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Satltj Collegian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE, est. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive
during the College year by t£e staff of The Daily Collegian
of The Pennsylvania State' College.
Entered as second-class matter July 6, 1934, at the State
College, Pa., Post Offiee under the aet of March 3, 1879.
Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints j>t the writ
ers, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsigned
editorials are by the editor.
Marv Krasnansky
, Editor
Managing Ed., Ron Bonn; 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
Sehoolcy; Exchange Ed., Paul Beighley; Senior Board, Paul
Poorman..
, STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor, Mimi Ungar; copy editors, Doris.
Golub, Dave Jones; Assistants, Dot' Bennett,'
Nancy Luetzel, Jack Mounts, Nancy Ward,
Phil Austin.
Future Customs
Will Need Changes
Having undergone their second post-war
trial, customs are apparently on their way Ho
ward becoming a permanent fixture at Penn
State.
It should be pretty obvious that customs
were far from being entirely successful. Their
biggest shortcoming was lack of interest on*
the pari of upperclassmen. This, however,
might have been expected since the sopho
more class is the only group on campus to
have undergone customs.
Although lack of interest among upperclass
men is something we feel will be cured by time,
the customs regulations themselves must be
altered if Penn State is ever to have an' intelli
gent, workable customs program.
The greatest single shortcoming in the cur
rent regulations is that there is not one set of
regulations, but two —one for men, one for
women. Certainly there are elements of men’s
regulations which cannot be applied to women,
and vice versa. But there is no reason why the
enforcement of customs cannot be a cooperative
program.
The customs program should be altered to
allow joint enforcement by upperclassmen and
women. One. of the effects of such a regulation
we feel certain would be greater participation
on the part of upperclassmen and women.
Another worthwhile change in the regula
tions would be a change in the dating rules.
Under the current code, the frosh may not
date during the customs period. The no-dating
rule was put into the book in an effort to en
courage the frosh to spend more time studying
during the crucial first weeks of their college
careers—and less time being social butterflies.
The no-dating rule was, of course, flagrantly
violated. And frankly we cannot blame the
frosh. It is making an unfair imposition on them
to ask them to have no contact with the opposite
sex during the entire customs period..
A better rule might be to maintain the no
dating code for weekdays, but allow dating on
Friday and Saturday nights.
There is much room for improvement in the
current customs regulations. A joint commit
tee composed of the members of Tribunal
and the Freshman Customs and Regulations
Board should be appointed to investigate
possible changes. {
There is work to be done.
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THE/DAILY COLLEGIAN. ST ATE- SOLLEGe' PENNSYLVANIA
U.S. Might Heed
In a world fighting 'the' spectre of com
munism, the recent action of the Australian
people in rejecting a constitutional amendment
that would have made. it possible to outlaw,
the Australian Communist Party is. worthy of
note. '
The free world has nothing to fear in the
propaganda of the home-spun variety of
communists. What we do have to fear from
our own communists—as the Australians must
fear from theirs—is acts of subversion and
espionage.
American communists, whose numbers now
are smaller than ever, are not a clear and present
danger in their advocacy of communism. Jus
tice Holmes ably said that no man has a right
to shout fire, in a crowded theater, but if the
man who is doing, the shouting is the village
-moron and has been shouting with no results
for a decade, he can cause no harm.
This is the position of communist propagan-.
■ dists in the free nations of the world. Time and
again they have sought to sell their wares in
the "market place of public opinion. And time
and again they have failed.
We in the United States—and in-Pennsyl
vania—might well heed the wisdom .of-our
Australian 1 friends and "allies. .
Safety Valve —
Froth Repeats Itself
- TO THE EDITOR: Several days ago an article
was written in the Daily Collegian;about Froth
stating that it contained stale jokes, etc.
We, the inmates of Dorm 1, would appreciate
it very much if you would inform the editorial
staff of Froth that the joke which appeared on
page 33 in the first issue was very good but not
so good that it had to be repeated on page 41.
