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Published Tuesday through
Saturday Plernings inclusive
during the College year by
the staff of The Daily Col
legian of the Pessarylrani*
,State College.
Entered as aecoad-dada :tatter Jeff L. 1934 at tMo State CoHem Pa. Poet Office wader the act of March 3.. 1379.
DAVE JONES, Editor
Managing Ed., Marshall O. Donley; City Ed., Chuck Asst. Bus. Mgr., Mark Christ; Local Advertising Mgr.,
Obertance; Copy Ed., Chia Mathias; Sports Ed., Sam Robert Carruthers; National Adv. Mgr.. , Donald Hawke;
Procopio; Edit. Dir., Dick Ran; Wire-Radio Ed., Bill Joat; Circulation Co-Mgrs., Frank Cresernan, . Diane . Miller:
Soc Ed.,Lynn Kahanowitx; Asst. Sports Ed., Dick McDowell: Promotion Mgr., Ruth Israel; Personnel Mgr.. Patience
Asst. oe. Ed., Lix Newell; Photo Ed., Bruce Schroeder: Ungethnem; Office Mgr., Gail Shaver: Classified Adv.
Feature Ed., Nancy• Meyers; Exchange Ed.,, Gas Vollmer: Mgr., Jean Geiger; Sec., Carol Schwing; Research and
Librarian, Lorraine Glades, Records Mgrs.. Virginia Bowman. Eleanor Hennessy.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night 'editor, Phil Austin; ,Copy editors; George , Bairey, Tammie Bloom; As
sistants, Roy Williams, Don Shoemaker, Ted Serrill. Ad Staff: Edie Wolfgang, 'John Craig.
Freshman Class Plays Itself 'a Sucker
About 1500 freshmen rioted in the West Dorm
courtyard Monday night, creating much tur
moil and accomplishing nothing but a demon
stration of immaturity.
The riot, some claim, was calculated to end
frosh customs. Others say it was to build school
spirit. Still others say they were just out to
raise hell. In any event, the mob action was
another demonstration- of student action that
will hurt the College and entire student body.
All-College President Richard LeMyre struck
close to home when he told the frosh they were
a mob, lacking individuality. Lemyre said he
could talk to any of the mob individually and
each would admit he was there only because
everyone else was.
Mob action of this sort, any thinking student
should know, can lead to no good. Shouting.
screaming, immature students • cannot hope to
accomplish anything constructive. • They can
only bring shame upon themselves and the
College. If this was their purpose, and we hope
it was not, they have succeeded admirably.
If the freshman class cannot accept minor in
conveniences of watered-down customs, it is
not a very realistic class. Customs for this year's
senior class lasted eight weeks. Dating was not
permitted during that time and the class fought
a tug-of-war in an attempt to end customs. This•
year's class has six weeks customs with dating
permitted every weekend. And a contest to end
customs has been promised.
If hazing practiceS in Penn State customs
Cabinet Oversteps Its Jurisdiction
Thursday night All-College Cabinet adopted
a recommendation, after amendment, that men
liVing in the dormitories .hould be subject to
rules which would establish greater decorum
in the dining halls. The motives behind this
move were of the highest sort, namely to re
quire a mode of dress at evening and Sunday
meals disimilar to that found in the Collegc
barns.
In its attempt to improve appearances on
campus, cabinet forgot one thing. The - decision
did not rest with cabinet alone. Either the ad
ministration should specify such requirements
in its conditions of contract furnished incoming
dormitory studentS, or the matter should have
been put before the. students most vitally con
cerned with the regulation—the independent
men.
The administration, could have had little way
of knowing whoa would come out of the Student
Encampment at Mont Alto—the origin of the
idea for more appropriate dress in the dining
halls. Therefore, the possibility of including
these • dress specifications with the conditions of
contract is, by a matter of time, excluded.
Cabinet on the other hand was urged to act
quickly, one way or the other, on these recom
mendations so that, if approved, the habit of
A Modern Fable
A long time ago lived a man named Aesop
%Vho wrote a story about "The Shepherd's Boy.
The story went something' like this:
There was, once . ,a =young college student who
lived in a beautiful dormitory at. Penn State. It
was rat her , boring for him one night, so he
thought upon a plan by which he could fool his
friends and have , some excitement.
He rushed down towards the door, pulling
the dorm fire , alum on the way, and all the
dorm residents ran out of the building. This
pleased the student so much that a few days
afterwards he tried the same trick, and again
the friends ran out of the dorm.
But shortly after. this a big fire actually did
break out in the dormitory and began to burn
the building, and the student of course turned
in another fire alarm. But this time the friends.
who had been fooled twice before, thought the
student was again deceiving them, and nobody
ran out of the dorm.
