PAGE FOTJII Published Tuesday through I:32.turday %mornings inclusive during the College year by the :tiff of The Daily Col • legian of the Pennsylvania IS tp.te College. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934 at the State College, Pa. Past Office sailer the act of . March 3. 1879. DAVE JONES. Editor Managing Ed., Marshall 0. Donley; City Ed., Chuck Asst. Bus. Mgr., Mark Christ: Local Advertising Mgr., Obertance; Copy Ed., Chiz Mathias; Sports Ed., Sam Robert Carruthers; National Adv. Mgr., Donald Hawke; Procapio; Edit. Dir., Dick Rau; Wire-Radio Ed., Bill Jost; Circulation Co-Mgrs., Frank Cressman, Diane Miller; Soc Ed., Lynn Kahanowitz; Asst. Sports Ed.. Dick McDowell: Promotion Mgr., Ruth Israel; Perionriel Mgr.. Patience Asst. Soc. Ed., Liz Newell; Photo Ed., Bruce Schroeder: Ungethuem; Office Mgr.... Gail Shaver; Classified Adv. Feature Ed.,Nancy Meyers ; Exchange Ed., Gus - Vollmer: Mgr., Jean Geiger; Sec., Carol Schwing; Research. and Librarian, orraine Gladus, Records Mgra., Virginia Bowman, Eleanor 'Hennessy. STAFF THIS ISSUE: _Night editor; Bill 011endike; Copy editors: Mary Lee Lauffer, Edmund Reiss; Assistants: Roger Biedler, Roy Williams, Mary Loubris, Cecilia Johns. Ad Staff: Vince Drayne, Bob Carruthers. 1 ll tiSineqS School:. A New Opportunity . A great opportunity for - business education lems. Good liberal arts background is essential in Pennsylvania has been made available with for this. the opening of Penn State's ninth undergraduate The elimination of the language requirement school. The School of Business, approved by has removed good mental discipline for the the Board of Trustees in January, began its in- . business student. Besides discipline, foreign structional work yesterday under Dean Ossian • language provides a better knowledge of the R. MacKenzie. native language, contributes to the power of To Penn State, the new school will mean communication, and expands the scope of the much. It will add prestige to the College, bring . student. Agood School of Business-2-as we hope Penn opportunity .to its students, and provide sound Statei will be—can instill.a. basic knowledge of business graduates for the state. - the free enterprise system, teach this power of A School of Business has long been a need at communication, and combine the two with Penn State. Students enrolled in economics and ethics. The school must be more than vocational. commerce in the School of the Liberal Arts Business students must learn more than the have long yearned for such a school and the morals of the market place. They must be busi opportunities it would afford. One main student ness statesmen. concern in a Business school has been the re- The more than 1000 students going into the rnoval of the foreign language requirement. new School of Business this week must avail The new school is now a reality, and much themselves of this new opportunity. The school to the joy of those students, the language re- has a good faculty. There .are areas to bolster, quirement is gone. This is unfortunate. The and difficulties must be overcome. But this is Business school curriculums illustrate a sound ' true of anything new. . liberal arts background is necessary for a busi- Penn State, students have long clamored, for ness graduate. A business graduate must be the School of Business. - The school is here: It able to communicate. He must be able to read, is now largely up to those students to use the write, talk, and listen. Above all, he must be facets of the school, and to make it , work for able to think intelligently about business prob- them. Customs: What Do They Mean? Penn State's customs program moved into its fourth post-war year yesterday with both fresh men and upperclassmen wondering just what the whole thing is about. Customs were returned to campus in 1950 for the first time since 1944. They were designed, as fax as we can determine, go promote Penn State spirit and group feeling within the fresh man class. To some extent, customs have accomplished these goals. Largely due to customs, freshman spirit at football games has risen and frosh hay.?. learned College songs. They have learned a bit more about the campus, and learned it a bit faster. And customs have promoted a temporary group feeling among the frosh. But customs enforcement has been sadly lack ing. Never since 1950 has any more than a small group ardently enforced customs. And never since 1950 has any more than a small number supported the customs program. The rebirth of customs was mainly a move of student govern ment and • not the entire student body. As a result, customs without student support have suffered. This