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VOL. 61. No. 104
Assembly
Spring Elex
indefinite
By MEG TEICHHOLTZ
Spring elections will be post
poned to the last week in April
or the first week of May while
SGA trys to implement its
revised constitution, Duane
Alexander said last night.
However, Robert Dufner, elec
tions commission chairman; said
last night that the dates for
spring elections had not been set
officially by SGA although they
are listed for mid-April on the
University calendar.
Alexander, head of SGA's re
organization committee, said he
will be consulting the heads of
the various residence area coun
cils to determine "how fast and
how efficiently" they can adapt
to the new system of government.
He add' that the revised
constitution may be amended
before it is even officially
adopted. The reorganization
committee, he said, will try to
work out a better plan for nom
inations. The nominations pro
cedure caused a major stir at
Assembly Thursday night.
As proposed, the residence halls
councils would serve as nomin
ating boards for their areas. The
new plan may see these boards
acting as the organizers for meet
ings at which any resident might
seek nomination.
Alexander said the committee
may also try to spell out the nom
inating procedures which are
vague in the revised constitution.
"We left these flexible so that
the residence areas could find
the method most suitable to
themselves. There are people,
however, who feel that power
might be misused under this
system," he said.
Accusations flew back and forth
from the gallery to the floor when
Assembly discussed the original
revision Thursday night.
Dennis Eisman, former vice
chairman of Campus party asked
Alexander "Are you familiar
with the government in the So
viet Union? Do you realize that
this nominating by a board with
an electorate ratifying the candi
dates is exactly like that sys
tem?"
Alexander answered that two
candidates were to be nomin
ate '. for each seat and that the
candidate who got the most
votes would win. "The students
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Three Parties Pia
Election Registrat
In preparation for the coming spring elections, the three
political parties on campus will hold preliminary registration
at meetings tomorrow night.
In ordei• for a student to vote for party nominees, he must
register at both this week's meet
ing and the one next Sunday, ac
cording to SGA regulations.
Robert Dufner, elections com
mission chairman, said yester
day that the present SGA con
stitution is being followed even
though the amendments now
pending in Assembly would
change the election proceedings.
The commission is flexible and
will be able to function even if
the reorganization is undertaken,
Du fner said.
"I hope it (referring to the re
organization) will be finished be
fore the parties make their final
nominations," Dufner emphasized.
Final nominations are scheduled
for April 8.
Campus party will nominate its
officers at their meeting at 6:30
p.m. in 212-213 Hetzel Union, Den-
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STATE COLLEGE. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 18, 1961
A SANDWICH GIRL, one of many selling tickets to the IFC-Panhel
Jazz Spectacular, persuades an interested student to buy tickets.
This coed is Meryl Bernstein, sophomore in Horticulture from
Brooklyn, New York.
Partial Slate Set
For AWS Elections
An incomplete slate of candidates for AWS officers was
announced last night by Elections Committee Chairman Janis
Beachler,
Miss Beachler reported that the slate is complete for all
offices below president. She said she did not know when the
final slate could be completed,
but that it should be announced
soon
Primary elections are sched
uled for Tuesday and final elec
tions for Thursday.
Candidates for first vice presi
dent are: Judy Allen, Bobbi
Fuerstein, Nancy Hughes, Mary
Dell Kahle, Janet Munroe and
Marla Stevens.
Candidates for second vice pres
ident are: Joann Butterbaugh,
Marcia Evans, Polly Poyser, Lin
da Uram and Judith Walko.
The slate for secretary includes:
Judith Gottscho, Susan Elaine Ol
sen, Georgiana Simpson and
Paula White.
Candidates for treasurer are:
Demy Bartholme, Alice Freeman,
Eleanor Space, Carolyn Stocker
and Nancy Stringer.
Campaigning officially began
nis Eisman, acting party chair
man, said yesterday. The follcw
ing Sunday the party will elect of
ficers and make nominations for
SGA positions, he added.
University party holds what ifs
chairman termed "an informal
meeting" tomorrow night to or
ganize the party for the coming
elections. Party offices and
chairmanships will be filled at
the meeting, which is being
held at 6:30 p.m. in 119 Osmond,
according to Michael Dzvonik,
newly elected party chairman.
The Liberal party, meeting at
6:30 p.m. in 121 Sparks, will dis
cuss procedure for nominating
candidates and will also discuss
party policy if enough people are
at the meeting, according to Earl
Gershenow, party chairman.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
today, Miss Beachler said. Can
didates may use posters, cam
paign badges and personal con
tact in order to introduce them
selves to the women's student
body, she explained.
This year, Miss Beachler recom
mended door-to-door campaign
ing by the candidates in the resi
dence halls. This is a change from
previous elections in which such
campaigning was expressly pro
hibited.
Large posters showing pictures
of each candidate and listing her
three major activities will be
compiled by the elections com
mittee and placed at all the poll
ing places Monday.
Snow Forecast
Seen for Tonight;
Cold to Remain
A slow-moving storm sys
tem is expected to bring snow
to this area tonight and tomor
row. Temperatures should re
main cold for the next several
days.
lon
Cloudiness should increase and
thicken today as the storm; which
should be centered in Tennessee
this afternoon, moves toward
Pennsylvania.
