PAGE EIGHT Subcommittee to Investigate Results of SGA Trial Period This is going to be a decisive year for governments, both nationally and locally. Na tionally, the important decision will be made in November. Locally, the important decision will be made in the spring. At that time the Senate Subcommittee on Student Affairs will review the Student GOv ernment Association. The committee will examine SGA's record for the past two years SGA Head Leads Rapidly Paced Life What's like to be the presi dent of a student body the size of Penn State's? You might ask Richard Haber—if you can find him, that is. Ilaber was elected Student Government Association president last spring and his ne* title has brought him, just as it has brought every other SGA presi dent, more activities than his pre vious three years as just-a-plain student, for with this position come countless memberships and chairmanships of organizations all over campus. First , and foremost he is the president of the SGA Assembly, the linking body between stu- dents and administration, and iri charge of the SGA Cabinet. " The SGA president is chair-. man of the Hetzel Union Board which sets: policies for the HUB and handles any changes- which must be made, including the re cent expansion plan. Collegian, Incorporated also re serves a spot for the SGA leader. Haber was elected vice-chairman of that organization last fear. Collegian, Inc. takes care of pub lishing the paper and establish ing Policies. The SGA president sits in on 11W. WDFM -Advisory Board, which is concerned with the Krecker Named To New Office Of Student Aid Ralph Kiecker, assistant to the director of the Division of Coun seling. has been named director of the newly formed Office of St-tick nt Aid. The Office of Student Aid' has been Organized to provide finan cial advice and assistance to all students. It will handle scholar ships, loans and part-time ern p'eyment. TheSe functions were formerly se '.''-red through the offices of the University Placenigiit Service, the coordinator of scholarship, thus (lean of men, and the dean nt i.vomen. Krecker. a native of Frienens bOrg. received both his bachelor or art, degree in psychology .and his master of afts degree in poli tical ::cienca he University. 1-le has f-culty since 1943. --Wandering lf , rtnices carryinv ciniedvs (i provided illurriinmien in many Tuilz:lQh vp.rdens in the middle (4 tlie 19th Century DON'T 'WAIT Get tt'S S (!c!ioous I C C Si SITAKS Delvcred io your dorm or ^i t tonioht! 8-#491 C , 6.1312 By KAREN HYNECKEAL improvement and expansion of Penn State's student radio sta tion. As a member of the LaVie Board of Editors, the SGA presi dent helps pave the way for the management of the yearbook. Haber had a part in the dedi cation of Beaver Stadium as a member of the Athletic Ad ' visory Board. The fact that the Homecoming Queen appeared on the field dur ing halftime on Saturday may be in part credited to the Alumni Council Executive Board of which the SGA president is a member. Haber is chairman of the Penn State Student Scholarship Com mittee as well as a member of the Artists' and Lecture Series Committee. As if this weren't enough ,to keep any student busy seven .days a week, the SGA president is also a bona fide member of three University Senate sub committees—student affairs, in dividual discipline and group discipline. His 'position as the president of the student body gives Haber the right to speak on the University Senate floor. Using this,right last year, Haber told the faculty mem bers how the students felt about the elimination of the Thanks giving vacation. In the final vote, student opinion was upheld. WRA Sports Open For Town Coeds All coeds who are interested in playing on a Women's Recreation al Association intramural team and who live off campus during the year should cont-I.et their rep resentatives for the respective teams.' Peggy Kube, AD 7-3911, or Bar bara Hibner, AD 8-0797, will be able to give details concerning the games The first two intramural teams ‘vill be for Med as soon as a suffi cient number of members is ac, quired. Possible teams are: tennis, bridge, volleyball, badminton, ta ble tennis, swimming, h"asketbtill. softball and bowling. Off-campus men students who wish to participate in co-ed vol leyball should call either of these THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA which is and has been a trial period for this new form of stu dent government. The committee's findings may well determine the future of SGA which only came into being in the spring, 1959. Prior to that spring. the gov erning body was composed of student leaders from many di verse organizations all over cam 'pus, Feeling that this was not an ideal representation of students. a special student committee made !plans for a new governmental system. The plan was based on the national government and was set up to include elected repre sentatives from each class as well as three main SGA offi cers—president, vice president and secretary-treasurer. The student body approved the plan on a referendum in the 1959 elections , and it went into effect the following fall with the stipula tion that it would have a two year trial period, at the end of which SGA would be reviewed by the Senate committee. Each November and April, stu dents elect their