roth's
•
{An Editorial}
• We 'feel that yet - terday's banning of
,the
- State Froth 4orsii this campus . was a most
thl, • tom, d unfoUnded decision by
Committee on Stu dent Organizations. -
The Committee based its reasons for charter
rerf r ation on Froth's Past. Indeed, .the committee
evenldragged out of the closet reprimands written
in 1951 about Froth.'These rePrimancls were
addressed to Froth advisors, a student government
president and two of the Froth staff. Three of
these :five letters were presented as evidence only
in !closed' executive session and were never shown
to 1 the accused. This, tactic in itself is extremely
urijust.
' The defense Prepaired by Robert M. Poclcrass.
Froth literary advisor, summed charges presented
by the deans of men and women. But the hub of
- ,
couversation during the hearing between Froth
Five Reasons Presented
41CommitteisStatement
For Charter 'Revocation
By IiVINME BOYIE
. j and AL BUTICt i I ,
The Penn ' State oth was
banned from campus yesterday. -
• lAfter nearly seven hours of de
lilteration,'the"Committee on Stu
dent ; Organizations released a
!threerpage statement which offi
tally !halted the maga4ine's pub
:liation. " -
". Li 1 the corninittee's ! report, it
was; explained that "this action
should not be construed to mean
that the 'University intends to ban
student criticism of and comment
- owany.aspect of the University."
. The committee also expressed
arecognition of a "place for a
resrionsible 'humor magazine. at
The, Pennsylvania , State Univer
sity."
The,
report listed five specific
reasons for the suspension of the
inagazineln charter. They were as
fellows:, _
_; _- • '
i.oFrotlf - Juis almost exclusively
concerned itself with a limited
aspect• of humor which relies on
shock appeal. This indicates ad
"underdeveloped sense of resport
sibility.7 .
i ie Over the last ten ,years, five
official, written warnings had no
affect on Froth'S editOrial policy
and thettiagazine's esators did not
take ad,vantage of the* warnings
to "clean - its own • htinse.. -
. I o Tb.o _ image of Freth created
Over- aiperiod of years n would be
difficult to . change. '!
. ,roiThtta^atpepd that roved
the consti hoard tutio
n of
oth of
Directors is to meet ;four fifties
cluringj the academic' year. This
has not been followed. •
1 0 Freth's failure ot ! follow,the
081 constitution 'gave no asstir
- onceat a revised constitution
-mould ult in increased respon
tabilit •
' vs
f At
p l ) e o hearing yelday morn:.
ingi _ th's rppresen fives 'were
'asked; 1 - give their de in On
iiwer to charges brought against
thO Magazine by Doro th y J. Lipp,
' -
I ` • ' I • ,' '
sip to _
.'ear,
i
1111 , 1;con 'Fr tit-
A caning' for 'the Under-'
grad,l
ate Stud Government
~ongress to express rstrong dis
approinl." of the 'University's
action] banning Froth magazine
i f
ne
ell w il l introduced ! by • Margaret
c e C (Pollock) when the new
!
on convenes fOr _ the first
t a tonight. .
..
If McDowell said last night
at ske will propose the measure
because she feels it is the preroga;
ve of. the students ', ]rather than
the; Ultversity to take action ori
Fro - th.. - .
t•Themtv C o ngress' ill be sworn
n - ,at :the meting, consider five
ajppoiOtaments byt. , USG Piesident
Dean.liyluirtott and heer two other
11413_ .'1 ' n '
Beelfuie of. an uairignty,coni,
'-*- the correct numberpf men
Lti the, town ima, onlk aft
evecknueo cleated last Inv*
swoni its at_thii time. ; . 1
Charter
dean of women, and -Frank J
Simes, dean of men.,
Robert_M: pockrass, faculty ad
visor.'presented a seven-page pre
pared statement of defense.
In his statement, he conceded
that Dean Lipp and Dean Simes
had legitimate reason for criti
cizing the September issue of
Froth.
THE STATEMENT questioned,
however, "whether or not the
publication' of 'material offensive
to members of the University
staff is' sufficient reason for deny
ing students the right to continue
to publish a humor magazine un
der any conditions."
- By Pocky:is? oivn description,
the most • serious charge made
against the magazine was that it
contained material •'that was "oh-
Scene and/or salacious."
• In defense, the statement
,said
that the one clear-cut federal - law
on obscenity states that obscene
material can not be sent through
the U.S. mail. Froth has never
been denied Mailing privileges.
NO DECISION has been made,
by the faculty advisor and the co
editors of the magazine as to
whether or not they will appeal
the decision of the Committee
oh Student Organizations. •
STUDENTS PICKED DL - Baztrani (Ist
.lTheral lab-1 1 14440W, left arid Carl David
sea (411h.pbytlipa) ilekalod an Callsya ;
restaiday with -ether members -os
-•
SENSELPickets Agamst Blockade
Approximately 20 members of
Sink E, Student* for. peate, -re
ceived• both. ridicule and praise
yesterday as they demonstrated
against President Kennedy's na
val quarantine of. Cuba..
The students, who —picketed
along College Avenue
_and S.
Allen Street from 7:30 a.m.' to
5:30 p.m.: carried , placards saying,
".USSRInd USA endanger peace."
"We don't want , war" and "The
Odd Wa4 l r op hotter." -
labia distributed
-; vrplain'A . ng Its reasons,
and the committee members revolved around the
future of the magazine as well as the set of pro
posals which Froth had prepared to revamp their
arganizatkim
Troth's - recommendations for improvement,
which in themselves greatly restricted The maga
zine's freedom, were scoffed at by the committee
in its decisive statement
The committee brushed off Froth's proposals,
saying that because Froth failed in explicitly. ad
hering to their constitution in the past year, there
is "no assurance that revision will result in in
-creased responsibility."
in its decision. the committee completely over
stepped its hounds as a rational. decision-making
group by using a statement, which Froth ?spiv
selitatives made in the heating. oat of context and
-to the direct advanfagis, of Froth's opposition.
