““ (Ufa? 'Shilii Slightly Milder i O *9? —See Poge 4 I ■■' ■ I ' —■— ■ - *■■-—■ ~. .... §4l VOL. 62. No. 38 Plans for SGA Election Postponed by Commission By SANDY YAGGI The Elections Commission decided last night to postpone plans for Student Government Association elections until the beginning of the winter term, Nancy Williams, e l.e c t i o n s commission chairman, said. Organizational work will be done this term, but since the ten tative elections dates (Nov. 28, 29 and 30) would conflict with finals, it was decided to hold elections at the beginning of the winter term, Miss Williams said. As a result of the five-point motion passed by the Senate Committee on Student Affairs and Organizational Control Thursday, there will be no participation of political parties in the elections. Walker Withholds ROTC Comment Until Later Date By CAROL KUNKLEMAN President Eric A, Walker will withhold his comments on a voluntary ROTC program for the College of Liberal Arts until the updated report by the liberal arts faculty Is com pleted and ready to be submitted to the University Senate. The announcement of Walker’s decision was made yesterday by Wilmer E. Kenworthy, executive assistant to the president. Kenworthy said the president has done no checking of his own concerning the report. Neither has the faculty, planning com mittee compiling the updated re port approached the president, he said. "The president will wait for the committee to come to him or wait until he sees what is being done about the report before he makes any comments on the program," Kenworthy stated. The faculty bill cannot become effective unless it is approved by the Senate. The bill was not presented at the Senate last Tuesday, accord ing to R. Wallace Brewster, chair man of the liberal arts faculty planning committee, because the group wished to update the report before submitting it for approval. “When the report is completed, the president will read it with interest,” Kenworthy said. "Pres ently, he feels it is too general to make any specific comments.” A report by the college's com mittee on ROTC and Public Service served as a basis for the bill eventually passed by the LA faculty Oct. 26. The main points of the report were that ROTC is not an essential part of the liberal arts curricula, that a well presented voluntary program produces better military officers, and that the general (Continued on page eight) Two Students Injured in Crash Two students were injured slightly last night in an auto accident at the intersection of Beaver Avenue and Burrowes Street. : David Mooney, graduate stu dent in business administration from Ardsley, N.Y., was driving the wrong way on S. Burrowes Street, State College police said. His car entered the intersection at Beaver Avenue. While in the intersection, his car was struck on the right side by a car driven by Leonard Rockey, 623 W. Col lege Avenue. UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 11. 1961 "Any students wishing to run for SGA Assembly may nomi nate themselves by presenting a petition signed by 100 students in their living area," Miss Wil liams said. Students wishing to run for class president must also present petitions signed by 100 members of their class. Under the new system of rep resentation in the proposed Con stitution, the Assemblymen will be elected in a ratio of 1 for every 500 students. The representation areas are designated as men off campus, fraternity men, men on campus, and women on campus. Resi dence areas will be divided into West Halls, North Halls, East Halls, Nillany, South Halls, Atherton, Simmons - McElwain and Pollock. SORORITY OPEN HOUSES which began last night kiclced-off the rush season. At the Alpha Xi Delta suite, from left to right, are Pat Werner, sister, Judy Kern and Martha Welch, rushees and Judy Zeger, sister. Open houses will continue this after noon and tomorrow afternoon. Warming Trend May Begin A gradual warming trend should begin today and continue into Monday. The coldest weather of the sea son was predicted for early today. Early morning readings were ex pected to range from the middle teens in the northwestern part of the state to about 25 in the south east. A minimum of 22 degrees has been forecast for the State Col lege area. Sunny skies, some cloudiness and slightly milder weather is forecast for today, and a high of 50 is expected. Tonight is expected to be part ly cloudy and cold with a low of 30. Mostly cloudy and milder weather is seen for tomorrow, and •Mooney, whose car received from $6OO to $7OO in damages according to the State College police, was treated at the scene for a cut over his right eye. Diana Lindell, senior in arts and letters from Westwood, N.J., was treated at the scene for cuts on the scalp. Miss Lindell was riding in Mooney’s car. Chris McClain, 422 Hillcrest Drive, was riding in the Rockey car. McClain suffered cuts on the eyebrow. Rockey’s car received from $7OO to $BOO in damages, police said. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE The form of the petition is as follows: "We, the undersigned, nominate (name of candidate) to represent (name of area or class) on the SGA Assembly or, as our class president.” "No student may sign more than one petition for an Assembly man and one for a class presi dent,” Miss Williams said, "for any name which appears on more than one petition will be invalid on both." The deadline for submitting petitions is Thursday, Nov. 16. The petitions should be brought to the SGA Office, 203 Hetzel Union, between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. The candidates are asked to bring the petitions in person ally, Miss Williams said. No formal campaigning will be (Continued on page eight) showers are possible tomorrow night. The high will be near 53 degrees. Profs G By SARALEE ORTON (This is the first article in a series on the reactions of pro fessors in the various colleges to the four term system.) The impressions of two pro fessors in the College of the Liberal Arts and one in the College of Education are that there are things to be said both for and against the term