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011 r Batty Collegian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE, est. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive
during the College year by the staff of, The Daily Collegian
of The Pennsylvania State College.
entered as second-class mutter July 5, 1931. at the State
College, Pa., Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879.
Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writ
ers, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsigned
editorials are by the editor.
Mary Krasnansky 4 7,^44,,„, Edward Shanken
Editor Business Mgr.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night editor, Chuck Henderson; copy editors,
Ted Soens, Shirley Vandever; assistants, Jean
Berg, Dick Martz, Sheldon Srnoyer, Irene Ker
bey, Charles Mathias.
Advertising staff: Barb Potts,. Bob Koons,
Helen Hurless.
Blue-White Game
Worthy Of Support
This afternoon at 2 p.m. on the State College
High School Memorial Field two Penn State
football teams, one dubbed the "Blue" and the
other the "White" will mix it up.
The game will be the first of what it is hoped
will•be an annual series of Blue-White clashes.
Student, alumni, and town interest in today's
game will determine whether a Blue-White
clash is to become a permanent feature of the
Penn State picture .
Today's contest will be more than another
football scrimmage, however, for the proceeds
of the game will go toward a scholarship fund.
Admission is 50 cents for students and $1 for
others.
Student admission to all athletic events each
semester is made possible by the payment of
the $9 Athletic Association fee, $1.50 of which
is set aside for taxes. At many other colleges
students are socked for every athletic contest.
That can add up to a sizable sum during the
course of a year.
The Blue-White game is not a departure from
the Penn State policy on athletic admissions,
since the game is "something extra."
The cause the game supports is a good one.
It deserves student backing.
Encourages More
Coffee Hours
Last fall, the office of the dean of men insti
tuted a series of coffee hours at which students
and the personnel of the dean's 'office could
become acquainted with each other and talk
over problems in a friendly, informal atmos
phere.
First started on an experimental basis, the
coffee hours have become almost a tradition
every Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m. when the
secretaries of the dean's office push two desks
together, spread the pastel hued table cloth,
and pour the coffee or punch.
Each week invitations are sent to various
'students and student groups, both male and
female. Even members of the Air Force group
on campus have been invited to the coffee hours.
One of the meetings which included Air Force
personnel was especially successful from the
viewpoint of friendliness and understanding.
John Erickson, head of the student committee
which worked with the dean's office on the
project, recently reported to All-College Cabinet
that the hours had gotten off to a promising
start. Erickson said he was very much in favor
of continuing the coffee hours. We believe con
tinuation would be justified in view ,of the
success of the initial series.
H. K. Wilson, dean of men, has tentative plans
to keep the coffee hours going next year. We
would like to indorse continuance of the idea,
which has immensely improved relations be
tween Dean Wilson's office and the students.
Some of the cold formality of administration
red tape has been shorn away by the warm
atmosphere of the get-togethers. Perhaps other
College departments might follow the leO of
the dean of men's office by scheduling programs
of a similar nature. We all would benefit.
Community Forum
That the Community Forum series has added
much to the cultural life of Penn State has never
been in doubt. Whether the series would receive
the support of the community 'has, however,
been questionable.
Although a final accounting has not been
made as yet, there is no doubt that the 1950-51
series, which ended Thursday with Cecil Brown,
will come out on the black side of the ledger.
Financially, the business executive would say,
the series was a success because almost 800 sea
son tickets were sold in advance. The program
was successful largely, however, because the
speakers presented were worthwhile and in
teresting.
Good promotion, aggressive salesmanship,
and wise selection of speakers has made the
1950-51 Community Forum series a success. To
Prof. Clayton Schug, chairman of the series,
and Marlin Brenner, co-chairman, the com
munity owes a debt of thanks.
The 1951-52 series wild. have high standards
to match,.
—Moylan Mills
THE DAILY - COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Let's Not Abandon
Liberal Education
The Liberal Arts Student Council is the last
place where one would expect action aimed at
cutting down more of the traditional liberal
education now fading so rapidly from the col
lege scene. Yet it was this council which, only
a few days ago, took such a step.
The council's simple action of recommending
that language requirements be discontinued for
students in the Department of Economics and
Commerce may be the opening ripple in an
undercurrent aimed at 'further restricting re
quirements leading to a broad background in
the humanities.
