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VOL. 60. No. 100
Nelligan Offers Election Fix
Party Switch Bill Gets
Ist Reading at Assembly
bJ carol blakeslee
A bill which would prohibit political party switching was
brought before the SpA Assembly last night my means of a
petition signed by 7fjl students.
No action was however, since an amendment to the
SGA by-laws is involved. Two readings of the proposed
Miss PSU
Photo Dote
Announced
Portraits of .coeds wishing
to enter the Miss Penn State
contest during Spring Week
must be turned In to the Het
2el Union desk no later than
8:15 p.m. on April 20. The picture
must be 5 x 7 inches and must be
marked with the name of the con
testant and the sponsoring group.
Five finalists will be selected at
the preliminary judging which
will be held between 6:30 and
10:30 p.m. on April 26 in the Al
umni Office in Old Main. Towns
people and University personnel
will serve as the six judges.
The finalists will then attend a
buffet banquet May 3 at the Nit
tany Lion Inn. The banquet will
be followed by the final judging
at 8 p.m. in the HUB ballroom.
The finalists for the Miss
Penn State title will ride on the
lead float in the float parade
on April 29. The float will be
designed and built by Leonides
and Town Independent Men.
Miss Penn State will be crowned
on Awards Night, May 3.
The group which sponsors Miss
Penn State will receive five points
toward the Spring Week trophy.
Each of the next four finalists will
get three points.
Sharon Hoffman, float parade
chairman, said yesterday that
Johnstown TV station WJAC will
film portions of the parade. WFBG
in Altoona and Lancaster station
WGAL had already decided to
film, some of it. The Johnstown
film will be shown on the 11 p.m.
newscast the evening of the par
ade. '
Miss Hoffman also said that the
Army and Air. Force ROTC bands
have agreed to play in the parade.
The Navy band has not yet made
a decision, she said.
Senate Debates Course Requirements
By NICKI WOLFORD
The University Senate, after
an hour of complicated debate
yesterday, passed an informa
tional report setting up cri
teria upon which revised
curriculums are to be, re
viewed.
The Senate had passed the
Whisler Report, which required
each college to review curricu
lums and course offerings and
changes to the Senate Committee
on Courses of Study for review,
on May 1, 1958.
The debate on fhs informa
tional report was so checkered
with objections, amendments
end substitutions that, toward
She close of debate, one Senator
said, "I think we are so con
fiatlt) ftOloll
amendment are required and a
vote will be taken at the second
reading next week.
Carried on in a tense atmos
phere, debate ranged from prac
ticality to idealism and at times
barely touched on the bill in
question.
The bill recommends that a
candidate elected by one party
be prohibited from being nom
inated by another parly during
his term of office.
Speaking for the bill, David
Byers, alternate Assemblyman,
asked Assembly "not to be hypo
critical” in considering the issue.
"We all know what has been
going on,” he said. This is dis
tinctly a political bill and Assem
bly should treat it as such, he
said. He urged Assemblymen not
to be idealistic in their consider
ation of the issue.
"Idealism doesn't appear to
have any motivation or Influ
ence with the person involved,"
Byers added.
Walter Darren (C.-Jr.) said that
charges which had been made
were "nebulous” and asked for
more direct questions.
A similar request was made by
Steven Ott (C.-Jr.). Ott charged
that Assembly members were
being “snowed with emotional
ism” in the debate..
Several members of the gal
lery applauded when Byers
staled bluntly that he would
"gladly yield lo interrogation
but not to degradation."
Ott answered that he had not
been referring to a specific As
semblyman. He said that Assem
bly was being asked to consider
ideals with “pure practicality,”
while in the past it had debated
issues with idealism.
John Brandt, alternate Assem
blyman, said there are many
“political shenanigans” being un
dertaken for "non-political rea
sons.” Other things are involved
and “we all know what they are,”
he said.
Herald Sandstrom, president
of the Association of Independ
ent Men, said that recently he
had seen a great deal which
had "utterly disgusted" him. He
said he failed lo see how a man
could "sell out his own affilia
tions."
Sandstrom, however, was speak
ing out of order in the opinion
of the chair, since debate on the|
issue had already been closed.
fused now that I move we table
the whole matter until next
month." The Senate did not
pass his motion.
When the report was presented
by C. William Pierce, committee
chairman, John D. Ridge, assistant
dean of the College of Mineral
Industries, objected to the report
because it was "legislation by the
committee” and the Senate had
not been consulted.
“It would have been better,” he
said, “that these suggestions had
been presented to the Senate in
stead of the Senate’s being told.”
The Senate, after a 15-minute
discussion, began debate on a
motion that the criteria be ap
proved and overcame Ridge's
objection.
The first requirement set up by
the committee asked that each
curiculum include 12 credits in
the physical and biological sci-
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 11. 1960
Chairman Claims Offer Was Test';
Campus Party Refuses to Accept
University Party Chairman James “Tim” Nelligan offered to throw the fall elections
in return for a victory for his party next month, The Daily Collegian learned last night.
The offer, which was refused, was made to John Brandt, Campus party chairman, two
weeks ago.
