SGA Adjourns for Revisions
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VOL. 61, No, 111 STATE COLLEGE. PA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 7, 1961 FIVE CENTS
Senate Hears Ideas
For Final Exams
Ey LYNNE CEREFICE and POLLY DRANOV
Two proposals for a final=exam system under the four
term plan were discussed by the University Senate yesterday.
The first came from the Committee on Academic Stand
ards which proposed that exams be given during the regular
class hours, at the option of t
The report by the committee ex
plained that the scheduling of fi
nal exams during the regular
class hours will tend to decrease
the stature of the final exam.
According to the report, the
committee felt that because of
this loss of stature, the indivi
dual instructors not the colleges
should decide whether or not to
give final exams.
Joseph Jordan, associate pro
fesor of chemistry, introduced an
amendment to the committee's
proposal suggesting that all ref -1
erence to final exams b^ elimin
ated from the Senate regulations.
Jordan's amendment was defeat
ed for lack of a second and the
original proposal of the commit
tee was passed by the Senate.
A second plan was proposed in
an informational report submit
ted by a sub-committee of the Ed
ucational Policy Committee.
The Sub-Committee on the Im
provement of Instruction pro
posed that all class meetings dur
ing the last three days of the
term be extended from 75 min
utes to two hours to make room
for final exams. This plan would
involve running classes into the
evening hours as last as 11 p.m.
Classes would thus be conducted
from 8 a.m. until 11 p.m. during
the 3-day period.
The second part of the report
suauested that two comprehen
sive exams be giyen all students
at the midpoint and at the end
of their college careers.
The first exam would be taken
after a student has completed
six terms and would be termed
the "intermediate examination";
and the second which would be
taken before graduation, would be
known as the "baccalaureate ex
amination."
The report which the Senate re
ceived cannot be acted upon un
til it is developed into something
more than an informational pro
posal.
MODEL OF TOMORROW'S CAMPUS on display in
_the HUB
shows the proposed new buildings and the eventual layout of
central campus. Dana Schrader, senior in petroleum engineering
from Philadelphia, and Chuck Purbaugh, senior in petroleum en
gineering from Duluth, Minn., examine the campus of the future.
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FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
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Walker Appoints
Special Committee
On Peace Corps
Nine faculty members have
been appointed by President
Eric A Walker to act as a special
committee on the Peace Corps.
The appointment wa s an
nounced at yesterday's University
Senate meeting by Robert G.
Bernreuter, special assistant to
the President for student affairs.
The committee will work in
connection with the Senate Com
mittee on Educational Policy to
recommend changes in academic
procedures to pave the way for
, the adoption of the Peace Corps
lat the University, Bernreuter
said.
Walker has requested that the
committee present its recommen
dations for a Peace Corps project
to him by May 15.
The faculty members who will
serve on the committee are Rob
ert A. Murray, head of the De
partment of History, who was ap
pointed chairman; Gifford H. Al
bright, assistant professor of ar
chitectural engineering; Nicholas
M. Brentin, associate professor of
Romance languages; and William
J. Cain, Jr., professor of air sci
ence.
Also appointed are Russell B.
Dickerson, associate dean and di
rector of the College of Agricul
ture; Katherine H. Fisher, associ
ate professor of foods and nutri
tion; George N. Guthrie, associate
professor of psychology; John D.
Lawther, associate dean of physi
cal education; and Charles R.
Marsh, associate professor of elec
trical engineering..
Expansion
Backed By
Ed Report
By JOEL MYERS
Assistant City Editor
(See 'related editorial,. page 4)
President Eric A. Walker,
gratified by the Governor's
Education Committee report,
says "we hope that the Gov
ernor and the Legiilature will
recognize that the quickest
way to get action is to support
Penn State's request for an ap
propriation of $23 million in
1961-62."
The report, which was made
public Sunday, was in line with
the University's own expansion
plans calling for an enrollment
of 25,000 on the main campus and
10,000 at the Commonwealth cam
puses by 1970.
"We are satisfied that we can
do this, and more, if necessary,
to help the Commonwealth meet
its educational commitment to
the people of Pennsylvania,"
Walker said.
The report also called for the
expansion and transformation of
state colleges into first-rate. lib
eral arts colleges and suggested
that state-aid to private institu
tions be frozen at present levels
until detailed and specific goals
are established.
"It is perfectly clear from the
report that the Governor's Corn
mitte regards tried-and-tested in
stitutions as the firmest founda
tion upon which to build a sound
system of higher education for
Pennsylvania," Walker said.
Commenting further, he said,
"Especially gratifying, of course,
is the committee's recognition that
Penn State and the state colleges
constitute the commonwealth's
major source of strength in at
tacking the critical problems of
the decade ahead."
Penn State has already begun
to expand its facilities, according
to Walker, Eleven hundred addi
tional students were accepted this
year, and Walker said up to 1500
more would be admitted next
year if the funds are made avail
able,
To finance this expansion,
Walker has requested $23 million
from the State Legislature for
this year's operations. Governor
David L. Lawrence, on the oth
er hand, recommended a stand
still appropriation of $l7 million,
pending the report of his special
education committee.
Two Leaders Agree on Berlin
WASHINGTON (iP)—Presi
dent John F. Kennedy and
(Prime Minister Harold Mac
'millan of Great Britain agreed
yesterday that the Western
position in West Berlin would
be fully maintained.
Reiteration of the Western po
sition that there will be no weak
ening of obligations to the people
of the Communist-encircled city
was agreed upon by the two lead
ers during a 2 1 / 2 -hour cruise down
the Potomac River.
