9, f Weather Forecast: i . Sunny, Cool VOL. 62. No. 7 LA Committee on ROTC Sees Cause for Change In Compulsory Program A report which "shows cause for a change" in the com pulsory ROTC program has been received by R. Wallace Brewster, chairman of the Liberal Arts Planning Committee. It was submitted by the Liberal Arts Committee on ROTC and the Public Service, headed by Warren S. Smith. This report came as a result of a Liberal Arts faculty resolution passed on May 24, 'IMO, that the military program be made volun tary. The committee gives two major reasons for its recommendations. First, most of the arguments advanced by the Senate Com mittee on Educational Policy in favor of the present program are "in reality arguments sup porting the existence of an ROTC program, not necessarily of a compulsory ROTC pro gram," the report states. The arguments to which the re port refers show evidence that ROTC curriculums are being im proved and that there is a trend towards using college faculty in teaching the military courses. The second reason is the corn mittee's opinion that the Senate committee has not drawn its in formation from "a wide or un biased sampling, since advice ap pears to have been sought only from military personnel." These recommendations have not yet been discussed in detail by Brewster's committee, accord ing to information received by the Liberal Arts Faculty yester day. Brewster said last night that he received the report too late last spring (April 24) to put it on the agenda, and that it will be brought up at the next meet ing of his committee. The Planning Committee is an advisory group which is respon sible to Ben Euwema, dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Recom mendations it makes go directly to Euwema and subsequently to the Liberal Arts Faculty. When the Liberal Arts Faculty first passed its resolution on vol untary ROTC, Euwema submitted it to the University Senate (June 2, 1960). Previous to that resolution, the Senate Committee on Edu cational Policy had recommend ed to President Eric A. Walker in a letter which was not made public until Nov. 3, 1960, but which was dated Jan. 20 of that year, "that there be no change at this time in the Uni versity regulations pertaining to student participation in ROTC programs." At that same meeting the Sen ate Committee on Military In- struction reported, ". . . if the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts wishes to change ROTC from a compulsory to a voluntary basis It should show cause for the change." AWS Fixes Plan For Representation Women students will elect their representatives to the Association of Women Students on a fresh men and upperclass basis instead of by individual classes as they did last year, Ruth Rilling, AWS president, said last night. This will not change the num ber of representatives allotted to each living area, however. Fresh men will still have the same num ber of positions, and the number of upperclass positions will be combined; instead of a certain number for sophomores, juniors and seniors, Miss Rilling said. "We are trying to encourage all students to vote," she said. The new plan is expected to bring a' (Continued on page six) 4,,,....,,..,,, 4 0 t o Bati g : - ..:0x,q,;) -, (g a ti rg i ~ . /as, -, By ROCHELLE MICHAELS Bonfire Planned Tonight After Game A bonfire will ignite a victory rally on Wagner Field tonight if the Penn State football team beats the University of Miami. The game will be seen on closed circuit television in Recreation Hall and Schwab. • A victory parade will form in front of Recreation Hall imme diately after the end of the game. The Nittany Lion, Frothy, the cheerleaders and a Ying-Yang band will lead the parade down Curtin Road to the field behind East Halls. The rally is being sponsored by the men's and women's hat socie ties. Campus patrolmen will close Curtin Road to traffic so the parade can move to the bonfire area. —Collegian Photo by Spence Wel!borer BIKES AND MORE BIKES: Two freshmen, Joanne Carlberg, from Copiague, N.Y., and Sue Bit linger, from Hanover, discuss ways to get their bicycles out of the maze of them in East. Halls. The same problem is arising at all the living areas now that the campus is more spread out. Local Bike Business Booms Are you riding high above campus these days? If not, join the growing campus trend and buy a bicycle. Everyone is doing it. Downtown merchants are com paring the bicycle buying spree to the black, push-button umbrella rage of last fall. Bicycles and bicycle sports hay • become the order of the day. No, we don't have a central Pennsyl vania version of the 6-day bi cycle races, but we do have the equally exciting races between frosh and upperclassmen. Sopho- UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 29..1961 By DAVE RUNKEL FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Army Uprising BEIRUT, Lebanon M—Syrian army officers revolted yesterday and defied President Gamal Abdel Nasser's attempts from Cairo to stifle their uprising against his United Arab Republic. The rebellion began in the Syrian capital of Damascus ai University Will Correct Registration Certificates Students who entered the 'University with advance standing, those re-admitted after a break of residence or 'any student whose student number does not indicate his cor rect term standing may have his certificate of registration cor rected. These students