Weather Forecasts Snow, Windy, Colder VOL. 60. No. 85 Study of Class Boards, Election System Asked By Encampment. Reunion The Student Encampment Reunion asked last night that SGA study the possibility of p under a general charter to giv They also recommended evaluated, that the possibilit Herter Asks Disarmament By Soviets WASHINGTON (P) Secre tary of State Christian A. Herter urged the Soviet Union yestei day to abandon "hollow slogans" and join in a safeguarded disarma ment plan before a disastrous nu clear war explodes through mis calculation or blind folly. He expressed hope that Krem lin leaders now realize "the arms race offers •unacceptable risks" which he said threaten the sur vival of the U S.S.R as well as Western nations. "Miscalculations might, for ex ample, cause an international cri sis to develop into a general war without either side really intend ing that this should happen," the secretary said. He added, with an eye on France's succes in exploding Its first atomic bomb last week end: "the more nations that have the power to trigger off a nuclear war the greater the chance that some nation might use this power in haste or binid folly." Herter spoke out in solemn lan guage, without name-calling, in an address devoted to the disarma ment deadlock. Disarmament rep resentatives of Britain, France, Italy and Canada sat at a head table listening intently to his speech at a National Press Club luncheon. Herter's remarks appeared to be a major effort to assure the Soviet , Union of U.S. sincerity in seeking an East-West disarma ment agreement including a first step plan to ban further nuclear weapons tests. The secretary In effect sought to assure the Russians that the West will not seek to hedge any agreement with so many controls inspections that it will amount to a giant spying operation behind the Iron Curtain. , ~..: TrA•••• t 7 - - - -Arr..„ 4.m.tw , -- • — •'& l 7 - "••, F:A • . , • .. • , ,---r•z.,:.s-•ver.r.•-•,„1:-_,,,T,,z.: V 1 . 9.• '.q.. ~: - ~,~_ _ --CoMean Photon by Marty — Levin WHAT'S THE STORY HERE FELLAS .. . Is it opened or closed? Polio& Road was officially closed to thru traffic as of yesterday—but a - pick-up truck had other ideas. The light, sign, and chain were knocked doWn at 8:15 last night after only 12 hours of service. STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 19, 1960 acing all class advisory boards • them continuity in structure. hat the election code be re of having only one election a year be studied and that the: alternate system in the SGA As sembly be investigated. Encampment members also heard a stimulating speech on "Encampment Inspiration" by Dr. Howard A. Cutler, assistant to the vice president on academic affairs. Senior Class President Theo dore Haller voiced the only op- I position against the recommen dation regarding class advisory boards. Speaking from experience, he said, it has ben a pleasure to work without a binding constitution, because it allows the classes freer action. The idea of SGA controlling the classes is completely wrong, he said, since their duties and functions are so different. Jesse Janjigian, chairman of the New Student Government Association Workshop which I proposed the recommendation, emphasized, however, that the intention was not one of con trol. The charter in mind would bring unification to the class system, but would also give each advisory board the chance to make its own by-laws for oper ation, shi said. Holler countered that contiuity was not needed because each class has very unique problems. I A charter would only slow down action within SGA, add more red tape and make it less efficient, he said. Miss Janjigian's workshop also recommended that elections be held only one a year in late Feb ruary or early March instead of !twice a year as is now the prac tice. A study of the election code requested should center speci ' cally on the powers of the elec tion committee and penalties it may impose, she said. Regarding the recommended in vestigation of the alternate sys tem in Assembly, Miss Janjigian asked that particular attention be given to those sitting in for As semblymen who are student teaching. She mentioned specifi cally the practice of the alter nates sitting on committees to fwhich the regular is appointed. —By Carol Blakeslee MIMFI - -ft -, ylmSg4 FOR A BETTER PENN STATE MSU Considers Voluntary ROTC The Board of Trustees at Michigan State University yesterday postponed a decision on a recommendation to abolish compulsory military training for freshman and sophomore men. The six-man governing body of the University is expected to consider the issue again at its April meeting. The Michigan State Academic training be scrapped and replaced Malott For LA By NICKI WOLFORD Future leaders, particularly in business, need "those quali ties which can come only from the very broadest kind of ed ucation," Dr. Deane W. Malott, president of Cornell Univers ity, said last night. Malott was the keynote speaker in the opening session of the Gor don Pierson Reports Conference in which leading educators and businessmen will discuss the di rection that programs in business education should take. Painting a brief but powerful picture of the problem facing the United States today which in cluded everything from the ex pansion of the federal government to compulsory ROTC in colleges —Malott