1947_07 The Daily Collegian July 1947

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RADIO CENSORSHIP
"~NoboJy is quite sure Thc list of terboi,
words, phrases, and sequences differs with every avshif™},
network ..nJ sometimes with even- program.
But one thing is certain. The radio writer i
more restricted than writers in other adult ct
tertainmeni mediums. And thc fault licsvwit
^/rom the Cella
Just about cvervbody must have realized
by now that the chief difficulty with publish-1
ing a summer school Collegian is that
111,1 i-n't anything to write about. Assuming
that tin, h:c boon made pretty damn clear
in the past two issues and in this one. there
. i., uMn't I..- anv .In, king of tongues, of shaking of reproving lingers if today the Old Cel-j
!..,.-. devote- In, -pace to the same subject
discussed In Toad Corner on the adji
page, nanielv the future of athletic, at l-'i
State.
Even If there is. it's too late tc. stop the
Old C. now.   He's been wanting to discuss
fur a
.1 this s.
the. !.
Radio reaches rislit straight i
From the family loudspeaker 1
o the home.
ircfully chosen t<
blush and spare thc child. The
all too ..ware of this fact and try
grams accordingly. NBC for example, docs
consider one program as having
,„ as any, this being the period
there is the least likelihood of anything
being done about what is said.   Hut, let's get
on/with the discussion.
First, leave us get back to the beginning.
nnrf in- tr, 9iv hnw we came to construct this
• arc about to]
mplvfy  it.  lii-
„..„...„  „. athletics, let's
„ .,.,, football, because while these refiec-
ns rriav hold true of athletics as a whole.
c football that has left itself open to the
jnt of criticism in the past few years.
All right then, football.
Originally, let us say. this fine old Ameri-
n game was played for one very- simple
elaborate petard by which v.
stead of talking about college a
.,-,..  Trouble started when
group from some school—it could have bet
any school—decided it would be even rum
,    . fun to challenge a team from a rival school
illion—but rather as having twenty    tnan t0 continue as they were, beating
of one person each, anv one    lxxly but themselves.
        ,.    ■_, Right_then is wdien the serpent slithered
noff
of whom may thr
he doesn't like what he hears.
Obviously, all obscene or libelous references
are taboo. .
Sex has yet to be openly admitted to radio s
vocabulary- Programs involving problems between Whites and Negros are generally avoided.
re the taboos governing
Especially stringent
radio villains. A villain m
t have
.   If there';
any people, any
 hey like to win.
:o lose, and whether it's a
apparcn
ligion, or nation origin.
In many cases, particularly those of comedians, the network at least has the right motive
in cutting questionable lines.
One of the jokes that the network cut was
- this:
He(l) How could you walk five miles to
school and ten miles back?
He (2) I dolly dallied.
He (1) You Dolly-dallied? You mean you
dilly-dallied.
He (2) You dally who you like and I'll dally who I like.
On the commercial side, thc problem is rcl-
ing to cut down on deodorant and laxative com-
ativcly clear cut. Offensive plugs and hard liquor advertisements are not accepted.
Generally thc networks themselves arc try
mercials. But thc plugs get the closest work
over from thc advertising agencies, who exhibii
a rate protective interest for thc sponsor.
„„» the Garden of Eden. Because  -
school competition started, the seeds of all
today's troubles were sown    " **■—'	
thing that's true of people.
Likewise"they hate
good thing to admit or not, very inciic
are above liking to see the deck stacked
little ,., we'll be mure likely to win than not.
There's where all your trouble comes from.
As long as we as a people cling to our worship
of winning and our abhorrence of losing, we
aren't going to get football or any other sport
on a reasonable or a very
thing to do with it, that the big gate receipts I
are also responsible for a lot of the hypocrisy j
and double dealing that a school has to become involved into field a winning football
team. Well sure, thc lure qf the minted dollar |
has probable contributed plenty
tion. but it hasn't changed the basic elements.
