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latlg Collegian
Snceeasor to THE FREE LANCE, ut ISSJ
Published Tuesday through Saturday moraines inclusive
during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian
of The Pennsylvania State College
Entered as 9econd-class matter July 6, 1934, at the State
College, Pa.. Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879.
■ Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writ*
era, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsigned
editorials are by the editor.
■ MarY EdlL S r nanSkT
_ Managing; Ed., Ron Bohn; City Ed., George Glazer;
Sports Ed., Ernie Moore; Edit. Dir., Bud Fenton; Makeup
Ed., Moylan Mills; Wire Ed., Len Kolasinski; Society Ed.,
.Carolyn Barrett; Feature Ed., Rosemary Delahanty; Asst.
City Ed., Lee Stern; Asst. Sports Eds., Dave Colton, Bob
Vosburg; Asst. Society Ed., Greta Weaver; Librarian, Bob
Schooley; Exchange Ed., Paul Beighley; Senior Board, Paul
Poorman.
Asst. Bus. Mgr., Jerry Clibanoff; Advertising Mgr., Bob
Leyburn; National Adv. Mgr., Howard Boleky; Circulation
Co-Mgrs., Jack Horsford, Joe Sutovsky, Personnel Mgr.,
' Carolyn Alley; Promotion Co-Mgrs., Bob Koons, Melvin
G ass; Classified Adv. Mgr., Laryn Sax; Office Mgr., Tema
Klcber; Secretary, Nan Bicrman; Senior Board, Don Jacket,
Dorothy Navecn, Joan Morosini.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Editorial staff: Joan Kuntz, night editor; Bob
Fraser, Chuck Henderson, copy editors; Mar
jorie Cole, Nancy Meyers, assistants.
Ad staff: Pat Anderson, manager; Margie See,
Morris Shanken, assistants.
Meals Are Rights,
Not Privileges
■ Far too many faculty members and adminis
trative officers of the College who are not eating
three meals a day in the College dining halls
smile . good-naturedly and say, “Students
ALWAYS gripe about the food,” when one of
those students actually does come up with a
murmur of protest about conditions in the
dining halls.
Of course the administration can go on bliss
fully assuming that all is serene in the dining
halls, particularly Simmons, to which we speci
fically refer.
After all, there have been no riots, the
campus patrol has never been called out' to
quell any dinner-time brawls, there has been
no .throwing of dishes or brandishing of butter
knives. occasionally there are incidents
like the one which happened yesterday.
No one may eat lunch in Simmons after 12:20.
Yesterday one resident was walking down to
lunch at exactly 12:18—she had checked the
time with the clock in the main lobby. When
she was 20 feet away from the cafeteria door,
it was slammed shut.
The girl explained the situation to one of the
hostesses, and together they checked the clock,
which only then was pointing to 12:20. The
hostess went down to the dining hall to discuss
the matter, and-was told that the girl was not
entitled to her lunch. The fact that the dining
hall had been closed early by mistake made no
difference. Rules are rules.
The point is not that one girl was refused
admittance to the dining hall.
The point IS that this type of injustice, or
some variation of it, is happening frequently.
A meal is not an honor which can be be
stowed or taken 'away at the whim of a.
dietician. It is an item which has been paid
for in hard, cold cash.
Let’s Sing ‘Hail
O Hail!, at Games
Everything went fine on the football field
Saturday afternoon. Rip’s boys came out on
top, the Blue Band was in its usual high step
ping form, the cheerleaders were spruced up
with the addition of nine coeds, and the cheer
ing, while not spectacular, was about as loud
as could be expected.
Yes, everything went fine—as far as it went.
But every one of the songs and cheers at the
game was one of the good old standbys. Notice
ably absent was that fine song, “Hail O Hail!”
This stirring song has caught the fancy of a
good number of Penn State students. It was
introducted by the Glee Club last year and has
been popularized this fall by the hatmen and
groups of singing frosh. But for some reason
the Blue Band steadfastly ignores what we feel
sure will turn out to be one of State’s top songs
within the next five years.
If the Blue Band doesn’t ha've the music or
hasn’t learned the song, we feel it’s high time
they got on the ball. Otherwise, we see no ex
cuse for not playing it. *
■ Perhaps the reason State’s cheering is not as
forceful or exuberant as it might be is the lack
of new songs and cheers. Perhaps the student
body is a little tired of “Fight on State” and
“Hail to the Lion.” These traditional songs are
good, but there’s no reason why we can’t add
to their variety.
'•“Hail O Hail!” is both new and good.
