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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'
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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 '::
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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
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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.
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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
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