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VOL. 62. No: 30
SGA to Rewrite Constituti. n
WINNERS OF GREEK WEEK TROPHIES were
presented at the closing banquet of Greek Week
last night. Left to right: Bernice Parr, Delta
Sigma Theta, scholastic improvement; Frank
Resides, Alpha Zeta, social-professional scholar
ship; Jerry Logue, Acacia, second place over
all Greek Week and social fraternity scholar
Tri-felts Win Ist Place
In Greek Week Contest
By ROCHELLE MICHAELS
Delta Delta Delta sorority
was awarded th e over-all
Greek Week Trophy last night
by Robert Banks and Pamela
Chadwick, co - chairmen o f
Greek Week.
The trophy is given to the fra
ternity or sorority that accumu
lates the greatest number of points
for participation in Greek Week
activities.
Acacia fraternity won second
place with 95 points, only five less
than tri-Delta. Delta Gamma so
rority and Pi Kappa Phi fralern
ity tied for third place with 85
points each. •
Richard P igossi . and Janice
Wanner, president of the Inter
fraternity Council and Pan
hellenic Council respectively.
presented the five rotating
scholarship trophies which are
given annually. to fraternities
Workshop Examines
SGA Responsibility
By PAT DYER
News Editor
This js the sixth in a series of articles concerning the recent SGA
student encampment.
Additional areas of responsibility for SGA, a Code of
Conduct and clarifications of discipline procedure were in
cluded among the recommendations made by the Rules, Regu
lations and Student Welfare workshop.
To give student government more control over student
activities, the workshop recom
mended that SGA take over two
functions now performed by Sen
ate committees—the chartering
and investigating of new organiza
tions and the arrangement and
approval of such activities as
Spring Week.
Additional areas in which the
workshop felt student govern
ment should be willing to take
responsibility included regulating
bicycles, -improving careless stu
dent driving, and improving com
munication between the faculty,
the administration and the stu
dents.
A,proposed "Code of Conduct"
was recommended "in order to
clear up the vagueness of the
present regulations."
UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 1. 1961
ships Marianne Ellis, Delta Delta Delta, first
place over-all Greek Week; Gene Siciliani, Zeta
Psi, scholastic improvement; Frank ' Dash,
Beta Sigma Rho, bridge tournament; Sandra
Schwartz, Alpha Epsilon Phi, scholarship; and
Judy Hanigan, Pi Beta Phi, bridge tournament.
and sororities.
Alpha Zeta, - with a 3.01 all-
University average for last se
mester, won the trophy for the
social-professional fraternity with
the highest average. Acacia won
the same trophy in the social fra
ternity category with a 2.68.
The Sigma Chi improvement
Trophy, which is presented to
the fraternity that improved its
average the most within one
semester, was given to Zeta Psi.
The fraternity raised its aver
age from a 2.03 to a 2.47.• '
Miss Wanner presented Delta
Sigma Theta and Alpha Epsilon
Phi with the rotating sorority
scholastic trophies. Delta Sigma
Theta won the award for having
improved its all-University aver
age from 2.42 to 2.66 in one
semester, which was more than
any other sorority.
Alpha Epsilon Phi, with a 2.99
average, won the trophy for thei r
highest average among the so-,
rorities. I
Members of the workshop said
that this might clarify some of
the "gray areas" now a part of
such rulings as "conduct unbecom
ing a Penn State student."
In discussing proper procedure
to be followed in discipline cases,
members of the workshop found
that many of the proposed pro
cedures were already being used
in some areas. However, they
recommended that these proce
dures be extended to all areas of
student discipline and that several
additional ones be established.
"Procedure" recommendations
stated that a student accused of
a violation of University regu
lations be sent a summary of
(Continued,or4 plue,eight)
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Murray Speaks
If Americans do not overhaul
their value system soon, nothing
but "tragic disaster" lies in the
future, Dr. Robert K. Murray,
I head of the department of his
tory, said last night at the Greek
Week banquet.
Murray listed four principles
which he said he thinks should
guide the development of a new
value system:
•Recognize and develop true
intellect, rather than 'train per
sons for specific jobs.
*Provide paid education for
all qualified students from kin
dergarten through graduate
school. This would be accom
panied by a system of elimination
examinations.
•Realize that the mass media
do not exist for making money,
but rather as a public responsi
bility.
• Change our present business
system to one which includes
ethics compatible with a new
value system.
Hays Discusses
Role of Trustees
In Getting Funds
One of the reasons the Univer
sity does not receive its full bud
get request from the state govern
ment is that the majority of the
members of the Board of Trustees
are not directly responsible to the
state government, Sen. Jo Hays,
D-Centre, said Monday,
Hays made this statement dur
ing a question and answer session
held in a journalism public af
fairs course.
