SATURDAY. JANUARY 14. 1961 It's Time to Review This Semester It’s that time of the year again . . . time to find the notes you took in September, reborrow the Chem book you lent to someone before Thanksgiving and to sum up the entire semester’s work on 5x7 index cards. In other words, it’s time to look back. Glancing over our shoulders, we see that in the world of activ ities, as in the academic world, so many things have happened ■since September that it is diffi cult to remember or record them all, but we’ll try to recall the mast- significant. During the last semester, SGA cleaned up Stone Valley, held elections and brought the book store back into the iimelight. Politically, a new party ap peared and finally got its charter: after much hassle. Speaking of hassle, this semes ter was mostly verbal. State Col lege police report that on the whole this has been a very quiet/ orderly semester despite victory rallies when “We beat Pitt” and: “We beat Army.” ■ The inlet-fraternity Council was busy over the months, working! on plans to improve tfie scholar ship system while Panhellenic Council began revamping the rush system. Independents from AIM, TIM and Leonides began their merger into one large unit for more ef fective action. All in all it was a busy semes ter but we’ll try to get it on our “3x5 cards" below. Bills Passed In SGA Chaos In a semester that could make or break SGA, the Assembly found itself repeatedly embroiled in pro cedural chaos. However, several major bills managed to get to the floor for discussion and ac tion. The importance of the past se mester's record is significant in view of the upcoming re-evalu ation of the now provisional SGA; constitution and charter by the; Senate Committee on Student Af fairs. j The record that the Senate will I be considering was touched off! with a local entry into the na-! tional political prediction contest,j when early in the semester a bill j to stage a Mock Election, spori-; sored by student groups from both; parties, was approved. The student body chose the j losing candidate, Richard Nixon,l but the fact that such an election! was held became significant later! in the year when Walter Darran’s! resolution to give SGA "the right; to officially express a group opin-' ion on any subject even though we cannot offer full answers" hit the floor. The resolution was defeated in a heated debate, on the grounds that SGA already had the power to extend its scope should it want to use it, as evidenced by the Mock Election. Back on the campus scene, SGA took fast-paced action on a chron ic student complaint when it ap proved a bill recommending to the Board of Trustees that a Uni versity-run bookstore be estab lished. At its recent meeting, the board asked that a detailed report on the need and means for establish ing such a store be submitted at their June meeting. One of the major accomplish ments of SGA Assembly this year is visable by the non-discrimina tory housing list now in the Hetz el Union lobby. I The Assembly bounced back ! this semester after a dishearten ing walkout last spring—when the discrimination problem was first brought to SGA—by taking over maintenance of the list from the University. The administration’s decision to permit SGA to take a positive step in this direction may be an indi cation that they want to see an SGA with more responsibility. Liberal Party Enters Scene i The political scene this semes ter was marked by the rise of a new political party (Liberal) and continued dominance of the University party. In the fall elections University party netted two class presiden cies freshman and sophomore —and 12 SGA Assembly seats to hold a 12-seat majority in the As jsembly, j Liberal party entered campus politics early in the semester and after rewriting their constitution twice was granted a charter last Tuesday. However, they backed three successful Assembly candi dates as independents in the elec tion. | Campus party, running on a :platform which favored contact ing officials in Harrisburg to administrative actions jcontrary to student opinion, won (five assembly seats, j University party’s platform jcalled for integration of all stu 'dent activities under SGA and transferral of powers to SGA to grant and retract charters of stu dent organizations. | The Independent (now Liberal iparty) platform advocated serv ices to the students such as a stu dent bookstore, improved library facilities and minimum standards for off-campus housing. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA ISA Co-Ordinates Independent Groups The Independent Student Asso ciation in their initial semester of operation provided coordination of socal and service activities for men and women independent stu dents. A need for ISA grew out of poor communication between in dependent groups. Since reorgan ization, the independent members of Leonides, Town Independent Men and The Men’s Residence Council now exist primarily as governmental bodies. ISA is in the process of writing a constitution which they will submit to the Senate Committee on Student Affairs for approval. During the year, ISA has spon sored many Saturday night dances including Club Hubana. At Christmas they entertained or phans at a Project Joey party. The future of Leonides rests upon the decision, yet to be made, of whether to join the newly formed Independent Student As sociation. It is presently supporting ISA bn a one-year trial basis. Leonides has before it now three choices: it may dissolve completely and join ISA; it may refuse to join ISA at all; or it may become a division under ISA. The struggle by Town Inde pendent Men’s Council for a char ter which would grant them au tonomy was their major activity of the past semester. Although the Senate Commit tee on Student Affairs has not yet final approval for this charter, it is expected that they will do so in the near future. As it now stands, TIM is an organi zation with the Association of Independent Men. However, since AIM has tem porarily disbanded in order to re view their constitution and reor ganize as the Association of Men in Residence, TIM has been left in the middle with all of their funds tied up. Panhel, IFC Plan Codes for 4 Terms One of the major problems con fronting the Panhellenic Council during the past-semester has been adapting the structure of the council and the rushing program to the four-term system. A revised rushing code accept ed at a meeting in November es tablished a counselor-guide pro gram and changed the number of coffee hours from two to three. The change in the structure of the council adopted last week provides that each sorority will be represented by the presidents and a Panhellenic delegate. The quota limitation system adopted last week will establish a pledge quota and a membership limitation number for all soror ities be set after registration for Formal Spring Rush. Transfer rushing programs, bar policy, jazz festival plans, a schol arship improvement program, a new housing policy and a yearly fire inspection are' among the things which the Inter-Fraternity 'Council concerned itself with this isemester. In a new program all students transferring from Commonwealth campuses were permitted to live in a fraternity house for a period of three weeks before pledging a fraternity or moving to a resi dence hall or downtown. 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