WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 15; 1954 Masculinity-Female Style Adarrfs Other Rib ■■■• By PEGGY McCLAIN - Between memoirs of mother’s youth arid dad and brother Tom’s wardrobe, campus coeds should have- little trouble scraping ,up a winter ensemble this season. Throwing femininity .to the Fathe, (and; a/multitude of fashion, University Has Health Service For Students • Of utmost concern to. the stu dent and his parents are the Uni versity’s medical facilities. Stu dents who pay the Health Service fee upon entering the University are entitled to the benefits of the University Health Service. The Health Service is divided into two main branches, the Dis pensary and the Infirmary, or University Hospital. The University Health Service is manned by Dr. Herbert.R. Glenn, director; Mrs. Carol .H. Burt, supervisor Of the health service ' hospital, and a staff of seven full-time physicians and 13 nurses. Upon entering the University, students are given a. thorough physical examination, an X-ray, dental examination, and tubercu losis test. The Dispensary, known as:.the outpatient department, is located in 3 Old Main. It is open from 8 a.m to noon and from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 8 a.m. until noon Saturdays. Here is where the student reports first if he wishes to use the Health Service. The. Infirmary, the inpatient de partment, is -located on. Pollock and Shortlidge roads, near the Temporary Union Building. It is open to students '24 hours a day. It is equipped to furnish hos pital care for ill or injured stu dents and will supply medical aid to students when the Dispensary is closed. Visiting hours are from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m daily. No night visiting is allowed. A stu dent is -entitled : to seven days of free treatment each semester! No professional calls are made in the dormitories. A community ambulance and the Campus Pa.trol are on call 24 hours a day for emergencies.- Penn Staters Vie for Title Of 'Ugly Man* _ Usually everyone- is out to get titles for being the most beautiful coed or the most handsome man, but at the University alt the men want to be the . holder of the. “Ugly Man” title. Each year,. as part of. Spring Week festivities, campus groups sponsor irien as candidates in the Ugly Man contest. The contest, directed by Alpha Phi Omega, national service fra ternity, begins with an Ugly Man parade. Last year’s contest • was the largest since the contest began. For three days, after the parade, contestants performed in front, of the Ugly Man booth which was lo cated at the Mall arid Pollock road. All the antics the contestants could think of were performed. Their aim was to ' raise enough riioney, through penny-voting, to become one of seven contest'final ists. . .. _ From the seven finalists, the ug liest Ugly Man. was selected by judges. Last year, Donald Malinak won. : The man chosen to be Ugly Man receives an Ugly- Man key, and the group sponsoring him wins, a tro phy. The finalists arid winner also gain points for their sponsoring groups toward Spring Week. The money collected by the con testants ■ was given to the Campus '-nest. Last year over . $llOO was c °uected during the entire contest. this year students can again.look torward to Spring Week activities, and. one of the .most; hilarious events will surely be the Ugly Man °ontest..". wind, Christian Dior and Jaque nagazines as well) would willingly have the female race .in its .en tirety revert to the flapper" fads of; a scrawling. waistline and' an extinquished - bosonri :In this: age of. Christine Jprgesons and Ro berta Grays, the current trend toward perverted fashions is not a'-total- surprise. It’s rather re volting, though, that surgery mlist be carried over into fashion for the sake of that time-worn “w ell dressed” look. M a s c u linity seems- to reign ing this season . 1 . masculinity for femmes, that is. Men were long ago thrust into pink shirts and dainty ribbon ties arid even the pa ten, leather slip pers of Little Lord Fauntleroy’s age. Little waist-hugging frocks with smooth fitted bodices and simply flared (or simply pen ciled) skirts are no. longer safe from the age's high-fashion ex perts. "Tweediness" is chic now, they would tell us. And "tweed mess" can be ■ defined as any thing that reeks with heavy, distorted lines (traceable back. to aforementioned racks of dad's suits and topcoats) and deep, mysterious . fabrics (originating somewhere between great-aunt-. Martha's , Hindu wall-tapestry and pet poodle- Fluffy's shorn winter coat). To be sinart, this year’s ward robe must disguise completely any semblance to the female sex. Waistlines have been discarded as. unnecessary handicaps to that “boyish” look, hip lines have beeri distorted until they, resemble those of Latrec’s Parisian mar tinets, and the proverbial Ameri can bustline has been exiled by much., the; same process as the ancient Chinese- women used in binding their feet. Fashion experts would leave little identification to the female figure.'They-would set fire to the feminine pageantry of flowing silks and tulle, wrap the' modern woman in boyish tweeds, and send her forth to what? Inevitably, to