1 4 .)rerisic. Uni . nrl. Looses 71 Park Debate Squad The Behrend Debators suf fered a loss at the hands of the University Park team on Wednesday May 14, when over sixty interested attendants viewed the battle in the Otto Behrend Building._ Roger Nuberi Mona Fernandez, and , Mike Adams----representing.our campus, spoke in favor of keeping the.A. B.M. System plan. The., opposition which consisted of U.P.'s,Stuart Hammel and Russel Kemling, suc ceeded in drawing the most votes from the viewers on both ballots. Twenty-four individuals approved the negative 'presentation the first time while seven favored Behrend's affirmative one. The remainder of the audience could not or did not care to decide which team had done better. There was a shift of opinion ballot in, which Behrend was still the loser, but not by, so wide a margin. Only sixteen persons favored Udyersity Park and the home team received the same seven votes. Ftaff reel Muhammad Ali appeared at University Park Rec Hall on Friday, May 23, as the second keynote speaker for Colloquy 8 69. The former World Boxing Association Heavyweight champion spoke on the racial crisis in America, calling it ou r worst problem, "worse, much worse, than the conflict in Asia. An advocate of racial separatism, he said this was the only peaceful sol ution to the problem. "By nature, black Americans and white Americans--will,never get al o ng. They are opp osites, like yes and no. If itas your opposite, ites your opponent. This is not race hatred, itas just nature." Using the Illus tration of a party-to make his point, he said ,there would be no similarity-the music would be different, the dancing would be dif ferent, the conversation would be different. Ali differentiated be® (cont. on page 5) U ULU k\LICS C TATIfi I EIG EC II UNIVERSITY PARK (APS)---Represen tatives from the 19 Commonwealth Campus student governments met here last weekend for the annual Spring Conference of the Organi zation of Student Government Ass ociations (DSGA). Robert J. Sca nen, chairman of the University Senate 9 addressed a banquet at tended by the student government leaders Friday. He said that a majority of the students and a good portion_ of the faculty di, not understand the University &l ate, and he outlined the history and functions of the poly making body. Behrend .representatives at tending this conference were Doug Brower, Roy Kirkley„ Arnie Cald well, Gary Lackovic, and Bob Tam bolt. Ron Batchelor, former presi— dent of the Behrend Campus Studen Government Association, was re— elected president of the OSGA. Ron Kosh 9 Schuylkill, opposed Batchelor for the position. "We must direct our activ ities to the regional problems and those SGPOs" Batchelor said duringhis campaign speech. "The future of OSGA looks bright 9 a candle is glowing 9 and l would like to hold that candle again next year." Other officers elected were Charles Fey, McKeesport, vice— president; Diana Pfeiffenberger 9 Schuylkill, secretary—treasurer 9 and Donna Turjanica 9 Fayette 9 con ference secretary. OSGA selected is representa— tives to five seats nn committees of the University Senate. Befcre this year OsGA elected one repre— sentative. . Ron Devlin 9 Schuylkill, was chosen as the representative to the Curricular Committee. Pat Ruch, vice-president of the Key stone Society Arch Chapter 9 was chosen as the alternate, Gregg Wright 9 Behrend 9 was selected to serve on the Resident Instruction Committee and Harry Lelne 9 Beaver was the alternate. Ken Taylor was picked as the representative to the Academics Committee with Charles Bennett 9 Dußois Campus 9 as alternate. Charles A. Mills ? Schuylkill and former editor of the Schuyl— kill Collegian; and Joseph Amin— dola were elected to seats on the Student Affairs Committee. Alter— nates were Monte Dawson ? New Ken. and Bob Misko. OSGA was recently recognized as one of three student groups officially recognized by the Uhl 7ersity Senate as spokesmen for the studens. Amendments to the OSGA con— stitution were of The maj— or &narae s ==.cal . -2 4 hment of Re— gional Representatives. Each rep— resentative will sit On the OSGA Executive Committee. The consti— tutional revision provides that the Regional Representative will be responsible for the "coordina— tion and leadership" of the regin while "actively and accurately" reflecting the regions' opinions to the Executive Committee. The poßiticn of regional co ordinator was retained. Each co ordinator will serve as the local chairman in each region. Also amTerded werete duties of OSGA vice-president. He will now be reotlred to coordinate the procedure for chartering Common-- wealth Campus organizations. He will no for be required to serve as Parimmentarian to assist the Executive Committee and the OSGA Con: ess C n l • DECKER RECEIVES TURNBIJLL AWARD g Highlighting the Bth An nual Honors and Awards Ban quet held last May 18, was Mr. Terry Powell, a 1946 graduate of Penn State who spoke on "Academic Honesty Mr. Powell esaddress came after the recognition of various students and or ganizatlons on campus and a number' of special awards given annually to deserving recipients at Behrend. The first of these were the Tau Alpha Pt Awards giv en to Paul Buhite and Marty Essigmano Nick Amicucci was awarded the Freshman Chemistry Award and the Evan Johnson Award, given M M 3 M. 1u
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