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0* Bugg Collegian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE, eat. 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 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 writ
ers, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsigned
editorials are by the editor.
Mary Krasnanslry Edward Shanken
Editor Business Mgr.
VOL. 52 No. 2
Managing Ed., Ron Bonn; City Ed., George Glimer;
Sports Ed., Ernie Moore; Edit. Dir., Bud Fenton; Asst.
to the Ed., Moylan Mills; Wire Ed., Len Kolasineki; So
ciety Ed., Carolyn Barrett; Feature Ed., Rosemary Dela
hanty; Asat. City Ed., Paul Doorman; Asst. Sports Eds.,
Dave Colton, Robert Vosburg: Asst. Society Ed., Greta
Weaver; Librarian, Bob Schooley; Exchange Ed., Paul
Beighley; Senior Board, Lee Stern.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Jim Gromiller, night editor; Bob Fraser, copy
editor; Lynn Kahanowitz, Bob Vosburg, La
\Tonne Althouse, Arnie Bloom, Rae Delle Donne,
Joan Lewandowski, and Al Goodman, assistants.
Ad Staff—Bob Koons, Ed Shanken, Bob Ley
burn, Howard Boleky. e.
Customs Purpose
Is To Unify Frosh
Monday at 7 a.m. customs will start for
some MX) freshmen.'
Last year when frosh returned to the campus
en masse for the first time since the war, there
was some doubt that a customs program could
be reinstated. There were those who had strong
doubts that such a program was worth re
establishing at all.
Even hard-bitten opponents of customs
haie altered their opinions as a result of the
sensible manner in which the program was
enforced last year. Customs in 1950 were not
vicious. They welded together a freshman
class as spirited as those of the traditional
rah-rah days of college life. Customs were
not silly and are still not silly.
However, what customs did not establish last
year was that over the years viciousness would
not become e part •of the program. Whether
viciousness will ever become a part of customs
is a question which we who are now at Penn
State must answer. •
That answer must be no.
There is a tendency for those who have under
gone customs at other colleges to have the
attitude, Now it's our turn, and are we going
to let those frosh have itl" We hope that this
sludl not be -the attitude of he presenn sopho
moae class, or of any other segment of the
student population.
The purpose of customs, as it was ably stated ,
by David Mg:itchier, Tribunal chairman, is not
to humiliate the frosh. The purpose of customs
is to acquaint them with Penn State, its campus,
its songs and cheers, and its traditions. The
purpose of customs is to mold the' class into a
solid. unit.
None of these purposes can be accomplished
by enforcing customs with an iron hand, by
cracking the whip, by making the freshmen
cower in the presence of upperclassmen.
As for the frosh, they would do well to abide
by the regulations, for while customs will not
be vicious, they - will be enforced. And violators
will be punished.
Customs can be a lot of good, dela fun, for
both the frosh and the upperclassmen. So long
as they are "fun, and remain clean they will be
good. When they cease to retain these qualities
they will be of no value to Penn State.
If and when that day should ever come,
we would be the first to advocate that they
be removed from the Penn State scene.
Frosh Eligible And
Needed In All Sports
Penn State will not be represented by fresh
men athletic teams this year as a result of a
ruling by the Eastern Intercollegiate Confer
ence declaring freshmen eligible for varsity
sports this year.
The fact that Penn State will not have fresh
men teams should not prevent the frosh from
going out for the varsity sports. Since there
are no frosh teams and consequently no frosh
coaches, the varsity coaches are going to have
to take a closer look at the freshmen athletes
this year because they are the varsity players
of the future.
In many of the varsity sports, the freshmen
trying out will not be able to .break into the
starting lineup but working out with the var
sity players give them needed experience for
their next three years.
In other sports such as lacrosse, tennis, soccer,
and track, a freshman who has competed in any
one of those sports in high school stands a good
chance of breaking into the lineup in his first
year. In a sport such as lacrosse which is not
widely played in high schoolS,- freshmen with
out any experience whatsoever are encouraged
to come out and learn the game. Better than
50 per cent of the players on Penn State's la:-
crosse team each year have never played la
crosse before coming to college.