So the flames made good kindling of the stu
dent's friends, and when the student was sorry
the wiser students of the college said: !`A liar
will not be believed, even when he speaks the
truth."
And so the moral of the story is, the student
who cries - "wolf" too many times may pay for
it with someone's life.
The first farmer was the first man, and all
historic nobility rests on possession and. use of
land.—Emerson
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control
our thoughts.—Darwin
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
—Euripides
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE,. PENNSYLVANIA
VINCE DRAYNE, Business Mgr.
were frequent, or if the customs were par
ticularly stringent, frosh might have room to
complain. But the customs are light and enforce
ment is lax. 'The frosh themselves have asked
for more enforcement. This does not give miach
room for complaint.
And even if complaint was warranted, it
cannot be expressed by mob action. If the frosh
feel customs unfair, they must seek relief
through normal student channels instead of try
ing to strong-arm themselves into control.
It is " doubtful, however, that frosh customs
lie at the base of Monday night's display. Some
one wanted to raise hell, and he was smart
enough to gather up a lot of suckers to follow
him. And so it is the freshman ,Class has been
put in a 4d light, and has played itself for a
sucker.
As our little freshmen grow older, and if they
grow more mature, perhaps some day they will
realize the stupidity of such riot tactics. Upper
classmen do not welcome freshmen of this cali
ber. They can bring no credit to the College or
themselves.
It is easy to believe, by such actions, the fresh
man class in general is a rather immature 'thing.
This is not true. The class undoubtedly has , in
telligent and level heads. But unless those in
telligent and level heads take hold of the class,
it will be looked upon as an immature thing:
And in the end the frosh can hurt no one but
themselves.
dress could be instilled before other, less: ac
ceptable, habits would be formed.
In view of these facts, cabinet's action might
be understood, as the best possible means to an
end. The will of the majority was expressed and
the recommendation was put into force. How
ever, the will of the majority- does not condone
domination of the minority by the majority.
The establishment of dress requirements was
done largely by those least affected by the
ruling.- "- -
As one sardonic observer from the .Pollock
circle dormitories said, "What do women care
what we wear in the dining halls? They never
come down to look at us anyway."
Although 'perhaps a slightly bitter outlook,
`he ""remark did serve to bring out, one point.
:To governmental agency tells the American
people what they shall wear in their own homes.
The world, either campus or outer, will not
fall apart. because- more desirable attire was
sought in the dining halls, just as the world has
not fallen apart because of the change in gov
ernmental administration. But the campus
world can take a pretty severe beating if stu
dent administrations continue to extend their
authority into areas that do not directly con
cern them.
Gazette
AERONAUTICAL SCIENCES, 7 p.m., 105 Me
chanical Engineering. •
AGRICULTURE CLUB, 7 p.m., 210 Agriculture
Building. '
AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL Society, 7:30
• p.m., Mineral Industries.
COLLEGIAN PHOTOGRAPHY ,candidates!
Meet in Room 111 Carnegie Hall, Thursday
Oct. 2, 7:00 p.m.
PETROLEUM ENGINEERING • Society, 7:30
p.m., 105 Willard.
PSCA Assembly, 7 p.m., 405 Old Main.
GRANGE, 7:30 p.M., Horticulture.
RIDING CLUB, 7 p.m., 317 Willard.
SOPHOMORE FORESTRY, 7 p.m., 105 Forestry
Building.
THESPIAN program committee, 7 p.m., 101
Willard.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Experienced baker.
Experienced clothes presser.
Man eligible to work 25 hours a week in book
store.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Ted Cohen, Fred Drabenstadt, David Fine
man, Hana Gach, Ronald Gardner, Paul Green,
Mrs. Evelyn Grubb, Robert Jones, Virginia C.
Juan, William Kudaroski, James C. Leslie, Mary
E. Mason, Leonard Moore, Dean Moyer, Gilbert
Offenhartz, Sally Ostrom, Shirley Rollins, Man
fred Sayer, Lee Wetmore and Robert J. Watson.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT SERVICE •
The companies listed .below will conduct interviews on
campus: . and in most cases, are interested in • talking to
graduating seniors regardless of draft ' status.
..REM-CRU. INC. will interview January graduates in
ME, lE, EE, Metallurgy, and Accounting on Oct. 13.
GENERAL MOTORS CORP. will interview January
graduates in Chem. Eng., Arch, Eng., CE.-EE. lE, ME, and
Accoianting Oct. 43-15.
