PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Alternate Assembly Becomes SGA Farce ONE-THIRD OF SGA ASSEMBLY MISSING Assembly met last night with only 26 of its 42 mem bers present. Font teen alternates were sitting on the body and two members were absent In addition, the parliamen- tai lan was al ,sent Last week, 12 alternates sat on Assembly with one absent What has been happening is that at least one political party chairman is using Assembly as a training ground for students who will be running for this body in spring elections When students chose to run for Assembly they ac cepted an obligation to their constituents to at least attend meetings. They also accepted the obligation to serve on Assembly commitees and to do outside research in order to be suitably hackgrounded for discussions. The usual number of alternates from student teachers is expected. But this amounts to a small percentage of Assemblymen at a time. What has been evolving has been a breed of "professional alternates." Students who have never even appeared on an election ballot have been sitting on Assembly the same amount of times as those elected moldy by filling in for absent members. Assembly 13 NOT a place for politicians to try out stu dents for potential election slates. With an alternate assembly such as this, it is no won der there is time wasted in needless discussion over matters gone over fully at previous meetings. There is no provision in the SGA constitution or by laws which limits the number of alternates sitting on Assembly. Nor are there rules regulating how many times an Assemblyman can have an alternate sit in for him. As it stands now, one cannot tell who will be silting on Assembly from one week to the next. Unless SGA wishes its legislative body to turn into a farce, it is going to have to regulate attendance of its members. If Assemblymen feel they have other activities more important than SGA, then they do not belong on Assembly. And those who have become "professional alternates" don't belong there either, unless they are duly elected. A Student-Operated Newspaper 55 Years of Editorial Freedom Daily Tollrgiatt o . llrb Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning daring the University year. The Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper Entered as second-class matter July 6. 1914 at the State College, Pa, Post Office under the act of March 3, 1870. Mall Subscription Price' $3.00 per semester $5 03 per year DENNIS MALICK 4D, Editor Member of The Associated Press and The intercollegiate Press Mani:mina Editor, William Jaffe: Assistant Editor Catherine Fleck; Publle Relations Mirertor Lolli Neuharth: COPY Editor, Roberta Levine; Sports Editor, Sandy Patine: Assistant Sporty Editor, John Black: Photography Editor Martin Hcherr: Member, 7andy Slosson Local Ad Mgr., William Hess: Ass't Local Ad Mgr., Chester Lucido; tredit ilgr., Murray Simon; National Ad Mgr., Nancy Froebel: Classified Ad Mgr., Sara Brown; Co-Circulation Mere, Loretta Mink, Richard Kitzinger; Promotion Niffr, Datlene Anderaon: Special Page Nigr., Alice klabachek: Personnel Mgr., Dorothy Smeal: Office Secretary, Bonnie Baile• Meyert Research and Records, Nfargaret Dimperio STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editor, Cordie Lewis; Wire Edi tor, Bat b Yunk; Night Copy Editor, Sue Linkroum; Assistants, Bob Kilborn, Margie Zelko, Ann Palmer, Lynne Bordonaro, Judy Walko, Lynne Cetefice, Joanne Mark, Alice Brunton, Suzann- Elli Non, Marjorie Hoffman. r SNOOPY! SVPERTIME! ALL RIGHT, (F YOU DON'T tUANT YOUR GIVE SUPPER IT TO LL THE CAT NEXT DOOR! GEORGE McTURK Business Manager EMMSME] THAT USuALLY DOES IT! THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Inside Washin Senators Talk For Long Time, But Few Listen By ARTHUR EDSON WASHINGTON (/Pi—The trou ble with the Senate is that it has too many long-winded talkers and too few competent listeners. This is true at any time, but it is emphasized now as the Sen ate stumbles through its third day of talk-talk-talk about civil rights. Only occasionally does any thing faintly resembling debate take place. A pattern is repeated over and over 24 hours a day. A senator gets up. He talks, and talks, and talks. Other senators may read. Curi ously, they often seem more in terested in the Congressional Rec ord. an account of what took place' yesterday, than they are in what goes on today. Another senator may nod. Two may chat, sometimes so loudly they drown out the man who has the floor. Most of them, unless summoned to their posts by a quorum call, don't bother to show up at all. Eventually, as the speaker drones on, a teammate will show mercy. He will ask questions, not to pry out additional and neces sary infoi mation, but to give his pal a chance to rest his voice. Of course, every speaker knows he hasn't a chance to persuade any other senator to change his mind. Certainly on civil rights every senator knows where he stands. in principle if not in precise detail. Even Patrick Henr y couldn't sway him. Years ago Tom Connally, then senator from Texas, in one sharp retort explained why Senate de bate is so often ineffective, "The senator," Connally said of a colleague, "approaches each i,sue with an open mouth and a closed mind." Gazette Air Force Club, 3 pm , HUB amsernbly room Bridge Club. g •30 p rn.. 11118 mirth-porn Canoe Drs ision Meeting, 7 prn 112 Buck bout ehriatien Fellowship, 12.455 p m , 218 HUB Debate Reception, 7 p m . HUB main lounge Debate Registration. 