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VOL. 62. No. 37
Prexy May
Comment On •
ROTGBi//
Wilmer E. Kenworthy, execu
tive assistant to the president,
said yesterday he will ask
President Eric A. Walker to
comment on the voluntary-
ROTC bill passed recently by
the liberal arts faculty.
"However, this issue has
come up so many times in the
past, that I don’t know wheth
er the president will wish to
make a statement about it,”
Kenworthy said.
The faculty bill would make
ROTC voluntary for students
in the College of the Liberal
Arts. It cannot become effec
tive unless it is approved by
the University Senate.
The bill was not presented at
the Senate meeting Tuesday.
R. Wallace Brewster, chair
man of the liberal arts faculty
planning committee, said his
committee wished to update
the report before presenting it
to the Senate.
Senate
Motion
By ANN PALMER
The University Senate Com
mittees on Student Affairs and
Organizational Control passed
a motion yesterday which
turns the Student Government
Association over to the students,
Laurence H. Lattman, chairman
of the student affairs committee,
said last night.
"The five part motion was in
tended to make SGA a govern
ment byj for and of the students,”
he eaid. >
The first point of the motion
rescinds a motion made by the
committees at their last Joint
body of SGA’s proposed consti
tution.
This constitution, after being
ODK Recognizes 14 Men;
10 Seniors, 4 Juniors
Be Initiated Sunday
Ten seniors and four juniors were tapped by Omicron
Delta Kappa, men’s national scholarship and leadership ho;
orary society, last night.
They will be initiated in an- open ceremony in the Helen
Eakin Eisenhower Chapel lounge at 1:30 p:m. Sunday.
ODK recognizes students who
have maintained high scholastic
averages while attaining top posi
tions of leadership at the same
time, John Black, president, said
last night.
Students recognized must rank
in the upper 35 per cent of their
class academically and demon
strate leadership in one of the
following fields: athletics, student
government, social and religious!
organizations, publications, dra
matics, forensics and the fine arts
and scholarship, he said.
Waller Kearney and Gerald
Norman were lapped in the
field of athletics. Kearney is
head wrestling manager and'
Norman is co-captain of the
cross-country team.
Wayne Hilinski, James Karl and
Roland King were tapped for their
leadership in publications.
Five men were tapped from
student government. They are
James Banks. Greek Week
chairman, cheerleader and
spring weak committeeman: Eu
gene Chaiken. secretary-tress-
FRIDAY MORNING; NOVEMBER 10. 1961
they try to win the cb.sering crown fox their living unit at last
night’s pep rally. However, much to the disappointment of the
small crowd, no official winner was announced.
Committees
for SGA Revision
approved by the. committees, was
withdrawn by four student com
mitteemen who felt that it needed
to be made less specific to pre
to be the “wrangling over de
tails” that has occurred in the
past *
The second point charges the
existing SGA officers, Cabinet
and Assembly to draft a new con
stitution, "simple and without by
laws.”
The third point of the motion
states that the new constitution,
when completed, is to be ap
proved or disapproved by the
joint committees but not re
written by them.*
If the constitution is approved,
SGA will be granted a charter
and be authorized to hold Assem
bly elections. If it is disapproved,
urer of IFC, Thespian, Junior
Prom chairman and co-chairman
of Spring Week carnival,
George Henning, chairman of
MRC; Richard W, Moyer, IFG
vice president, orientation coun
selor coordinator and elections
commissioner; and Herbert Nur
ick, chairman of Off-Campus Tri
bunal.
Four men with dean’s list aver
ages were tapped primarily for
scholarship.
They are Parker Crouse, bli
band and chapel choir; Rona.
Koot, residence hall counsels
Donald Macalady, treasurer of tl
University Christian Assn., am
Richard Reiter, president of the
Agriculture College Student Coun
cil. . , ?
Approved Fraternities
■ All social fraternities are ap
proved for social activities tins
weekend except ~ Phi Delta
Theta and Alpha Phi Alpha.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Pass
plans will be outlined for fur
ther revisions.
The fourth point concerns elec
tions plans if the constitution is
approved. It states:
'lf the. constitution is ap
proved, an SGA Assembly will
be elected by self-nomination.
Self-nomination will require 100
signatures."
The. final point included in the
motion is designed to establish a
permanent policy for the SGA
elections system.
“Included on the ballot for the
Assembly election will be a ques
tion (wording to be approved by
the joint committees) as to wheth
er or not the Assembly in the
future will be elected by a party
system. By-laws written by the
Assembly are to accord with re
sults of this vote.”
CHANCE OF A LIFETIME: Two State College
lads. John Ruble, left, and John Bathurst, had
the chance of a lifetime yesterday ,at Penn
State football practice. Dressed in sandlot uni
forms, the pair were tossing a football around
FAA Begi n s
Crash Probe
RICHMOND, Va. (/P) —Federal aviation authorities began
a detailed hunt yesterday for the cause of engine failure that
dropped an Imperial Airlines Constellation to a flaming trash
in a Virginia marshland Wednesday night.
Seventy-four young Army recruits-—most-of whose serv
ice time could be measured in
hours —. and three of the plane’s
crew of five perished in the
flames, two miles from the Byrdj
Airport runway.
Investigators disclosed the pilot
of the plane messaged seconds
before the crash as he pulled
away from a planned emergency
landing: "I can't get my landing
gear down and I’m losing another
engine.”
The plane began a banking
climb and had regained about
700 feet of altitude when it
settled and crashed in the
marshy woods to the southeast.
The crash brought shock and'
grief to families of the young !
soldiers in such cities as Passaic <
and Newark, N.J., Wilkes-Barre, <
Pa.,, and Baltimore where good
bys to sons and husbands had :
been said just " a brief time
earlier.
Tentative Dates Set for Elections
The tentative dates set for Stu
de n t Government Association
elections are Nov. 1.8, 29 and 30,
Nancy Williams, chairman of the
Elections. Commission, said last
night, o
i The decision to hold elections
i came as a result of the five-point
. motion passed by the Senate
Committees on Student Affairs
, and Organizational Control which
! will turn' SGA over to the stu
dents, Miss Williams said.
There will be no participation
s of political parties in the elections,
Miss Williams said. She said that
i all candidates for Assembly may
nominate themselves by present
ing a petition signed by 100 stu
The news brought sorrow to the
Florida families of stewardess
Linda Johns, copilot James Green
lee and cabin attendant Peter.
Clark of Miami. Pilot Ronald
Conway, 29,' of West Hollywood
and flight engineer William Poy
thress, 31, of Miami survived the
crash.
The two were the only sur
vivors. They scrambled to safe
ty through the pilot compart
ment door, and are now hos
pitalized with slight burns and
bruises.
- Disaster teams worked through
the night and most cf the day
bringing out the last of the
charred bodies to a Virginia Medi
cal College Hospital. morgue. A
team of Army pathologists as
sisted the Virginia medical ex
aminer in trying to establish
identification.
dents in their living area. Candi
dates for.class president must pre
sent petitions signed by 100 stu
dents in their class.
Representation will be on a
basis, of one assemblyman for
every 500 living area residents,
she said.
At the elections students will
determine the fate of parties by
referendum. This referendum will
be bidding on the newly-elected
Assembly, Miss Williams said.
She said that the tentative dead
line for petitions would be Thurs
day, Nov. 16. This will give can
didates two weeks to campaign
before, elections, she said.
—Collegian Photo ly John Beaux*
on ihe Lions' practice field at old Beaver Field
when ihe learn came out. The next thing the
boys knew, halfback Junior Powell was show
ing them the correct way to carry the ball.
FIVE CENTS