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Bernreuter, director of student affairs, told
IM-SGA transfer housing committee that
. one about preventing the transfer housing
into effect this fall.
Dr. Robert G.
members of a T 1
nothing could be
rule from going
He said, how-
1 er, that if enough students wanted to live
De Ga
lie,
Khrushchev
Begin Talks
PARIS (in—Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev and French
President Charles de Gaulle
swapped conflicting opinions
on Germany in a private talk
yesterday.
Khrushchev emerged as mili
tant as ever in opposition to what
he calls German revenge seekers.
The Soviet leader redoubled his
public attacks on Germany while
wooing France, now closely linked
with the Bonn Republic, to align
herself with the Soviet Union.
De Gaulle and Khrushchev
met at the Elysee Palace for two
hours with only their two inter
preters present. A spring rain
fell outside.
"Each laid out his point of view
on European problems," a French
spokesman said. "The greatest
emphasis was on Germany, for
both considered it the key problem
in Europe."
The two emerged smiling. They
shook hands.
Any discussion of a basis of
agreement was left to later ses
sions. De Gaulle and Khruhchev
have scheduled about 10 hours
more for private talks before the
Soviet Premier winds up his pre
summit visit April 3.
Two declarations illustrate
the wide gap between the
French and Soviet chieftains on
the German question.
De Gaulle said Wednesday that
the Germans have given up the
ambition to conquer Europe.
B 1 u n tl y taking issue, Khru
shchev told a reception at the
Hotel de Ville, the Paris City
Hall: "We cannot take seriously
these efforts to show that it is not
the same militarism which existed
before and that it is not to be
feared."
SCA to Sponsor Talk by Lawson
By NICK! WOLFORD
Jim Lawson, who was ex
pelled from Vanderbilt Di
vinity School and arrested fdr
his part in lunch counter dem
onstrations in Nashville, Tenn.,
will speak at 8 p.m. Wednesdayl
in the Hetzel Union ballroom.
Lawson's talk here is being
I
sponsored by the St dent Chris
tian Association. Th object of,
the talk, according o Lee Van
Bremen, association resident, is,
to "find out what's g jng on from
an eyewitness."
Another object of
Van Bremen said, "is
action we might tako
of the movement."
"We also want to
pathy and concern
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ernreuter
in residence halls by the spring
of 1961 perhaps the Board of
Trustees would drop the rule then.
Bernreuter told Philip Haines,
president of TIM, that the next
Board meeting would not be until
the middle of May and that by
then room assignment will have
been made.
John Brandt, SGA Assembly
alternate, asked Bernreuter if he
did not think student govern
ment should have been told
about the lack of students to
fill spaces sooner in order-that
it could have done something
about it.
Bernreuter said that administra
tion officials had known about
the problem in December but had
to prepare a plan over Christmas
vacation to present to the Board
at its meeting in January. He said
that students could not be reached
at that time.
Bernreuter told the committee
that liberal exemptions would be
made.
In replying to Haines' ques
tion of what the liberal exemp
tions
involved, Bernreuter list
ed the exemptions as marriage,
financial reasons, relations liv
ing in State College and being
a veteran and over 21.
Bernreuter said that the 2000
spaces could not possibly, be left
vacant because all the fees for
room and board were used jointly
not only to pay for residence hail
maintenance and operation but
also to pay off the bonds for the
residence halls.
He said that the administration
had investigated the problem be
fore making the ruling and found
that about 500 freshmen, who
lived in the residence halls now
or men living in town, wanted to
live in the residence halls next
fall.
He told Haines that the Uni
versity plans to till more spaces
by pulling graduate students in
West Halls and Grange.
He said that the next class of
students to be considered for res
idence hall living were transfers,
mostly sophomores, from the
campuses.
Bernreuter told the committee
that he had received only seven
requests for exemptions from
transfer students although student
( protested
at some centers had
against the plan.
happening," Van Bremen ex- i
plained.
Members of the Vanderbilt fac
ulty posted bail for Lawson. and
a statement to the effect that the
University had made a mistake in
expelling him was signed by 126
members of the faculty and pub
lished in the Nashville papers.
He was expelled under a nor
mal university regulation against
participating in disturbance of the
general community. Its use, ac
cording to faculty members, was
normally confined to those par
ticipating in panty raids and the
'like.
Lawson, a minister in good
standing of the Lexington An
nual Conference of the Metho
dist Church, has been a Chris
tian missionary serving three
years in India. He worked with
the Student Volunteer Move
ment and spoke at the Athens
Conference.
the speech,
to see what
in support
show sym•
for wharf;
A New York - Times article
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 25, 1960
SGA Debate Pans
Present 'Situation'
Student government and Lion's Paw were panned in a 45-minute debate on a bill pre
sented before Student Government Association Assembly last night calling for an investi
gation of the present political situation on zampus.
Assembly passed the bill, 20-15, with 5 abstentions.
The extended verbal barrage on SGA and Lion's Paw was precipitated when the bill
Alternate System
Deleted by SGA
By NICKI WOLFORD
The SGA Assembly decided
to eliminate the alternate sys
tem last night during debate
on a proposal for new alter-
nate system.
The bill introducing the new
system started out with two reso
lutions which deleted the sections
of the constitution which pro
vided for the Assembly alternates
and then proposed the new sys
tem.
However, the Assembly de
feated the section on the new•
alternate system and then de
cided to pass the first two reso
lutions and thereby decided
against having any alternates
at all.
Walter Darran (C-Jr.) had pro
posed earlier ;n the debate that
the alternates should be taken out
altogether and received support
from Steve Ott who said "One of
the duties of being a student lead
er is to be here."
