PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Political Jurisdiction ! j The USG Congress, in drawing up its by-laws, thinks it has hit a contradiction in its principles of representation. , On the one hand USG is endowed with a political party representation system and on the other it has; area representation. The however, more superficial than might appear, since it involves only nominations procedure, not conflicting philosophies. ? Under the old party system, mass meetings were held to nominate candidates for vacant seats. Under the new procedure, representatives are to be drawn from specific campus communities. N * USG is now debating whether a party membership encompassing all areas should nominate candidates; from specific areas or rather, whether the nominations process should break down into community nominations. : The first point to recognize is that party a££airs£nd Congressional affairs are anything but synonomous. The internal operations of one party or another should be under the jurisdiction of the party members and the;party members only. , The only concern Congress has in the process is that there be adequate opportunity for all who want to run for office to have the opportunity to do so. The Congress has already insured this by providing that candidates may run independent of a party through petition procedure.^ ; Further, we believe that if USG now sets up the internal stipulations for party nominations, it faces the possibility of later becoming entangled In intra and fnter party disputes which clearly would prove fatal to the legislative purposes of the Congress. ' Should USG Congress decide to grant this decision to thus parlies, the latter will be faced with "Several alerna tive methods of selecting their nominees. One method would be to establish a ward system whereby only members of the community would' nate candidates from the community. This is Idealistic and baaed on the premise that political parties could effectively organize such wards. We doubt that thiji could be done. Another methojl would be to have the 'whole member ship of a party decide on its nominees. This means, of course, that persons from areas other than the area of the nominee, could vote for the nominee. .■ Under the former SGA government, was characterized by class representation, all party members, regardless of class, voted for nominees. Further, mass nomination does not seem to contradict the basic USG representative system, since in elections only area residenti lean vote for candidates. A party has one slate and one platform based on University wide issues. To carry this unity info thfe nomi nations procedure is consonant with political "functioning. The final decision would remain* with the area resi dents, who have various, party candidates and petition candidates competing for; their votes. • A Student-Operated Newspaper 57 Years of Editorial Freedom Sty* Uatly (JlnUpntan Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 **"'**'* «irU| Hu fl.lTKaltj fmt. TV wttf CtlUfU# fa i ttetoftt+toratotf umpipir. E»t»rto u ttmd-ckja ■■Um i I*l4 at tfc* BUU Ortfar*. F*. Port Offfc# urtoi tht art rt M.it*, *. iSI VO SaWeri.Uon Prteai lI.H a rear WailiMt Mna Box id, Bta*. roHor. Fa. JOHN BLACK Editor Member of The Associated Prc.s V* I®* 1 ®* Kkfetto E4iUrial Editors. Mac Toichkkrtte and J«t) t&yers: Ne«t Editor. Pasts Oraaors Parson*cl and Trtlaiu Oitsctor. Karen Hr»ocli**!; Assistant PersoaatJ and Trafeta* Director. Bssaa Etorty; Sport* Editor. I*sn Karl: A«istant Sports Editors. Doaa BtlUdi sad John Morris! Pktirt Editor. John Boanca. Unl A< Mf-t., Mart. D. wi.tr; AwhUßl Local AS MfU Marti* laalti Nattaea! 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ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst The West will i make an attempt’ to lessen Soviet fears of espionage at the Geneva disarmament con ference, and; the Soviets will probably make some high sounding slafemenjs designed "to delay the forthcoming Amer ican nuclear tests, but for all practical purposes the confer ence might as well be called* off. . Even in the exchange iof notes, which set up the confer ence ’ (despite the original So viet demand that it be a sum mit meeting), President Ken-, nedy found Soviet Premier Khrushchev’s arguments not worth taking up im detail. Failure .of the ' conference was assured immediately upon the tie-in-j between the U.N.- sponsored ; meeting and the nuclear lest ban issue. There had been little enough hope for it before. France, refusing to discuss a nuclear ban while, she is still working to bring her shaky voice up to boom level in in ternational affairs, will not participate in any part of the conference. The Soviet Union considers that France’s atomic develop ment merely represents 1 the working of the American left hand. France's promise to abide, by what, the other nuclear powers agree upon is a safe one for her, because they are not going to agree on anything. Khrushchev, despite the long Soviet record of perfidy cli maxed by his preparations for bomb tests even smile the' West was making serious efforts to reach an agreement to stop, wants to be taken on trust. The Western powers have of fered time after time to sub mit to the same sort of Soviet inspections which they ask for themselves. But not Khrush chev. President Kennedy expresses the hope the! the conference will be a serious one. not mere ly a propaganda forum. These hopes may be pious, but cannot be accepted as ex pectations. France and Khrush chcv have already seen to that. Snowed Snowy Winter : by fool myers rj— Despite a weather pattern that j'has been basically favor able for heavy snow in Pennsylvania most of the