Weather Forecast: I i Partly Cloudy, Continued Cool VOL. 61. No. 37 SGA Opposes Petition Against Campaign Bill; Claims Misrepresentation By BARB YUKK and KAREN HYNECKEAL The Student Government Association which gave Elec tions Commission the power to dispense campaign funds be came the focal point in a heated tug-of-war last night. As the result of this discussion, SGA went on record as stating its disapproval of a Liberal Party petition against the bill. Operation Of Housing List To Begin The operation of the Stu dent Government non-dis criminatory housing list will begin next week, according to Cynthia Xanthopoulos, chair man of the SGA Committee of Racial Relations. For the time being, the commit tee will operate from the SGA office, 203 A Hetzel Union Build ing. In a week, the committee will move to permanent headquarters in 2038 HUB, where they will have a phone installed for their own use. In the beginning, the phone will be maintained from 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday for townspeople to place a listing with the committee. Until more permanent arrange ments can be made, the commit tee will utilize the glass covered bulletin board near the HUB desk for display of their housing list. The list, which was formerly maintained by the dean of men's office, was taken over by SGA so that all forms 'of town housing discrimination could be elimin ated. Miss Xanthopoulos said the committee would also be working with the Burgess’ committee, com posed of town businessmen, in its effort to educate the people of State College to the problem of discrimination. The SGA commit tee will assist the town commit tee in a survey to be made of all discriminatory practices in State College. —Collegian Photo by Don Schoengold "GO OUT AND VOTE"... This familiar cry was heard in Demo cratic headquarters yesterday when Endicott Peabody, Democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts, visited the campus. ©ljt ®aily , STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 4. 1960 On one side of this tug-of-war stood Richard Snyder, chairman of the Liberal party, who pre sented the petition. The' petition charges that the $7OO of SGA funds which will be divided among the parties for campaign purposes is “an unfair financial burden on the student body.’’ On the olher side were Rich ard Pigossi (C.-Soph.) aVid Wal ler Darren (U,*Sr.) who con tended that the petition misrep resented the bill. Their contention centered around a sentence in the petition which says, “a further conse quence of this action is the abol ishment of printed platforms by the parties.” The bill, Darren maintained, deals only with the allotment of Absent from SGA Assembly last night were Jacqueline Leavitt (U.-Sr.J, Herman Web er (Cd,-Sr. Class President) and Jay Huffman (U.-Jr.). the funds and contains no men tion of printed party platforms. Snyder then claimed that the bill sets a dangerous precedent. "My major point," he contin ued, "is that this can lead to possible future excessive SGA control of parties and cam paigns," Pigossi initiated the move through which Assembly ex pressed its disapproval of the peti tion. “A lot of uninformed stu dents signed this petition at the football game,” Pigossi said, “without even knowing what they were signing.” Since three per cent of the stu dent body has signed this peti tion, it will automatically be in cluded as a referendum on the ballot for the coming elections. This means that the ultimate deci sion on whether or not this law will remain part of the SGA Con stitution will be left to the stu dents. At least 20 per cents of the student body must vote in the election to make any decision (Continued on page eight) * *■ FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Senate Accepts Attendance Policy The gap left in the Sen ate. regulations when the attendance rules were abolished Sept. 27, was filled yesterday by a general statement of policy approved by the Univer sity Senate after a maze‘of parliamentary procedure and debate. In essence, the statement suggests that the instructor encourage attendance and enables the instructor to determine the relation between c Compulsory ROTC Retained by Senate See related editorial, Page 4 The University Senate yes terday heard aJetter from the Committee o n Educational Policy recommending that compulsory ROTC be retained! because “the military servicesj regard the program as essen tial to the national military jestablishment.” I Later in the meeting, Duane [Alexander read the senators a [letter from the Assistant Secre jtaiy of Defense which diamet rically opposed the committee [opinion and stated that “a mili tary requirement does not exist [for a compulsory basic ROTC pro gram and that the Department of iDefense has no basis for favoring such a program.” The committee letter advocat ing a compulsory program came to the Senate as a result of a recommendation last spring from the Liberal Arts faculty to reconsider ROTC. John J. Schanz, who chairs the All Students Eligible to Vote In Mock Elections Today The magic word today is “VOTE”! The people sitting behind those tables with the boxes on them in Sparks, Electrical Engineering, the Hetzel Union) Building and Pollock dining hall are not soliciting donations or begging blood. They are poll watchers waiting for. you to vote for the