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Wip S&iiy Cullegtatt
To exploit the facilities of television for edu
cational purposes as well as television’s cus
tomers for commercial reasons would be a boon
both to the industry and the educator.
BUT THE WATCHING public would have the
most to gain. As the programs are now arranged,
television is simply the youngest indignity of
the 20th century.
Owners of TV sets should agree that a lot of
the current programs are aimed 'directly at the
cradle or age groups very little above that. Com
edy shows, even the better ones such as Milton
Berle’s, depend largely on slapstick humor. A
fruit bowl hat and a man in his underwear fail
to amuse after two or three performances.
CONSIDERING the imperfections in televii
sion reception, the networks ought to give the
viewer a better break. If a man wants to take
the time to watch a set, his eves are attacked
enough with insulting his brain as well.
By setting aside several channels now, as Dean
Trabue has suggested, more responsible ele
ments of our society would have a chance to
work with the medium before the Howdy Doody
crowd gobbles up all of the facilities. The in-
STAFF THIS ISSUE dustry could use some respectability or it will
Night editor, Bob Schooley; Assistant night be facing more and more remarks such as Fred
editor, Bob Fraser; Copy editor, Jack Garret- i>, Allen’s that future generations will have “eyes
son-Butt; Assistants: Louise Caplan, Paul Crof- ' as big as cantaloupes and no brains.”
Successor to THE FREE LANCE, est. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings In
clusive during the College year by the staff of The Dally
Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College.
Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934, at the State
College, Pa.. Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879.
Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writers,
not necessarily *he policy of the newspaper. Unsigned edi
torials are by the editor.
Dean Gladfelier
Editor
Managing Ed. John italboi; Ncwh Ed., Stan Degler;
Sports Ed., Roy Koehler; Edit. Dir., Herbert Stein; Soelety
Ed., Deanie Krebs; Feature Ed., Janet Rosen; Asst. Sports
Ed., Art Denning; Asst. News Ed., John Aahbrook;
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Barto: Senior Board: lack Boddington. Bill Detweiler.
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Dir., Harold L. Wollin; Local Adv. Mgr., Hugo R. Mnndes;
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Mgr., Loretta Stcmpinski; Secretary, Winifitd Wyant;
Senior Board: Norma Glcghorn, Delores Horne, Mary
Kauffman, Sue Halperin. v
ford, Evelyn Kielar, Joan Kuntz, Mildred Mar-
Advertising staff: Ruth Coates, Tony Lawless,
Joan Morosini.
Back To Pitt
Barring more snow and other forms of disas
ter, !Penn State and Pittsburgh will finally get
their twice-postponed football game played this
afternoon on Forbes field. It would not, however,
be too much of a surprise or shock to anyone
were the game cancelled once more. The 1950
football season has been just that kind of year.
HAD ANYBODY dared at the start of the
season to predict that Notre Dame would lose
three games and tie another and that Michigan,
a team with a similar mark, would play in the;
Rose Bowl, he would have been sent to psychia
trist. Occupying the couch next door would
have been the prognosticator who predicted that
Penn State would win four football games this
season.
But Penn State's foolbal team has already
done just that. What's more, it can give the
experts another swift, kick in their dignity by
winning its fifth game of the season by up
setting the favored Panthers this afternoon.
The “smart money boys”—the same ones who
made Temple a favorite over Bucknell, Ohio
State a cinch over Illinois, and SMU a walk-in
over Texas, just to name a few—have also made
Pittsburgh a one-to two-touchdown favorite
over the Lions. They say the bookies have had
a hard year, but frankly we cannot evoke any
sympathy for them. As a matter of fact, we
would be delighted to see Penn State make the
season a little rougher for the betting brethren.
REGARDLESS of who wins, however, we
have little doubt that this the 50th game in
the football relationship of two great institutions
—will live up to the fine athletic traditions of
both schools.
Having urged Penn Staters to be “On to Pitt’’
last week and having beaten a hasty retreat
with frozen tail between our legs, it is with
great trepidation that we urge:
Back to Pitt!
Cross-Country
Cross-country has long taken a back seat to
other sports, not only at Penn State, but on most
other campuses in the country.
WHILE COACH Chick- Werner has long pro
duced good teams, and outstanding individual
stars, this is the first time he has come Up with
not only an IC-4A winner, but a victorious entry
-in the NCAA meet at East Lansing last week.
Werner and the boys were given sort of a
pep rally before they left for the IC-4A’s two
weeks ago. And that was the first sign in a long
time that-the College knew such a thing as the
cross-country team existed.
