SPRING ELECTIONS and spring clothes were evident yesterday as 1.927 students voted in the Undergraduate Student Govern ment elections. Balloting will continue through tomorrow for USG officers. class presidents, and vacant Congress seats. Elections Draw 1,927 The Undergraduate Student Government elections yes terday got off to just about the exact start predicted by Allen Feingold, Elections - Commission chairman, as 1,927 students of the 13,650 eligible voters or approximately 15 per cen. went to the polls. Feingold said he expec firit 'day of voting. Everything ran ; smoothly yes terday, Feingold said,- but it was necessary to cancel the floating polls which were planned for last night. He explained that there was unexpected difficulty in getting the ballot boxes from the respec tive dining halls after dinner. AS , A RESULT., he said it was too late by the time things were organized to have the polls taken to'lhe fraternity ,and independent men in town. The floating Polls were sched uled to cover Garner and Pugh Streets last night. The entire town area will be covered tomorrow night beginning at 6 p.m., Fein gold said. Yesterday's voter turnout was slightly - under the first dad of voting in the winter USG -elec tions when 2,500 students cast bal lots. Expecting a slacking off in to days balloting, Feingold said he foresees a day of heavy voting tomorrow, the final, day of elec- U$G 'R4.cord The •s tudent government newspaper, the USG Record. will be distributed at the din hm hall areas at the evening meal tomorrow. Several hundred additional copies -will also be available at the lietrel Union desk tomor row evening. 10 Demonstrators Pace Sidewalks To Protest Atmospheric Testing By DOROTHY DRASHER S i g n-carrying students and townspeople paced the sidewalks at the corner of S. Allen. St. and E. College 'Ave. yesterday to pro test the United States resumption Of - atmospheric nuclear tests. t FORTY 'STUDENTS and towns people participated in the demon stration during the course of the day, Samuel Rotenberg, spokes man for the group, said last•night. Over •3,000 mimeographed, leaf lets stating; that the tests were un necessary and dangerous were dis tribUted to passersby by the marchers, he , said. • Rotenberg said that the demon stration was for the purpose of "making people "aware of The im plications of the resumption of Ilueleazt tests," For this reason the group. chose , to demonstrate to daY,,as the United States was set ting off the first in a series of atmospheric tests,' rather than prior to the test resumption, he said. Few- heckteri• bothered the marchers and there were no ser ious incidents ,` John R. Juba, State College chief lof 'police, said yes Voters ed a turnout of 2,000 the "SinCe there are not many classes today and 'students were not fully aware that elections were beginning yesterday," Fein gold said "there will probably be a strong finish tomorrow.". Feingold said, the Commission is aiming at, a final turnout of 40 per- cent, but that it is almost sure at least 35 per cent of the student body will vote. If this goal of 40 per cent is reached, it will equal last year's SGA spring election turnout which was the highest recorded in° recent years. Warm, Sunny Wea • Enjoyable ' warm and sunny Weather was observed throughout Pennsylvania yesterday. The ther mometer at the University weath ei station registered a• high of 81 degrees during the afternoon_ i Beautiful warm and sunny weather is expected again today, and the temperature may climb tn 83 to 84 degrees this afternoon. A preliminary outlook for Saturday evening calls for mostly cloudy skies and mild tempera tures. Showers are likely Satur day, but chances are there will be no precipitation during the carni val. Tomorrow should be mostly cloudy with showers. Tempera tUres should be somewhat cooler terday. There was no police inter ference in the demonstration since the group was "orderly and quiet," Juba -added. . - No complaints were received about the demonstration from boro residents or others during the course of the day, he said. Rotenberg said the ' group, which does not represent any spe cific organization, is not planning any more demonstrations in the near future. The signs the marchers were carrying varied from "When it rains, it pours—Strontium 90" to "Help stamp - out nuclear tests." Other countries also had de monstrations against -the resump tion of tests yesterday. ' In Tokyo 100 students stormed the United States Embassy in pro test. Groups in other Japanese cities also demonstrated. PROTESTS were planned in London by pacifist Bertrand Rus sell *and his followers. U Thant, • - - tart',-general -of the. United Nations, and Prime Minister Ja warharial Nehru of India also is sued a protest to President Ken nedy on his decision to resume at mospheric tests. . MR BMW VOL., 62. No. 117 UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 26. 