Weather Forecast: , Sunny, Warm VOL. 62. No. 21 SenateCommitteeVetoes Proposal for Extension f Thanksgiving Recess The Senate Committee on Calendar and Class Schedule turned down a proposal yesterday to extend the present one day Thanksgiving recess. Harvey Klein, along with Marjorie Ganter, presented the formal written proposal to the committee. Klein said the Committees To Consider Constitution The University Senate Com mittee on Student Affairs will meet jointly with the Senate Committee on Organizational Control this afternoon to begin review of the proposed SGA Con stitution. This special meeting of the two committees was called by Laur ence H. Lattman, chairman of the student affairs committee, Friday when he received word that the final draft of the constitution was ready for committee consideration. Copies of SGA's final draft of the constitution with legal revis ions by Robert E. Dunham, in structor in parliamentary law, have been delivered to most of the committee members, Dennis Foianini, SGA president, said Tuesday night. At the student affairs com mittee meeting two weeks ago, SGA was authorized to call for and direct preliminary proceed ings for fall Assembly elections as stipulated in the proposed constitution. It was stressed, however, that this authorization did not, in any way, commit committee members to accept any part of the consti tution when it is reviewed. Some discussion did develop questioning the value of the poli tical party system at the Univer sity, Lattman said after the meet ing two weeks ago. "Whether parties will be ap proved or not in the final review of the constitution, I cannot say at this time," he said. Until an SGA structure is at tained which is acceptable to both the student affairs committee and the student government, SGA will remain a defunct body, lacking a charter under which to operate. The actual writing of the con stitution was done under a tempo rary charter granted to SGA last spring in order for it to revise its procedure and structure. With the completion of SGA's work on the constitution on Sept. 27, this temporary charter became ineffective and will remain so un til another charter is granted to the organization by the student affairs committee. Sunny, Warm Weather Due to Continue Today A high pressure area centered well off the mid-Atlantic coast should continue to provide sunny, warm weather in this area today. A mass of slightly cooler air Is expected to overspread the com monwealth late tonight and to morrow, causing a return of more seasonable temperatures. Today should be sunny and warm with a, high temperature of 75 degrees. Partly cloudy and cool weather is expected tonight. The low will be near 42 degrees. Tomorrow should be partly cloudy and somewhat cooler. gi u tit i g Tvitt By CAROL KUNKLEMAN committee turned down the pro posal "utterly, flatly, completely and unanimously." Klein and Miss Ganter are stu dent members of the committee. The committee met at 11 a.m. yesterday morning, and devoted most of the one-hour meeting to the proposal, Klein said. After the committee had heard the pro posal and discussed it, an indi vidual vote was taken, he said. "The committee members seemed to think that by sug gesting we take three days off the fall term, we were just trying to get out of classes," Klein said. Klein and Miss Ganter original ly proposed that classes scheduled for Nov. 23 be held Dec. 5; classes on Nov. 24 be held Dec. 6; and classes Nov. 25 to be held Dec. 7. According to Miss Ganter, the two students later met with Dr. Harold J. Read, committee chair man, who 'informed them that they would have to propose a basic policy change in scheduling. This meant that the students when they met with the commit tee yesterday would have had to propose an amendment to the calendar schedule. If the commit tee passed the amendment it would have reached the 'Univer sity Senate for a vote. "One member said he saw merits in the sentimental value of a Thanksgiving vacation," Klein reported, "but he felt the disadvantages caused by re scheduling outweighed this value." The only other way that the issue can reach the Senate floor is by the two students going be fore the body and requesting dis cussion on the matter. A Senate member could then call for a vote. "Miss Ganter and I still plan to take the issue to the Senate at its Nov. 7 meeting," Klein said, "but the committee members indicated that there is little chance the Sen ate will pass the proposal." In discussing the committee's de (Continued on page five) —Collegian Photo by Spence Wellhofer REWARD OUT FOR SYRACUSE STAR: A $l,OOO reward has been offered for the capture, dead or alive. of Syracuse football star Ernie Davis. The sign that was posted on the obelisk is part of the student spirit which is growing for the annual football rivalry Saturday at Beaver Stadium. UNIVERSITY PARK, PA,. THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 19. 1961 'K' Plans Soviet Weapon Stockpile MOSCOW (IP) Premier Khrushchev declared yesterday the Soviet Union means to have all the necessary nuclear and missile weapons of every range to crush anyone "chal lenging us to war." But he said his "main challenge"to the capitalist wor laid before the applauding 22nd Soviet party congress and ' Basis for TIM Recess Plan Misunderstood, Walker Says Replacing part of the three "extra" days at the end of the fall term with an extended Thanksgiving vacation Is based on a "misunderstanding" in that the days are not extra, Presi dent Eric A. Walker told Gomer Williams in a letter yester day. dent welfare committee, had written Walker about the TIM Council's suggestion that 1 1 / 2 of the 3 days over the 10-week term be used as an extension of the Thanksgiving vacation. Walker replied that the idea of "three extra days is a misunder standing," Williams said. Thus, Williams said, President Walker feels that TIM Council's proposal would not work during the extra days because he says the days are not really extra. Walker also wrote that there would not be significant savings, Williams said, because the Uni versity could not shut off the heat or lay off food and housing workers for such a short period. Walker told Williams that any change in the vacation schedule would have to be made by the University Senate as a switch in policy. The Senate Committee on calendar and class schedule met yesterday morning and decided not to extend the present Thanks giving Holiday. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Williams, chairman of the Town Independent Men's stu- The letter continued, "The faculty has planned for presen tation of courses over the period provided. To cut out days now would reduce the term and make it necessary to pile up work near the end," Williams added. Williams said he also saw Walker this afternoon about the extension of Thanksgiving re cess. SGA Commission Will Inspect Polls On Election Days The SGA Elections Commission will not have a representative at each polling place during the col lege councils elections today and tomorrow, Nancy Williams, chair man said. She added, however, that rep resentatives of the elections com mission will travel from poll to poll from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on both days. Engineering, Liberal Arts, Di vision of Counseling, Chemistry and Physics and Education Coun cils will have a polling place near the Hetzel Union card room. The Engineering Student Coun cil will also have a polling place on the first floor of Sackett. The Business Administration Council will have a booth in Boucke and the Home Economics college will vote in Home Economics. The Chemistry and Physics Council will have polling places in Osmond and Whitmore in ad dition to the Hetzcl Union. The College of Physical Edu cation and Athletics will hold elections during classes. Local Rehabilitation Office Established The first full-time University office of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation was established here recently in 425 McAllister. "Since there are over 100 students on campus under the B.V.R. program there was a definite need for a full-time office," William J. Arnold, reha bilitation counselor, said yester day. In a college community the primary concern of the B.V.R. are to see that students are ac quainted with the proper tech niques in applying for jobs and to intercede when more scverly handicapped persons run into em ployer resistance because of their ,handicaps, Arnold added. At most universities there are only about a "dozen or so" stu dents under this program, Ar nold added. Previously students at the University were able to see their B.V.R. counselor only one afternoon a week when the counselor would visit the cam pus. "Anyone with a disability that handicaps him for vocational pur poses is eligible for B.V.R. inclu sion. Many people on campus are eligible, but are unaware of this program," he said. After the disabled person ap plies to the rehabilitation office, he undergoes a medical and voca- 1 University's an Status I--See Page 4 Id is the 20-year prograin he it can be fulfilled successfully only in the conditions of peace." Khrushchev, who Tuesday spoke of exploding a 50-megaton bomb, 2,500 times the size of the first atom bomb at Hiroshima, pro- mised as he has before to "dis band our army and sink our atomic bombs and missiles in the ocean." But this promise was on the condition there h an agreement on general and complete dis armament under strict - interna tional control. Western disarma ment negotiators never have been able to get a satisfactory agreement on controls with the Khrushchev, in a . six-hour speech—his second such in two days—outlined a 20-year program which he said would give the So viet people the highest production and living standards on earth. He described it as a blueprint for the inevitable "downfall of imperialism and the triumph of socialism on a world scale" which already has administered a big defeat for aggressive forces "who idolize the hydrogen bomb." Fourty million card-carrying Communists in 87 nations all over the world, he said, have made • communism "the most powerful force of our time." - This force, he added, is work ing in "an epoch of revolutions, !social revolutions, anti-imperialist national liberation revolutions, .people's democratic revolutions, broad peasants movements" and all are merging in a capitalist undermining process. Tass, the official Soviet news agency, in commenting on the re action said delegates leaving the Kremlin felt as if they had made a "thrilling trip to the orbit of communism" that would be real ized in the near future. By JOAN MEHAN tional diagnosis to determine the extent of his disability. The B.V.R. provides the individual's medical examination and his medical and vocational diagnosis free of charge, he explained. The medical examination is given by a physi cian of the person's own choice, 'Arnold added. After the kind of job the cant can do best is established the B.V.R. offers him guidance and counseling to help the disabled person to understand his assets and liabilities and the steps neces sary to correct any personal diffi culties, If physical restoration is pos sible. other services including medical, surgical and psychi atric care, hospitalization and nursing are provided on the basis of need, he said. Rehabilitation counselors try to make the disabled person realize that he has equal standing to nor mal persons on the labor market and to get him to compete for employment for which he is quali fied, Arnold added. FIVE CENTS
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