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Tim Elattg 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.
Metered as ucond-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,
sat necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsigned
tosials are by the editor.
Dean Gladfolter
Editor 461Ek"
Managing Ed.. John Dalhor; City Ed., Herbert Stein:
Sports Ed., Ray Koehler; Edit. Dir., John Ashbrook; Wire
Ed., Art Bening; Society Ed.. Deanie Krebs; Feature Ed.,
Janet Rosen; Asst. City Ed., Jack Boddington; Asst. Sports
Ed., Joe Brea; Aset. Society Ed., Bettina dePalma; Libra-
Mast. Bill Detweiler.
Asst. Bus Mgr.. Thomas M. Karolcik; Advertising Dir.,
Harold L. Woilin; Local Adv. Mgr., Norma Gleghorn; Pro
motio' Mgr., Laura Mermelstein; Circulation Co-Mars..
Edward W. Noyes, Gerald F. Yeager; Personnel Mgr., Edwin
Singel; Classified Aar. Mgr., Shirley Faller; Office Mgr-,
Sue Halperin: Secretary, Winifred Wyant.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor: Mary Krasnansky; Copy Editors,
Jack Mounts, Rosemary Delahanty; Assistants,
Jeanette Ibbotson, Lavoine Althouse, Pa u 1
Crofford, Gerry Spotts.
New Tribunal Plan
Should Work Well
The question of traffic offenses on campus by
graduate students has been settled by quick
action. For a while it looked as though difficulty
would arise between Tribunal and the dean of
men's office over the question, but an apparently
mutually - agreeable rapprochement has been
reached.
UNDER THE NEW PLAN, the dean of men is
delegating to Tribunal the right to try traffic
violations by graduate students, without having
a grad school representative onoTribunal.
On the surface, at least, the plan appears to
be workable. Since the dean of the Graduate
school has indicated the dean of men has au
thority to handle disciplinary cases involving
graduate students, Tribunal's line of authority
in the matter is clear and legal.
Of course, the plan has its defects. Graduate
students can claim that Tribunal, although it
has legal authority, has no moral authority
over them, since they are not represented an
the judicial body. However, it should be
pointed out that freshmen and sophomores
also are not represented directly .on Tribunal.
From Tribunal's past record for fair-dealing,
we would judge that, despite technical defects,
the plan should work satisfactorily to all in
tents and purposes.
Value Of Petition
Chairman William Klisanin of NSA reported
yesterday he was encountering difficulty in per
suading many men in the West dorms to sign
the NSA petition urging an absentee voting law.
As he stated it, many of these men are not yet
of voting age and apparently feel that such a
petition would have no effect upon them.
This strikes us too much like the "what's in
it for me?" attitude. It also indicates that
perhaps the men in question have not given
much thought to the petition.
Because such a petition must be passed twice
by the legislature, and must be approved by a
popular referendum, it will be two to three
years before it actually would go into effect. By
that time, many of these men would be of voting
age and the absentee voting law would affect
them.
One wonders if these men are judging the
petition on its merits alone, or merely on the
selfish basis of what it will do for them imme
diately. From the overall viewpoint of enlarging
the. franchise and enabling college students to
vote, we feel it worthwhile for all students to
sign up.
It might also be noted that many of the upper
classmen who are signing the petition will be
out of college by the time such a law could be
come effective, and thus won't be benefiting
directly. Yet this fact doesn't seem to have pre
vented many upperclassmen from signing.
Blades Of Grass
There comes a time in every newspaper's
editorial columns that a piece must appear
heralding the approach or arrival of spring.
But newspapers in State College take what is
known in the trade as a calculated risk in as
suming the fact that snring really has come to
the borough.
For the moment, if the weather will hold
out overnight, we will assume that spring has
come to State College. All the symptoms are
here the mud is getting ankle deep: stu
, dents are walking around the campus with
sweaters instead of overcoats: and blades of
grass, shyly of course, are pushing above the
ground.
When spring finally does arrive though, it is
a wonderful thing.
Boys and girls walk around campus hand-m
-hand instead of mitten-in-glove as they do in
the winter time. Studying becomes even harder.
White bucks turn a dirtier brown because of
the mud, and dormitory hostesses cast a doubt
ful glance in the direction of Hort woods and
wonder why they didn't make it a parking lot
after all.
