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VOL. 62, No. 9
Prexy to Make Statement
In Relation to ookstore
'Sometime This Week'
President Eric A. Walker will make a statement "some
time this week" on the student bookstore report, Wilmer E.
Kenworthy, executive assistant to the president, announced
yesterday.
Kenworthy issued a statement saying the president is
iSA Will Sponsor
Series of Events
For In& Week
A lecture by Dr. Mary L.
Willard, professor of chemis
try, at 7 p.m. Thursday in Pol
lock 1 lounge will be the first
of a series of activities of the
1961 Indic , Week sponsored by
the Independent Students Associ
ation. Dr. Willard will speak on
criminology.
Final plans for Indie Week were
discUssed last night at ISA's first
meeting of the fall term.
Nancy Hughes, chairman of
Indie Week, said that the other
activities scheduled were a hay
ride Friday, a picnic sponsored by
the Town Independent Me n
Saturday and the annual Autumn
Ball from 9 to 12 p.m. Saturday
in the Hetzel Union Ballroom.
Indie Week will be climaxed
by a Mt. Nittany Climb Sunday
afternoon. Miss Hughes said
that tickets for the hayride,
nic and climb are available at
the Hetzel Union desk.
In other business, Barry Rein,
chairman of ISA, announced that
the organization's constitution
would go before the University
Senate Committee on Student Af
fairs Thursday for final approval,
The organization has been operat
ing without a constitution since
its formation last spring.
.
Last night's meeting was held
. primarily to acquaint interested
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Customs Give
Frosh Chance
For Revenge
Revenge, sweet revenge . . .
reverse customs have been de
clared for today!
This is what has made customs
almost bearable. . . frosh finally
have the opportunity to turn the
tables on the upperclassmen and
bombard them with questions.
and requests.
A warning however only
freshmen wearing their dinks and
name cards are eligible to par
ticipate in reverse customs. This
will serve as the usual means of
identification. Upperclassmen are
cautioned by the Customs Board
against dusting off their old dinks
and name cards and masquerad
ing as frosh.
There are several freshmen
ready, willing and able to coach
upperclassmen in the cheers as
well as the finer points in choral
arrangements for mixed groups.
Upperclassmen are warned by
the Customs Board not to evade
freshmen by sprinting to class,
sneaking down the back steps of
buildings, leaving classes via
windows or contracting a case of
8 to 5 laryngitis.
Transfer students who have not
been required to participate in,
regular customs may benefit.
from a refresher course in "Hand
book 100."
Due warning has been given,
upperclassmen. Be prepared!
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"studying the report and has not
decided what the next step will
be."
Kenworthy did not say when
Walker had received the report.
Walker returned to his office
Monday after visiting the Uni
versity-run research center in
La Spezia, Italy and then at
tended the Penn State-Miami
football game Saturday in Flori
da. "This is the first chance he
has had to look at it," Ken
worthy said.
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 appointed Diem to make
the study last June after the Board
of Trustees received an SGA re
port on the need for a bookstore.
Kenworthy would not comment
on the contents of the report or if
Walker will make them public.
"You will have to wait for his
statement," he said.
Neither would he say if Walk
er will present Diem's report to
the Board of Trustees at its
meeting on Oct. 13.
Diem also refused to comment
on the report's contents, adding
only that "you will have to wait
for the president's decision."
Phillip Steinhauer, for mer
chairman of the SGA Bookstore,
Committee, said yesterday that he
has not been told the contents of '
the report.
"The job is finished,". he said.
"I am sure it is all-inclusive and
will solve the bookstore issue'
once and for all."
Speculating on the question
of whether Walker will present
the report to the trustees, Stein
hauer recalled that Walker said
he would take this action, but
added that he "didn't know
Walker's intentions."
Dennis Foianini, SGA president,
supported Steinhauer's statement,
saying that "Since President
Walker requested Mr. Diem to
make the report, it would be logi
cal to assume that he will go to
the board, whether or not the
report is favorable."
Seven Recommendations Made
By SGA Evaluation Workshop
By MEG TEICHHOLTZ
Editorial Editor
(This is the third of a series
of articles concerning the recent
student encampment. It deals
with the workshop which end
' uated student government.)
The "Evaluation of SGA"
workshop, which spent much
of its discussion on the philoso
phy of student government
made seven recommendations
pertinent to SGA's functioning.
All of these recommendations
will be appended to the revised
SGA constitution when it is sub
mitted to the Senate Committee
on Student Affairs for approval,
Dennis Foianini, SGA president
and chairman of the workshop
said last night.
The first recommendation asks
SGA to determine limited areas
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3. 1961
Syria
Mass
Steinhauer
Heads New
Hot Council
The Hat Society Council, a
body composed of representa
tives from each of the hat so
cieties on campus, was re
organized Sunday night. Phil-
Hip Steinhauer, president of
Skull and Bones, was elected
[ president of the council.
The Hat Society Council was
dissolved last year and replaced
by a Hat Society Coordinator, a
single person who organized the
activities sponsored by the various
hat societies.
The new body grew out of an
idea introduced at a meeting of
Skull and Bones, senior men's
hat society, to reorganize the
council in order to prevent du
plication of activities and to
provide new services, Stein
hauer said.
The purpose of the new council
is to organize the hat societies for
the betterment of the University
and to act as a liason between the
administration and hat societies,
he said.
Steinhauer said that the first
meeting of presidents and secre
taries from each of the hat socie
ties was held shortly after Stu
dent Encampment and that the
official decision to reorganize the
council was made Sunday night.
