5.6. A. Elections
On April 11 students will be participating in the spring term SGA
Elections. All full time undergraduate student will be voting in
three distinct procedures. First are the SGA Presidential and
Senior Senate Elections. One vote will be cast for each of the SGA
offices - President, Vice President, Treasurer, Recording Secretary
and Corresponding Secretary. Votes will also be cast for the Senior
Senate seats. Each individual will case one vote for a candidate in
his or her academic division (Math/Science, Humanities, Social
Science, Elementary Education, Engineering and Business). A
second vote will be cast for any of the senatorial candidates. Those
running in the SGA election are as follows:
President-Dave Nicholas & Michael McAllister; Vice President-
David K. Delong, John H. Klock & Russ Hogg; Treasurer- Brian
English & Thomas Sheets; Recording Secretary-none; Corres
ponding Secretary-’ none. SENATORS
Business- Bruce Karshner; Elementary Education- Nancy Wilt;
Engineering- Skip Laratonda; Humanities- none; Math/Science
none; Social Science- none
The second procedure will be the faculty nomination for the
James Jordan Award for Teaching Excellence. Each student will
vote for one faculty member that he or she feels is most deserving of
this recognition. The six instructors with the highest total votes will
become the nominees for the award. A student evaluation board of
six seniors will review the six nominees and designate the one
faculty members who will receive the award at June graduation.
The last section of the voting will be. the action taken on the list of
candidates for the University Faculty Senate. Each Commonwealth
Campus has submitted a nominee for this seat. The six nominees
will appear on one ballot from which the voters will select two
students. All other Commonwealth Campuses will be holding similar
proceedings and the one student with the highest total votes will be
designated the winner.
James Jordan Award
At the Senae meeting of
Tuesday, March 25, the SGA
adopted new rues for the James
Jordan Award. The new rules
are as follows: i. Student
nomination of six faculty from an
alphabetical list. One vote will be
cast by each student.
II Evaluation of the six faculty
nominees by a student board of
six seniors.
111 Each senior member of the
board must be enrolled in one of
the six academic divisions: Social
Science, Humanities, Education,
Math/Science, Engineering, and
Business. Board membership will
be determined by the SGA
Election/Screening Committee.
IV The Election/Screening Com
mittee will consider any senior
name submitted to it.
V The board will establish its
own method and criteria for the
evaluation of the six faculty
nominees. The Board may
decide, that for a given list of
G.P.P.
by John Bradford Langdon
Hold onto your seats and
imagine fiveteen to twenty
thousand people swarming over
Capitol Campus for a free
outdoor concert. You’re not
dreaming in vain, because Good
Peoples’ Productions is going to
make it a real happening on May
18, from noon to 9 p.m. Labeled
the ‘Capitol Campus Music
Festival,’ the free concert will
feature at least seven bands
performing a variety of contem
porary music.
The success, enjoyment, and
good times of concerts past have
been established by campus-wide
co-operation and communication.
This year that vital co-operation
and communication is in progress
again, with GPP’s organizational
heads meeting regularly with
school officials and security
personnel over the last five
weeks.
Gathering momentum, the
Music Festival is rolling into its
second phase: gaining student
support and advertising. Mike
Leasher and Peter Sell, two of
GPP’s co-chairmen, explained,
‘We have' most of the basic
organizational work completed,
but we’ll need crowd and traffic
control marshalls, cleanup per
sonnel, and generally, active
participating support from the
college community. People def
initely have to spread the word
of the concert and volunteer.’
Tom Maioli, Security Chair
man talked about the general
requirements for becoming a
concert marshall. He said, ‘The
type of persons we’re looking for
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nominees, none are qualified to
receive the award.
VI The board will conduct its
evaluation behind closed doors,
and will only make public the one
faculty nominee selected to
receive the award or that no
winner has been selected. The
board will have three weeks to
reach its decision.
For these rules to become
effective it is very necessary that
the student evaluation board
(point II) be established. All
seniors interested in serving on
this evaluation board please put
your name, address and phone
number in Bob Hetzel’s mail box
in the SGA room W-104. After a
list of possibilities is established
the SGA Election/Screening
Committee will set up appoint
ments for all prospective board
members. After the interviews
are completed the Committee
will name the six students who
will comprise the evaluation
board.
Getting It
are those that will show up for
their scheduled duty, in other
words, responsible, and have
good common sense.’ The traffic
marshalls will be responsible for
efficient traffic flow, while the
crowd marshalls will be working
in the crowd to help the visiting
spectators and settle distur
bances. Distributed in shifts, the
marshalls’ concert work will be
allocated so that only an hour to
two must be contributed per
person.
