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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
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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.
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