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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.
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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
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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.
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