A general meeting for concert
volunteers will be announced
soon and will be posted in the
C.C. READER and on bulletin
boards.
According to Jim Yorgey,
GPP’s Music Chairman, the
organization is planning a bill of
seven or eight groups for the
nine-hour outdoor concert. The
performers’ musical repertoire
includes rock, folk, jazz and
country interests. Drawn mainly
from Pennsylvania, the groups
under consideration are FRED,
AMERICAN STANDARD,
GYRUS, FOREST GREEN,
GHOSTOWN, MATRIX,
MORNING SONG and the
DIMBLER BROTHERS.
The Capitol Campus Music
Festival will be the fulfillment of
a recently-established tradition
of free, outdoor concerts. Spring
term, 1971, featured the begin
ning of Capitol’s large-scale
concert era as an estimated
15,000 people were attracted to a
all-day affair. Rock Concert 11,
Spring ’72, was backed by
publicity efforts in Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and Maryland.
C.C. READER
Increase
in Tuition
The eight percent increase in
the appropriation for The Penn
sylvania State University in
cluded in Governor Milton
Shapp’s 1974-75 budget message
will, if approved by the Legisla
ture, help meet many of the high
priorjte - elements in the Univer
sity’s request, Dr. John W.
Oswald, president of the Univer
sity.
The Governor’s request calls
for a $94,132,000 appropriation
for the University to begin
planning to meet the higher
operational costs due to inflation
and to make adjustments in
compensation effective and pay
able on July 1, 1974.
‘We are of course grateful to
Governor Shapp for recognizing
the urgent need for additional
funds,’ President Oswald said.
‘As I have said on prior
occasions, highest budget prior
ity in 1974-75 will be given to
provide equitable salary in
creases for University person
nel,’ he continued. ‘Second
highest priority is meeting the
increased cost of operation
because of inflation. The Univer
sity has been hit particularly
hard by increases in such
essential items as fuel, elec
tricity, postage, telephone ser
vice, and a $2,000,000 mandated
increase in the University’s
contribution to the State Retire
ment System. Virtually every
item purchased by the Univer
sity has been affected by the
present inflationary trend.’
In regard to tuition, President
Oswald said the specific amount
of the tuition increase for next
year has not been established
‘Enactment of the Governor’s
budget would help insure that
the increase will be held to a very
modest level, while at the same
time, making some move toward
tuition levels called for in the
State Master Plan for Higher
Education for state-related uni
versities. 1
Together
Though postponed due to poor
weather conditions, the sun
beamed on Capitol’s Rock Con
cert II rain-date and the people
streamed in.
‘With the beautiful weather,
more spectators came to listen to
the music. Estimates of the
crowd size varied between 25,000
and 30,000 persons. It is a
wonder where the marshalls for
Good Peoples’ Productions
placed all the cars. Parking lots
were filled in the back lot,
Fruehauf, the Placement Office
and the playing fields, roadsides
all the way down to Olmsted
Plaza.’-from THE CAPITOLIST
May 21,1972.
Last spring’s concert was the
major attraction of the Capitol
Campus Music-Arts Festival. A
week-long schedule of flicks,
parties, speakers and exhibits
were to be highlighted by the
planned two-day Folk/rock con
cert. The country and folk music,
scheduled for Saturday, drew
nearly 5000 people. Local camp
ing areas were said to be filling
up with arrivals for Sunday’s
rock concert that evening.
Campus parking lots saw scores
of cars arriving throughout the
night. Approximately 25 kegs of
beer were emptied in ‘prepara
tion-for-the-concert’ parties in
Meade Heights.
However, a sickening day-long
downpour commenced at 5 a.m.
Sunday morning! washing out
the planned festivities. Hope
fully, this year’s concert on May
18 will be accompanied by a lot of
blue sky and warming rays.
What Goes On?
M. G. Weidner
An inherent and essential part of the duties of a college of
University governing board is to provide for the maintenance of
order and decorum on the campus to an extent that will protect the
regular opertion of the institution from disruption, preserve its
property from damage or destruction, preserve and assure that
students, teachers, and all other persons having legitimate business
there will not be obstructed or threatened. Performance of this
obligation is delegated in manifold ways to the President and his
administrative staff, to the faculty, and to the students.
Therefore, as Chief Justice of the Student Court as well as a
student, I must take exception tot®* three proposed addendums to
the Capitol Campus Vehicle Regulations.
