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Editorial Opinion
Show Some Spirit!
The spuit shown by the student body toward the
J.iboity Howl game lias been nil.
Why? Students must accept the game and realize that
mnie than Penn State's football record and prestige is at
stake. The Liberty Bowl game may be new, and adminis
ti alive blundeis may have been made earlier in the month,
but the bowl and the University’s appearance in the game
against Alabama can bring nothing but prestige to the
Univeisity. It will have a nation-wide television audience,
und with a good day from the weatherman, a crowd of
fit),ooo is expected to witness the game in Philadelphia
Stadium. The Penn State Blue Band will be there and so
will some 4000 students, but what about those 10,000
othci i - *
Attendance at the game isn't mandatc-ry to exhibit the
spirit and enthusiasm of an appreciative student body.
The team has worked long and hard for this game.
Undoubtedly it is lough to gain campus enthusiasm for
football after a 4-week layoff, but the Lions are in a posi*
season bowl game, ranked 10th in the nation and have a
very worthwhile opponent in the Crimson Tide.
Not more than 40 students showed up for the Lion
game movies sponsored by the Varsity “S' 1 Club Sunday
night, A big cheering contest was to be held Monday
between the Nittany, North and West Halls areas. A
handful of men showed up for it.
Tonight, movies of the 1948 Cotton Bowl will be shown
and a final pep tally will be held m the Hetzel Union ball
room. It will look pretty disgraceful if 16 senior football
players attend the tally—only to be introduced to another
handful of students.
Hew can the team be expected to be prepared mentally
for the game, if nothing but pessimism is shown about
campus? If the students don't show an interest in the
game and don't care if the team wins—why should the
53 players making the trip to Philadelphia? Are they
playing this game for their own benefit or for ihe Uni
versity's?
Turnonow afternoon a farewell pep rally will be held
in Recication Hall. Stars of the 1947 team will be intro
duced and the Blue Band and cheerleaders will also be on
How many students will be there to give the team a
sendoff really deserving of a bowl-bound squad?
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
GEORGE McTURK
Business Manager
Press Mourns
Resignation Of
Volatile Lewis
By ARTHUR EDSON
WASHINGTON (/P)—To the
nation’s feature writers and
columnists, to cartoonists
everywhere, this is a black
day in journalism.
John L. Lewis is quitting, and
where shall we find another?
This volcano of a man, who
spewed molten prose, who roared,
who glowered, who threatened,
seemed born to be caricatured, to
be described and quoted, to be
hated violently, or to be followed
unquestionmgly.
In recent years he has been
comparatively quiet. But in the
background he could be heard
occasionally, grumbling and
rumbling.
Now, at 7!), John L is stepping
down as head of the United Mine
Workers Union that he dominated
so long, and an incredible era has
ended.
This is a timid age, and the
words aie weasel If a politician
wants to call another politician a
liar, he says his opponent is some
thing less than candid.
Who is left who can spend
his words so abundantly, so lav
ishly, as Lewis?
Ten years ago I wandered into
a congressional hearing on mine
safety. Normally safety is im
portant but dull. Yet here was
John L. Lewis, crying out that
1,259,081 miners had been
“maimed, mangled and killed" in
the past 19 years.
“A million and a quarter!” Lew
is thundered. “If I had the powers
of a Merlin, I would march that
million and a quarter men past
the Congress of the United States
—the quick and the dead.
“I would have ihe ambula
tory drag the dead after them,
so ihe Congress might see: and
I would have the men whose
eye 3 were shot out and who
were disembowled in the mines
crawl in that procession along
ihe cobblestones so that ihe
Congress might see them trail
ing their bowels after them.
"I would have the concourse
flanked by five weeping members
of each man’s family, six and a
quarter million people, wailing
and lamenting.”
Dante didn’t do much better in
describing the inferno.
Gazette
TODAY
Agricultural Economics Club, 7 pm, Del-
ta Thetu Sigma
AIM, 7 P m . HUB
ASME. T:.to pm, telephone building be-
hind Boticke
Chens* Club, 7 pm, HUB cardroom
Christian frellownhip, \> H pm, 218 HUB
Delta Nu Alpha, 7:30 p.ui, Lambda Chi
Alpha
Engineering Student Council, 6* 15 p.m.,
21 2 HUB
Forestry Convocation. 11 «m, 121 Sparks
Nittanv Grotto, 7pm, 121 Mf
Penn Dairy Industry Comm., 10 a m.«3:30
pm, 2K HUB
Sigma Alpha Eta Christmas Party, 7 pm.,
'Speech ami Heating Clinic, Sparks
Sigma Theta Epsilon, 7 p.m., Wesley
Foundation chapter room
University Lecture Series, Bpm, Schwab
Women’s Chorus, 6:30 pm-, HUB assem-
bly room
WKA Dance Club, 7 pm„ White Hnl!