may present their certificates of registration for correction from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. starting Monday and continuing through Oct. 13 excluding Satur day and Sunday in 4 Willard, Robert M. Koser, associate reg-, istrar said yesterday. The absence of class standing on the present matriculation cards became evident when transfer students tried to sit in their class (mores have found out that it is'poses. It seems that some stu virtually impossible to stop a' dents are pedaling out to the UM (fresh when he is clipping down( versity orchids at night and quiet the Little Mall at speeds approach-1y making-off with University ing 50 miles per hour. apples, pears, and peaches.. But then, they do not have to These students are in for a "button" while steering a bike surprise some night when they and carrying five books and a find the orchards encircled with ROTC uniform as one poor a barbed-wire fence to match 1 freshman was reported to have the one the East Germans are attempted yesterday. i building between East and West Another freshman, living in the' Berlin. ,bicycle-owned East Halls area,' The popularity of bicycles as a was reported to have nearly quit mode of transportation ha s school earlier in the week be-kmazed and delighted peddlers of cause he was the only guy on his peddling machines in downtown floor without a bike. (hardware and department stores. I University farm officials have; The man at one store said, be reported that some cyclists areltwcen customers, all of whom using their bikes for illegal pur-I (Continued on page twelve) •:':*ifficers Start in . Syri.- 1 ':: ~ sections at the football game Sat urday. Many had to sit in the fresh men section since their matricula tion cards did not identify them as upperclassmen. The fifth and sixth digits of a student's number are the year of his admission to the Univer sity, Koser explained. For most students these numbers will also indicate their present term standings, he added. Term classifications will be imprinted only on the certificates of students who are in the three categories, Koser said. These cases will be checked thoroughly to determine the student's correct. classification, he added. The possibility of using a per manent matriculation card and a" certificate of registration was (Continued on page three) ~~~~~,~; - Showing Cause -and Spunk I att i --See Page 4 ld was reported to have spread to the key northern city of Aleppo. Calling themselves the "higher Arab revolutionary command of the armed forces," the insurgents claimed in a Damascus broadcast that the northern Syrian armed forces including an armored div ision had joined the rebellion. Aleppo radio, loyal to Nasser during the day, suddenly switched and said a commando division and a military training center garrison had Seined the insurgents and seized control of Aleppo. Insurgent broadcasts made bit ter personal attacks on Nasser for his treatment of. Syria since it joined Egypt in 1958 to'form the U.A.R. The Syrian vice president of the U.A.R., Abdel Hamid Setraj, resigned this week in apparent disgust over his diminishing pow ers under Nasser. A rebel broadcast from Aleppo said Nasser • himself endangered U.A.R. national unity and added; "He aims to make blood flow and to pit brother against brother in the interest of his hated tyran ny,, Nasser vowed in Cairo he would make no compromise or bargains with the rebels in his determination to preserve the union of Egypt and Syria, which is less than four years old. In a series of emergency or ders Nasser fired six Syrian mili tary officers of the republic, including two major generals. En a gravely worded second nationwide broadcast of the day from Cairo, Nasser appealed to all officers and men of the U.A R. armed forces to do their duty. lie stopped short of issuing an out right order to loyal troops to start shooting. In an earlier broadcast he had ordered the mechanized, well equipped units of the Egyptian army in Syria, about 15,000 strong, to crush the rebellion, which he called more serious than the Israeli and British- French invasions of Sinai and ear P' k. (Continued on page two) Report Status May Be Known Wilmer E. Kenworthy, special assistant to the president, yester day promised The Daily Collegian that he will try to secure a state ment from President Eric A. Walker on the student bookstore report. Kenworthy said he will speak to the president Monday when he returns to his office. Walker attended a board meet ing at the University-operated re search center in La Spezia Italy last week and was slated to - re turn to the United States yester day. "I will ask the president to tell you (The Daily Collegian) about the report and what he intends to do with it," Kenworthy promised. The report is a study by Albert E. Diem, vice president for busi ness administration, on the feasi bility of establishing a student run bookstore. Walker designated Diem to make the study last June after the Board of Trustees de cided an SGA report on the need for a bookstore "did not specify what things the committee felt should be sold." When contacted by the Col legian Monday, Diem would make no comment on the contents of the report, his method for secur ing the information contained in it or whether it had reached the presidn•st'- office. He merely (Continued on page six) • FIVE CENTS
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