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By MR AXILBUND j
(See Related Editorial) .
The University''penate yesterday afternoon
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passed by a narrow margin a olution calling
for a Reserve Officer Traiiiin Carps ; program
voluntaryfor all students.
The resolution was in the f of h recom
mendation t to. President Eri A. Walker and
the Board of Trustees that '
such a program be' ,
adOpted with the start of the summer term, 1963.
c The motion was approved 104 ..to 99 by
'written ballot. The votecame at the co nclusion
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of abOut an hour of debate on pros and tons
of the - resolution.
The difference between the motion adopted
by the Senate and the motion which was
Originally .proposed by the ;faculty of the Col
lege, of the Liberal Arts=that voluntary ROTC
be instituted for liberal arts students--stems •
from an amendment proposed during the de
bate.
THE AMENDMENT TO BROADEN the
scope of the liberal arts proposal was offered
by Leon Gorlow, senator from the College of
Education. His amendment, the only one offered
during the debate, also had the effect of ne
gating a major objection of the Senate's educa
tional policy committee—that special provisions
should not be made for individual units of
the University.
VOL. 63, No. 10 UNIVERSITY PARK. PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 3. 1962 ' FIVE CENTS
HUB Group
The Sahara Room, a student
operated night , club, will open
its doors this Saturday night in
the Hetzel Union ballroom.
The club will feature live music
for dancing ; and entertainment
will be provided during intermis
sion. Waiters will serve anything
ordered from the Lion's Den.
Tickets for the Sahara Room are
now on sale at . the Pretzel Union
-.desk or may be purchased at the
door for 41.60 a couple. •
• THE SAHARA ROOM which is
to be held every Saturday night
,is the the first project of the new
; student HUB committee.
The - student' HUB committee
was proposed and approved by the
Hetzel Union_ Board last spring
and held its organizational meet
ing last night.
As explained by George Hen
lug, student chairman, the l pur
pose of the committee is to co
ordinat the activities of the' HUB
and introduce new programs
Registrar Receives
Schedule Changes
The' Registrar's Office is now
accepting schedule changes for the
winter term, 1963, from students
who have revisions to make in
the schedules they filed at. regis
tration.
Deadlines for these schedule
changes or the filing of a winter
term schedule by those students
who did not do so at registration,
are: Seniors' and graduate stu
dents', Oct. 8; juniors, Oct. 'l2;
sophomores, Oct. 19; and fresh
men, Oct. 26.
Students filing revised sched
ules should see their adviser for
proper procedures and forms.
Ram Predicto l
itilar heating boosted the mer
cury into the- low lets for the
second successive day yesterday
afternoon. The high temperature,
officially, was 71 degrees. •
The high pressure cell that has
provided The siate 'with partly
cloudy skies and pleagant autumn
weather since'Sunday is begin. ,
ming to
.. - move eastward.
,
widespread,:areal of precipi
tation that has Vaught rain to the
central and southern states for
the past several days , is es-peewit
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FOE A BETTER PENN STATE
to Sponsor Night Club
suited to the interests and tastes
of the student body.
THE STUDENT HUE. commit
tee has the support of William F.
Fuller, HUB inazinger,l and has
been promised room on the sec
ond floor of the HUB and funds
to get on its feet.
After the program ,has gone
into effect the committee expects
through various projeOs to be
financially self-sufficient.
Positions are still open for stu
North Holls Men Fail
To. Cloini USG Petitions
With two Beata available on the
Undergraduate Student Govern
ment Congress for reprt%entatives
of North Halls men, no one has
"yq picked up a petition to, run
for office from that area.
• Signed petitions for ally USG Con
gress Seats and the freshman and
sophotnore class presidencies are
doe at 10 a.m. tomorrow in 202
Hetzel Union
i Li AREA
it S other than North
H3lls ihave at leasta; sufficient
number of petitions Circulating to
=insure filling the congressional
seats 11 enough signatures are ob
tained on the petitions. '
The areas, the allotted seats and
the number of petitions circulat
ing are: North Halls women, one
seat, 'two. petitions; town area,
ne, nine petitions; fraternity
azea, our, 11 petitions; East Halls
trien, hhe, one petition; East Halls
wcome.n, one, three petitions; West
}falls }men, two, six petitions.
!Also, West Halls women, one,
one petition; Pollock-South Hans
nien, 'two, four petitions; Pollock
lAiom n, two; three petitions,
Sbut Halls women, two, six pe
or Area Today
tO
mdve into the state hehind the
high Pressure cell.
I Rain is forecast to begin some
time Itoday and continue inter
ittently through tomorrow_
Temperatures should be some-
What I cooler than those of recent
days'ibecause of the cloud cover.
A high of 63 degrees is seen for
Oday, and a maximnia, of 62 is
likely tomorrow.
