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Confused?
By PAT DYER
If any of you new stu
dents thought your IBM
processing was tough, you
“Ain’t heard nothing yet.”
Sad to tell, there just isn’t
an electronic brain capable
of transl tting the local cam-
pus lingo.
Realizing your plight, the
Collegian staff has done a little
research on the outside world
of inside slang and come-up
with a few workable definitions
which we hope make sense.
First of all we have that
Great Institution, Penn State
Activities, Activities are largely
composed of mickey mouse or
ganizations which spend a
great deal of time accomplish
ing nothing. Most of these are
found in the "alphabet soup.”
Alphabet soup? What else
but that uncoordinated myriad
of student groups which were
unable to think up names (let
alone a purpose) for them
selves and so are known by
the first letters of their titles.
Just for example we have
AWS, a collection of budding
Margaret Chase Smiths who
spend one evening every other
week discussing anything from
regulations to beauty contests.
Then there is the BX; ihe
FCAB; ICB; ICG; IFC: IFCPA;
ISA; OSGA: SGA: the ÜBA
and WDFM, the campus radio
station which no students can
hear because they don’t have
FM radios.
A favorite activity for ama
teur politicians is student gov
ernment. Major legislative
functions are delegated to the
SGA assembly, also known as
the "circus” whose main prob
lem in the past has been to
figure out which members can
find seats. There’s also Cabinet,
another SGA body without a
bead.
Then there are the people
who run these organizations—
Penn State 800
WILL ACCEPT AND SELL
BOOKS
Tues., Feb. 7 and Wed., Feb. 8
WED., FEB. 8 is the LAST DAY
BOOKS WILL BE ACCEPTED
BOOKS WILL BE SOLD FOR
THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK
HOURS:
• USED BOOK
9 a.m.-5 p.m.
BOOK EXCHANGE (BX)
9 a.m. - 7 p.m.
The BX has a Complete lire of Engineering
Equipment and School Supplies.
PENN STATE BOOK EXCHANGE
See Slang Defined
the BMOCs (big wheels no
spokes.) Most of these students
major in activities and are
members of one of the hat so
cieties whose badge of recog
nition, a small hat to perch on
the tip of their little pointed
heads, Is their equivalent of
a 4.0.
The biggest of the BMOC3
are found in Lion's Paw, an
organization which meets at
undisclosed times with undis
closed motives for undisclosed
activities.
Of course there’s more than
activities to Penn State, there
are also the weekends. We have
the skellar, the local soda par
lor and hort woods, scene of
Penn State’s favorite sport.
There are jam sessions, a popu
lar form of quiet relaxation;
and the milk run, the most
necessary trip ever taken by
fraternity men.
Speaking of fraternity men,
there’s the Greek (male or fe
male), a student with a status
symbol, and sorority rush, a
period of concen
trated snobbery.
Of course, every now and
STUDENTS
wishing
PART TIME EMPLOYMENT
for the Spring Semester
should register their spring schedule
and check regularly with the
OFFICE of STUDENT AID
112 Old Main, (rear)
AGENCY (ÜBA)
BOTTOM FLOOR OF THE HUB
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
then you travel to Boucke or
Sparks or Willard and meet
with new terms such as
blubie, an exam for which
everybody is unprepared and
which is designed to test what
you don’t know. This is pre
ceded by cramming, a futile at
tempt to equate knowledge
with No-Doz.
Towards the end of the se
mester you meet with the term
paper, a Jong collecion of
plagiarized cliches compiled at
5 a.m.
There are also such things
as drop-adds, a means of trans
ferring from a bad course to a
worse one, and comedy hour
or ROTC drill.
Many of your profs,_ along
with those who work in Old
Mania are members of the
University Senate, an organ
ization of grown men who in
sist that Penn Staters play war
games even over the objections
of the Defense Department.
Weil, frosh, this is just a
beginning. Make an effort and
you too can become an unin
formed, illiterate, skellar-rat—
a real Penn Stater.
THE
Exchange
Israeli Playwright
To Speak at Hillel
Moshe Shamir, playwright and
best-selling novelist in Israel, will
be at the Hillel Foundation to
morrow through Saturday in con
junction with the opening of the
1961 United Jewish Appeal Cam
paign.
Shamir will speak on Israeli
life and culture at the Friday
night services. As author of short
stories, articles, plays and novels,
he is recognized as one of the
most important literary spokes
men of the Sabra generation.
Irving Davidson of New York
City, humorist and lecturer on
"Contemporary Jewish Wit and
Humor” at a Hillel brunch 11 a.m.
on Sunday.
The letter E is the most frequent
ly used in the English language.
The letter Q is the least used.
MAIN MEETING
FOR
OUTING CLUB
TUESDAY, FEB. 7 7:00 P.M.
HUB Assembly Room
"Main Speaker:
LES GREENHILL
All Interested Welcome
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 1961
Excellence Award Given
To Business Fraternity
Alpha Kappa Psi, professional
business fraternity, was one of 10
chapters to win an award for ex
cellence given by its national or
ganization.
The plaque was awarded to
chapters with the highest accu
mulation of efficiency rating
points given for activities, service
and a research project. A K Psi
received a perfect score of 100,-
000 points and will share the
plaque with two other successful
Northeastern chapters.
Navy Programs Explained
Representatives of the Willow
Grove Naval Air Station will be
at the Hetzel Union Building from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m, Feb. 21 to 24
to explain naval flight training
programs to interested students.