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She Hath} Collegian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE, est. 188?
Published Puesduy through Saturday mornings inelusiv*
during the College year by the staff of rhe Daily Collegian
of The Pennsylvania State College.
Entered as second-class mattes July 5. 1934, at the State
College. Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879
Collegian aditorials represent the viewpoints of the writ*
erm, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper Unsigne
editorials are by the editor.
Marv Krasnansky Edward Shankeo
Editor Business Mgr.
Managing Ed., Ron Bonn; City Ed., George Glazer;
Sports Ed., Ernie Moore; Edit. Dir., Bob Fraser; Makeup
Ed.» Moylan Mills; Wire Ed., Lcn 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, Millie
Martin; Exchange Ed.. Paul Beighley; Senior Bd.. Bad
Fenton.
Asst. Bus. Mgr., Jerry Clibanoff; Advertising Mgr..
Bob Lcyburn; National Adv. Mgr., Howard Boleky; Circa*
lotion Co-Mgrs., Jack Horsford, Joe Sutovsky; Personnel
Mgr., Carolyn Alley; Promotion Co-Mgrs., Bob Roons, Mel*
vin Glass; Classified Adv. Mgr., Laryn Sax; Office Mgr.
Tema Richer; Secretary, Joan Morosini: Senior Board. Don
Jackel, Dorothy Naveen.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor: Dave Pellnitz; Copy Editors:
Bettie Loux, Jim Gromiller, Andy McNeillie;
assistants: Sam Procopio, Dick Rau, Charles
Obertance, Norma Zehner, Bob Baumgardner,
Jim Peters, Tom Saylor, Ad Manager: Alison
Morley; assistants: Phyl Kalson, Frank Kelly.
Cagers Put State
In Sport Limelight
Although there we;
Coach Elmer Gross
team when they returned from their all-vic
torious road trip, we are certain that the campus
recognizes and appreciates the way they have
put Penn State on the collegiate court map.
The cagers' four successive wins during
mid-year vacation gave them a surprising 11
game victory string and a seasonal record of
13 victories against a lone defeat. Over
looked by basketball observers at the start of
the season, the Lions have moved into national
prominence.
Skeptics refused to rate the Nittanies even
while they were compiling the winning record,
but Saturday’s upset of tenth-ranked West Vir
ginia should open the eyes of the country’s
leading sportswriters. The victory over the
Mountaineers, coupled with successes over other
top teams like Navy, Syracuse, Michigan, Pitt,
and Colgate should elevate State from last
week’s 24th place national ranking.
This week the dribblers will attempt to fur
ther their accomplishments and .snap the Col
lege’s all-time one-season winning streak of 12.
If the Lions should maintain their great play
and defeat Rutgers Wednesday, and George
town Saturday, they would establish a new
winning streak.
The team has already broken the modern
one game away from home record and number
of total points scored in one game. It’s 89 points
against Dickinson snapped the former mark of
76, and the 155 points scored in the 85-70 Gettys
burg win set a new two team total.
Undoubtedly, the baskeieers owe much of
. their success to Coach Gross and his magnifi
cent handling of the team. But not to be over
looked has been the team balance and effort.
! The boys have been able to come' through
-when the pressure was on, and that's the
.sign of a good team.
. The cagers still have ten games left and all
will be tough—for when you’re on top everyone
likes to beat you. Each victory adds more pres
tige, and with it pressure. But no matter what
it does the remainder of the season, the 1951-52
quintet will long be remembered.
—Dave Colton
An Eye for an Eye ; ..
From Time Magazine, Feb. 4—ln Rio de Jan
eiro, after a snake bit him, Francisco Feliciano
chased and caught the viper, bit it to death.
. “A wise man reflects before he speaks; a fool
speaks, and then reflects on what he has
uttered.” —Delile
Planes in the Berlin airlift carried 2,343,315
tons of food and coal into Western Berlin be
tween April 1, 1948, and Sept. 30, 1949.
