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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,
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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
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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