Ijr uiill VOL. 61. No. 123 STATE COLLEGE. PA.. TUESDAY MORNING. APRIL 25. 1961 SGA Bookstore Committee Announces Results of Survey • By CAROL KUNKLEMAN Over 40 per cent of the University students surveyed had problems in obtaining textbooks this semester, according to Phil Steinhauer, chairman of the SGA Bookstore Committee. The figure was announced last night after results of 7 out by students in a random poll were analyzed by the co Candidates Endorsed y Liberals Liberal party followed its an nounced policy of "pick and choose" in endorsing candidates for student government offices Sunday night. The party endorsed Dennis Foianini, Campus party candidate for student body president, John Witmer, University party candi date for vice president and Joan Cavanagh, University party can didate for secretary-treasurer. The party did not endorse a candidate for senior class presi dent. All candidates for student body offices spoke at the meeting ex cept Duane Alexander, inde pendent candidate for president, and Spencer McGraw, independ ent candidate for senior class president. After the meeting, Foianini said that he was not concerned with the number of votes that the endorsement would bring him. Rather, he said, he valued Lib eral party's support because the party was a "critical minority" which pointed things out. Foianini, in his speech asking for the party's endorsement, charged that the responsibility for the present student apathy rests on the people who have run the system the last two years— University party. SGA- is a social system not a government, Foianini charged. "We must make it a government," he emphasized. Foianini proposed that student government start a small scale bookstore which would buy about 200 books for some of the basic courses. Once the store got started, he said, it will expand, but the (Continued on page twelve) Coed Cyclist Injured When Hit by Car A coed cyclist was injured late last night when hit by a car on the corner of Shortlidge Rd. and E. College Ave. Diane Kandle, sophomore in secondary education from Philadelphia, was struck by a car making a left turn from Shortlidge Rd. onto College Ave. Miss Kandle was proceeding north on her bicycle across Col lege Ave. heading onto Shortlidge Rd. when the accident occurred. Officer Fred Dailey of the State College police said the student was stopped at the red light be side a car which obstructed. the cyclist from the view of the turn ing car, Dailey said that when the light changed the car and bi cyclist started at the same time but the car maintained a faster speed than the bicyclist. Since the bicyclist had been obstruct ed from the view of the turning driver, he proceeded to .turn and collided with the bicycle. The girl was treated at the in firmary and then referred to a town physician. She suffered a deep cut on the left thigh and sev eral cuts on the left wrist, Dailey said. The police refused to reveal the name of the driver. Dailey said • FOR A BETTER PENN STATE About 90.3 per cent of the stu dents contacted responded to the forms. Steinhauer said that a statisti cal test on the results of the sur vey proved that it is "just about a perfect" representation of the stu dent body. According to the results, the biggest problem students had was that textbooks were not available. Crowding in downtown book stores was another major prob lem reported. Students reported difficulty in getting textbooks for over 200 dif ferent courses. The main bulk of students spent -between $2l and $5O on textbooks this semester, accord ing to the report. Many be lieved they are being charged prices above publishers' list prices, but most didn't know whether or not they were being overcharged. Students were asked what they considered a fair price for text books. Most of them suggested 10 per cent off the list price. The majority of students were satisfied with the courtesy of pres ent store clerks, according to the report, but they believed that service should be more prompt. If a University bookstore were established, students said, it should definitely stock text books, stationery, art and draw• ing supplies and paperbacks and reference books. Steinhauser said the survey re sults will be combined with a re port on the history of University bookstore committees and a re port on bookstores on other cam puses, A fourth part of the report will consist of a financial all mate by Albert E. Diem, vice president for business adminis (Continued on page seven) The time of the Spring Week Float Parade has been changed from 6:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Robert Polishook, co-chairman of the parade, announced yes terday. (See related story, Page 12) that he will conduct "further in vestigation before he determines if there was any negligence." He added, however, that the bicycle did not have a light. Six Will Select Finalists For 'Miss Penn State' Five finalists will be chosen to night for the Miss Penn State con test. Thirty-six girls are competing for the title. The applicants are being inter viewed by Six judges who will base their selections on poise, speech, carriage, personality, at tractiveness, grooming and schol arship. The finalists. will be interviewed publicly next Tuesday at Awards Night and the queen will be chos en then. She will be crowned by Constance Adler, who presently holds the title. ToUrgiatt 92 survey questionnaires filled mittee. —Collegian Photo by Jim Doutt EMPTY BUT NOT FOR LONG: This bulletin board at the bottom of the Mall will be used as a calendar to inform students and visi tors of _the activities which will be taking place during Spring Week. Reston Will Speak Tonight in Schwab James Reston, head of the Washington Bureau of the