WeLt/ier Forecast: |jf jrt f 1 Dress Code Warmer v : ) j —see page 4 VOi: 62. No. 123 USG Postpones Action On 'Opinion Bureau' Bill; Asks for Detailed Plans By ROCHELLE MICHAELS The first of University party’s; campaign promises—a . Student] Opinion Burpau—was presented] to the Undergraduate Student, Government j Congress Thursday: night jbut action on the bill was: postponed, j ! The Congress decided to wait until more definite information on .the Bureau’s structure could be gathered. j , Morris Baker," newly-installed USG Vice president, broke prece dent and stepped down from the chair [to introduce the bill to Con gress ]for discussion and approval. • Baker said the Bureau would aid communication between 'USG and the student body, increase interest in USG and enable-con gressmen to know ‘‘student opin ion’' even.though it is impossible for them to contact each of their constituents. . HE SAID that the Bureau could conduct random-sample opinion polls Jon important USG issues by contacting every 10th person in the telephone book. The Bureau’s services could be used by any USG j congressman ior officer on any issue, Baker said. He | stressed, 1 however, that re gardless of what,results a survey may 'give, the final decision on any issues rests with the Congress. An! amendment to Baker’s bill was proposed by George Gordon, r I I Panel Discusses Rising Costs By MEL AXILBUND Frank realization of the- prob ' lems facing higher education in the coming decade and optimism that they can be solved permeated last [night’s inter-city radio dis cussion of “The Challenge to Highler Education.” « ■ . A panel of five educators used the facilities of the Educational Radio Network to investigate the : challenges to institutions and stu- posed by increasing] enroll ments and rising educational costsl • j I - • I MEMBERS OF the.panel were: University President Eric A.' "Walker; Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower,] president of Johns Hopkins Uni-] and] former president of Penn State; Dr. Mason W. Gross, president of Rutgers University; Dr. Clayton 1 H. Plympton, presi , dent| of College, and Dr. James R. Killian,' chairman of the Corporation of the Massachu setts Institute of Technology and panel moderator. Tne-program began with a state -1 ment from jeach panelist of ex im System Review Planned : By Men's PhysEd Department The swimming program'of thel- He also said that classed at the xhenfs physical education depart-lpool have been cancelled until ; ment will undergo a complete re-!May 14. This cancellation! is due view, as a result of the accidental to the draining and cleaning of . drowning of Martin Michael Buj’the pool, which is an “unwritten cek, freshman in chemistry andllaw’ in the event of a drowning, physics, Wednesday afternoon in'jhe said. ! Glennland Pool." ||! The reason for the . long delay Allen R. Gray, associate pro- ! before the resumption, of swim ’ lessor of physical education, saidming classes is. to allow time for : thatj the members of the depart-’the fresh watgr in the pool to be ment will have io rerevaluate the heated, Gray said. ~ ! whole system. He added howeverj: FUNEHAL SERVICES for Bu > will be held at 10 a.m. Mon thejreview^would tdkeplace , day at S t. Boniface Church, Pntf fj- mel ?koned burgh, with burial in St Bont of adding a roving lifeguard to,f a ' e c P meterv" ' 1 T 1 the jstaff of three instructors whOjg , - are P on duty during classes at ° n y d Ss . P°°V ‘ i •. | Carol, Helen, Catharine, Maigarci , THE ROVING GUARD would George, Sharon, Paul, M&ySg^Bts. ) supervise the entire pool without!James and Dolores; bis (paternal i having responsibility for one par-'grandfather, ’Martin • Buchk; and ticular group of students, as theihis maternal , grandparehts,; Mr, othdr. swimming instructors have'and Mrs. Nicholas Lazor, all of now. ! iPittsburgh. . i' North Halls, which placed the Bureau under the control of the USG Public Relations Agency. GORDON SAID the consolida tion would expedite the Bureau’s function "as an agency of public opinion.” He continued, "Students ‘Will also be more informed jwhen they are called for an opinion." / Gordon’s amendment was unani mously approved by Congress. > In other discussion ofthb bill, ,!Jon Geiger, North Halls, said he thought it “would make bad pub licity if Congress votes down a bill the students seem to Support in a random survey." ; Geiger also noted that “the reso lution ’as it now stands is too vague” because the bill presents no definite plan for the Bureau’s structure. ! HE ASKED Baker to prepare a complete plan of how the Bureau will work, how often it willj func-j tion, who will be contacted and how survey results will be! tabu lated. | ; Other congressmen expressed concern that students would not be well enough informed oh USG issues to give an intelligent! opin ion. Lois Affleck, Pollock! sug gested that University party’s platform for a paid USG column in the Collegian could be used to give students both sides of im portant issues so they could read educated conclusions. ! pected enrollment increases ati their-respective institutions. Walker and Gross, as presidents of - land-grant said they foresaw moderate increases. EISENHOWER SAID j Johns Hopkins is expecting to add about 200 students, bringing thte total number of ■ undergraduates to 1,600. Greater increases are fore seen on the graduate and -post-! doctorial levels, he said, j Because of a need for funds to finance the education of greater! numbers of students, schools have! been forced to find “hew sources of funds and urge greater jeontri-' butions from old sources, . the panelists said. Corporations and foundations will have ,to increase, and'are in creasing, their support. The pan el agreed that federal aid i is nec essary, although the- panelists could not agree, on the best form of support scholarships; loans, or institutional grants. ' ■ TUITION, which even now does not cover the real costs of, an ed ucation, will - have to be held FOR A BETTER PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. 