.441110*.liire•tve...11010.1 Weather Forecast: Snow Flurries, Windy, Cold V01..61. No. 52 SGA Will Recommend Half• Holiday for 'Bowl' At Senate Meeting Today SGA Assembly in a special meeting last night voted to recommend to the University Senate that a half-holiday be granted on Dec. 17 for the Liberty Bowl game. The recom mendation also calls for classes to be made up on the free day preceding the fall semester examinations. Assembly Votes Down Control Bill A proposed amendment to make SGA control over politi cal parties constitutional was defeated in its second reading last night. Walter Darran, (U.-Sr.), who originally proposed the amend ment, said he had reconsidered and had decided that the drawing up of the amendment was too hasty. He suggested that the re sponsibility for revising the. con stitution be left to the xeorgani ization committe for a more thorough job. JOhn Witmer (U.-Jr.) support ed Darran's idea saying, "Our constitution is a little holey in spots. We'll just be adding to the mistakes already in it." • Darran had proposed th e amendment last week after the SGA Supreme Court declared an amendment dealing with political party leadership unconstitutional. ] James Ettelson, chairman of the Supreme Court, said that, if chal lenged, the entire section of the constitution dealing with politi- I cal parties would have to 'be , de clared unconstitutional. It would be unconstitutional, he said, because of a section which says, "The Assembly shall not pass legislation which is pri marily within the scope of an other student organization." In other business, Assembly passed at the second reading an amendment which would permit the impeachment procedure out lined for officers to be applied to Assemblymen. The SGA procedural rules al ready state that Assemblymen may be impeached, but the con stitution does not outline the method to be followed. Platforms Debated on Air In a heated debate tonight, University and Campus party candidates and Liberal party endorsees for the coming elec tions discussed party plat forms over WDFM's "Forum of the Air." The Campus party platform plan of action was attacked by Leslie LeWinter, Liberal party en dorsee, who contended that "the University is not a political foot ball" and pointed out that the governor's power in University matters were limited by the fact that only six members of the Board of Trustees are appointed by the governor. The Campus par ty plan includes direct action by contacting the governor and the General Assembly in the event that the administration refused to take action. Campus Party Chairman, Den ny Eiseman answered the charge by saying that Campus party planned to form a pressure group of students, parents and alumni which would exert in fluence on the Governor and . . 1 r 4 t i t ig ,:-.,...;.,,,,:._,:-..:,,,,, „,, fly gn i . ti r tit Or .. ..,-.. 411 1 : : -...- STATE COLLEGE.' PA., THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1, 1960 Richard Haber, SGA president, will take the recommendation to the Senate meeting this after noon. Haber had said earlier that President Eric A. Walker "seemed in favor of a half-holiday." However, Benjamin A. Whis ler, chair Man of the Calendar and Class Schedule committee, has told Haber that he doubts that the Senate would approve a half holiday because of the re cent elimination of attendence rules. At last night's meeting, the rec ommendation for the half holiday was made by Constance Adler (U.-Sr.). An amendment to the motion was brought before the Assembly by Judith High (C.-Sr.). Miss. High moved that the recommendation to make up the classes pn the free day be fore examinations include the phrase "at the discretion of the professors.'! • She explained that this would leave it up to the individual teachers as to whether or not it would be necessary •fo make up the missed• classes. This amend ment was defeated. Another solution to the prob lem was suggested by Herman Weber (U.-Sr. Class President). Weber recommended that some provision be made that would let each class vote as to whether or not it wanted to reschedule the class meeting time. After discussion, Assembly ap proved Miss Alder's recommenda tion that the half-holiday be granted for the Liberty Bowl game and that classes be made up on the free day before exam inations but the vote was not unanimous and there were no ab stentions. Walker Dedicates Mifflin President Eric A. Walker led the dedication ceremonies of Mif flin House in the Pollock resi dence area on Tuesday . . Also present at the dedication iof• the living unit, which serves 175 men, were J. Martin Stroup, editor of the Lewistown Sentinel, and Frank L. Campbell, chair man of the Mifflin County Coin- Imisioners. General Assembly concerning University matters. A plan to eliminate compulsory ROTC which carries the approval of the U.S. Department of De fense was introduced by Campus party candidate Bill Laman. Ac cording - to Laman, the Defense Department has stated that com pulsory basic ROTC is not need ed to produce the necessary num bers of officers in the three branches of the service. Ulsh countered with a quota tion from the Morrell Land Grant Act under which the Uni versity was set up which states that ROTC must be offered at the University and which indi cates that the• decision would be up to the trustees. Univer sity party majority leader con curred with Ulsh in that volun tary ROTC may come eventual ly but that it will be the decision of the trustees. The Liberal party plan to co ordinate all efforts for a non profit University bookstore under a single SGA committee was questioned by Darran, who said that University party did not in clude a bookstore plank in its POR A, BETTER PENN STATE Boycott Remains In New Orleans NEW ORLEANS (iP)—Federal judges yesterday smashed