New York Times, will lecture at 8:30 tonight in Schwab.in the third and final talk of the University Lecture Series. He will speak on "Behind The Washington Dateline." Student tickets will still be available at the Hetzel Union desk from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. tod sold out. Reston joined the New York Times London Bureau in 1939. Since that time he has been re. porting international and national events. Early in 1943 he was made an assistant to the publisher, and re turned to London later in the year as acting head of the Times Bureau. Reston's Washington column appears several times a week on the editorial page of the New York Times. In the past week, his column has included topics as "A Sadder and Wiser Young President." Reston, born in Clydebank, Scotland, graduated from the Uni versity of Illinois in 1932. He be gan his newspaper career that year with the Springfield Ohio Daily News. He then worked for a year in the public information department at Ohio State Univer sity, and later worked as publi city director of the Cincinnati Baseball Club. Reston joined the staff of the Associated Press in New York City as a sports writer in 1934. While with the AP he also wrote features, worked on the AP city and cable staffs and wrote a New York column. In 1937, the AP sent him to London to cover major sports events and foreign affairs. Reston was the recipient of the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for news dis patches and interpretative arti cles on the Dumbarton Oaks Se curity Conference. Nelit.fAttacks .Hit:Ajgerisi;-• FIVE CENTS Fitrite . Alert PARTS VP) The mutinous generals in Algeria were re ported jolted by opposition from the air force and navy 'yeterday. In France, the government girded for a .showdown by turning the nation into an armed camp and again closing all air fields to bar any airborne invasion. Paris and other major cities were guarded by tanks and !reinforced security units as the government warned of a possible attack by para Chute troops from .Algeria. Ten y, but non-student tickets are La To The Antisubmarine Research Center in La Spezia, Italy, will be able to "add significantly" to one of today's most important defense areas, according to Dr. John C. Johnson, director of the Ordnance Research Laboratory: Scientists from nine NATO na tions make up the staff of the international research laboratory now under the management of the University. Johnson called these men an "effective collection of scientific talent" and said they will be able to contribute to the "research as pects of antisubmarine warfare." Johnson, who recently spoke to the scientific staff at the NATO center, said that the La Spezia laboratory was estab lished about two years ago to do research on naval problems which "could be pursued ap propriately by. a joint effort between nations." The particular areas of research pursued by the NATO center deal with problems in antisubmarine warfare in ocean areas which have not received adequate attention by Spezia Scientists Aid In Defense By PAT DYER News Editor thousand security forces were on duty in Paris alone. Ten million French workers ral lied to the support of President Charles de Gaulle with a one-hour solidarity strike that spread across the nation. • Jet fighters were alerted to shoot down any unauthorized planes appearing in French skies. Police raiders swept down on suspected right-wingers, and some French army officers were reported arrested in the round up. Border police at Strasbourg were said to have picked up two officers froM French forces in Germany who were trying to get to Algeria. Reports reaching Paris told of serious air force and naval op position to the junta. The air force said nine planes from Al geria flew in to join loyal units at an unnamed French air base. Five of the planes were jets. Junta paratroopers surrounded Algiers' ai,rport after navy and air force units demonstrated against the rebellious generals, said other reports reaching Paris. Refusal of the air force in Al geria to go •along with the up rising could be a serious blow to junta leader Gen. Maurice Challe, himself an air force of ficer. In a broadcast from Algiers, Challe declared "Civil war will never break out for the French army in France." He repeated his claim that forces loyal to the junta controlled all Algeria. Challe's junta seized power in a bloodless coup Saturday, de claring that Algeria must remain forever French. Challes long 'has foreevr French. Challe long has of self-determination for the North African territory. Information Minister Louis Ter renQire said loyal officers still controlled lai'ge segments in Al geria. He said radio communica tions were normal between Paris military headquarters and Tlem cen in western Algeria and De Gaulle's orders were being re layed to loyal units. The governments of Western Europe expressed support for De Gaulle's efforts to put down the uprising. any of the individual nations, Johnson said. The Ordnance Research Lab oratory also deals with naval re search, but concentrates on under water missies, Johnson explained. The relationship between the Ordnance Lab and the anti submarine warfare center has caused confusion both in the United States and in other coun- . tries since the University under took the management of the La. Spezia center, Johnson said. He said the only existing re lationship between the two is that the University administration' is responsible for the management of both laboratories. However, he said, "in practice the Ordnance Research Lab has the same relationship to the NATO center as do any of the other naval (Continued on page five)
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