1934_01 The Daily Collegian January 1934

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COLLEGIAH EDITOMAI€f£ATUM PACE
I Reviewing the Shows j
To Hold Benefit
Boxing Tourney
Page The Buzzards
In the average civilized community, when any kind
of an animal dies, the usual custom is either to burn or|
■ bury what is euphemistically called "the mortal remains,'
both in the interests of civic beauty and public hygiene
At no time within our knowledge hasYhe practice everl
been pursued of working over a cadaver according to
Red Cross directions, or of frantically injecting stimulat
! ing potions into its hollow veins, in an attempt to regenerate life within the corpse.
. .    It has remained for the Fresno State College student
body to fly in the teeth of all civilised tradition and custom
and to embrace with a determined tenacity the withered
carcass of a body so long without animation as to take the
edge off the appetite of even a starving buzzard. The bodj
in question is the organization known politely as the As-
sociated Hen Students, whose only function, in the cour
of the past few years, seems to have been to rriaintain
receptacle for old cigarette butts and mentally fatigued i—,
bridge players known as the "A.M. S. Room," and to hold F reshman ClaSS
each year in the women's gymnasium a relatively decorous      "
and sedate gathering termed the "Hobo Brawl." The former function has, in the bargain, lost what little Utility it
ever possessed now that the A. M. S. room is periodically
dosed or opened according to the mode of the moment
But, as usual, it took a nomination (which might jus .
its well have been an election) to call to the attention of
those interested in college affairs to the revolting state of j
decomposition at which the decaying political organism
niasquerading under the title, "Associated Men Students,'
has arrived. For no office of the body, with the exception
of that of sergeant-at-arms, was more than a single candidate named, and even at that the list of nominees practic
ally exhausted the number of those present at the meeting
For how much longer will the political atmosphere of I
the Fresno State College campus be fouled with the fumes j
of absolutely decadent and entirely non-functional organ
iztstion, one for which no possible use can be found and I
which serves only as an obstacle obstructing the path of
IiTogress?—A. C.
Recently a headline appeared in one of the yalley publications saying: "Fresno State College to Meat Southern
California Track Team." We have heard of Fresno State
College doing various and sundry tricks in its time, and
some of these tricks were quite admirable, but this is the
first tune that we have heard of any college pulling a stunt
such as is described above. It might have been just
if the "M" had been left off.
Editorial Exchanges
Higher Education Disadvantageous?
"Are we trying to higfaer-educate too tnariy people?" pertinently asks an eastern college editor. Another wonders- what is to
be done about the over-crowding of professions.
The latter cites American Bar Association statistics
that 9,600 new attorneys are admitted to practice throughout th
country every year, although only half that ntnnber are said to be
needed to maintain the 1930 census ratio of 191 lawyers to every
100,000 population.
He also p^iotes Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law
School to the effect that poorly-trained lawyers who crowd the
lower ranks of the bar simply complicate and impede the legal system by their inability or untffflingneas to comprehend the ideals sewing. dr**smskinf.
of justice on a broad scale. .     ■   ***** »» «•***» »"»
As It Might Have Been Written
■e spoiled by being m
e into poor la
and probably poor preachers,
Meanwhile, the first edito
have too much mass education, too much training without a specific objective. Of course, he has a right to worry, as does Editor
Ho. 2, but msy we suggest that acute as the problems of higher
education may be. the solution is not less education—less train-
distribution of KINDS of training.
Higher-education is in no more of a dilemma than'business
and industry, where distribution also is the biggest problem. But
just as we csn expect more revolutionary changes in business and
government, we must look forward to and intelligently direct simi-
constructive changes in education.
And that, Mr. Roosevelt, is just another little job for your
New Deal!—College News Service.
Behind Ihe Scree
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&v Paul Bartlett
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lure. Thla department welooi
CBS. Sunday February 1. The 11
Th',,, does the staff of the Collegian express its sentiments at
the close of one semester's la-
bcrs and, drawing a deep
breath, plunges into the problem „f final examinations.
