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Sieceuw to THE FREE DANCE, cat. 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 seeond-class matter July 5, 1934, at the State
College, Pa., Post Offiee under the set 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.
Marr Krasnansky Edward Shan ken
Editor Business Mgr.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Editorial staff: Ginger Opoczenski, night edi
tor; Bob Fraser; Jim Gromiller, Jane Reber,
copy editors; Nancy Cook, Bob Landis, Laura
Badwey, assistants.
Ad staff: Don Jakel, manager; Ruth Pierce,
Phyllis Kalson, and Bob Potter, assistants.
Rally, Dance Will
Aid Campus Chest
Campus Chest—the Penn State version of the
Community Chest —starts its year-long cam
paign tonight with the Kickoff Dance in Rec
reation Hall.
The dance will follow a parade and rally
whose- sponsors hope will be the biggest in
recent Penn State ’history. Present will, be,
among others, Prexy Eisenhower, football
Coach Rip Engle, and football Co-captains
Len Shephard and Art Betts.
The dance will provide an added feature,
with a 45 minute variety show of some of the
best local talent scheduled to go on display.
It will be an All-Penn State affair—and Penn
State will get the “profits”—both from the
football rally and the Kickoff Dance; the rally
is designed to get the football season off to a
good start, the dance to give Campus Chest a
push.
Admission is 50 cents, and what is left after
expenses will go toward the nine organizations
who would otherwise sponsor separate solicita
tion campaigns. Those organizations which bene
fit from the Campus Chest are the Penn State
Christian Association, the ‘World Student Serv
ice Fund, the Leo Houck Cancer Fund, the
Scholargram program, the Women’s Student
Government Association Christmas party, the
State College Community Fund, the Salvation
Army, the March of Dimes, and the Heart Fund.
Last year—the Campus Chest’s first year at
Penn State —the drive netted approximately
$10,700 of the $14,000 goal. This year’s goal has
been set at $12,000, pending the approval of
All-College Cabinet.
You can help get Campus Chest over the top.
Be at Recreation Hall tonight
Virginia Slaps
McCarthyism Down
McCarthyism—a word that has come to stand
for character assasination, guilt by association,
and reckless charges of communism and sub-'
version—may still be on the rampage across
America, but the faculty and administration-of
the University of Virginia have stopped the
spectre of fear in its tracks. ,
Virginia’s Board of Visitors—roughly the
equivalent of the Penn State Board of Trustees
—has dismissed a Homer G. Richey from the
faculty of the university for making reckless
charges that there were “pinks and Reds” on
the foreign affairs school staff.
Richey’s charges were investigated by a fa
culty committee and found to be groundless; the
same conclusion was reached by .the. board of
visitors. Richey continued, however, to spout off.
Wrote the Cavalier Daily, student newspaper
at Virginia,” ... we thoroughly believe that by
his reckless, wanton, and baseless charges, Mr.
Richey has ignored every Jeffersonian ideal for
which this University stands. We feel he is a
disgrace to Virginia, to the men and women ,of
this institution, and to all standards of tolerance
and fair play.
“Thus we say, ‘Good-bye, Mr. Richey’ . .
May we add our adieus to those of the Ca
valier.
And may we congratulate the University of
Virginia for its prompt answer to McCarthyism.
A free institution cannot exist in the shadow
of fear; neither can a free nation.
Senate ‘Cuts’
Politicians are a funny lot, particularly after
they get elected to office. The politician makes
promises he has no intention of keeping; the
elected official says, things he doesn’t mean.
In the United States Senate last week Sen.
Paul Douglas (D-Ill.) rose to speak in favor of
a cut in the administrations’ $61,000,000,000
budget. The Senators were all for that; cut 2%
per cent across the board.
When Paul Douglas, however, suggested that
funds to provide free congressional haircuts and
shaves be eliminated, he was shouted down.
That was one cut this nation’s overtaxed
economy would not take.
The first regular summer session of the
College was opened in 1910 with further train
ing of teachers as its aim. Many of the courses
taken gave under-graduates no credit.