From the way we’ve seen Ray Fortunato’s
song spread among the frosh and catch fire in
upperclass bull-sessions, we’d say the student
body, would appreciate hearing “From the
heights of Nittany Mountain 1 . ..” ring out over
Beaver Field the next time Penn State takes
to the gridiron.
Edward Shanken
Business Mgr.
—Rosemary Delahaniy
—Mo ylaa Mills
THE DAILY CCHLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Players Workshop
Needed for Future
Players recently-introduced workshop has
gotten off to a flying start. Seems as though
Players are almost turning people away from
their weekly instructional meetings for persons • 1 ‘
interested in the theatrical field.
Players are pleased and- the campus as a
whole will probably benefit from better , co
ordinated productions at 'Schwab' Auditorium
and Center Stage. Of course, that remains to,
be seen. - ' \
' For a long time, responsible students .and'
faculty members close to players have, felt’the
need for some sort of'program which could be
counted on to introduce new blood into the
organization, insure a more accurate knowledge
of theatrical technique among crew members,
and maintain a continuous high degree of pro
duction standards.
j_ Players hierarchy got together snd came up
with the workshop idea which was put into
practice two weeks ago. There’s no question
that the workshop will be a tough thing to keep
going. But so far, so good.
The important thing for Players to remember
is that the program will collapse if the leaders
don’t continue their’wholehearted interest and
don’t give freely of their time as they are doing
at present.
The workshop is the most vital thing that
has happened to Players in years. Not that
the recent Players shows haven't lived up to
the standards of the organization, but we feel
the workshop will insure these high standards
in the future.
This kind’ of change reflects maturity' on. the
part of Players, and is the type of self-examina
tion which every responsible organization should
conduct once in a while to re-evaluate its goals
and weed out the dead wood.
Players have shown by their forward-looking
program that the organization will continue to
give the same kind of high standard service that
it has provided the College in the past.
But we hope Players will keep an eye glued
to its workshop lest the program falter as
many another ambitious undertaking has fal
tered in the past. The workshop has been ini
tiated. We. can only wail and hope that the
results will be as beneficial as expected.
Papers Have Job '
To Do on Freedom
Somebody has said that some several hundred
“weeks” are celebrated in the United States
each year. There’s a National Apple Week and
a National Hosiery Week, and a National Sa- ,
lami Week.
From Oct. 1 to Oct. 8 is a week rather special
to the newspaper business. It’s National News
paper Week. .
National Newspaper Week might serve as
a reminder to newspapers and newspapermen
• of their responsibilities. Newspapermen are
in an unusual position in that they, are es
pecially charged with responsibility for main
taining that freedom for which Americans
have died.
And newspapermen dare not fail
iii the execution of their tasks, for freedom
of the press is the most important of our free
doms in that it protects and fosters all the
others.
In the words of Gov! John S. Fine, “In no -
nation have the people lost their liberties so
long as the press remained free, fair, and
fearless ...”
The American press has remained free of
interference from the government, but to say
that the American press is entirely free is quite'
ostrich-like. i \ •
Nor has the American, press been noted for
its fairness or its fearlessness.
"Preserving freedom is your job" is ihe
Pennsylvania Iheme of National Newspaper
Week. There is a lot of. work fo be .done on
that job, gentlemen.
Gazette • • •
Wednesday, October 3
ASAE, Dr. Fred Miller speaker, 105 Agri
cultural Engineering, 7 ; -p.m. ,
BAR-BELL CLUB, business and social meet
ing, McKee recreation room, 7:30 D.m.
.COFFEE HOUR, Dean of Men, 109 Old Main,
4 p.m. ,v - '
, DEMOLAY CLUB; smoker, 418, Old Main,
7 p.m.
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS RESEARCH
ASSOCIATION, 220 Willard Hall,. 7 p.m. U- \
INKLING advertising, art, business, editorial,
and promotion-circulation staffs, 208 Willard
Hall, 7:30 p.m.
NEWMAN CLUB, lecture discussion, rectory
basement, 7:30 p.m.
PI TAU SIGMA, 105 Main Engineering, 7 p.m.
RIDING CLUB, 217 Willard Ha11,.7:30 p.m...
SCIENCE AND RELIGION CLUB, 317 Wil
lard HalC 7:15 p.m. .
WRA BOWLING,.White Hall alleys, 7 p.m.
WRA DANCE, • White HaH rhythm room,
7 pun.
■ The College was .'the first school to adopt
the plan' of admitting students with entrance
conditions.
Little
Poor Mein’s
Paradise
—M. M.
