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Elaitg Collegian
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robliehei Tueoday thrOngh Saturday notereinge +a•
siselyatiaiteg the college Year by the steit of The Daily
C.ellegian of The reanayleanta State College.
Mattered ■e 4-elaso ratter irle 5. 1931. at the State
Caere, Pa.. Beet •ffiee pn ier toe act of March 3. 1874
Dean Gladf eller
Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor: Paul Beighley: Assistant Night
Editor: Dick Kolbenschlag; Copy Editor: Lowell
Keller; Assistants: Shirley Vandever, Luella
Martin, Marlene Frohman.
A6ertising Manager: Bob Leyburn; Assist
ants: Edward Shanken, Joan liary.'e, Shirley
Bush, Phyllis Kalson. Do,riS Groomes, Judy
Goldberg, Frank CresSman, Rcddie Morgan.
Save The Woods
The College has staked out a portion of Hort
Woods which is 'Scheduled soon to fall under
the blows of a crew of - akriien. Thus, trees and
vegetation which have stood for many years,
longer than the oldest buildings on campus, are
to be destroyed.
THE AREA to be cleared is to serve as addi
tional parking space for the heavy stream of
campus automobiles. Considering both College
traffic and building demands, this action may
well be only the first in a series of moves which
could readily lay low the entire woods.
Hort Woods is tl•e last remaining area of
natural growth on campus. In the quiet way
of all nature, it has contributed much to the
College life.
Students of botany and other natural sciences
use HOrt Woods as an outdoor laboratory, for
low-lying growth beneath its old trees has long
attracted Migrant birds and the plants in them
selves are a source of much study material.
THE NEW parking area west of Beaver Field
beside Nittany Lion Inn stands as an example
of what will result from the leveling of any
part or of all of Hort Woods. Last spring that
area was a small woods, not unlike Hort Woods,
which lent much in beauty to the surrounding
land. Today, it is a bare plot of asphalt.
Hort Woods is a valuable College property
which should not be altered without a great deal
of thought on the consequences of such a
change. The campus parking problem is, indeed,
in need of an immediate solution.
But it would be hard lo call it progress to
sacrifice a portion of the last campus habitat
of real nature in the name of bigger and better
parking lots.
Alumni Help
Announcement of planned alumni support
for the Student Union building should help
smooth over some of the bitter feeling aroused
by the student assessment approved last spring.
It should indicate to the student body that they
alone will not bear the full cost of the building.
ONE OF the major gripes concerning the
Student Union has been the fear that all funds
would come from students and that no one else
would contribute. Partly to allay this fear, All-
College cabinet last spring gave the student
Student Union committee the power to investi
gate further methods of financing the building.
The surprising element is that the proposal to
seek alumni support came not from the com
mittee but from three individual members of
cabinet, which then authorized All-College
President Robert Davis to broach the matter
to alumni officials. A report of the Student
Union committee also was submitted at the
cabinet meeting, but the real essence of the
statement was that the committee had little
to report.
One might suggest, that, now that part of
ifs work has been done by others, the com
mittee• get on its toes and come up with
some suggestions itself.
One also might comment on the quick ac
ceptance of part of the burden by alumni, who
have set an example for the future by their
readiness to contribute toward a project from
which they will obtain no large material benefit.
Center Stage Opens Friday, Oct. 13
Be On Hand To See ...
"PRIVATE
LIVES"
"Another Prize Players Production"
Tickets on Sale Now Al
•
Student Union
Friday 90c Saturday $1.25
Owen E. Landon
Business Mgr.
—John Ashbrook
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Well Spent Class
A professor in the physical science •depart
ment occupied a lecture period recently by
playing the record, "Mr. Atom," to his' class.
THIS SONG tells in haunting words the story
of the atomic bomb, and begins with the whistle
of a bomb, and then a tremendous explosion. A
narrator tells in harsh words how the devas
tating force was spiting upon the World. and
how the world must now live in peace. or in
piece's. The record ends, "We hold these truths
self-evident, that all men can be cremated
equal." . .
Because in a subtle way it is a warning to
the Western world, the record has been
branded as Communist propaganda, and
banned by several large radio stations.
The professor told his class since they were
college students, and potential leaders in the
world they should consider the words of the
song earnestly, and decide for themselves
whether it is communistic. Although the record
may not have pertained completely to physics,
it caused the clasS to think, and was a class
period well spent
Unsigned Letters
Collegian again has received a number of un
signed letters to the editor which the writers
apparently hoped would be published. In view
of the fact, it might be well to point out again,
for the sake of those who derive pleasure from
letter-writing ,and those who , care to express
their views in the Safety Valve column; the
standard policy of Collegian and other news
papers toward unsigned letters..
IF REQUESTED by the writer, his name will
be withheld from publication. However, Col
legian insists, for the information of the letters,
that writers include their names. At times ques
tionable material is submitted and with the
name of the writer it is possible to make con
firmation.
