not impossible without a
major operation.
"That's because of State's unique plan - for signing coaches, all
of whom become members of the physical education faculty. This
makes for security, but it also poses a stumper when there is a
change at the top.
"A new coach, brought in from the outside, naturally would
want to' pick his own staff. He might wish to retain one or two of
the existing lieutenants, but it would• be a miracle should he keep
all four.
"So what happens to the leftouts? Do they move in with the
evercrowding group of professors of physical education?
' "On the other hand, a lesser .man, burning for a college berth,
might accept and agree to employ the present aids.
"IN ANY EVENT, the college is faced with .an almost insoluble
dilemma. The institution can't go on naming new coaches year after
year, assuming their salaries if they are found less than capable or,
like Higgins and Bedenk, found the burden too heavy or too dis
tasteful. •
"Increasingly ambitious schedules, a remodeled stadium and
a position in eastern football the Lions are anxious to maintain,
plus alumni enthusiasm, are all driving factors that call for a quick
and effective - way out. _
"The question is--Who knows what to do?
"If somebody does, he'd better swing into action and stay out of
Recreation Hall, where the Phyi-Ed Department is housed, Other
wise, he might be trampldd to 'death by professors of physical educa
00ft.
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, by Bibler A Chat With ARW
WII;JiiiiISDAY, MARCH 29, 1950
This is another in a series of articles by
Arthur H. Warnock, dean emeritus who was
in contact with thousands of undergraduates
during his 30 year tenure as dean of Men.
Before I came to the campus in the fall of
1919 I had seen student government in opera
tion at the University of Illinois, and din't think
much of it. It wouldn't assume responsibility.
I was prepared not to think much of student
government at Penn State, but an early experi
ence changed my mind.
ONE SATURDAY NIGHT that fall I went
downtown to watch • a football celebration at
Co-Op Corner. One of my jobs as assistant dean
of men at Illinois had been to assist the Cham
paign police force, fire department and'business
men, in trying to prevent football celebrants
from wrecking the town on such occasions.
Standing on the Senior wall near the corner
I watched the milling crowd.of students cheer
ing and celebrating. Before long I saw wood
, starting to come forth, elicted by the cry,
"Frosh, get wood!"
"Here's where she blows!" I said to myself,
thinking that a dangerous bonfire was about to
be started.
ABOUT THAT TIME the Senior Class presi-
dent, accompanied by a burly football player in
a letter sweater, walked to the center of the
street corner—the diamond, as it was called
then, and said in effect: "Fellows, the show's
over. We're going home."
"That's what you think!" I said to myself,
'because any show of official authority like that
in Champaign, as I had known it, would have
' literally added fuel to the flames.
The students howled and griped for a while,
but within a half hour the show actually was
over, without any property damage and riot
ing. Then and there I decided that a student
government that could do what police forces
and fire departments in my experience failed
to do was worth paying attention to.
Later I discovered that .the student compli
ance was not the result of the personal popular
ity of a class president or a football star, but
was the result of their automatic reaction to a
training in student government and cooperation
and discipline that had begun in their freshman
year and had continued throughout their sopho
more and upperclass years in a long-established
Penn State .tradition.
Safety Valve ...
Truly Represents
TO THE EDITOR: I want to send a belated
"thank you" to 'All-College Cabinet for' the
bang-up job they did in selecting an official ring
•
that truly represents the College.
The pfficial ring adopted by Cabinet seems •
comparable to any college ring I've seen. I've
ordered mine.
Emergency dormitories were used on campus
years ago as they are being used today. One of
these temporary dorms built in 1903 was called
"Bright• Angel," and another built in 1904 was
tabbed the "Devil's Defi."
- Or Daily Collegian
Successor to THE .FREE LANCE. est. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings in
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Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College.
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Sports Ed., Elliot Krone; Edit Dlr.,' Dottie Werlinich; So
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Asst. News Ed., Jack Senior; Asst. Sports Ed., Ed Watson;
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Ad. Mgr., Mark Arnold; Promotion Co-Mgr.. Harold Woi
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STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editors Red Roth, Shirley Austin
Assistant Night Editor .... La Vonne Althouse
Copy Editor , Shirley Austin
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Julia Ibbotson
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—Arthur R. Warnock
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