We were sitting in the Corner Room the other day, sopping' up
iced tea and culture from the Sunday New York Times. It 1 wras all
quite legal. We had borrowed a pair of white bucks, and were" sitting
far back in the comer. We were perusing the News in Review :sec-.
tiori in preparation for a quiz in current events, and were, not in too"-
happy a mood.
Everything was blooey in the world. Iran and Britain were istill
doing a turkey-trot around Aba-,
dan.. The Reds and UN negotia
tors were doing a turkey-trot
around Kaesong. ’Turkey and the
United States were doing a Mar
shall Plan-trot around Russia. The
French were still riled up about
sex, and Argentina was having a
revolution to pass the time.
In short, things looked black.'
Atomic warfare was locked in
a death struggle with germ war
fare for top billing, and hapless
bookies were still being perse
cuted in Brooklyn. To top it all
off, the Dodgers weren't show
ings signs of brilliance. ,
We sat enveloped in • gloom.
Here, we were going- to be in
ducted shortly into a world Of
c'onfusion, fighting, and uncer
tainty. Nothing seemed untouched
by the general low feeling gar
nered from the newspapers. ’ Al
most nothing.
Friend Coed’s voice cut through'
our thoughts.-Bhe was talking to
a coed friend of Friend Coed’s.
“How high can you stack the
tea cups?”
' “Two high, with the saucers'
uhderneath.”
“You pass from left to fight,
huh?”
“I think so, but you’d better
look it up before class.”
“Gee, I hope I don’t spill any
thing. I want a three out of this
course.” •
■ “Yeah.”
We put down' our ".paper,
quietly fascinated. We listened
in amazement. Thoughts of tea
cups, saucers, marmalade and
all the trimmings flew back and
forth , from mouth. -to'.,, eager
mouth. .Something^.'something
great, something 'revolutionary
was taking their little minds
off the great war. We gently
Gazette • • •,
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Andrew Balakonis, Jean Berg,
David Helffrich, Rudolph Kraus,
James Longo, Emmert,, McGarry,
Polly Moore, Harold O’Connor,
Joyce Rife,'Herbert Schaaf,-Vance
Stout, Clara Jane Wolf, Raymond
Wolfe. v '
, STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Janitor’s job for student in an agri
culture 'curriculum; must have car.
Man'to work for room and board. ‘
Men to set pins for bowling league.
Student wives for evening store-work..
Man On
Campus
IOC&&
ly PAUL POORMAN.
WEDNESDAY,. OCTOBER 3, 1951
\ X ",
inquired, "wha'?"’ ;; -
; - “Doughnut Dipping- >405;. .of
course.” . .
“Yeah, and boy is it hard. We’ve
got to study 1 now for a-breakfast
we’re going to serve in class to
morrow.” .
“Yeah.”
Obviously here wash realm that'
hadn’t been 'hurt by national'' or ! '
international affairs. Here was a
blissful state of never;
achieved, before. We inquired
how.'
“Oh, it’s a Home Ec course to
prepare us for. careers as house
wives.” •
“Yes, if teaches us the correct
methods of doing almost any
thing.”
“Yeah.” /
The. girls Went back to their
serious preparation , for the
breakfast they were going to
serve the next afternoon.
’, “What do. you think will hap-'
pen' in. Ifah?” we- asked.
“Where’s Iran?” ' '
• “How;, about, the . peace talks
in Kaesong?” ‘ :
“What a funny place for bro
ken English.”
,We tried;,once more. “Who do
you fhink.will win the pennant?”
“Oh, are - they giving one
away?”
We grabbed the check, stuck it
in our pocket, and crawled out,
past- the cashier. We went out
side ' and watched the serious
faces walk by, lost in thoughts; on
a higher plane. - \.
For" a moment, we had peeked
into Alice’s Wonderland, and had
seen-, many things. We were grati- »
fied ;that in 7 a turbulent world,
vitarstudies .were still being con
ducted in the nation’s big uni
versities;
; COLLEGE. PLACEMENT
Babcock & Wilcox company will inter
view January graduates in Mechanical
Engineering op Thursday, October 18.
Carter Research laboratory, Tulsa, Okla
homa; will [interview M.S.. and Ph.D. caa
didateslnE.R, Pet. Eng., Mech.
only in Phy., Chem.
Eng;; Phy:' Chem.,' Chem., and Geo., who
degrees no later than
June; 1952.
Chance Vougbt Aircraft will interview
January graduates, St all levels, in M.E.,
C.E.'i,- .l. Aero.- E., Math., and. Phys.,
on Monday); October 15;
West Penn Power company will inter
view- January;,-graduates in M.E.; and E.E.
on Tuesday,, October 1&.
By Bibler
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