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VOL. 61, No.lol
Committee
To Review
SGA Plans
The SG A reorganization
plans will be brought before
the Senate Sub-committee on
Organizational Control this
afternoon, but SGA committee
chairman Duane Alexander re
fused last night to divulge any
specifics of the plans.
Alexander said the complete
reorganization will be presented
at the meeting. He added that the
members of his committee and
"others" on SGA did not want
the reorganization revealed before
the Senate sub-committee had
seen it.
"We want the students to get
the final plans after approval so
that if any changes are to be
made they will come before the
students in final form."
Alex Black, chairman of the
Senate sub-Committee on Or
ganizational Control said last
night that Alexander's commit
tee has not met with his com
mittee in the past and that to
morrow's meeting will be for
"preliminary discussion."
He added that he had not yet
seen the plans.
Alexander told The Daily Col
legian two weeks ago, however,
that the sub-committee was serv
ing in an advisory capacity and
"'is a partial influence on the
student committee, giving us ideas
we didn't think of ourselves or a
basic point we overlooked."
The preliminary provisions
under consideration for change
by the reorganization according
to Alexander, are the basis of
representation, the size of As
sembly, the role of Cabinet and
changes in executive and legis
lative powers.
The present SGA system has
been operating provisionally for
two years and is set to be re
viewed by the Senate Committee
on Student Affairs before Spring
Elections.
AWS Candidates to Meet
There will he a mass meeting
for all candidates for offices in
the Association of Women Stu
dents at 6:30 tonight in 203 Hetzel
Union.
Budget Needs 'Pull'
In Legislature--Breon
The University needs someone to "deal, dicker, and
plead its case" when the education appropriations bill comes
on the floor of the State House of Representatives, according
to Robert Breon, local businessman and state representative
in 1957-58.
Breon said yesterday tha
have a "great political force" op
erating for it in the House in
order to gain approval for its $23.1
million budget request. He added
that he could see no such force
there at the present time.
In evaluating the University's
chances. Breon pointed out sev
eral possible obstacles to legis
lative approval.
"First you need a sympathetic
governor," he said. He predicted
that with the present urban gov
ernor (Governor David L. Law
rence was formerly Mayor of
Pittsburgh, if it were a question of
too many projects for limited
funds, such things as city re
development would win over
higher education.
Another problem comes from
the large city "cliques," he said.
The 39 representatives from
Philadelphia and the 29 from
Pittsburgh will often combine to
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STATE COLLEGE. PA..WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 15. 1961
OK Asks Vote for Aid
—Collegian Photo by Ed Jaffe
HUNTING FOR GOPHERS—NO--just physical plant workers
putting chemicals into the ground to nourish campus greenery.
During the spring, the chemicals will be filtered into the ground
through the holes the men are drilling.
/FC Declines Vote
On DARE Proposal
The Interfraternity Council has refused to ask its mem
bers to vote on the proposal of supporting DARE's (Direct
Action for Racial Equality) campaign to eliminate fraternity
and sorority biases, according to Ronald Novak, IFC president.
"I will not call for a vote which I feel would be nega
tive," Novak said,
He explained that in the best
interests of the council he would
'not ask the members to vote on
Ithe issue unless they themselves
;requested to do so. "Such a vote,",
he said, "would only subject the
council and the individual houses
to more pressure."
IFC is the second student
group to formally refuse sup
port in DARE's drive to solicit
statements from campus organ
izations asking that discrimina
tory clauses in sorority and
fraternity constitutions be elim
inated within the next five
years.
In supporting his decision, No
vak said that DARE should ask
the presidents of the individual
national chapters on campus to
write to their national offices
asking that discriminatory claus
es be repealed.
As an alternative, Novak also
suggested that the members of
DARE write to these national
offices.
In addition, he said, fraterni
ties who wish to pledge mem-1
bers contrary to the discrimina-I
tory clause stipulations in their
national constitutions can dis
affiliate with their national fra-,
iternal organization.
In commenting on University
policy in the matter, Novak said
that his organization supported
Hays to Discuss Budget
State Senator Jo Hays will
appear on WDFM's "Forum of
the Air" tonight at 8:30. Hays
will discuss the University's
budget appropriation with
Ronald Sheetz, chairman of
the "Back the Budget" Com
mittee, and Elliot Newman,
publicity chairman for the
committee.
the University will have to
gain approval for projects within
their own area, he said.
Breon called the governor's
Special Committee on Higher
Education a "neat gadget to get
the administration off the
hook," since such education
studies have been made since
1959 and their report will prob
ably be just a "rehash" of the
old material.
As far as the student "back the
budget" campaign is concerned,
Breon said that the campaign
would probably be most effective
if it is directed at the real sources
lof power in the legislature the
governor, the appropriations com
mittee chairman, the house ma
jority and minority leaders, and
the "big city clique leaders."
He added that he thought let
ters from parents would apply
more pressure than any other
part of the campaign.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
He referred specifically to the
ruling made by the Senate
Committee on Student Affairs
in the 1950's which stated that
the University would not char
ter student organizations with
discriminatory clauses in their
national or local constitutions.