Even if nobody made a dime from football, vou'd still have your alumni who think
if... a matter of shame to lose to C. O. P./""1
your downtown business men who will
i put up the cash necessary
ii a* ncnuooo.,. »-. .—, -..-'human	
' All right, ask the next question. What'
the matter with liking to win? Isn't thc idea
. game?   Don't we extoll the virtues
of giving vour all for alma mater, of getting.
'   •'   -. game and fighting with all you'
Pre Sierra Summer School News
B;"fac'k Cur'iH
This is a wonderful newspaper. Everybody pats cvery-
 j else on the back, or tiring of this, pat themselves — "•-
back. T. Elton talks about t*~ ~    '" "       "   "
member in good standing.
o bo directed j
ing"
And isn't that fight supposed
'..wards the verv simple purpose of
Sure it is. But, wait a minute. It »....
winning itself that's important.  It s what
demonstrated thereby. If victory, in agar
where a team representative of say, Fresno
State College meets a team of_ reasonably
equal calibre,	
NAVAL CUT HURTS
Three thousand college freshmen have b
selected from a Nationwide field of 42,OOC
be trained in naval ROTC units for comr
sions in the organized reserve. Because of the   ^^
widespread interest in the project, able young    just
^». — , result of the Fresno
State team showing greater determination,'
better spirit, or something as elemental as.
more courage, then the victory' is something;
of which Fresno State can be proud. Bu' " "
is a result merely of a better recruiting
tern, then there is little to be proud of except |
that recruiting system, which isn't much for
a supposed institution of higher learning to
wrap its pride around.
And oddly enough, those elements—spirit,
-"'"»"», determination ,and their kin—can be
_    . aptly demonstrated and can furnLsh
men of special aptitudes have been chosen—    Just as much occasion for pride in defeat
,   ^   , .      ...     ...     in victory. Which Is to say again that it i«
men who can be expected to develop into high- victory whjch is important and defeat which!
caliber naval officers who are specialists in their is abhorrent after all, but what is represented
.       • c- ,, by the one or the other,
chosen luclds. The choice More Fresn0 state and ^
That project is one of many that will be nip- fore every' institution which is honestly con
ped off if thc $}78,000,000 slash made by the <*n>ed with the problem of athletic subsidi
r" '     '     '   . '    .     zation and comemrciahsm is whether wc shall
House of Representatives in the naval aproprt- continue to strive only for thc comparatively
ation bill is allowed to stand. childish satisfaction of winning, no tr-"—
_ ,       ,     _ c.   . ■   -'*     how, or whether we shall trip to attai	
Before the Congress gives final passage to n^n and very' difficult satisfaction of gen-
the naval appropriation bill we trust it will    uihe self respect.
review the proposed excisions in the light of    J*Jg%« J^SfeTS
long-range economy. The crippling of the offi-    school paper and rlobody cares much on
cer training program could prove, in that light,    or another what U said therein. Because God j
•~. ° \ .* a   a °nly knows what side thc Old C. would be on
an economy this country cannot afford. if anybody did care.
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By Dean St. John and Ted Moronda
Pouring salt in open wounds probably does no good except
to emphasize that the wounds exist; it accomplishes nothing
else. Reminding ourselves of the sad situation Fresno State
athletics are in probably does little good, although there is a
small chance that some constructive action might be taken if
enough people realize just how poor our representation in
sports has become.
RULES CRIPPLE
To begin with, think how you'll writhe as the Bulldogs,
crippled by CCAA and NCAA rules governing players' financial support, bite the stadium turf when  Oklahoma  City
University's hired hands, some of whom have *******■■•**
actually played varying brands  of professional
football, tramp on them in the season opener in
September.   You won't writhe as much as the
Bulldogs on the field will, because they'll be the »
boys who are eating it. (The stadium turf, that i>
is.)  By the time the San Jose game rolls around
—it's rumored that the Spartans are stronger
than last year—we'll have to take a pint of IM
refreshment with us in order to forget the last three quarters.
