"rs'sr I Qfe Hath] filffluUt'ntau ~s±- Mild > I -See Page 4 j VOL. 62. No. 40 DOING HIS PART* Dr. Roberi G. Bernreuler, (see insert) answers student questions at a special discussion period held last night in the Hetzel Union reading ipom. Bernreuter. special assistant to the president for student affairs. Bernreuter Airs Views Regarding Student Issues By CAROL KUNKLEMAN Dr. Robert G. Bernreuter, special assistant to the presi dent, vowed last night that as long as he is in a position of responsibility to find out what students think, he will do so. "I have always valued student opinion,” Bernreuter said, "even though 9 times out of 10 1 must say it isn’t crucial to the situa tion.” Bernreuter’s views were ex pressed last night in a discussion period held in the Hetzel Union reading room. The meeting, called at the administrator’s request, was open to all students to discuss AOPi, KD Penalized For Rush Infractions Alpha Omicron Pi and Kappa Delta sororities were placed under, strict silence for the remainder of the rush period by the Panhellenic Judicial Board Monday night for infractions of the rushing code. Strict silence as interpreted by Susan Common, chairman of the judicial hoard, means that members of these sororities are permitted to exchange only the Penn State “hello” with prospect live rushees outside of formal rush functions. Miss Common said that these sororities had misconstrued the part of the rush code which states that “there may be no planned entertainment in the suite areas where the sorority women live.” The sororities were reported to have had organized pre-rush ses sions ' "Planned entertainment is interpreted as meaning that there may not be a group of rushees being entertained by sorority women at any time in the suite," Janet Carlisle, Pan hellenic rush chairman, said last night, .’ "This interpretation has been stated at both spring and fall meetings of the Panhellenic Coun cil when the rush code was dis cussed,’’ Miss Carlisle said. The report of an infraction by these sororities was turned into the Panhellenic office, Miss Com mon said. She would not say who reported the violations. This re port was turned over to the Panhellenic rush chairman who discussed it with the presidents of the sororities involved, she said. The rush chairman present ed the situation to the judicial board, Miss Common added. problems of "mutual concern." These were- some of the ques tions raised and Bemreuter’s an swers to them: What do you think the role of student government should be? "I think ihal any government to be a government must do two things, One, it must pro vide for the common necessi ties of its people. Two, it must control the behavior of the way ward men in its group. "SGA should provide for these common necessities, such as it did by providing the student check cashing agency. The administra tion had no idea cashing checks downtown was such a problem. “I will admit that there has been some conservatism on the part of the administration in By JOAN MEHAN Miss Carlisle would not com ment on how the investigation was conducted. The Panhellenic Judicial Board meetings are closed, Miss Com mon explained, because the board is impartial and discusses cases without identifying the sororities. This is why the sororities involved were not represented at the board meeting, she said. "The sororities have a right to appeal the decisions of the board,” Miss Commons said. She said that both sororities are planning ap peals. “We have been charged with organized rushing with no evi dence to substantiate the charge and we have not been given the opportunity to defend ourselves,” Nancy Williams, president of Kappa Delta sorority, said last night. Liselotte Weihe, president of Alpha Omicron Pi, said that "the charge resulted from a misunder standing of definition due to the lack of interpretation of the term ‘planned entertainment’ in the rush code.” "The case was not conducted in accordance with the procedure set up by the National Panhellenic Conference.” "Neither was the given penalty in accordance with the National Panhellenic Conference Regula tions,” Miss Weihe said. UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 15. 