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Olge Eittilg Collegian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE..est. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings in
clusive during the College year by the staff of The Daily
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 the policy of the newspaper. Unsigned edi•
toriala are by the editor .
Dean Gladfelter
Editor
Managing Ed., John Dalin.; City Ed., Herbert Stein;
Sports Ed., Ray Koehler; Edit. Dir., John Ashbrook; Wire
Ed., Art Benning; Society Ed., Deanie Krebs; Feature Ed.,
Janet Rosen; Asst. City Ed.. Jack Boddington; Asst. Sports
Ed., Joe Breu; Asst. Society Ed., Bettina dePalma; Libra
rian, Bill Detweiler.
Asst. Bus Mgr., Thomas M. Karolcik; Advertising Dir.,
lfarold L. Wollin: Local Adv. Mgr., Norma Gleghorn: Pro
motion Mgr., Laura' Mermelstein; Circulation Co-Mgrs..
Edward W. Noyes, Gerald F. Yeager; Personnel Mgr., Edwin
Singel: Classified Adv. Mgr., Shirley Faller; Office Mgr.,
Sue. Halperin; Secretary, Winifred Wyant.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor: Carolyn Barrett; Copy Editors:
Lee Stern, Jack Garretson-Butt, Bob Vosburg;
Assistants: Virginia Sinclair, Ad a Bortoluzzi,
Jake Highton, Evelyn Kieler, Paul Crofford.
Advertising Manager: Ed Shanken; Assistant:
Joan Harvie.
Donor Facilities
For State College
An important way in which Penn State stu
dents could serve in this period of national
crisis is through donation of blood for medical
use. A valuable medical item in normal times,
blood is of even greater importance while Amer
ican soldiers are engaged in a shooting war.
Red Cross blood banks constantly are seeking
more and more donors. With a student popula
tion of some 10,000 and more than 6000 resi
dents in the borough, State College is in an
excellent position to aid in this project.
AT PRESENT, the Red Cross is operating a
"bloodmobile" in central Pennsylvania. To bring
these portable facilities to State College, various
financial, administrative, and operational prob
lems would have to be worked out. But these
problems are far from insurmountable.
The student group best equipped to promote
this project is the camous unit of the Red
Cross. Working with the town Red Cross and
with other campus and borough organizations,
the student unit might be able to establish
donor facilities in State College within the
next few months.
For a project so worthy of one's interest and
energy, a project through which many can con
tribute materially to the well-being of others,
action cannot come too soon.
Alpha Phi Omega
The Boy Scouts of America this week are
celebrating the 41st anniversary of the organi
zation's founding. Boy Scout week is being ob
served in ceremonies throughout the nation, in
cluding one at the White House where President
Truman greeted a group of eagle scouts.
For more than 18 years, value of the scout
movement has been demonstrated on the Penn
State campus by the Alpha Beta chapter of
Alpha Phi Omega. Alpha Phi Omega is a service
fraternity whose members all are former scouts.
THOSE WHO have been confined in the in
firmary are familiar with the regular visits of
APO members to perform various services for
patients. New students entering the College last
September were aided by the Alpha Phi Omega
information booth on the Mall. Members of the
fraternity regularly collect lost-and-found items
from camnus buildings and assemble them in
the Student Union, and they serve as ushers for
the community forum series. Soon they will be
assisting in the Religion-In-Life-week program.
Many other projects of this group could be cited.
Herbert Axford, president of the Alpha Beta
chapter, has said that the purpose of the fra
ternity is "to assemble college men in the fel
lowship of the scout oath and law, 'to develop
friendship, and to promote service for human
ity." He notes four major fields of activity: ser
vice to the student body and faculty, service to
youth and community, service to members of
the fraternity, and service to the nation as
participating citizens.
The 125 Penn State members of Alpha Phi
Omega are demOnstrating by service to fellow
citizens on campus their adherence fo this
code and to the lessons of past scouting days.
—J. A.
o Everyone is entitled in full equality to a
fair and public hearing by an independent and
impartial tribunal, in the determination of his
rights and obligations and of any criminal
charge against him. Universal Declaration of
Human Rights.
• Everyone has the right to freedom of
opinion and expression: this right includes free
dom to hold opinions without interference and
to seek, receive and impart information and
ideas through any media and regardless of fron
tiers. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• Everyone has the right to rest and leisure,
including reasonable limitation of working
hours and periodic holidays with pay. Uni
versal Declaration of Human Rights.
