Weather Forecasts Heavy Snow, Windy, Cold VOL. 60, No. 94 SGA President Granted Right To Debate Issues in Assembly By JOHN BLACK After 10 months of ruling in silence th c president o f Student Government Association finally gained the right to debate in the Assembly of the organiza tion which he heads. The president; heralded es the man who should be most informed and influential on student issues, was accorded the right to enter debate when the Assembly last night re scinded the procedural rule which kept him from doing so. Without discussion, Assem bly passed the motion intro duced by Jay Hawley, Rules Committee Chairman, which labeled the limiting rule as bin necessary. Student Encampment recom mended last September that this rule be rescinded if the proposal that the president Snow and Wind Expected Today A powerful winter snow storm will make itself felt -in the area today by dumping between 6 and 10 inches of snow. The snow, which began early this morning, will continue to fall at a rapid rate today. Very cold temperatures and strong winds will allow considerable drifting of the fluffy snow. Sub-freezing temperatures will probably continue for at least three more days since the arctic air shows no signs of relenting its strong grip on Pennsylvania. The prediction is for heavy snow and strong gusty winds today with an accumulation of 8 to 10 inches. Temperatures will remain quite cold with a high of only 24 degrees. The snow should diminish in intensity tonight with little addi tional accumulation., Snow flurries, windy and cold weather are due tomorrow. 'Detective Story' Tickets On Sale at HUB Desk Tickets for Players' production of "Detective Story" are on sale at the Hetzel Union desk. The play will open at 8 tonight and will run Friday and Satur day nights. There are tickets avail able for all three nights. Tickets for tonight's show are 75 cents; tomorow, $1.00; and Sat urday, $1.25. .--Collegian Photo by Charles Jacques IT WAS COLD yesterday as Beverly Robison, sophomore in home economics from Coal Center, can prove with her thermometer. Enow has been predicted for early this morning. . oil 1 . 3 e t fivi , (1,011 STATE COLLEGE. PA., THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 3. 1960 chair the assembly was de feated. Previously th e president could speak only when giving an executive report or when called on for "executive ad vice." Hawley said that rescinding the limiting rule was not a matter of constitutionality and thus the job of the Supreme Court, but rather could be ef fected by a two-thirds vote of the Assembly. In other action, the Assem bly unanimously approved the SGA election schedule as pre sented by Elections Commis sion Chairman Robert Umstead and as amended by a motion by John Brandt, alternate As semblyman. • April 4,5, and 6 were set as the dates for spring elec tions. •Party campaigning may begin at 6 p.m., March 27, and continue through April 6. Umstead's report proposed that campaigning end April 3, TIM Backs SGA Housing Decision Town Independent Men's Council last night voted to back the Student Government Association decision to oppose the transfer housing bill. TIM members said they will work with the joint SGA AIM committee to find a solut Applications Available For WRA Exec Board Applications for elected and ap pointed positions on the Women's Recreation Association executive board are now available in the Dean of Women's office in Old Main and in White Hall. Positions open are president, ,vice president, secretary-treasur er, sophomore representative and managers for each intramural sport. Monday is the deadline. North Halls Rejects Spring Week Program At a special meeting last night, North Halls Council voted against participating in Spring Week this year. They had previously refused an offer to enter the week's activ ities on a Joint program with West Halls. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE but this date was extended by Assembly's passage of Brandt'S motion. Brandt, speaking as Campus Party clique chairman, said that the reason for proposing this extension of campaigning was primarily for the purpose of assisting in "getting out the vote." James Nelligan, University Party clique chairman, con curred with Brandt on the rea son for requesting the exten sion, Umstead opposed the motion for extension because he said campaign posters and materials should be taken down before voting began. It was suggested by propon ents of the motion that the presence of campaign posters during the voting period would serve to remind students that voting was in progress and thus stimulate the turnout at the polls. The motion was passed by a vote of 22-13. By AMY ROSENTHAL ion to the University's problem of trying to fill the 2000 vacan cies in the residence halls. Frederick Phanco proposed that a questionnaire be-sent to all the centers asking transfers to speci fy where they wish to live when they come to the campus. Council members who had originally come from the cen ters volunteered to personally contact friends at the centers to make such a survey as to where the transfers would pre fers would prefer to live. The TIM motion backing the SGA decision termed the transfer housing bill "discriminatory and undemocratic." Philip Haines, president of TIM, said, "We oppose the Uni versity ruling for the reason that it unduly discriminates against transfers and also against TIM. Frederick Beurle said he ob jected to the rule because the transfers are upperclasshien used to making their own decisions and having their own study habits. They should not be pushed into the residence halls without their consent, he said. Objections against the rule be cause of financial reasons were brought up when TIM members voiced their opinions at the SGA Assembly meeting. Mass Burials Begin for Agadir Dead AGADIR, Morocco (IP) --1 000 were. killed at Erzingan, Turkey, Dec. 27, 1939. Mass