El Paracutin, Mexico’s youngest and most
active volcano, erupted Feb. 20, 1943, in the
middle of a farmer’s field
•e no huge throngs to greet
and his Lion basketball
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Profs Neglecting
Fair Play Rules
Every semester we hear reports of battles
between professors and students’ over finals.
Each one adds up to something we do not like.
The other day we got first hand a story
about a certain professor who refused to show
a student his final examination paper. The
student had gone into the final with a passing
grade and ended' up with a failing mark. He
couldn't figure it out so he went in to.the
professor's office. He received no satisfaction.
Another student in a more .or less similar pre
dicament, was not even permitted to see his
professor.
Rumor has it that this student was the vic
tim of a “perfect curve” in which some students
must fail a course, regardless of their final
average.
It was an understanding we had -when we
arrived on the campus that professors were
something not to be afraid of, but, to the con- •
trary, people quite human and more or less
eager to' assist students in obtaining a broad,
unbiased education.
There are. of course, situations contrary to
these examples, but they .have of late been
forced into the background by recurring in
stances of sheer hard-headedness.
Why couldn’t the student see his final exami
nation if his failing or passing the course de
pended on it? If there is any reason for it, we
want to find it.
An editorial appearing in the Daily Colle
gian several days before the suspending of
publication for final examinations, which dis
cussed "piling up" of work on students in the
final week of the semester, received many
loud and dissenting comments from various
members of the College faculty. We hope pro
fessors will view this more constructively and
"take the hint."
Everybody Benefits
By BX Plan
As a student-initiated, student-supported pro
ject, the Penn State Book Exchange and Used
Book Agency cannot possibly hope to function
without student interest.
That interest is needed now, and it is the kind
of interest from which students can profit—in
a very real way.
The Book Exchange is short on used text
books—2ooo-3000 short—by the latest count.
One of the prime reasons the Used Book
Agency was set up as a part of the BX was
to act as a means by which students could
get a fair return for their used books.
In most cases—where texts are in reasonably
good condition—the student can get back as
much as 60 per cent of his original investment.
We doubt that there is another place in State
College where such a fair deal is available.
At the same time that the BX enables some
students to get a fair return on their used texts,
it enables students who need texts to get them
a a cost little higher than the price set by the
seller.
But students cannot get fair prices on their
books and other students are unable to make a
saving unless books are brought to the Used
Book Agency.
If you have a used book lying around col
lecting dust, take it to the BX in the TUB.
That book can earn money for you and save
money for somebody else. ‘
New Frosh Face
Bright College Era
Freshmen entering the College this semester
can look forward to a bright future as far as
the College is concerned.
These freshmen will probably be here to
see the College reach' heights undreamed of
in the Nittany Vale in the early days of the
Farmers’ High School.
With the $17,500,000 appropriation recently
given the College by the stale General Assem
bly, freshmen will see increased faculty sal
aries, an added drawing card for a high caliber
faculty. Better utilization of the present avail
able classroom space can also be seen since
the hasty building projects have ceased for
the time being.
College policy concerning the draft will be
more stable because of the more or less stable
policies of the Selective Service system.
The athletic outlook at the College is much
brighter for future years than it has been in
the past. All the major sports show vastly im
proved teams since the arrival on campus of
the present senior class.
- Penn State, long known for it’s middle-of
the-road policies in athletics, has finally helped
bring such actions into the limelight in an at
tempt to place intercollegiate sports on a sane
level.
The days that the Pennsylvania State Col
lege was considered "just another small-time
institution" have indeed passed. Freshmen will
have even more right to be be proud of fheir
college than those who will leave in June.
The Iranian oil field in the southwest terri
tory at the head of the Persian Gulf is the
richest single field in existence.
—Bob Fraser
A lot of people throughout the world still are unable to decide
whom to believe—Russia or the Western powers^—about this matter
of war intent.
For many of them, it’s mere]
' kettle black, and a situation wher<
way of both sides.
The past week-end, however,'
has brought the publication of
figures as good as any which
are likely to be obtained show
ing who is preparing for war
and wtio is reacting In self
defense.
