D-Pa.. left. answers a question while Gov. David L. Lawrence watelles..at the second student news conference in Harrisburg yesterday. Lawrence Stresses Cost of Education The present administration's educational policies are de pendent on available finances, Gov. David L.- Lawrence said yesterday in his second press conference with student edi tors from Pennsylvania colleges. . • "Everyone in the state wants a good system of education but when it gets down to financing it, most people don't want' to be taxed," he said. • Lawrence said his administra tion is adhering closely closely to a $1 million fiscal budget in order to eliminate the deficit caused in, previous administra tions by {heir "yielding to the' demands of various pressure groups which unbalanced , the budget" '*l HAVE SAID before and will say again that I will veto any _legislattan coming to. me that woOld• put the budget out.of bal afice,":he said. Whin asked what he considers to be the purpose of a state uni versity, Lawrence replied, "to educate." Pressed 'further he said, "I think a state university has the responsibility, to do the most item for the tax-paying residents of the state hut I draw no line between the income brackets that it should serve." akarles Boehm, director' of the state irDeparttnent of Public In struction, said, however, that Perm' State is not• considered a state nniversity. • "THE STATE OF Pennsylvania hai no ;state - universities at all. All the colleges in the state are private,C even Perin State which most .people consider to be the state university, It is, instead, a land grant college and not a state university because state lgoverri= merit representation on HI board of trustees is less than 20 per cent of The Board," he said. • Lawrence expressed great fa vor for ;the establishment of com mtonieylcolleges. ; said in a conference later yesterday afternoon that the de velopment of community - colleget would probably be the first con cern. of Pennsylvania in drawing (Continued an page three) De&xteis Defeat Team from Kings In . a televiiied pre-recorded:match last night the, Men's Debate Team defeated Kings College of Wilkes- Barre which-last year won second place in the national debate tournament at West Point, N.Y. The topic chosen for the debate was ?Resolved That the Federal Government Should Initiate and Finance• a . Fallout Shelter Pro gram in the United States." David Gixalhart, senior in lee ondary education-from Rutherford, NJ.,._and WilLiam Stout, senior ' (CoVintied os page three) By ANN PALMER 3 Foialini Appointments By JOAN MEHAN and DAVE RUNKEI Undergraduate Student Gov ernment President Dennis' Foia nini tasted campus political de feat for the first time last night as the USG Congress rejected threi of Foianini's executive ap pointments. The •Congresa did not approve INFORMALLY CLAD USG President Dennis tarsal executive, appointments and endorsed Fcrienini concluded the second meeting of tbe action hams by thelYnivirsity Senate to elimi newly elected USG Congress last night. All nate discriminalcrry, clauses from constitutions seats were filled - in the Assembly , room as ail of all student organ ization s. Congress approved Os USG budget disclosed VOL. 62. No. 76 UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.: FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 9. 1962 FIVE CENTS 'Big 3' May eet On Disarmament WASIIINGTON (AP) Presi dent Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan an nounced yesterday a bid to So viet Premier Khrushchev for a foreign ministers' meeting in dis armament and hinted at a summit meeting to t2llow. They announced also British permission for U.S.-in-the-air nu clear tests at Christmas Island in the Pacific} Ocean, and 'U.S. permission for a British under ground test in Nevada. THE ANNOUNCEMENT, made simultaneously at the White House and by Macmillan before the House of Commons, shaped up as a joint U.S.-British strateg aimed' at: •Probing Soviet intentions once' again for an agreement on halting the arms race. •Focusing world attention on the U.S.-British disarmament ef fort, rather than on their prepara tions for a new round of nuclear testing. *Quieting domestic critics, particularly in Britain, of the new Western atomic tests. U.S. authorities said that re- the appointment of Gomer Wil liams, junior in business adminis tration from Harrisburg, to head the USG public relations agency. He was rejected-by an unofficial count of 24 to 7.' LATER IN THE meeting, the Congress rejected the appoint ment of Bruce DeWoolfson, presi dent of Pollock council, as the University Park delegate to the . . . , . s . ' • ! .