Collegian editorials repro.
sent the viewpoint of the
writers, not eteeessarily the
!policy of the newspaper. Un
signed editorials are 'hy the
—Dick Rau
TODAY
Little Man on Campus
"Hello, Professor Slither, say would you bring some weighty
philosophy books over here—l'm having the darndest time select
ing a text for this course."
gartcin Around
Att 21.14 and aunt
Editors are a stuffy lot. I find desks much more interesting.
It seems the other day' the editor of the Daily C . made -a decision
concerning new brooms and good sweeping jobs and proceeded to
clean out the general filing cabinet in his little glass-walled domain.
This operation raised eyebrows among the-more conservative Mem
bers of the staff. After all, why shouldn't' the Daily C hang onto a
1932 copy of the .College . cata
logue: It's only a little obsolete:
Flushed with the success of this
mission, he proceeded to put his
brand new desk in order, up
setting another hallowed tradi
tion . of former Collegian editors.
During the job of stacking equally
useless bits .of information into
mathematically equal piles, he
constantly kept up a series -.of
side remarks concerning my desk.
He finally broke down my re
sistance, and I wound up clean
ing my desk, no doubt bringing
down the spiritual wrath of all
the editorial directors before me.
The task was particularly un
inspiring. Only the stuff one
might naturally expect was there.
The job of straightening up
the mess is only part of my
gradual weakening of charac
ter. Just before I left *home, I
broke down and cleaned up a
. desk drawer. Cleaning them
one at a time is the only way
to do it, No sense in burning
myself out before I'm 95.
The cleaning job at home was
far more inspiring. I made a list
of 45 general items. Some of these
with explanatory comments might
be mentioned. In fact they not
only might be mentioned, they
will be.
Included in the mess were 27 ,
pennies worth 13 cents in this
country and $2.70 in China; 37
pencils- thoughtfully left at home;
one Panamanian quarter worth
25 cents in Panama; • one German
mark worth nothing anywhere;
a New Jersey road map particu
larly useful in New •Jersey; a
Milwaukee map and' transit guide
of inestimable value in State Col
lege; and a Japanese bras,s pipe
for those who prefer brass to
tobacco.
There. was also an American
pipe in the collection, for smok
ing tobacco, not Americans.
Included in the collection were
31 postal money order stubs. I
don't know where I got •the
money for paying the charges
involved. I must have been a
budding capitalist. There was also
a small. American flag, flag staff,
and flag holder stored in the rear
of the drawer. I'm a veteran.
But this wasn't the end- of
my discovery of long forgotten
treasures. There was' a padlock, ,
no key, just the lock; one bottle
opener (no comment); a table
knife for opening paint _ cans,
WEDNESDAY,
,SEPTEMBER 30, 1953
EMI
'piggy banks, locks,- and in dire
circumstances, for table use; a
newspaper clipping on en easy
way to get wortns for fishing
bait (this one purtles me. I
don't especially care for fish);
a broken pocket watch that
cracked up while trying to syn
chronize with Old Main 's
chimes; •and four penny post
cards now worth 2 cents.
An unimpressive looking enve
lope of cold pills was found lying
innocently in one corner of the
drawer. I probably at some time
or another decided that since the
pills wouldn't cure the cold, I
would wait for pneumonia. The
medical profession can cure that.
- That isn't all. There are more
goodies in store such as an auto
cigarette lighter that never
got around to installing; a good
three-cent stamp pasted to part
of an envelope, an 11th grade
report card (I burned it); a
bottle of brass,cleaning powder
(presumably to give the smoker
of .the brass Japanese pipe a
cleaner smoke); four Boy Scout
service stars (no comment,
again); instructions for operat
ing a movie projector (no pro
jector, just instructions); vari
ous- and sundry pictures, and
one picture purchased in Hono
lulu considered neither various
or
or sundry.
This wasn't all I found. But
then everyone has a magnetic
compass, a cherry wood letter
opener, a roll of friction tape,
four small hinges, a vehicle code
book for Pennsylvania, a World
War II gas 'ration book, a Japa
nese cigarette' case, a - copy of
"Allentown Plant Agreement be
tween Mack Manufacturing Cor
poration and the International
Union United Automobile, Air
craft and Agricultural Implement
Workers of America Local 677,"
one copy of the UAW-CIO consti
tution, glass cutter, screw driVer
set, a collection of miniature key
ring auto license plates ; and a
book • of matches measuring 3 1 / 2
inches by 4 1 / 2 inches in his desk
drawer. •
'Hay .Fever' Tryouts
Final tryouts for Players' "Hay
Fever," will be held'at 7 n.m.. to
night in the Little Theater, base
ment of Old Main. -
The comedy by Noel Coward
will open Nov. 5 in Schwab Audi
torium.
By Bible
By DICK RAU