The Soviet Union, says , the
United Nations Economic Com
mission for Europe, is devoting
more of its resources to military
preparations than it did during
the feverish year of 1940, after
war had broken out in Europe. In
1951, the report said, the Soviet
devoted two thirds more to mili
tary preparations than it did to
defense and all other investment
in its economy in 1937, when it
was already known to be arming
at a greater rate than any other
nation in the world.
When you stop to think that
in the Soviet Union all invest
ment in economic development
is government investment, the
result becomes aweso me.
Seventy-live per cent of the en
tire national investment for
two years devoted to armingl
And we can't know how much
they are spending on atomic
energy under their so-called
"education" budget.
, This compares with 30 per cent
of the U. S. national 'budget in
1950, and 67 per cent in 1951, in
the feverish effort to overtake in
three or four years what the Rus
sians have built up in six years
of . such super-attention to the
military field. And that’s govern
ment budget, not nationwide in
vestment.
The Russian figures show few
gains for many years in agri
cultural production and con
sumer goods, despite rapid pop
ulation increases, where Ameri
can consumer production has
been at an all-time peak in an
economy which already sur
passed, in that respect, all the
rest of the world. .
But when, at the close of 1951,
U. S. authorities decided Russia
would probably not strike im
mediately, the war program was
s, “spread” from three to four years
in order not to interfere with pri
vate consumption and the coun
try’s long-term .economic
strength.
The whole picture indicates
it is Russia which has the dy
namic plans; Russia whiph is
Littli
(. Man On Campus
"The boys whipped up a little party for ybu, Worihal—Ed opened
your letter from the dean's office."
Interpreting the News
Dynamic Plans
Used by Russia
By J. M. ROBERTS. JR'
Associated Press flews Analyst
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1952
By Ribler
ly a matter of the pot calling the
i they' seek only to keep out of the
preparing diplomatic adven
tures and indirect aggression
which might produce war, and
Russia which intends to have
the military machine to back
these other policies if necessary.
Gazette...
Tuesday, February 5
AMERICAN CHILDHOOD ED
UCATION INTERNATIONAL
and FUTURE TEACHERS OF
AMERICA joint meeting, Dr.
Charles M. Long speaker, South
east Atherton Lounge, 7 p.m.
CAMERA CLUB. 1 Main Engi
neering, 7 p.m.
CHESS CLUB, 3-Sparks, 7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN business candi
dates, 1 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN business staff, 9
Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN sophomore edi
torial board. 2 Carnegie Hall, 7
p.m.
DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB,
TUB, 6:45 o.m.
FENCING CLUB, Beaver Field
water tower, 7 p.m.
LIEBIG CHEMICAL SOCIETY,
105 Frear Laboratory, 7:30 p.m.
PANHELLENIC COUNCIL,
Grange basement, 7 p.m.
PENN STATE CLUB. 405 Old
Main, 7 n.m.
TRIBUNAL, 201 Old Main, 7
p.m.
WRA OUTING, White Hall
playrom, 7 p.m.
WRA SWIMMING, White Hall
pool, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Bethlehem Steel Co. will interview June
graduates in C.E., E.E., Ch.E., 1.E., M.E.,
and Metal. Monday, Feb. 18. Persons •in
the upper third of the class are pre
ferred. •
E. I. DuPont will interview June B.S.
candidates and 1952 M.S.* candidates in
Chem., Metal., Phys., Ch.E., E.E., 1.E.,
and C.E. Monday, Feb. 18..
National Supply Co. will interview June
graduates in Acct., C.E., 1.E., M.E., Metal,
and P.N.G. Monday, Feb. 18.
Standard Oil Development Co. will in
terview June graduates in C.E., 1.E., M.E.,
Ch.E. -and E.E. Monday, Feb. 18.
Texas Co. (Beacon Laboratories) will in
terview June graduates in M.E. Monday,
Feb. 18.
Westinghouse Electric Co. will interview
June B.S. candidates and 1952 M.S. can
didates in Metal. (Physical) Monday, Feb.
10 . (
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Baby sitters for Wednesday afternoon.
Students with Chem. background for
part-time work,