burials began yesterday' Rainhard said more than 5000 while relief squads st i 1 lihad been injured by Agadir's two !giant tremors, fires and the lash searched for the living in a tidal wave across the white) quake-stricken Agadir. A Red beaches Tuesday. ! Cross official estimated morel hNo one could say ow many bodies layfor certain' under the' than 3000 persons had been;mountainous rubble of twisted, steel thean crumbled walls. Most! killed in this once gay Atlanticvictims were Berbers and Coast town. Stunned survivors Arabs, but there were a number . streamed away, of Europeans and a few Ameri , , can tourists. The estimate of more than 3000 There were some still living, dead—three times the original ; trapped by fallen beams and Moroccan government figure —, girders, or huddled in makeshift was made by Dr. Albert A Rain-: havens beneath the cover of hard, who flew in from Interna-, piled wreckage. tional Red Cross headquarters at; Overhead the powerful engines Geneva. of U.S. and French military trans- Thai would be the greatest s ports roared in an airlift carry toll of an earthquake since 23,- l ung in medicines and other sup- rgiatt Housing Bill Hit by SGA Assembly Should Propose Alternative Solution—Sines The SGA Assembly passed a recommendation opposing the University ruling on transfer housing last night, but was warned by Dean of Men Frank J. Simes that it was only doing half its job by not presenting an alternative suggestion. Debate on the issue lasted for an hour and a half in one Committee Will Hear Pro Appeal The Senate subcommittee on group discipline will hear the rec ommendations of the Interfrater nity Council Board of Control this afternoon concerning Sigma Alpha Mu and Kappa Sigma's loss of social privileges. The Board has recommended the loss of social privileges for four weeks and probation for the remainder of the semester for the two fraternities which the Board said were "negligent in keeping the IFC rules concerning fresh man dunking." Last Saturday night, an IFC checker found a freshman drink ing at a combined party which the fraternities held at Sigma Alpha Mu. Ironically, the party had been advertised as a "Going On Pro" party with the following 'invitation "Rushees and IFC Checkers Welcome." The Board also said that the fraternities had been negligent at the door and four freshmen had entered the party unchecked. According to one of the mem bers of Sigma Alpha Mu, the fra ternities had anticipated trouble because of the large crowd which was expected and had assigned brothers to door duty instead of pledges which is the usual cus torn. "There were over 700 people at the house on Saturday and the freshman who was caught drink ing sneaked in through the back door," he said. Before the Board's recommen dations are final, the subcommit tee must hear the case and either approve the recommendations or change them. Rush Invitations Women participating in Pan- Ihellenic Council formal spring ;rushing may pick up their inyita- Awns to coffee hours at 9:45 a.m !today and not at 8 a.m. as was er roneously reported in The Daily Collegian yesterday. By CAROL BLAKESLEE of the liveliest Assembly meet ings of the year Assembly members will join n committee set up by the Town Independent Men to study the problem with members of the ad ministration. times said the University's Board of Trustees had been forced to make a ruling requir ing almost all transfer students to live in the residence halls for a year because of its financial situation. This seemed the least obnox ious and least penalizing way to solve the problem, he said. "Supposing the University takes your resolution seriously," he said. "Where do we go from here?" When student government re jects a ruling most often it does not propose an alternative to it. he said. He warned that the ad ministration would lose faith in student government if it did not propose a mature alterna tive. Proponent of the bill, I-Toward Byers (U.-Sr.), explained that he had interpreted the feelings of Assembly before to mean that it was not in favor of the bill and had, therefore, not devised an alternate plan. The final vote on the recom mendation was 32 for and 6 against. One opponent, Jay Hawley (C.-Sr.), said he felt it was im portant for student government to be responsible and operate on the basis of the information it had received. Students have presented their opinion to the administration and have gotten an answer as to why the decision was made, he said. Several Assemblymen speaking for the motion said Assembly would be ignoring the students' opinion by not voting for it. Byers said he had proposed the motion because of the in equity in the University ruling. The regulation exempts from residence hall living tranfers who wish to join a fraternity and those who have a "valid reason" for not living ir•. the halls. He questioned why this option had been given if the University was in financial difficulties. Simes answered saving the University felt an obligation to the fraternity ! system since they were an inte gral part of the University. plies and carrying out the injured to hospitals set up at other Moroc can cities. Medical teams gave aid at a hospital set up at the French air base outside Agadir. Neal by a hundred bodies were consigned to a mass grave. Aid streamed in from many countries. Ships at sea, rolling equipment, planes, medical sup. plies. surgeons, nurses -- all were offered and accepted. King Mohammed V who, with his son, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, hurried to Agadir a few hours after the quakes, has vowed that the city will rise again The prince said his father had told him he expects to preside at ;the dedication of "the new Aga dir" in 1961, on the anniversary of Moroccan independence March 2. He announced no specific plans. SGA Farce See Page 4 FIVE CENTS
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