winter,! the state managed to buck the law of averages and remained l relatively snow-free. That is, until) yesterday. j, - j The.mighty storm that dumped iat least 22 inches of.spow on the local area during the J past 36 hours pushed the sea ’ son's total close to 55 inches. . which is 11 inches more than the normal snowfall for an . entire winter. Coming afte) the snowiest winter in the 77-year history of local weathei observa t i o n' this year’s win ter has seemed relativley mild prior to yester day.' Actually, ktem however, the snow has been near normal and temperatures ■ have averaged. a few degrees colder-than-usuaL From December through early March, heavy snow storms struck from the .central states eastward to the Great Lakes. All-time heavy snowfall rec- World At A Glancd Kennedy Sends Reply on Testing To Khrushchev WASHINGTON OP)—President Kennedy urged Premier Khrush chev yesterday to put aside “ster ile exchanges of propaganda" and work for success of the disarma ment negotiations beginning in Geneva next week. . ' Kennedy made his appeal in a letter delivered in Moscow by Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson. The letter welcomed Khrushchev’s decision to send Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko to Geneva! to meet with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and other foreign ministers 3 on disarmament problems: |l “It will be .the purpose of the *2 representatives of the United {* States, headed by Secretary Rusk, fjj to make every possible effort to find paths toward disarmament,” (li Kennedy wrote Khrushchev. His unusually brief message is the Soviet leader was made public here a-few hours after Khrush chev released a letter he had sent Kennedy last weekend reluctantly agreeing to have foreign ministers open the disarmament talks in-j stead 61 beginning with a summit, conference. Soviet Identified As Castro. Aide WASHINGTON (yP)—State De partment officials reported yes terday .that Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro has a new military adviser—a, man who commanded a Republican army corps during the Spanish Revolution and was a Soviet general in World War IL . They identified him as Enrique Lister, who is well known in the international Communist move ment He reportedly is in charge of all military equipment reach ing Cuba from Communist nations. Officials said he was publicly welcomed to Havana June 2, 1961. Reports that Lister might be in charge of Cuba’s rocket artillery were discounted. Cuba has some battlefield-type rocket launchers but no known missiles. Published articles'have'stated Lister was in Bogota,' Columbia April 9,-1948 when violent rioting broke out at a conference of] Western hemisphere foreign* min-' isters. Fidel Castro was reported! there at that time also. ' WEDfjfESDAY. MARCH 7. 11962 ords were set from, the Great Plains eastward, to ' the Missi sippi Valley and southward to the; Gulf coast. Records were also broken in parts of ; the southeastern - states. The weather during the next six weeks cannot be accurately determined, but because of' this winter’s.late start the prob abilities are against its snow fall exceeding the phenomenal 92 j inches that were measured year. . j Nevertheless, the ‘ weather ■pattern continues to favor heavy snow in Pennsylvania arid a good deal more snow is likely before Old Man j win ter hangs up his snow-making , apparatus., - ; Since only 20 additional in- r ches are needed to make! this ; season second only to last (win ter in total snowfall, it is likely that this winter will make its , impression on ,the weather rec ords after all. ! HARRISBURG (/P) Republi can county leaders yesterday en dorsed William W. Scranton for governor and James E. Van Zaridt for the U.S. Senate. The congress men immediately pledged a hard hitting campaign. j Scranton, 44, of Dalton, 1 Lacka wanna County, said he would re sign his Congressional sept to de vote'fulltime to his' gubernatorial campaign: Van Zandt, 63, of Al toona, plans to -retain his seat ' in Congress while he campaigns, j Commenting oh the GOP selec tion, Gov. David L. Lawrence issued an emphatic “No” at his weekly conference when asked if he considers Scranton j a tough candidate for Democrats to face this fall. ' ; ! The Democratic organization backed candidate for > governor, former mayor Richardson Dil worth of Philadelphia, declined to comment . ! ■' -f v ( Rusk Interprets Policy in Thailand WASHINGTON Unit ed States will act alone if neces sary to; defend Thialank fromjdf rect Communist aggression. Sec retary of State Dean'. Rusk an nounced .yesterday. Rusk unfolded a new interpre tation of U.S. obligations to act in the eight-nation Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. ! . . His statement was issued jointly with Thailand’s Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman. j' i ;In case of indirect) aggression. Rusk said that the United States regarded its SEA TO commitments and its separate economic '(and military aid agreements as pro viding basis for- U.S. actions to help Thailand. J ( FAA Sets Takeoff Rules (WASHINGTON (AP) jThe Federal Aviation Agency imposed new regulations yesterday on the takeoff procedure frir Hoeing jet airliners. j ’ . • I , j The FAA said the ruling j was prompted by flight tests 'con ducted to determine; what caused the crash of a Beoing 707 in New York last Thursday. Ninetyrfive persons 'were, lulled >when‘ the' American Airlines jet crashed into Jamaica Bay. . ! jj An FAA spokesman said the ruling was not designed to j pin point the cause of (the crash-. It •has not been.detennined.. j GOP Slates ( 2 Candidates
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