„, ,,x l .. t •, 4. . 'tau Weather Forecast: -11 l e .” El i ttil . 11 ::!"1 1 7 : 11 . 1 4 _ I Sunny, ‘4/0k (gliltrigl" r i Pleasant • : \ rmi , _....... i 1 -- VOL 63. No. 21 11 111111111111111111111111111111111U11111111111111M11111111U11111111111111111111111111111111e Kennedy Signs Bill Eliminating NDEA's Non-Communist Oath By Stu,dent Loan Applicants = WASHINGTON (A) A student no longer will have to = sign a non-Communist oath to qualify for a government loan under the National Defense Education Act. President Kennedy, signed legislation yesterday_wiping out • the requirement and declared "I am glad to do so."' • When he was 'a senator, Kennedy twice tried and failed = to have the affidavit repealed. The oath requirement, Kennedy 'said in a statement, has .1 caused 32 colleges to stay out of the student loan program and = many others participated reluctantly. The reason, as pointed E out in `testimony by several spokesmen for the colleges, was =. that the oath "discriminated against college students and was E offensive to them;' the President said. THE LEGISLATION AMENDS the National Science Foun- E dation and National Defense Education laws. It voids a provis ion requiring any .scientist, teacher or other student applying • for a loan or grant to sign an oath declaring he neither believes = in, belongs to, nor supports any organization that teaches (Jr = believes in the overthrowing of the governMent by force or F.- illegal means. ,The law now makes it illegal for anyone to apply for a 1E loan of 'grant if he is a member of a Communist organiz#tion _registered under the Subversive Activities Control Act. .. It also requires those Who receive fellowships or advanced = foreign language training funds to furnish a list of any crimes E they have committed or serious criminal charges pending against them. 211111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111er: TIM Committee . Rejects Coed's Council Petition A special Town Independent Men's committee has recommend ed that a coed's petition to join the . TIM council be rejected be cause her membership would en tail a complete constitutional rel. • Michael Thomsen, chairman of the committee, said last night that the committee would recommend that the coed, Margaret Umberger (Ist--arts and letters--S tate Col lege), be named special assistant to the council with no voting privileges. The' committee ' also recom mended that Miss Umberger be allowed to participate on commit tees of the council. Thomsen said. THE RECOMMENDATIO NS are subject to the final approvill of the' council at its meeting Mon day night, Thomsen said. The present constitution calls for an organization of "indepen dent men" and states that "all male students enrolled as under graduates at' the University are eligible for membership." A name change, as well as 'a UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 18. 1962 revision of the entire structure, would be needed in order for Miss Umberger to become a member of the council, Thomsen said. Miss Umberger said last night that she applied for the council because independent women living off campus need 'Univer sity representation. INDEPENDENT women living off campus are automatically members of •the Association of Women Students, but Miss Urn berger said she felt that it is not the "correct place for them to be represented." Since AWS is set up on a com munity council system,•in which representation is determined by residence hall areas, town girls receive no direct representation, Miss Umberger said. She' said she felt that coeds living on campus were not able to fully understand • problems of girls living in State College. For these reasons, independent girls living off campus need direct rep resentation, such as membership on TIM would provide. FOR A BETTER PENN STAIR Sinoway,Miller Win Class Presidencies By JOAN HARTMAN and MEL AXILHUND Ronald Sinoway " (Ist - liberal arts-Bethlehem) and Bruce Miller (4th - arts and letters-Hazleton) won the presidencies of their re spective classes yesterday. From the full-time undergrad uate student body,. 3190 students, or about 21 percent, turned out to vote in the 3-day voting per iod to elect the Undergraduate Student Government ; Congress and two class president'. The per centage was lower than it has been in recent years. George Jackson, elections corn mission chairman, called the turn out "very poor.", , THE CLOSEST voting occurred in the town area where a tie de veloped for its eighth seat on the Congress. A run-off election between Burt Kaplan and David Wasson will be held Oct. 31 in conjunction with the mock elections, Jackson said. Both Kaplan and Wasson were write-in candidates and each re ceived 11 votes. The five candidates Who sub mitted 'petitions for the town area were elected. They are George Gordon, Harry Grace, Harry Mc- Henry, Walter Pilo" and Alan White. Two write-in candidates, George Ruthmell and Alan Wolf, were also elected. FIVE FRATERNITY