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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this rule be rescinded if the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. .
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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
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