1211MTI= Weather Forecast: Mostly Cloudy, Continued Cold !!1!1!1!=l!!!!!=1 VOL. 61, No. 112 SGA Proposes Twelve Goals In First Reorganization Meeting SGA's "committee of the whole" met for the first time last night, gathering its opin ions and facts for an attack on its organization—and how to make it effective. Established Thursday night when Assembly temporarily adjourned itself, the commit tee came up with twelve goals for a new government. These range from "representing all students" through assuming the power of char tering activities and providing a liason for student, faculty and administrative com munication. Due to the informal atmos phere of the parliamentary state "committee of the whole, ' no motions or other parliamen tary laws were in effect. The session was one of free discus sion. with 24 Assemblymen and four non-SGA members sitting on around the meeting table. Committee members only had enough time to discuss their first' of the 12 goals, "representing all the students," last night. Three systems of representa tion came to the fore: by class (using term definition to comply with the four-term plan), by col lege councils and by residence areas. From this grew debate on whether SGA's past weakness has been in its structure or in the people serving the system. Susan Sherman, SGA secre tary-treasurer. told the Assem bly "no matter where your rep resentatives come from, they I are not going to go back to a constituency. The big thing is that SGA work for expediency." A rash of comments on the old Cabinet system followed Miss Sherman's remarks. John Brandt, former chairman of Campus par ty, said, "as the Cabinet system I proved, a small closed group does not always give student opinion. It was Cabinet that a few years, ago said, the student body was in' favor of compulsory ROTC!" The committee adjourned until 7 p.m. Sunday in the Hetzel Union Building without reaching any decisions. Meetings are open to all who wish to attend Senate States Drop-Out Regulations The University Senate ap proved an adaption of the Senate regulations specifying that students cannot be drop ped from the University until the third term for unsatisfac tory scholarship under the four term plan. The revision in the regulations did not provide for any change in all-University average required of a student to remain in the Uni versity. Under the approved rule a stu dent shall be dropped after three terms if his average is below a 1.4; after six terms if his average is below a 1.6; and after 12 terms if his average is below a 1.9. The revision was passed after the Senate defeated an amend ment proposed by Richmcd G. Stoner, acting head of the De partment of Physics, Stoner's amendment provided that no stu dent should be dropped from the University prior to completion of two full terms. The adaption that was approved does not change the actual time period students may remain in the University with an unsatis factory academic record. The three terms provided for are equivalent to the two semesters required under the present sys tem. Similar adaption was also made of the amount of time a candi date for an associate degree may remain in the University. Under the revision, a candidate can re main in school with an unsatis factory cumulative average only until the first, third, fifth and sixth terms. A LETTER WAS A QUARTER last night at the West Halls Record Hop. A letter protesting the proposed tuition hike admitted the bearer to the dance free. Harry Rezer, freshman in chemistry and physics from Drexel Hill, uses a letter to Sen. Van Zandt as admission. ;„,..,,,,,...., 1 r 4 at g q . ';:!.C . , :;,,1, in tilt -_,m....., By MEG TEICHHOLTZ Activities Asked To Return► Forms Student activities report forms should be returned as soon as possible to 209 Hetzel Union building. These forms were given to the president of each campus activity and although they should have been completed by April 1, only 40 per cent have been returned, George L. Donovan, co-ordinator of student activities, said. FOR A BETTER PENN i•TATE STATE COLLEGE. PA., SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 8. 1961 Robinson Cites Need For Action in Africa Failure to take positive action in critical areas of the world such as Africa is just "pursuit of our own doom," Dr. James Robinson, founder and director of "Operation Cross roads Africa" said last night. Speaking in 121 Sparks, Robinson said Americans must develop a "face to face relation ship of people as people." "What ever is done in the world is done by people," he added, Robinson said that Americans have been guilty of "turning our backs" on Africa. pointing out that the American State Depart ment did not have a desk on Africa until 1956. "Democracy must learn to act boldly, creatively and dynamical ly," he said, adding, "Time is not on the side of the West." The Presbyterian minister sees a major failing of American edu cation in the lack of concern for learning a second language. "The tragedy is that we have no shame, about this," he said. "Operation Crossroads Africa" is a group which operates on the person to person level. Robin son said. Student volunteers in the program spend the sum mer traveling through Africa building such things as sche , As, libraries and bridges. They live and work with the' African people in tribal villages. Training for the volunteers lasts all year, Robinson said. Students take courses in Swahili, where available, study books and maga zines on African problems and culture and talk to foreign stu dents on