VOL. 62. No. 25 UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCT. 24. 1962 FIVE CENTS
Soviet Forces
Into Combat
MOSCOW yej Denouncing
the U.S. arms quarantine agrinst
Cuba as a step toward world
thermonuclear war, the Soviet
Union yesterday ordered its
armed forces into a state of com
bat readiness.
Forces of the Warsaw Pact—
Communist counterpart of the
North Atlantic .Treaty • Organiza
tion—followed suit.
THE ORDERS formilitary pre
paredness came alter the Soviet
government issued ."a warning"
over the action, ordered by Presi
dent Kennedy against Cuba.
The Soviet 'Defense Ministry
halted discharges of servicemen
of the senior age groups in the
strategic rocket forces, antiair
craft defense units and the sub
marine fleet. It ordered all mili
tary leaves canceled.
A. government statement said it
"resolutely rejected" : President
,Kennedy's announcement that
for the derOoristraticnt to both
Students •and non-students. Sev
eral persons ridiculed them while
others seemed happy to see their
efforts, one of the demonstrating
students, said. • r
The snernhosi of SENSE de
cided to, demonstrate against
Kennedy's- action after the Presi
dent , delivered ibis speech to the
nation 'Tuesday night, Richard
Nelffrich, group spo ke sman, said.
'YOU MU justify both Rus
sia's and the United States' ac
tions lin establishing military
Withdrawn
• .
4.,
afrit
,legititt
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
American naval forces now pa
trolling the Caribbean would stop
and search shipt, including Soviet
bound for Cuba. It did not say
clearly, however, that the Soviet
Union would continue sending
ships to Cuba.
To President Kennedy's charge
that the Soviets had started an
offensive buildup in Cuba, the So
viet government statement re
plied that its shipments of arms
to Cuba were only, for defensive
wrposes.
It made no clearcut denial,
however, that missile bases capa
ble of launching rockets were
_be
ing installed in - Cuba.
THE SOVIET UNION puts its
own brand on the American de
cision to stop and search ships
to prevent a further arms build
up in Cuba.
"The people of all countries
must be clearly aware," the
statement said, "that undertaking
sm.= Students for Peace. The group was pro
test:4m President Kennedy's decision to block
ade Cube.
bases on foreign soil)-Or yOU most
justify neither- We (SENSZ) jus
tify neither," Heinrich said.
At
r ,one point, when: 13 people,
both students and , non-students,
were discu3sing the pickets' views,
a State College policeman asked
the people to move on because
they were blocking traffic, lief
frich said.'
Aside frord this action Reif
frich tatd, there were nO other
disturb on. ances 'during the demon
strati
In the healing, eo-editor Fd Uric stated that
Froth had been operating under an "image" for the
past 53 years, and because little or no student
opinion or direct complaints had been levied at the
magazine, Froth was not aware of dissatisfaction.
He added that this long-standing image would b e
hard to erase but that a change would , be made- in
view of student dissatisfaction.
The committee, in one of the most elemental
fallacies of good logic, stated that: "During the
hearing, Froth representatives stated that they had
been operating wider the "image of Froth" created
over a period of years and that it, would be diffi
cult to change this image. The Committee agrees."
We think this is the height of insult to a fair
and Just hearing. It reveals twisting of facts or
opinions stated in context to the point where they
(Continued on page four)
Ordered
Readiness
such a gamble. the United States
of America is taking a step along
the road of unleashing a therm°.
nuclear world war. •
"Cynically flouting intern*:
tional standards of conduct. of
s
l
states and the prihci les of the
charter of the United , ations, the
United State s usurpe the right,
and announced this, to attack
ships of other states on the high
seas, i.e., to engage in piracy."
BUT TWO THINGS which were
not in the statement persuaded
some official and unofficial ob
servers that the Soviets had taken
a moderate line, despite some of
the harsh words directed at Pres
ident Kennedy and the United
States.
First, while President Kennedy
said the United States would be
prepared to defend its position in
the Berlin arca; the Soviet state
ment didn't even mention Berlin
or Germany.
Second, the Soviet government
did • not outline any of the pos
sible specific actions it might
have ordered in reply to the
American proposal to search ships
to stop "offen*ive" types of arms
reaching Cuba.
There was no action against
the Berlin corridor, nor any in
dication, as yet r that Lthe Soviet
government might convoy Its
supply ships to Cuba and thus put
the American fleet face to face
with Soviet warships.
Fourteen hours alter President
Kennedy's announcement, th e
Russian nation learned -for the
first time of the U.S. quarantine
against Cuba.
Atwater Sees
No Cuban War
%The United States and the So
viet Union will -not go to war
over the Cuban situation, but
will play the game of "chicken"
until one backs down, Elton At
water, head of - the department of
political science, said lad night
"I think that we should look
at this situation against the-back
ground of American bases around
the world, We established therm
defensively to check Soviet int
panslon, but never succeeded in
persuading the Soviet Union that
they -were only defensive," At
water said.
"Now the situation is in the
reverse, and whether something
.is offensive or 'defensive depends
on who is giving the definition.
"At present, it is necessary to
challenge the Soviet intentions in
Cuba and:let them back down;in
order to strengthen our position
in other areas like. Berlin and
Lac.- " hn •