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HaiUj Collegian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE, cst. 188?
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings in*
rimsive during tha College year by the staff of The Daily
Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College.
Entered aa second-elasa matter July 5, 1934, at the State
College, Pa.; Post Office under the aet of March 3, 1879.
Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writers,
not necessarily *ke policy of .the newspaper. Uiisirned edi*
teriaU are by the editor.
Dean Gladfeller
Editor
Managing Ed., John Dalbor; City Ed., Herbert Stein;
Sports Ed., Kay Koehler; Edit. Dir., John Ashbrook; Wire
Ed., Art Banning; Society Ed., Deanie Krebs; Feature Ed.,
Janet Rosen; Asst. City Ed., Jack Boddington; Asst. Sports
Ed., Joe Breu; Asst. Society Ed., Bettina dePalma; Li
brarians, Dorothy Laine, J oyce Moyer; Senior Board,
Bill Detweiler.
Asst. Bus Mgr., Thomas M. Karoleik; Advertising Dir.,
Harold L. Wollin; Local Adv. Mgr., Norma Gleghom; Pro
motion Mgr., Laura Mermelstein; Circulation Co-Mgrs.,
Edward W. Noyes, Gerald F. Yeager; Personnel Mgr., Edwin
Singe!; Classified Adv. Mgr., Shirley Faller; Office Mgr.,
Sue Halperin; Secretary, Winifred Wyant.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night editor: Dave Colton; copy editors:. Bob
Fraser, Moylan Mills; assistants: Jake Highton,
Virginia Opoczenski, Ada Bortoluzzi, Freeman
Singer, Barbara Betancourt, Irene Kerbey.
Advertising manager: Joan Harvie; assistants:
Helen Brown, Eleanor Pupo.
Vote; Then Keep
Eye On Winners
This time every year it becomes the duty of
the Collegian to urge all students to turn out
and vote in the spring All-College and class
elections, which begin today and end tomorrow.
BEFORE DOING SO, however, we would like
to note a few things.
As regards political pltiforms, we should
point out what we consider the cynical nature
of the State party plank favoring a law that
all student assessments be submitted to a
referendum. This plank, we feel, was inserted
in the platform only for the purpose of getting
votes by capitalizing on the furore raised over
the Student Union assessment last spring.
We do not know whether the State party
actually intends to carry through such action
if it is successful at the polls. Even with a clean
sweep at the elections, the party would control
only six of the 24 votes on All-College cabinet,
and it is questionable if such a move could be
put through. (This qualification applies to all
platform promises.)
REFERENDUMS are fine in theory, but in
practice they have not worked too well, political
experience shows. It should be considered that,
because of the size of the SU assessment, all
assessments are in temporary disfavor among the
students. The proposal has been made a mere
political football and, in the present atmosphere,
cannot be given the dispassionate consideration
it deserves.
Again we would like io stress our fears,
expressed a few days ago, ihai platforms in
the Dast have meant little, and that promises
have not been fulfilled. Because of this, we
think many students Me wise in completely
disregarding the platform promises.
Campus elections in recent years have been
largely popularity contests, and there seems
little doubt that the present campaign will not
be the same thing. Seldom is there a great deal
of difference in the capabilities of the two party
slates, and even when there is—except for stu
dents who have been extremely outstanding in
their junior year—there is seldom any way for
the mass of voters to know candidates’ capa
bilities. They just are not that well acquainted
with the candidates.
YET AN ELECTION MUST be held, for some
method must be used to determine who shall
handle certain jobs. For this reason, we urge all
students to cast ballots —regardless of which
party they vote for. We hope they will be able
to choose the best men for the jobs, and that
they will keep tabs on the successful candidates
to see that they do the kind of job expected of
them.
Test Applications
This morning is the last opportunity for
draft-eligible students to obtain deferment test
application blanks at Willard hall. Representa
tives of the state selective service board, on
campus under soecial arrangement between the
board and the College, will close up shop at
noon.
Draft cards must be shown to obtain the
blanks. Those who do not obtain them no*
will have to apply at either their local boards
or the Bellefonte board. According to H. K.
Wilson, dean of men, main aim of this special
campus service is to avoid the necessity of
students' traveling to distant boards.
Wilson yesterday pointed out that draft
eligible graduate students, as well as under
graduates, can .apply for the deferment test.
He said that students should take advantage of
the deferment examination, not withstanding
legislation now being considered by Congress.
—John Ashbrook
• MOVIES AT THE State College Pastime
theater, opened in 1909, were five cents. Scene
of many a “movie rush” sweeping past the
helpless ticket taker when students were cele
brating athletic victories, it continued opera
tions until 1925.