PURPOSE BEHIND THE recommendation—
and its fellow recommendation to investigate
the E and C curriculum to determine whether
it allows sufficient time to schedule specialized
courses—was the meeting of a special need.
The trouble is that . it tends to overlook the
general need for men steeped in the humanities.
More and more there is a tendency to lose
track of the real purpose of a college educa
tion. That purpose is not to fit a person to
step into a certain vocation—to get a job, in
other words,—but rather is to equip the stu
dent so that he may take his place in the
world of thinking men and contribute some
thing to that world.
If this recommendation is followed, more will
be forthcoming, and the next thing we know
Penn State will be training businessmen and
other skilled specialists rather than molding
men. Today, in the age of the dull average when
few men think because it is too much work, the
main purpose of our collegel should be to give
men the background in the humanities which
will make of them intelligent and thoughtful
men, rather than walking statistical machines
and talking profit-and-loss statements.
FROM WHAT WE'VE seen of the business
men and many other skilled technicians, we
don't think it would harm them to be a bit
better grounded in manners of thinking and
knowledge of the animal called man.
Safety Valve .
Should Set Off A Revolution
TO THE EDITOR: "Man" is a general term
which includes females as well as males. There
is no subtle inference that we are trying to mold
the "poor" girls into men; we are only molding
them into mankind.
As to changing a song which has become a
beloved tradition on our campus in 50 years,
we can see no earthly reason except to suit a
few women's egos. There should be such rever
ence and honor for our Alma Mater that the
very thought of changing it should set off a
revolution. We should no more attempt to
change our Alma Mater than we should attempt
to tear down Old Main!
Theatrical Notice
TO THE EDITOR: This notice will inform
you that the drama critic of the paper has now
been given his (or her) opportunity to lambast
the hell out of the prime antagonist of that
department. To wit: Hudak has been chosen to
play the Russell Paxton (Danny Kaye) role in
the forthcoming Player ,production of "Lady
in the Dark."
No more interested eyes will await that fate
ful issue following the opening performance
Mother's day week-end.
—Joseph G. Hudak
Ed. Note—Thanks for letting us know.
Gazette ...
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Further in formation concerning interviews and job place
r/rents can is obtained in 112 Old Main.
General Electric Steam Turbine Division of Philadelphia
will interview' June graduates in M.E. Friday. May 11.
Fairchild Aircraft will interview June graduates in Aero.
Eng.. M.E., C.E., and E.E. if enough students are interested.
Interested students should leave their names in 112 Old
Main before May 10.
American Flexible Coupling Company will interview June
graduates in M.E., E.E., Thursday, May 8.
Remington Rand, Inc. will interview June graduates in
Marketing and AccL interested in selling if enough stu
dents are interested. Interested students should leave their
names at the college placement service before May 10,
Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company will interview
June graduates interested in insurance sales who live in
one of the following counties: Franklin, Cumberland, Juni
ata, Perry, York, Dauphin, Lancaster, and Lebanon on
Tuesday. May 15,
The Otis Elevator Company will interview June graduates
in M.E. and E.E. Wednesday, May 16.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
For information concerning the following jobs, applicants
should stop in 112 Old Main.
Representatives from Camp Starlight, Starlight, Pa., and
Lillian Taylor Camp. Valensia, Pa., will be on campus Mon
day, May 7, and Wednesday, May 9. Both men and women
counselors needed in all fields. Interviews being scheduled
in 112 Old Main.
Men needed as countermen for local snack bar; evenings,
8 p.m. to 1 a.m.. as many nights per week as wanted by
students: can continue through summer and next year.
Sales opportunity full time in summer, part-time in fall
for Electrolux Company; no restrictions on territory; train-
Me provided.
COLLEGE. HOSPITAL
Martin Allenstein, Richard Cameron, James
Cooper, Alfred Cramer, James Davies, Robert
Decker, Donald Farley, Frank Feraco, Robert
Gray, William Haltiwanger, Charles Keister,
Mary Mackey, William Metzger, Eleanore
Miholics, Richard Miller, Edward Pangersis,
Betsy Reynolds, Sonia Roseman, Zelig Schra
ger, George Watson, Howard Wolff,.