One of the proposed activities
of the hat societies under the
council will be lo replace the
motorcades and mass gather
ings after victorious away foot
ball games with planned activi
ties like bonfires and walk
cedes, Steinhauer said.
"There must be a less destruc
tive way to celebrate than to pile
30 kids on top of a convertible,"
he said.
Steinhauer said that one of the
main purposes of the council will
be to promote school spirit at
sporting events in the winter a:;
well as at football games and pep
rallies. The hat society skits at
the pep rallies have been or
ganized by the council, he said.
Another aim of the council is
to bring a warmer, friendlier at
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in which it would have final gov
ernmental jurisdiction. The con
census at the workshop favored'
seeking this jurisdiction in the
judicial power of discipline. This
will be the specific request made
to the senate committee, chaired
by Dr. Laurence Lattman.
This recommendation grew
from two sources. First the stu
dents on the committee felt that
SGA should seek some definite
and irrevocable jurisdiction over
some part of student affairs.
Secondly, Dr. Robert Bern
reuter.
special assistant to the
president for Student Affairs.
said at the formal convocation
that eventually students should
have complete authority over
their government affairs.
He was later questioned by the
students in the group as to just
how much power the administra
tion would permit students to
gain over their own affairs.
Launches
De • ortation
BEIRUT, Lebanon QP)—Syria's new government launched
a mass deportation of Egyptians yesterday and announced
the arrest of a Syrian strongman who until recently was vice
president in the United Arab Republic.
The jailed strongman is Col. Abdul Harnid Serraj. He quit
his Cairo job for some unan
nounced reason. He returned to i 4
Damascus only 48 hours before the
outbreak Thursday of the army; Volunteers
revolt that broke the Syrian-
Egyptian union of 1958 that he
had helped to promote.
A broadcast communique said
Serraj was arrested at a Da
mascus hideout Sunday night.
He was accused of carrying out
subversion against Premier Ma
moun Kusbari's revolutionary
government.
From Egypt came bitter attacks,
against Kuzbaas conservative: psychologicalexamina tio n s
regime as a reactionary adminis-1 , i ,
tration of exploiters and capital-: aulc 1 " the trainin g Pm
ists. There was a veiled charge in,gram for 64 Peace Corps vol.
the government - owned Cairo ~,,t „ ,,, 1,,,,, yesterday morning.
press that the - United States was '-' --s- —.-
somehow behind the uprising. ' Dr. Joseph Zasloff, consultant'
Cairo broadcasts urged the and part time staff member to
Syrians to rise against the rev. ,the training division of the Peace
olutionary movement. Corps, told the volunteers at
"But we might be able to turn their first orientation talk that
it into a forward driving force to service in the Peace Corps "is not
destroy reaction in all the Arab so much a sacrifice as an (T
-"
mation sphere," he said. "I must portunity.
'tell you that Arab nationalism has He described them as "chip
suffered a setback, a stab, a shock pers at the wall" of misunder
and treason." , standing. He said they are not
Bitter, too, were hundreds of standingto the side of world
Egyptians bundled out of Syria problems but are "reaching• out
to take ship at Beirut for home.' and doing something,"
The first of several-thousand _ "The challenge of adapting
Egyptians, military and civilian, yourself in another country will
to be deported, they reached the,be greater culturally than physi-
Lebanese border town of Masna . cally," Zasloff said„ .
aboard taxis and buses with bag.-! He told the volunteers that
gage piled high on the roofs. (their success in teaching assign
" Go d! bless Nasser," they shout-ments in the Philippines depends
ed, some with an eye on camera-lon their preparation in the train
men gathered there to photographing program "even though you'll
,the exodus. "Long live the United feel the itch to get out on the job
Arab Republic." halfway through your training."
Damascus newspapers said the The psychological testing the
Egyptian population to be evacu-'volunteers will undergo began
ated includes 700 school teachers,iyesterday following their orienta
-56 physicians and Health Ministry'ition talk. Included in this part
employes and 50 employes of theof the program are written ex-
Rural Affairs Ministry. laminations, interviews and oval
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Cloudy, Dismal Weather
Will Continue Today
Cloudy, dismal weather will,
,continue in this area for at least
two more days as a series of weak
storm systems move toward Penn
sylvania.
.
Today and tomorrow should be
cloudy acid cool with occasional,
rain or drizzle. A high of 56 is ;
expected today and a high of 58,
is likely tomorrow. ' f
Bernreuter then replied that
"this varied from year to year, de
pending on the administration's
evaluation of the responsibility of
the student leader,"
Later the same day Dr. Mon
roe Newman, past chairman of
the Senate Committee on Stu
dent Affairs said "SGA would
be foolish to accept Dr. Bern
reufer's statement that power
varies with the responsibility of
the leader. It is a direct contra
diction to his statement at the
convocation."
Elliot Newman, past SGA As
semblyman, added that this phil
osophy of varying power "makes
a mockery of student government"'
and it was in reaction to it that
the group recommended establish
ing defined governmental areas.
Other recommendations and
their background will be dis-,
cussed in the next article of this
series.
an Early Fee
Payments
For Peace Corps
Begin Training
An orientation talk and the
first of a series of liv e
"REPAIRED BY THE CLASS
of '62, '63 and '64" is the sequel
sign to the "Out of Ordei" no
tice that went up Sunday One
professor was heard to say as he
passed by, "It can't be—the
stones are NEVER out of or
der!"
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