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Editorial Opinion
Return to Responsibility
All-Univenlity Cabinet's vote against recommending a
voluntary ROTC program at the University has left two
important questions decidedly up in the air.
The first, of course, is the fate of the ROTC program
itself. Despite the Cabinet vote, ROTC will remain a very
prominent question, merely because of the presence cf the
Senate committee report asking compulsory ROTC for
women and placement of the *hole program in a School
of Military Science and Civilian Defense in the College
of the Liberal Arts.
And discussion on the value of compulsory ROTC
should become quite a bit hotter again as the report
nears Senate consideration. As was so obvious on the
student level, powerful forces in the administration
already have lined up on opposite sides of the ROTC
issue.
A committee if the Liberal Arts Student Council is still
studying the issue. Need for further study by the Senate
and the Board of Trustees is indicated even by the pending
sketchily-prepared Senate report. •
A second and equally important question raised by the
Cabinet vole concerns student government itself.
Cabinet's vote on voluntary ROTC was obviously largely
premeditated. Robert Nurock, who introduced the resolu
tion for a voluntary program, and the editor of this news
paper, which supported the move, were committed to
vote for it.
Of the remaining Cabinet members, two —Michael
Walker and Russell Beatty—are members of advanced
Army ROTC. They voted for a compulsory program, which
campus military chiefs supported. So did Cabinet's six
coeds, all of whom took a seemingly disinterested attitude
in the whole affair, and some of whom apparently relied
on private talks with other members to decide their vote.
The six voting members who belong to Lion's Paw
(secret senior society)—John Rhodes. Joseph Boehret,
Thomas Hollander, James Hart. John Morgan and Robert
Stroup—led the fight against voluntary ROTC. They
spoke and voted as a block. Whether they arrived at
their decisions individually or through collaboration—
and if the latter. why—undoubtedly will never be
publicly revealed.
Steven Ott and George Thompson, who rode the coat
tails of the ROTC explosion to campus election victories in
the fall, turned• their backs on their party platform.
Whether they voted against voluntary ROTC by conscience
or pressure, they violated a clear mandate from the student
body and dealt a blow to the political party system which
will be hard to explain to the students.
Jere Fridy, who missed much of the ROTC debate
through Cabinet absences, and Charles Ruslavage also
- voted against voluntary ROTC. Neither spoke on the issue.
John Johnston, who did not speak; Carroll McDonnell,
George Sellers, chairman of the short-lived Cabinet com
mittee to report facts on the issue; and an alternate for
James Stratton all voted for voluntary ROTC.
When students begin making themselves heard
through voting for platforms in elections and through
bringing action in student councils and advisory boards
to such an etent as they have on the ROTC, rotation and
holiday and vacation issues, we can only conclude that
they are beginning to rely more on these agencies than
on Cabinet.
No representative student government can long hold the
confidence of its constituents if a large segment of it con
tinually ignores students' wishes.
Perhaps a system of referendum and recall is needed.
Perhaps new, interested groups dedicatd to integrity in
student government is needed. A combination of both
might be desirable.
But something is needed. Perhaps, best of all, it is a
return to responsibility by All-University Cabinet.
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the views of the University or of the student body.
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Mt. Everest Conqueror ©em Goals
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• Lin- Congress
Completes Antarctic Tre k.
AUCKLAND, Jan. 3 (,-I))—Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror Set Forth
of Mt. Everest, reached the South Pole today with gasoline to
WASHINGTON. Jan. 3i4')—Sen.
spare for only 20 more miles. He camped near the polar sta- Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.) said
tion of 17 Americans. ;today the approaching session of
, the Democratic controlled Con-
The rangy 38-year-old New Zealander, knighted for gress will drive for speedier mis
climbing to the top of the world's, . . sue development and "a foreign
tallest peak in 1953, announced!;policy that will bring peace to
he had reached the bottom of the!
SulganinCites ( this world."
earth in a radio message to Scott ; ; Johnson. the Senate . Democratic
Base in Antarctica. 'leader, told a news conference the
His 1200-mile trek across gla- iNo. 1 problem before the session
ciers and crevasse-ridden snow- Proof of Ease will be to instill in the Eisen
fields with tractors was the third' 1 .... ` hoover administration an "urgen
in history and the first in 46 years; ; cy" in missile and satellite pro
to reach the pole by land. With' n Syria Crisis Iduction.
him were four other New Zea-1 MOSCOW, Jan. 3 (.-1---Soviet' But he said Congress is not go
lenders. 1
- Premier Bulganin sa i tonight l ing
d ; to overlook what he called
Dr. Vivian Fuchs. of Britain,.
the return of Marshal Konstantin!
I "the pressing domestic problems"
heading a party from the oppo-i
Rokossovsky from his transcauca-,of the farmer's economic li ht,
P g
.site, or South American, side of!
be Sion command Ntas 'proof that th ,, i f A.
lunemployment, sma I 1 business
the pole: was believed still to- -, al ures, conservation of national
200 miles':away. ..Icrisis over Syria had- eased. 1
iresources and the cost of living.