Snow should spread into, the
southwestern portion of the
Commonwealth late this aft
ernoon, and then overspread
the balance of the state to
night.
The local forecast calls for
thickening cloudines and contin
ued cold weather for today with a
penter said, "had been carefully
Snow should begin this eve
ning and continue through tomor
row with at least 3 inches accu
mulating by late tomorrow. A
low temperature of 24 is predict
ed for tonight and a high of 32
is forecast for tomorrow after
noon.
U.S.
Aid
VIENTIANE, Laos (/P)—An informed source said yester
day the United States has doubled its military mission in
Laos .and increased shipments of guns and ammunition to
meet a new threat by Soviet-at
The informant, whose ident
SGA Group
Refuses To
Back DARE
The SGA Committee on
Inter-Racial Relations is the
third student organization to
refuse support to DARE's
(Direct Action for Racial
Equality) campaign to eliminate
sorority and fraternity prejudice.
The committee will not issue
a statement asking that discrimi
natory clauses be abolished from
the constitutions of sororities and
fraternities, according to Cynthia
Xanthopoulos, committee chair
man.
She said that her committee felt
that DARE's campaign is making
a "mountain out of.,a molehill."
Miss Xanthopoulos said that the
elimination of fraternity and
sorority prejudice should come
from within the groups them
selves.
"Outside intervention will do
more harm than good," she said.
Miss Xanthopoulos explained
that fraternities and sororities
should work with their national
offices in attempting to revise
national constitutions which con
tain discriminatory clauses.
Reinhold Gallery to Hold
Annual Art Exhibition
The Daniel G. Reinhold Gallery
in Mill Hall will present its an
nual Spring Art Exhibition to
day and tomorrow.
Located at the junction of
Routes 64 and 220 at the Mill
brook Farm, the gallery will be
open from 2 to 10 p.m. today
and from 2 to 5 p.m. tomorrow.
Exhibits will include displays
of jewelry, stoneware pots, sculp
ture and paintings.
Interpretation of Bill
May Change Puttee
The Pattee Library could become a public rather than an
institutional library, according to Rep. Eugene M. Fulmer
of State College.
In an article which appeared in yesterday's Centre Daily
Times, Fulmer said that the Pattee library, depending on 'an
interpretation of a bill now pend
ing in the state Senate, "may be
the regional library resource cen
ter as well as the district library
center in this area."
Fulmer supported the library
bill when it passed the House
last week, and, according to
the article, State Sen. Jo Hays
of State College said he will
bring the bill up for Senate
consideration next week.
A report by the director of the
Free Library of Philadelphia
stated that many of the people re
questing references in Philadel
phia were non-resident students.
"If true at Penn State," Fulmer
is quoted as saying, "this could
mean that Pattee could be a great
aid to central Pennsylvania's stu
Policy
I Redefined
Ex../dnds
to Laos
med rebels
*ty cannot be disclosed, said the
exact rate of increase in military
aid to the pro-Western govern
ment is not available.
But he said shipments of many
types of supplies have been
stepped up, though no new or un
usual weapons have been sent in.
U.S, military men teaching the
government army how to me its
U.S. aid now number about 200,
he said, compared to 100 previ
ously.
In Washington, the State De
partment affirmed that the num
ber of Americans administering
aid in Laos had been increased
but said there had been no new,
sudden stepup in arms supplied.
The arms report came amid
these developments:
sA royal government charge
that peace talks have broken
down because the pro-Communist
,Pathet Lao rebels and the man
they recognize as Laos' rightful
'head of government, ex-Premier
Souvanna Phouma, refused to
honor a pledge to hold an imme
diate conciliation conference.
isA major rebel offensive that
!road
the vital Sala Phou Koun
'road junction, just 40 miles south
of the royal capital of Luang Pra-
Aiang, and apparently dashed gov
ernment plans for an offensive
eastward into the rebel-held
Plaint des Jarres.
®Reports that Llewellyn
Thompson, U.S. ambassador to the
Soviet Union, has told Premier
Khrushchev the United States
does not want a major East-West
arms race to develop in Laos but
will ship in three guns for every
two the Soviets give the rebels.
• Indian Prime Minister Nehru's
announcement in London that
Laotian King Savant; Vathana has
appealed for his help in prevent
ing foreign interference in Laos,
saying "the country is going to
pieces chiefly because other peo
ple are interfering."
Soviet shipment of supplies by
air transport and truck to the
rebels was said to be continuing
at a rate slightly faster than in
recent weeks.
dent population."
Fulmer said that the Philadel
phia experience could show that
public school libraries do not meet
the needs of inquiring students.
This may put a greater emphasis
on public school libraries, he
said.
This could mean that "The
Pennsylvania State ,University
library could become one of the
finest in the state," Fulmer said.
Fulmer said that hebelieves
that the library bill, as it stands
now, could offer many opportun
ities to Centre County residents.
He voted for the bill after it was
amended to remove portions
which would have meant state
control over the local libraries, he
said.
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