said, "Our Achilles' heel is whether or not we can muster the ability to maintain the stan dards of democracy." To face the great and Perplex ing• problems of today. Malott said, leaders will need a type of education found in the liberal Season's Heaviest Snowfall Arrives The season's heaviest snow storm will dump 12 to 16 inches of snow on Central Pennsylvania before tapering off to flurries this morning. Gale force winds will cause considerable blowing and heavy drifting is expected. Below freez ing temperatures will prevent any melting during the next two days. —By Joel Myers, Collegian Fore caster rgiatt By CAROL BLAKESLEE Senate had recommended to the trustees that compulsory with a one-term course on current national and inter national military and political af fairs. Cites Need Education arts taught at its best. "Professional training, valuable and necessary as it is and which I would not for a minute abandon, still is concerned too largely with the transmission of how things are done today," Malott continued. Emphasizing the need for a broad education to maintain a democratic way of life, Malott pointed out that there was a dedi cated opposition from without to a system "alredy showing signs of weakening from within." He said young people in the Soviet Union had a much stronger ambition to overtake the Americans than to under stand Marxist - precepts while young Americans were indiffer ent. "The fault in their relaxed and indifferent attitude is not entire ly theirs; it rests upon us in edu cation who have been peddling education in homeopathic doses, seldom overhauled, taught by those who have found it easier perhaps to criticize than to ex pound the positive values of our economics and political inheri tance," Malott said. Students May Apply For Handbook Staff Today is the deadline for appli cations for the business staff of the student handbook. They may be picked up at the Hetzel Union desk and must be returned there by 5 p.m. The first meeting of the busi ness staff will be held 7 p.m., Tuesday, in 10 Sparks. 'Hat` Will Mark Players 40th Year "Hats" are an old thing to the Penn State Players. Players presented their first production, "The Wonder Hat," on Feb. 6, 1920; tonight, in honor of their 40th anniver sary, they will open their spring season with "An Italian Straw Hat." The show will run weekends only until March 26 at Center Stage. In 1919, Arthur Cloethingh, was engaged by the University as an English instructor, with the definite understanding that he would be given an opportun ity to develop a program of dramatics. He organized Players in 1919 with two purposes in mind—to give students an opportunity to appear in dramas and to to fur nish entertainment to the com munity. Players have had many sites for their productions during these years—Schwab Auditorium in the 20's; the Punchbowl (a one-time open air theater on the corner of the front campus just above Pugh Street); the Little Theater' in the basement of Old Main in 1930; Ads Protect Press Freedom All male students who had not fulfilled their military ob ligation would be required to take the course. Michigan State at present has a 2-year com pulsory system much the same as that at the University. According to the Michigan State News, the Senate's recommenda tion incorporated elements of a student government suggestion for revamping ROTC. Here at the University, ROTC question was discussed by stu dent government for the third straight year. Three years ago All-Univer sity Cabinet (Student Govern ment Association's predecessor) supported compulsory- ROTC. The following year Cabinet ap proved a report from a ROTC study committee asking that only one year of military train ing be compulsory, but the sug gestion was rejected by a Uni versity Senate committee. The same recommendation and report was approved by SGA As isembly this year and was referred again to a Senate committee ac cording to SGA President Leon ard Julius, Julius said last night that the committee had decided against a basic change in the ROTC pro gram, although some modifica tions are being made with refer ence to courses The Army, spe cifically, plans to allow advanced ROTC students to substitute sev eral academic courses for about 20 per cent of the military train ing courses now required. The move to abolish compul sory ROTC has been growing throughout the country, particu larly at land grant institutions, dike Michigan State and this Uni versity. The 1862 law which set up the land grant system requires that participating schools pro ' vide military training courses (Continued on page five) By CORDIE LEWIS Center Stage in 1954; and they even used the dining room of the University Club for a few of their plays in the late 20's. Along with their productions on campus, the Players have taken their plays on state-wide and some out-of-state tours. One of the first productions which they took on tour was "A Successful Calamity." Appearing in the cast of this play in 1922, was a freshman by the name of Frank S. Neusbaum. Neusbaum. now a professor of theater arts, is the director of "An Italian Straw Hat." The "Straw Hat" comedy was written in 1851 by Eugene La biche and Marc Michel. Labich wits described by Freedley and Reeves in "A History of the The (Continued on page five) See Page 4 FIVE CENTS
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