Owen E. Landon
Business Mgr.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Building Blueprints
Indicate New Era
The Student Union building, when it is
erected, will be the first modern structure to
appear on mid-campus. Previously, buildings
of a modern design—the Navy Ordnance lab
arid the water tunnel—were limited to the
outskirts. For more than 20 years, designs for
central campus structures have been dictated
by a plan prepared in the 1920’5. The plan pre
scribed specific styles for various areas in order
to maintain harmony. -
WHILE HARMONY WAS the main considera
tion here, other colleges traditionally were
building modern. These colleges mainly have
been concerned with development of free,
functional designs.
Harvard, building "modern" since its found
ing in 1636, has one of the most heterogeneous,
yet one of the most interesting, campuses in
America. Swarlhmore -college, a conservative
Quaker school, is planning a new women's
dormitory which will be executed in a freshly
modern style. Compare this to the deadly con
servative tradition of Penn State dormitories.
As early as 1932, Swarthmore was experi
menting in architectural design, at that time
constructing a very modern field house. The
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has gone
modern in construction of new dormitories, and
it has encased a new swimming pool in a
functional structure.
LAST YEAR, the Architectural Record found
cause to devote a whole issue to modern archi
tecture as it appears on college campuses.
These progressive policies provide a good
answer, if an answer is at all necessary, to
fears of some people that modern buildings
will not harmonize with previously conslruc
ed ones. Actually, about the only argument
presented by those opposed to a progressive
architectural policy is the idea of harmony for
its own sake.
Modernistic blueprints for additions to Pattee
library, as well as those for the Student Union,
indicate that the College may be breaking away
from the architectural “dead cat” to which it
long has been tied. Penn State will benefit if
these plans mark the opening of an area of
progressive building design.
Gazette...
Wednesday, April 18
AMERICAN FOUNDRYMEN’S society, 102
Willard hall, 7:30 p.m.
COLLEGIAN business freshman board, 9 Car
negie hall, 7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN editorial sophomore board, 1
Carnegie hall, 7 p.m.
DEMOLAY, 203 Willard hall, 7 p.m.
DUPLICATE BRIDGE club and tournament,
TUB, 6:45 p.m.
quest to bring their music. State College hotel,
6 p.m.
LIBERAL ARTS STUDENT council, 109 Wil
lard hall, 6:15 p.m.
PSCA, old and new cabinets, 304 Old Main,
8:15 p.m.
SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS,
election of officers, 303 Willard hall, 7 p.m.
WRA BRIDGE, White hall play room, 7 p.m.
WRA DANCE, White hall rhythm room, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Further information concerning interviews and job place
ments can be obtained in 112 Old Main.
Armstrong Cork company will visit campus to interview
students for non-technical sales training if enough students
are interested. Those desiring an interview should give
names to placement service before noon, April 21.
Lavoie laboratories will interview June graduates in E.E.
Saturday, April 28.
Glenn L. Martin company will interview June graduates
at all levels in Aero. Eng., M.E., C.E., E.E., I.E. Friday,
April 27.
National Supply company will interview June graduates
in C&F for industrial sales Friday, April 27.
J. C. Penny will interview June graduates in C&F for
retail sales work Thursday, April 26.
Standard Vacuum Oil will interview June graduates in
P.N.G., M.E., C.E., E.E., Chem. Eng., Acct., and C&F,
Friday, April 27.
Mergenthaler Linotype company will interview June
graduates in M.E., 1.E., A&L, C&F, and Acct. Friday,
April 27. .
Pictinny arsenal will interview June graduates m Chem.
Eng E.E., M.E., Chem., Phys., and Metal. Monday, April
'Jones & Lauirhlin will interview June graduates in M.E.,
E.E., 1.E., and Metal Monday, April 30.
Provident Mutual Life Insurance company will interview
June graduates interested in a sales management career
Monday, April 30. . _ . . .
Southern California Naval Radio & Defense laboratories
will interview June graduates in Eng., Phys., Chem.,
Math., Bio., Bact,, Meteo., Metal., and Psy. Monday, April
30.
H. J. Heinz will interview June graduates in M.E., E.E.,
1.E., Phys., and Acct. Wednesday, April 25.
Charles Pfizer & Co., Inc., will interview June gradu
ates in Chem. Eng. Tuesday, May 1. . __ _
Carpenters Steel will interview June graduates m M.E.
Tuesday, May 1. „
Atlas Powder will interview June graduates in Chem.