their own and surround ing campuses. This program, in many respects a forerunner to the Peace Corps plan, is sponsored by private groups ranging from a local boy scout troop to John D. Rockefeller 111, Robinson said. Milder Weather Due Tomorrow Brisk northwest winds will con tinue to feed cold air into Penn sylvania today, but abundant sun shine and diminishing winds should cause milder weather to morrow. Temperatures have averaged nearly ten degrees below normal for the past seven days, but there appears to be some indication that the "cold" regime will relax its grip on this area by early next week. Considerable cloudiness, breezy land cold weather is expected to day with afternoon temperatures similar to those of yesterday. The high reading will be near 45 I degrees. Clearing skies and cold temp eratures are seen for tonight and a low of 30 is expected. Sunny and milder readings are forecast for tomorrow. The high should be about 54. Bomber Sh By Mistake GRANTS, N.M. M—A mock aerial duel high over west . ..- ern New Mexico was transformed into tragic reality yester day as a Sidewinder missile from a National Guard FlOO plunged into a 852 jet bomber. The huge eight-engine bomber crashed into rugged mountain country - about 60 miles north of Grants. The fate of the By PAT DYER Lawrence Hits U.S. Education As Obsolete (See related editorial, page 4) PHILADELPHIA (N) Gov. David L. Lawrence said yester day that America's "chaotic, fre quently obsolete educational sys tem" must be replaced quickly with modern, well-equipped fa cilities for scientific learning. Lawrence made the comment in dedicating a new science building at Temple University. The governor said the nation has watched "placidly as a sec ond-rate power outstripped us in scientific achievements which can imperil the universe . . . "We turn a deaf ear to the warnings of prophets until the crisis has become so complex, so insidiously massive, that it re quires enormous effort to reach a solution." Lawrence said if the United States is to survive as a free society "we will have to turn out the most constructive critical vi sion upon the greatest protector our freedoms have—our sources of education." Kotchi. Will SGA Travel Edward Kotchi, junior in physics from Kingston, was appointed by the SGA Assembly Thursday night to head a new Transportation Committee to investigate improving bus service for students going home on vacations. According to Richard Haber, SGA president, the new committee will incorporate the work done by a similar SGA com mittee last year. "Many people have remarked that SGA is concerned more with getting students to Europe (the SGA Flight and Tour) than with getting them home," Haber said, in giving his reasons for naming Koichi to the transportation post. In other committee reports. the Assembly received a bibli ography of books on student government available at Pollee Library. ' Commenting on the list, Earl Gershenow, chairman of the SGA Public Relations Committee, said that its purpose is to stimulate more interest in student govern ment in campus leaders and pro mote 'responsible action through this interest. Gershenow said that in the fu ture a more complete bibliography will be distributed to Assembly I Salvage aOperation : --See Page 4 crew was not immediately learned The accident occurred as the fighter pilot from the 188th In terceptor Squadron of the New Mexico Air National Guard worked with the bomber crew on what the Air Force called "an authorized intercept mis- The fighter had made five train ing passes at the 852. Then, on the sixth pass the deadly Side winder somehow was actually re leased. The heat-seeking missile steered accurately . . into the bomb er's motors. The two aircraft reportedly were operating at 35,000 feet when the 852 was hit. Biggs Air Force Base spokes.. men in El Paso, Tex., where the 852 was based with the 95th Bomb Wing, said the 852 nor mally carries a crew of six. However, there was a report that eight men were aboard the craft yesterday. Biggs officials said the 852 was on a training mission and was not carrying any weapons; Spokesmen , at Kirtland Air Force Base, where the FlOO was based, said the two jet aircraft were working together as a team on practice maneuvers. "Something happened," a Kirt land spokesman said. There was no immediate in formation as to how the Side winder could have been acci dentally released. The name of the fighter pilot was not dis closed. Word that the 852 had crashed came about 12:20 p.m. (MST). The Sidewinder, named after a species . of rattlesnake, is a heat seeking missile which steers itself toward a target,_ using infrared radiation from an aircraft engine as guidance. Chair Group members and - copies will be placed in the SGA office and Pattee. Reporting to the Assembly on the progress of the Tutoring Corn imittee, which was recently formed to compile a list of available tu tors on campus, Ruth Falk, chair man, said her committee found that it is unnecessary to compile a list at the present time. "The committee's job right now will be to gather lists of tutors from the honorary socie ties, investigate the possibility of having a sign-up booth at registration in the fall and place dates for tutor registration on the school calendar," Miss Falk said. She said that a list will be made available to students next fall. The committee decided to post pone action this spring, Miss Falk said, after it conferred with the Division of Counseling. FIVE CENTS
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