TUESDAY. OCTOBER 31. 1961 FCC Decision Protested The Joint Council on Educa tional Broadcasting along with the University filed a petition., against a 'recent Federal Communications Commission ruling, Ray Wilkinson Jr., Univer sity attorney, said yesterday. The council represents virtually the entire educational community, Wilkinson said. Its petition, along with the . University's, was filed in August in the U.S. Court of Ap peals in the District of Columbia. The ruling which was protested by the JCEB, a national council of eight educational organizations, involves the future expansion of educational television in the very high frequency bands (VHF chan nels 2-13). The FCC turned down requests, for reserved noncommercial edu-1 cational channels submitted on; behalf of the Rochester, N.Y. Area Educational Television Associad tion and this University. The Ro-; chester group also filed a petition; against the decision, Wilkinsoni said. At the same time, he said, the FCC proposed three commercial VHF channels for the Rochester and Johnstown areas. The FCC action, for the most Senate Turkey The four term system can be blamed for many things— longer classes and longer assignments—but it is not entirely responsible for a shorter Thanksgiving vacation. There were ideas about eliminating the students' trek home for turkey as early as the 1960 spring semester. In May 1960, a proposal appeared before the University Senate to eliminate the Thanks giving recess in order to avoid an irregularity in class scheduling. At this time, the University was operating on a 15-week se mester plan, and the .2 1 / 2 -day Thanksgiving vacation made it impossible for some classes to meet the required number of times, Benjamin A. Whisler, then chairman of the Senate Commit-' tee on Calendar and Class Sched ule, said yesterday. The possibility of eliminating Thanksgiving vacation was ap proved by the Senate in a straw vote the month before, Whisler said, but was voted down at the , May meeting. Several senators opposed the' proposal because they felt stu dents would cut Friday and Satur day classes if they were allowed, only one day for Thanksgiving. No alternative plan was adoptd and the 1960 fall semester includ-j ed a Thanksgiving vacation with no provisions for classes which, did not meet the required nutn her of times. "Thanksgiving vacation has always been a nuisance calen dar-wise," Whisler said. He ex plained that for a time, while there was a Thanksgiving va cation, the Monday after the fifteenth week became a Thurs day, the Tuesday a Friday and Wednesday a Saturday in order to have all classes meet an equal number of times. This system was confusing to both students and faculty and eventually was eliminated, Whis ler said. The program in its place included regular Monday, Tues- Hearing Set-- (Continued from vage one) of oxygen in the water. Because of these fish kills the Sanitary Water Board ordered the University to improve its sewage plant so that less nitrogen and phosphorous nutrients would be discharged into the stream. It is these nutrients which fer tilize the aquatic plant life which use up the oxygen. The University made minor changes in the treatment plant early in 1959. Later that year the water board said that these chan ges did not halt the pollution. After 2 1 / 2 years of studies and conferences between the Univer sity, the water board and the fish commission, last September the board issued the order which the University is appealing. part, affects "major markets" which already have two com mercial network VHF television services," Wilkinson said. The council believes that such com munities should have the bene fit of more diversified program ming services than commercial stations are able to provide, he said. "The FCC's rulings favor com mercial interests at the expense of non-commercial educational tele vision," he said. In line with this policy, the FCC has recently proposed that an ad ditional commercial VHF channel be assigned to eight cities by re ducing the usual required mini mum separation between stations, Wilkinson said. "However, the FCC has also in dicated that no VHF assignments at short mileage separations are contemplated for education," he added. The ruling presently stipu lates that stations must be sepa rated by a distance of 170 miles. In protesting the FCC decision, the University is asking that an exception to this ruling be made, Wilkison said, since the nearest station is 158 miles away. "The JCEB maintains that the Tried Killing Trek in '6O By SARALEE ORTON day and Wednesday morning classes after the 15 weeks. The former plan is similar to the one which Harvey Klein and Marjorie Ganter, student mem bers of the calendar committee ! proposed two weeks ago. The proposal which they pre sented to the calendar committee did not contain any changes for specific dates, but was a general! amendment to provide for a long er Thanksgiving vacation this year and in the future. The committee voted not to recommend this plan to the Sen ate at the November meeting. Soph from York Fined For Breaking, Entering Douglas W. Hollinger, sopho more in the Division of Counsel ing from York, was arrested Sat urday night aftdr having broken into the office of Dr. Harriet Harry, 319 S. Pugh St. Hollinger was found hiding in the office by Dr. Harry, who contacted the police. Justice of the Peace Guy G. Mills imposed a fine of $61.50 and ordered Hollinger to make restitution for the damages, which were esti mated at $39.95. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA FCC has not only dealt a serious blow to the development of edu cational television, but, by its ac tions, has also ignored the clear implications of its own recent hearings in New York City," Wil kinson said. These hearings revealed that the scope and quality of commer cial network offerings are inade quate, he said, and since impor tant public and national issues are raised, the JCEB has asked the federal courts to look at the entire situation. The University is indirectly a member of the JCEB, according , to Leslie P. Greenhill, associate director of academic research and services. The University belongs to the American Coun cil on Education, one of the constituent members, he said. The seven other members of the JCEB are the American Associa tion of Land-Grant Colleges and State Universities; the American Association of School Administra tors; the Council of Chief State School Officers; the National As sociation of Educational Broad casters; the National Education Association of the United States; the National Educational Televi sion and Radio Center; and the State Universities Association. Pumpkin Contest The Pollock AWS community council will sponsor a "Carve a Pumpkin" contest today, Barbara Feit, persident of the council an nounced. The contest is open to all worn en living in the Pollock area and the carved pumpkin may be enter ed by an individual or by a group. The entrees are to be taken to the Pollock Dining Hall between 4 and 5 p.m. today. Judging will be at 6:30. Prizes will be awarded. Miss Feit explained that candles may be used inside the pumpkins, but that they may not be lit until they have been submitted. The judges will be the com munity co-ordinators from the Nit nany area and Pollock A. CREDIT STAFF MEETING Wednesday, November 1 New Members 6:45 Old Members 7:00 131 Sackett Pigossi, Henning, Fry Urge New SGA Election Method Three students proposed revis ions in •the SGA Constitution to the University Senate Committee on Student Affairs last night. Their proposal stated that nomi nations as well as elections for positions on SGA assembly be conducted within the groups to be represented, Richard Pigossi,l president of the Inter-Fraternity ! Council said. Pigossi, George Henning, presi dent of the Men's Residence Council, and Robert Fry, presi dent of Town Independent Men, went before the committee. Pigossi said they were acting as interested students, not as representatives of their organi zations. In citing part of their proposal, Pigossi said, women should be nominated and elected only by the If destiny doesn't worry you, then you won't mind being reminded that those fun-loving alumni who you entertained over the weekend will some day he you. A friend of ours doing some last minute research for his doctorate in psychology needs your help in attempting to prove a pet theory of his. Namely that personality can be predicted (to no small degree) by an individual's oral reaction to candy, such as life savers. He asked if we would encourage students to drop us a postcard indicating- their method of dissolving life savers. You need not include your name on the card. Our friend promised he will make an attempt to reply to each card that does bear a name and address. Cards need only be addressed to our studio. Perhaps some of you who witnessed the Ballet this past Sun clay evening may be interested in knowing that the par-. ticularly difficult selection, "Combat", was performed by an artist in his forties. John Kriza has been performing foF more than 20 years. Miss Serrano who co-starred is in her thirties. Quite a feat! One of the more difficult endeavors is trying to select one ,girl out of the dozens we photograph each-week to head our column. Each year, one girl chosen from those whose name or photograph appears in this column has been sent to Puerto Rico, Bermuda of Fort Lauderdale for the Easter Week vaca tion. (A change of plans may be necessary at this time be cause of shorter vacations.) Occasional long distant calls from mothers cajoling us to consider their daughter as a candidate and other indirect pressures haven't as yet influenced our decision. We have known of a few whose ire was arroused simply because they felt that they were more qualified than the girl who was chosen, how profoundly analytic of his kith and kind is the second rate critic with the frustrated mind. Roble Grimberg of Gamma Phi ,Beta was one of our mere enjoyable sittings we had this past week. The unique originality of Phi Kappa Tau's lawn display over the weekend was well forth the considerable effort that went into it. One of the best we have seen in years. • - As of this past weekend, the following organizations have their 1962 composites ready and hanging. Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Sigma, Chi Phi. Alpha Tau Omega, Alpha Sigma Phi, Phi Sigma Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, Delta Gamma, Alpha Colony; The Countess? Your written responses indicate a desire to read her further observations. And so shall you be re warded. one-three-six east college ave. women whom they will represent on assembly. The mechanics of the nomination, an d election should be handled by the Asso ciation of Women Students, he said. The present proposed party sys- Item allows for representatives to be nominated not only by those whom they will represent, but also by students with whom they have no connection as far as SGA is concerned, he said. _ Under the proposed constitution, a fraternity man could be nomi nated not only by the fraternity men, whom he is to represent, but also by women, residence hall men or town men, Pigossi said. "We feel that this is analogous to a congressional candidate from Wyoming being nominated (Continued on page seven) Miss Sully Reynolds —bill colonial' PAGE THREE
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