area rep resentatives elected out of a field of eight were Jon Geiger, 214 votes; Fred Good, 208: Michael Dzvonik, 204: Michael Stoll, 225; and Peter Lockhart, 303. Joseph Bent with 124 votes and Gary Jones with 81 were elected representatives for North Halls men, and Nancy Grace received 90 Grade System Investigation Approved „Investigation of various grad ing systems without a specifically desired result in mind at this time was approved last night by the Undergraduate Student Govern ment Grading System Commit tee. • Approval of an open-minded investigation followed a discus sion of various grading systems by Sandra Katinsky, committee chairman. Miss Katinsky said that the re sults of correspondence with 40 colleges revealed four or five other systems in use but no uni- BRUCE MILLER votes to become the representative for North Halls women. Simmons-McElwain representa tives elected were Barbara Baer and Ethel Gardner. They received 274 and 131 votes respectively. The sole candidate selected from Atherton was Carolyn Drts ml with 66 votes. KATHERINE JOHNSON. 203 votes, and Carol McFadden, 137, were- the winners in the South Halls women's race. • Margaret McDowell and Mar- Cgret Murphy were elected to the ongress by Pollock women. They received 149 and 187 votes re spectively. In the East Halls women's area, Marjorie Levy won a corigression- from agreement on their pros and cons. Both Miss Katinsky arid USG President Dean Wharton 'said re peatedly in discussing the work of the committee that, for the time being, it should consider it self only an investigative body. TO FURTHER the investigation, Susan Dyer (4th-liberal arts-Ship pensburg), was appointed chair man of a sub-committee which will tabulate the grading systems in use at other colleges throughout the nation. The sub-committee gets its information from cata logues filed In the Admissions Office. The systems tabulation should take about three weeks. Miss Ka tinsky said. After the results of the study have been given to the USG Congress in an interim re port, other sub-committees will 'Ella' May Affect Area Weather Hurricane Ella stepped up her movement toward the Carolina coast yesterday afternoon, and residents of the eastern Carolinas have been warned to begin taking precautions for the preservation of life and property. Wnds are forecast to reach gale force from Georgetowni= S.C. to Cape Hatteras, N.C. late today, and portions of the North Caro lina coast may feel the full fury of this large and intensifying storm late tonight. The hurricane has been moving erratically in the seneral direction of the United States mainland since its birth early Monday. HOWEVER, it wasn't until 3T 3- terday afternoon that the threat to the coast became obvious when the storm increased its forward speed from 6 to 10 miles an hour, and highest winds near Oka eye increased from 60 to 80 mites an hour. Greart aisponsaility --Soo Pogo 4 RONALD SINOWAY a/ seat with 135 votes John German, who ran unop posed for the one East Halls men's scat, received 100 votes. Alan Cramer, a write-in candi date from Nittany area, was elec ted with 17-votes. There were no names on- the Nittany ballot as a result of the withdrawal last Week of Daniel Sinichnick. JAY LEVY and Thomas Mus umeci were elected from the poi lock-South area. In West Halts women's area, Barbara Bahh, running unop posed, wag elected. Harry Dugan and Arthur Luhmann. with 67 and 78 votes respectively, wen* elected from the West Halts men'a area. begin to function. The other 1615- committees are student poll. fi nancial and faculty-administra tive. Wharton said that In spite ot. the University Party platform plank favoring a direct equivalent grading system, it was the corn mittee's task to investigate 1 4 11 possible systems different from that now in effect and recommend an• alternative, if one is thought necessary, •• SOME ALTERATIVE systems' mentioned at the meeting include: pass-fail, '•honor -pass-fail. nu merical grades, four point with plus and minus factor and fiv* point. _ The committee may not see the results of its study and recom mendation brought to reality, he said, hut shnuld think of the long run improvements which may re sult from Its work. Further intensification Is pos sible today, and winds near the renter may reach 100 miles -an hour. 'Me hurricane may effect the weather in Pennsylvania late to morrow or Saturday. THE RAIN and wind may spread northward into Virginia, Delaware, Maryland and eastern Pennsylvania tomorrow. • In the State College area, today should be sunny and pleasant with a high temperature of 65 degrees. High, wispy.elouds may begin showing up to the south late in the day. Partly cloudy skies and cool' weather are seen for tonight. The low will be about 40 degrees. Clouds should .increase and thicken tomorrow with min prob ably beginning late : in the day or at night. A high of 80 is ex pected. FIVE CENTS
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