And yet Ken Gleason is an able football coach with good
assistants and fine team morale. It's a cinch the Bulldogs will
try as hard or harder than anyone they meet. But the material is lacking. It isn't lacking at San Jose and other schools
on the Fresno schedule for next fall, so obviously those schools
are offering more lucrative jobs to their players and perhaps
living quarters with meals taken care of, not to mention many
donations and scholarships which are really simply financial
offerings.
DECISION MUST BE MADE
In football, at least, the time has come to make the decision between playing a schedule against Valley junior colleges and possibly Occidental, Pomona, and Cal Poly (if they
remain weak), and continuing our present heavy schedule but
finding some means of offering inducements to players who
can meet it successfully,
of the type it did last year and has lined up for next fall.
It has to be done if Fresno State is to tackle a schedule
because the schools we oppose all do it. FSC isn't even getting
the best of the Valley high school athletes any more, because
junior colleges In Southern California (not to mention other
state colleges and some universities) offer them much more.
It's time either to de-emphasize sports (which mcasn no
more money from the football gate) or else evade the rules]
and support the players. There is no third way.
JUST COUNT THE CARS
In basketball this past winter you could ride past Roosevelt High gym and tell whether a high school or college game
was in progress by simply counting cars.  If there were less, m
than fifty, it was a college game. High school games invar- I oact TalfOC Roatinfl
iabiy drew capacity houses this winter, showing that citizens ><WaaI I CJIWa UCCIIIII'-J
of the town actually wanted to see good basketball contests, I •       n       II T-_    I     ii^.i.
and many of those watching Edison. Roosevelt. Tech. and   | p   Berkeley TraCK Meet
Fresno High play were older folk who turned thumbs down * „.,,„,„ „,. v.„. ,
on Fresno Stale's contests. This was due partly to the caliber Al ™™*> *™<"* » """'"'• s"",™"r- D1' Nln'
of the team, since it didn't begin to click until late season, j "'U athlete, irouncej .be- J-acitic Coast Cooterewe represem
winning four of its last five games (by that that time college points 10 37. The result had been a foregone conclusion
students and townspeople had given up on it). | National Collegiate meet at Salt Lake City a veek aro.
Basketball coaching Is the toughest job at Fresno State' R
because the school has no gym. This may be remedied in the
*    **-"      few basketball scholarships might do a lot '
BIG GUESSER
Vaulter Smith
Will Hit 15'
"Dink" Templeton
Climbs Out on Limb
k Templeton, veteran
id field coach who formerly  iiic-nt.ir.'il at Stanford
University and is now coaching the San Francisco Olympic
Club, recently climbed out
a limb with the prediction tl	
ith, Olympic Club
 r, would be the m
end Cornelius "Dutch" Wi
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FLYING DUTCH'
s to tl
ir the t(
. if pra.
i spring. For thc second b'
 „ -8 done under difficulties.   Hut when no basketball s"<
players receive scholarships and only eight letters are given, ""
it Is small wonder that the town's best players, many of them.Berl
eligible and in school, prefer to play city league basketball and ™'r
work at jobs in the afternoon instead of putting in that time 5"'
practicing. "'
TAKE TRACK TOO
For a final look, take ti„™ , „,.„.„. „	
straight year, Fresno was shut out in bolh hundred and two- ™
twenty yard dashes in meet after meet, for lack of a sprinter p
who could run ten flat. II was even suggested that wc use a '
Longfellow Junior High boy who ran a 10.7 hundred; we
needed him.
This is a pitiful situation at a school accusl
ning track and'field squads, especially whe
school boys have run better lime- "— "-"-•-
the past two years. It js even p
ments might not be necessary" to
Fresno State; perhaps a show of in
UC Whips Yale
For Ball Title
AS.Shaddow
Jewelry Company
_,    ......i  Valley   high
■s than Builds;; sprinters f„r
  ihe opportunity
—      io has had several world champions
might do the trick. A little interest must be shown r-J -
little energy expended, however, or we will continue !<
track meets to San Jose and other schools who make sure
that in each event thev have an entrant of at least high £-"—'
caliber.
Class is over for today. Let's wake up or give up, m.
1037   MARIPOSA  ST.   FRESNO
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