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VOL 58. No. 101
Explorer II Foils;
Might Hove Burned
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 6 (/P)— Explorer 11, the
most advanced U.S. moon, probably burned to dust in a plunge
toward earth, scientists decided today. It definitely did not
go into orbit
They said a 40-inch rocket
Revision in
Elections
Code Passed
All-University Cabinet last
night approved the new “gentle
man’s code” amendment to the
Elections Code, after amending it
to give the Elections Committee
power to disqualify candidates for
major code violations.
The “gentleman’s code” as rec
ommended byrthe Elections Com
mittee would nave left disqualifi
cation of candidates up to Cabi
net. The motion as approved pro
vides that the decision to dis
qualify a candidate, after ap
proved by Elections Committee,
must be approved by Cabinet to
go into effect. - '
The new code eliminates penal
ties for'minor infractions of the
Elections Code formerly penal
ized by vote docking and fines—;
and provides the disqualification
penalty for major violations only.
The amendment to give the dis
qualification power to the Elec
tions Committee, instead of to
Cabinet as originally recommend
ed, was sugested by Roger Levin,
president of the Mineral Indus
tries Student Council.
Levin said the power to dis
miss a candidate should be given
to Elections Committee because
“Cabinet is not set up as a judi
cial body.”
“If Elections Committee has the
power to decide,” he added, "they
should have the power to con
trol."
The original motion gave 'Elec
tions Committee the power to de
cide whether a case for disquali
fication should come before Cabi
net or not, after which Cabinet
would make the actual decision.
Cabinet also approved a recom
mendation to raise the calling on
Elections Committee's budget
from $7OO to $llOO, to facilitate
the use of voting machines in the
Spring Elections and approved a
request to allot $2OOO to the
Spring Week Committee, with the
provision that the committee
must maintain a $l5OO balance
in the Spring Week fund.
Prof to Investigate
Journalistic Works
Dr. James W. Markham, head
of the Department of News and
Editorial - Journalism, is one of
three professors of-journalism on
a committee. searching for “the
best journalistic research pub
lished during 1957.”
Markham will help select .the
research fon Kappa Tau Alpha,
.national journalism scholarship
Society, which will award its au
thor an annual research prize.
Markham won an award in
1954 for his published work, “Bo
vard of the Post-Dispatch,” which
concerned the editor of the St.
Louis newspaper.
Marbut to Chair
Free Press Group
Dr. Fredrick B. Marbut, profes
sor of journalism, has.been named
chairman of the Committee bn
Academic Freedom and Respon
sibility in Press and Radio of the
Association • for- • Education ■ -in
Journalism.
In this- position he will prepare
a program to be given under the
sponsorship of the committee at
the. association’s convention in
August at the University of Mis
souri.
that was supposed to boost thej
satellite to gravity-defying speed j
failed to ignite and Explorer II
behaved like any other surface
to-surface missile. Scientists ruled
out any other possibility such as a
failure of the satellite’s radios
which might have left it circling
. the earth in a silent orbit. i
They said if was not known !
why the automatic ignition
system in the last stage had i
failed after all of the first three
stages functioned perfectly. It
would be very difficult to ever
find out the reason, they added.
Explorer 11, 8 inches in dia
meter and more than 6V4 feet
long, probably plummeted into
the earth’s atmosphere some 1900
miles from Cape Canaveral where
it was launched at 1:28 p.m. EST
yesterday. It carried with it the
40 pounds of still unburned solid
fuel in the last-stage rocket.
Its own high speed and the fric
tion Of ' the earth’s atmosphere
produced enormous heat and the
metal satellite died a • fiery and
sudden death.
There were persistent reports
that signals from the Jupiter-C
launching rocket convinced some
Army missile experts that the
final stage of the four-stage vehi
cle had failed tofire.