Five Assemblymen said that
deleting the alternate system
would "discriminate" against stu
Lion's Den Hours
Will Be Studied
Robert C. Proffitt, director of
Food Service, said yesterday that
no decision had been }Wade on
the extension of Lion's-Den hours.
David Frick, secretary of the
Association of Independent Men,
told the AIM Board of Governors
Wednesday that he would ask for
a trial extension of weekday hours.
Proffitt said the decision has to
be made relative to the hours
of the Hetzel Union Building. He
said he had not heard any plans
to extend 'HUB hours.
The HUB now closes at 11 p.m.
on weekdays and the Lion's Den
at 10 p.m.
credited him with being the proj-,
ects secretary of the National
Christian Leadership Conference.
In discussing Lawson's dismis
sal from Vanderbilt, the Nash
ville Banner, under a headline
"Vanderbilt Did Its Duty" ran
the following statement in an edi
torial:
"The dismissal was not based
on that individual's past actions
but on his avowal of intent to
contine a program of civil dis
obedience.
Meanwhile, northern schools,
are continuing their support of
the anti-segregation demonstra
tions through protest marches•and
the picketing of variety stores.
Wednesday, a protest march was
organized by the Yale Divinity
'students and students at Brown
University and Skidmore College
were demonstrating. Northern
demonstrations began when
Princeton students picketed Wool
worth's.
rgiatt
By JOHN BLACK
dents in the education curriculums
who must be absent for eight
weeks at a time.
Howard Byers (U-Sr.) pointed
out that education majors could
run for Assembly during years
when they were not student teach
ing but granted that there would
be some difference but it was
r"exclusion not discrimination."
The plan for alternates was
defeated by a voice vote in
which half the votes on both
sides were inaudible.
Then a substitution in the by
laws, also part of the bill, was
passed which provided that no
more than 3 absences by Assem
blymen were permitted a semester
and leaving it to the Rules Com
mittee to determine the validity
of any absence.
Miss Jessie Janjigian, who
introduced the bill, pointed out
that this by-law would allow
education majors to sit on As
sembly if the rules committee
interpreted this as a valid excuse.
Under procedural rules for
;carrying out the by-law, the bill
provided that absences were valid
;for sickness, examination, being
out-of-town and classes.
Reservations DUe Today
For Gridiron Banquet
Reservations for Sigma Delta'
Chi's annual Gridiron Banquet
are due today.
The traditional banquet will
be held Saturday, April 9, at the
State College Hotel. After the din
ner, SDX members will present
a skit satirizing town and Uni
versity affairs and peirsonalities.
Non-ASA Activities
Must Submit Report
Student activities which are not members of the Associ
ated Student Activities will be required to submit an exten
sive report beginning next year.
The University Senate Committee on Student Affairs
decided yesterday to request a report which would cover the
period beginning Feb. 1, 1960 un
til
Jan. 31, 1961. The report will,
be due April 1, 1961.
This year, organizations which
do not belong to ASA must sub-;
mit reports including their consti-'
tution, officers, faculty advisor;
and financial standing.
Beginning next year the follow-1
ling additional information will bei
required:
eA list of every activity in
;which the organization has en-1
I gaged.
•The number of people who
took part in each activity.
e The organization's evaluation
of each specific activity -and its
contribution to the entire educa
tional experience offered by the
University.
•An overall evaluation of the
Elections
investigation
See Page 4
was backed by a petition intro
duced by Desmond Macßae, fresh
man in arts and letters from
State College. He spearheaded the
debate by repeatedly declaring,
"the students have lost faith in
student government "
"They don't believe In you,"
Macßae told 40 members of the
Assembly, as he opened the ten
sion-packed debate.
"They think you're an Easter
Parade coming up here in your
Sunday best and not concerned
about working for them," Mac-
Rae said, challenging the As
semblymen before a packed gal
lery and a radio audience. The
meeting was broadcast over
WDFM and WMAJ for the first
time this year.
Li is Paw came under fire
when Harald Sandstrom, AIM
president, urged Assembly to con
sider a "hypothetical case" in
which he verbally depicted a se
cret campus society of student
leaders influenced by administra
tive officials to the point where
they became salesmen for the
policy of the University.
Sandstrom asked that this "by
pothetical case" be discussed "on
the intellectual level above name
references."
But John Brandt, alternate As
semblyman, immediately took the
floor and said, "l'm not pulling
any punches, we have such a
group on campus called LP."
The debate then dealt with
the whole of student govern
ment rather than the disreput
ed "political situation" described
in the bill presented by Howard
Byers (U.-Sr.). Assemblymen
then took turns questioning
Macßae on the • intentions of
his platition.
Macßae, whom Steven Ott (U.-
St.) tabbed as "Will Rodgers Jr.,"
said that student government
should submit to investigation by
a panel of three students and a
faculty member.
He suggested Alan Elms, editor
of Froth, Dennis Malilck, editor
of The Daily Collegian, Robert
Parsky, chairman of the Supreme
Court, and Dr. Converse H. Blan
(continued on page two)
group's contribution to the edu
cational experience made by the
faculty advisor.
William Fuller, manager of
ASA, said that there are about
90 organizations which belong to
ASA and about 300 which do not.
The reason the action was tak
en is "the committee's concern
for the quality of student activi
ties, and this is a step toward a
review of the impact of student's
activities on their educational ex
perience," Dr. Monroe Newman,
chairman of the committee, said.
Over 400 student organizations
have been chartered by the Uni
versity and we have reason to
believe that some of them have
gone out of existence, he said.
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