—The Dorm I Joke Lovers
Gazette • • •
Saturday. October 13
HARVEST DANCE, Hillel, 8-12 p.m.
Sundays October 14
SENIOR CLASS, 10 Sparks, 7 p.m.
SUCCOS SERVICES and open house, Zeta
Beta Tau,.6:30 p.m.
Monday, October 15
LIBERAL ARTS STUDENT COUNCIL, 108
Willard Hall, 8:15 p.m. ' .
NAVAL RESERVE RADIO UNIT, 200 Engi
neering E, 7 p.m. '
PENN. STATE ENGINEER, 418 Old .Main,
7 p.m.
PHILOTES ooen house, White Hall, 7:30 p.m.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Roger Bender, Sylvia Berkowitz, Richard
Brown, Roberta Goldberg, Jerry Goldress, Theo
dore Gracia, Rodney Hamann, Gloria Hand
werk, Emily Kostas, Lawrence Levine, Jane
Mensing, Barbara Silberman, Gertrude Weid
mann, Walter Whitcher, Ronald Zwieganbaum.
Hercules Powder company will interview January gradu
ates at the B.S. and M.S. level in. M.E., Ch.E. and Chem.
Wednesday, October 24. »'
International Business Machine corporation will inter
view January graduates in E.E., and M.E. Wednesday,
October 24. •
Link Aviation corporation will interview January gradu
ates in E.E. Thursday October 25.
Lukens Steel company will interview January graduates
in M.E., C.E. and Metal Thursday, October 25.
Philips Petroleum compaiiy- will interview. ' January
graduates in P.N.G., Ch.E., E.E., M.E. and Metal Wednes
day October 24.
Piasecki Helicopter corporation will interview January
graduates in ’Aero.E. and M.E. Wednesday, October 17.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Man to set pins for bowling league.
Woman to do full time housework.
Cook for 30 day experiment; prefer student wife.
Babysitters for October 20.
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Little Man On Campus
"Say, Keely, how’s about a straw for Carolyn's orangi
Poor Man’s
Paradise
, -. There is a certain class of people who should not' go to see a
certain class of movie. If that’s too general, we’ll £et specific. Craven
cowards should not go to see ■ science fiction movies. As anyone
knows, science fiction is just a new term for the pld horror pictures
of the Frankenstein-Dracula era.
We shall begin by putting ourselves in a class. We should not
go to science fiction movies.
We went, accompanied by an
other craven coward, Ip see “The
Thing” some time ago. We even
went to the midnight show. Now
“The Thing” is hardly the thing
for innocent young’uns like our
selves to view at midnight pre
miers, but we went. In short, we
were scared stiff at what we saw
from between our fingers. What
we didn’t see scared us even more.
Our friend, of a bit more hardy
stock, remained erect in his seat
and narrated it to us.
Babbling incoherently,' we
were escorted heme after the
movie, to live in constant, ter
ror for a few weeks. Eyery
lime someone opened a door,
we jumped.
But' last week we; were, re
HOMER VERSIFIED!
.•. and pines with thirst
"Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Altoona"
V, ©I9JI-, THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
SATURDAY, •OCTOBER 13, 195'r
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1 JA .W.M
ly PAUL POORMAN.
assured. Things were looking up..
We were 1 free of “The Thing.”
Then we went to see Hollywood’s
latest attempt, ’ “The Day The
Earth Stood Still.” That'did it. '
“Earth” was not as horrible' a
picture as “Thing,” but both had
ope thing in common. They scared
the >vits out of us. We went home
after the.show, jumped into bed,
pulled the covers over our head
and stayed there.' The moon
shining through our ..window
looked ..faintly like a glowing
atomic-powered flying saucer..
Friendly, airplanes droning over
head sounded faintly like a fly
ing saucer.
Footsteps, in the hall at night
(Continued on page five) .
midst a sea of waves”
Homer wrote about
ancient times-—before Coke.
Nowadays there's no need to
te with-thirst when Coca-Cola
iund the comer from anywhere.
By Bibler
ice, huh?**
Homer: Odyssey
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