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Editorial Opinion
Elections
Must Be
The SGA AsNembly was told in no uncertain terms
laq night that students just don't have faith in student
govei oment. The reasons: recent election scandals and the
question of Lion's Paw influence on student government.
Whether the majority of the student body has lost
faith in its government—as was stated at Assembly—
can be debated. However, the fact that at least 400 petition
signers fe3l quite vehemently so cannot be ignored.
Assembly evidently felt this way also in approving an
investigation of the situation.
A mass of rumors, accusations and some facts have
been circulating wildly through the student body. The
students have the i 'gilt to know just what situation exists.
In the upcoming investigation, one aspect should be
stressed -- the constructive aspect. What has happened
in the past is not nearly so important as seeing to it that
this same thing isn't repeated in the future. The investiga
tors must keep this in the front of their minds throughout
the inquiries.
While the committee is working on the investigations,
the SGA judicial system should be considering what, if
any, action should be taken. As was pointed out at the
Assembly meeting, a mere slap on the fingers will not be
enough to reprimand anyone seriously harming the work
ings of student government.
The tact also remains that if student government
itself does not clean up the situation, someone else will,
namely the administration
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Letters
Reader Hits
Defenders
Of ROTC
TO THE EDITOR: We saw with
some pleasure that one of the
military branches no doubt,
after many abortive starts, much
wasted paper and much burning
of the midnight oil was finally
able to bring forth a retort to a
letter written three weeks ago by
Messrs. Dutko, Eckman and Som
erville.
While this letter proves that the
above three persons were wrong
in one respect (instead of one sup
porter of ROTC there now appear
to be three), their attempt to "pull
the Air Force's chestnuts out of
the fire" appears stillborn.
If Weyand and Ford are con
fused when Dutko, Eckman and
Somerville write that "the mili
tary mentality pushes away the
desires and thoughts of the hu
man being and degrades the in
dividual to a mere instrument,"
we can easily picture their con
sternation when they read the
part about the Lemmings.
If they fail to realize or prefer
to ignore that that the above quote
intrinsically applies to any mili
tary system'at any time they must
be ignorant not only of all 20th
century philosophy and writing,
with the possible exception of
Ayn Rand, but of most war movies
as well.
economic and metaphysical rea
have wars." Superb rhetoric but
I digress. While this may be true,
one might do well to look beyond
the drivel about, "democrary must
be defended," "the situation be
hind the Iron Curtain," and your
dire threats of salt mines and
higher taxes, to more plausible
exonomic and metaphysical rea
sons.
In closing:
•We suggest you stop under
mining our faith in the U.S. Army
Signal Corps by implying that it
is filled *up with ROTC graduates.
•For Weyand and Ford and
their like who habitually label
what they don't understand as
"pseudo-intellectual" we humbly
suggest an appropriate song
You call everybody pseudo, and
everybody calls you pseudo too."
•We suggest the safest and
least noxious philosophy for these
ROTC champions, and one nearer
their capacities, might well be
the Zen concept of No-Mind.
—Richard Hildebrand, '6O
Gazette
Center Stage production. "An Italian Straw
Hat," 8 p m.
Christian Felloa ship, 12:45-1:15 p nt , 218
11U13
Cosmopolitan Club dance, 10-12, HUR ball-
room
Fluid ➢terhanira Seminar, 4 15 p.m.. 211
ME. Ralph Hausland on — Plane Shock
Wave Refraction at Gaseous Interfaces."
Interlandia, 7 :30 p m , 3 White Hall
Mineral Industries Colloquium, 4:15 p.m.,
grade Mineral Facies in New Zealand."
Movie, "The Nearest Star," 7 :30 p.m., MI
auditorium
OHL 8 fl.lll. to 5 T) m.. 203- 212-21 R HUB;
9-9:15 p m , RUB assembly room
Ugly Man Contest, 7-10 p m., HUB ball•
room
Robert Bickeistaff, David Crouthamel,
James Danilovitz, Margaret Frazier, Re
becca }hidden. Richard Heess, Harold
Hughes, Mary Lynn Isaacs, Frederick
Kochey, Sari Susan Kurtossy, Leslie Le
wintei, Michael Mai usehak, Henry Nor
ment, Helen Oakes. lan W. Ramsey, Joseph
Ruckus, Lynette Sabre, Vincent Salico,
Yong Shin, Louise Terpak, Marilyn Trim
ble, Judith Welsh.
DOC Council Forms
Applications for the Division of
Counseling Student Council are
now available at the HUB desk
and in the Division of Counseling
office in 110 Old Main. Self-nom
inations may be made.
Candidates should submit their
picture with the form and all ap
plications must be returned to
the HUB desk by Sunday.
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HOSPITAL
World At
Macmillan, Ike
To Start Talks
WASHINGTON (IP) British
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
will fly to Washington tomorrow
for talks with President Eisen
hower.
