PAGE FO,UR utyp iatlg Collegian Sneeeusr t» THE REE IiANCC, eat. MET 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 Offiee under the aet 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. Marv Krasnansky Edward Shan ken Editor Business Mgr. Managing Ed., Eon 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 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; Bromotion Co-Mgrs., Bob Eoons, Melvin Glass; Classified Adv. Mgr., Lnryn Sax; Office Mgr., Tenia Kleber; Secretary, Nan Bierman; Senior Board, Don Jacket, Dorothy Naveen, Joan Morosini. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night Editor, Arnie Bloom; Copy editors, Mimi Ungar, Bettie Loux; Assistants,. Evvie Kielar, Tom Saylor, Marshall Donley, Fred Singer, Audrey Rothschild, Nina Finkle. IFC Stands By its Rules Last night’s action by" the Interfraternity Council in suspending two houses for failure to comply with the rushing regulations should go a long way toward showing that the IFC’s current officers mean business v Two fraternities—Pi Lambda Phi and Kappa Sigma—pledged men who had not attained the 1 scholastic average required of pledges. As a result of the violations. Pi Lambda Phi has been slapped with a four week suspension and ordered to de-pledge two men and Kappa Sigma has been sus pended for two weeks and ordered to de pledge a man. The standard IFC regulation for violation of this rule is automatic four week suspension, but because of extenuating circumstances,, the pen alty against Kappa Sigma was cut to two weeks. Undoubtedly the IFC officers and the IFC’s Board of Control will come in for much adverse criticism. Be it known to all those interested, however, that these oft-maligned men have acted in the best interests of the fraternity system. There is no doubt that the IFC regulation requiring a 1 average for pledging is a sound rule. The fraternities feel that they should choose the best available men, men who have (attained high enough scholastic records in order Ito maintain the scholarship 1 goals of the frater nity system. Fraternities also feel that they offer enough advantages to prospectives to be selective in their choice of men. The average requirement is also to the ad vantage of the pledge. Fraternities make de mands on the time of members that generally cannot be met by men who have not attained at least a 1 average prior to pledging. Just as the College has set up regulations which forbid a student to participate in extra curricular activities if'Tie is on academic proba tion, the IFC has' set up regulations determining minimum standards of scholarships. Jurti as the College would lake action against a violation of its regulations., the IFC has moved against violators of its . rules. The officers of IFC should be commended for sticking by their guns. Thespian Opening Another season will get underway for the Penn State Thespians at 8 tonight when the curtain rises on the Thespians’ student-written musical comedy revue, “Bottoms Up.” Originally founded In 1898, the group at that lime pledged itself to present "as distinc tive a representation of some of the classics as students could possibly be made to do." The organization switched to productions of musical comedy in 1908, and has devoted itself entirely to them ever since. The club, in the beginning strictly a men’s group, first allowed women to participate in 1918. It wasn’t until 1926 that another coed appeared in a Thespian show, but by 1931-'wo men were commonly accepted in the musical comedy presentations. . ' A sister organization to Thespians; called Masquerettes, was formed for the feminie par ticipants in 1943. The present policy of Thespians is to produce two shows' a year, an original revue in the fall and a standard Broadway musical in the spring. Unlike Players, which has faculty direction and guidance, Thespians is almost entirely student-operated. Backbone of the unit, ■ how ever, is one alumnus, Kay Fortunato, who has the title of faculty director. When the 53d season of Thespians begins tonight, students will have another oppor tunity to see a sample of the talents of their classmates. And although a Thespian show is seldom flawless, it is almost always enjoy able and entertaining. “A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation.” •—James Freeman Clarke State vs. State This is the weekend that Penn State alumni have been looking forward to all football sea son. The powerful Michigan State Spartans are coming to Beaver Field to play the Nittany Lions in a grid contest which promises to over shadow even the annual Pitt thriller. For this year, the Spartans are undefeated in