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Deem Gladfelter
Editor c4i5E301
Managing Ed., John Dalbor; News Ed., Stan Degler;
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Ed., Ray Hodder: Edit. Dir., Herbert Stein: Society
Beanie Krebs; Feature Ed., Janet Rosen: Asst. Sports
Md. Art Henning; Asst. News Ed., John Ashbrook;
iAllost. Society Ed., Bettina dePalma; Photo Ed., Wilson
Moto: Senior Board: Jack Boddington. Bill Detweiler. '
Amt. Bug. Mgr.„ Thomas M. Karoleik: Advertising
Mr.. Harold L. Wallin; Local Adv. Mgr., Hugo R. Mendes:
Promotion Mgr.. Laura Mermelstein; Circulation Co-Mgrs.,
Zderard W. Noyes, Gerald F. Yeager; Pers'onnel Mgr., Ed
wilt Siegel; Classified Adv. Mgr., Shirley Faller; Office
Mgr. Loretta Stempinaki; Secretary, Winifred Wyant;
Senior Board: Norma Gleghorn, Delores Horne, Mary
IKautrman. Sue Halperin.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor: Mary Krasnansky: Assitant
!fright Editor: Jo Hutchon;
,Copy Editor: Joe
Breu; Assistants: Betty Jo Hill; Peg King; Bob
Vosburg.
Advertising Manager: Bob Leyburn; Assist
ants: Ed Shanken, Joan Harvie, Frank Cress
man, Ina Epstein, Shirley Bush, Judy Goldberg.
Community. Forum
Season tickets for one of the most worth
while activities of the school year, the Com
munity Forum series, went on sale yesterday
morning.
JOINTLY SPONSORED by various campus
and town organizations, the forum brings to
the campus speakers well-known in a number
- of fields. Together they offer the student a
chance to pierce the wall of thinking that often
encloses him in a town as remote as this one.
Lecturers of all kinds are plentiful through
the year as any one who stays here for long
will find out. Few, however, can combine
knowledge of subject with a polished delivery
as do those under the Community Forum
banner.
This year's program seems reasonably well
balanced. At least one of the speakers, Ogden
Nash, is well-known to everyone. Of the others
probably the best-known to students are Eric
Johnston, president of the Motion Picture
association of America, who has been grinning
at us from a number of newsreels lately and.
Emily Kimbrough, author of several humorous
books, one co-authored with Cornelia Otis
Skinner.
LAST YEAR'S series included such notables
as Carl Sandburg, Lincoln's biographer; Han
son Baldwin, military writer of the New York
Times; Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, ex-chief of
naval operations; Robert St. John, radio com
mentator and Dr. Ira DeA Reid, sociologist.
An interesting talk was tossed in free by the
Forum people at the beginning of the year by
Dr. Harold Urey, atomic physicist, on "The Case
for Atlantic Union."
One indication of local interest in the speak
ers last year was seen in a special session
staged by Mr. St. John. Following his regular
talk in Schwab auditorium, about 100 students
and faculty members adjourned to a State
College restaurant, where the bearded news
analyst discussed world affairs until early
in the morning.
A new system of soliciting dormitories and
fraternities should spur the ticket sale this
year. We sincerely hope so. The caliber of
speakers on the program deserves a large
turnout.
You'll look far for a better bargain at $3.
—Herbert Stein
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Greatly Gratified
Students and members of the administration
who have given time and effort in the 13-year
campaign to establish a Student Union building
at Penn State probably are greatly gratified by
action of the trustees executive committee in
approving plans for the building. Their action,
which finally opened the way for a real SU to
replace the TUB and to fill the gap created by
sparse student facilities, also should do a great
deal to boost moral of newer students who at
some not-too-distant date will be able to use
the building.
THOSE OF US who are paying the $7.50
assessment for the building but never will be
able to use it at least will get some compensa
tion from watching the building rise opposite
Osmond laboratory.
Now that the action has been taken, work on
the SU should be expected to move ahead
quickly. Responsibility for the building • now
has fallen on the shoulders of the administra
tion, its architects and its, construction crews.
They will be responsible for seeing that there
are no delays in construction and that the
building meets as adequately as possible the
needs of the students.
Safety Valve .
Letters to the editor should be addressed—
The Daily Collegian, Box 261. Boro. The
writer's_name will be withheld upon request.
but no letter will be printed unless signed.