1962 FIVE CENTS U.S. Tests Begin WASHINGTON (W) The United States fired the first explosion in its new nuclear test series in the atmosphere near remote Christmas Island in the Pacific at dawn yester day. It was a middle-range weapon dropped from an air plane. • The brief Atomic Energy Com mission announcement gave no details. Other sources said word from Nuclear Task :Force' 8 on the scene was that this first of about three dozen shots expected to be touched off. in the next two months - was successful. THIS UNDERTAKING t o sharpen the tools in America's nuclear weapons arsenal was started only a day after President Kennedy gave the final go-ahead. The preparations had been ,made during the ,months he has been warning the Soviet Union that this country had no other choice unless a safe nuclear test ban could be agreed upon. The AEC promised, as Kennedy and others had done before, that the fallout would be far less than that from the Soviet nuclear blasts last falL Kennedy .was informed of the start of the tests at 1:30 p.m. yes terday, while cruising aboard the White House yacht in Lake Worth, near his vacation White House ini Palm Beach, Fla. That was about 2 1 / 2 hours after the explosion. - Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, AEC I chairman, notified Kennedy late Tuesday night that the tests would get under way in the morning unless weather interfered. THE PRESIDENT. tts the White House had told newsmen before- her 'Due Today than those of today. Partly cloudy skies and mild temperatures are indicated for tonight, and a low of 55 is ex pected. This afternoon's temperatures are expected to reach the upper 80's or low 80's in southern Penn sylvania and parts of Ohio. r* V r - .. 1 111 111°#. —Co. „oar. Photo Kra Irankke TESTING DEMONSTRATION—Forty students phi:mkt nuclear tests. The demonstrators alio and townspeople carrying placards and sigma banded leaflets to passersby at ill; corms at participated In a demonstration yesterday pro- S. Allan Street .and Collage Avenua. lasting' the United States reinimptlent of aims- FOR A UTTER PENN STATE hand, issued no statement on re sumption of the tests. However, State Department press officer Lincoln White said in Washing ton, "The United States will im mediately stop any series of tests it is conducting if the Soviet Union signs an effective treaty providing for inspection against , cheating.' The AEC announcement was in the same terse sfyre of its an nouncements of 29 underground tests the United States has con ducted since last fall. it' "A nuclear test detonation took place at about 10:45 a.m. Eastern Standard Time--5:45 a.m. test Committee Revises Judicial Operations A judicial code incorporating procedures of due process and equalizing,penalties and procedures for all men's and women's tribunals was adopted by the Senate Committee on Student Affairs yesterday. The new code, which was announced by Dr. Laurence H. Lattman. Committee chairman will go into effect as speedily a. possible, he said. The code proposes, Lattman said to outline procedures and right relative to the judicial operation: of the University but does not at• tempt to specify all details. THE CODE grants to student: summoned before a judicial body, consisting of his peers and in cluding members of the Senate sub-committee 'on discipline 'the following privileges: •Charges preferred , against. a student shall be given ito him or her in writing sufficiently far in advance of. a hearing to enable the student to prepare a defense. Charges shall 'be "sufficiently' specific to reasonably infOrm the student of their nature:" •The student shall have the right to call a reasonable number of witnesses in his or her own be half, oUrgiatt site time—in the vicinity of Christmas Island," it said. "The detonation was in the in termediate-yield range. The de vice was dropped from an air plane. The test was the first detonation in Operation Dominic, now under way in the Pacific." INTERMEDIATE range -is de scribed by the AEC as equal to the explosive power of more than 20,000 tons and less than a million tons ot TNT, a relatively small explnsicn in the nuclear field. It's expected that the U.S. tests will be limited to 10 megatons, com pared to the 58 megato.n blasts in the Soviet series last fall.- By MEL AXIUIUND •"The testimony of . unknown it unidentified accusers or wit iesses shall not be admissible. Che accused shall have the right cross-examine any or all of his or her accusers who can reason 'Ably be expected to attend the clearing." Marian B. Davison, assistant to the dean of women, and Daniel R. Leasure, assistant dean of men, both said the nevi. system outlines the. basic procedures that the judicial bodies under their of fices have been following. Leasure added that the code should clarify doubts any student may have. The code, Lattman said, also defines the authority of student tribunals and clarifies the ques tion of appealing the decisions of a tribunal. ANY STUDENT has the right to appeal the decision of a tri bunal, he !said. Appeals, which (Continued on page three) ~ t ~;.
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