sew'buttons on her master’s shirts when she can scarcely sit down for all the superfluous hip bustles, to clean and tidy living rooms when she can barely breathe or bend inside the rigidity of the “concealing” bodices; and to cook her .lord’s dinner feast, when she can .scarcely, find a waistline around which to tie the aprbn strings. Perhaps we females asked for ;ihis perversion'; in fashion when we set out lo conquer the world of male industry, typewriters arid stethoscopes and-slide rules clutched- between our.laquered hails. Someone has quite ob viously called our bluff this season, and left us hut two al- • iernaiives—either we riiiist mar shall the Christian - Diors and Jaque Falhes -from, their sketch .books, and become . our own au thorities on women's fashion, or do a fast retreat back into the kitchen. ' Penn State Engineer ; The first meeting of the Penn State Engineer will be held at .7 p.m. Monday in 211 Mechanical Engineering. Students interested in working on the magazine may attend. ; NEW COLLEGE DINER GOOD FOOD ATTRACTIVE PRICES CONVENIENTLY LOCATED - A Quarter of a Century of Courteous Service Between the Movies THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA 18 Majors Offered by kg College The College of Agriculture with offices in the Agriculture Building is one of the largest colleges with in the University. . The purpose of the College as outlined in the University bulletin is. to “provide instruction in the sciences that underlie agriculture and in their application to agricul tural practice, for all who seek such instruction, whether the. time they can devote to this purpose is a few days or several years.” To fulfill this purpose the Col lege has been divided into three divisions resident instruction, research (experimental stations), and extension. At the head of each of these divisions is a vice dean. The entire college is under the direction'of Dean Lyman E. Jackson. . The College offers 18 major cur riculums to full-time students, a two-year applied course in agri culture, 16 short courses in agri c "Iture, 56, correspondence courses, and a host of conferences with rural organizations and farm groups throughout the year. The College occupies the Agricul ture, Forestry, Horticulture, Dairy Husbandry, Plant Industries, and Patterson buildings. The College also uses the innumerable barns and acres of farm land owned by thie -University. The College is empowered to grant B.S. degrees to students grad uating in agricultural and biological chemistry, agricultural economics and sociology, agricultural ■ engi neering, agricultural journalism, agronomy, also in animal husban dry, bacteriology, botany, dairy husbandry, forestry, general agri culture, horticulture, medical tech nology, pre - veterinary .. science, wood utilization, and zoology and entomology. Student Council Plans Activities In LA College ; The Liberal Arts Student Coun cil, serving students in the Col lege of the Liberal Arts, is a body of 26 representatives elected by the student body. Four representatives from the incoming freshman class will be elected in October. Regular elec tions are held each May for up perclass seats on the council. A project of the council begun last "ear was the publication of the LA Lantern, a magazine writ ten by students in liberal arts and published by the Council three times yearly. The council, last year sponsored a coffee hour each week to which freshmen, sophomores, and trans fer students iri .liberal arts were invited to get acquainted with up perclassmen and faculty members in the College. A faculty evaluation program was. also carried on' by the coun cil last year. Professors distri buted to their classes evaluation forms in an attempt to determine the students’ attitudes towards their teaching methods. Partici pation by. the professors was op tional. An open house was held Moth er’s Day weekend last spring dur ing which members of the coun cil conducted tours of' the cam pus, Dean Ben Euwema spoke to visitors, and . the facilities of the College were open to the public. Proposed activities for the. com ing year are to find some system of class cuts that could be estab lished. as a standard throughout the College and to . investigate Saturday, classes to see if the present system, is fulfilling the in tended purposes. Class Provides Fund for Clock The Class of 1904, which do nated the Old Main clock, pre sented the University with a plaque, commemorating the gift, and a fund to maintain the clock, during the class’ 50th . reunion held June 11 and 12 at the Uni versity. Harry A. Leitzell, State College and treasurer of the class, pre sented the fund' after the unveil ing. of the plaque. The clock was the first gift presented by a class at gradu ation. According to old bills on file at the Pattee Library, the clock was purchased at a price of $765. From 1949. to 1953, there were 29 fatal boxing injuries in the United States. Advertisement I WAS AWARDED A RIBBON AND PROMPTLY PUT IT IN MY TYPEWRITER First of all—how come? How do I come to be writing a column for Philip Morris in your campus newspaper? I’ll tell you how come: It all began on a summer night. The air was warm, the