Don't let the fact that there will be no frosh
teams this year keep you freshmen from going
out for the team. Penn • State welcomes the
freshman athlete/
Ernie Moons
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Men's Housixtg File
Again in Operation
• Thanks to the work of AIM representatives,
a men's housing card will again be available
for campus groups in the Dean of Men's office.
A new, revised card has been added to the
registration procedure for the -first time since
1948. Just why a valuable card such as the
housing card was dropped is a mystery. The
intervening years have proved that a complete
file on campus, town, and fraternity men is
needed for quick reference by campus groups.
These groups have struggled through without
the file until AIM, in cooperation with Inter
fraternity council, designed the card and set
the system in motion last semester and this
summer.
AIM, of course, will benefit directly from the
card system. Now that a complete file of men
living in town will be available again, AIM will
be able to set up Town council in a matter of
weeks instead of the two months it took Town
council to organize last year. ,
Not only will AIM benefit, but the Campus
Chest will be able to use the cards in making
speedy pledge contacts. Also, a temporary tele
phone directory will be made from the cards
as soon after registration as possible for use by
telephone operators until the' Student Directory
is printed. Since the' cards will be kept perma
nently in the dean of men's office, the dean .of
men and his staff will be able to make use of
the cards in a variety of ways.
, But the important thing is that every man on
campus can be located in a matter of •minutes
by simply flipping through a file, months before
the Student Directory will be available.
Thanks are due AIM and IFC and the other
cooperating groups for giving their time and
finances to re-establish the housing card which
should never have been dropped in the first
place.
Promise. Fulfilled
Students returning to campus, this past week
might have been mildly surprised that , only one
of the West Dorms' had been converted to
housing women students.
Toward the dose of last semester it:had been.
announced that four of the West Dorms would
be turned over to women in the fall. The ex
planation was that as a result of the world
situation, the College planned to enroll a great
er number of women than ever before in order
to make up an expected drop in male enroll
ment.
At that time President Eisenhower stressed
that the move had been taken with great
reluctance and that the dorms would be re
turned to the men as soon as conditions would
return to normal.
World conditions are far • from normal, but
because of the Selective Service regulations
favorable to college student, male enrollment
has not drooped as much as had been expected
last spring.
The change would be temporary, President
Eisenhower promised the students—and he has
kept his promise. He has once again proved
himself deserving of the title bestowed upon
him last spring.
Milton S. Eisenhower is indeed Penn State's
Prexy.
Active Government
Students who have been wondering just what
the functions of student government on the
Penn State campus are received part of the
answer Wednesday night if they were alert.
The answer was in the form of the Starlight
Dance, sponsored jointly by 'the Interfraternity
Council, the Association of Independent Men,
Leonides, and Panhellenic Council. Student
government leaders, aware that there would
be a lull in Orientation Week activities Wed
nesday night, quickly .rounded up a band, and
made the necessary arrangements—the result
was a highly successful affair.
Tomorrow's Fun Night in Recreation Hall is
also sponsored by student government.
These are only samplings of student govern
ment activity on the Penn State campus. The
Book Exchange is a student government project,
as is .the drinking colloquy scheduled for later
this semester, just to cite a few.
. Penn State is proud of one of the nation's
finest student governments. Good- student gov
ernment is a Penn State tradition. It is a tradi
tion that can be maintained only by continued
student interest and support
Fair Prices at BX
The-Book Exchange, a project of-Ali-College
Cabinet, is a non-profit, student-operated
agency. Profits at the end of the year are re
turned to the students.
- The normal , BX markup on sales is 40 per
cent. This markup is necessary since the BX is
not permitted to offer "unfair" competition to
local merchants. Twenty per cent of the markup
goes toward meeting the costs of operation. The
remaining 20 per- cent is returned to students.
In the case of . customs, however, the only
markup, and it is a small one, is to cover costs.
