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Published ruesda? through Saturday morningrs inclusive
during the College rear by the staff of fbe Daily Collegia®
of The Pennsylvania State College.
Entered jus second-class matter July' 4, 1934, at the State
College, Pa. Post Office trader the act of March 3, 1879.
Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writ*
era, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper- Cosigner*
editorial# are by the editor.
Marr Krasnansky Edward Shanken
Editor Business Mgr.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night editor: Dave Jones; Copy editors: Chuck
Henderson, Ginger Opoczenski; Assistants:
Chiz Mathias, Evvie Kielar, Gus Vollmer, Steve
Pontier, Jack Mounts.
Ad staff: Nancy Supplee, Bob Potter.-
Sorority Report
Clarifies Issues
Although Marilyn Levitt, Panhellenic" Council
president, did not reveal any startling informa
tion in her report to All-College Cabinet on the
sorority house situation, she at least cleared the
air of a lot of misinformation and revealed' just
exactly what College policy is on the issue;
Miss Levitt reported that the College Board
of Trustees is “not unfriendly” toward the con
struction of sorority houses, but that the con
struction of any sorority .houses would of neces
sity be a long-range project.
A sorority house will cost anywhere from
$lOO,OOO to $160,000, so that any group plan
ning to build a house will have to do a lot of
financing before construction can begin. If -
and when any of the local sororities are able
to build, the College will provide the plots.
Before then, however, as Miss Levitt pointed
out, many questions will have to he answered.
One of the most ticklish is the relationship, be
tween those sororities which will be able to
finance construction and those which will be
unable to -go into such a venture. Naturally the
sororities with houses will fare much better
than those without, so those unable to build may
very well oppose the construction of any houses
until all campus sororities are able to build.
This and other problems will have to be
settled, as they will be. Until then,it is good to.
know exactly where we stand on the sorority
house question.
Offers Are Cause
Of Oyer-emphasis
The special sports committee of college presi
dents, formed' to study the wrongs of inter
collegiate athletics this week drew up a list of
proposals that are impracticable to the point of
being silly.
The presidents are extremely serious in
their efforts to curb over-emphasis of sports,
but in their excitement over finally having
started on the road to reform, they have been
seemingly blinded by their own power.
They have gone all out to cut down on the
length of the various sports seasons, and in do
ing so have advised that football practice and
games be limited to the period from Sept. 1 to
the first Saturday in December, that basketball
practice and games be confined to'the period,
between Dec. 1 and March 15, arid that baseball
games and practice be confined to the period
between March 1 and commencement.
In regards to football, a large majority of
colleges open the grid season about the second
week of September, which would mean that
under the proposed setup they would have only
two weeks in which to master intricate plays
and formations,, drill in the fundamentals of
proper blocking and tackling, get acquainted
with and learn to know teammates and coaches
with whom they will be working all season, and
above all to get into the proper physical con
dition for the coming campaign.
The importance of lime in these matters can
easily be seen. Even high schools under ihe
strict direction of the PIAA begin football
drills as early as Aug. 18, and their situation
doesn't appear to be getting out of hand.
In the case of basketball, the same situation
arises. Many schools, i especially those which
have no football teams, begin their regular sea
sons before Dec. 1, and though not as much
time is needed in whipping a basketball team
into shape as is in football, still a sufficient
practice period is necessary.
The proposals concerning collegiate baseball
have already brought howls of protest from the
American Association of College Baseball
Coaches. The coaches stated their belief that
college baseball has been de-emphasized rather
than over-emphasized, and that it deserves
special consideration because of its recreational
value and the opportunities it offers the players
preparing to go into the professional game.
The presidents’ committee would probably
counter these objections by. saying that colleges
which schedule early games should hold off on
their starting contests and start at a later date
thus cutting down the number of games.
However, the major causes of over-emphasis
of sports do not lie in ihe number of games
played or the length of the practice seasons.
Excessive scholarships and big crowds are the
main reasons sports have gotten out of hand.
It is here that the presidents should concen-'
irate, for here ihey will most quickly find the
solutions to iheix problems.