We venture to guess that a few people actu
ally know anything about the sport. It’s evident
as spectators groan when a State team comes up
with the lowest score that they don’t know the
team with the lowest score wins the run.
And yet, the fans cannot be blamed, for cross
country cannot realty be classified as a spectator
sport.
UNLESS THE FAN is equipped with a car,
and the five-mile course is laid out so he can
follow the runners around, he only gets to see
the start and finish of a race. It’s a little nerve
racking to sit around for 25 minutes or so while
the boys are fighting for position before they
finally come into view.
It’s a gruelling sport, and only the best can
stand up under the combination of pressure and i
fatigue.
Werner came up with the best this year, and
by the way State students were pulling for the
team to come through, it looks as though a sud
den interest in the sport has manifested itself.
—George Glazer
• The College owns or leases 7523 acres of
land. These include the main campus of 236
acres; a golf course and other land for athletic
purposes, 153 acres; and the College farms and
agricultural experiment grounds of 2605 acres.
These holdings total 2994 and lie adjacent to the
borough of State Colkute.
Owen E. Landon
Business Mgr,
—Marv Krasnansky
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLLJL, PE.L.LYLVAiIL.
TV’s Future
Guard Coats
During these cold-weather days when heavy
clothing is required, students should keep a
careful eye on personal property to avoid being
victimized by petty thieves who appear at the
College as regularly as winter snows.
IT IS DIFFICULT to avoid hanging heavy
clothing in halls when attending classes, but it
is the wise individual who removes all valuable
items from coat pockets. A favorite item with
campus thieves has been wallets left in un
guarded coats.
Gazette...
Monday, December 4
PENN STATE glee club will rehearse in 10
Sparks.
PHILOTES special meeting. WSGA room.
White hall, 6:30 p.m.
ICG, J. F. O’Brien, parliamentary procedure,
108 Willard hall, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Further information concerning interviews and job place
ments can he obtained in 112 Old Main.
Seniors, who turned in preference sheets will he 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 subßeauent days.
National Tube company will interview January graduates
in M.E., E.E., 1.E., and Met. at the B.S. level on Wednesday,
Dec. 6.
A representative of the Boy Scouts of America will be
on campus Dec. 4 to interview January candidates interested
in a professional setouting career. Scouting experience is a
prerequisite. Graduates 25 years old or over preferred.
A representative of the Young Women’s Christian associa
tion will be on campus Dec. 6 to interview sociology and
physical education M.S. candidates.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber company will interview January
graduates in M.E., Chem. Eng., 1.E., ami E.E., at the B.S.
and M.S. level on Wednesday, Dec. 13. This was previously
scheduled for Nov. 29.
Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance company will interview
January graduates for insurance sales Dec. 6,7, and 8.
They are particularly interested in contacting prospective
agents in the following counties: Dauphin, Lebanon, Lan
caster, York, Adams, Franklin, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry, and
Cumberland. No priority.
Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance will interview girls who
are being graduated in January with a secretarial course
Dec. 6,7, and 8. No priority.
Procter and Gamble Distributing ,company will interview
January graduates interested in retail sales work Dec. G.
Tall men with extra curricular activities preferred. No
priority.
E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & company will be on campus
beginning Dec. 11 to interview 3951 PhD candidates in the
following curricula: Chemistry, Physics, C.E., Biochemistry,
M.E., Engineering Mechanics, Metallurgy, Plant Pathology,
Plant Entomology, Bacteriology. Food Technology, and
Meteorology. No priority.
International Business Machines corporation will inter
view January graduates in M.E., E.E., and Physics, Dec. 4.
Standard Oil company, Elizabeth, N.J., will interview
1951 M.S. and PhD candidates in Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering on Thursday and Friday, Dec. 7 and 8. No
priority.
National Lead company will interview January graduates
at the B.S. level, anl 1951 M.S. and PhD candidates in
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering on Thursday, Dec. 7.
They are especially interested in PhD physical and organic
chemists; also organic chemists for synthesis work. No
priority. . . .
Bell Aircraft corporation will interview January graduates
at the B.S. level and 1951 M.S. and PhD candidates in Aero.
Eng.. E.E., M.E., Phys. and Math.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
For information concerning the following jobs, applicants
should stop in 112 Old Main.
Urgent Permanent and substitute waiters:
off-campus residents with good schedules. Large
number wanted.
Permanent weekend substitutes for local
diner: total four hours counter work in exchange
for six meals.
