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VOL. 61. No. 51
University Party, Independents
Fire Campaign with Platforms
In the tradition of campaigning political
parties,. the executive committee and the
candidates running for Student Government
Assembly posts on the University party tick
et have prepared their 1960 platform.
The party's three inapor propo
sals are aimed at taking respon
sibility in several areas of stu
dent affairs from the administra
tion and placing it under the ju
risdiction of SGA.
One of the "big-three" planks
recommends that SGA coordin
ate all student governing or
ganizations into a central group
with SGA at its head. This plan
would include such groups as
Leonides. Town Independent
Men, campus men's organiza
tions, and community councils
and area councils. According to
Michael Lazorchak, party vice
chairman, all students would
then be under a unified form
of government.
In addition, University Party
proposes that SGA become a
functioning student government
by taking over judicial and disci
plinary proceedings from the
dean of men's and women's of
fices.
This plank came from a sug
gestion brought up by Dr. Robert
G. Bernreuter, special assistant
to the president for student af
fairs, at student encampment in
which he expressed a desire that
student government become more
active in regulating student con
duct, Larorchak said.
Finally,. University Party ad
vocates the transferral of power
to grant and refract charters to
student organizations from the
Senate committee on student
affairs to SGA.
This proposal gives SGA the
power to modify and enforce gen
eral requirements set up initial
ly by University Senate. The po
sition of the Senate would then
become that of a formal approval
of SGA decisions, Lazorchak said.
Besides what it considers its
major planks, the party goes' on
record as asking the Board of
Trustees of the University to per
mit the Book Exchange to sell
FM radios at a discount to help
increase the audience of WDFM,
Walter Darran, majority party
leader, said.
This suggestion has already
been approved by the BX Board
of Control and is favored by
Steve Milner, station program
manager, Darran said.
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STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 30. 1960
Liberal party endorsees have banded to
gether in an "unofficial organization" and
will not accept student government funds
issued to candidates under the new SGA
Campaign Finance Bill, Wayne Ulsh, group
Candidates
Comment On
'Action' Plan
Pros and cons on the Cam
pus party's platform plan of
action were expressed yester
day by candidates for Student
Government. Association of
fices.
The party's plan, announced be
' fore Thanksgiving recess, calls
for notifying the governor, state
'legislature and University alumni
I should SGA-approved legislation
be stalled by the administration.
Joseph Ebner, sophomore in
business administration from Ho
kendauqua and a Campus party
candidate for SGA assembly, said
lie saw "no reason why the plan
wouldn't work." He added that
alumni would play a big part in
the plan.
In contrast, Gomer Williams,
sophomore in business adminis
tration from Harrisburg, said he
is "positive" the plan would not
work. Williams is running as an
independent candidate for sopho
more class president. He has been
endorsed by memberi of the pro
posed Liberal party.
Williams said that for the past
two summers he has worked part
time in the lieutenant governor's
office in Harrisburg. The gover
nor, he was told there by an as
sistant press secretary, "does not
have any power" over matters
about which Campus party advo
cates are seeking aid.
Authority over ROTC and the
physical education program have
been. delegated to the University
administration, Williams said.
Gov. Lawrence would just say the
matter was up to the University
president, he added.
University party candidate Wil
liam Stout, junior in engineering
science from Pittsburgh, said that
while the Campus party's plan of
action is not the only way to
publicize University needs, he
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FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
coordinator said last night.
The endorsees have also adopt
ed a common platform.
Under the finance bill, $7OO of
the SGA budget has been set
aside to be used for publicity by
candidates. The money and its
use will be handled by the SGA
Elections Commission.
According to the new ruling,
candidates must use SGA money
or do without any kind of com
mercial publicity.
Liberalites have mimeographed
over 5000 letters to the students,
Ulsh said. The letters explain that
the group has refused SGA funds
and contain the candidates' com
mon platform.
Ulsh 'said that since "the can
didates are endorsed by the un
chartered Liberal party (which
introduced the referendum op
posing the finance bill), it would
be hypocritical for them to accept
the money." The endorsees, .run
ning as independent candidates,
will make their own posters and
distribute the letters themselves,
Ulsh said.
The group's common platform
has five major points: •
•The establishment of a non
profit book store through an SGA
committe which would coordin
ate "all present fractional ef
forts."
•The setting up of minimum
; off -campus housing standards by
the SGA, and the posting of an
approved housing list.
•Educating new students in
the use of library -facilities, with
the publication of a better library
handbook as a start. ,
• The seting up of student-fac
ulty forums where students could
question administrators who are,
directly concerned with campus
policies.
•The posting of a "centralized]
coordinated" list of all tutoring
facilities by the SGA.
Winter Is Here;
Snow Predicted
Today will be a typical winter
day in this area complete with
snow flurries, gusty winds, most
ly cloudy skies and quite cold
temperatures. A high of only 34
degrees is expected.
The arctic air which ow?rspread
this region yesterday will con
tinue to be the dominant weath
er influence for the next sevral
days.
Temperatures will remain quite
cold through the remainder of
the week with daytime values
ranging in the 30's and nighttime
readings in the 20's or lower.
Snow flurries and winds will
be diminishing slowly tonight and
the mercury will dip into She low
20's by early tomorrow morning.
