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a l; Collegian
Successor to THE FEES 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.
tittered as second-elass 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 poliry of the newspaper. Unsigned edi•
lariats are by :he editor.
Dean Gladfelter
Editor 4%°''
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night editor: Paul Poorman; copy editors:
Ernie Moore, Bob Schooley; assistants: Laura
Badwey, Shirley Vandever, Richard Gray, Al
Goodman.
Advertising: Bob Leyburn, Dorothy Naveen,
Don Jackel, Alison Morley, Elizabeth Slotta.
Debaters Establish
Outstanding Record
When looking back and considering groups
that have put the "name of the College up to
national acclaim, one cannot forget the Penn
State debating and forensic teams.
THE DEBATERS, WHO HAVE just returned
from spending their spring vacation at the
grand national debate tournament, have a
stellar record of championship and general good
showings behind them this season. At the grand
national, held in Virginia, the men and women
speakers won three individual grand national
championships; the men's affirmative team
placed fourth in the Big Ten, a listing of the
top teams in the nation; and the women's affir
mative team placed second in the Big Ten.
At Virginia, Marlin Brenner, Marian Ungar,
and David Lewis won special mention and
honors for their work.' They were assisted by
Harry KondOurajian, Clair George, Greta
Weaver, Lois Pulver, and Guyla Woodward,
who all have shown in' tournaments and de
bates this year that they are top-notch
speakers and competitors.
As the debaters enter the home stretch of
their activities for the year, they leave an im
pressive record behind them. Earlier, they won
the Washington and Jefferson debate tourna
ment for the third year in a row, retaining
permanent possession of the tourney trophy.
They won the state championship at Temple
University, rated second in the University of
Vermont tournament, also took second in the
Mount Mercy tournament, were rated "excel
lent" by their opponents in a non-decisive tour
nainent at the University of Pittsburgh, reached
the semi-finals in the Boston University affair,
finished in the top ten at the Temple Novice
debate.;, and defeated Army in a dual meet.
IN ALL THESE TOURNEYS, State met and
defeated some of the top teams in the country.
Against all, they made a terrific showing.
So to the Penn State men's and women's
debate teams should go the congratulations
and pride of the College. They've done well,
exceedingly well.
UJA Asks $4500
Sunday the United Jewish Appeal will in
augurate a drive to raise $4500 from Jewish
stuents on campus. Although the fund-raising
campaign of the UJA is not a part of the regular
Campus Chest drive, it is a cause worthy of
support.
In the four short years since the founding
of Israel, that island of democracy in the
Middle East has been a source of encourage
ment to freedom-loving people all over the
world. The people of Israel have in the past
four years made room for thousands _upon
thousands of persons from ravaged Europe.
But the job in Israel is not yet done. There
are still some 200,000 displaced Jews waiting to
enter Israel. To house these unfortunate people
more than 100 new communities and 40,000
housing units are needed. This is only part of
the task facing UJA.
All this, however, takes cash. We cannot
afford to fail now.
Patience, Drivers
Spring weather, apparently definitely with
us now, means that more students more fre
quently will be using cars in State College. No
doubt, Shortlidge road, main drag to the wol
men's dorms, will be one of the centers of local
automotive activity.
UNFORTUNATELY, THE APPROACHES to
the women's dorms are inadequate to handle
the heavy week-end night traffic. With spring
here, this condition probably will be aggrevated.
In the past, impatient student drivers have
attempted to blast their way out of 1 a.m.
tieups by honking their car horns. This prac
tice, of course, does nothing to alleviate the
situation. It does, however, create quite a
disturbance, especially for nearby Winderest
• residents and for dorm residents who retire
early.
Drivers can demonstrate a little consideration
for others by replacing the horn-honking with
patience. It won't make them any later in get
ting back to the house.
--John Ashbrook
Owon E. Landon
Business Mgr.
—Paul Poorman
—Marvin Krasnansky
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Coed Cheerleaders
Will Prove Valuable
News that woman cheerleaders again will
grace Beaver field for the fall football season
was welcome, to say the least, especially after
the fuss that had been raised last fall over• the
question of whether women should be allowed
to take part in this College activity.
LAST FALL, after .one partly successful
effort, the plan to bring back woman cheer
leaders failed. They had first appeared during
the war, when there was a shortage of males,
but their participation had been discontinued
two years ago, and the faulty efforts at reviving
the plan at the TeMple game caused many to
fear that such efforts might prove forever
unsuccessful.