1961 called the meeting to "improve communication between students and the administration." SGA President Dennis Foianini can be seen directly above Bernreuter. granting these two roles to stu dents.” Why did you schedule the four term plan without a break and why won’t you listen to proposals for exceptions in the calendar? "The four term plan is a dis tinct break with the old system. It was "initially designed to make more use of the summer and to avoid the bad fall term. In the fall term there were so many breaks that the continuity of learning was lost. It was not a useful period. “We wanted a compact work term, and the exceptions made to vacations were the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving. Now, we edu-j cational theoreticians are inter ested in finding out how the sys-j (Continued on page five) I FOR A BETTER PENN STATE AWS Meeting Cancelled There will be no AWS Sen ate meeting tonight as previ ously scheduled, Ruth Rilling, president, said last night. She gave no reason for the cancel lation. —CoUecian hv Danny Mitsom IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME: William Wallen, junior in psychology from Philadelphia, preparer to give one of the 187 pints of blood collected by the Red Cross Blood mobile yesterday. Yesterday's amount doubled the amount col-' lected during the first day last year, Richard Crawford, president of Alpha Phi Omega, said. Alpha Phi Omega, men's service fraternity, is cooperating with fhe Red Cross in the operation of ihe Bloodmobile. Today is the last day for donations, Crawford said. U.N. Passes Testing Bills UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (/I 1 ) —Asian and African neu trals combined with the Soviet Union yesterday -to push through two proposals attempting to limit the use of nuclear weappns without the inspection and controls demanded by the West. The defeat suffered by t! Committee is certain to be con-j firmed by the General Assembly.! Both resolutions passed by over-! whelming margins. I One draft called for an end to all nuclear tests in Africa and urged all nations not to trans port or store atomic or hydrogen bombs on African territory. The vote on this was 57-0, with 42 abstentions. The second declared the use of nuclear weapons a violation of ihe U.N. Charter and a crime against mankind and asked Secretary-General U Thant to explore the possibility of con vening an international confer ence to outlaw the use of nuclear weapons in wartime. This was passed 60-16 with 25 absien leniions. Approved earlier were U.N. ap peals for a resumption of the Geneva test ban negotiations, for a voluntary moratorium on nu clear tests and against the Soviet Union’s super-bomb explosion last month. Votes of the Afro- Asian nations had been the de cisive factor in all the resolu tions. The United States held out against the drive for a deeiara- Senate May Reconsider Regulations—iernreuter Robert G. Bernreuter, special assistant to the president for student affairs, said at his open meeting with students last night that changes in Senate Regulations regarding stu dent behavior will be proposed at the next Senate meeting. One of the proposed changes was to insert a rule which would specifically forbid (lie pres ence of students in the downtown living quarters of students of the opposite sex, he said. However, he said that Dennis Foianini, Ruth Rilling, and Jay Huffman, student members of the Senate Committee on Student Af fairs, the group working on the rules, had objected to this change and the committee had voted not to include it. He cited this as evidence that student opinion on campus has not been completely ignored. Laurence H. Lattman, chair man of the student affairs com mittee. said last night he could not comment on the proposed rule involving downtown apart ments. lie West in the U.N. Political tion against the use of nuclear weapons in any circumstances. U.S. Delegate Arthur. Dean (old the committee it would be suicide for any nation to give up its right to self-defense voluntarily. Numerous Western speakers also recalled that Soviet Pre mier Khrushchev had said mod ern wars are almost certain to become nuclear conflicts. "Do you really believe that the Soviet Union intends not to use nuclear weapons in time of war because they are voting for this resolution? Or that the United Slates and Britain, by voting against this resolution, intend to use nuclear weapons?” Gaetano Martino of Italy asked the com mittee. “The Soviet Union has no in tention of abiding by this resolu tion. That is the difference be tween them and the democratic countries.” SGA to Meet Tonight SGA will meet at 7 tonight in 214 HUB. They will discuss the constitution. However, Laltman said that the committee plans to liberalize the existing regulations into broad, general policy statements, the im plementation of which will be out lined in the Manual of Procedures for Undergraduate Students. He said that generally, the changes will leave the spoiling out of partciular details of the rules to interpretations which will ap pear in the Manual and be avail able to all students In addition, he said the pro posed changes will bring the regulations in line with the tour term system. The recommenda tions will also make no distinc tions between the behavior of students on Commonwealth Campuses and at this campus, he said. He also said the proposed changes would be in line with the deletion last year of the Sen ate K regulations, which outlined class attendance policy. FIVE CENTS
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