ori* ii: I zi4g VOL. 63. No. 6 UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. SEPT. 27. 1962 FIVE CENTS Fall Elect Without 'The three political party chair men agreed last night' not to hold nominations for this fall's con gressional elections or for the freshman and • sophomore class presidential elections. •A sophomore class election is necessary at this time since 'the present class president, Thomas Miller, its academically ineligible. Nomination petitions for the Uncleigraduale Student Con gress elections and the freshman and. sophomore class president elections may be obtained at re-p.m, today al the Helsel Un ion desk. ,Petitions are "due be ton, 10 a.m.. Oct. 4. and may be returned to the HUB desk. Following the reading of the written' agreement during the Undergra,duate Student Congress meeting, Harry McHenry (town area) moved that political parties run full slates of candidates in the fall elections. Presiding USG vice president, Morris Baku, ruled the motion out of order ecause USG has no jurisdiction over the functioriing of political parties. Thomas Kiley (West) then moved that Congress recommend to the' political parties that they run full slates of candidates in the fall elections. University, to Host 3 State Candidates The!University will host Penn sylvania's gubernatorial • candi dates and one of its candidates for the Senate early, next month. , Congressmen James E. Van Zandt; Republican candidate' for the Senate seat of Joseph S. Clark, will speak at 8:30 p:m. Friday, Oct. 5.i Thefollowing Tuesday Richard son Dilworth, Democratic candi date for governoi, will speak at 8 p.M. At 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, Republican gubernatorial can didate William W. Scranton will make an address. Clark spoke at the University Aug: 8, after he and the other candidates were extended invita tions. All of the talks will be held In Schwab Auditorium. Free tickets for each of the speeches will be distributed at the Hetzel Union desk in advance of . each address. Tickets' for the Van Zandt talk will be available beginning to morrow. _ - Off-Campus Workshop Recommends Separate Encampments for TIM By ROCHELLE MICHARS (This.is the third of series five articles on the 1962 Student Encampment - which recently closed at Mont Alto. Below is an account of the Off - Campus Wor/r4hop recommendations.) In # move which surprised most other' students attending Encamp ment; the Off-Campus. Workshop decided In their second day of discussions that their; group should be eliminated from future en campments. • THE WORKSHOP decided that most ,of the problems they were discussing were • more related to town_ independent men than to :the fraternity residents. They, therefore, proposed that TIM hold their own encampment, similar to the one held • annually by the In terfrateinity Council. The report mentioned that most fraternity men' are not familiar with serious problems 'of hmising and "town ,taxes, .and they could not-contribute new ideas because they :have not had experience in these areas. ' -- • Regardlese of the feeling for dissolution, the ivorkshop made several recommendations hoping ;FOR A BETTER PENN STATE ions to Be Held Party Slates He argued for his motion say- trig a political party-backed cam paign would produce a more "is sne-centered" election. McHenry supported the recommendation saying a majority of each party's members favored political party rim elections, and the chairmen Went against the will of these rdajorities in signing the agree ment. THAT ELECTION of candi d a e s running independently Would tend to insure a more non jiartisan Congress was the con tention of University Party Chair man, Michael Dzvonik, In speak ing against the motion. 1 Acting Campus Party Chairman Allison Woodall, said that if poli tical parties made up platforms for the coming elections they Would be forced to make up non existent issues on which to run. e added that last spring's elec- NSA Asks Legislative Probe By WINNIE BOYLE (This is the third in a series of articles concerning the Isth An nual National Student Conress of the United States National Student Association held in Columbus, Ohio, August /9-31.1 Accepting a compromise amend ment, the 15th National Student Congress passed a resolution urging the United States Con gres s to reconsider the Internal Security ct of 1950. The original resolution had ed the repeal of the act. The Internal Security Act, corn only known as the McCarren Act, was passed by the U.S. Con gressover The veto of President i S. Truman. THE ACT states that organiza tions which the Subversive Activi ties Control Bcard ; finds to be t'Communist action," "Communist front" or "Communist infiltrated" will be required to register with the Attorney General. The act also restricts members Of the designated organizations from applying for certain jobs de signated by the Attorney General, and requires such organizations to label all publications including their mailing wrappers when using the U.S. postal service. Another section of the act pro- to aid both men and women living off campus. RE-ESTABLISHMENT of an "eating lounge" for town students who bring their lunches to cam pus was proposed to give them a quiet place of their own. It was also recommended that the Elec tions Commission chairmen publi cize that off-campus women may. run for the Undergraduate Stu dent Government Congress and other elected offices from the town area, ' 'G • Another recommendation to the Election Commission chair man was that billots for town offices be placed at a.ll campus polling places so that voting for those students would be more convenient One of the more controversial proposals to come from this work shop is that the dean of women should allow "opezo residence halls". before curfew on weekend night's 'and on Sunday:afternoons. The recommendation states, "This would include 15 to 30- minute periods on Friday and Saturday nights to say goodnight and/or a visiting period on Sun ' (Continued on.page eight) - Tottrgiatt tions t were more "project-cen teredl than "issue-centered." Elehtions Commission Chair man ;George Jackson said .that political party nominations would not be feasible at this time, and if used in the election would cause] disorganization. The recommendation was de feated 6-14. PARTY CHAIRMEN refused to comment folloWing the meeting on Whether or not they would support candidates running inde pendently. In the last order of business. Kiley withdrew his proposed amendment which had been ap proved by the Rules Committee and was slated for its first hear ing by the Congress. The proposed amendment read: "Each political party must have one member on the Rules