FO U
o . llr. Batty Collegian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE.' est. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive
during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian
of The P-nnsylvania State College.
Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934, at the State
College. Pa., Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879
Collegian editorials represent the viewpoint of the
writers. not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Un
signed editorials are by the editor.
Dave Penults Franklin S. Kelly
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STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night' editor: Bill Jost; Copy editors: Gus
Vollmer, Jack Sheppard; Assistants: Dick An
glestein, Joan Packard, Myron Feinsilber, Mary
Angel, and Iry Weiner.
Advertising staff: Bob Potter, Shirley Gable,
and Virginia Bowman.
Give Joint-Buying
A Fair Opportunity
If someone offered you the chance to save
$1 for every $2O you spent, wouldn't you jump
at the chance?
Sure you would. But such is not the case in
the fraternities. A struggling joint-buying plan
for fraternities set up to operate on a large
scale is offering a saving of 5.05 per cent on
all canned goods bought through the program.
The group is seeking new members. Yet, houses
are not interested.
Currently serving 15 groups, the program
buys canned goods for members at a saving
made possible through large scale buying. The
plan operates on the basis that goods bOught
in quantity can be bought at less cost. Credit
carrying expenses on the part of the dealer
are also eliminated. Instead of carrying indi
vidual accounts for each group, the ' dealer
makes only one bill, to Interfraternity Council.
Groups then pay through IFC.
The larger the program becomes and the
more members it serves, the greater the sav
ing it can offer. In times when prices are
mounting and when houses should be inter
ested in saving every penny possible, it is
hard to believe that more fraternities do not
take advantage of the savings offered under
the program.
Conservative houses that have bought both
under the program and individually from deal
ers at the same time, have said that because
of the program, dealers' prices are coming
down. But still, the joint buying plan offers
lower prices.
Once a member, the house is not obligated
to buy through the plan. Savings, however,
still result only if that house does.
• This is the first attempt at such a plan
at Penn State. The plan has been in success
ful operation at other schools for a number
of years. An example is Ohio State, where
the plan has worked with success for over
20 years.
Food is brought through a purchasing com
mittee with representatives from each member
group. The committee buys food on the basis of
suggestions made by the School of Home Eco
nomics. Foods are chosen on the basis of quality
and quantity. The purchases are then made
from the wholesaler offering quality produce
at reasonable prices.
Complaints from one house that canned
goods were consistently delivered in dented
cans have been checked. It was learned that
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this was an exception and not a general prac
tice, and that the quality of the goods was not
altered.
Houses may order any canned goods they so
desire. There are no limits on brand or quantity.
But the rub to the plan's organizers and
members is the complete indifference on the
part of many houses and groups to the pro
gram. These houses' have made little or no
effort to find out about the plan.
The plan offers a service and a saving. Frat
ernities should at least make an effort to learn
how the plan operates. It can work at Penn
State, and fraternities certainly have nothing
to lose and much to gain by giving it a chance.
—Chuck Obertance
Dorm Noise Curbs
Are Up to Students
Once again complaints have arisen over the
gross violations of quiet hours in campus dorm
itories. Instructors attempting to get to the
bottom of the increase in below grades, espe
cially among freshmen, are finding that stu
dents place most of the blame for poor scholar
ship on noisy dorms.
Quiet hours in campus dormitories have
never been totally successful. It appears that
the crux of the matter is that a great deal of
the shenanigans is socially accepted as the
thing to do in the dorms. Fraternities do not
have the problem, since fiorn the rime a
pledge moves into a house he is indoctrinated
into the belief that study hours mean quiet
and the house as a whole respects the fact.
Violations are usually accidental.
Such indoctrination is lacking in the dormi
tories. 'The problem increases in proportion in
the Nittany and Pollack dormitories where "tis
sue paper" walls carry noise from one end of
the wing to the other.
No enforcement regulations can success
fully solve the problem: Dorm counselors can
turn themselves info policemen, but then the
problem evolves into a game—a game of
"cops and robbers."
A successful solution must come from within.
Students through their floor meetings must be
made to understand that noise-making just
isn't the thing to do. This is easier. to say than
to accomplish, but the students realize that
violations of study hours are looked upon with
disfavor - by their fellow students—and noise
making isn't proper—then perhaps the dormi
tories can solve the problem once and for all.
Then freshen will be impressed with quiet
hours for study and join in upholding them.
The problem is for the dormitory residents
themselves to solve.
Gazette ...
-Friday, November 7
INTER - VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOW
SHIP, 405 Old Main, 7:30 p.m.
WRA SWIMMING, White Hall pool, 7:30 p.m.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Andr e as Bergesen, Raymond Eiche, Paul
Green, Lester Hallman, Richard C. Jones, Jean
Kachic, FranceS Katz, Barbara Lapsley, Flor
ence Lauzar, George Mangigian, Samuel Mark
ley, Arvid Natwick, Kenneth Newman; Mildred
Peffley, Neil Powell, Duane Shaffer, Mary Sny
der, •Ann Spiese, Mary Sullivan, Jesse Wachtel.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
'ational Carbon Co. will interview January B.S. and '.13
M.S. candidates in M.E , 1.E., chem. eng., chem.,
phys., cer., and metal. Nov. 14.
swift & Co. will interview January B.S. and '53 M.S. and
Ph.D. candidates in E.E., M.E. LE., chem. eng., chem..
phys., metal., cer., and accounting Nov. 14.
':own Central Petroleum Corp. will interview January B.S.
and '53 M.S. candidates in A&L, chem., business adm.,
phys. ed., psych., corn. & finance, and marketing Nov. 19.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Male reader for blind student.
Boy to work on restaurant counter three nights a week from
9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.
—Jim Gromillei
ittle Man on Campus
"We used to call him th" Human D_
but his tenure started this year."
Dentist Dan
Into Tons of
Ever think of looking at more than 90,000 teeth in less than three
weeks? . . Well, you would if you were the College dentist.
The man who has inspected this many teeth in the beginning of
the fall semester is Dr. Daniel Lonberger, whose office is in the
College Infirmary. •
Although he is authorized to do only emergency work, many
students attempt to obtain routine
dental care.
"Just a minute ago," said the
agreeable "Doc," "a student came
in and wanted me to fill a tooth.
Well, he sort of thought that his
was an emergency case. It seems
that about three months ago he
was eating a piece of cake and
his filling came, out! I put in a
temporary filling, an ywa y, al
though you could hardly call it
an emergency case."
Dr. Lonberger, who had a pri
vate practice for many years in
State College before becoming the
College dentist, has seen nothing
which leads him to believe that
the teeth of the average college
student are free from dental dis
orders. He said that practically
all the mouths of college students
have caries or fillings.
"Besides that," he added, "most,
students ' have about four wis- 1
doms' teeth; at least 80 per cent;
of these should be extracted. The
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1952
Delves
Teeth
By BARRY FEIN
reason that wisdom teeth become
infected is that there is no room
for them in the mouth. I think
that our mouths are gradually
becoming smaller and that within
1000 years or less we won't have
any wisdom teeth.
"Our early ancestors ate tough
er foods than we and therefore
had larger and more • powerful
mouths. As foods become ,softer,
our mouths probably will become
smaller."
When asked how rural school
children fared when their, teeth
were compared with those",of city
•
children, he said.
"Of course, you realite' that
there are many variable factors
that must be considered before
answering a question such as- this.
We could hardly generalize this
situation to the United States •as
a whole. In my experience, how
ever, in workin- , with the grade
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