Now, however, the Athletic association has
• given approval to participation of women in
cheerleading 'at home games, but has stipu
lated that they shall not be allowed to make
trips with athletic teams.
So many colleges make use of woman cheer
leaders that it hardly can be argued they are
out of place. And few will disagree that they
add color and enthusiasm to athletic contests.
In addition, the coeds, who make up a sizable
chunk of the College population, have every
right to be represented in all activities insofar
as is possible.
THE FACT THAT great care is to be taken
in selecting coed cheerleaders during spring
try-outs should allay the fears which were
aroused in some quarters by the hasty selection
made for the women to aid in cheering at the
Temple game.
Time alone will tell whether the program
will work out to the satisfaction of all, but,
having great faith in the gentler sex, we
have no doubts •that it will prove successful
lid that woman cheerleaders will become a
permanent fixture at Penn State.
Gazette .
Friday, March 30
NEWMAN club, barn dance, Phi Kappa, 8 p.m.
SABBATH EVE services, Harold J. Fishbein
guest speaker, Hillel, 8 p.m.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Farther information concerning interview's and job place
ments can he obtained in 112 Old Main.
Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton corp. will interview June grad
uates in C.E.,' M.E.; and LE. Wednesday, April 4.
Westinghouse Electric corp. will , interview June and
summer graduates in M.E., RE.. LE., Chem. Eng., Metal,
Cer., and Phys. Wednesday, April 4.
Link Belt company will interview June graduates in C.E.,
1.E., and M.E. Wednesday, April 4.
Wright ,Aeronautical will interview June graduates in
M.E. and Aero. Eng. Tuesday, April 3.
Minneapolis Honeywell Regulator company, Brown In
strument division, will interview June graduates in M.E.,
E.E., Chem. Eng., and Phys. Tuesday, April 3.
Atlantic Refining company will interview June graduates
at all levels in Chem., at the B.S. and M.S. levels in Chem.
Eng., and at the B.S: level in M.E. Tuesday, April .3.
Ralston Purina company will interview June graduates
in M.E., 1.E., C&F, Ag., or A&L with a background in
Ag. Thursday, April 5.
Westinghouse Air Brake will interview June graduates
in M.E. Monday. April 9.
Hazeltine Electric will interview June graduates in E.E.
Monday, April 9.
Air Material command will interview June gr'aduates in
Phys., Aero. Eng., E.E., and M.E. Monday, April 9.
Aetna Life Insurance company will interview June grad
uates interested in group insurance Tuesday, April 3.
Allegheny Ludlum Steel corp. will interview June grad
uates in E.E., Metal., C.E., and Chem. • Friday.
April 6.
North American Aviation will interview June graduates
in ME., Aero. Eng., E.E.; Chem. Eng., and Phys. Monday,
April 9.
Arabian American Oil company will interview June grad
uates in ME., E.E., C.E., Chem. Eng., P.N.G., Geol., and
Bus. Ad. Thursday, April 5.
Hamilton Standard division will interview June graduates
at B.S. level in M.E., E.E., Aero. Eng. Thursday, 'April 5.
United Aircraft corp. will interview June, graduates in
M.E. Friday, April 6.
YMCA representative will be on campus to interview
graduating seniors and juniors interested in professional
"Y" work. Those interested are invited to dinner at the
Allencrest at G p.m., April 3. Individual interviews will be
conducted after dinner.
Line Material company will interview June graduates in
E E. and M.E. Tuesday, April 10.
Carter Oil company will interview June graduates in
Geol. Tuesday. April 10.
American Car & Foundry comany will interview June
graduates in C.E., E.E., LE., and M.E. Tuesday, April 10.,
American Viscose will interview June graduates in Chem.
Eng., Chem., M.E.. and I.E. Tuesday. April 10.
Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock company would
like to have preliminary application blanks from June
graduates in C.E., E.E., and M.E. Blanks may be obtained
in 112 Old Main before April 13.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
For information concerning the following jobs applicants
should atop in 112 Old Main.
Husky man with car for paper-baling job on campus;
ash remuneration..
Male student with car who will be here during summer
session to live and work outside State College; full main-
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Twenty-five men for women's dining. }Mils, fall of 1951:
run time: undergo one week of training this spring: re
muneration in meals.