four games and are ranked third in the country. Until last week they were rated tops in the nation, but a narrow victory over Marquette dropped them. Saturday’s game will highlight a tremendous Homecoming Weekend for most of .the faithful alumni who will be returning to their alma mater. An upset victory over the Spartans would make a successful season as far - as they are concerned-. Although a-'Penn Slate victory would be called an upset, it is not impossible or im probable. Tie Lions have shown scoring punch in their first three games, and an ability to come back when the chips were down. So far. Rip Engle's gridders have been a second-half team. If they keep close to the Spartans in the first 30 minutes of action, they could upset Coach Biggie Munn's apple cart. Safety Valve — If It Looks and Acts Like a Duck, It Is a Duck TO THE EDITOR: I have noticed, on recent occasions, articles in the Collegian attacking Sen. McCarthy for the nature of his. activities in Congress. It appears that the main objection ■ to these activities is that' they have exposed certain discrepancies in announced policies and actual policies followed by government ..officials, > notably the State Department. Sen. McCarthy has been attacked before and always by a cer tain group of individuals noted for their asso ciation with activities of a'nature detrimental to the best- way of life. It’s easy to tell a com munist. Walter Winchell put it this way: “If it looks, like a duck, can be seen in the company of other ducks, and goes'‘quack, quack, quack’ like a duck, it’s a duck.” The same can be applied to an individual. If he conducts him self like a communist, talks like a communist, and befriends other communists, he is a com munist. I don’t know Sen. McCarthy personally so I can’t say whether I admire him personally or not. However, if he can materially aid in clearing our government of communists, pinks, and fellow travellers, he is to be applauded as a real American in a time'when'we'/need real Americans. Gazette... Thursday, October 18 ACCOUNTING CLUB, 312 Sparks, 7 p.m. / ALPHA RHO OMEGA, Slavonic Society, meeting, 304 Old Main, 7:30 p.m. CHRISTIAN • SCIENCE ORGANIZATION,' 304 Old Main, 6:45 p.m. • . COLLEGIAN editorial candidates, 9 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m: DAIRY SCIENCE CLUB, Dairy Building, 7 p.m. FUTURE TEACHERS OF AMERICA, election meeting,’ 2 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m. NAVAL RESERVE RADIO UNIT, Oct 22, 200 Engineering E; 7 p.m. ■ NEWMAN CLUB, Catholic philosophy lec ture-discussion,-317 Willard Hall, 7 p.m. \ Combustion Engineering company, will interview Jan uary graduates in M.E. Thursday, October 18. ' ' r Continental Oil company will interview January grad uates in Chem., Phys., and P.N.G., Monday, October 29. United States Steel company will interview January graduates in M.E., E.E., 1.E., C.E., and Metal., Monday, October 29. Sohio Petroleum company will, interview. January grad uates in M.E., and P.N.G. Tuesday, October 23. Columbia Gas system will interview .January graduates in C.E., E.E., 1.E., M.E., Ch.E., P.N.G., and Home Ec. Friday, October 26.- ■» Union Carbide and Carbon corporation will / interview Ph.D. candidates in chemistry Monday, October 29. Brown Instrument division will interview January graduates in M.E., E.E., C.E., 1.E., 'and physics Tuesday, October 30. % 7 The Franklin Institute will interview' January grad uates in E.E., M.E., Ch.E., Phys.,' and Fuel Technology .Wednesday, October 31. ' Youngstown Sheet and Tube, Eimco corporation. Gen eral Fireproofing' company, Ortho Pharmaceutical corpor ation and Ethicon, Suture laboratories, inc., will interview January graduates in M.E., E.E., C.E., Metal., 1.E., C & F, A & L, P.M., Zoo., Chem., and San. E., Monday, October 29. Electro Metallurgical company will interview January graduates in Ch.E., M.E., C.E., 1.E., E.E., Metal. C&F., and AX., Tuesday, October 30. General Electric company will interview.. Ph.D candi dates (and interested M.S. candidates) in Chem., '/Chem.E., Metal., Phys., and Ceramics,' Wednesday,. October 31. Texas company will interview January graduates in P.N.G., M.E., and Geo., -Tuesday, October 23. —Lee Stern Men with several half days for farm work; should have own transportation. “Pride that dines on vainty,. sups on con tempt”—Franklin THE DAILY COLLEGIAN.. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA ' Ed. Note—That the United Slates Senate seems to have, some doubt that Sen! ‘McCarthy has been acting in a manner "in the best inter est of 'our way of life" was made clear Tuesday when a Senate committee voted unanimously to investigate his activities. We fail to go along with the writer's definiiiioh of a communist, for in these days the critical question is,,."What is communism?" Under Sen. McCarthy's definition, anybody who dis agrees with McCarthy is a communist. , COLLEGE PLACEMENT Man with alto sax.' Substitute waiters and dishwashers. Cleric in bookstore; 20 hours .per week. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Man to set pins for bowling league. Babysitters for October 20. —Dave Colton —Donald A. Dunn Little Man On G *r -/a M&0 The Old MiUstream Have you ever seen a person steal from, himself? We did on Sunday night. It wasn’t a person though, it was a magazine. Namely, Froth. ' Deciding to write' something on the lighter side this week, we wandered over to the Froth office hoping to get some laughs out of seeing the staff concoct the next issue of that erstwhile humor publication. ' Guess ni ay b e we had the wrong impression of a so called humor magazine, because - we expected to be convulsed by the merry little staffers as they went gleefully about their light-hearted task of gathering the hilarious material. ■'Alas, we walked in the office to find a bunch of surly creatures busily ’ poring ' over back issues of Froth looking for material for the next issue. These imaginative persons weren’t seeking anything special—just' material, any mater ial. We curiously picked up one of these old copies; jokes in 1887 were_ pretty much the same as today. Every once in a while, one of the 'lackeys’ - lackeys, would hesi tantly approach the editor’s of fice. After disturbing that august creature who sat-gazing •at • the covers of all the old issues pasted on the walls, the peon would come out dejectedly mumbling something about being too-orig inal. ’ Seems,as if Froth is like one of those ancient' royal, families you read about. The kind that breeds only with relatives in order to insure the greatness of succeeding generations. Anyway, we decided'this mor- ose . little,, band, ready mourning themext issue of I the' supposed humor magazine, was not for us. So we scrammed. . Upon returning to our room, we found one of the ancient Froth issues stuck in our pocket and proceeded to give it the once over. It ended up in the waste basket when'we noticed some thing familiar about it. Seems Froth'published a “Good News” issue with a .purple .cover back in 1887, too. If your lasi week's Froth is slightly frayed—you got one of the old copies. Return it to , the. Froth office and the new ' edition will be gladly given you. - . ' \ * * * f On the' more serious side, the Lord’s Day Alliance of Pennsyl- vania has started an all-out cam- paign to defeat the Sunday movie # issue which will be - voted on by State College and 48 other com munities Noy. 6. Opinion around campus and in town still seems optimistic far- passage of - the - THURSDAY, OCTOBER; -1951, - - tpus By MOYLAN, MILLS measure in State College. f Virginia Sale, who presented her “Americana Sketches” in Schwab a week ago for the bene fit of the Delta Gamma fund for the blind, will give New York critics a chance to< judge her pro gram. Miss Sale will do her sketches in New York’s Town Hall Sunday. The New York Board of Edu cation scored a first this week with the initial television broad cast for stay-at-home high school students. Station WPIX will now present “The Living Blackboard” every day of the week. This is noteworthy because of the fact that Penn State has been allotted an educational TV chan nel’by the Federal Communica tions Commission, for use when the FCC reorganizes the TV ■channel system. The College will probably produce shows of a simi lar. nature to “The Living Black board.” \ * * Incidenially. those dizzy baseball' announcers, coin sev eral new words every season as they go through their hur-. tied spiel. This year, one of. the World Series announcers gave us "the soft liner." Ever see one? which was al- Gazette... CATHAUM: David'and Bath sheba - . STATE: “M” / ' NITTANY: On Moonlight, Bay STARLITE DRIVE-IN: The White. Tower ■ . COLLEGE HOSPITAL Joseph Asher, ...David Carvey, David. Faust, Elizabeth Funk, Kenneth Herman, Clark Isenberg, Andrew Jaros, Frances Katz, Bar bara Lascher, Lawrence Levine, Glenn Mclntyre, Dolores Fennel,, Alan Pomeroy, Peter Smith,, Eu gene Sprague, James Stamm, Don ald' Wilt, Howard Wright. “Principles of Business and the Federal Law,” is the- title of ' a new text written .by Franklin H. Cook, associate professor of eco nomics; 1 ' - . Cuba is the largest island in the Greater Antilles. ' 1 By Ribler * * JT * AT THE MOVIES
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