Owen E. Landon
Business Mgr.
John Ashbrook
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Change Needed
In Voting Age
In line with our previous discussion on an
absentee ballot which would simplify voting for
college students, it might be well to take up
again the question of whether the voting age
should remain at 21. •
DURING WORLD WAR II there was a con
siderable movement in favor of lowering the
voting age to 18. One state Georgia has
done so, and apparently has suffered no ill ef
fects. A constitutional amendment to lower the
voting age once was introduced into Congress,
but nothing ever came of it. Since the war,
sentiment on this issue seems to have died out.
At that time, one of the major arguments
was that, since 18-year-old youth were eligible
to be drafted into the armed forces, men who
were old enough to die for their country cer
tainly were old enough to vote for the officials
who decided the nation's policies including
the policy of drafting 18-year-old men.
If that argument contained any validity half
a dozen years ago, it is just as valid today.
An argument even more valid, we feel, is
that young men and women fresh out of high
school are still comparatively untouched by
th e corrupting influences of contemporary
American politics, and probably can be relied
upon to vote as intelligently as their elders. It
also has been suggested that failure to let
citizens vote before they are 21 helps to limit
the total vote because young people quickly
lose interest in their franchise. The best way
to keep up their interest is to let them vote
as early as practicable.
On the question of intelligent voting, we can
not agree with those who charge that young
people are more prone to be irresponsible in
casting ballots. We doubt if more than a small
minority of our citizens really vote with much
inteligence, and we doubt seriously whether
including 18-year-olds in the enfranchised group
would lower this percentage.
BX Benefits
The recent announcement by the student book
exchange and supplies store, the BX, that 20
per cent returns were paid on all purchases
made during the past semester, proves what a
remarkable success an undertaking like this
can be.
The book situation has always been among
the main gripes of the student body, and now,
through the conscientious efforts of the stu
dent operators, a solution seems in the offing.
Already it has been made possible to sell used
books and to pick up lower-priced texts, like
wise used. School supplies have been sold at
what has turned out to be a 20 per cent saving
which, over the course of a semester, can cer-
thinly be a large enough figure to make the
patronization of such an enterprise worthwhile.
AT THE PRESENT time, the BX has a com
plete line of used textbooks on its shelves. If
students would really get behind this non-profit
business and push it to the fullest, they would
be doing themselves and all the incoming Penn
Staters a real favor, and at the same time give
a hand in improving the book retail situation.
Bud Fenton
Gazette . . .
Wednesday, February 7
COLLEGIAN sophomore board, 1 Carnegie
hall, 7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN junior board, 1 Carnegie hall,
8 p.m.
COLLEGIAN business staff, freshman board,
9 Carnegie hall, 7 p.m.
WRA dance, White hall rhythm room, 7 p.m.
WRA bridge, White hall play room, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Patients: Robert Allman, Elmer Feller, Aron
Hoffman, Richard Lee, Lawrence Lindberg, and
Janet Rosen.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
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Further information concerning interviews and job place
ments can he obtained in 112 Old Main.
Seniors who turned in 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.
Bethlehem Steel company would like to have preliminary
application blanks from June :Traduates in M.E., E.E., C.E.,
Chem. Eng., Mining Eng., Metal. and Ceramics. Blanks may
be obtained in 112 Old Main before Feb. 9.
National •Bureau of Standards will interview M.S. and
Ph.D candeates in Physics, Electrical Engineering. and
Mechanical Engineering Mon :y. Feb. It.
R.C.A. Victor division will interview June Graduates in
Chem. Eng., E.E., and M.E. on Monday, February 19.
E. I. Dupont do Ncmours company will interview June
graduates at the B.S. and M.S. levels in Chem. Chem. Eng.,
C.E., E.E.. M.E., Mining Erg., Pro. Eng., Ceramics,
Metal, and Fuel Tech. Monday, Feb. 19.
The Department of State will consider June graduates
from among those who have taken the junior manage
ment assistant and social science assistant examination.
All students interested in being considered should leave
their names at 119 Sparks or the Placement service. 112
Old Main.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
For information concerning the following jobs, applicants
should stop in 112 Old Main.
SENIOR GRADUATE student fo r organic
chemistry research; permanent part-time job on
campus.
MALE STUDENT, liberal ar t s major pre
ferred; to work in exchange for room; must
have late part of afternoons free.