Publication of letters depends upon good
taste and good writing. Brief letters are pre
feted, and Collegian reserves the right to
condense lengthy letters.
Gazette ...
Meetings of campus organizations will be announced in
this column throughout the_s emeste r. Announcements
should include place, time and purpose of the meeting.
Deadline. for notices, which_should be mailed or delivered
to the Daily Collegian office, is 4 p.m. on the day preced
ing publications.
Wednesday, October 11, 1950
HILLEL CULTURAL committee, Hillel,
7 p.m.
PENN STATE DUPLICATE BRIDGE club,
TUB, 6:45 p.m.
I,VRA Dance, White Hall Rhythm Room,
7 p.m.
WRA Bridge, White Hall Play Room, 7 p.m.
PENN STATE RIDING club, S.E. lounge
Atherton, 7 p.m.
NEWMAN CLUB Business Meeting, 110 E.E.,
7 p.m.
TAU BETA PI, 116 Osmond, 8:30 p.m.
AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY, Theta Xi,
7:30 p.m.
PI TAU SIGMA, 107 Main Engineering, 7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN Sophomore edit. board, 8 Car
negie Hall, 7 p.m.
PHI SIGMA lOTA, Simmons lounge, 7 p.m.,
Two papers will be presented.
MINERAL INDUSTRIES Student Council,
106 Hall, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Further Information concerning interviews and job placd
tnents can be obtained in 112 Old Main. '
Seniors who turned in preference sheets will bc given
priority in scheduling , in - erviews for two days following
the initial announcement of the visit of one of the cons•
panics of their choice. Other students will be scheduled
on the third and subsequent days.
American Cyanamid company will interview 1951 PH.D.
candidates in chemical engineering and organic, physical.
inorganic, and analytical chemistry, and January B.S. and
M.S. candidates in chemistry and chemical engineering on
Monday and Tuesday, October 23 and 24.
General Electric company will interview January gradu
ates interested in financial work and accounting for the
business training program on Wednesday, October 11. A
great deal of accounting will be involved during the train
ing program.
U.S. Rubber company will interview January graduates
in chemistry, chemical engineering, industrial engineering,
mechanical engineering and accounting on Frida y,
October 20.
—Dave Colton
YOU
CAN
GET
IT
AT
THE TAVERN
SPAGHETTI
Monday, Wednesday,
and Thursday
Little Man On Campus
/%1!: ,
"Coach said this delay would open up a clear field."
Cravat Condition
We have just been made aware of one of the most shocking, the
most disgraceful, the most shameful facts of masculine life in this
great skirtocracy. 0, how manhood is gone out of man, how the
mighty have fallen. For incredible as it may seem, it is a documented
truth that women buy 85 percent of the ties produced in the United
States today. We have given them
enough rope, and they've made a
cravat out of it.
WHAT HAS become of the sex
which for five thousand years con
trolled the destiny o the hopes and
the dirty politics, of the world,
that it has so meekly ceded its
sovereignty to • these upstarts,
these radicals, these tie-buyers,
these . . . women? Where is the
splendor that was wife-beating
Rome, the glory of the Indian
majestically mounted on his mule
as his wife trudged a dutiful six
paces behind with the groceries?
What has become of the progres
sive movement so successfully
initiated by our Mormon bro
thers?
And what of the sturdy 15 per
cent of men who, resisting all en
croachments of the infamous New
Woman, hold back the tide of
femininity, man the battlements
•of maleness, bravely and coura
geously venture out into the
stores and buy their own ties?
Are they to be left, pitifully
• Penn State baseball teams once had a winning streak of 30
consecutive games. Ten of them were at the end of the 1920 season
and 20 at the beginning of the 1921 season. One of them was an 18
to 0 victory over Carnegie Tech, coached by Honus Wagner, Pitts
burgh Pirate great. Listed as a utility outfielder with the Penn State
squad was one F. J. Bedenk.
• Blue Jay, a 25 acre clearing in the wilderness-like area of
Forest county, has been maintained by the College as a forestry
camp since 1938. Located in the southern district of Allegheny Na
tional forest, Blue Jay is a former CCC camp operated under a "free
use" permit granted by the U. S. Forest Service.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 195 s
By RON BONN
holding the last bulwarks of hu
manity against the barbarous on
slaughts of uncivilized Woman?
Will the daily until it is too late,
always saying, "Well, maybe next
time I'll buy my own tie?"
The time is now, the battle is
joined, almost hourly, some
where in this land, another hap
less male yields to his bride's
crafty wheedlings and allows
her to get him a lie "just this
once." The ranks of the 15 per
cent are being whittled down,
the war of attrition is being _
successfully prosecuted by the
enemy.
The tragic fact is that the grave
Cravat Condition is but a straw
in the hurricane of female war
fare. Deign but to look at the
plaid vests blossoming every
where on caved-in male chests if
you ' doubt this. Heaven only
knows what the underwear fig
ures are by now.
MALES of the world, arise!
You have nothing to lose but
your Janes!
By Bibler