—Bob Vosburg
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Senate Book Plan
Should Be Used
Although the' book plan Approved by the
College Senate is not quite what students have
been asking for, ,the plan can put a stop to text
book abuses which have been the subject of
student complaints for many years now. '
The plan finally approved by the Seriate
differs from the one originally proposed to the
Council of Administration izi that.it eliminates
the committee of five faculty members and
two students which would approve all changes
in textbooks.
Under the plan now in effect, the instructor
still has the right to choose the text to be used,
but in courses of more than one section, 'the
members of the department shall select the text
which shall be used.in all sections. When new
editions of the same text, with no essential
changes or additions; are "published, the in-’
structor is required to inform the students of the
differences in the- texts and allow the students
to make their own choice.
The mechanism for. curbing textbook abuses
is now available. One of .the best ways to see
that the. means .provided-to stop these abuses
are used is through the various student councils.
Students victimized by textbook changes con
trary to the established regulations should take
their complaints to the student councils. Stu
dents, would .do well to learn the,new regula
tions and guard , against violations.
The student councils' themselves would be
wise to create special and permanent textbook'
committees to conduct spot checks on textbooks
used within- their schools. , . ,
We now have a program governing changes
in textbooks. Let's use it.
Plan Offers Good
Mid-Year Customs
It should be quite evident that with a small
February class of freshmen, a complete customs
program would be difficult to enforce.
On the other hand, no matter how difficult,
it is not fair to men and women who have un
dergone customs to excuse mid-year entrants
from them.
Approximately 100 men will enter as fresh
men next month—and promptly begin to lose
themselves in the crowd. Once again the cus
toms program for February will go on the
rocks.
It would seem that a general overhaul of the
off-semester customs program is nee'ded. .With
that in mind, we would like to suggest this plan
of action.
Carry on the regular customs program during
the day, and enforce it is much as possible. But,
in addition, require frosh to meet with hatmen
and interested upperclassmen two or three
nights 1 a week. At that time, the frosh will be
required to sing school songs, undergo verbal
quizzes on things they are expected to know,
and generally carry on as complete a customs
program as possible.
To aid in" enforcing the customs. Tribunal
, should consider absence from any meeting by
any frosh as a violation of customs, and treat
the offender acordingly.
Tribunal should try the offender, and decide
upon a punishment, or let the violator go, com
pletely exonerating him. There should be ho
halfway measure such as warning a .violator, or
giving out a suspended sentence, since the only
way to insure 100 per cent attendance at a night'
greeting is to make it unprofitable to stay away.
A. similar program should be worked out. for
women’s customs, or better yet, a joint customs
program put into effect once and for all.
Unless customs—both men’s and women’s —
are enforced, there is no sense in carrying out
the program.
It is time to decide whether a plan that is
considered workable and practical should be put
into effect for February freshmen, or the idea
of mid-semester customs should be abandoned
forever. \
1 If may mean a lot of changing and work,
but if the desired effect is produced, it should
<-be worthwhile.
Hat Groups Loafing
When are Penn State hat - societies going- to
wake up and do something? Too many hatmen
seem to have the idea that they have “arrived”
once a black hat sits on the desk at home.
In truth, their job shoUld be just beginning.
They are supposed to be “leaders of the
campus,” and . yet only one of -the senior hat
societies has. had. even one" meeting this semes
ter —and nothing came out' of that.
Each hat society, is assigned a day to wear its
h'ats on campus'. That-custom, too, has gone by
the boards—the "only,i time you see a-hat on
campus is whgn it'rains:/' "
■_ As one student government leader put it, “It’s
about time the-hat-societies started doing some
thing instead ; of. just bragging that they’re hat
men.” - 1
Hats and' spirit are in evidence during cus
toms period, but after that, activities of hat
societies, dwindle. '
It's time something was done.
The Atlantic Seamen, the world’s largest
tanker, has a capacity of 10,794,000 gallons and _
flies the American flag; •
—George Glazer
—G.G.
Little Man On Campus
"He'll be i!