Army Restores Peace
CARACAS, Venezuela(in— racas' outlying
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strict bans on-demonstrations, the
districts despitegan Friday night. Another 102
The army restored relative strict
of the army, and a l 1
jpersons have been wounded by
bu lets or injured by flying rocks,
calm to shaken Caracas yes-lheavY rain that discouraged trou-1 '
iblemakers in the heart of this'Police said.
terday after a night of bloody ,capital. .
j Soldiers used automatic weap
rioting by leftists accused of I Social Christian party studentsi ons at some points as the night
Isupporting Betancourt foughti
trying to impose a Cuban-stylei • -:
their way into classrooms at Cara-irioting spread from the densely
poptilated working-class districts
revolution in Venezuela. l eas . University past Communists of western Caracas to the lash
trying to force a student strike.i
But as the death toll rose to: trying to onable eastern end, where most
six from five days of disorders,
'Police and soldiers did not try to
iforeigners live.
the government sent guardsmenienter the grounds, respecting the'
into the big oil fields to protect iuniversity's autonomy.
A leftist demonstration at Mi- I
Shots rang through the ' night
as mobs burned buses,. hurled
the vital industry from sabotage. l •
guel Caro High School in the ! gasoline bombs at business
President Romulo Betancourt I n part of thealso :
wester city houses and attacked the U.S.-
: ordered the guardsmen to pa- ' was reported.! owned General Tire Co. factory;
: trot pumping installations and 1 After the guns fell silent, police; The main battle was between
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refineries in both eastern and announced two more rioters had armed students inside the indus
western Venezuela. been killed, bringing the toll totrial school at University City and
- Leftists still were active in Ca-isix dead in the disorders that be-Iguardsmen.
SGA to Discuss .
Half-Holiday Bill
The SGA Assembly will convene in a special session
tonight to consider the drafting of a recommendation for a
"half-holiday" cancellation of classes on the morning of the
Liberty Bowl, Dec. 17. •
The meeting will be at 8 p.m. in 203 HUB. Should SGA
pass such an amendment, It
would be presented to the Univer
sity Senate at its monthly meet
ing on Thursday.
SGA president Richard Haber,
who met with President Eric A.
Walker yesterday, said that Walk
er "seemed in favor of the half
holiday." He added that he had
gone to Walker because he felt
student opinion was behind the
idea and the short period of time
before the Senate meeting war
rented special action.
Haber emphasized that • when
the University accepted the bowl
bid, it placed the - contest on a
par with class attendance as a
University function.
The bill that Haber wants to
.place before SGA tonight will
recommend that professors
"may re-schedule the classes
missed on the morning of the
free day before, final examine
lions."
He added that since the at
tendance rules were abolished by
the Senate, professors might use
their discretion in re-scheduling
classes. Walker, Haber Said, was
opposed to an entirely free holi
day.
If SGA should fail to ap
prove this recommendation, the
sole item on tonight's agenda,
Haber said he will take no fur
ther action. "If the recom
mendation does reach the Sen
ate on Thursday, and is defeat
ed there. I will leave the mat
ter up to the discretion of the
student body," he said.
Robert G. Bernreuter, special
assistant to the president for stu
dent affairs and secretary of •the
Senate, said last night that any
recommendation to the Senate
will have to come from the Sen.-
ate committee on Calendar, and
Class Schedule. Haber may speak
at the meeting, but he cannot pre
sent a motion and cannot vote.
The chairman of the Calendar
committee. Benjamin A. Whisler,
said last night that his co:nmit
tee has not had time to meet and
draft such a recommendation.
"Any recommendation made will
have to be made verbally at the
meeting," he said.
Whisler said he doubled that
the Senate would "okay" a half
holiday because of the recent
elimination of attendance rules.
Last year, he explained, his
committee reported to the Sen
ate that it had recommended such
a holiday. The administration ap
proved the half holiday and the
classes missed were , un on
the free day preceding final ex
amination week.
Painless
Protection
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Permanent
. uarters
Within the past month 74
men and 11 women have
been moved from temporary
housing to permanent accom
modations, the Department of
Housing announced.
This brings the total number of
students transferred since the be
ginning of the semester to 122
men and 219' women while 75 men
and 186 women still have tem
porary room assignments. •
Adjustment will be made on the
I housing fees of students who
were still in temporary housing
' l ater Oct: 12, Otto E. Mueller, di
rector of housing, said yesterday.
Either a refund or credit on their
next housing bill will he given
these students, he said.
Many of the women still in
temporary housing may remain
there for the, rest of the semester
or possibly the entire year, he
said. .
Mueller explained that the Uni
versity normally exPeels 150 to.
200 women not to return to. school
in the fall or to drop out within
the first four weeks.
Accordingly, he said, this ninny
may be admitted for whom there
are no rooms. This year, however,
twice as many students were
housed temporarily because. more
Upperclassmen returned and more
freshmen decided to enter the
University than was anticipated.
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The temporary housing situa
tion will not be changed 'notice
ably at the beginning of the spring
semester either. since the number
of graduating seniors and drop
outs will not exceed the number
of new enrollees, Mueller said.
RALI.ETIN
LEWISBURG --• A Bucknell
student was found shot to death
in an automobile on a campus
parking lot last night. United
Pr.as International reported,.
The victim, William Zacher,
19, was found by his father,
William Sr., who said that he
began looking for him when he
failed to return from classes.
A brand new 22-calibre pistol
was in the victim's hand.
in Caracas
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