WEST DORM RESIDENTS for West dining
hall; no 4 o'clocks, no 8 o'clocks; remuneration
in cash.
BUSBOYS and dishwashers for TUB; per
manent hours Tuesday 9 a.m. to 12 a.m.; Wed
nesday 9 p.m. to 12 a.m.; Saturday 9 p.m. to
12 a.m.
Little
.ran On Campus By Bibler
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"Your blind date is an Alpha Phi Omega and all I can find out
about him is that he's trustworthy, loyal, helpful. friendly, cour.
teous, kind. obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent."
(Note: The following is what we hope will be a weekly view of
doingf on the campus, and other assorted items. Being at a loss for
a name. we solicit your advice. This will be a contest unlike any
others. We won't offer the bell tower of Old Main or the tail of the
Nittany Lion. In fact, we won't offer anything, other than the
chance to see your idea in print. This method will also protect you
from jumping to a higher income fax bracket.)
COLLEGIAN'S EXPANSION to eight pages daily meant new
jobs for some of the staff and more work for everybody. Some staff
members were even, half jokingly, asked to pound their typewriters
in search of new columns for the editorial page. This is the editorial
page, in case you didn't know. Many students know it only as "the
page with the Bibler cartoon."
Publication of the columnist's picture was offered as one tant
alizing incentive. We hope this will not also serve to direct the aim
of irate readers who like to throw physical as well as verbal ham
mers at their favorite recorders of campus trivia. That is a picture,
by the way, which heads this column. It is not "the thing" as 'was
suggested by one unkind observer.
"The thing" may now be
viewed, incidentally, hanging on
the office wall in Carnegie hall.
An Ardent Reader recently mailed
it in. He said he found it near
the Duck pond, stabbed it to death
in a groundhog hole, sliced off a
piece of its hide and sent it to us
for chemical analysis. It's black,
rectangular and soft and that is
about all I can tell about it, ex
cept that you can have it for the
three cents postage which Ardent
Reader forgot to put on the en
velope.
A VISITOR at t h e Home Ec
cafeteria one day last semester
appeared to be picking at hi s
stuffed pepper, prepared by a
Home Ec class, with considerable
caution. "What's wrong?" some
body asked. "Don't you like the
food?" "Oh, it's all right," he re
plied, "but I'm always afraid I'll
get a dish prepared by somebody
who's flunking this course."
One prof made certain his
students would not miss all the
questions in h !s recent final
exam. The first in a series of
matching questions read: "this
institution," and in the, right
hand column was found "the
Believes Gym Shirt Proper Attire
TO THE EDITOR: I think that it is very fine for Mr. G. Roderick
Snyder to believe that coats are the proper attire for dinner, as
expressed by himself in Thursday's (Jan. 18) Collegian. Had Mr,
Snyder stopped his letter at that
point he would have made a fine
impression (maybe).
Mr. Snyder went on to say that
the regulation gym shirt is not
proper attire for the kitchen help.
In this he may have had another
fine idea, except that he ob
viously does not know that the
person in question did not come
running from gym class and does
W EDN E:•3IJA IIi',LIIZUA4Y 7, 1951
You
Name It
By HERBERT STEIN
Pennsylvania State College." A
later question tested the know
ledge of a more select audience.
In the left hand column ap
peared "the beer that made
Milwaukee famous" and at the
right, "Schlitz." Then he really
got tricky by throwing "Lr,;;,
Boudreau" and "the Bo s ton
Red Sox" into the answer col
umn without a corresponding
question.
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SEX, sports and the draft were
shoved aside for exams and cheat
ing in the conversations of stu
dents late last semester when two
students, one graduate and one
undergraduate, w e r e implicated
in the theft of a Spanish final.
Comments heard in every coke
fountain, hallway and restaurant
in town indicated that the ethics
involved evidently depended on
the stability of your pocketbook:
We heard everything from "Who
would pay $25 for any exam?" to
"Why would a guy take such a
chance for a lousy 25 bucks?"
A blind date is like a grabbag,"
a friend complained to us re
cently, "and my grabs always
end up as bags."
not exude a bad odor. The gym
shirt belongs to the person in
question and, in my opinion at
least, does not. endanger your
health as much as the meals.
P.S.—I question if this person
would accept one of your shirts,
Mr. Snyder, if he were in dire
financial difficulties.
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Harry M. Carroll