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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®
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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
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