1939_01 The Daily Collegian January 1939

              THE FRESNO STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIAN
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HrtiadMiaalhigStr^te.
Call For Modome Burning Daylight
Lamp oi Honesty at Stadium
Let the word "Honesty" enter a situation
of editorial notice and the writer will drag out
the fable of the barrel resident, Diogenes and.
his day-burning lamp. Let unusual honesty be
displayed and the writer will state that the
Greek sage's search is over; let there be a taint
of dishonor evinced and words of sorrow are
spilled for Diogenes and his ideals.
So it is today in  The  Collegian  editorial
of-
MILTON LAWRENCE
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EDITORIALS
Today marks the removal of another of the
many traditions once gracing the campus of
Fresno State. The far-famed tradition that
fraternities and sororities should have the privilege of filling the front rows of the auditorium
in return for a faithful pledge to keep those
same rows occupied at all college programs has
passed into the discard along with the many
others that have passed by the road in somewhat the same manner.
Through misuse or degeneration ten or
eleven of the traditions that used to be—the
glamour and mystery of the college campus—
Where, for instance, are the old Men's and
Women's Courts of Tradition, the frosh "dink"
ruling, the strict law concerning seating in the
student body assembly, the Fresno State College Library Seal tradition? Why docs a bench
have to be placed over the only remaining evidence of a tradition at Fresno State in order
that it can technically be called a tradition?
The general feeling of the student body
towards the "No Smoking" in the corridors has
disappeared. Now co-eds and men wander from
class to class entirely oblivious that once there
existed such a tradition at State.
The student body offices of Historian and
Sergeant-at-arms no longer are active. Only the
shell exists with its empty honor and prestige.
The once sought after positions on student committees and boards are now considered mere
favors to hand to close friends to use as stepping stones to higher and more exalted positions. Members of the once powerful Court of
Traditions are no longer active in student affairs. Members of the body are even unknown
to each other.
-The once vigorous political campaigns for
student offices have given way to insipid, uninspired contests for a major portion of the
of si
tinues to be a perplexity t
ficials. Revealed last football s
tics that caused sorrow for Diogenes honor-
lovers as student helpers on the gates created
a Good Thing for themselves with "unofficial,"
ticket sales. Arising from the regard for
Diogenesfprinciples, bank-tellers from the local
banks were placed on the gates to irradicate sorrow for Honesty-disciples.
Regret was voiced in many spots but the
Burning Daylight Lajnp was considered and
students remained merely spectators for the
last games. Now peering toward future horizons there are new suggestions to ease the mind
of the Wise Man of the Barrel and his followers.
The Burning-Daylight Lamp will have to be
mechanized in the form of registering turn-
styles at the Stadium!
Eliminated would be that frail human element that allows tickets to escape "unofficially"
if turnstyles utilizing a mechanism that records
the entering of each person were installed. Students would be able to work with absolute check
prevailing, finances would be cleared and the
followers of the old Grecian Sage would be made
happy as his Burning-Daylight lamp becomes
moderne and mechanized.
Idle Chapters
He Felt Shaky—
Shifting his books to
her arm as he reached i
his pocket after the mjn
professor stood in line at
box office. Classes, lectures
tendance reports, student o
ferences   has   been  tirinjt
Finally he was at the h,
of the line and his coin ch
tered over the marble and
single ticket poked out of I
stall at him from the blot
behind the slass. Qul.il>  ..   ,,,'
In ESiigy
"Way Up Yonder
symbol of Sealtlltcs)  they shed water easily.
Yea. theae  are  pitiful,  benlihted  people:   almost
Seattle; probe the pa
ond  Puaet Sound;  .
ro THE VltTOR       ;,V„di„K"„ew. ','vent, oV'tiie yea.
1   Fyfe   nave   the     „0I  Ih„  y,„r  ,,,,   ,„„   ,,.,.  ,.»..,
■  was   tops   for -*taog.  called   by   some  th.
uff;  .Meiers, the     0|d m.„ of football." Stagg I.
Dr. M. G. Papazian Gives
Graphic Picture of Rise
Of Modern Turkey
Hepburn, of Holiday.
Teat Pilot, and The Dawn Patrol.
£S Price Answers
Br- Of Union Store
Given Collegian
Rain Brings
Beauty to
State Campus
Social Science Honor
Group Hears Lecture
On Totalitarian Issue
Students Speak    5niHS££
At Chapel Meet' 3r^_;
THE FRESNO STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIAN
PAGE THREE
SANJOSEHOOP SQUAD
FAVORED OVER FRESNO
IN WEEK-END TWIN BILL
By DEAN ST. JOHN
Fresno and San Jose State Colleges will meet tonight and
Saturday night in the first regulation basketball games between
the two schools in four years. Both games will start at 8 p. m.
Coach   Stan   Bor-
;j"h'oopsters again assume
■fed <S
<u-, i-par
d0gf°le'h?
with   the   San   Jose
,,., ,,il aggregation is what
„j|j Hubbard. Spartan coach.
... welded together, with the
Lii* of his attack centering on
t.„v,l Thomas, dusky guard.
, . .„,|f Smersfelt, the lad
?h,t -vcl.t the Bulldogs off the
floor m the San Jose tourney
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£ Beatty's Lads
«J, Play Games
2 At Hi School
Absorb Beatings    ™<Tzn»z,no^z
Over Vacation     E^E^,Sr
New Conference
Rule Approved
tl  Prank Mr dure and E
New Roos-Guess
Casaba Contest
To Start Today
Speakers Renew Lectures
Before Valley Groups
MacCraclten 5tudies at
L. A. Medical School
Alumni Hold Fresno
Home Club Membership
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