Weather Forecasts Mostly Cloudy, Slightly Milder VOL. 61. No. 109 Riiling Wins AWS Post; Committee May Consider Complaints on Elections Ruth Rilling, junior in arts and letters from Philadel phia, was elected president of the Association of Women Students after the polls were reopened yesterday because of a mistake in the election procedure. Many complaints had been voiced by women students 3 Parties Will Hold Nominations The three political parties will hold preliminary nomina tions and final registration to morrow at 6:30. Robert Dufner, chairman of elections commission, said that to morrow is the last time students may register for each party. Those who registered at last week's meetings do not have to re-regis ter tomorrow. Each party plans to nominate a full slate of candidates for the Spring Elections. According to the decision of SGA Assembly at its Thursday meeting, the elec tions will be held as usual with posts open both on the Assembly, for the SGA officers and the jun ior and senior class presidents. University party plans to hold discussion and voting on proposed revisioAs of its constitution. Mi chael Dzvonik, acting chairman of the party, said that the rec ommendations had been drawn up by the executive board and must be approved b- , the party at large. University party will meet in 10 Sparks at 7 p.m., Campus at 7 p.m. in 119 Osmond and Liberal at 6:30 in 121 Sparks. Preliminary nominations are mac' from the floor by the mem bers of the parties at large. All nominees at preliminary nomina tions must be re-nominated at the final nominations set for April 9, according to the elections com mission chairman. Each party is allowed to nom inate candidates for 70 per cent of the Assembly seats to be filled, Dufner said. He added that the 70 per cent excludes the offices of SGA president, vice president and secretary-treasuer. The jun ior and senior class pr idents are ( Continued on page eight) 2 Chapters Defy Discrimination The fraternity discrimina tion controversy gained sup port last week, as chapters of Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Theta joined the fight to erase prejudices in membership se lection. The Phi Delta Theta chapter at Lake Forest College, Illinois, re pledged a Jewish student this week in defiance of the frater nity's national headquarters. Chapter members decided that, if necessary, they would go to court to retain their affili ation with the national group and at the same time to keep the right to choose any mem ber they feel is desirable. The fraternity's national head quarters notified the Lake Forest group that it was violating a national policy in pledging a Jewish student. The policy re stricts membership to those of the Christian faith. Explaining .the fraternity's na- 2 • ‘.llllllll* , f ;r.. • - • 9 0 111 413 a By ROCHELLE MICHAELS over the management of the elec tions. Therefore, Patricia Dyer, chairman of AWS Central Judi cial Board, said that she will "sug gest to the AWS Senate that they organize a committee to investi gate the situation." This committee will try to de termine where the faults for this year's mistake lie and will make specific recommendations for the revision of the AWS . . . A.W.S. President elections code so that there will be no problems of this type in future years, Miss Dyer said. The' election results were de clared incomplete late Thursday night when it was discovered that Janis Beachler, elections committee chairman, had closed the polls at West Halls 40 min utes early. Miss Dyer then authorized those polls to open yesterday for that length of time. The official results are as fol lows: Miss Rifling defeated Nancy Williams for president by a vote of 651 to 612. Marla Stevens, sophomore in arts and letters from Greenville, N.Y., won over Judy Allen, 665 to 600 for first vice president. Paula Poyser, freshman in di vision of counseling from Rocky River, Ohio, was elected second vice president over Marcia Evans, 620 to 611. ( Continued on page eight) tional membership policy, Peter Culp, president of the Penn State chapter, said that Phi Delta Theta, according to a constitutional clause, can not take any members who would not be considered ac ceptable to the total national membership of the fraternity. He explained that the national headquarters has the authority to interpret this clause. In similar action, the Beta Theta Pi chapter at Dartmouth College protested a measure imposed by the fraternity's na tional office on a fellow chapter at Williams College, Mass. The Dartmouth chapter voted to sever its connections with the national fraternity in opposition to the measure which instructed the Williams College chapter to postpone this year's initiation be cause of a Negro student in the pledge class. In a clarification of the action, John Lang, president of the Penn State chapter, said that the na tional measure has been miscon strued by the Dartmouth chapter. STATE COLLEGE. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH .25. 1961 RUTH RILLING FOR A BETTER FENN STATE Laos Peace Depend on WASHINGTON (VP) Hopes for a cease-fire in Laos to douse a smouldering threat to world peace turned yesterday night on the still-silent Kremlin. While the United States moved military units toward the little Southeast Asian king dom, a worried world waited to see what Soviet Premier Khrushchev would do. The immediate, pressing question: will the Soviet Union accept a British proposal for Band Concert Will Feature Horn Soloist The 107 members of the Con cert Blue Band will present a program at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Schwab. Philip Farkas, French horn ar tist, will be guest soloist. He will play "Concerto for Horn" by Ralph Hermann. James W. Dunlop, conductor of the band and professor of music education, will be assisted by A. Elliot Block, graduate as sistant in music education. The band will play "American Week-End Concert March" by Serge de Gastyne; "Prelude and Fugue in F Minor" by Houston Bright; and "Praeludium and Al legro" by Vittorio Giannini. The program will continue with "Charles County Overture" by Joseph W. Jenkins; "Saguaro" by Ted Royal; and Symphony No. 5 (Finale) by Dmitri Shostakovich. Following intermission the band will play "Parade