The evident purpose is to pre
vent a U.S.-British split over the
Soviet Union's new bid for a total
ban on nuclear weapons testing.
In an atmosphere of worry
amounting almost to crisis, Mac
millan and Eisenhower will try to
shape a counterproposal to the
Soviet move last Saturday in the
Geneva nuclear test conference.
The White House announced
that Eisenhower had taken the
initiative in suggesting that Mac
millan come here.
Macmillan and Eisenhower will
not begin their talks until Mon
day, the White House said. It is
not known whether they would
confer in Washington, at Eisen
hower's fai m near Gettysburg.
Pa., or his mountain retreat near
Thurmont, Md.
Convict Rebellion
Ends after 2 Days
NASHVILLE, Tenn. VP) A
one-day rebellion of two danger
ous convicts ended late yesterday
when they meekly walked out of
their captured prison office behind
19 hostages they had held under
guns since midafternoon Wednes
day.
The rebellion of Robert Rivera
and Raymond Farra, which threat
ened for many hours to take the
lives of their hostages, ended al
most in an anticlimax.
Albert Balevre, a state psychol
ogist, made the final plea to the
convicts to surrender. The sur
render had been expected, but the
exact time remained in doubt un
til the final moment. None of the
hostages was hurt.
Symington Announces
Wish for Nomination
WASHINGTON (.4 ) )—Missouri's
Sen. Stuart Symington, a coy con
tender until now, said yesterday
that he wants to be the Demo
cratic presidential nominee.
Surprising nobody with his for
mal announcement, Symington
apparently hurried his plunge by
a couple of months because of
headway being made by Sen. John
F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, re
garded as leading the pack.
The only other major an
nounced candidate on the Demo
cratic side is Sen. Hubert H
Humphrey of Minnesota.
Manila Gets U.S. Ships
MANILA (A') President Car
los P. Garcia received from U.S
Ambassador John D. Hickerson
yesterday two new U.S. Navy pa
trol gunboats for use by the Phil
ippine navy in patrolling this
country's extensive coastlines.
A spokesman said the vessels,
turned over under the mutual de
fense assistance pact, are armed
with rocket launchers, antiair
craft guns and depth charge
throwers.
5 Marines Rescued
HONOLULU (VP) Five Unit
ed States Marines, missing since
Tuesday in a small rubber boat
off Formosa, were rescued yester
day.
FRIDAY. MARCH 25, 1960
A Glance
House Passes
Civil Rights Bill
WASHINGTON (. I P)—The House
passed its civil rights bill 311-109
yesterday and the Senate over
whelmingly set it up for possible
action next week.
Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers
saluted the bill as "an historic
step" but wrangling senators
called it too weak or too strong.
The Senate voted 72-19 against
a motion by Sen. James 0. East
land (D.-Miss ), to send the bill
to the Judiciary Committee which
he heads, without any time limit
on committee action.
Then, on motion of Sen. Lyndon
B. Johnson of Texas, the Demo
cratic leader, the Senate voted 86-
5 to send the bill to Eastland's
committee—long a graveyard for
civil rights legislation—with or
ders to report it back to the Sen
ate by next Tuesday midnight
with or without its recommenda
tion.
Disarmament Talks
Attain Broad Pact
GENEVA (IP) The 10-nation
disarmament conference took a
cautious step forward yesterday
by accepting broad principles for
worldwide reduction in men and
weapons.
The decision related only to
generalities. East and West re
mained divided by basic differ
ences on specific control measures
and even on how to start an ac
tual disarmament process.
But one Western source said
some progress has been achieved
after eight conference sessions.
He added that these talks appear
to be off to a better beginning
than the inconclusive London ne
gotiations of 1955 and 1956.
Senator Calls Betting
Unsound, Dangerous
PITTSBURGH (IF) State" Sen.
Robert D. Fleming said yesterday
that legalized pari-mutuel betting
at harness race tracks is econom
ically unsound, morally danger
ous and will do nothing to solve
the state's financial problems.
The Republican senator told the
Allegheny County League •of
Women Voters that he was unal
terably opposed to any and all le
galized gambling in Pennsylvania.
"If pari-mutuel betting is ap
proved, it will be but the first
step or opening wedge to legalize
other forms of gambling," Flem
ing said.
Production Reaches
$5OO Billion Yearly
WASHINGTON (IF) A start
ling spurt in production has car
ried the nation's output in the
January-March quarter to the
record rate of about $5OO billion
a year.
Government sources reported
yesterday that while the stock
market was having nervous re
lapses and business confidence
wavered, the economy has been
making the greatest production
gain in 10 years.
The estimated value of all goods
and services produced—the Gross
National Product or GNP—has
not finally been measured. Pre
liminary official studies show the
rate will be Just above or just be
low the long-sought half-trillion
dollar mark.
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