The frosh can be assured they are not being
taken' fOr a. ride• when they purchase their•
customs
, Moylan Mills
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"By the time they get to. me they don't
enrolling in."
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Well, the lean years are over, the drought is past, and there is
one entire, healthy American coed for every two and One. half men
on the Penn State 'campus.
Women are roving the campus in predatory bands, trapping un
wary males in shadowy spaces behind obscure buildings. Certain
fraternity men are driving about
in large automobiles, permitting
girls to whistle at them. Male at
tendance at the Psych Clinic has
dwindled to almost zero, while
hordes of psychotic females have
forced the staff to go on a 24-
hour basis.
The ratio has received a fur
ther neutralization with the
gradual disappearance of th e
Air Force from campus. The
danger of a• pitched struggle
between 1200 embattled fliers
and 8000 love-hungry collegiates
has passed without the neces
sity of evoking an airlift.
Also in the past are such des
perate and utopian suggestions as
female Mormonism, male depor
tation, and one obscure plan to
set up a unique form of railroad
tYPe timetable.
And as sex approaches normal
ity here—numerically speaking—
the Old .Boys begin spinning
their yarns by the fire, tales of
how it was when they were young
and in their prime, tales of the
three, three and a half, and even
four to one ratios of—the Filthy
Forties.
They remember the ill-starred
get-acquainted mixers during
other Orientation Weeks, with
f our thousand slavering males
lined up against the wall of Rec
Hall while three horribly embar
rassed brothers danced awk
wardly with three beaming young
ladies in the very center of the
vast, bare floor, to the sound of
a funeral, phonograph.
They tell stories of waiting
lists, with delays 'ranging from
four and a half weeks for a
coke date to three years and
five months for an assignation.
They' remember Simmons lob
by so filled with Air Force per
sonnel that an unfortunate cor
poral saluting a passing lieuten
ant, was beaten severely about
the head and 'chest by• an entire
infuriated company.
They shed a reminiscent tear
for the freshman who, after cus
toms were lifted and he was fin
ally allowed to speak to women,
spent the rest of his life seeking
one to speak to and died in the
arms of a husky campus police
man at the age of 95, murmuring,
"Mother."
They swap yarns ahout cer
tain secretaries who flatly re
fused dazzling • salaries and su
perb working comakuts. from
FRIDAY,. SEPTEMBER 14,',1951
Bonn
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By RON BONN
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great corpoiations, perferring
to work for tiny wages and in
dingy offices at Penn State, for
reasons which they never spoke
about, even to each other.
They laugh grimly recalling
the lines of silent, quivering men,
not speaking, but making a faint
sighing sound like the ocean from
afar, which formed before the
Corner Room to wat c h buses
loaded with imports pull up and
discharge their colorful burdens
into waiting limousines marked
with large Greek letters.
But these are merely old men,
spinning tales of. their youth be:-
fore a glowing fire, with none
but themselves to hear. The new
generation is out getting phone
numbers.
Former. Student
Films Jap Talks
Sfc. Dither F. Kepler * Jr., a
former student at the College,
was in charge of filming and re
cording the proceedings of the
Japanese peace conference held
in San Francisco.
Kepler is in San Francisco with
a crew of eight men. Prior to
this assignment, Kepler and his
crew had been filming the dam
age wrought by . the Kansas flood.
The films were made to be
studied by congressional commit
tees considering reclamation ap
propriations for the stricken area.
Kepler is permanently station
ed at Long Island, N.Y., with the
Second Signal Corps photo
graphic platoon.
Alma Mater Sung
For Fifty Years
This year marks the 50th anni
versary of the Alma Mater. - The
song was written by , Dr. Fred
' Lewis Pattee, who was a pro
fessor of English and Rhetoric.
Inspiration • for the Alma Mater
was the hymn, "Lead Me - WO
In April 1901, Dr. Pattee offered
the song he wrote as 'a 'suggestion.
The song wo n immediate ap
proval. -
Gen. James A. Beaver, presi
dent, of the Board of Trustees,
designated it as the -College's
Alma. Mater.
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