dance studio
WKA Volleyball Intramural*, 6.30 and
7: JO p.m., White Hall gym
Zoology Club, 7pm, 105 Frear
HOSPITAL
Ellen Allbeck, Edith* Beck, Margaret
Ciborowshi, Charles Collins, Timothy Cop
pola, Lois Devrmide, Louis Helfrich, Mary
Jane Kaaes, Edward Knoepfle, Evelyn
Koeblin, Ralph Landis, Francis Lefever,
Janies Mncmko, David Maier, Judith Mc-
Limau, Jacqueline Meyer, Alan Nath, Nancy
NichoNon, Fatricia Niedbala, Judith North
rup, Normnn Potter, Manfred Speer, Wei
ner Unzelnmnn, George Vlachos, Stephen
Wagnet.
Letters
Hibbs Hall Appreciates
Nittany Christmas Spirit
TO THE EDITOR: A “thank
you” must be extended to Nit
tany 28. Monday night, a phone
rang in Hibbs Hall. When 1
lifted the receiver I heard,
“This is Nittany 28 calling. We
would like to wish you a Mer
ry Christmas." Blending in
harmony, they sang “Deck the
Halls.” It was a delightful sur
prise to be serenaded over the
phone with a Christmas song.
Thank you, Nittany 28, and
Merry Christmas to you, too.
—Lyndale Dey. Class of '63
ittle Man on Campus by Dick Bibtsi
YOUR STUDY HAOITS DON'T S6EM TO BE
YOUg LOW G(?AD£$, THESE TE£TS INDICATE Y<
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NOISE Discusses
’Vital' Local Issue
In the dark, hallowed corridors of Pattee Library a
student organization is forming. Their numbers, once few
and insignificant, have grown unbelievably.
These zealous comrades meet every night at the stroke
of eight in the first floor hall where the drinking fountain
is located. Anyone who has
nudged his way through at this
hour is familiar with the is
sues they discuss with true de
votion
This year’s
agenda open
ed with a
discussion of
“Summer at
the Shore”
and “Have
You Seen ‘You
Know Who’?”
As the year
progressed
other topics
included :
“You’ll Nev- MISS SLOSSON
er Guess Who Called,” What
Happened at Pitt?” and “Do
You Have a Date for the Lib
erty Bowl?”
The organization is official
ly known as the New Order of
Insecure Sound Educators,
Otherwise known as NOISE,
they are planning to request
recognition ffom SGA this
spring, provided membership
increases at the present rate.
Their charter, carried in a
barely used PoliSci book, con
tains such noteworthy, pur-
Letters
Band Wanted
For Parade
TO THE EDITOR: It has come
to my attention that the Penn
State Blue Band has been in
vited to participate in a Liber
ty Bowl parade, on Friday. Af
ter consulting with Dean Mc-
Coy, the Blue Band was in
formed that they could not at
tend because of the cost in
volved which was a mere
$l3OO.
Alabama was also invited
and they readily accepted the
invitation. Is it that our Uni
versity is not proud of the
school team and band? I do
not see how the University can
state that $l3OO is too extra
vagant a sum when the prestige
and honor of the school is to
be upheld and honored.
Perhaps the administration
should reconsider their deci
sion, and consider the students
honor and the prestige of iheir
school.
Let’s see some action on this
important issue. Let us prove
that Penn State is as interested
In their students as Alabama.
—Ginny Schroeder, '63
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1959
W£ CAUSE OP „
J'RE JUST
by zandy slosson
poses as: to discuss problems
vital to University living, to
praise member morale before
tackling that book report, to
provide an opportunity for
members to introduce their
friends to “the cutest girl,” and
—but I am giving away trade
secrets!
Their grounds for seeking
University recognition are ob
vious: they were able to util
ize a few more square feet of
University property without a
budget appropriation.
NOISE has raised a great
deal of notice lately as the
number of term paper assign
ments have increased. It seems
they are called a "downright
nuisance" by those intellec
tuals who seek quiet solituda
with their books.
But do not worry, I forsee
a day when NOISE will con
quer and the intellectuals will
be driven to their barren wine
cellars.
The old battle cry of “Re
member the Alamo” will be
forgotten and freshmen will
scream “Remember the
NOISE” until they are hoarse.
Dean Wants
Pix Returned
TO THE EDITOR: Please, may
I have returned the portraits of
Cordelia L. Hibbs, Anna O.
Stephens and Barbara S. Hall
er that were removed from the
three South Halls that bear
their names?
I am sure that whoever bor
rowed the pictures did not
realize that their disappearance
is cause for embarrassment to
the University. The pictures
have an Intrinsic value to the
families who gave them in
memory of their loved ones,
and the University values them
as a part of its heritage.
The intent of the disappear
ance of the pictures should
have been served by now, and
I am hoping that someone will
take the responsibility of hang
ing them back where they be
long or returning them to 105
Old Main.
—Dorothy J. Lipp,
Dean of Women