should be the first year of full customs enforcement. This year's senior class has under gone customs, 'as have the juniors and sopho mores. All have experienced the pros and cons 'Mr. Soccer' Leaves Penn State The man who earned the name "Mr. Soccer" in his 27 years of Penn State coaching is gone. Bill Jeffrey, the College's soccer coach for more than a quarter of a century, has gone to Puerto Rico and been replaced by Ken Hosterman, one of Jeffrey's outstanding. players. Jeffrey leaves behind him records and mem ories to be treasured by old and new students. He understood only one word—Win. And that he did. During the summer the winning Scot ac cepted a teaching-coaching position at the Uni versity of Puerto Rico. Had .he remained on campus, he would have been forced into re tirement in 1957. This would be like losing a soccer game. . Jeffrey introduced two sports at the College which will be employed for years to come. They are intramural soccer—the sport he called'"Five- A-Side," and "Soccer-Volleyball." The latter in- Safety Valve .. We ant Opinions Probably the best way for students, 'faculty, and administration to let their opinions be known to those on campus is through the Safety Valve, a Daily Collegian editorial page feature. Letters should be addressed to the Editor, Daily Collegian, State College. Whether it be a gripe about All-College Cab inet, College practices, or world affairs, or praise for someone or some group, Safety Valve is the place for it. To be published, letters must be signed. We reserve the right to edit or cut letters. Letters bearing signatures will be verified. However, we may withhold names upon request of the writer. alp Elattg euttegiatt to THE FREE LANCE. est.. 1887 —Dick Rau THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE. COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA VINCE DRAYNE, Business Mgr; .gSS6- of a customs program. As a result, enforcement this year will probably be at a peak. . Because the cust6ms program lacks full stu dent support, student leaders and hat societies are expected and even urged to enforce customs. If customs were desirable, enforcement would come from all students, and not only through a few., A good customs program can be effective. Penn State, still young at 99, needs good solid student traditions. The purpose of customs may be admirable. But the application here has been poor. Customs have been faulty from the start. The Class of 1954 had customs until Homecoming, was not allowed to date during that time; and had a contest with upperclassmen to get free of customs. Last year, customs were removed after a small frosh demonstration. This year, frosh may date after the first weekend. Such incon sistencies point to the faulty planning and ship shod control of customs. The customs program deserves at least ane more chance to prove itself. That chance is the program which opened yesterday. If upperclass support is - forthcoming for the customs .•pro gram, it deserves continuation. If upperclass support is not forthcoming, the students ap parently do not want customs. In this case, customs should be stopped at Penn State until student demand is high enough to warrant them. novation was brought about through his own authoritative advice: "I like to see a• boy use his head, as well as his feet." Requirements for the game are head and feet. In 1951 Jeffrey and his championship team were invited by the State department to make a goodwill tour to Iran. Although there are many things that -have enriched his career, there is only one which will go down in history as a chapter in itSelf. That is Jeffrey's incredible won and lost record in college soccer. He led his teams to .151 vic tories, 22 defeats, and 28 ties. He was also a producer of all-America material-37 of his players won this distinction a total of 49 times. This is the shoe that Hosterman. Must wear. Although the job will . be difficult, we believe Hosterm an's selection is a good one. And we're behind him 100 per cent. Gazette ... Tuesday, Sept. 22 COLLEGIAN Business Staff, all members, 7 p.m., Collegian Business office, Carnegie. FROTH circulation meeting, Freshmen wel come, 7:30 p.m., 317 Willard. FROTH, new and old advertising candidates, 7 p.m., 5, '6 Carnegie. HILLEL Governing Board, committee chair men, 7 p.m., Hillel Foundation. Hall gym. BADMINTON CLUB, 7 p.m., White, Hall gym. WRA BOWLING CLUB, 7 p.m., White Hall alleys. WRA MODERN DANCE CLUB, 7 p.m., Rhythm Room, White Hall. WRA HOCKEY CLUB, 4 p.m., daily, Holmes Field. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Men for waiter jobs in town. Women for waitress work. in town. Collegian editorials repre sent .the viewpoint of 'the writers, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper.'Un signed editorials are by the edit r. • —Sam Procopio Sports Editor Little Man on Campus to stick it out and flunk." The Old Badger Game State College Goes For a Free Ride Merchants in State College learned a new game this summer —the old badger game. And, as one newspaper reported, "they were taken for a free ride." Arriving in State College in July with only a $4 pawnshop ticket and several dollars in his pockets, Alex Diaz set local • merchants and natives into a whirl of ,activity. He announced plans to put State College into the interna tional social whirl by holding a fabulous "Mexican wedding" in the borough. Townpeople, prepared to greet the bride and bridegroom, two ex-Mexican presidents, movie • ac tress Delores Del Rio, and 145 other visitors • from the Latin quarter. Before the 24-year-old Diaz had been arrested and' sen tenced to 1-to-11 months in Centre County jail, he had managed to set the stage for one of the m ost . hoaxes ever arranged. Before this driver 'on a Mexi can hayride' was caught; he had: Reserved a hotel, a fraternity house, and a roller-skathig rink for wedding receptions. Reservations for a party of 150 Mexicans for accommodations in two other fraternity houses. Students from State College High School and the College hired to perform at the wed ding. Diaz taught them a Mex can shuffle dance and promised them $1.50 an hour. Lined up other college students to serve as chauffeurs, waiters, and ushers for $25 a day. Some ushers were even measured for tails by a local tailor. Flowers worth $6lBO ordered from a local florist who alerted six helpers to handle, select, sort, and cut flowers. Diaz had a local restaurant ar range with a bakery to make doz ens of loaves of garlic bread . . . just so the Latin visitors would be properly fed. Fraternity men at one house were induced to convert a shal low goldfish pond into a wish ing • well so Mexican magnates could drop silver dollars into the well for the newlyweds. A local merchant was sent hunting for someone who could make a $4OO canapy which would be attached to the front of the hotel. A Clearfield dealer said he could do the job. Persons were asked to find a mountain retreat •for the bride and groom where they could re main in seclusion until the wed ding day. Church announcements told of the coming marriage of Rafael de la Garza and Anna Louise Soto, a pair that never showed up. "I did not make a cent on my wild scheme," Diaz said, "even TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER' 22, 1953 rop thAs course.—The rest try though a lot of people were, as you would say, took." He pleaded guilty to charges of ducking an $BO hotel bill and fail ing to pay for a $7.50 bouquet of flowers he ordered for a hotel employee who "was so nice" to him. He told police he first came to State College seeking a friend. When he .learned his friend had moved, he decided to make new ones. He explained the bridegroom was his cousin and it was a Mexi can custom for cousins to arrange weddings for each other. He said the bridegroom had studied at the College and had fallen in love with the bride .to-be; a former resident of near Bellefonte. They had moved to Mexico City where their ro mance continued to bloom, he said. They decided to get mar ried in State College for senti mental reasons, he added. Father of the bridegroom was also to bring a 12-piece orchestra. Diaz sa id he didn't have to scratch around for ,ideas once lo cal residents worked themselves into a fever pitch. He also said he had to work hard to . keep up with excited citizens. One business man ordered six red, brass-buttoned jackets for his waiters to wear and another storekeeper had a sign written in Spanish stating the language . was spoken in his store. Some merchants went so far as to seek Spanish-speaking help. Diaz began moving belong.; ings into a -fraternity house from the hotel where he was staying. Later, he asked about a nearby airport and. asked if . a member would dri v e -him there. The men in the house, growing suspicious, called po lice who arrested him t h night. Records turned up by police showed Diaz had served in Army disciplinary barracks in Leaven worth, Kan., and the friend he had come to State College to see was a fellow prisoner. • When asked if he was sorry for what he did, he said,• "I think those people had fun and enjoyed themselves." Merchants in town had one moral to offer . . . ing on a Mexican hayride; make sure you have a license—a mar riage license." By -Bible'. ~;AeAf gtg
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