U.S. presidential candidate of your choice. The polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. except for the Pol lock station which will only be operated during the lunch and dinner meal hours. Students are reminded by Robert Gandell, chairman of the Congo Near Collapse—Hatnmarskjoid UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. ! S ad or Raieshwar Dayal. itrice Lumumba, the deposed So spurred by Belgians, had brought! • , • f viet-supportod premier, the Congo to the verge of collapse.! But it included also tne texts of, But U.N. diplomats pred/ci- The report declared that onlyjsharp exchanges beewuen Ham-, ed the H ammarskjold report two governing institutions still marskjold and Belgium., UN , wag sure lo be in j e J cted in tho stand in the Congo Parliamentiepresentative and between the, debate especially by the So and the office of chief of slate,! Secretary-General and tne Bel-i viet union, which has repeat held by President Joseph Kasa~;& lum_s upportcd premier of Ka- accused Belqium of trvinq ivubu. jtanga Province, Motse Tshombe. brsubSge to r^mpo^Tl! ; It asserted that if a minimum of; .At issue was the role of Bel- influence in the Congo in defi lorder was restored, it would open) gians in the affairs of the strife- ance of the United Nations, the way for Congo leaders to seek lorn African republic. The report’s sharp criticism of peace by using both Parliament The report .came in advance ofjMobutu, an avowed anti-Commu and Kasavubu’s office. a general Assembly session onjnist, and of Belgium presented Meanwhile, it declared,’ only the Congo set for Monday. DayaPthe United States with a difficult ihe efforts of the U.N. force and was on his way to New York to situation. By MEG TEICHHOLTZ Educational Policy committee, said that his group had done much research on this subject last fall in response to a request by the old All-University Cabi net. Cabinet suggested in a re jpoi[t issued in spring of 1959 that 'only one year of compulsory ROTC be required. His report yesterday was in the form of a letter submitted to President Eric A. Walker last January, giving the results of the study of the Cabinet suggestion. Alt the conclusion of his state ment Schanz said that “if the Liberal Arts faculty wishes to change the decision on ROTC it should show cause for such a change." The letter which Alexander read was part of a study done by last year’s Sophomore Class Advisory Board, which he headed as president of the class. It was originally contained in the maga zine “Higher Education and Na tional Affairs," and was reprinted !by the American Council on Edu cation. Mock Elections Commission, that they must show their ma triculation cards to vote. All students are eligible to vote re gardless of age. In mock elections held at other universities the voting results [were as follows: The University of Miami in Florida chose Sen. John F. Ken nedy over Vice President Nixon 66-26. Vanderbilt University of Nashville, Term., in a poll taken by ihe campus-newspaper fa vored Nixon almost three to one over Kennedy. Sixteen of 20 faculty members questioned favored Kennedy. Students polled at St. Michaels .College in Winooski, Vt, favored 'Kennedy two to one. Rorc tttt ; Who's Right? j j -See Pago 4 j (••nuiiiiiiinhiiMiiiiiHiaiiiiiMiiliiiiiii' lass attendance and grade as signment. In introducing the statement, John J. Schanz, chairman of Die Senate Committee on Educational Policy said "the committee had hoped to capture the tenor of the last Senate meeting in the state ment.” At that meeting, the Senate approved a recommenda tion by the Committee on Stu dent Affairs, headed by Mon roe Newman, that the 'K' rules on class attendance be elimin ated from the Senate Regula tions for Undergtaduales. Shanz's committee was then asked to draw up a statement of policy on attendance. During yesterday’s vigorous discussion. Newman said that he found it "difficult, to rind how, this new statement differs from the old ‘K’ rules.” Newman then proposed a sub stitute motion drawn from the or iginal proposal of the Committee on Student Affairs that would state "it is the policy of the Uni versity that class attendance by students bo- encouraged and that all instructors organize and con duct their courses with this policy in mind.” In an amendment to this mo tion. Lester Guest said that an other part of the original state ment be included. This part says that instructors should pro vide opportunity to make up work mised because of “Uni versity approved" activities. Newman then asked that this amendment be-defeated since it, imposed more restrictions on the professor than had the ‘K’ rules. Both the substitute motion and amendment to this motion were defeated after a deceiving vote made a hand count necessary. The original motion proposed by Scbanz’s committee passed with a vole of 114 to 62. Sunshine to Cause Rise In Today's Temperature Some sunshine will boost to day’s mercury readings a few de grees above those recorded yes terday, but no appreciable warm up is expected for at least the next three days. Partly cloudy and cold weather is indicated for today and tomor row with high readings of 50 de grees expected both days. Clear and cold weather is fore cast for tonight with frost and [freezing temperatures likely. The [minimum reading will be about 30 degrees. FIVE CENTS