Experts said that failure of the
j final stage to fire on cue would
have meant that the satellite, even
though it was at orbital altitude
of 200 or more miles, would
achieve a velocity of only about
three miles a second as against
the five miles a second needed to
maintain an orbit 10,800 milee
an hour instead of 18,000. I
The cylinder would have trav-;
eled less than halfway around the
world before tumbling down
through the atmosphere.
2d Front Opened
By Cuban Rebels
HAVANA, March 6 UP)— Rebels
battled army troops for four
hours today in Oriente Province
and were reported operating a
second front in central Cuba.
The action came as President
Fulgencio Batista gave a new, 22-
member Cabinet the job of restor
ing order fo rthe general election
June 1. The premiership went to
Emilio Nunez Portuondo, Cuban
ambassador to the U.N.
Senate Tables Research Policy Actioi
Action ‘on a much-discussed
University research policy was
postponed by the University Sen
ate yesterday after -many mem
bers questioned its negative at
titude, wordiness,- alleged contra
dictions, and in some cases, the
principles involved. •
The Senate also passed an
amendment to its academic hon
esty. rule and approved two
changes in course content, three
changes in curricula, and two'
course description changes.
Although the research policy
did not cover all important is
sues confronting the University,
the committee said it represented
a basic philosophy, of research
and wanted to use the policy as a
nucleus for a more complete re
port.
• The proposed policy included a
statement of principle, -which was
not questioned, and six proposi
tions which bore the brunt of
the criticism:
The propositions, which were
accompanied - with explanatory
material were,
. • Research is ■ a primary func
tion of a university; a service
rendered.. • - . -
•The University is obligated to
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE. PA., FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 7. 1958
Open Board Axed
In Cabinet Wrangle
I In a wrangle—at times a free-for-all— involving even a member of the administration,
: All-University Cabinet last night voted 19-4, with 1 abstention, against requesting th«
:Board of Trustees to “consider opening its meetings.” ~
Edward Dubbs, editor of the Daily Collegian, stormed out of the meeting after a hassle
with George L. Donovan, acting co-ordinator of student affairs, who departed from the
Trustee issue to say that the meet
ings of Collegian Inc.—the news
papers publisher—would provide
some "juicy reading for the pub
lic."
Editorial SS" StSsCLfAtS .- '^T-'**J 3 * |
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| Student government apparently doesn't like us. The .1
y Daily Collegian was viciously attacked last night on the
floor of Cabinet by certain ‘ members and by George *i
f, L. Donovan, administrative Cabinet adviser. |
:: Maybe the reason they don't like us is: We tell r
*z the truth. '
We told the truth about a trip to New York City.
We toid the truth about Cabinet’s whitewash after
this trip.
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We told the truth about Donovan’s major part in
granting the $l5O temptation on the New York City trip.
We told the truth about Cabinet's failure to repre
sent the students on such Issues as ROTC and exten
sion. of the Christmas recess.
We told the truth about Cabinet’s tendency to bow
down to the wishes of the administration for a few pats
on the back over in Old Main.
If, in doing this. All-University Cabinet hasn't
looked good in the eyes of the students and faculty
members, our only answer is: We don't make the news
—we just print it.
This newspaper is dedicated to fight “For a Better
Penn State.” Our motto is not “Penn State Right or
Wrong, but Penn State.”
It is our duty—and obligation—as a free newspaper
-to report the news in the news columns and to criticize
on tlje editorial page.
If In the process we step on a few administrative
and student toes, these toes deserve to be stepped
upon. We have stepped upon quite a few people's toes
this year. These people are the ones who are squawk
ing.
Let them squawk. And others who deserve to join
them. Let them attack us. But we .will continue to print
the truth and fight “For a Bstter Penn State.”
