Edinboro Play Day is This Saturday The Spectator Red Raiders Play Alliance Tonight THE VOICE OF STUDENT OPINION VOL VH—No. 4 Get Your Dates Now! Bowery Brawl Is Only s A Week From Saturday 1 5 ii;' [ ~ ? Informality is Aim of Annual Girls Hop in Old Gym March 16 CONSULT DATE BUREAU Waming to the men: Beware the Ides of March! Caesar | was warned, and I guess it’s well to ■vj warn all the fellas, too. In case your Roman history didn’t register, boys, I the Ides of March happens to be the nJ jay before the annual Bowery Brawl »u d . i tt_____ given by Haven Hall girls. If you’re still in the dark, the Brawl is to be held in the old gym the night of March 16th, where infor­ mality is the keynote and a grand time is planned for all. Don’t wor­ ft ry, boys, it won’t cost you a thing because the girls foot the bil.l To the ladies: Remember, it’s only once every IE four years that we can have such a * rare combination as the Bowery Brawl and Leap Year, so let’s take advantage of it. Get your date ear­ ly to avoid the last-minute rush, and 'if you’re in need of a good suggest tion, see Ellen Graves, who is spon­ soring the Date Bureau. No service charge. Tickets at 25c per couple may be obtained from Louise Vallance, and if you want to send “him” an invitation, see Lolly Maxwell. The Brawl: What to Wear? Anything? goes. If you want to dress like a denizen of the Bowery, a Boy Scout, a fouryear-old, or Sadie Hawkins, that’s quite alright. Floor show by the ’Freshman— practically professional talent. Music by Glenn Miller, Or­ rin Tucker, Hal Kemp—whom do you want? Just name the orchestra. Well, girls, its your golden opportunity, so get your date early for the sixteenth of March. I EDINBORO STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, EDINBORO, PA. E CLUB MEN T ” express APPRECIATIONJ ]FOR AID To The Spectator: In behalf of the “E” Club, I wish to thank all those who, in any way, were responsible for the success of our recent Minstrel. NORMAN DILLEY, President “E” Club. MARCH 6, 1940 INTRAMURAL COURT TOURNEY BEGINS IN NEW GYM MONDAY Seven Organizations Enter Teams In Double Round Robin Tournament Play ---------------------------------------------- Editor Explains Varied Purposes Of Edinboro College Newspaper What is the purpose of a college newspaper? In the first place a col­ lege newspaper should be an organ of information for the student body, faculty, alumni, administration, and all persons connected with the college. Secondly, it should reflect the opinions of these groups so that increased co­ operation and understanding might result among them. Thirdly, and what is probably the greatest purpose of a college newspaper, it should provide students the great opportunity to gain much valuable and practical ex­ perience in the journalistic and business methods of producing a newspaper. It is this latter purpose that really makes a newspaper of genuine value. Too, with its complete fulfillment in an educating manner, the first two pur­ poses will be achieved as a consequence. Yet, if this latter purpose is not fulfilled, little will be accomplished of any importance and a college news­ paper will fail to fulfil its purpose. Success in the fulfillment of this purpose depends not on the efforts of one person alone as many people are prone to think when they talk of an Editor-in-Chief. Rather it depends on the combined efforts of many per­ sons, and only by the combined efforts of these persons, can the necessary work of making a college newspaper such as the Spectator be done. Each issue the necessary work of making the Spectator consists pri­ marily of five thousand words of “copy”. This copy, on the whole, is dis­ tinctly creative work, and with the rate of creative work set at two hundred (Continued on Page Two) Phi Sigma Pi Dinner Kappa Delta Phi Holds Traditional Hell Week Held In Haven Hall With Forty-six Present Initiate Nine Pledges During Past Week Twenty-two Pledges at Founders’ Day Meeting PRESENT ELEVEN SHINGLES On Saturday evening, March 2, nine pledges of Kappa Delta Phi, a national professional honorary fra­ ternity, ended a most eventful Hell Week, with their tribunal being held in the old college gymnasium. Those who received the informal initiation were: Richard Rockwell, Raymond Meadway, Al Block, Frank Ordon, David Blasdell, Joseph Scal­ ise, Jack Mensinger, Max Leslie, Richard Whitehill. These pledges are probationary members, and on good conduct, will be installed as full fledged members next semester. Phi Sigma Pi held its annual Founders’ Day Dinner Meeting in Haven Hall dining room on < Saturday, i., March 2nd, at 6:00 p- m, with PresiBrown acting as toastdent James D. L.---master. Striking the keynote of the dinner, ■ I a brief Historian Graves presented Phi Sigma Pi and of Edinresume of 1 — « boro’s Upsilon Chapter. Member Anthony Cutri introduced the pledges of 1940, twenty-two in number. Both Gyms to be Used Vice-president James D. Wood, During Afternoon Play who was last year first president of Upsilon Chapter, presented fraternity With six colleges as guests, Edin­ shingles to eleven recently initiated MR. AND MRS. O. BAILEY boro women are holding an invitaANNOUNCE BIRTH OF SON members. ^°nal Play Day on............ next Saturday, —i was concluded with The program Mr. and Mrs. Orville Bailey an­ March 9, from 2 to 6 p. m. alumni members -prea word from nounce bhe birth of an eight pound Mercyhurst, Villa Maria, Pitt the., reading of letters Center, Allegheny, Their and West- sent and by members by Secretary boy, James Bailey, who was born on from absent • colleges have been invited • 1 to Sunday, February 25, 1940, at St. piaster NMr" Waldo F. Bates, Jr., faculty Vincent’s hospital, Erie, Pa. attend. Doth gymnasiums are to be used The coach, in the traditional manother fraternity mem­ with remarks' ner, passed out cigars to tell of his competition in all sports dur- advisor, and bers ended the program the entire afternoon, according and the singing of the “ Alma Mater.” , son’s arrival. to Coach Nettie Mai Ruttie. Edinboro Women Plan Invitational Play