We’re now taking a fairly new course at Penn State, and one
that eventually seems destined to rank with basket-weaving and
fly-tying in student appeal.
i The course is press photography, Journalism 60. All the work
involved is in lugging around 20 pounds and $350 worth of camera
equiptoent, opening shutters therein for almost incredibly small
fractions of a second, and then
attempting', with little or no suc
cess, to process the resulting
films through various corrosive
. chemicals without entirely dis
solving the pictures.
In the use of complex photo
graphic equipment there is a
really startling number of ways
to avoid taking any desired pic
ture. Push every button but one,
slied all but one of the infinite
slides, do not adjust one stud,
lever, or arm alone among the
many many' protruding about
the immense camera, and you
can virtually assure yourself of
a negative either all white or all
black (depending on whether
you want your print all black
or all white).
Should you desire to use a
flashbulb in faking any shot,
you multiply by 'a factor of
eight or ten your possibilities
of preventing a photograph
from resulting. There is a way
for you to set off the flashbulb
right in your face, simply by
plugging a certain cord into
the wrong socket 1 among six
choices. Four of the other choi
ces are wrong 100,. of course;
but they just guarantee that
the bulb will explode at some
lime when the shutter is not
o.p eh. Fantastically complex
.timing devices_are thrown into
lightning-fast operation to in
; sure that the shutter will fail .
to operate when you flash the
bulb, provided tyou adjust the
camera in any but one certain,
improbable manner.
Open the door to the darkroom,
and you open up vast new fields
for averting photographs. First
of all, in opening that, door, „you
Gszcttc • • •
Friday, January 11
NEWMAN CLUB informal
dance, refreshments, Theta Kappa
Phi, 8 .p.m.
. PENN STATE BIBLE FEL
LOWSHIP, . 405 Old Main,- 7:30
p.m,
Monday, January 14
INTERCOLLEGIATE CON
FERENCE ON GOVERNMENT,
Dr. Ruth Silva speaker, 214 Wil
lard Hall, 7 p.m.
ELECTRONIC WARFARE
UNIT 4-3,, 200 Engineering; E, 7
p.zn.
jrftIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1952
A Bonn
Mot
By RON BONN
almost certainly forgot to' make '
sure that the one behind, you was
closed, and thus aided five or six
fellow students in their struggle'
for destruction of their pictures.
As yet, though, you’ve taken no
steps toward destroying' your
own film, except in entering the
darkroom and thus making it
eight to five that someone else
will open the door while.you’re
working. ~ r
In the unlikely event ihat,.alt.
this should fail to eradicate'the "
latent image (and in the even
more unlikely event thaiihere
is a latent image to eradicate),,.:;
there are still a number of .op-..-....
poriunities open to you. There .•
are three trays of chemicals in -
which the film must be pro-...
cessed; you will almost unques- : .
lionably not have them in the:.
proper order. If you have them
in the proper order, it is doubt
ful that you will leave your
•film in each one for the proper ■
length of time, although you
may, if the temperature of the
. fluids is far enough off to de
stroy, the film anyway.
Improper printing of any neg
atives that by some quirk actu
ally do appear is a separate .art:
To save time, you may turn on
the darkroom lights while your
box of paper is open, thus de
stroying an entire semester’s
worth-of material at once. The
real sportsman • will prefer the
more challenging, if,more tedious,
slower methods, involving the
wrecking of one sheet at a time.
Or you can be a coward and
do, if all right, thus setting a
nasty precedent for classes to
follow.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Married man for janitor work.
Women for office work. Typing and
dictation • necessary.
Seventh and eighth semester aeronautical
engineers • and ' mechanical engineers for
pastime government work.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
New- Holland Machine Co. will inter
view. 'January ' graduates in I.E. If inter
ested, leave your name in 112 Old Main
before Monday.
Eli Lily and Co. wil! interview 1952
candidates in Organic Chem. at the Ph.D.
level Monday, Jan. 14.
New Holland Machine Co. will interview
January graduates in M.E. with farm
background for* the design of farm ma
chinery Thursday, Jan. 10.
Sylvania Electric will January
graduates 'in . accounting Friday, - Jan. 18.
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