sky was full of stars, and I sat in a cane-bottomed chair on my verandah, peaceful and serene, smoking a cigarette, humming the .largo from Death and Transfiguration, and worming my dog. Into this idyllic scene came a stranger —a tall, clean limbed stranger, crinkly-eyed and crooked-grinned, loose and lank. “How do you do,” he said. “My name is Loose Lank and I am with the Philip Morris people.” “Enchanted;” I said. “Take off your homburg and sit down.” I clapped my hands. “Charles!” I called. “Another chair for Mr. Lank.” 1 Obediently my dog trotted away and returned directly with a fan-back chair of Malayan rattan. He is the smartest dog in our block. “I’m sorry I don’t have a Morris chair,” I said to Mr. Lank. “That would be rather more appropriate you being with Philip Morris and all.” Well, sir, we had many a laugh and cheer over my little witticism. When we had finished laughing and cheering, we wiped our eyes and Mr. Lank pulled out a fresh package of Philip Morris. He yanked the tape and the pack sprang open with a fetching little snap. “Did you hear that fetching little snap?” asked Mr. Lank. “Yes,” I said, for I did. “Cigarette?" he said. “Thank you,” I said. puffed contentedly for three or four hours. Then Mr. Lank said, “I suppose you’re wondering why I’m' here.” “Well,” I replied, my old eyes twinkling, “I’ll wager you didn’t come to read my meter.” • You can imagine how we howled at that one! “That’s a doozy!” cried Mr. Lank, giggling wildly. “I must re member to tell it to Alice when I get home.” ~ “Your wife?” I said. “My father,” be said. “Oh,” I said. ... v> “Well,” he said, “let’s get down to business ... How would you Eke to. write a campus column for Philip Morris?" • „ “For money?” I said. ’ s “Yes,” he said. “My hand,-sir,” I said and clasped his. Warmly he returned the pressure, and soft smiles played on our lips, and our eyes were bright with the hint -of tears, and we were silent, not trusting ourselves to speak. “Cigarette?” he said at length. I nodded. We lit up and puffed contentedly for eight or ten hours. “I under stand you’ve made quite a study of college students,” said Mr. Lank. • “Yes,” I said, blushing modestly. “I have been collecting them for years. I have over four thousand students in my basement right now.” “In mint condition?” he said incredulously. ' “Students don’t come in mint condition,” I explained. “They go to great expense to. acquire the ‘beat-up look.’ ” “How interesting,” he said. “Tell me something more about them— their feeding habits, for example.” “They are omnivores of prodigious appetite,” I said. “It is wise not tovleave food about when they are present. Their favorite food is a-dish called the Varsity Gasser—one scoop raspberry ice, one scoop raw, hamburger, leechee nuts and maple syrup.” . “Fascinating,” said Mr. Lank. “And what are students interested nr chiefly?” . “Each other,” I replied.. “Boy students .are interested in girl students, and girl students are interested in boy students.” _.This seems to me an admirable arrangement,” said Mr. Lank. But is it true,even in these parlous days of worldwide tension and dreadful armaments?” ‘ “It is. always true,” I said. “It isn’t that college students don’t know what s going on in the world. They know all too well. They’re perfectly aware of the number of lumps waiting for them ... But meanwhile, the limbs are springy and the juices run strong and time is fleeting.” “What will you write about in your column?” asked Mr. Lank. About poys and girls,” I said. “.About fraternities and sororities and dormitories and boarding houses and dances and sleighrides and hayndes and cutting classes and going to classes and cramming foiv exams and campus politics and the profits of bookstores and con yertibles and BMOCs and BWOCs and professors who write new texts every year and the world’s slowest humans the page bovo at the library.” j you say a pleasant word about Philip Morris from time to time?” asked Mr. Lank. .~* r , I replied, I can think of no other kind of word to say about Philip Morns.” «, We shook hands again then, and smiled bravely. Then he was gone - a tall silhouette moving erectly into the setting sun. “Farewell, good I cried after him. “Aloha, aloha!” And turned with a will to my typewriter. ©m« shulman- This column is brought to you by the makers of PHILIP MORRIS ■ who think you would enjoy their cigarette. Chem-Phys - (Continued from page eight) curriculums are chemistry, chem ical engineering, commercial chemistry, physics, pre-medical, and science. The College of Chemistry and Physics library is located on the top floor, of Whitmore laboratory. In the library there are complete sets of reference works and more than 100 chemical and physical journals in English, German, French, Russian, Italian, and Spanish. Potato growers sometimes at*, puzzled by the seed pods, looking like tomatoes, which grow on the plants, but exports say that if the seeds are planted, each sepa rate seed will develop a different kind of potato, almost never the same kind found on the plant that produced the seed. (Author of m ßarefoot Bop With Cheek" etc.) PAGE NINE Advertisement
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