According to the addendums proposed by the Chief
Administrative Officer, ‘ln compliance with Paragraph A, General
Provisions, Sub-paragraph 5, the following additions. . .are
published and become effective as of March 18,1974. This statement
in its self raises questions.
1. The Policy and Rules for Students, 1973-74, manual does not
include a sub-paragraph 5. If however a sub-paragrph.s has been
added since the printing of the manual the question arises as to what
is it, and where is it located?
2. Why have the students as well as the faculty and
administrative people been made aware of its existance?
As for addendum 1, allowing only one automobile and one
motorcycle on the campus at one and the same time, with the
exception of a married student living with his wife on campus. This
is an infringement on the rights of other students as well as being
discriminatory. Section B sub-paragraph 1 states ‘A motor vehicle in
these regulations means any motor driven vehicle (automobile,
truck, motorcycle, motorbike, motor scooter, mini-bike, or other).’
Why is the distinction now made between an automobile and a
motorcycle? If the concern is for parking space, then a statistical
survey must be taken to show the number of students in both the
dorms, and Meade Heights, who do not have vehicles vs. the number
of students in these areas who have vehicles. At the time of this
writing, there has not been a survey taken. This addendum can and
will cause harm to some students. The parking problem (if there
really is one) can not be eliminated by causing another one, but
merely transfers the problem to another area. This addendum is
counter to the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment.
Addendum 2:
All vehicles parked or operated on Capitol Campus must have a
current state license plate, current state inspection sticker, and
current Parking Permit.. .The word state is construed to mean the
state of Pennsylvania. My question to that is, what happens to a
student from out of state who has neither a Pennsylvania license
plate or whose state doesn’t require an inspection sticker or both? If
allowances have to be made for out of state students, and against
state residents, I recomment the addendum be either replaced by a
properly worded and meaningful rule or revoked entirely.
Addendum 3:
‘There is no appearl to a Restricted Sticker parking violation
notice.’
University Procedures for Discipline Hearings, Section 1 states:
‘The student shall be informed of the charges against him in writing
sufficiently in advance of the hearing to afford a reasonable
opportunity to prepare his defense. . .The student also shall be
informed of his rights, together with a statement of the hearing
procedures and possible sanctions. Section H sub-paragraph 1 gives
the student the right to appeal. ‘Student penalties (including fines)
may be appealed within two business days by petition to the Office
of the Student Affairs for hearing and/or adjudication.
In addition to Section H, ‘Rights To Equitable Procedures’ page
8 of the Policies and Rules for Students, 1973-74, part 3 states,
‘Charges of minor infractions of regulations, penalized by small fines
or reprimands which do not become part of permanent records, may
be handled expeditiously by the appropriate individual or
committee. Persons so penalized have the right to appeal.’ There are
other references to the rights of appeal through this manual.
It has been stated that the Student Government of prior years
traded this right of appeal for the Restricted Sticker. The Student
Government has exceeded its jurisdiction if that be the case. No one
has the authority to forgo the rights of another individual.
In summation, then, I must include an opinion written by
Federal Chief Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. ‘The student is subject
only to reasonable rules and regulations, but his rights must yield to
the extent that they would interfere with the institutions
fundamental duty to operate the school as an educational
institution.’ The three addendums are counter to Due Process.
The ‘Due Process’ with which I am concerned is the procedure by
which students are accused, heard, adjudged, and exonerated or
punished for alleged infractions of discipline. The ‘Due Process’ now
required in college disciplinary cases is not hedged about with the
same formalities as are proceedings in a court of law, yet we may
note that there is some resemblance between the two; that each
may be said to be derived in some part from the ‘Due Process Law’
clauses of the sth amendment, which are based on a sense of
fairness.
Since the proposed addendums are or can be of a disciplinary
nature, they have to be considered under the Due Process Law.
United States District Judge Elmo B. Hunter further agreed
with this in his statement that, ‘A federal court should not intervene
to reverse or enjoin disciplinary actions relevant to a lawful mission
of an educational institution unless there appears one of the
following:
‘(1) A deprival of due process, that is, fundamental concepts of
fair play;
(3) Denial of federal rights, constitutional or statutory, protected
in the academic community;
(4) Clearly unreasonable, arbitary or capricious action.’
The court case of Dixon vs. Alabama, has become recognized as
setting a standard for due process so far as public institutions are
concerned. The context of this letter therefore is also based on that
case.
The three addendums are considered to have been drawn up in
haste and without forethought, and should therefore be revoked
immediately.
April 5, 1974