representatives. who are nominated and supported by the political parties on cam pus. These representatives are the assemblymen who meet every Thursday night as the SGA As sembly. Assembly, which is chaired by the SGA vice president, votes on bills, investigates problems through committees and endeav ors to obtain the majority student opinion on major campus prob lems. Through the SGA president, Assembly gives its views to the administration and thus be comes a link between adminis trators and students. An example of SGA work is jthe action it took last year when ithe University Senate suggested the elimination of the Thanks giving vacation as a solution to the problem of irregular class meetings. Feeling that the students were strongly opposed to the suggestion SGA formed a committee to in vestigate the problem. This com mittee talked to students, inter viewed University employees and studied the calendar. Finally, last spring, SGA voted unanimously to stand op posed to the elimination of the vacation. SGA's action was not entirely negative as, it also had alternative plans for clearing up the situation. SGA president told Senate of the students' feelings and Senate voted against eliminating the holi day. How effective these works have been in making SGA a permanent structure will be decided this spring. In the meantime. SGA has begun its second and last trial year. --: ri`::;.:'.' . •:•,.. A . r r i.,,,... ~ .- 4 '... F. ~ -:4S,'' ' ' , :•= l. . ' ' - , ASA\ 1 , . 'i' S ! ,; , ,- 7:i:. .AI 1 ..r. e'...... -- z.., ', , • ~- 5r . r .E.:. ,,, '..' ' w.,... , ~... . 'ls ': l,. .`,:i• ' ';•::':':''' 4 - . . , . . , OCTOBER 9 to 15 Fireside Chats Indie Hike Consult Collegian for additional information Liberals OK Constitution Elect Snyder, Flashman The proposed Liberal Party had its constitution ratified and its officers elected by a group of about -'75 students Sun day night in the Hetzel Union Building. The constitution must also be approved by the Senate Committee on Student Affairs. The officers elected were Richard Snyder, chairman; Barry Flashman, vice chairman; Leslie Le Winter, executive sec-1 retary; David Illadick, treasurer,i reeks Able ;and Barbara Rice, recording sec-f retary. . One of the party's stated pur- To Reserve poses is to "provide for an pro- ! mote Independent participation n student government." Snyder said that in order to encourage ea t Blocks Independents and prevent block . voting, membership will be Greek groups will be 'able to open to individual fraternity or 1 i sorority affiliates only if they reserve blocks of seats in State are approved by the 21-member steering committee. College churches as a part of 1 . Flashman attributed "recent changes in Greek Week Sun 'campus governments' ineffective- day initiated this year. :ness" to sending minor recom- Greek Sunday will start off !mendations directly to an already! Greek Week on Oct. 16. All bor 'busy administration. The 'admin... ough churches, the chapel and , istration does not have time for many of the smaller recommenda- synagogue will receive flowers from the Greeks, as they have in ,tions, and the recommendations, !previous years. !themselves, are very often poorly constructed, he said. ! Although Greeks have always To he successful, the party will been encouraged to attend church l en masse on Greek Sunday, this ,apathy of. the independent stu- Itave to overcome the traditional : will be the ; fisst. time the. Greek them that they can finally he-Week committee has arranged to dents, Snyder said. "We will show (Week sect i ons o f seals in the area churches, at the University come represented or even be rep—Chapel services and those at resentatives, and our two wards Hinel. will serve as points of unity." The party has set up two . Also, for the first time on Greek ; Area Wards, one on campus, Sunday, sorority and fraternity one off, which have their own members will be invited to take officers who will sit in on the ' part in the service's of worship steering committee. Party lead- • ' and in ushering at the borough ers have also set up a constitu- ; churches. tional requirement which stip- This increase in participation is 'i Wales that either one of the two n line with the tradition set by 'the participation of the Panhel chief officers must live off campus. lenic and lnturfraternity Council :Chaplains in the Chapel service The party is presently investi- in Schwab. • gating possibilities of a co-op stu-, Any Greek group wishing to dent book store or a student-run reserve seats, or any individual bookstore, independent, "if neces- who wants to participate in the sary," of the administration and . ]service of the church which -his SGA, and ways of persuading stu-,!group is attending (or to usher) dents to exert some influence on:must notify Dorothy Rheiner or Harrisburg for a higher Univer- George Haney, committee chair sity appropriation, an officer said, men, by tomorrow. Las Vegas Night EE SOCIETY will have its first meeting Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 7:00 P.M. in Room 219 EE • Mr. Light from Philadelphia Electric Co. will speak on "The Use of Digital Computers in Power Distribution" • FREE REFRESHMENTS • ALL ARE INVITED Talent Show Indie Queen TUESDAY. OCTOBER 4. 1960
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