life laiUj VOL. 62, No. 90 UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.' FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 2. 1962 : FIVE CENTS USG "Follows By-Laws In Discussing ilex Code By JOAN MEHAN and DAVE RUNKEV ! The USG Congress agreed to follow their by-laws in discussing the elections code last night, and decided to vote on the code next [week. ■ " : ■ '. .j "Vice President Jay Huffman suggested that the rules be sus pended for expedient passage of i the. code. The parliamentarian, Sue Zengerle, ruled that the sus pension would be in order. { THE BY-LAWS CALL for a ■two-thirds vote of the present and jvoting members of Congress : to make amendments after the amendment has been read , and discussed at the previous regular meeting. The elections code is an amendment to the by-laws. President Dennis Foianini ob ] served that although this proce dure was lfegal it would set a bad precedent for future Congresses. Grant Reportedly Allocated to Library . Jsy ROOfELLE MICHAELS An announcement by Ralph J. McComb, University librarian, was made yesterday that President Eric A. Walker had provided that $75,000 be made available to the library fSr book expenditures be tween now and May 1; so that those departments which have ex hausted their regular funds can continue purchasing books this year. Walker said, however, that he had no knowledge of this grant. ' McComb said late last night that he could not understand the President's reaction since he had received notice of a “budget amendment" from .Howard A. Cutler, special assistant to the presi dent. ! - The Commonwealth campus libraries have been given : $lO,OOO of the president’s grant. The remainder, McComb said, will be used to purchase boojks for Pattee Library. * . He stressed that this grant was given on a temporary basis and must be.completely spent by May 1. Therefore, he-said, this is not a grant in the usual sense, but an additional allotment. The non-recurring! $lOO,OOO grant given the library last fall, McComb said, is entirely committed and will be spent by the end of thi iadeniir lar. j t 1 1 i .je aci ic yei < Since this new allocation must be used up in such a short time, there will be no planned amount given to each department, he said. “Instead," he explained, "we wili see in-a general! way that there is .equitable distribution between them.”. A formal budget would be too complicated under • these cir cumstances, he concluded, j McComb also announced plans for a.possible addition to Fattee Library! The General State Au thority, he said, has allotted money for architectural 'studies of the'building 1 and the site, but has not yet commited itself to construction of the addition. Plans for the library addition, "McComb said, have gone no far ther than the . architectural survey of the present ibuilding' and site. The-new wing will be east of the present structure, where the' park ing lot is now! located, and will have, a usable basement and three upper stories. Although no ' definite plans have been made, McComb said, it is .expected that the addition will hold three general reading rooms, 'ah arts reading rodm, new quar ters for ‘ the Pennsylvania J His torical Collections,*' rare books, ■ documents, maps and Imicrofilms, closed faculty stacks and possibly ' .seminar Seating''capacity will'.be, to ereaised by about 1,000 or 1,200 and . open access shelving, with centra! control points will be in - stalled; he said. The money to construct the structure has not yet come from the General State Authority, Mc- Comb said.- ' | Walter.H. Wiegand, director of the physical plant, explained that the speed with which the alloca tion will i come depends upcin the State Legislature. . FOR A BITTER PENN STATE “It would be a dangerous thing to change the by-laws at will,” Foianini said. In discussing the proposed code, Fred Good, fraternity area repre sentative; said a person in a five year program could be student body president for three years. "IT SOUNDS LIKE a pretty long time. Through appointments the USG president could build up a lot of power in only one term of office. Good. said. The .proposed by-laws were then altered by the Congress to let a person hold only two terms of office as student body presi dent Before the change; a stu dent had to have between four and six terms remaining before he could run for office. ; The problem of nominating per sons to run for congress was also discussed. John Witmer, fraternity area representative, said that the ' ! • —£*B**Uji Pfernt* by J«6is DEBATE CONGRESS BEGlNS—Participants Gala Moioriiuki, second from left# while John foT the pszroalj Joseph F* 03rifu Inter- Scbanck checks : them in- Both are members State Debater's Congress which started yeslcx- of the Penn State debating club. Representing day in the HUB, The Rochester Institute of ALT. are, from the left. Bob Meacher, Hugh Technology team received its credentials from Franklin and Barry Winters. uUwjtan system was designed for repre senting areas find not political parties as the code specifies. THE CODE STATES. ''Candi dates for legislative offices may be nominated by political parties.” - } “The proposed method is in consistent with the entire pro gram. I thought we were