MIIMMIIet / I Weather Forecast: Partly Cloudy, Slightly Milder I i i 1 VOL. 61, No. 62 Assembly to Hear Brandt Proposal, Da rra n The Student Government Association's week - old Assembly members will begin their one-year terms tonight as a propOsal to hire a full-time executive secretary and a resolution to voice student opinion are presented. The proposal, submitted in letter form by John Brandt, Bookstore Report Goes To Trustees A comprehensive report on the need and procedures for setting up a University Book store has been prepared by Theodore Simon, a member of the Junior Class Advisory Board, for submission to the Board of Trustees and to the Student _Government Associa tion. According to Simon, Robert Harrison, SGA Rules Committee chairman, is preparing a bill con cering the bookstore for action at the SGA Assembly meeting tonight. Simon's report delves into the background of past student ef forts to establish a bookstore and includes information gath ered from 45 such bookstores across the nation. Simon's report states that stu dents can save money from pur chasing at such a bookstore be cause it would be run without the "profit motive" on which the downtown stores are based. "A campus . store can give a better price because it operates more efficiently than a private store. There are fewer executive salaries, wages are lower and little advertising," the report explains. A student bookstore would also be able to supplement the need for a new bookstore as the student body expands to the projected 25,000 in 1970, the report states. In his research Simon has found that 87 per cent of the state uni versities with over 10,000 enroll ment have bookstores. Moreover, the report states, almost every (Continued on page two) —Collegian photo by Rick Bower THE LIGHTS OF CHRISTMAS—State College is a world of light as seen from S. Allen St. looking toward the Mall. The lights are a good reminder that Christmas is but 11 days away. • t t) 1 r it t i k,,,,, ii rg i eats Resolution senior in physics from Rochester, N.Y., suggests 'that the student body hire a full-time executive secretary to represent its interests and to investigate all phases of student government recommen dations. Brandt proposes that the secre tary could be a law school grad uate who would be under direct pressure of the students. The secretary, Brandt pro poses, could be paid by making a cutback in the salaries of student officers and in the amount spent on student en campment. A resolution to give SGA As sembly the power to voice student opinion on matters of local, na tional and international levels will be presented by Walter Dar ran, majority' leader of University Party. In his resolution, Darran notes that he would like to see SGA make statements on contemporary problems such as lack of academic freedom in Spain and the segre gation problem in New Orleans. Under committee reports, Tim Nelligan, chairman of the SGA Committee on Commonwealth Campus Integration, will recom mend that a committee on corn monwealth campus integration be set up by the Assembly. This committee, he recom mends, would have one member to communicate with each cen ter and two Assemblymen-with one acting as chairman. Robert Harrison, chairman of the Rules Committee, will recom mend that the future Rules Com mittees record minutes of their meetings. Ted Simon, member of the Junior Class Advisory Board, will give a report on the possibility of a University book store. Assembly will also hear a report by Cynthia Xanthopolous, chair man of the Inter-Racial Problems Committee. Elections will be held for new members of the Rules Commit tee and for a President Pro-Tern pore. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15. 1960 'Liberals' To Discuss Future Aims A lively discussion is ex pected to develop tonight, when the future of the pro posed Liberal party is dis cussed at an open party meet ing in 217-218 Hetzel Union Build , ing, according to .Richard Snyder, chairman of the group. At the present time the party has two alternatives open to it, Snyder continued. The party can either become a political action 'group or can change its constitu tion to make it comply with the regulations set up by the Uni versity Senate, Snyder explained. Both proposals will be pre sented at the meeting tonight. An organized political action group would be a new form of political activity on campus. This group would have no of ficial UniversW function but would act to promote the ideas proposed by the backers of the Liberal Party, Snyder con tinued. It would act much as the party did during the student election this fall, when candidates backed by the party captured three seats in the new Student Government Association assembly, Snyder ex plained. The other alternative available ] to the party, he said, is to alter or eliminate the troublesome membership clause which allows the party to dismiss any member who is felt to be undesirable. The Senate did not charter the ( groupg because of this clause. The clause was changed by the Lib eral group but was rejected a second time by the Senate com mittee. Ceiga Compositions To Be Performed By Chapel Choir The University Chapel Choir will present the 13th annual Can dlelight Service at 9 tonight in Schwab. The choir will sing seasonal carols and anthems with special music composed by George E. Ceiga for the organ and brass en semble. The chorale from "Sleepers Wake" by Bach, "Hcrrick's Cai ol." "This Endris Night" and "As Joseph Was A-Walking" are some of the works that will be pre sented. Liturgists for the service will be Dr. Luther H. Harshbarger, University Chaplain, and Rev. Preston N. Williams, assistant University