Louisiana's legal roadblocks to school integration, but screaming, running housewives kept up their blockade. Crowds around two integrated New Orleans public schools grew larger. mounted. Police escorted one mother and her child into William —Photo by Spencer Wellhofer HOW TO MAKE-UP BOWL HOLIDAY: Robert Harrison on the left and Edward Grubb on the right debate on the Assembly floor as to the merits of making-up the half-holiday on the morning of January 4, 1961. The suggestion was declared impracticable. ISA Starts Passing New Constitution Independent Student Association unanimously passed the preamble and two articles of its constitution "to plan, promote, and execute campus wide independent social and service activities," last night. The group was formed to organize and unify platform because a report on the facilities of the Hetzel Union Building indicated that no space for such a store would be avail able .until expansion plans should be carried out. Mike Lazorchak, acting chair man of the University party, pre sented the party platform to in corporate all disciplinary action for students under the SGA. He said such a plan would be carried .out under" Senate' subcommittee rules and that it would consider ably increase the power of stu dent government. Laman countered with the as sertion that the subcommittee could override any student de cision in the same way it does at present. Eiseman added that the Campus party planned to carry out student's wishes rath er than to regulate them. Lazorchak answered by saying that the plan included a basis of appeal for students to the sub committee and Darran added that by regulating students, which is the power of any government, SGA would achieve more respect from the student body- independent students and to widen interest in ,all-campus Indie af fairs. The need for such an organiza tion grew out of the succession cf the Town Independent Men from the former Association of Inde pendent Men which itself has been dissolved in favor of two separ ate organizations, still in,the plan ate groups. (The new men's organ izations, still in the planning stages, will result in the division of social and judicial responsibi lities.) ISA is intended to co-ordi nate the activities of independ ent social groups and to work in conjunction with the 'admin istration toward the fostering of better Town-University re lations' through service. - In other business, ISA enlarged the number of orphans to be in vited to its "Project Toey" Christ mas party from 80 to 100. The Dec. 11 party will include dinner, movies, a carol sing by the hat societies, and the di,s,tribution of gifts by Santa Claus. The children will reciprocate by entertaining their "big sisters and brothers" with carol selections. ISA, still incomplete, is an xious to have any Independents interested in helping to plan its final form attend an open meet ing at 9 p.m. Dec. 7 in 203 Hetzel Union Building, Barry Rein, ISA co-chairman, said. HUB Eat Trial Basis' •See Page 4 I rantz school The boycott of the integrated schools tightened, leaving the four 6-year-old Negro girls virtu ally in segregation for the third day this week, Only two white ells attended William Frantz; none McDonogh ,;10, 19 school. A three-judge federal court ordered integration io proceed as decreed by U.S. District Court. . The judges leveled the oarrier of interposition a theory under which the state places its sover eignty between the federal gov ernment and the people. "The conclusion is clear," read the judges' unanimous 5000-word ruling, "that interposition is not a constitutional doctrine." When interposition fell so did 39 segregation bills passed by an angry Lousiana legislature in special session. "Without support of the inter position act, the rest of the segre gation 'package' passage by the legislature falls of its own weight," the three judges said. The judges threw out what they called "a series of measures which purport to abolish the Or leans Parish School Board.' They also issued temporary in junctions to keep Gm James H. Davis and practically every stale official from interfering. These of ficials had for some time been under temporary restraining or ders of a like nature. At the uptown home of Dr. James F. Redmond, superinten dent of schools, and at his downtown office, post office employes delivered hundreds of plain envelopes, each contain-, inq a $1 bill. The money was started flowing by a group that wanted to show their respect for him. The legislature, which finally came up with the November pay of the city's teachers, failed to pay Redmond. Ai the eastern rim of the city, a mother picketing William Frantz greeted announcement of the court's decision with: "It doesn't make a damn. We are go ing to have segregated schools." Another woman chimed in: "My child will go to segregated schools as long as we have help from Leander Perez." Snow Flcurri4n, C1; 1 114, Winds VVill Continue Snow flurries, windy and cold weather will continue today. al though the flurry activity will be diminishing during the afternoon. The snow flurries and squalls of the oast. few days were the residual effect of vigorous snow squall activity that deposited one to three feet of snow on the south eastern shores of the Great Lakes, The unique phenomena that brines about this heavy snow in the Great Lakes area is caused by cold arctic air passing across the warm, moist lake surfaces. Winds will be diminishing, late today and tonight; consequently, the snow flurries will come to an end. Today's high temperature in the local area will be near 30 de grees. Clear and quite cold weather is indicated for tonight and a low temperature of 16 is predicted. Tomorrow should he nartly cloudy, breezy and continued cold. 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