Permanent kitchen help for fraternity: re
muneration in meals.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Patients: Getelle Mendelssohn, Audrey Klein,
Patricia Vester, Rosemary O’Rourke, Howard
Mason, Herbert Groff, Forbes Ryder, Warren
Moyer, Arthur Snyder, William Gibson, Robert
Hobbes and Nevin Horak.
AT THE MOVIES
Saturday
CATHAUM: Two Flags West
STATE: King Solomon’s Mines
NITTANY: Navajo Trail Raiders
Monday
CATHAUM: Two Flags West
STATE: King Solomon’s Mines
NITTANY: Vi*-*** the Casbah
Herbert Stein
John Ashbrook
Little Man On Campus
W-V-*. J~ ** ~ ■
A Soured Reviewer
Scans The Minivers
Sometimes it’s as much fun seeing a lousy movie as a . good one
just to be able to design the delicate shades of cranky language that
could go into a movie panning. ■
Such is the opportunity afforded by “The Miniver Story” which
played in town last week.
A FRIEND OF MINE would categorize this picture simply as a
sack of saccharine slop. This alliteration is not entirely, fair in view
of the exhibition here of some highly polished techniques of lighting
and direction, but I fear that highly polished teeth were sometimes
substituted for highly polished acting.
One might well ask, “What is the purpose of this picture?” Maybe
it’s just to make money and we should all try to write pictures like
this and get rich. But bound by a curious idealism, I feel that even
for 55 cents a citizen is entitled to a story that is at once plausible and
entertaining.
Mrs. Miniver, you see, is a stalwart old girl —fixes everything.
British, you know. She straightens out the lives of her .husband,, her
daughter, her son and a British general and then kills herself off,
all in a swoop that leaves many of the more emotional in the audience
dewey-eyed. My date cried four kleenexes worth.
I didn't cry. I was glad she died. If she hadn't, we would prob
ably be hearing her troubles oh a radio soap opera for years to
come.
Realistically, of course, the picture has two purposes along with
money. One is to cash in on the current series of films in which
heroic females are catching some disease or dropping off like flies.
We never do find out what this particular disease is, but we know it
leaves her in surprisingly good shape until pretty near the end. For
tunately, we are spared the deathbed scene, so maybe movies are
getting better.
THE OTHER PURPOSE is to tie up the loose ends left hanging in
“Mrs. Miniver,” a dandy war film about Britons under the blitz.
But one of the major theses of the story is that wartime acquain
tences have to be forgotten in the adjustments to a post-war world.
I think the producers should have taken their own advice.
Herbert Stein
On Other Campuses
At the University of Pittsburgh, the enrollment in Russian lan
guage classes has doubled this year. A questionnaire given to the
students showed that the political situation today has much to do
with the increase. As one student, put it, “Lord knows what will
happen!” '
Testu'do, the University of Maryland’s 400-pound bronze mascot
which has been missing since the George Washington game, has
finally been located. This time the statue, a terrapin, will be filled
with concrete and cemented to a pedestal in front of the stadium.
Future abductors will have the dual job of crushing the concrete
and raising the statue.
Syracuse alumnae this year ended a 42 year drive to raise funds
for a women’s recreation building. Excavations for the new building
were begun last week.
A project to name the campus streets of Michigan State is near
ing completion by the Men’s council. The plan to name the streets
after prominent past college officials has "been discarded in favor ;
of “functional” names. For example, the street near the auditorium
will be designated Auditorium drive. 1 •
Franklin and Marshall has a combination mind reader, magician
and escape artist. An undergraduate with the help of a speech
fessor recently projected 16 numbers and a color from the classroom;;
to a hotel in the city. The items were selected by the class. The sttejf.
dent, one Don Krill, 'also specialies in escaping from handcuffs. 3;--
Plans lo remove some 525 Women from dormitories, at.;fh*K
University of Connecticut have been abandoned partly because oiiS‘
the large number of men who have left for military service; Meri I ;.'
were originally scheduled to occupy the dorms. ' • A
' A large floodlight is being placed above a statue of Abe Lincoln:;,
at the University of Wisconsin to help night watchmen guarding ifc;r
The statue has been painted and whitewashed three times since the*:
beginning of the semester. , . *;•!!!;
A week-long trainifig course was held recently at the University;
of Virginia to outline methods for reducing street and highway accir’ :
dents. D. A. Weaver, assistant in. fleet training here at the College';,'
supervised the course. Outdoor road tests and demonstrations were
iacUiAad in the program.
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