Chaplain. Broader SGA Action Barran Pro SGA President Richard Ha ber said yesterday that the basic problem involved in. Walter Darran's resolution to give Assembly the incentive. of expressing opinion in a wider larea of student interest is wheth er the real opinion of the student body could be expressed through SGA. Darran's resolution, which will be brought before SGA tonight, would try to get Assembly to take an official stand on various is sues in order to represent student opinion. The resolution states that SGA must not necessarily have a plan of action on an issue in order to take a stand on it. Darran, who is University Par ty majority leader on Assembly, By MEG TEICHHOLTZ Riot Forces Turn pack Algerians ALGIERS (TO—French riot forces used guns, tear gas and roaring concussion grenades yesterday to turn back swarms of Moslems in the seaport of Bone and around the ancient Casbah of Algiers. Two Moslems were killed and an undetermined number WUS Gives Scholarship, Medical Aid World University Service offers an opportunity f•o r American students to ai d their international fellow stu dents by supplying scholar ship and medical relief. Originally WUS was .concerned i with war and disaster relief but it is presently occupied with de veloping potential in economically i oppressed areas. Hungarian students benefited from the 1959-60 efforts. The pro posed 1960-61 program includes aid to Europe, Africa, Middle !East, Far East, Southeast Asia, Algeria and Hungary for com munity development projects, scholarships and education ma- , terials, clinics and medical sup-i plies and food supplies to supple ment inadequate diets. The Penn State division of Na tional WUS has been conducting their annual fund-raising cam paign mainly through appeals to fraternities, sororities and other campus organizations, The cam paign will continue until Sunday with collection receptacles placed in the dining areas, residence halls and the Hetzel Union Build ing for individuals who wish to contribute. - Varsity Show to Be Aired Radio stations WMAJ and WDFM will broadcast a "Meet the Varsity Show" 9:45 tonight fea turing Dr. Roger B. Saylor, pro fessor of business - statistics and an expert on sports statistics, and Jerry Abrams, sports director of WDFM, &.,,di *isck!ssed said that he has included mat ters of national and international significance as part of his resolu tion because these events can af fect students everywhere. In commenting on the resolu tion, Haber added that if passed and utilized, the students would be able to get an idea of how well they are being represented by the Assemblymen they elected. Haber added that "it is fine always to express student opinion. as long as it is not taken for University official opinion." Darren had said on Wednes day • that "by saying this is a state institution, the adminis tration has kept SGA from voic ing opinion on issues outside of campus affairs because they feel that student opinion is in terpreted by outsiders as being the voice of the University." Robert Bernreuter, special as- lAn Arm of Hope --See Page 4 wounded when police .in Bone opened fire on 2,000 Moslems who turned a funeral procession, for comrades killed in Tuesday's rioting, into a screaming nation alist demonstration. This brought to 125 the number killed in riot ing since last Sunday. The demonstrators in Algiers shouted "This is the insurrec tion:" and called for the eleva tion to power of exiled rebel Premier Fehrat. Abbas. Those in Bone waved rebel flags. , Abbas rejects President Charles de Gaulle's self-rule policy for Algeria and demands immediate independence. He is in neighbor ing Tunis. De Gaulle has just end ed a five-day tour of Algeria trying to win over Moslems and hostile French settlers alike. . Whipped up by nationalist dem onstrations within the old mys terious Casbah qtiarter, Moslem mobs several times tried to Corm near the district which has been cordoned off since Sunday. After a night and day of wild demonstration inside the native quarter, the Moslems first tried I to march on the worker district of Bab•el•Oued a mile away. As this ne.,ws reached European workers there, many took to their windows, holding pistols and hunting rifles. Inside the Casbah, three henna haired girls had harangued the men to riot. Police fired and the Moslems fled. De Gaulle seems to hope many Moslems will vote "yes' outside the inflamed nationalist areas in his referendum in January nn Al geria's future. If the referendum wins a large majority in France itself, which is judged likely, De Gaulles hand would then be strengthened for possibly opening new contracts with Abbas and other leaders of the rebellion for a cease-fire. SGA to Convene Early. Robert Harrison, chairman of SGA Rules Committee, an nounced that due to the Chap el Choir candlelight service be ing held at 9 tonight, the SGA Assembly will meet at 7 to night instead of 7:30. sistant to the President for stu dent affairs, also commented on Darran's resolution yesterday saying that "making statements on non-campus matters is the concern of a debating society and that the function • of Student government is to regulate stu dent affairs. Frank J. Simes, dean of men, yesterday gave still another view of the proposed resolution. He noted that he doesn't "be lieve SGA need class a resolu• tion to this ' effect .since I thought they had that authority anyway." Simes added that Darran's res olution sounds similar to the statements of the National Stu dent Association, which "is al ways taking a stand on some is sue or another." NSA is an organi zation of student government leaders. FIVE CENTS
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