' THE DAILY COLLEGJAN, STAT» CG*.LEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Utah Hits the
Long SU Trail
The University of Utah approved the plans
for a new $2,000,000 Student Union building
recently and we hope that their hope to have
it started by, February will be realized. .
However, we old experienced “waiters”, at
Penn State will have to be a bit skeptical.
Since the Student Union was approved by the
College here over a year ago, we have been
waiting and paying, waiting and paying.
Utah will begin paying, too. A fee has been
placed on all students which will rock them to
the tune of $2O a year. -
The proposed building for'these new initiated
payees is to include five floors, a ballroom with
a capacity of 2000 couples, bowling alleys, two
junior ballrooms, plus radio and television
studios.
How they are going to pay for the building
for $2,000,000 is hard, .to understand, especially
after the difficulty, encountered at Penn State
in-attempting to get costs and money available
down to a similar figure for a modest building.
We wish the students at Utah lots of luck
with their hope for groundbreaking in February.
We wish ourselves a lot more luck for our own
groundbreaking in the near future.
But ■as experienced sufferers, waiters, and
payers, we caution Utah to be patient.
Not Privileged ‘
Via an anonymous letter we learned the
other day of the sad plight of a freshman some
what disillusoned by the passing scene at
Penn State. 1
Briefly his lament was that within a short
span of time he hail seen:
1. A hatman take the name of a frosh for
talking to a woman, and ■
2. A hatman walking with a freshman wo
man, the woman wearing his hat.
Now, the frosh continued, if the hatmen can
talk to the freshman women, why can’t the
freshmen?
Hatmen are not privileged characters attPenn
State. A man or woman wearing a hat is sup
posed to be a leader, and, as a leader, the hat
wearer is especially delegated the task of en
forcing customs; .
No upperclassman—not even a hatman —can
exempt any freshman from customs. Hatmen,
-acting in the capacity of hatmen, who do so
will be dealt with by Hat Society Council.
Pushbutton War
World War IV will be fought with stones and
spears.
That stark prediction on the future of the
world loomed a stronger reality with the re
cent announcement by the Air Force that the
first pilotless bomber' squadron will be estab
lished in Florida Monday.
The latest device man has created to elimi
nate himself is half plane, half bomb. The thing
can seek out and destroy its target with no one
aboard to guide it. .
The era of the pushbutton war is now under
way. ' .--
Anybody know, of a cave, cheap?
Galling Authors
. The Inkling, • campus, literary magazine is
„cnce more preparing to put out an issue, and
Ahe opportunity presents itself to all would-be
authors, poets, and artists to enter print.
Few of us have not at some time produced
some form of literature or art that we feel 4s
worthy of some recognition. The purpose of.
Inkling is to publish these stories, etc., both to
give the student a chance; to show his wares and
to show the world just' what forms college art
is taking in these times.
Copies • of ; the magazine are . distributed
throughout the country, to other colleges and
to publishing firms.
The magazine itself is l open to all students,
both as staff members and as contributing
authors. It is not primarily a staff-written book,
the editors preferring to let the staff read and
criticize manuscripts. After a preliminary
screening,. the material is criticized by faculty
members ■ before it is edited and printed.
The opportunity is available for expression of
your talents. Take advantage of it.
Safety Valve —
Wants Canoe Picture
TO THE EDITOR: As a loyal, enthusiastic
Froth fan, I have one question in re the front
page story.of your near abduction: Why didn’t
you print a picture of the missing canoe instead
of talcing a chance on lowering the circulation
of your local propaganda sheet?
—Lyn Levitt
Ed. Note—lt is no wonder-that Miss Levitt
is "a loyal/ enthusiastic'Froth Ian;" she is,
after all. an associate editor of that publi
cation, and if the editors aren’t loyal fans,
how could we hope others would be? We
would have gladly printed a picture of the
canoe had : we been able to get it. The canoe
is still missing, however.