Apathy To Customs
• TO THE EDITOR: The revivification and re
institution of freshman customs has succeeded
only in evoking a dull, anemic rumble from the
student body. Unfortunately, the general con
census seems to indicate a definite attitude of
perfect mass indifference. Yes, customs appar
ently, have failed to capture the warm and ac
tive imagination of the vast majority of stu
dents at Penn State. Quite irksome, painful, and
depressing isn't it? But, it's the truth. Like it or
no—this spirited attempt on the part of the
pious and pure-minded, the intellectual forces
of reaction, and those forceful, vigorous, and
energetic worthies (who just delight in imposing ,
their metallic personalities upon the susceptible,
overwrought, and helpless freshman) to restore
and preserve the beloved traditions of our dear
Alma Mater, has degenerated into a sickly and
sterile exhibition.
—William Albert Druschel
Gazette . .
Wednesday, September 27
PENN STATE DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB,
TUB, 7 p.m.
SCABBARD AND BLADE, Triangle House,
7:30 p.m.
ALPHA EPSILON DELTA, 410 Old Main,
7 p.m.
STUDENT CHAPTER OF AMERICAN IN
STITUTE OF ARCHITECTS, Delta Tau Delta,
7 p.m.
ASCE, CE Summer Camp, Leave Mech. Eng.
parking lot, 7 p.m.
STUDENT HANDBOOK BUSINESS STAFF,
304 Old Main, 7:30 p.m.
COLLEGIAN EDITORIAL SOPHOMORE
BOARD, 8 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m.
PENN STATE RIDING CLUB, 102 Willard,
7 p.m.
WRA SWIM CLUB, Beginners clasS, White
Hall, 7:15 p.m.
WRA DANCE, White Hall Rhythm Room,
7 p.m.
WRA BRIDGE. White Hall Play Room, 7 p.m.
HAT SOCIETY COUNCIL MEETING, 410
Old Main, 8:45 p.m.
NOW!
At Your
Warner Theatre
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GAIL RUSSELL
MACDONALD CAREY
"The Lawless"
VAUGHN MONROE
ELLA RAINES
"Singing Guns "
Ilittany
KIRK DOUGLAS
DORIS DAY
"Young Man
With a Horn"
Little Man On Campus
"Worthal says to keep your eye on Professor Snarf—
he says he has , his chair wired for an electric shock."
Safety Valve . . .
No Thought To The Freshmen
TO THE EDITOR: That Hatmen should have the supreme author
ity in carrying out frOsh customs, as John Ashbrook expressed, gives
no thought to the freshrhen. That freshmen will be the hazers, next
year is a fact that must be con
sidered.
-I agree with Mr. Ashbrook that
the upper-classmen are, at pre
sent, failing in their duty to en
force these customs. I think their
reason for failing is because of
shame rather than wanting in
disregard of their duty. They
know that if they do haze a fresh%
man, the thought in the mind of
the freshman will be, "You
haven't been hazed, what right
have you to haze me?" It is only
human to avoid this cynicism.
This year is the turning point
of that attitude. The fact that the
freshmen; now, are going through
customs and know the songs,
cheers, and locations of buildings
is assurance that they will carry
out their part of hazing in the
forth coming year. Going through
customs together, gives the stu
dents something in common that
will bring them together. I be
lieve the next year will see a
year rich in hazing.
To let customs fall into the
hands of a few will result in a
loss of color, and perhaps the
whole idea of customs will fall
WEDNESDAY,
apart, or at least not be up to
the par that it could.
Being hazed now, and not being
able to haze next year may leave
a bit of cynicism in the hearts of
the freshmen now.
Before taking such a view as
John Ashbrook's, one should ar
gue the pro and con of such a
rash action.
As a last remark, without ex
planation, I'd like to say "A Ges
tapo of Hatmen" isn't democratic.
—Lloyd McMullen
Men's Debate Tryouts
A preliminary meeting of fresh
man and upper-class candidates
for the men's debate team will
be held in 316 Sparks at 7 o'clock
tonight, Marlin Brenner, captain
of the team, announced.
This year's topic is "Resolved:
That the non-communist nations
should form a separate world or
ganization." The newcomers will
have a week before eliminations,
and may choose the affirmative or
negative viewpoint of the sub
ject.
27, 1950
By Bibler