system. William G. Mather, head of the Departments of Sociology and An thropology, and instructor of Soci ology 1, said first that “It’s not so bad as I thought it was going to be.” "Students seem to be studying harder and the work I’ve received has been better,” he said, “but both students and faculty are under more of a strain now be cause of the rapid way one exami nation follows another.” Mather observed that students who have been here some time are having a worse time adjust ing than freshmen. He said that it takes time to become bio- Soviets Hinn Berlin Plait WASHINGTON (/ P ) —The Kennedy administration scru tinized yesterday what Moscow dispatches described as new Soviet proposals on Berlin and Germany. The news dispatches were the only basis for examination by State Department specialists. It was understood that U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson j , ■ in Moscow had not been up-j both ’Germanics, or one between proached on any Soviet proposalsithc Soviet Union and East Gcr —new or otherwise, jmany, to be concluded only after Sir David Ormsby Gore, the,an East-West agreement on the British envoy to Washington, said previous three points, he found nothing in diplomatic! An Associated Press story from dispatches to confirm the Mos- Moscow yesterday said these pro cow report. posals were dramatically leaked News reports listed four point si to correspondents in the early as the heart of the KremlinVhours veslenlay morning, thinking on how to end the pros-' U.S. officials arc anxious to ent stalemate on Berlin. They find out what prompted Moscow were, briefly: 'reporters to describe the proposals •A four-power agreement on aas representing a Soviet retreat "new status” for West Berlin, or a concession guaranteeing the freedom of its inhabitants and free communica tion between West Berlin and West Germany. •An East German pledge to organized way, were brought up the Soviet Union to respect West in the talks-Soviet Foreign Min- Berlin’s new status. ister Andrei A. Gromyko had with • Western—including West Ger- Secretary of State Dean Rusk in many—recognition of East Ger-New York earlier this fall and at man sovereignty. ja White House meeting with Pres • A peace treaty either withudont Kennedy. Greek Groups to Revive 'Ancient 7 Chariot Races Twenty - three fraternities! Sigma Sigma Sigma, Chi Omega, and 19 sororities are enteredj Sipma sigma, Alpha X i Delta, in the Greek chariot races tojßeta Sigma Omicron, Alpha , , ni , „ t-i 'j Omicron Pi, Pi Bela Phi and Alpha be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday on lGamma De | ta the intramural field. i Committee chairman for the , ... , . . ~ 'races are Janet Abcle, senior in Fraternities entered in the con- ar{s and , oltcrs from Johnstown, test aie. Beta Sigma •? ’’ and Louis Kushner. senior in Kappa Psi, Sigma Phi Epsilon. b j administration from Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi Epsilon. pit( , h Pi, Delta Chi, Chi Phi, Phi Kappa Richard Moyer, vice president Tau Pi Kappa Alpha, A pha f h mier-fraierniiy Council, Epsilon Pi Pi Kappa Phi Alpha Eaid lhal a corr e Cti o n in the rules Gamma Rho, Delta Upsiion,, bas been made i 0 allow a maxi- Kappa Sigma. __ _ ! mum of only two people pulling Phi Sigma Delta, Pi Lambda. jh e chariol. It had formerly Phi, Sigma Alpha Mu, Lambda b ee n announced that there was Chi Alpha, Phi Delta Thota, PhiJ h© one driver per chariol Sigma Kappa, Theta Chi, Delta with a maximum of four people Tau Delta and Alpha Tau Omega, pulling. Sororities planning to take Moyer said that fraternities part in the races include: Alpha and sororities will be matched Colony, Alpha Chi Omega, arbitrarily for the different heats. Kappa Kappa Gamma, Beta Since there are more fraternities Colony, Delia Sigma Theta, than sororities, the remaining Kappa Della, Alpha Phi. Sigma fraternities will be matched in Delta Tau, Zela Tau Alpha, all fraternity races, he said. ive Opinions of Term System logically adjusted to 75-minute of view, the terhn system increases classes. administrative details by 50 per One good point is that students cent, Johnstone said, because un have a better chance of gettinglder this system, it is necessary jobs at Christmas, particularly if to go through the registration they want to work in the postiproeess four times. father said. William F. Prokasy, assistant Formerly students who had professor of psychology, said that jobs in the post office would cut he finds that the assets of 1)le class, excused at first, then un-]t errn system far outweigh its lia excused after they ran out ofibilities grandmothers to bury" j From a student int of view . “°" e ' Td iri 'he said that the system has its piofes.soi of philosophy and act- disadvantages because the short ing head of the department, said *____ a 4U *a u„ er term could cause a jamming* that the term system has dis-' ' .. . advantages from both an academic! * f Ho ” h * said h th ‘ n i and an administrative point of lhi? y was a praclical prob i ern The system is more difficult j TOU ld be solved. • for professors, since each class ; also said it is more difficult meeting requires more prepara- !^ or students to grasp the broad tion, he said. However, he said [concepts which arc taught in a that he has gotten used to the [Shorter period of time, longer periods. ' From the point of view of facul- He also said that because of,ty members, the system has scy the term system, he is now giving>eral assets, Prokasy said. He said a final bluebook which will coverjthat faculty members can sched the last third of the course rather]ule their time more economically than a comprehensive final. He!since they have fewer classes, said he feels this is “too-bad"ithey find the 75-minute period since final examinations are anjeasiei to work, and the break important part of a course. [between, terms affords time for From an administrative point'additional academic work. Thi’ proposals, (ho more or loss unanimous belief here is, repre sent none of these things, All Ihe.se points, perhaps in a less FIVE CENTS
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