Day Managers and Coaches Draft New Regulations for Equal Competition VARSITY MEN INELIGIBLE Organizing intramural basketball competition into an “A” and a “B” league, Coaches Bailey and Harrison met with team managers last Monday morning in Reeder Hall to lay plans for a Round Robin Tournament be­ ginning next Monday at 4:00 p. m. in the new gymnasium. Seven organizations have signed up to enter one or more teams in each of the leagues. They are: Phi Sigma Pi, Kappa Delta Phi, Reeder Hall, Freshmen, Commuters, Y. M. C. A., and the Spectator. Phi Sigma Pi, Kappa Delta Pi, Reeder Hall and Freshmen have a team in each grade of competition. In order to equalize competition, varsity squad men and transfer stud­ ents are limited to competition in League “A.” All other students may play in either League “A” or “B.” Varsity lettermen are ineligible. The competition is to be in the form of a double round robin tourna­ ment with one game each afternoon at 4:00 p. m. Games will be played (Continued on Page Three) Elaine Ghering Elected President of W. A. A. New Leader is Aided by Council of Ten Electing Miss Elaine Ghering presi­ dent, the women of the W. A. A. chose a new Governing Council of ten members at a meeting recently held in the old gym. Serving with Miss Ghering on the council for the ensuing year are the following members of the Senior, Junior, and Sophomore classes: Phi Leader, Virginia Andrews, senior. Delta leader, Geneva Jones, junior; Secretary, June Keyser, sophomore; Treasurer, Doris Heintz, Sophomore; Head Custodians, Beatrice Kusner, sophomore;' Custodians Phi, Wilma Ishen and Marjorie Martin, sopho­ mores ; Delta, Elayne Bradley and Alice Jane Carmen, sophomores. The new president is a junior art student and has been very active in the W. A. A. sports activities, in lead­ ership and ip sportmanship. THE SPECTATOR Page Two The Spectator The voice of student opinion at Edinboro State Teachers College. Published on Wednesday throughout the School Year by the students of Edinboro State Teachers College at Edinboro, Pennsylvania. STAFF ...................... Walter I. Nissen Editor-in-Chief .... Mary Dailey, Edward Damits Associate Editors .............................. Frank Ordon Business Manager ............... W. Verne Zahniser Faculty Adviser .. Reporters .......... .................................................... Virginia Andrews, Warren Anna, Norman Dilley, Florian Florek, Raymond Gallagher, Ellen Graves, Wilma Ihsen, Marjorie Martin, Eunice Rodgers, Helen Turner, Dorothy Williams Subscription rate to the Alumni and general public is one dollar per year. EDITOR EXPLAINS VARIED PURPOSES OF EDINBORO COLLEGE NEWSPAPER and fifty words per hour (which is possibly quite fast for some persons), it takes, for the actual composition of copy, approximately twenty hours. However, twenty hours of creative writing demands at least an equal amount of time spent in securing the information for the copy. This varies greatly and possibly forty hours of investigation is much nearer the amount required. Between this composition of the actual copy and the distribution of the printed newspaper on Wednesday there are numerous necessary jobs, such as headline writing, proof reading, and make-up—to mention a few, that probably take a hundred collective hours to complete. It is easy to see that a hundred and sixty hours of work already accounted for in actual produc­ tion, no college student—not even a genius—could do this job alone. By the way, the sale of advertisements and subscriptions along with other necessary functions of a business nature, add to this total, for they are sure­ ly a necessary part of a college newspaper. What is the point behind this definition of the purpose of a college newspaper and the presentation of these facts? It is done chiefly to ac­ quaint the Edinboro student body with the problem of producing the Spectator. Too, jt is to show that an Editor-in-Chief is really an unimport­ ant person who must depend very greatly on the assistance of others. Last­ ly, the Spectator, in order to fulfil the purpose of a college newspaper, needs not the lone-wolf effort on the part of a single person, but the united effort on the parts of many who by their individual contributions, do the important work of fulfilling this purpose. — The Editor-in-Chief. i SPECTATOR OUTLINES EDITORIAL POLICY With this issue the Spectator begins another period of publication, An almost entirely new staff has assumed the responsibilities of reporting, edit­ ing and managing this college’s newspaper. Too, the editorial staff has assumed the larger responsibility of being servants to the voice of student opinion on this campus. With this thought in mind, the staff will, to the best of its ability, serve and be responsive to that opinion which is a natural and necessary part of this institution. However, this student opinion, though natural and necessary, will not be allowed to degenerate into mere ranting and futile gnashing of teeth. In other words, the Spectator is not to become an instrument of “veiled com­ ments” and anonymous haranguing between partial groups. Too often later circumstances have proved that a single boost is many times more valuable than a barrel of knocks. So, with this first editorial, it is the an­ nounced policy of this newspaper to discuss with freedom and reason, the opinion of the students on this campus, but, at the same time (and at all times) to keep it out in the open and on a high plane worthy of Edinboro College. Newman Club Studies Thirteen Initiated ‘Christian Marriage’ Into Mu Kappa Gamma ADVISERS ASSIST WORK The Newman Club, . launching a new type of program under the dir­ ection of Rev. McDonald and Aimee Doucette, is studying “Christian Mar­ riage,” The next meeting of the club will be on March 13, at 8:00 p. m. At a recent dinner party given by Miss Wilson in Reeder Hall, thirteen new members were initiated into Mu Kappa Gamma, honorary music fraternity. New members are: Misses Marian Duffy, Myrtle Morley, Wilma Ishen Jean Carlson, Ardelle Huber, Helen Sl