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VOL 63. No. 21
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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= to have the affidavit repealed.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.
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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
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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.
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