1962 3 Trains Collide, 146 Persons Killed TOKYO (A 5 ) —Two commut-.ond commuter train approached, er trains and a freight piled up! crishSgYcmes^X^ttirhad" noi in a grinding wreck at the end been able to escape. - of a mild spring holiday ves-- , Others on the tracks were cut ■ c , ° , „ ' , down-before they could move, terday creating a bedlam of j still others leaped down the Cm screams from 106 injured i and' bankmenj only to be crushed un- leaving 146 dead. j j No Americans or Westerners! were reported among the dead inj Japan’s second worst train trag-j edy since World. War 11. - | . The eerie scene of blood, escap ing steam, tangled wreckage] and frantic rescue was just' tjhree miles - north t of Tokyo’s Imperial Palace. . ' | A STEAM FREIGHT and an out bound electric commuter train of six cars—homeward, bound jwith a Constitution- Day crowd—side swiped 200 yards outside Mikawa shim station at 9:30 p.m. j •Then, while stunned and| In jured ■ passengers were picking I themselves off the floor and crawling . through smashed win dows and doors oft derailed cars, a second commuter train of nine cars crashed into, the double wreckage. Most of the slaughter cameifrom! the second collision. j BECAUSE THE LEFT sidi was blocked by derailed freight; cars' after the. first crash, passengers were crawling onto the tracks on : the right side paralleling a 30- 1 foot embankment when, the sec down, the panelists said, i i "There must be available for members’ of all classes of our society the opportunity to attend college at the lowest possible tuition levels," Plympton said. The effect of the Algerian settlement on French politics is discussed in this week's "Behind the News" by j Dr. Henry S. Albinski. assistant professor of political science. See page S for “Behind the News’ * SPRING HITS THE CAMPUS. This relaxed only fishin' hole on campus-—Prcxy's pond, student, apparently suffering from a severe Whether or not he succeeded in catching any case of spring fever, is taking advantage of the thing is unknown, but it is almost certain that warm weather as ha waits for a catch in lha he enjoyed himself. Behind the News ! der cars that plunged over [the bank. ; Some of the victims were buijied under five feet of soft, wet earth. THE IMPACT HURLED freight cars 'in the other direction. The locomotive toppled and steam from its ruptured boiler spread over the scene. From the muirky fog emerged the screams of Jthe injured and dying. j One young factory worker sur vived both crashes with only a broken leg.' j "When the first crash flume, blue electric sparks filled thej air and then, everything went dark.. People stumbled about, wading and screaming,’’ said Shoji Iwnsa- Subcommittee on Group Discipline Removes SAE Drinking Privileges Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity beverages to the member, who Is had its privilege of serving alto- a minor, before the individual Ihollc beverages removed 'from went to the jam session, Wise said. jMay 7t021 by the Senate-Sub-t By Rerv ing him. the fraternity (Committee on Group Discipline,-violated two - rules' of the Frn jWilmer E. Wise, assistant to Tho'.( ern) ty Social Code, Wise said, jdean of men in charge of ffa-o ne ru ] t . states thnt/ "alcoholic termty affairs, said yesterday. [beverages may not be sold, fur- The action stemmed from an nished or given to minors." incident April 7 when a member! The other rule states that “a °\J rat ? rmt y became W* o * 1 * fraterpity is held responsible for cated at a jam session sport sored any improper conduct of any by Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Kapph Eng-[ members or guests, both inside ma and Phi Sigmu Delta outside the fruternity house, ties. Wise said. ' >if such,conduct resulted from their These three fraternities had presence at any function or gath their privilege of serving alcoholic ering of the fraternity." trol from April 25 to the frtd of the spring term with the excep tion of this wiwitcnd itribute to the amount of uon oi tms weeKena. , |iq UOr that was served, though THE SENATE Subcommittee on they did violate a law against Group Discipline approved the serving minors,'* Wise said, action taken by the Board of Con-i "The fraterntiy president also trol against the three fraternities,ico-operated by supplying ipforma he said. |tion to the dean of men's office Sigma Alpha Epsilon wa.i pena-iand the Board of Control,” he lized because it served alcohollc'saul. ki. “I broke a window glass and jumped out and started to clitub down the embankment. ‘Then the other tiTnrr came crashing into our wreckage. The leading car toppled down and pulled four others after it. It rolled down the embankment, ! pinning and squashing many pco- J pie who were fleeing for safely. TT WAS HORRIBLE. I saw several people tossed into the air as the coach hit them." Tadashi Miyano, 21, a‘- truck freight handler whp lives below the embankment, rushed outstdtt when he heard the first .crash. His action almost certainly saved his life. "While I 'watched. .1 saw the second train coble rushing into the scene,” he said, shaking. "J saw a conch go tumbling down, the embankment and smash right into nty house. The roof flew off and ■ the whole house crumbled J ike dust." Five Gents
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