—Dean Gladfelter
—Bob Snelling
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That Devastating Air Force
We got embroiled with the military the other day, and we've
still got the psychological scars.
The nightmare occurred in front of, in back of, and within the
Temporary Classroom building, the clapboard Chinese puzzle in the
Far East. The villain of the niece is the United States . Air Force.
WE WERE HURRYING to class
when we noticed a group. of 60
embryo clerk-typists in their nat
ty fatigue green s, drawn up
across our path. A short, squat
officer was in the act of giving
"Forward—PHLUNGH!" the uni
versal military signal to cast off.
We realized that waiting for 60
green-clad clerk-typists to cross
the path- would be like waiting
for a slow freight while the bad
dies were getting away, and so
we made a fatal mistake. As the
short, squat officer shouted "For 7
ward" and paused the regulation
dramatic pause, we raced across
the front of the column.
You don't, we learned, race
across the front of a column.
The short squat officer, spying
us, hollered "Column leeeeft
PHLUNGH!" and the chase was
on. Looking around we saw. 60
impassive airmen, f our abreast,
bearing directly down on us.
There was the ominous chuff
chuff of 120 feet marching not
quite in unison.
We walked faster—the march
ers began to lose ground.
UNKNOWN TO US, the. short
squat officer gave the high sign
to a comrade officer lurking be
hind Grange with another, slight
ly larger, platoon. There was a
faint, distant "phlungh" and sud
denly 70 ins° r e airmen were
plunging down from the front.
We felt like the pimiento in a
gently-bitten olive.
Avoiding panic, •we sidestepped
deftly. This maneuver, we fi
gured, would bring the two col
umns crashing into each other
and they would never' be seen
again. But the short squat offi
cer had yet another card to play.
From the column ahead came a
mispronounced "Lef t oblique
PHLUNGH!" a n d suddenly the
Pitt Indians Overshoot Mark
WINONA, W.Va.—(JP)—Two youths, their faces streaked with
paint like Indians on the warpath, robbed the Winona National Bank
recently of $15,500. It was the third holdup of the bank in the past
six months.
Chief Deputy Sheriff Jack
Robertson said the men were
armed with a sawed-off rifle and
forced bank cashier J. R. Hisey
to surrender "every cent of loose
cash" in the building.
The bandits were accompanied
by a blonde girl. They escaped
in a red automobile. State Police
immediately set up road blocks
around this little southern West
Virginia community.
SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1951
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By RON. BONN
whole war machine was sidling
crabwise—right at us. Abandon
ing' all pretense of calm, we
plunged into the haven of the
building.,
We found ourselves in one of
the central corridors. Safe, we
thought, and we sobbed with
relief. Then from a dark hall
way opening into the one
whe r e we crouched came a
ihundrous, "Y o u r dressisright,
yourpantsaretight, your ca r -
bine's swingin'f r o mleftorright
and SOUND OFF!"
They were coming for us
We ran for cover. We ducked
into a long hall tastefully deco
rated with a mural of a man slay
ing his wife, cut through a pas
sage covered with little children
with three ears, and found our
self at last in a small cubbyhole,
from whose wall a tall green man
with a yellow' beard was grim
acing at us. And there we cowered
for the rest of the day, while dis
tant hunting parties could be
heard at intervals jody-marching
grimly about the corridors.
Three times prowling clerk
typists mistook helpless profs for
their prey and spitted them on
their, stenotype pencils.
SEVERAL HOURS AFTER
nightfall we made ou r way
through the lines into friendly
territory. The sight of a prowling
band of fraternity men herding a
dozen scantily dressed pledges be
fore them assured us that we
were. back in civilized territory.
We collapsed on the ground; sob
bing with relief.
We see by today's paper that
another hundred of the flyboys
arrived on campus this week. You
know, war is hell, but the Air
Force is devastating.
It looks as though those Pitts
burgh students overshot their
mark . . They were paddling down
the Allegheny river advertising
their spring festival. Secretly we
suspected that something foul was
afoot, but their promotion, idea
was to be admired anyhow.
The only thing to be cleared up
now is where they got the blonde
squaw. —B•
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