Brandt, alternate Assemblyman, said at last night’s S’
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| The attempt by University Party Chairman James I
| "Tim" Nelligan to fix both next month's and next fall's f
| elections lowered politics to its lowest ebb. |
| It is disgusting that ihiß attempt has come up at a 1
| lime when the entire new SGA organization is depending \
| upon the responsibility of fhe political parties. 1
| This is not the first time party members have sold I
| themselves, their parties and the student body for personal g
1 gain. However, the others have ben able to keep their |
| dealings secret. |
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| Too many have looked forward to what personal |
| recognition they could achieve by winning a high office. 1
| And In the process, they have disregarded the means |
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§ for attaining this position. I
| If the best person eventually gains a top position, the t
| students may not suffer too much. However, when such |
| dirty politics are played, candidates of almost any ability f
| could win. |
| Elections are three weeks away. If such politicking Is ?
| allowed to continue, we might save a lot of irouble by I
S not even going to the polls. |
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3 Labor Ed Men Attend
Conference In Indiana
Dr. Joseph G. Rayback, Helmut
J. Golatz and Charles Steinberg,
all of the Department of Labor
Education, attended the Univer
sity-Steelworker Education Con
ference held at Indiana Univer
sity.
j Theme of the conference was
“The Challenge of the Sixties.”
ences with at least three credits
in each area. The report added
that “appropriate” courses in the
earth sciences may be counted
towards the science requirements.
Senators from the College of
Mineral Industries and the Col
lege of Engineering and Architec
ture asked Pierce if certain spe
cific courses in their colleges
would meet the particular re
quirements.
Pierce explained lhai he
didn't know anything about
these courses and the commit
tee's, plan had been lo ask each
college lo submit a list of courses
they thought would meet these
requirements and the committee
would review them.
The fifth requirement estab
lished by the committee stated
that the minimum requirement of
three credits in the physical bio
(continued on page three)
Political Fix Attempt
Brings Lowest Ebb
Dirty campus politics are out in the open now.
pgtatt
By DENNY MALIC.K
Editor
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low of 2 degrees to an afternoon
high of 27.
Partly cloudy and cold weather
is due tonight with a chilly 10 de
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Tomorrow will also be partly
cloudy and continued cold."
Scott Lecture Tickets
Now Available at HUB
Tickets are available at the
Hetzel Union desk for the lecture
by John Scott, special assistant
to the publisher of Time Maga
zine.
The lecture on “The Soviet Em
pire” will be given at 8 p.m. Tues
day in Schwab Auditorium.
Abuse Rules
—Lose Freedom
See Page 4
;A Assembly meeting that he
had been offered a trade of fall
elections for spring elections.
Brandt said he refused the offer.
The Collegian learned of a con
versation involving the two party
chairmen and several other stu
dents.
In the conversation, Nelligan
said-
"I feel we (University parly)
can get in this spring. Fall
comes soon. We offer you the
fall elections."
Previous to this statement, Nel
ligan said: “As we know, there
are really four top people.”
He was referring to Donald Cla
geff, Walter Darran, Jack Crosby
and Richard Haber. Both chair
men had considered these four
men the top candidates for next
month’s SGA elections. When
asked why he wanted all four,
Nelligan merely replied: “So we
can win.”
At the party registration Sun
day, Crosby and Darran
switched from Campus fo Uni
versity party. At the lime of
the conversation, neither was
committed officially.
When asked for comment by
a Collegian reporter last night,
Nelligan said: “I was really try
ing to find out John’s party’s
strength. I would never throw an
election.”
“It’s quite obvious that I spoke
to John,” he added.
Concerning the contradiction
of what he said last night with
his statement of two weeks ago.
Nelligan said: "I'll make no
bones about it. That was the way
I was trying lo find out their
strength."
After Nelligan had made his
offer, one of the students asked
him:
"You’re willing to trade the
spring elections for the fall elec
tions 7 ”
Nelligan answered simply:
"Yes/'
The student repeated: “You’re
not just trading ideas or a couple
of candidates. You really want to
trade the whole election?”
Nelligan again replied: “Yes.”
Coeds Arrested
For Phoning
Two coeds from Atherton Hall
were arrested yesterday and fined
$5O for making fraudulent calls
from the pay telephone in their
residence hall.
Judith Cochrane, sophomore in
home economics from Clairton,
and Sandra Zellem, sophomore in
counseling from New York City,
were arraigned before Guy G.
Mills, justice of the peace, on
charges of using fictitious credit
cards to make calls to fictitious
places in Pennsylvania.
Both girls pleaded guilty and
were fined $5O plus the cost of
prosecution and also the cost of
payment of the calls to the Bell
Telephone Company.
A Bell Telephone Co. detec
tive was called in to investigate
iafter the company received com
plaints of calls made on fictitious
credit cards on Jan. 18, 19 and 21
from Atherton Hail.
747 Tickets Remain
For Muller Lecture
Six hundred eighty-seven stu
dent and 60 non-student tickets
remain for the lecture to be pre
sented by Dr. Herman Muller at
8 p.m. Sunday in Schwab Audi
torium.
FIVE CENTS