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VOL. 62. No. 42
Speaker
Penalties Hold
For Sororities
By JOAN MEHAN and ANN PALMER
The Panhellenic Judicial Committee upheld its decision
to place Kappa Delta and Alpha Omicron Pi sororities on
“strict silence” until Jan. 3 after both sororities presented
appeals last night.
"The board members said that the only other appeal we
can make now is to the Senate
Sub-Committee on Group Disci-
Bline,” Nancy Williams, Kappa
elta sorority president said.
“I asked if the decision could
be appealed to the Panhellenic
Council and this privilege was
denied. I was told that if I at
tempted to bring it up at Panhel
lenic meeting I would be ruled
out of order,” Liselotte Weihe,
president of Alpha Omicron Pi
sorority, said last night.
Alpha Omicron PI and Kappa
Della sororities were penalized
for an infraction of the rush
code which slates that planned
entertainment is not permitted
in the suites or areas where
sorority women live during the
open contact period.
A representative from each so
rority was permitted to present a
written appeal to the judicial
board and also to appear before
the board to discuss these appeals
last night. Both sororities were
represented by their presidents.
After the judicial board an
nounced that the penalties would
Cold Weather
Colder weather is expected
today, and a few light showers or
snow flurries are possible.
An energetic storm system
moved northeastward through the
Great Lakes yesterday and last
night, and colder air swept south
east from Canada behind it.
Strong and gusty winds will
transport that cold air into the
commonwealth today and tonight.
As a result of the air’s move-
FEMALE LION'S PAW MEMBER—Laura The
Lion, an ipso facto member of an African chap
ter of Lion's Paw, is caught with a Skull and
Bones hat on. Laura, who now weighs about
20 pounds, is a recent aquisition of Edward
London, senior in business administration*
UNIVERSITY PARK; PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 17. 1961
be upheld, Miss Williams said that
Kappa Delta would appeal the
decision to the Senate Sub-com
mittee on Group Discipline.
Alpha Omicron Pi will not
appeal the decision to the Sen
ate Sub-committee, Miss Weihe
said.
The Judicial Committee stated
in a letter upholding the penalties
that Kappa Delta was penalized
for a rushing infraction committed
either intentionally or uninten
tionally. The decision was based
on the clause that prohibits
planned entertainment during the
open contact period.
"I stated we did not have
planned entertainment in our
suite and I was told that conver
sation, when it involved three or
more rushees and sisters in the
suite, was construed to mean
planned entertainment,” Miss Wil
liams said.
Miss Weihe said that her so
rority was accused of having an
over-abundance of rushees and
sisters in the suite on the after-
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ixpected Today
ment across the water of the
Great Lakes region, considerable
cloudiness and possibly a few
light showers or snow flurries are
expected here.
Afternoon temperatures should
be in the low or middle 40's.
Tonight and tomorrow should
be partly cloudy and cooler. A low
of 33 is expected tonight, and a
high of 48 is indicated for tomor
row.
—Collegian Photo by* Tow Browne
Laura eats about two pounds of meat per day,
according to London, Rumor has it that some
body forgot to feed Laura yesterday and a
BMOC decided to investigate her groans—all
that is left of the poor young man is his hai.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Rayburn
.., one of the most powerful
Commission Lists
Procedure Rules
For Nominations
Exact nomination procedures
for SGA Assembly seals and for
freshman, sophomore and jun
ior class presidents as an
nounced by the elections com
mission' are as follows:
• Students wishing to run
for office must draw up a
petition. The petition form must
he headed by ihe statement
"We, the undersigned, nomin
ate (name of candidate) to
represent (name of area or
class) on the SGA Assembly
or, as our class president."
•The petition must be sign
ed by 100 students from the
area or class which the nominee
would represent if he were
elected. For example, women
from ihe Pollock area may
sign only the petition of one
girl running to represent the
women living in that area.
• Students may sign only one
petition for Assemblyman and
one for class president.
• Petitions must be submit
ted to the elections commission
in the SGA office, 203 Helzel
Union Building by Nov. 28.
