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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)
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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. </P)< its administrators have saved [confer with Hammar.skjold.
—Dag Hammarskiold laid before' ‘he situation from disaster. | The Assembly was called to
the General Assembly yesterday! Most of the report consisted of, consider a demand by eight Afn
me uenciai Assuruny yeaicinay findings bv the Secretary- can a od Asian nations that Con
,a report from his chief Congo Eideig p special representative'J°’ s vacant Assembly scat lie
Scharging that Col. Joseph Mo-indian AmbaV- by representatives of Pa
bulus aiiny-backed re g i m Jf>! 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.
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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.
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