Couple as guide and housekeeper for commercial cave this
summer; fulmaintenance plus monthly salary.
Truck (drlrer optional) wanted for Student News agency
leliveries Scnda - y morning 8 to 11:30, April I;'remunera.
Lion $3.
Man with machine shop experience to run small metal
lathe•: on campus two or.. more hours a day; remuneration
according to experience and qualification.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Leonard Abrams, Joan Blissman, Albert
Derek, Charles Hamilton, Thomas Hanna, Kasty
Sauciunas, John Seitz, John Staikides, Benjamin
Thro op
AT THE MOVIES
CATHAUM: ' Bird of Paradise
STATE: Vengeance Valley
NITTANY: Spoiler of the Plains
Man On Camp
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Those Wisecracks About Women Drivers
You know, it's really true about women drivers.
WE DIDN'T THINK SO UNTIL the late Easter vacation. Before
then we figured, well, it's just a lot of propaganda, like that stuff
about padding and so forth. Surely women drivers aren't any worse
than men drivers —or very much worse, anyway. All those wise
cracks like, "TIC- only thing you can be sure of when a woman driver
sticks her hand out the window -
is that the window is open," and,
"My wife was driving and she I
got hit by a parked car" all 1
those cracks were just cracks and
had no factual basis, we thought.
We thought.
But during vacation, we had a
very instructive experience with
female driving. Had it proved
just a bit more instructive, we
wouldn't be writing about it be
cause we wouldn't have any fin
gers to write with because we
wouldn't have any arms to hang
the fingers on.
A rather lovely young lady
of our hometown acquaintance
decided that we were looking
sallow an d overworked -- she
was right, of course. To remedy
the situation she suggested a
ride in the country. We sug
gested she kidnap her father's
new car which will soon, we
think, be a very old car and
take us for the ride in question.
To ou r undying horror, she
agreed.
She showed up th e standard
twenty minutes late and ushered
us into the machine. In the next
three hours we aged twenty years.
OUR FIRST INKLING that all
might not be well came almost
at once. It was necessary for the
driver to back the machine out
of its parking- place. The engine
ground and the car leaped for
ward, with a mighty clang of
bumpers. "Oops,i' - the lady mut
tered. The numerous horses un
der the hood snorted again and
the car slewed backward eccen
trically, wedging itself firmly into
the curb. The young lady turned
to us.
,"Which way do you turn the
wheel when you back up?" she
asked.
Finally, with a shivering roar
of un-clutched gears, we were off
clown 'the highway. - That was
when things really broke loose.
PHILADELPHIA STILL boasts
an elevated railway. It is not
much of an elevated railway,
understand, but it is ours and we
cherish it. Every now and then,
one paper or another will write
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with a heavy fine. Would you
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gleefully about a vehicle /wrap
ping itself around an "el" pole at
a high rate of speed. To our know
ledge, however, we have ridden
in the - only machine that was
ever carefully and completely
wrapped around one of these
stanchions at an agonizingly slow
three miles an hour.
As we turned slowly, ap
proaching the post, the young
lady said, "Gee, I don't know if
we're going to make it," and
kept moving. As the hood slid
past the post, the young lady
said, "Gee,l don't think we're
going to make it," and kept
moving. As the long, smooth
fender grated quietly along the
post, she said, "Gee, it looks
like were not going to make it."
and kept moving. And as the
aft part of the machine hooked
finally and absolutely. against
the post she said, "Gee, I was
pretty sure we couldn't make
it." and looked helpless.
Horns were sounding. A traffic
policeman made his way across to
our grounded vehicle. We both
turned to him and said, in unison,
"Which wa Y do you‘ turn the
wheel when you back up?"
TH E OFFICER MUMBLED
something about fines and licen
ses and revocations and things.
A small dog which we happened
to have in the car did not like
his tone of voice. 'The small dog
leaned out and bi t the officer.
The officer leaned in and bit the
small dog. This has 'nothing to do
with women drivers, but it does
go to prove those things you've
heard about Philadelphia police
men.
Well, we got off the shoals
after a while, and went on. Dur
ing the course of the day we
learned, among other things,
that trucks have air brakes, that
they paint those white lines
down the highway so you can
drive with two wheels on the
left side of them and two
wheels on the right, that wo
men are far more prone to red
-green color blindness than 'psy
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