Spring is a long time coming to State College
but, like many good things; it's worth waiting
for.
Owen E. Landon
Business Mgr.
. George Glaser
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Scandal Points Up
Sports Problems
College basketball circles have been rocked
twice in as many days with charges that seven
New York city basketball players three from
the fabulous "Cinderella" team of the City Col
lege of New York, three from Long Island uni
versity, and one from New York university
had "thrown" games. The series of disclosures
of fixed basketball is the second of the current
season, but the involvement of members of two
of the nation's outstanding teams makes the
revelation eyen more damaging to the game.
THE HISTORY of baseball records the scan
dal of the 1919 "Black Sox." The history of the
national game also records that it took the iron
hand of Commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis and
the dynamic bat of Babe Ruth to save the game
from ruin.
College athletic leaders should heed the
wisdom of history. Unfortunately, however,
the creation of a college basketball czar or the
sudden appearance of a basketball version of
Babe Ruth will not solve the problem of big
time, big-money basketball. Or of big-time,
big-money football.
The colleges have created their own monster;
now they.must deal with the Frankenstein. They
took bdsketball out of the college gymnasiums
and put it into the big arenas, built bigger and
better stadiums, and hired better players. Yet
they still masquerade as amateurs and expect
the college players to behave as amateurs.
The colleges have hidden behind the skirts
of amateurism, and now the farce is beginning
to catch up with them. It is a wonder that
similar scandals have not erupted in college
football, which is even more commercial than
is basketball.
Using amateurism as a foil, they have asked
their players to perform at professional stan
dards before crowds that pay just as much
if not more —to watch the so-called amateurs
perform. In the meantime the players have been
expected to go out and give their all for good
ole' Siwash while the promoters, the coaches,
the officials, the peanut and scorecard vendors,
hotel owners, and just about everybody else
who could get his fingers in the pie grew rich.
UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES it is no
wonder that college players have fallen victim
to the temptation to make a fast, if dishonest,
dollar. Now and then' one of them will get
caught, thrown out of school, prosecuted, and
everything will be okay until the next time.
And then the "next time" rolls around and the
process starts all over again.
The crowd that has been urging that Penn
State go big-time in basketball might recon
sider in view of the recent disclosures. Per
haps, as our New York friends might be ready
to agree now, the place for college basketball
is the gymnasium, and not the public arena.
Mary Krasnansky ,
Gazette . . .
Wednesday, February 21
COLLEGIAN business freshman board, 9
Carnegie hall, 7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN editorial sophomore board, 1
Carnegie hall, 7 p.m.
DUPLICATE BRIDGE club and tournament,
TUB, 6:45 p.m.
SCARAB, 306 Main Engineering, 7 p.m.
WRA BRIDGE, White hall play room, 7 p.m.
WRA DANCE, White hall rhythm room, 7
p.m.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Farther information concerning interviews and jab place
ments can be 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.
Proctor & Gamble company would like to have prelimin
ary application blanks from June graduates in Chem.
Eng., Chem., Civil, Eng.,E.E., 1.E., and M.E. Blanks may
be obtained at the Collge Placement office, 112 Old
Main, before 12 noon Saturday, Feb. 24.
Allis Chalmers .manufacturing company will interview
June graduates in E.E. and M.E. Thursday. March 1.
Chance Vought Aircraft will interview Jnne graduates
at all levels in Aero. Eng., E.E., M.E., C.E., Phys., and
Math. Thursday, March 1.
Shell Oil company will interview June graduates at the
R.S. , and M.S. levels in Chem. and Chem. Eng. and at the
['h.D. level in Chem. Thurslay, March 1.
__New Jersey Zinc company will interview June graduates
.n M.E., Geology, Metal., and Mining. Eng. Friday, March 2..
Hagan corporation will interview June graduates in
Chem. Eng., E.E., and M.E., Monday, March 5.
Sperry Gyroscope company will interview June graduates
in Physics, Aero. Eng., E. 8.. and M.E. Monday, March 5.
Piasecki Helicopter corporation' will interview June
a.raduates in M.E., and Aero. Eng. Monday. March -5.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
For information concerning the following jobs, applicants
should stop in 112 Old Main.
Student wife for full-time commercial writing.
Student couple 'for housekeeping and guide service near
State College to begin as soon in summer as couple is
available; salary plus maintenance.
