Petition SGA to Signers Want Assembly To Discuss Party Switches A phantom petition was circulated yesterday to get a bill prohibiting political party switching before the SGA Assembly tonight. Assembly will me Ronald Smolin, f: Ike Will Not Defy Soviet Flight Limits WASHINGTON (&)—'The Unit ed States has abandoned the idea of defying Soviet objections and flying military supply planes to West Berlin at high altitudes. President Eisenhower killed the idea Tuesday on recommendation of the State and Defense depart ments. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter disclosed the surprise backaway at a news conference yesterday. Herter said that Eisenhower has decided after reviewing the controversial issue that such flights are not necessary at this time from an operational stand point. The secretary stressed, how ever, that the Western Allies re serve their rights to fly into West Berlin at altitudes higher than the Soviet-proclaimed ceiling of 10,- 000 feet whenever they believe it necessary. Ranging over other internation al problems, Herter made these main points: •He does not agree with Cu ban charges that he insulted Prime Minister Fidel Castro by his bluntly worded dressing-down of Cuba’s top diplomat here Mon day. • The Soviet Union clearly is seeking to interfere in Japanese internal affairs by its continuing denunciations against a Japa nese-American security treaty. • West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s visit next week can be very significant in Western plans to forge a united front prior to summit talks on the future of Berlin and Germany. • The Eisenhower administra tion intends to follow up the President’s good-will visit to La tin America by more discussions with South American govern ments and by pressing ahead with plans for loans. Mueller to Lecture at Penn Dr. Erwin W. Mueller, research professor of physics, will present a lecture to the Society of the Sigma Xi at the University of Pennsylvania Wednesday. Final Exam Changes Changes in the spring Semes ter final examination schedule are printed on page 5 of today's issue of The Daily Collegian. Conflicts may be filed Monday. WSGA Plans Women's Career Week A plan for a week i of lectures and panel discussions [based on a woman’s future after college will be presented for approval to the Senate Committee on Student Af fairs. Jessie Janjigian, president of Women’s Student Government Association and a merriber of the Senate committee, will present the plan. I WSGA Senate decided at their meeting last night to hold the affair the second or third week in May. The week will be orientated towards women and will include panels and discussions on mar riages, business careers and sub- Requests Hear Bill CAROL BLAKESLEE it at 7:30 in 203 Hetzel Union. arts and letters from Phila delphia, said last night that he was one of the circulators of the petition, but that he did not know who had started it. The petition asks that Assembly take immedi ate action on the bill, he said. Smolin, who is active in Cam pus party, said the party's pub licity manager had called him and asked him to pick up a package of petitions which would be left at the Association of Independent Men office. The SGA Constitution provides that legislation can be brought on the Assembly floor by a petition signed by 3 per cent of the stu dent body. This would be about 400 signatures. eshman Smolin said he had about 40 signatures, but could not estimate how many other petition circula tors had gotten. The proponent of the bill in question, Edwin Urie, alternate Assemblyman, said the petition seems to be an example of "de mocracy in action." He said that he had signed the petition but didn't know who had started it. Urie’s bill recommends a change in the by-laws which would pro hibit a candidate elected on one party ticket from being nominated by another party during his term of office. The Rules Committee did not place the bill on the Assembly agenda this week- because Urie was not present at the committee meeting to explain the bill. Urie said last night he had been ill the night of the Rules Committee meeting, adding that he knew of other bills involving by-law changes which had been brought before Assembly whose proponents did not have to "go through questioning." SGA Vice President Larry By ers said that through .precedent proponents of bills have appeared before the Rules Committee. The committee can then decide wheth er the bill is in the correct form to get the point across or whether n\°re work should be done on it in committee. SGA President Leonard Julius said copies of the bill would be ready for distribution to Assem bly members tonight at the re quest of John Brandt, alternate Assemblyman and Campus party clique chairman. Text Book Tax Petition Signed by 3000 Students The SGA petition which asks the State Legislature to exempt students from a tax on College (text books has been signed by about 3000 students. James Kridel (C.-Soph.), who is in charge of the committee cir culating the petition, said he has set 50 per cent of the student body (about 8000 students) as the goal. The drive for signatures will end tomorrow. jects such as budgeting of in terest to all women. WSGA hopes to set up displays of chinaware and wedding and engagement rings. The week will be climaxed by a fashion show to be held on Sunday. In other business Sally Dames, chairman of the housing commit tee, reported that Otto E. Mueller, director of housing, has said re frigerators will be installed in Atherton. Mueller also said ramps will be installed leading to Redifer din ing halls so that girls will not have trouble going to meals in icy weather. He said that ironing boards will VOL. 60, No. 99 STATE COLLEGE. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 10. 