TUESDAY. OCTOBER 4. 1960
Party Platforms May Be Cut
By BARB YUNK
(This is the first of two ar
ticies on reactions to the sug
gestion to abolish party plat
forms. Tomorrow—reactions of
political parties.)
Political party platforms
at the University could be
abolished if the Student
Govern ment Association
takes action on a recom
mendation from the En
campment committee on
Present Problems of SGA.
The committee made the rec
ommendation in a report read
and approved by ASsembly last
Thursday night. This approval
indicate only that SGA has ac
cepted the report as valid. Any
action to make the recommen
dation a law would have to
come through a bill presented
to Assembly.
Although political parties
have existed here since the
early 1920'5, party platforms,
as something other than short
slogans, have come into im
portance only .luring the last
10 years.
SGA Presiderit Richard Ha
ber said yesterday that he be
lieves the move, if approved,
Applications
For Jr. IFC
Now Available
Application forms for officer
positions on the reorganized Jun
ior Interfraternity Council will
be available tomorrow at the
lietzel Union des.
Candidates for president, vice
president and secretary-treasurer
will be picked from pledge class
es of the current semester by the
IFC executive committee, Final
appointments will be made after
interviews with , the executive
committee.
Junior IFC is being reorganized;
this year to better fulfill its pur-,
poses as a training ground for
would-be fraternity members.
Purposes of the reorganized
body include: Promoting the so-:
cial fraternities; familiarizing;
these pledges with their responsi-'.
bilities as fraternity men, fa-!
miliarizing them with the opera-!
lions and functions of IFC and:
developing a closely knit, unified
grobp to develop and strengthen;
the future IFC.
Officer applications must be
returned by Wednesday, Oct. 12
to the HUB desk.
indie Week Forms
Available at HUB
Applications for the AIM-Le
onides Indie Queen Contest and
Indie Week Talent Show will be
available at the Hetzel Union desk
today through Friday.
All interested independents
should fill out the forms and re
turn them to the HUB desk no
later than 5 p.m., Oct. 8.
Independent women wishing to
enter the queen contest may self
nominate themselves or be spon
sored by a group.
Independents may also sign up
at the HUB desk • for the Indie
Week Hike planned for Oct. 8:
student Dealers Wanted
For Las Vegas Night
Students interested in being
dealer; for Las Vegas Night may
sign up now in the Town Inde
pendent Men's office, 203 G Hetzel
Union.
The first 70 to apply will be
accepted, according to Frank Jan
kosky, Las Vegas Night chairman.
Las Vegas Night, a night of
mock gambling at -the HUB spon
sored-by TIM and Leonides, will
be. held Oct. 15.
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would create greater respect
for political parties.
"The platforms confused the
students rather than helped
them," Haber said. "The issues
were not within the realm of
jurisdiction of a student gov
erning body," he continued.
"By using these issues poli
tical parties were presenting
the studentS with false creden
tials."
Haber expressed the opinion
that while some worthwhile
ideas have come out of party
platforms, these ideas would
not be lost under the proposed
plan. These same ideas, he said,
would not be suppressed. They
would. be brought out in the
Assembly for action.
The students -will be voting
on capabilities, he said, and
not a list of nebulous items.
"Parties don't find platforms."
Haber said, "they scrape them
up."
George Donovan. coordina
tor of student activities, sec
onded Haber's comments on the
weakness of party platforms.
"These platforms have got
ten so corny," Donovan said,
"that it has gotten to the. point
where parties will be promis
ing birdbaths in the back of
every fraternity house and tick
ets for every student on the 50-
yard line."
All-University Cabinet was
,
Foderaro Get s ÜBA Will Return
n • Money This
Faculty rosition The Uced Book Agency Week
N+IB le
Dr. Anthony 'H. Foderaro has : turn money from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m a .
been named associate professor of today in the Hctzel Union card
nuclear engineering. !room.
A native of Scranton, he is an According to Larry Abrams.
honor graduate of the University ! chairman of the ÜBA, the agency
of Scranton with a bachelor of :took in 15.000 books and about
science degree in physics. His doc-i„
11sold.
for philosophy degree, also in:,oou of these books were
physics, was conferred by the Abrams said, "The sales were
Unuiversity of Pittsburgh. higher than last fall."