repre senting our areas and not the Entire University,” Witmer said. In other business, Congress ruled that Jon Unger, elected to represent the Nittany area, would not have to He was auto matically removed from office since the Constitution states that a member 'shall lose his seat if he shifts his residence from the gen eral area of his constituents. Un ger, moved to Pollock Halls dur ing Christmas vacation, and an nounced his resignation on Tues day because of this. Paper Suspension Lifted at Penn The Daily Pennsylvanian, the University of Pennsyl vania’s student newspaper, will resume publication today. The paper was suspended Saturday by Penn's president on the basis of a recommendation made by the Men’s Student Government Association. | The paper will be published without financial support from the association .until March 8, when a new senior board 'is elected, the University said. About $17,000 a year is allot ted by„ the association toward , the paper’s budget •; In nuking its recommenda tion, the student government termed the paper’s reporting and editorials "distasteful ana Irresponsible.” Their main point of contention •-wasi a parody of the women’s paper, The Pennsylvania News. Representatives of the asso ciation and the paper have been negotiating since Monday to (Continued on page three) Tide Slows Air Crash Searehers NEW YORK UP} —Searchers fought rising tides last night, trying to retrieve 95 victims who died when a transcontinental jejl airliner plunged nose first into Jamaica Bay. There were no survivors of th« worst single-aircraft 'disaster in this country. The American Airlines jetliner, on a steep, rapid takeoff from Idlewild Airport, dove into the water only about three miles from the field and exploded. The water was only hip de?p at the time. But it rose with the icoming tide. Skindivers and grapplers moved feverishly about i The pilot of the craft has been identified as James T. S. Halit. sfijof Rolling Hills, Calif, Heist graduated from the University lit 1927. He was a member of the Forestry Society and also played football during his junior year. their grim task in an effort to prevent uncovered bodies from being swept to sea. Searchlights were brought to the scene for after-dark operations. THE PLANE was American’s flight No. 1, which took off from Idlewild at 10:07 a.m. for Los Angeles, and crashed three minutes later. It was a late model Boeing 707 Astro-Jet, expressly designed for speedier takeoffs from airports surrounded by residentiabafeas. Curiously, apparently no one on the ground saw the actual crash, in a remote area of shallow water and reedy marsh, although a number of persons saw the plane going down and heard it explode. But| another airliner that took off'moments later afforded its pas sengers and crewi a? ghastly birdseye view of the disaster. AMONG 17 passengers aboard the ill-fated jetliner was W. Alton Jones, 71, board chairman of Richfield Oil Co. The prominent New York oil man was on his way to California to join former President Dwight D. Eisenhower on a fishing trip into Mexican waters. ' J f ? j Eisenhower often had entertained Jones in the White House and been entertainedjby Jones at the latter’s Georgia plantation. At Palm Desert, Calif., where former president is wintering, he was described Debaters Held Caucuses To Preview Conference Caucus meetings marking the opening of the Joseph F. O'Brien Inter-State Debater’s Conference were held last night in the HetzeL Union. The Congress, a convention of 150 debate delegates from; 22jcolleges and universities, acts as a legislative body in thej manner of the U S. Congress. The* delegates will propose legislation! on two major topics and through! caucusing and committee*, will! enact legislation concerning these: topic?. j (Continued on page two) The primary purpose for thei caucuses if "in allow the con-1 .servative Jnd liberal views onj each biUijf given In advance. thus eliminatßig confusion during ten day's _ opening committee seS-j slons," Gale Molovinsky, Congrewi publicity chairman said. \ Molovinsky said this year pori tions of the Congress will be broadcast over WDFM ami WMAJ. He said that spontaneous coverage of personal debates and narrative highlights of the Cor* gross will also be included, nt times to be. announced later.' Molovinsky said that at today's committee sessions the • Univer sity delegates will propose two bills, one concerning labor legis lation and the other concernin'# civil rights. He added that ;thc civif rights bill will "entail legislation to in-, crease enforcement of Article 11, Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution." He added that thi3 article deals with reduction ojf congressional representatives for .dates that abuse voting rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. Tire labor bill will deal with the placement of labor organisations under the anti-trust laws, he said. Chess Team la Compete j The chess team will travel to |the University of [Pittsburgh this Jwcekend to compete in a Tri- State Tournament against teams from schools in Ohio, West V"ir jglnia and Pennsylvania. The tournament will be played under [the Swiss system.
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