—Bud Fenton
Little Mail Oil Campus
Says
Therfe is a little fellow around the house named Mike. We see
quite a lot of him, since he’s my wife’s : son. At times he’s mine too,
but often that’s"a mere ,technicality, that can be forgotten by both
of us especially at 10 months?-.
Usually we get along though, and we spend a lot of time listen
ing to the radio together. One of our favorites is King, the canine
Mountie. We’re seldom surprised I"
at King’s accomplishments since
he; is the kind of dog we hope - to
own someday.
Mike isn’t a very good runner
yet,-in fact he still uses.the furni
ture for support in walking. In
spite.of this, he seldom fails. But
the other day he took a spill that
rattled the dishes in the pantry.
We had always cheered when
King awakened his. master in the
nick of time, or when he fought
much larger wolves, or bit the;
villain in the gun hand or un- ]
tied the goodie, but when he took
a note to a town 20 miles away
and found : the proper recipient,
without even asking his master
for the guy’s address, well . . .;.
Mike’s' mother thinks he got
that lump on his head from trip- j
ping oh the rug, but we both
know that it was-King that really
floored him.
Of the mountainous .pile, of
material that the National Safe
ty Council sends us'each week
(of which we use little or none),
one fact stood: out among all
-others.. It' seems _ that it has
taken 176 years for ihe United
. Stales to lose a million men on
the battlefield,'while, the mil
lionth-death resulting from- a
traffic accident --will - occur in
December of this year.' Auto
mobile jockeys needed only 50
**years for. the same total. ,
There is a little girl who lives
near Us. Only eight, but wise in
the ways of college life. When a
green-dinked freshman passed by
the other day, she took it on her
self to give school spirit a' boost
Gazette...
Friday, September 28
CANTERBURY CLUB, dance
after pep rally, St. Andrews Epis
copal parish house.
CHECKER CLUB, Hamilton
Hall Lounge, 9 p.m. ,
LUTHERAN STUDENTS
ASSOCIATION, fun night, Lu
theran Student Center, 8 p.m.
NAVAL RESERVE RADIO
UNIT, Oct 1, 200 Engineering E,
7 p.m. • •
PENN STATE BIBLE FEL
LOWSHIP, ~405 . .Old, Main, 7:30
p.ih.
.FRIDAY,' SEPTEMBER’ 28,1551
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"Hiya. coach!"
Here
By BUD FENTON
by, shouting “Button Frosh!” ,
The freshman smiled a little in
the knowing ways of first-year
man and moved on. At that time
an upperclassman chanced by
and countered with, “You heard
what the lady said!”
Slightly chagrined, the fresh
man doffed his dink and passed
on, mumbling a bit but carrying
with' him a tale that will be're
told many times.
. .The ’ People's Choice, Homer
Barr, wrestling captain who grad
uated, last year, is now coaching
football in Warren, Pa. .He’ll,be
handling the wrestling team
there in the winter. Before prac
tice sessions he teaches school.
Bibler, the artist and humorist
who brightens this page when
the columnists fail to -do so, is
still a student in the state of
Kansas. There are some who feel
that he is one boy who has little
to , learn. His new series; which
we will feature this year, is the
best yet. ' : -'
There are profs and there are
profs. Surprisingly there are
students, 100. Like the- one who.
asked his instructor a question;
The educator looked out the
window, peered carefully at the
student and started his dis
course.
Ten minutes later, he said to
the student,. "Well, does that
answer your question?"
The scholar jerked upright,
looked around and said, "Who,
me? Oh, it's been so long I
dph'l remember the question."
-PENN STATE BIBLE FEL
LOWSHIP, picnic in Hort Woods,
5:30 p.m. ~ 1
. SABBATH EVE , SERVICES,
Hillel, 8 p.m.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Florence Lauzar, Marilyn Ste
wart,. Richard Weber. ..
AT THE MOVIES
CATHAUM: Cyrano de Berg-
erac -
STATE: People Will Talk
NITTANY:. Showboat
STARLITE DRIVE-IN: A Wo
man of Distinction - plus -
Rio Grande
By Brbler