He explained that only 11 of
the 32 members of the board
are responsible to the state
government .and five of these
are responsible by virtue of
their position. These members
would be the most influential,
he said, but there are not
enough of them. •
The board is chosen in the fol
lowing manner, he said: Alumni
elect nine members; the agricul
tural societies of the state elect
six; the engineering societies of
the state elect six; the governor
appoints six, and members' posi
tions determine five.
Members by their position are
the governor, the secretaries of
(Continued on page three)
Parties
Place
Chartering of the Student Government Association wag
postponed Monday night when student members of the Uni
versity Senate Committees for Student Affairs and Organiza
tional Control withdrew the proposed SGA Constitution from
consideration by the committees.
"This was done because such drastic changes were made
l in the • constitution by the corn-
Im it tees that student member.,
felt that it didn't have the same
essence. as before," Dennio
SGA president and mem
ber of the student affairs coin.
mittee, said last night.
The committees, meeting joint..
ly, went on record as ,opposing
the use of politif:al parties for thp
election of SGA Assemblymen but
lallowing parties to direct Ow
lelection of all-University officers,
'Laurence Lattman, chairman of
the student affairs committee
said. •
The body of the constitutior ,
with the 'exception of the jta.
dicial section was approved. Th , ›
main•controversy arose in con
sideration of the by-laws.
"Shortly .after the vote way
taken to abandon the use of
parties in electing Assemblymen,
student members of the commit..
tee caucused and moved to ad
journ to rewrite the constitution,'
Lattman said.
Williams Cancels
SGA Elections'
Party Nontinalim
By JO ANNE MARK
Nancy Williams, chairman
of the SGA Elections Commis
sion, said last night she sees
no sense in holding final party
nominations Sunday. There
probably won't be a party elec
tion this fall, she said.
Assembly elections will not be
held until an SGA Constitution
is approved.
"Although the joint Senate
committee is opposed to political
parties for' Assembly nomina
tions," Miss Williams said, "I be
lieve they are not opposed to
them for all-University officer
nominations."
"Therefore, I will advise the
party chairmen to hold third and
final registration meetings Sun
day, ins case parties are included
in an approved constitution."
The elections, she said, will
have to be postponed indefinitely.
All three party chairmen agreed
that they will hold meetings Sun
day for final registration.
Albert Sharp, Liberal party
chairman, .said he is icheduling
a meeting for Sunady, lsut it may
be postponed or cancelled if
circumstances warrant this action.,
"The action of the committee
seems as though they are dis
regarding student opinion in favor
(Continued on page three)
Blast's ower
Unexpected—X'
MOSCOW (/P) Soviet Premier Khrushchev reportedly
told the Soviet party congress yesterday scientists had set - off
their big bomb and that it turned out to be on the plus side
of 50 megatons—bigger than
"The scientists made a sli
of the bomb," the premier was
quoted as saying by unofficial
sources.
"It proved somewhat bigger
than 50. megatons, •but we won't
get angry with them for this."
The announcement of the big',
blast was made in a restricted
meeting of the 22nd party con-I
gress at its closing session in the
Kremlin, sources said, Western
reporters were barred.
Tass, the official news agency,
did not report his statement in
its first accounts of the brief
Khrushchev speech, leaving the
Soviet people still in the dark
concerning a nuclear test about
which most of the world was
talking—and protesting.
A storm of applause, cheering
and some laughter frern the near
ly 5;000 delegates, greeted Khrush
chev's announcement, it was re
ported.
A 50-megaton blast., eqpivalent
May Lose
in Elections
By ANN PALMER
See Related Editorial
Foianini said last night that a.,
changes were being made by the
committees, he felt it was more
valid for students to rewrite Ihp
constitution rather than .to accept
without investigation the recorn.
mendations of the joint commit
tee.
"After these changes •werf
made in- the proposed constitu•
Lion, only vestiges of compro.
mise gifts made by various inb.
terest groups who participated
in writing the constitution re
(Continued, on page three)
Cooler Weather Due
Today should be mostly cloudy
windy and cooler.
Partly cloudy skies, breezy and
cool weather is 'indicated for to•
night and tomorrow. A low of 40
is expected tonight, and a high
of 56 is predicted for tomorrow.
:hey had planned.
ght mistake in .the evaluation
to 50 million tons of TNT, had
been expected since the opening
day of the congress on Oct. 17.
Khrushchev announced tll a t
scientists had such a giant, v:ould
test it on Oct. -30 or 31 and that
the blast probably would conclude
the test series begun on Sept. 1.
• He said they also had a 100-
megaton bomb, but it would not
be exploded because it might
break qome of Russia's own
windows.
.•
It was the first time .the Soviet
government had given advance
notice of a nuclear test.
The statement Khrushchev was
reported to have made to the con
gress yesterday was the. only spe
cific announcement the Soviet
government tka,s made on any of
the 26 tests foreign'sciontists have
reported detecting. since the So
viets resumed their nuclear shots
on Sept. /.
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