i Weather Forecast: Cool VOL. 62. No. 10 SGA Fate Rests With Committee By SANDY YAGGI The revised SGA Constitu tion will be 'presented to the Senate Committee for Student Affairs at its meeting tomor row, Dennis Foianini,' SGA president, said last night: Members of the committee will receive copies of the rough draft of the constitution today, Foianini said. The constitution was com pleted at the Sept. 27 meeting of the SGA Assembly and is now in the hands of Robert E. Dunham, who is putting it into legal terminology. "We are not going to wait for Dr. Dunham to finish his work on the wording before we present the constitution to the commit tee," Foianini said. Foianini said that he hopes the, committee will realize the urgen-I cy of the situation and discuss the i constitution as soon as possible. At the meeting Thursday, Foianini said that he also plansll to ask the committee to allow three political parties to prepare for the fall elections. "I realize," Foianini said, "That the elections cannot be held until the constitution is approved by, the committee, but there is a considerable amount of prelim- 1 !nary work that must be done, before the elections." The SGA Assembly began last spring to write a new Con stitution for the organization. One of the major changes written into the new document is the manner in which repre sentatives are elected. Under the old SGA Constitu tion, representatives for assembly were elected by classes. In the proposed Constitution the rep resentatives for the assembly are apportioned according to the population in the living areas. For this reason the SGA elec tions cannot be held under this system until the constitution is approved by the Senate commit tee. MI Council Elections All freshmen who wish to run for the Mineral Industries Council may obtain self-nomi naiing blanks at the HUB desk and in the rotunda of the Min eral Industries Bußding. Elec tions will be held Oct. 19-20. Pep Rally May End Customs for Frosh A unique contest between freshmen and upperclassmen is slated for the pep rally in The customs board has a quired to attend the rally ton cards, and should be prepared Customs will be terminated ac cording to the success of this "battle," the board said. If the freshmen can show more spirit by attending in larger numbers and cheering louder than the upperclassmen, it will be ."good bye forever" to dinks and name cards, the board added. However, if the upperclass men are able to "beat" the frosh in cheering and attendance, then customs will continue, Su san Starbird, co-chairman of the customs board, said. A motorcade prior to the rally will start at 6:30 p.m. in front of Pollock A parking lot. The pep rally will be held at 6:45 p.m. in front of Old Main. Members of Cwens, sophomore ..1__,..., Da/1 g i.", : ‘,., : : : ,,,,. 4 _,,,i ; Tourgi 4 ~ UNIVERSITY PARK, PA,. WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 4. 1961 U.N. Wanted in Berlin THESE BLANK SPACES in the exterior wall of Pollock 5 are not for ventilation, but were removed when the limestone facing began to crack, thus creating a danger to passersby. The facing cracked because of an error by the contractor in which excessive weights were being supported. The hall will be repaired when new limestone is available. 3 Extra Days included in Fall Term Calendar The term system, originally arranged to have three 10-week, 60-day terms instead of two 16-week semesters has had several extra days added to each term this year. The fall term is scheduled for 10 weeks and three days, the winter term has 10 weeks and I. l h days and the spring Harold J. Read, chairma TIM Applications Available at HUB Applications for positions on the Town Independent Men's Council are available now at the Hetzel Union desk, Robert Fry, TIM president, announced. He said that any male student with at least a 2.00 All-University aver age who is not a fraternity mem ber or living in a University operated dormitory is eligible to apply. Fry said that TIM elections would be held Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 10 and 11. Applications are to be turned in at the Hetzel Union desk no later than 3 p.m. Friday, Fry said. ront of Old Main tonight. flounced that all frosh are re 'gilt, wearing dinks and name to outcheer the upperclassmen. women's hat society, and Skull and Bones, senior men's hat so ciety, will give a satirical skit about football. The starting line up of the football team and some of the coaches will be presented at the rally. In the early history of the University. freshman customs were observed until the first of May. Whenever the Nittany Lions scored an athletic victory, frosh were required to haul fuel for a bonfire celebration. Such fuel was usually obtained from the boardwalks in front of the faculty members' houses. This' activity will not be required at I tonight's pep rally. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE By DAVE RUNKEL erm has 10 weeks and two days. of the Senate Committee on Class Calendar, said last week that he has been trying to find out the reason or purpose, for the extra days, but never has gotten a satisfactory answer from anyone. "Absolutely no plans have been made for the use of these days, to my knowledge," Read said. But it has been decided that faculty members can do what they want with them. Rooms will be assigned as dur ing the regular term, he added, so it will not be possible for a pro fessor to just uproot his class and move it wherever he pleases. John E. Miller, chief scheduling officer, concurred with Read on this point. Miller, who prepared the calendar for next year, 1962- 63, said that professors can call off classefi on these days or on any other day during the term. Or, he said, they could hold finals early or do whatever they want with the extra days. There was no particular rea son, Miller said, for the addi tional days. When the calendar was moved up one week because of the football game with Navy, the scheduling officer said, the days were just left in the calen dar. "This is a unique calendar, and under the present policy set down by the Senate it will not occur again," Read said. In action taken at last June's Senate meeting, aft er the calendar rot' the present year was released, the Senate adopted a provision which sets up exactly 60-day terms, he said. "When planning the tran sition from the semester system to the term plan, it was felt there would be a need for some time for adjustment," Robert G. Bernreuter, special assistant to" the president for student affairs, said yesterday in explaining the purpose of the additional days. It was thought, he said, that both students and professors would need a few days each term this year to adjust to the new sys tem. There was a need for the extra days this summer when none were scheduled, Bernreuter said. Professors tended to underwork students at the beginning of the term and then, consequently, over work them toward the end of the term, he said. Gradual Clearing Due Late Today The last in a series of storm 'systems to affect the local weath er should pass off the New Jersey coast today, allowing a clearing 'trend to begin this afternoon. Temperatures should remain cool, although afternoon readings will be a few degrees warmer than yesterday. A high of 56 de grees is expected. Tonight should be partly cloudy and chilly with a low of 38. Sunny and warmer weather is indicated for tomorrow. SGA To Consider Setting Ethics Code An "SGA Code of -Ethics," covering student conduct in all phases of University life will face the new SGA Assembly when it convenes later this fall. • Establishment of this code SGA Evaluation Workshop at the' recent Student Encampment. The code would not be legisla-! five but "would rest on moraL suasion and public opinion," the! recommendation states. Further, "Its subject matter would include moral values, pub lic displays of affection and other 'personal relationships manifested in dating, cheating, sportsman ship, etc." The workshop members noted that there was no uniform code of ethics for the student body and that SGA might serve both the students and the University as a whole by establishing one. They noted that visitors to the University might gain a "wrong" impression of the student body from the actions of a few stu dents. The committee realized, how ever, that it could not legislate a moral code or prosecute violators of a code. Its success would rest tt An Unfair Regulation --See Page 4 UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (in—Canada added its voice yesterday to -mounting de mands that the United Nations be given a role in resolving the Berlin crisis. Canadian Foreign Secretary Howard Green told the - 100-nation denei al Assembly that while pri mary responsibility for a Berlin 'settlement rests with the Big Four, "the United Nations cannot abdicate its responsibility in re-• Ilation to any problem which iraises acutely the fundamental is sue of peace or war." In the continuing policy debate Green took a line similar to oth er speakers who have voiced con cern over Berlin, and who have I suggested a U.N. role in any set tlement. The issue is not on the formal assembly agenda, but has 'been mentioned by virtually all deleptes in debate. ' Huddles continued in the corridors on how to resolve the deadlock over the naming of an interim secretary-general. Some leftist-leaning Asian dele gates expressed belief the United States acted too hastily Monday in rejecting the latest Soviet for mula—the naming of a temporary head who would be directed to work in close consultation with three deputies now in the secre tarial. U.S. sources called such criti cism unjustified, saying the Unit ed States regarded it necessary to insist that there be no accept ance of the Soviet troika princi ple, even in naming a stop-gap successor to Dag Hammarskjold. Green suggested three specific wayS in which the United Na tions might be of aid in the Berlin situation: •Focus world attention on Ber lin and leave the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union in no doubt that they have an obligation to reach a negotiat ed settlement. eWith Big Four agreement, the United Nations could serve in an observer capacity for all of Ber lin, and On access routes to the city surrounded by Communist East Germany. • •The four powers might ask the United Nations to assume some responsibility for operating an international regime for, the whole city of Berlin. By MEG TEICHHOLTZ was a recommendation by the on a mature acceptance of ethical values, the committee members said. In an additional recommenda tion, the workshop asked that SGA establish a "non-partisan" student government training program. This would prepare those seek ing student government positions in the fields of parlimentary pro cedure, SGA constitution and background and research sources and methods. The workshop ex pressed the hope that such a program will induce greater ef ficiency in the•SGA 'procedure. Another of the recommenda tions concerns the representative system and has been officially in corporated into the SGA consti tution. It asks that SGA have "decen tralized, geographical representa tion according to the four main (Continued on page three) FIVE CENTS
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