Off-campus residents for substitute dining hall and fra
ternity work ; remuneration in meals.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Patients: Sand r a Bachin, Barbara Baker,
Ralph Clark, Julia Crisman, Donald Cutler, Jac
queline Feinberg, David Fix, Glenn Haney, Ed
ward Hewitt, Carole Krow, Louis Rauscher,
Charles Rife, Leslie Shallenberger, Robert
Smith, Patricia Weaver, Donald Weiner, Richard
Witmer, and Harold Wollin.
AT THE MOVIES
CATHAUM: House By The River
STATE: Vendetta
NITTANY: French White Cargo
mor An
Copyright 1950 by DOUAI. I.
"Suppressed book-of-the-month!"
On The Record
That Magical Year
We wonder what it is that happens to every Normal Young
American Male between his 18th and 19th birthday anniversaries.
For the debate in Washington over whether said Normal Young
American Male should be drafted at the age of 18, or. 18 1 / 2 , or 19
years, seems to us to cast a mystic aura about that magical year.
From the furore that has been raised over this year—sometimes it's
only a. half-year —we begin to suspect that during said year some
thing really must happen to every NYAM that at last makes him a
man and eligible to wear a green uniform and 'shoot real grown-up
guns.
THE SITUATION. succinctly, is this: Some of our noble military
brass argue that it is necessary to draft the NYAM as soon as he
reaches the age of 18. But 'lots of our high-minded Congressmen
unselfish souls who would not think of letting - politics or bids for
popular approval interfere with their good judgment of what is best
for the country many of these high-minded Congressmen proclaim
that the NYAM should not be called to the colors until he is 19. ,
Of course, these high-minded Congressmen have' the whole
hearted support of the mothers of, all the NYAMs. (We don't know
about those who aren't normal.) Anyway, Mother doesn't want to
see any NYAM particularly hers —go in the Army. She doesn't
seem to relish the idea of young men shooting each other's heads off,
especially when one of these happens to•be her own NYAM, whom,
as Mothers are wont, she still considers as a mere child (even though
he has reached the magical year of 19 or was it 18 1 / 2 1) Some will
say Mother just isn't very patriotic, but somehow we get the feeling
that maybe she has more sense than we've been giving her credit for.
To get back to our succinct elucidation of the situation, some
Congressmen have come up with the startling idea of drafting the
NYAM at the age of 18 1 / 2 , but not allowing him to perform combat
duty until he s 19-Such a plan, which now seems a distinct possi
bility, helps us to locate more exactly the point during the magical
19th year at which the NYAM finally bursts forth into the full
bloom at maturity and is ready to serve his country.
Of course, we can't predict what the high-minded. Congressmen
are going to adopt finally, but, from observation of the situation,
we can arrive at some 'rather definite - hypotheses concerning the
NYAM and that magical year. Evidently during that year something
does happen to the .NYAM that suddenly makes a man out of him.
Apparently, since he's not ready for combat duty even at the age of
181/2 years, it doesn't happen or reach its culmination until on or
just before the 19th birthday anniversary.
But we - still don't know what it is that happens to him, and, even
from all the evidence at hand, we can't determine whether it happens
suddenly, like falling in love, or whether it is a gradual process, like
growing' a beard: •
AND SOMETHING ELSE bothers us,.too. We can't help wonder
ing if the high-minded Congressmen themselves know. just what hap
pens to every Normal Young American Male during his magical year,
either,
Safety Valve
Attendance At Keynote Address
TO THE EDITOR: I thought it extremely regrettable that so few
of the students of this college availed themselves of the opportunity
of hearing their president deliver the keynote address of Religion
in-Life week.
Granted it was given. at a time
when numerous •meetings and
extra-cuiricular • activities inter
ferred, but if students are as ma
ture as they like to consider them
selves, more would have given
serious consideration to attend
ing a talk by a prominent Ameri
can on a topic of national signifi
cance.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1951
Reprinted from the November 1950 issue of ESQUIRE
Dean Gladfelter
Possibly the state of this na
tion is such because so few of the
"educated" population are willing
or capable of elevating their men
tal processes above the plane of
'White Cargo" even during a
time of national stress and more
especially during National Broth
erhood and Religion-in-Life week.
Clark D. Young