Fuchs • and Hillary originally Rokossovsky, form e r defense "We must not forget that our
planned a British Commonwealth minister in Poland,Took over the!
transantarctic trek via the pole—'Soviet command bordering Tur-lobjective is a strong country not
the first in history. Hillary was to'key on Oct. 23 at 'the height of just a strong military force," he
establish_ a depot for Fuchs 5 00 ,Soviet charges that the United ;said in a statement he read to
to induce Tur- , '"'" rters '
miles on•the New Zealand side of ! st a t es was try i ng
I Johnson said efforts wi I I be
the pole and wait for him. ikey to attack Syria.
But Fuchs, leader of the co-; Hehas now returned to his post continued to pry loose from the
operative effort, ran into unex-1
.), as deputy defense minister in 'White House the so-called Gai
pected difficulties and on Dec. "Moscow it was announced yes- defenses.
r n r se e s port on the state of U.S.
Hillary sent his now famous mes-, •
:
sage to Scott Base: "I am hell bentterday. The shift was interpretedl
Prepared by a committee origi
for the South Pole—God willingiby Western diplomats here as n ob, headed by H. Rowan Gai
and crevasses permitting."
;meaning that the artificial war, 1
ia top secret document of the Na
ther, the report has been made
His messa g e on arriving, re- sca r e allegedly created by the'
layed from Scott Base by, the Nev Russians was now over. tional Security Council. Published
Zealand Press Assn. correspon-
A reporter asked Bulganin at a;reports have indicated that the
'
dent there, was equally dramatic. reception on Burma's Nationallcommittee concluded the country
"Steering by the sun from ear -!day if Rokossovsky's return to has been placed in its- greatest
tier fixes we came bang on thelMoscow meant the situation overldanger in history by Russian mis
base," he said. ;Syria had eased. sile and satellite advances,
Diplomats said today the Unit
ed States may decide this year
, whether to drop its long held
policy that no nation can stake
a valid claim to antarctic terri-
The policy was laid down in
1924. when there were no atom
bombs and no intercontinental
ballistic missiles
Reds to Release
British Airliner
LONDON, Jan. 3 (-11)—Conci
monist Albania told Britain to
night it has ordered the release.
tomorrow of the British cargo air
liner and six-member crew forced
down by jet fighters over Red
territory three days ago.
A Foreign Office spokesman
here said: "The Albanian legation
in Belgrade (Yugoslavia) has in
formed the British Embassy there
that the Skymaster detained in
Albania will be released tomor
row."
Britain has no diplomatic rela
tions with the Albanian Red re
gime and has asked France to in
tervene.
Albanian sets forced the plane
to land while it was en route to
Damascus, Syria, from Duessel
dorf. Germany, carrying machin
ery for delivery in the Far East.
McClelland to Tell
Of Election Plans
PITTSBURGH, Jan 3 GP)—Dr.
William D. McClelland, who yes
terday was sworn in for an un
precedented fifth term as Alle
gheny County coroner, said today
he expects to announce -within
two weeks whether he will be a
candidate for the Democratic gub
ernatorial nomination.
McClelland, a dental surgeon
who ran without organization
support four years ago and lost
the nomination to Gov. Leader,
made the announcement follow
ing a conference with John J.
Kane. chairman of the Alleghens
- Board of Commissioners.
Bulganin Predicts End
Of Ist Soviet Satellite
MOSCOW, Jan. 3 {r?)—Premier
Nikolai Bulganin told reporters
tonight the first Soviet satellite
will burn out next Sunday or
Monday "if not before."
"For all I know it may have
burned out already," he said at
a Burmese reception here.
Gazette
'Hillel TV Film Forum. 7 p.m.. Foundation
Newman Club general meeting, 7 p.m., 215
HUB
Protestant Service. 9 a.m., Chapel
TOMORROW
Polish Escapee-Scientist
Granted Political Asylum
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (?P) —I This would make him valuable
The government disclosed today itiin dealing with problems of air
has granted asylum to a renowned friction heat encountered in jet
Polish scientist who said he found aviation, rocketry, and in handling
living under the Communists a!the extreme temperatures of nu
"difficult problem." clear reactions.
Dr. Jerzy Leon Nowinski, 52,, But Dr. Nowinski said: "I never
said he found a strong "feeling of,saw a missile or a rocket in Po
freedom" in this country when he land."
came here last fall to lecture ati In deciding to quit Poland for
Johns Hopkins University. Hej good, he said he was disap-,
asked and received permission to[ pointed with the political, moral
remain.l and religious conditions there
_ _
As a specialist in thermoelas- under the Reds.
ticity, Dr. Nowinski could be ex-! "Also," he said, "our child had
peeled -to make a contribution tol to attend school and my wife and
the U.S. missile program, nowli decided she must attend a school
being speeded up. with better religious and moral
He told a news conference at 'conditions."
Johns Hopkins in Baltimore that Atty. Gen, Rogers, - who - an
he was "not too keen" on mis- nounced Nowinski's defection to
siles and satellites but would be i this country, said the scientist's
willing to help if asked. !wife and 7-year-old daughter, now
Thermoelasticity is a field of , in England, also will be granted
mathematical theory dealing withiasylurn here.
stresses and strains on metals andi Rogers made the announcement
other materials under varyingiduring a speech at the National
temperature conditions. [Press Club.
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