al i t Bag VOL. 62. No. 31 UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. NOV.- 2. 1961 FIVE CENTS Hays Suggests Method For Appointing Members To Board of Trustees State Senator Jo Hays, D-Centre, yesterday suggested an alternative method for determining members of the Uni versity Board of Trustees. •The method might help the University get larger appropriations from the state legis lature,-Hays said. Hays , suggested' that board members be appointed by the governor. A panel of approxi mately 100 nominees could be named by various University-con cerned organizations and the gov ernor could make his selections from this panel, Hays said. "There is a danger in this meth od, -however," Hays observed. "If all the trustees were appointed by the state, they might subjugate themselves to political manifes tations." Atesent, the 22-member board is chosen by University-, concerned groups and the gov ernor, but all members selected: by the groups are not subject to approval by any 'other body.:, Alumni elect nineinenlbers; they agricultural societies .of the state elect six; the engineering societies' of the state elect six; the governor' appoints six; and position dete mines five members. Members by position are governor, the secretaries of mint. and mining and of agriculture, the superintendent of public in struction and the president of the University. Hays said he feels this method of selection is a "contributing factor" in determining Univer sity appropriations. • "It is my impression that state universities, supported by , the state and having boards selected by the government, receive more money," Hays said. "Whether this relationship is cause and effect or just coinci dental, I don't know, he added. He ruled out the possibility of having the Board of Trustees selected by popular vote. "If citizens were voting for prospective members:. he said; they would not be acquainted well enough with the qualifica tions of the candidates to make a wise choice." The question In this case would be whether such a "dangerous risk" should be taken to get money, he said. In requesting funds for the current.fiscal year, the Univer sity requested a $23 million ap propriation, but received $18.5 million. - "If the administrators of the University felt they wanted a board consisting of , members - ap pointed by the governor, I'm 'sure they'd ask for it," Hays said. Toretti to Speak At Rally Tonight . - Coach "Tor" Toretti, the Blue Band, and the Cheerleadeis will take part in the Block "S" Club pep rally in front of Old Main at 6:45 tonight. The Nittany Lion mascot 'will add to the program with his usual antics. A surprise football guest will also spekk to the crowd. Charles•Davisson, sophomore in liberal arts from Charleston. West Virginia, Terry Wurtzbacher, jun ior in wood utilization from Lewistown, and Donald Morabito, sophomore in liberal arts 'from New - Castle will emcee tonight's rally. A "scooter-cade t will also form at 6:45 p.m. and proceed to Old Main from the front of South Halls. and behind Pollock Halls. - Block "S" Club also announces that "Twist the Terps" signs are still available at, the Hetzel Union desk and in the Book Exchange. They will obit be distributed at the pep rally. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE , lay CAROL KUNICLEMAN Controversial Film Set for Tomorrow The film "Operation Abolition" will be shbwn at 7:30 p.m. tomor row at the Presbyterian 'Univer sity Center. A dispussion of the film will follow the showing. The film is an account of stu dent protests against the House Un-American Activities Commit tee hearing, which took place in San Francisco in May 1960. The hearing concerned suspect ed Communist activities of educa tors, and was protested by student groups at the University of Cali fornia, Stanford University and the City College of San Francisco. The film has been accused of deliberately being biased in favor of the house committee. ' FORT'S LAST STAND. Tradition gives , way to progress as the old.rooming house (top photo) at the corner of Pugh St. and Highland Drive. formerly known as the "Port" is torn down to, make way for a parking lot (bottom photo). The house was nick-named the 'Port"' by the class : of IBS M#l 4 l l#! inl Biers, Toltrgiatt l ol Rain Expected Today, Tonight A vigorous storm. system that is Moving eastward 'from the north central United States will bring dramatic weather changes to most of the eastern two-thirds of the nation today or tomorrow. Rain will develop In the north eastern states today in advance of the storm. The first genuine push of arctic air of the season is driving south eastward from Canada into the north-central states. Snow, strong winds and tem peratures as low as 10 degrees were predicted for North Da kota and northwestern Minne sota early today. The leading edge of colder air should reach the Chicago area to night, and it will probably pass across Pennsylvania tomorrow afternoon. The coldest weather since last winter is expected here this week end. The local forecast indicates to day should be cloudy and cool with rain beginning in the after noon. A high of 53 degrees is expected. Tomorrow should be cloudy, windy and mild with showers. Snow flurries, wind and much colder weather is