This ruling does not apply, how
ever, to fraternities and soror
ities which were already on
campus before the ruling was
passed.
In commenting on Novak's sug
gestion that fraternities disaffili
ate in protest against national
discriminatory clauses, Aaron
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WASHINGTON (AP) As a first move toward his herald
ed "alliance for progress," President Kennedy asked Congress
yesterday to vote $6OO million in aid for Latin America.
In his message to Congress, Kennedy cautioned that if
the United States does not help its neighbors, "We face a grave
and imminent danger that desper-;
ate peoples will turn to commu
nism or other forms of tyranny as
their only hope for change."
His specific proposals, however,.
asked only that Congress appro
priate funds it already had au- 1
thorized last year. At the request
of President Dwight D. Eisen
hower, Congress had authorized ,
$5OO million for the U.S. share of
a Pan American aid program set
up by the treaty of Bogota and
$lOO million for rehabilitation of
areas in Chile ravaged by earth
quakes and fires.
Latin-American governments
withheld comment after Ken
nedy sent his message to Con
gress. But an undertone of dis
appointment was evident.
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, for
example, officials privately com
plained of a letdown, They said
Kennedy's speech had led them
to expect a Marshall Plan for
Latin America—with the Presi
dent itemizing the dollars and
cents the United States would put
into a massive program.,
At a White House reception
Monday night, Kennedy unveiled
for Latin-American diplomats a
10-year cooperative aid program
for the hemisphere. He said the
program was' of "towering di
mension," but he put no price
tags on it.
Perhaps mindful of the Latin
criticism, U.S. officials privately
said there was a great deal
more in the President's program
and message than met the eye.
The officials said the 10-year
Latin-American program could
not be compared with the Mar
shall Plan, which rehabilitated
Europe after World War 11.
Carnival Tents Needed
Gene Chaiken, Sp;ing Week
Carnival Committee chairman,
announced that all groups partici
pating in the Carnival will have to
provide their own tents.
These tents may be obtained
from funeral parlors.
This is contrary to the last an
nouncement of the committee.
LA
On
Faculty Reports
Grade Averages
Although statistics indicate that the caliber of students
admitted to the University since 1951 has risen, the percentage
of grades given in the A and B bracket has decreased.
This was reported by a group of liberal arts faculty
members appointed to the Academic Standards Committee
by Ben Euwema, dean of the Col
lege of Liberal Arts. The report
was presented at a liberal arts
faculty meeting yesterday.
The percentage of students ad
mitted to the University from the
upper two-fifths of their high
school classes has riser from 61
per cent in 1951 to 89 per cent
in 1960. the report said.
However, th e percentage
gride distribution of students
rated at the A level in liberal
arts courses has fallen from 24
per cent in 1951 to 13.5 per cent
in 1960.
In stating his interpretation of
the :statistic:;, Euwema said, "I
had felt that even though the stu
dent caliber was rising, our teach
ing was remaining the same. The
report shows that although the
caliber is higher, our grading is
lower and, therefore, it suggests
that we are raising our standards
drastically."
The committee, in an at-
att
PSU Alum,
House GOP
Leader Dies
PITTSBURGH (EP)-- House
Republican Leader Willard F.
Agnew Jr., a young man with
a bright political future, died
in a hospital here yesterday.
He had turned 36 last Decem
ber 30, a few weeks after his
greatest political triumph, elec
tion to the leadership post.
Friends said he had not been
Willard Agnew graduated
from Penn State in 1948 with a
major in commerce and finance.
While a student at the Univer
sity, he was president of Inter-
Fraternity Council and of his
fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon.
He served on the All-College
Cabinet, was a member of
Lions Paw and was elected to
Who's Who Among Students in
American Colleges and Univer
sities.
He also attended the Univer
sity of Pittsburgh Law School.
feeling well since a series of com
plications going back to the start
of the session. An acute bronchial
condition developed, his office
said followed by a general break
down leading. to a heart condition
that ended Agnew's life.
He first entered politics in 1953
I when he became 21 member of
borough council. He was first
,elected to the legislature in 1954
and reelected to three succeeding
two-year term s, including the
present.
Circulation Staff to Meet
The circulation staff of The
Daily Collegian will meet at 7
tonight in the Collegian - office.
Attendance is compulsory.
tempt to evaluate student opin
ion on liberal arts courses, sent
questionnaires to two top sen
iors in each department. The
poll asked 14 questions de
signed to find out what courses
were stimulating, what outside
aids were most valuable and
what the main deficiencies of
the University were.
Many students condemned the
increase in large lecture and
television courses, the report said.
Otherscommented on the value
of lecture and artist series.
One student commented on
television courses saying, "They're
all right if they're quiet."
It was recommended by the
committee that all liberal arts
courses under the 4-term plan
provide course outlines at the be;
ginning of the course to facili
tate the extra amount of "out-of
class" work that will be neces
say"
Responsibility
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