—The Board of Editors
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maintain conditions conducive to ; tee R. W. Stone, professor of bac-j
the birth and early growth oflteriology, said that all the points
new ideas. jsbould be emphasized and all
e There should be a proper bal-ifacets of the propositions includ
ance between the discovery and|ecL This, he explained, is why
the distribution of knowledge ;j many of the ideas were expand
discoveries should be properly ied upon.
prwented to all persons. i Postponement until the next
. • Research is essential to in-; meeting was approved in order
structional success. jthat Senate members could see
•To fulfill its obligation, toe; a printed version of Sauer’s
University should be primarily amendment
concerned with research and ere-: The Senate approved the rule
ative studies that can lead to newjcfcange to eliminate a discrepancy
information; thus extending the.m the rules. Rule W-8 gives the
boundaries of knowledge. honesty committee the right to
• Other types of research should determine the punishment for
not be assigned an inferior posi- honesty violations.
tion to basic research; applied re- , ....
search should be used only when ?wen?
r™^ timUlatklg 0n baSk Talfnot righfof
instructor under rules M-l and
Professor of Physics John A. m-10 to be sole judge of the stu-
Sauer offered a substitute for thejdent’s grade." The latter two rules
P r op° s i Uo “ w b«h was con-j gj ve the inst ructOT the right to!
siderabiy and m some in-;determine a student’s grade in!
stances, changed the principles; his course 1
ST l^v Sa ™r^i^ re Ja e te e ! Thus, the instructor retains his!
marts in toe originrfptfcy. Stony d**. 1 »
statements, he added, are unnec- mto con * llct Wlth 0116
cessary or facts that are well , . , , , |
known. Course changes included per
- Chairman of the policy commit-1 (Continued on page eight) |
Some Dislike Us:
We Tell the Truth
rgiatt
By DAVE FINEMAN
Hook, Line
and Sinker
See Page 4
Dubbs accosted Donovan with,
“What's the matter, Mr. Dono
van, didn’t you like the editorial
this morning?”
Armed with minutes of • Col
legian Incorporated meeting,
Donovan proceeded to fire.
But Dean of Men Frank J,
Simes interrupted with. “This
whole discussion is out of or
der."
What Donovan referred to as
“Mr. Dubbs’ attack on the busi
ness board” of Collegian, appar
ently referred to a request by
Dubbs last fall that 60 per cent
of Collegian compensations be
paid to members of the news staff
and 40 per cent to members of the
business staff. The existing per
centages are editorial staff. 52
per cent; business staff, 48 per
cent.
H. Eugene Goodwin, director of
toe School of Journalism and a
member of Collegian. Inc., last
night said he does not believe the
members of Collegian, Inc., con
sidered Dubbs’ move “an attack
on the business board.”
Dubbs' reference to "the edi
torial this morning" alluded to
an editorial attacking Dono
van's office as the place where
a "mistake in judgment" was
made in connection with All-
University President Robert
Steele's trip to New York City.
Donovan’s analogy between
Collegian and the Trustees was
the second such—All-University
Secretary-Treasurer Joseph Boeh
ret's was the first.
Boehret said that “almost 50
per cent of Collegian's money
comes from students" and "are
we allowed to sit in on the Col
legian Senior Board meetings?”
However, Dubbs said, four
student leaders—Robert Steele.
George Sellers, Susan Smith
and Steven Ott—are voting
members of Collegian Inc.
The motion was that Cabinet
“request the Board of Trustees
to consider opening its meetings
j and/or printing the minutes.”
jThis replaced last week’s motion
that Cabinet request toe Board to
“open its meetings.”
I Dubbs said a member of tho
! Board-of Trustees. Miss Mary
Jane Wyland, told him that stu
j (Continued on page eight)
'Come Back
Little Lion!'
The Nittany Lion, who is en
joying the warmth of his moun
tain hideaway, declined, to say
when he will return to campus
again.
“That weather man foc'.ed mt
once too often
this winter with
his changing pre
id i c tions,” - mut
tered the Lion
[quite perturbed.
[“This time I'm
staying here un
til I can put on
my swim ming
trunks and keep
[them on.” With
[that statement he
iretired under his
Isunlamp where he hopes to get a
[premature tan.
A cloudy today along with
[ temperatures ranging from 30-35
[degrees is not going to induce th«
[Lion to don his swimming ap-
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