House Speaker Rayburn
Dies of Cancer in Texas
BONHAM, Tex. (/I 1 ) Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, a
man of small height but great national stature, died yesterday in
this little Texas town he loved.
Rayburn held one of the most powerful offices in government
and was second in succession to the presidency.
In Bonham, every flying flag was lowered to half staff. The
townspeople grieved for their most distinguished citizen.
In Washington, the chair on the rostrum of the House of Repre
sentatives where Rayburn held gavel in hand more than twice as
long as any speaker in history, was draped in black.
Funeral services will be held here at 1:30 p.m. Central Standard
Time tomorrow.
It was cancer that struck down the 79-year-old Democratic
leader.
He died in the dull dawn on a chilly, windy morning in the
unpretentious little yellow' brick hospital of his personal physician,
Dr. Joe A. Risser.
He had wasted away from 176 to 120 pound? from the illness
which was diagnosed as cancer only six weeks ago.
Members of his closely knit family, Rayburn’s staff and medical
personnel were at the speaker’s side.
His breathing stopped at 6:15 a.m. His heart stopped four min
utes later.
"It was a very easy death for a very great man,” Dr. Risser told
reporters.
Paralysis of the lungs was the immediate cause of death.
Dr. Risser said that he was sure that Rayburn had known since
mid-August that he was afflicted with cancer.
That was a fortnight before Ihe speaker handed his gavel over
to the House Democratic leader, John McCormack of Massachusetts,
and left for home for the last time.
McCormack is the most likely successor to Rayburn as House
speaker. '
The White House w'as the first to be notified that the speaker
had died. McCormack was next.
President Kennedy was to break into a four-day Western trip
which he began Thursday morning in order to attend the funeral.
Rayburn’s body will lie in state from 9 a.m. Friday until 9 a.m.
Saturday In the foyer of the Sam Rayburn Library.
The lovely little white marble structure rests on a knoll in a
four-acre park toward the western edge of Bonham.
Close by is the neatly kept cemetery, with its winding roads
arid neat rows of headstones and monuments. Rayburn will be buried
in the family plot alongside the grave of his favorite sister, Lucinda.
Group Studies
Judicial System
By SARALEE ORTON
Changes in the University
judicial system with a view!
towards simplifying and per-j
haps improving the existing,
system are under consider-|
ation by the Senate Committee;
on Student Affairs, Chairman!
Laurence H. Lattman said yester
day.
This was the primary
why the committee and the Sub
committee on Organizational Con-;
trol did not approve the part of
the proposed SGA Constitution 1
establishing a student judiciary!
with disciplinary powers under!
the Student Government Associa-j
tion, he said. i
"II is not the feeling of the ; judiciary powers for SGA be
commiftee that the present sys- j fore changes in the system were
tern is bad/' Lattman said, "but i effected. Lattman said that an
any judicial system which SGA judicial would just impose
comes from several origins must another judicial body on the
be reconsidered from time lo complex, system that already
time .in order to clarify and exists.
simplify it/' "This does not mean necessarily
At present, judicial cases in- that SGA will receive disciplinary
volving students may be heardjpowers when the judicial changes
either by student judiciary com-jare made, but the issue will be
mittees, by the dean of men or'considered again at that time,”
the dean of women or by the;Lattman said.
Senate Subcommittee on Disci-! He said that the committee
pline, he said. j recognizes that a government
As a result, he said, the exist-jwithout judicial powers is jarge
ing system is fairly complicatedjly a "government on paper” and
and there is not always an agree-sees value in the request.
Dies
inient in procedures between the
different disciplinary bodies.
The purpose of the changes
will be to make judicial pro
cedure standard for nil students,
Lattman said. This would in
volve clarifying the types of
discipline available now in or
der lo give them the maximum
beneficial effect,- he said.
He said that the committee
will probably work on standard
izing the actual technical proce
dures of hearing cases and impos
ing discipline.
“The existing system has grown
like Topsy, and the committee
feels that clarification will im
prove the educational standards
of the University,” Lattman said.
| Enlarging on the reasons why
! the committee had objected lo
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