1960 FIVE CENTS 2 Councils Unanimously Back ICCB Proposal - The Engineering-Architecture and Business Administration student councils voted unanimously last night in favor of council representation on SGA Assembly while two others, Mineral Industries and Chemistry-Physics took no conclusive vote. Home Economics student council considered the issue Tuesday but took no vote. The Engineering-Architecture student council voted that the Intercollegiate Council Switching Upheld By Crosby, Darran By ELAINE MIELE Jack Crosby, junior class president, and Walter Dar ran, junior class representa tive, who switched their affiliation from Campus to University party, said last night that they did so because Campus Party "collapsed.” In a combined statement, Darran and Crosby said that following the spring elections last year Campus party did not have any continuing organiza tion. The University Party, Cros by said, has more organiza tion in the form of regular meeting and research commit tees. Crosby said he was in favor of strong political parties, but being made to stay with a certain party could be a direct hinderance to those interested In student government. . “I realize that being an as- Cold Continues As Snow Ends Snow will taper off to flurries this morning after depositing be tween three and four inches on this area. Another storm may bring several more inches of snow tomorrow after*’'" The cold weathei should continue foi the next severa. days. Today’s high should be about 28 degrees and to night’s low will be about 18. Snow flurries wil end tonight, bul the cloud i n e s! should remain throi The high will be al row afternoon. ' Megonnell to Speak At Engineering Meeting William H. Megonnell will speak on "Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service” at the American Society of Civil Engineers meeting at 8 tonight n the Mineral Science auditor ium. be installed on the upper floors of McKee and that soft drink machines will be installed in the women’s residence halls except for West Halls. The girls in West Halls get their snacks from War ing, he said. Mueller told the committee that there was no possibility of getting longer cords for the phones and sitting in the halls while talking on the phones could not be per mitted because of a state law pro hibiting crowding of the halls. He said that the phones could not be equipped to call off cam pus because too many trunk lines would have to be added to the telephone system. lath) FOR A BETTER PENN STATE semblyman is a twofold re sponsibility—working for the students and supporting the party,” Crosby said. We both feel that supporting the party must be secondary to repre senting the students and fur thering their causes, he said. "The way it (Campus party) was being run did not indicate that it was trying to further student needs, Crosby said. Therefore, because of our ob jective for good student gov ernment we switched parlies, he added, Crosby commented on the proposed bill which would pre vent Assembly members from switching political affiliation while in office. “We should not be held responsible by SGA to belong to parties whose or ganization can change so easily,” he said. Darran said that the charac ter of Campus party had changed from what it was last spring. Senate to Hold Meeting At 4:15 in 121 Sparks The University Senate will meet at 4:15 p.m. today in 121 I Sparks. I The Senate is expected to con tinue consideration of proposals !for new courses and changes in ] courses and curriculums. The plan to change the basic liversity calendar was turned 'er to President Eric A. Walker the last meeting. The calendar ‘cision is now up to Walker and le Board of Trustees. AIM OK's Merger; Details Postponed The Association of Independent Men Board of Governors passed a motion last night approving the AIM-Leonides merger, but postponed discussion of its definite date and details. The postponement was made because of objections by Carol Frank, Leonides president, that Leonides was not yet ready for the merger, and because of problems outlined by Dean of Women Dorothy J. Lipp and Dean of Men Frank J. Simes. The sub ject will be postponed until both AIM and Leonides decide they are ready to discuss it. The structure originally pro posed by Carl Smith, merger committee chairman, provided for a merger of the two bodies as of April 1. A decision on the sub-structures of the merged body would be postponed. Smith said this would allow the structure to be developed in ac cordance with Dean Lipp’s com munity living plan. The plan, which Dean Lipp ex plained for the board, would di vide the residence hall system into communities consisting of both men’s and women’s halls. Simes said his main concern about community government Board should be represented on SGA Assembly without stipulat ing all the college presidents should have seats. However, the debate among the council members assumed that all the presidents would have seals. William Bowers, president of the council, said that he fell the council presi dents are the student leaders on campus. "They are well'in formed through their council representatives, and have bet ter communication with the stu dents through the council meet ings," said Bowers. One council member, a fresh man himself, said that freshmen are not prepared to take such an important position as representa tives in student government since they haven’t been at Penn State long enough. The Business Administration Student Council favored the ICCB proposal that all the col lege council presidents sit on the SGA Assembly. Larry Abrams, president of the council, said that college presi dents would be better qualified through their experience obtained while on council and more cog nizant of student issues and Uni versity policy,than students who have not been acquainted with or could possibly have sufficient knowledge of these issues and policies. Dean Ossian MacKenzie of the College of Business Adminstra tion said that college presidents sitting on the student government in previous years have played an important part in bringing to the attention of both government and [council issues directly concerned with their respective colleges. With a majority of one mem ber, the Mineral Industries Stu dent Council came cut against the sealing of ICCB members on the SGA Assmebly. However, poor attendance due to resched uling of the meeting forced the council to consider its straw vote as a temporary one. The issue will' be returned to the (Continued on page five) By JANET DURSTINE was lhai the government sys tem in women's residence halls is not as well developed as that in men's halls. He said it would be a problem to try to form a combined government with two different types of organizations. Men’s residence halls are or ganized into houses, and presi dents of these houses sit on 'area councils affiliated with AIM. Women elect their representatives by living units. The president of the living unit sits on the Wom en’s Student Government House of Representatives. A separate Leonides representative is also chosen. | Simes also said independent men’s and women’s problems are different. David Garland, West I Halls council president, said there were no basic disagreements be tween men’s and women’s repre- Isentatives on the coed West Hall* Council.
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