Com mittee."' vides that .the President, under certain conditions, may proclaim an "Internal Security Emergency" and that the President, through the Attorney General; is author ized to detain those in "whom there is reasonable grounds to believe that (they) . . . will prob ably engage in or conspire to en gage- in acts of espionage,or sabo tage." In favoring the proposal to rec ommend the repeal of this act some arguments were-. •The act endangers civic liber ties In allowing an administrative bodx (SACK) to determine which groups are subversive and to re quire registration of such groups. Suelt ,registration imputes guilt to COMegian Open House The Daily Collegian will hold an' open house at 8:30 tonight in 'l2B Sackett All *lndents interested in Joining either the editorial or business staffs are welcome.. Customs Catches More Frosh By DONNAN BEESON As other freshman quietly devised ways of greeting upper classmen silently on Salutations Day', one of their fellow members provided a small part of the ilni verSity community with an inter esting tour of the campus, A.rnong other 'things, this fresh man Customs violator pointed out that the building directly across from Mac Allister contains not one, but( four laboratories. • He was also somewhat reticent to tell the legend of the Obelisk Joint Customs will continua today. Freshrturn are also re quited to wu something blue and something white, exclusive of their clinks. while there were women present Other frosh succeeded in get ting themselves into serious enough trouble to be brought be fore the Freshman Customs Board last night The freshman with the most unusual excuse for not wearing his dirk and name card was the one who carefully explained •that his clothes were stolen while he was being fitted for his ROTC uniform and that he had no re course but to wear his uniform. His clothing, he reported, was returned by the end of the day, b which time nine of his best " had reported, him for not obeying Customs rules. A boy who was reported for not haying his handbook told the the board that he had' lost his Police Halt Meredith OXFORD, M. (k) Embat tled Mississippi—waging its big gest fight against the federal gov ernment since the Civil War— barred Negro James H. Meredith from the University of Mississippi for .the third time yesterday. A human blockade of unarmed highway patrolmen. turned back Meredith and five cars of• marshals 400 yards from the gates of the ali-white school at mid morning. FOUR TIMES John Dear, U.S. Justice Department attorney, tried to get passage through the grim line Of Mississippi officers. Four times Lt. Gov. Paul Johnson re fused.. "We want to take hiin in," Dour said the fourth time. "I heard you," said Johnson. A few marshals tried to walk through. Patrolmen shoved back —the first physical contact be tween state and federal govern ments in the campaign to de segregate Ole Miss. .* The scuffle ended as - abruptly as it began when the federal offi cers turned away with a solemn faced Meredith. About this time Gov. Ross Bar nett-7the adamant chief execu tive who twice before in face-to- organizations or individuals before guilt or innocence is proven. •It is ' iternalistic of the gov ernment to protect the American people from the impotent Com munist party. •The labeling of such organ.: izations is a dangerous precedent since it may be used to suppress groups which happen to maintain the same position as the commu nists on one issue. ' Those debating for defeat on the resolution argued that: *The American people ought to know what groups are com munistic so that they may better be able to evaluate the group's positions. . _ •The act does not deny anyone freedom of speech or of the press. •Any group cited by the act has the right to appeal the de cision. •The U.S. Communist party is an extension of Soviet foreign policy and not a political party in the usually accepted sense of the word. ..sp, (.__ .pt Bala-Cynwyd) tells listeners the *end of the Obelisk at this end of a guided tour of tha campus. Caplan was one of the freshman customs violators "plus/shed" by the Customs Board this week. book, but that was all right be- wear coats and ties and woMen ti ll cause now he had his friend's to must wear skirts. No Berm de use. When asked what his friend shorts, kilts or dungarees will he was going to do for one, he said allowed. Tomorrow Attit de they were planning to share it. Checks may be called for end Tomorrow will be Dress-up Day. f the reply should be, "Best ', Air Freshmen men will be required to t Force! face meetings turned down Mere dith and his battery of lawyers —drove rapidly north toward Ox ford. He was 20 miles to the south. Bad weather had kept hien from flying from Jackson: • BARNETT WENT Into %vitt sion at Alumni House on the Olt Miss campus. the place' where he first denied Meredith enrollment last week. . In Jackson, everyone was being turned away from Rarnett's of fice in a move reportedly de signed to prevent service of legal papers in the governor's absence.. An air of expectancy kept workers in the sth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans looking up frequently. It appearsid likely the federal government would ask for a citation Of con tempt against Barnett. and per haps an order specifically, aimed at Johnson. Unconfirmed rumors kept pop ping up that U.S. troops were , moving into the struggle - but In Washington at mid - morn ing Jufi tice Department sources _said no triicr E had been alerted. • NATIONAL AssdclattOn for the Advancement of Colored People said it had asked PiCai dent Kennedy to use troops to enroll Meredith if necessary but Press Secretary Pierre Salingar refused - to discuss future federal moves when, questioned in{ Wash ington. The exact role of troops ;is called in, remained In doubt. in Oxford, citizens generally be lieved they would usher - Meredith on campus and force his E enroll ment. In 3ackson, many believed troops would be used tot arrest the governor, I , Barnett—sworn to go to Jill rather than submit to desegrega tion—also has Implied be Will close Ole Miss rather than sub mit. Under court threat, Ole Miss Registrar, Robert Ellis, stood ready to register Meredith it the Negro ever gets as fur as Ellis' office in- the campus Administra tion Miilding. Rain - Expected Today; Cooler Weather Due Occasional rain is forecast, for today as a storm moves northeast ward from the:Carolinas. Temper atures should be near seasodal levels, and a high of 80 is expectO. A few shOwers and (tooter . trather are seen for tonight. The low will be near 42 degrees. Tomorrow should'be partly nin ny, breezy and cool.
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