Reviewing .the achievements
„f the semrater. the writer cannot but be protld of those who
have made possible the 31 consecutive issues since the term
cot under way in September.
Seldom is ah editor blessed with
j, ,taff of such capable, willing
telpers as have made their service? available during the semester of which this edition is the
last Certainly no college editor
i„ a similar position could ask
for more from a staff which does
its work, for the sheer love of it.
Working for monetary remuneration is one thing; working in
the sincere interest of producing
a better publication for the student association is quite another,
,nd yours truly challenges the
world to produce anywhere, in
similar circumstances, a staff
equal to his own. His only hope
is that tbe same hands and
heads will again report for work
when   Ihe  new   semester ■ gets
No Fresno SUte College student  can  afford  to  miss next
Monday's  special  assembly,   at
which State Director of Education Vierling Kersey will discuss
the effects of the New Deal on
education. The leaders of tomorrow are the students of today, ijj^/
and in the nation's colleges and |, ,
universities are those who will miy.
be called upon to fill the breach     ""
in the next great crisis. Under- J^h
standing what the problems con- n*y c
fronting  civilization  are is the'   Uv
first step in education, and some itor of
interesting sidelights   on   thatlpretid.
matter  should  be provided in       "
Kersey's address.
e feeling more than  usually radical!"
along about  midnight  Monday, L __
and to the many printahop prob- 'president of-Tl
lems confronting us that nigh
may Ih- ascribed a great deal of
credit for the "Page The Bus-! .
urtls" editorial which served as L
a burn-up for the lagging A. M" n
S. We felt just a wee bit guiltj |
the next   morning   for   having j''
been so cuttingMn our remarks i.
but so far we have heard noth u
in? but praise for the editorial |<
I« it possible that the it
!IK FRESNO STATE,
MEN WIN ELECTION!
TO HONOR SOCIETY!
Vierling Kersey To Speak
Before Student Assembly
In Auditorium Monday
11 State Director of Education Will Discuss Effects]
of New Deal; Plans Go Forward for
Course Revisions
Various phases of the nation^ New Deal, together with e:
llperiences encountered in Washington, D. C, where he served r
cently as a member of a committee on educational needs will I
described by Vierling Kersey, state director of education, at
special assembly of Fresno State College students in the college
||auditorium Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
Kersey's talk to the students will concern what the New Deal |
d new conditions mean for education in general and college
BESSEY, DAVIS TAKE
OFFICE FOLLOWING
SPENTJECTIONS
Avakian, Harris and Nixon Also
Selected by
A. M. S.
OTE   HEAVY
surprisingly heavily bal-
lloted contest for offices of the'
Associated Women Students,
Barbara Davis, former president
of Delta Kappa, Fresno State
College sorority, and member of
the Student' Activities   Commit-
B that
And so au revoir for two
weeks. When the next Collegian
appears in the foyer, there wil
be new faces in the halls and
dtsarooms, and. sad to relate
"vera! old ones missing. Some
">re nnce remarked, "The best
People that come out of college
•J* those who are kicked out!'
Which may, or may not, be true
""•rely depending upon one's
"fwpoint.
A CappelhtChoirto
Have Final Meeting
Regular Class Period
1 MWF
S TTh
Period ||
Wednesday, Jan. 24, 8-10
.Monday, Jan. 22, 3-6
Monday, Jan. 22. 8-10
Tuesday, Jan. 23, 3-6
Tuesday, Jan. 28, 10-12
Friday, Jan. 19, 8-10
Tuesday, Jan. 23, 8-10
Tuesday, Jan. 23, 8-10
Monday, Jan. 22, 10-12 -
Wednesday, Jan. 24, 8-6
Friday, Jan. 19, 8-6
Monday, Jan. 22, 1-8
Wedncsdsy. Jan. 24, 10-12
Wednesday, Jan. 24, 1-S
Tuesday, Jan. 23, 1-3
Friday, Jan. 19, 10-12
Friday. Jan. 19, 1-3