Tor t tight's low will be about 53
detNes.
1 Gradual clearing is forecast to
begin! Friday.
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VOLUNTARY ROTC BILL ADOPTED: Yesterday's adoption by
the Senate of a resolution calling for the end of compulsory
ROTC may, if approved by the Board of Trustees. be lb. start
ing point for the shorianing of columns of students now taking
the program.
dents on the committee. Mem
bership applications are available
now at the Retzel Union desk.
THE GOUP will be composed of
10 smaller committees to deal with
each of the areas - of interest. These
committees are social, recreation
al, art and literature, music, per
sonnel, publicity, house, hostess,
special events and films.
Each special committee will
choose a chairman who will meet
with- Henning -to coordinate ac
tivities. •
titiomi; Nittany Halls, one, three
petitions; Simmons - McElwain,
two, two petitions; and Atherton,
one, three petitions.
IN - ADDITION. five persons
picked up. petitions to run for
freshman class president and five
for sophomore class president.
PEACTICE zateze-rt The setbzn of - taxer to prat:tics their manavvers. Tins,
anausay ! blai .tinarporrataxas and class skies to members of ono of the squads sae shown above
tkia Onletnity weathat picture ymtarday pro• during ai practice mission yesterday afternoon
aided intramural tootiaill players with an appal'. on the Retail Union Building lawn.
Elective R• TC
After the ballot tally was announced.
Walker read a prepared statement in which he
said the University administration would sup
port the Senate decision.
HE ALSO SAID HS would present the
Senate's position to the; Board of Trustees with
all the vigor helcan command.
He said the Trustees would have .to review
the decision because there are aspicts of it
which go beyond the powers the Trustees have
delegated to the Senate.
These, he said, were ltgal and moral ques
tions implied or specified in the University's
obligation to the state and nation. He predicted,
however, that the Truitees would, perhaps by
a vote as cloie as the Senate's, accept the
recommendation.,
Ben Euwema, dean of the College of the
Liberal Arts, opened the discussion by pro
posing the motion of the college's 'faculty that
ROTC be made voluntary for liberal - arta stu
dents. -
THE FIRST SPEAKER for the proposal
was Warren SMith, chairman of the sub-com
mittee of the Liberal Arts Planning CommitAt*
which prepared a report showing cause to the"
Senate why the proposal shoujd be adopted.
Joseph GlRayback, chairman of the mili
tary instructs , committee, and J. J. &hunt
(Continued on page five)
Schirra to Try
6-Orbit Flight
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UP)
—Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr.
entered the final phases of prepa
ration for a six-orbit journey
around the earth today, and them
was a possibility that much of
Europe might witness the launch
ing on television. .
Improving weather conditions
in the Atlantic and Pacific areas
where the Mercury capsule might
come down increased the chances
that the spacecraft might race
into orbit any time between 1 7
a.m. and 10 a.m. Eastern Stard
dard time today.
IF THE LAUNCHING occurs
between 7:45 and 8:15 a.m., the
Telstar communications sateltite
will be within range so that Ifre
coverage of the liftoff could
sent almost instantaneously to
viewers in 17 countries of the
Eurovision network in Europe.) •
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NA4A)
said conferences are also under
way in Paris leading to possible
hookup with the nine Soviet bloc
countries of Europe's network.*
The U.S. plan calls for an eight
minute Telstar transmission to
Europe„lf the launch comes dur
ing that period. NASA hopes to
be able to show Europe the last
two to four minutes of pre-taunch
activity and the four-minute
climb until the launching rocket
is out of sight.
TM TRANSMISSION would
go by land line to the sending
station at Andover, Maine, and
then by Te/star. After eight mitt
utes there would be a like period
available for relay to the United
States 4l from a station in France,
of thel European reactions to the
showing..
The. space agency said the as
tronaut and Leroy Gordon. Cooper
Jr., his backup pilot; his space
'craft and his Atlas rocket appear
all to be in good condition for
flight and have completed the
first part of a split countdown
with no trouble.
A 28-ship armada plus 143 air
craft ; and 22 parachmte-medical
teams began final deployment
yesterday to rescue the astronaut'
wherever and whenever he re
turts from space.
TO. LAUI4CI4 THE 39-year-old'
Navy commander into space,
track him through six orbits or
less and then pluck him from the
Atlantic or Pacific oceans reqUiree
the cooperation of about 30,000
men, including 17,000 from the
armed forces.
Two separate Navy task force.
will be deployed, one In the Pa.
eitie under Capt. Thomas S. King
Jr.. and the other in the Atlantic
under Rear.. Adm. Harold G.
Bowen.
Since there; are nine places
where he might come down in the
Atlantic, Bowen's fleet IM much
larger than that in the Pacific..