Apart from Berlin, they were
described as having covered the
crisis in Laos, violent Communist
hit-and-run raids in South Viet
Nam, disarmament and the cur
rent negotiations with Russia at
Geneva on a nuclear weapons test
Ignores Senate Order;
Halts Spring Elections
. SGA Assembly last night moved into a "committee of
the whole," thereby adjourning itself indefinitely until it
comes up with a reorganized,student government.
Spring elections are postponed until reorganization is
complete. •
The action overrode a directive from the Senate Commit-
'Outsiders'
Give Views
On SGA
By CAROL KUNKLEMAN
SGA Assembly's decision
last night to form a committee
of the Whole to work on a
reorganized student govern=
ment gave some "outsiders" a
chance to express their observa
tions on the scene.
One such observer was John
Brandt, former chairman of Cam
pus Party and sponsor of several
pages of changes in the SGA con
stitution.
Brandt fold the Assembly that
he had foreseen the directive
issued by the Senate Commit
tee on Student Affairs which
orders it to elect only officers
and the senior class president in
the spring elections and meet
regularly, until the end of the
semester to draw up a new stu
dent governing body.
Another spokesman, Richard
Snyder, former Assemblyman,
urged the Assembly to take the
initiative to "lead rather than
be led." Snyder's comments fol
lowed SGA President Dick Ha
ber's reading of the committee's
directive.
The former Assemblyman en
dorsed a proposal by Jacqueline
Leavitt, C-Sr., to dissolve SGA
Assembly and form a "giant" re
organization committee.
Challenging Haber's concept of
student government at the Uni
versity was Dennis Foranni, a
member of the gallery.
"Studentgovernment exists
for the interest of the students,
not for the charter: We should
not exist solely-to follow one,"
Foranni said.
Adding a final comment on the
directive, Dennis Eisman, chair
man of Campus Party, said SGA
should carry the will of the stu
dents to the administration, not
the will of the administration to
the students.
Later, when Susan Sherman,
ISGA secretary-treasurer, pointed
out to the Assembly that the Sen
' ate committee acts as advisors
to SGA and that it would "laugh"
at attempts to defy a decision,
,Eisman retorted that he was not
,concerned with this matter.
I "I want them (the committee)
to know that the function of stu
dent government is to represent
, the students," Eisman said.
ban treaty.
Some optimism about the pros
peets for a long-term peaceful so
lution in Laos was evident.
U.S. officials who reported
the agreenient on Berlin said
Kennedy and Macmillan were
also in general agreement t'•it
in any new negotiations
Russia on Berlin the conces
sions previously offered by the
West would not provide a gad
, ing point. On the contrary, it
was agreed that negotiations
would begin without such con
cessions.
The President and prime min
ister recognized, officials report
ed, • that there might well be a
new Berlin crisis sometime this
year since Soviet Premier Khru
shchev has said he wants a solu
tion of that problem.
On nuclear test's Kennedy and
Macmillan were in agreement,
informants reported, that Rus
By MEG TEICHHOLTZ
tee on Student Affairs which told
SGA to freeze the Assembly, elect
only SGA officers this spring and
get a new system of government
by next fall.
The new and nameless com
mittee will meet "every night
until we have a reorganization
plan," Donald Claggett, vice
president and chairman of the
committee said brusquely. He
may reconvene Assembly as
soon as reorganization is com
pleted.
Meetings are open to anyone
who wants to attend, and are to
be conducted informally. .The
first will be at 7 p.m. tonight in
203 Het7Cl Union building.
The "let's roll up our sleeves
and get into this job" attitude of
Assembly, came after indignant
comments an the letter to Assem
bly from the Senate Committee
on Student Affairs.
In this vein Jacqueline Leavitt,
1.1-Sr., asked SGA President
• Richard Haber (who read the
letter) "how and why the Ad
ministration is responsible for
SGA? I thought we were sov
ereign!"
Haber replied, "We are not a
final governing body."
Leavitt then asked "Why are
we here in the first place?"
Haber said that the Senate
Committee was not acting to les
sen SGA's power but to let it
remain as it is to plan a new
system of government.
A motion which would have
"frozen" the Assembly, much as
the Senate Committee requested,
was defeated by SGA at its last
meeting.
A motion by James Sloane,
freshman class president to re
spond to the Senate Commit
tee's directive with a request
for reconsideration was de
feated.
The SGA action, expressed by
one assemblyman as "calling a
spade a spade," would give the
executive branch of SGA power
to legislate in the interim period
until the new system is completed.
Deferment Forms
For Fees Available
Deferred fee applications for the
summer term are available at the
Bursar's office in 6 Willard.
A student who is interested in
deformerit of fees should secure
a blank. have it signed by his
parent and returned to the Bur
sar's office before registration on
June 13 and 14, Richard H. Baker,
bursar, said yesterday.
All students
. are eligible for a
25 per cent deferment of fees, he
added. Since students 'must have
fee receipts for summer registra
tion all students should plan to
pay their fees early or make de
ferment application, Baker said.
sia's proposal for a nuclear test
ban control system under a
three-man directorate with a
built-in Soviet veto was totally
unacceptable.
The directorate would be com
posed of one Western, one Soviet
and one neutral official and the
big power representatives would
have to agree on any action taken.
In the Western view, that would
mean. a Soviet veto over inspec
tion to prevent cheating on the
test ban treaty.
Kennedy and Macmillan were
said to feel that three steps should
be taken simultaneously the
,cease-fire should he agreed on in
the Laos civil war, an internation
-lal control commission of Canada,
Poland and India should meet at
New Delhi 'to undertake supervi
sion of the cease-fire, and the
date and place should be fixed
for an international conference
on Laos.