of the Chario teers" from "Ben-Hur" by Miklos Rozsa; "Dance Toccato by Denes Agay; selections from "West Side Story" by Leonard Bernstein; and the "Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa. Weather to Be Milder The thick cloud cover that has hung over Pennsylvania since Tuesday may break this after noon allowing sunshine to boost temperature readings to more seasonable levels. Today should be mostly cloudy and shghtly milder with some afternoon sunshine. A few snow flurries are likely and a maximum of 47 is expected. Partly cloudy and milder tern peratures are predicted for to morrow. A maximum of 52 is ex pected in the afternoon. Last Issue on Tuesday Tuesday will be the last day Collegian will publish before spring vacation. Publication will resume Friday, April 7. Lang explained that the meas ure was not passed as a protest against the Negro pledge but as a protest against a policy of the Interfraternity Council at Wil liams. This policy, known as the "total opportunity" program, he said, attempts to limit fraternity mem bership at Williams by stating that no fraternity may pledge members until all students who have registered for rush have been offered bids. Lang said that Beth's national headquarters is opposed to this policy because it is a definite attempt to limit membership selection. If the policy is not abolished on the Williams campus, he said that all Beta chapters may follow the Dartmouth example and dis affiliate with the national organ ization as a joint expression of opposition. "There is no discriminatory clause in our constitution," Lang added. a truce between . the U.S.-backed Laotian government and Commu nist-led rebels? If Klirushchev says yes, pre sumably the threat of another Korea—with its ever-present peril of general war—will subside. If Moscow rejects the offer or remains silent, the United States stands pledged by President Kennedy to honor its 'commit ments to Laos—and these call for armed intervention if neces sary. The London proposal for a cease-fire to be supervised by an already existing international commission made up of repre sentatives of India, Poland and Canada, carried no time limit and no one here, was prepared to set a deadline. However, Sen. Alexander Wiley, of Wisconsin, ranking Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, may have given a good clue when he said: "What we will do win depend on what the Kremlin will do in the next 48 hours." With Poland representing the Communist bloc and Canada the Western world on the truce commission, the key role falls to neutralist India. Kennedy underscored this yes terday by appealing to India's Prime Minister Nehru to co operate wholeheartedly in the efforts to arrange a truce. Wiley, at a session of the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee, went further and said India already is playing "a ire mandous" part in the behind the scenes negotiations to reach an agreement under which Laos would be saved from a Com munist takeover. This, in. turn, caused concern in other quarters and India's am bassador to the United States, Mahomed Ali Chagla, comment ed: "We are not sending any troops to that country; Laos is not open to a military solution, only to a political solution." Harris Discusses Gershenow's Move Earl Gershenow's resignation as chairman of the Liberal party resulted from "outside pressure," according to Dale Harris, acting chairman of the party. Miss Harris would not comment, however, on the source of this "pressure." Gershenow said Thursday night the reason for resignation that he was involved in too many other campus activ ities and that his studies were suffering. In summarizing the Liberal par ty's immediate aims, Miss Harris said that the party's chief con cern is the lack of worthwhile communication between student government and the administra tion. She explained that the need for this communication was brought out in the questioning of Monroe Newman, chairman of the Senate Committee on Student Affairs, by the mem bers of SGA Assembly Thurs day night. Newman had appeared before the Assembly to answer questions concerning the status r. , t . SGA. Miss Harris pointed ot t that if the lines of communication be tween the Assembly and New SGA's at 'Status Seekers' Hopes Russia SGA Tables Nomination Proposals SGA Assembly late Thuis day night . tabled new recom mendations on nominating procedures for its revised con stitution presented by Duane Alexander, chairman of the reorganization committee. Debate will probably be re sumed on the suggestions when SGA convenes after Easter vaca tio.A. Alexander's suggestion ' would have taken the election and nomi nation procedures out of the main body of the revised constitution and placed them in the by-laws to permit Assembly to debate them separately. In addition, Alexander had in tended to present the two oppos ing viewpoints on nominating procedure that have developed in the week since the revised con stitution was released. He said last night that his in tention was to leave E decision on method whether parties or residence councils should hold nominations to the AssemlNly, or let them "throw it back to us." He added that he "was going to let John Brandt present his recommendation on nomina tions." He said that his recommenda tions would alter the revised con stitution so that each residence area represented on Assembly would hold a nominating meeting open to all residents. Originally the revision called for nomina- (Continued .on page five) man's committee had been effec tively maintained, such an ap pearance would not have been necessary. In its future plans. Miss Har— ris said. "The Liberal party will become even more a party of action." She explained that there are many issues which have "died" in the eyes of SGA that have not "died" in the eyes of students. She cited the HUB parking problem as one such issue. "One of the main goal's of the Liberal party," Miss Harril . I, "will be to bring these matters before the students and to act on them." Another of the party's main aims, she said, is to bring new faces to student government in order to eliminate "the same peo ple making the same mistakes." --See Page 4 FIVE CENTS
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