Prior to his appointment to the Books, as well as money, will
faculty, he was senior nuclear be returned from 9 a.m. to 5 0.m..
physicist and research associate'
Wednesday through Friday and
with the General Motors Research!
Laboratory in Warren, 14Iich.. am:l;ft= 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday.
earlier was senior scientist witted' Books and money will be re
the Westinghouse Atomic Power turned] from 1 to 5 p.m., Monday
Division. 'through Friday of next week.
His research has been in the A salesman froth a private book
fields of upper atmosphere phys-'concern will be on hand to enable
ics. reactor physics and engineer -,students to sell their unsold books.
ing, radiation shielding and radi-1
ation effects on solids. He has l Uvestock Judging Team
published numerous technical pa-!
pers on this research in profes-:Receives Top Honors
sional journals, ' The University's livestock judg-
He is arnember of the American'ing team took top honors at the
Nuclear Society, American Phys-:Eastern States Exposition, recent
ics Society, American Association'ly, having the high team and high
of Physics Teachers and the Amer-: individual in all three divisions
ican Association for the Advance-:of beef, sheep and swine
ment of Science
Under the' coaching - of Herman
R. Purdy of the Department of
—We have no quarrel with the Animal Industry and- Nutrition,
man who has lower prices. He'the livestock judging team re
knows better than anyone else turned with every major ribbon
what his services are worth. and prize in the contest.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
the longest continuous form of
student government, he said,
and -"If you look at their rec
ord you'll find that, their aver
age for carrying out platforms
was poor." "Yet." he continued
"they acted on 50 or 60 worth
while items that no one thought
of pUtting on a platform.
"The party in power must
solve the problems before it.
Candidates cannot anticipate
in April what the issues will be
in September. Students should
elect candidates to work for a
better Penn State," Donovan
said. "They shouldn't tie can
didates to a platform, but let
them take care of whatever
comes along."
William F. Fuller, • manager
of associated student activities
and advisor to SGA, suggested
that one of the causes of the
weak platforms has been the
fact that concensus of opinion
has caused parties to have al
most the same platforms. .
"There are only so Many stu
dent problems," Fuller said.
"Platforms have been meaning
less in that they were the same.
Whoever is in office must face
the problems which, face the
students at that time." he
added. •
Tomorrow •-- Reactions of
political parties to the sugges
tion that party platforms he
bolished.
Student Voters Now Able
To Cast Absentee Ballots
The long trek home is no longer necessary for Pennsyl
vania students registered to vote in their home districts and
wishing to cast ballots in the 1360 election. •
Under a new voting laiv, approved last November, regis
tered Pennsylvania students thay obtain absentee ballots
from their home election district.r
If a student did not register,: Ek g I -
however, this opportunity to vote:
this year has already "gone by d NOW
the bcrards" because registration'
lists are now closed.
Steps for getting the absentee; mbolizes.
ballots have been outlined as fol- •
lows by Lee E. Curter. assistant •
professor of political science: ;
.e Course
I. Write a letter to the chief
clerk of the county board of -
! elections of your home county I Ek Ed??? Typographical er
; explaining your situation. ror' No, not at all. it's just
2. Request that he send you the the rev is e d abbreviation
,proper application form for ob- ,
,taining an absentee ballot. fo r Elementary Education.
3. It will help expedite your ap- !wh a t???
lineation if you can include in,
your letter the pi•ecinet or voting It all started in the late summer
district at home in whkh you arc of 1959 when the Department of
registered. If you can't remember Education decided that it wanted
the specific district. be sure to,„ make
it plain that students
'designate your specific home eV"'
fires, . enrolled in elementary education
4. In due time (everything be
ing in order), you will receive
from the county board of Lacs
tions a three-part form. Part
I (in duplicate) must be filled
in and returned to your hoMe
county.
You must date and sign this
form. You must also check the
reason (no. 1) for your request.
Part II and 111 of the application
do not require action at this time.
5. The application forms must
be returned to the county board
of elections between Oct. 8 and
Nov. 1, not earlier and not later.
6. The chief clerk of the county
board of elections will check part
II of the application form. The or
iginal copy of the application will
be returned to . you with the ah
sentee
7. You as elector mark the
ballot and obtain a signature to
the affidavit (part III) of the ap
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