-.. 1..".•-,:t :. ' *• ' - \t('' 41r A ....4 j ' ... . . FORA BETTER PENN STATE gardless of whether ,the Soviet Union agrees to a foreign minis ters' getrtogether, Kennedy would decide goon on security grounds whethee, tocgo ahead with atmos pheric tests. HE likS INDICATED he be lieves itnewed U.S. atmospheric testing is necessary because of ,Soviet Weapon advances since breaking the test moratorium last I September. • There , is little expectation here that Khrushchev will go along loutright with the Kennedy-Mae mill= suggestion that the U.S.. British 'and Soviet foreign min isters convene ahead of the 18 nation general disarmament con ference ,opening at Geneva March 14. It was speculated that Mos; cow would respond with somel counter proposition aimed at jock eying for propaganda advantage. THE I UNITED STATES and Britaini declared their deep con cern "for the future of mankind if a -halt 'cannot be called to the nuclear arms race," They resolved to make "a supreme effort" at the Geneva conference to "move away from this sterile contest." It was in this connection that the Kennedy-Macmillan statement suggested a possible summit OSGA conference to be held here today and tomorrow. After the rejection of DeWoolfsnn, Foiamni suggested the name of Kurt Sim ons, earlier approved to the posi tion of editor of the USG news paper,! for the positioat This op pointstent was also voted down by the Congress. The Congress did approve , the Both positions will go unfilled i appointments of Kurt Simons,- for present time. ljunior in liberal arts from Bryn Athyn to edit the USC news, paper; Bruce Harrison, TIM rep:- resentative, to chair the cointmt-' tee to study the proposal for Atki n! converters ;n the residgrice halls, and Anne Morris, repre sentative from North Halls, to chair the by-laws committee. GEORGE GORDON. North Halls representative, and Allison Woodall, South Halls representa tive, were nominated to hendi the Rules Committee. The election of the committee chairman wilt be held at the regular meeting next week. meeting, if that should seQm orthwhile. The• British underground test !in Nevada is to be carried out with in a few weeks and 11 to bei a small one, less than the forre.of the 20-kiloton Hiroshima bomb. 13-6 inch Snow Expected Todcw Snow is vs-petted to begin during the morning or early after- noon and continue tonight. Three to six inches of - snow are possible by early tomorrow. Temperatures are forecast to remain below freezing through:to. morrow, and increasing winds late tonight and tomorow shoUld cause blowing and drifting snow. Precipitation is ex pec to d throughout the Commonwealth late today and tonight as !an intensifying storm moves townrd Pennsylvania from the south-- central slates. The ..air over the state is gold enough'•to cause most of the pre cipitation to be in the form; of snow,. A new arctic air mass is gaining (Continued an page three); Rejected THE CONGRESS approved a !suggestion of John Witmer, presi ;dent pro tempore of the legtrda itivez;body. to make Foianini the , cote University Park delegate-4o !the OSGA conference. Each cant pas is' permitted to have two deje gatei at the conference. The Congress unanimously en dorsed the action of the Univer sity Senate requiring ail discrimi natory clauses included in Uni verUty-thartered organirationm to be eliminated by June 30. iINIS, The constitutional amendment which would change the name of student towernment from USG back to SGA was given its,sec.ond reading. The Congress will vote on the amendment at next week's regular rnettint! ROBERT FISHER. representa tive from East Halls and preilident of OS.GA, egein presented an argu ment for the amendment because it would align thin campus' stu dent government with that of the 13 Commonwealth campuses., The $18,575 budget for thelop 'Orations of USG and tho chtsses was approved by the Congress over the announced objections of Witmer. WITHER MOVED that the 12 SW floating scholarship' awarded to students for shutent govern ment service be eliminated. This proposal was defeated lit hi 10. After the defeat of this motion. Witmer said he has strong' ob jections to the scholarship' given to the executives of USG: but, he said. in the light of th , . defeat (Continued on'page three)
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