1-10 p m . HUB Drat [loos lobby Delta Nu Alpha, 6:10 p in., 213 HUB Electrical Engineering Society, 7:15 p in Miners' Sciences And Interntate Debates Congress, 7 p rn., HUB assembly t oom Mike and Romtrum Club, 6:30 pm , 217 HUH Penn State Engineer. 7 p m , 214.215 HUB Players Show, Deteetke Story by Sidney Ktng,ley. N p m., Schwab Reed and Barton Silver Survey, 9 a m. to 1 prn Simmons Lounge SCA. Illustrated talk on Korea and Japan, It.tnia Carole Klein, 6 30 p rn., Waring Lounge Unkersity Part), 6:30 p ni.. 212 HUB UCA Seminar, 8 p m , Chapel Robert Backer, Neil Buckley. Richard Car other s. Jane Flanigan, Zelda Green span. Anne Kent, Gary Itle, George Mach Spencer McGraw. William O'Malley Jo'eph Onalenick. Stephen Rumbaugh Natter Stang. Michael Tamarkm, Jane Tindin, Peter Ti yen, Wifliatn Updegraff, Barry Wolfer, Zorina Zorak. Cold Inc. Reports Theft of Ice Bags Cold Inc., an ice plant on Pat erson St., reports that many bags of ice are being stolen each day from its self-service department. William Hennings, proprietor of the company, said that he sells ice on the "honor system" because it doesn't pay to station a man there. It would cost $5OOO to in stall a vending machine and since the company only sells a few hun dred bags of ice a week by this method, it would hardly be worth the cost. Unless the thefts stop, the refrig erator will be turned off at 6 p m. Hennings said that he doesn't want to do this because it would inconvenience many people, but it is hardly worth keeping the refrigerator open when 50 per cent of the ice is being stolen. Smith Will Seek Post For ICG Convention Carl Smith, chairman of the In tercollegiate Council on Govern ment, will run for speaker at the annual regional convention of ICG at Dickinson College on Sat urday. Six schools will be represented at the conference. HOSPITAL World At Anti-U.S. Riots Mar Ike's Tour Of Montevideo MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (iP)— The windup of President Eisen hower's triumphant South Ameri can tour was marred yesterday by clashes between anti-U.S. stu dent demonstrators and police who fought them with whacking sabers, tear gas, fire hose and a bit of aimless gunfire. At one point the President got a whiff of tear gas that had his eyes smarting. One demonstrator was hit in the foot by a bullet and others were cut by sabers as police sought to quell the near riot Some witness es said a lot of people were hurt Later, on leaving the Uruguay an Congress, the President's car took an unannounced detour through relatively empty streets Ito avoid passing areas where the trouble erupted. In the earlier demonstrations there were shouts in praise of Cuba's Fidel Castro FCC Will Tighten Licensing Control WASHINGTON (IP) A plan for licensing radio and TV sta tions for less than the usual 3- year period was announced yes terday by the Federal Communi cations Commission. The commission, which said it proposed to change its rules in this respect, invited comment by April 1. The action is one of a series of moves by the FCC in recent months to put tighter reins on broadcasting outlets, short of ac tual censorship of programs. The commission has asked Con gress to provide criminal penal ties for payola, or undercover pay for plugging records and for fixed quiz shows. Weekly ACROSS 1 Milldam. 5 Rail bird. 9 Poetic sadness. 14 City of India. 15 Sacred image. 16 Uneven. 17 Took to one'a heels. 18 Ration of British • seamen. 19 Island of the Azores. 20 Subject of inter. national impor• tance. 23 Khan. 24 Inlet. 25 Guido's note 26 Holly. 27 Russet pear. 29 Region of Spain. 31 Paraders. 33 Shoved. 37 Moving at random. 38 Pie filling. 39 Pincers: Var. 40 Cocktails. 41 Wizard of industry. 43 contents of one basket. THURSDAY, MARCH 3. 1960 A Glance 14 Bodies Found In Train Wreck BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (VP) Workmen slashed a par t the charred wreckage of a Santa Fe passenger train with torches, crowbars and cranes yesterday. From the debris they removed the last bodies of •14 persons known to have died in the flam ing collision of the train and a big oil tank truck late Tuesday. Seventy-two persons were in jured in the smash-up at a grade crossing seven miles northwest of Bakersfield. Of the 109 aboard the train— the San Francisco Chief No. 2, bound from the San Francisco Bay area to Chicago—only 24 es caped unscathed. Fifty-one, in cluding 27 of the less seriously injured, resumed their rail jour ney eastward after being ferried 'by bus to Barstow, Calif It took more than 15 hours to clear the roadbed and replace a quarter-mile of ripped-up rails. NATO to Create Nuclear Project PARIS (:'P) —Gen. Lauris Nor stad announced yesterday plans to create an international nuclear striking force within the North Atlantic alliance. The American commander of the Allied powers in Europe said the force would be built around a small nucleus of men provided by the United States, Britain and France—the alliance's three nu clear powers. The project would start with each country contribut ing one battalion, making the force the equivalent of a regimen tal combat team. Armed with conventional" as well as nuclear weapons, the new force may eventually include as many as 8 of the alliance's 13 members, Norstad said. Some observers saw creation of the- force as a first step toward NATO's becoming the West's "fourth atomic power." 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