Eng., Chem., Phys., C.E., and Mng. E. Tuesday, May 1.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
For information concerning the following jobs applicant*
should stop in 112 Old Main.
Representative from clear Pool Comp for Boys, Carmel,
N.Y., will be on campus Friday, April 20, 4 to 8:30 p.m.
Interviews being scheduled for men interested in general
and waterfront counseling. ...
Off-campus resident for permanent immediate job in
snack bar dishroom; remuneration in meals.
Young woman to baby-sit each Monday and Friday, 10
a.m. to 3 p.m. for next three weeks; 75c per hour.
Waitresses for local restaurant for work at lunch and
dinner hours. . . '
Horticulture student with transportation for yard ana
ground work at institution.
AT THE MOVIES
CATHAUM: Father’s Little Dividend
STATE: The Company She Keeps
NITTANY: Life Of Her Own
Little Man On Campus
"I used io have a lot of trouble keepin' 'ei
Fungus-Fed Demon ,
Ciutchy Fingers
Pivot, the new campus poetry magazine, creates an impression on
the reader of. a generation, and perhaps even a civilization, that is
lost. Though the poetry expresses the thought of a small and select
segment of campus personalities, a sharp look at the condition of the
world might add validity to that poetical damnation.
The name. Pivot, is in itself
symbolic. It implies the fulcrum
of a seesaw on which the world
rolls between a plunge into
Hades or a descent into green
and peaceful pastures.
—J.A.
However, most poetry thrives
on the melodramatic. Tragedy
flourishes and death must do its
poetical darndest to frighten. Such
titles as “Nightmare of the
World,” and “Escape” are indica
tive of the intense bosh which is
used.
THE FLEDGLING POETS of
Pivot .have also devised a new
supernatural being who seems to
be fungus fed. This, we take it,
is the God of Athletes Foot, a
terrible demon about to decimate
20th century man.
When the reader has reached .
the pivotal point of the maga
zine, center pages eight ' and
nine, he has courageously risen
over the depths of decay, "the
odor of garbage," "the dry touch
of numb cotton," and whatever
else makes up this foul civiliza
tion we are heir too.
The Pivotist, who may someday
take his - place among the roman
ticist, idealist, realist, etc., is often
vague-r-like many of his poetical
ancestors. Perhaps this is their
Safety Valve ...
Lion Party Accomplishments
TO THE EDITOR: When the Lion party printed their last
propaganda sheet, they listed two or three minor accomplishments.
Why did they omit their greatest accomplishment of less than a year
ago, approval of the student union
assessment, which was opposed
by the majority of students?
Charles A. Kochanowski
Ed Note—The fhree cabinet
members who voted against the
assessment last spring were
Joseph Arnold, of the State
party, sophomore , class . presi
dent, and two Lion stalwarts—
President David Mutchler of the
junior class and Huber Stevens,
Lion clique chairman and Home
Economics council president,
who was ordered by his council
to vote no. The only other State
party representative on cabi
net—President Marian Whiteley
of the freshman class—voted
for the assessment.
'So Dangle, You Puppets'
TO THE EDITOR: A poetical
comment —
Political candidates, in their
WEDNESDAY APRIL 18, 195 l
By Bibler
in lab."
greatness. However, some of the
metaphorical references to things
commonplace become, difficult to
swallow. That, we repeat, may be
their greatness.
WE CONTINUE PAST the piv
otal point and find that much in
the poems resembled in tone and
language the translations of Ger
man we made semesters ago. Can
you remember those snatches of
half-meanings we picked from the
prose and poetry—“ Three Com
rades” and “The Sorcerer’s Ap
prentice”? •
Nevertheless, among the Piy
otists are a few heretics who
write with an air of understand
ing. Their poetry is readable
and comprehensible. The sim
plicity of their verse adds great
ness to its stature and wins our
wholehearted support.
True, the world seenis to be fall
ing apart at the seams, but there
is nothing that is all bad or all
good. If the Pivotists elude the
“clutchy clutchy fingers” of the
grey god who dwells in fungus,
they may produce the second
edition of Pivot. We- cheer for
their escape,
—Len Kolasinski
bids for power,
Have now reached their final
hour.
Their recent evasions of definite
stands' '.
(Deplored by Collegian and
assorted fans)
Have pointed up what each, one
of us knows:
The clique must protect its
party toes.
“Confusion—collusion —and
retribution!”
Vote Lion! Vote State!
at this institution.
So dangle, you puppets, on
political strings.
You’ve learned well to dodge
important things.
'■And being puppets, you make
it clear—
Your own real voice will be
silent this year.
—Joe Hudak