indicated for tomorrow night and Saturday. ~r~tad a~ Administration Called Insincere in Dealings With Students By ANN PALMER • Dennis Foianini, president, last night publicly challenged the sincerity of the administration in all dealings with students. "I believe that the University encourages back-patting, ,the formation of cliques, the practice of going through formal 'motions with no mean i n g. Through the years the administra tors have surrounded themselves with students who give and re ceive compliments—who outward ly praise the ideals of student ,government but in • the end do nothing to advance it," he said. Foianini said that this is a con ,clusion at which he has arrived over a long period of time and with much first-hand experience and consideration. "I am now prepared to support it," he said. "It is a negative education for students to learn - that the only way to stay in office is to compromise the ideals for which they stand," he said. Foianini said that as things now stand, students do nothing but go through the motions of being 'effective. - "The University administration accepts - every chance it , gets - to ,say how it would like to see a significant SGA. This goes on and on. But it tries to defeat every !opportunity that arises in which Ithe students could take real action I to advance a student government of order, strength and signifi cance," he said. Foianini said he questioned the validity of "all the lip serv-' ice about democracy .and the free expression of opinions." "I know of a case last year iwhere a student wrote a letter to The Daily Collegian asking who !the president of the University !was and what he did. This boy was called before Walker who said he Thad been advisedto expel him !from the University," Foianini !said. Bruce Harrison, senior in elec trical engineering from Philadel phia and - writer of the letter, when contacted by the Collegian !last night, verified Foianini's ;statement. "Coercion into• silence, is both undemocratic and dangerous," Foianini said. Concerning the recent meet ing of the University Senate Committees on Student Affairs and Organizational Control in which 'student members of the committees withdrew the pro posed SSA constitution from consideration by the committees, Foianini said: - "The committee is leading the constitution to a - pulp without a core. The constitution, a f ter changes were made, was a con glomeration of little rules with (Continued on page two) Compromise May Settle U.N. Conflict UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. The 'United States and the Soviet Union voiced opti mism yesterday that they were near agreement on naming an acting U,N."secretary-general in place of the late Dag Ham _ marskj old. - U.N. diplomats believed the six week deadlock would be resolved before the end of the week. The optimism centered in a new compromise plan set forth by the United States and Britain to break the stalemate over how many principal advisers the new chief should have. The plan was to leave it to him. U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Ste. venson and British Minister . of State Joseph B. Godber issued statements on it through spokes men. after Stevenson had told Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin about it. Emerging from a conference ! with Stevenson, Zorin told report ers "1 think we are near an agree ment—on a very_ reasonable basis." Stevenson's spokesman de dared: "We are optimistic." Later Zorin met for almost an hour with U Thant of Burma, who is expected to be. named interim secretary-general. The Soviet dele gate - then told reporters: "The situation is we are near to agree ment." Asked when agreement would come, he said "maybe to , morrow, maybe today." IFC Open Houses Set All fraternities will hold open parties from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday for freshmen and other interested men, Steve Zitin, Inter- Fraternity Council rush chair man, said. - Zitin alio said that the third fraternity open house of the term will be „held from, 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. refused, to ;take, rin freshman customs. En raged upperclassmen "attacked" the house with a barrage of applei shot from a Civil War can non. Damage to the house was paid for by a class fund and the student later consented to take part in customs. Main Hit Föl :ini Rush Committee Adds Extra Day To Open Houses Open houses for sorority (rushing will begin one day earlier than planned, Janet Carlisle, rush chairman, said yesterday. Open houses will be held from 6 to 10:40 p.m. Nov. 10 in addi tion to 1 to 5:30 p.m. Nov. 11 and from 1 to 5:40 Nov. 12 as origi nally planned. "Since about 1,500 women reg istered for rush, we needed more time for open houses," she said. "The rush committee thought it would' - be better_to add another day than to- include an additional weekend for open houses," she ex oplained. "The sorority rush chair men all favored this proposal." "Open houses are not a part of ,formal rush," Miss Carlisle said, "but attendance is required at all of them for re-registering for for mal rush which begins in Jan ivary." Also due to the large registra (Continued on page eight);
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