iaita (£nU?otatt I VOL-63.'N0. 63 ySG Seeks 2nd Student On Discipline Committee By JOAN HARTMAN and PENNY WATSON - .The request for an additional voting student member to serve on the Senate Subcommittee, oh Discipline and the investigation of the four-term plan were both unanimously approved by the Undergraduate Student Govern ment Congress last night. The subcommittee bill stemmed from a recommendation made by the judicial workshop at the USG encampment in the summer. At that time Lawrence H. Lattman, chairman of the Senate Commit tee oh Student Affairs, endorsed this recommendation, Katherine Johnson (South) said. The members of the subcom mittee seem to favor the addition of another student member, USG President Dean Wharton said. THE PRESENT voting student members are the USG President or the. president of the Associa tion of Women Students; depend ing on whether the case involves male or. female students.' A second bill passed last night established a committee to evalu ate the four-term system. The committee will examine all facts of college life with special em phasis on the final exam period and vacation periods. After a lengthy debate. Con gress postponed indefinitely action on a bill to condemn the House of Un-American Activities and an amendment to debate na tional and international affairs, JON -GEIGER (fraternity), East Coast, Midwest Hit by Cold Wave A sudden invasion of cold and snow moved into Pennsyl vania yesterday, causing at least one highway death and scores of minor mishaps. Snow accumulations of two to six inches were forecast for Western and Central Pennsyl vania by evening. The snow was expected to move across the state from the west with a mass of arctic air. 5 The first thin layer of'snow, chilled by plunging tempera tures, made Western Pennsyl vania roads treacherous. Most areas reported only minor acidents. Traffic in Pitts burgh piled up in massive traf fice jams as minor skidding ac cidents blocked a number of main highways. . The. western portion of the Pennsylvania Turnpike wa3 covered by snow. Speed limits were lowered in some areas, but traffic continued to flow smoothly. • TEMPERATURES in the western and central regions were expected to dip to lows of minus eight last night, and in the east to the teens. A polar cold wave shattered weather records across much of the Midwest, yesterday and fanned outward to the Gulf and Atlantic coastal states. Temperatures in parts of the Midwest, locked in a wintry vise for nearly two weeks, were near their lowest levels of this century. 1 Snow, strong winds and rain changing to sleet accompanied the arctic surge. - Thousands of. schools, were closed in Illinois, lowa, Ohio, Tennessee and Kentucky be cause of numbing cold or snow covered roads. Residents of a vast'area from the northern and central Rock ies eastward across the upper half of the Mississippi Valley ’and Michigan shivered in sub zero cold. Zero readings-were recorded as far south as the Texas Panhandle. .. . UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24. 1963 sponsor of the bill ,said he be lieved, that it is a necessary func tion of student government to ex press student views in this area. - The main' point of the opposi tion was that congressmen do not know the opinions of their con stituents on national and inter national affairs. At the conclusion of the meet ing, Harry Grace (town) an nounced that he would sponsor a bill next week on the question of the mandate of Southwest Africa. Congress* decision on this ques tion would then be presented in the model United Nations, Grace said. Fraternities Punished For Pledge Hazing Alpha Chi Sigma and Alpha Sigma Phi fraternities had their social privileges removed for varying ■ periods of time by the Interfraternity Council Board of Control Tuesday evening for vio lations of the recently ;passed standard of principles concerning pledge, hazing. • . Gary Stiles, board chairman, said Alpha Chi Sigma, convicted for having pledges engage in ac tivities outside the fraternity house. All social privileges for the fraternity have been revoked “'l-n-A f^^v^Ji WHITE WEATHER'and freez ing winds invaded the campus as well as other parts of the nation yesterday and sent cold blooded, animals running' for cover. Trying to make his way up the Mall through the storm is Douglas Bennion (graduate petroleum engineering- Univer sity Perk). FOR A BETTER PENN STATE In other business, Elections Commission ’Chairman George Jackson recommended that all congressional candidates be re quired to submit a petition. In the present elections code, congres sional candidates may be nomi nated by political parties without submitting petitions. Jackson also recommended that all special and runoff elections be eliminated. All vacancies on Congress must now be filled within two weeks after such a vacancy occurs. These recommendations will come before Congress later in the form of a bill, Jackson said. from midnight Sunday to mid night, Feb. 10. Alpha Sigma Phi was convicted of hazing pledges, Stiles said. So cial privileges were removed at midnight Tuesday and will not be restored until midnight April 7, he said. ALPHA SIGMA PHI'S social privileges were removed for sev en weeks because of the greater severity of the violation, Stiles said. Roger Long, Alpha Chi Sigma president, and Frank Moyes,- Al pha Sigma Phi president, ap peared before the board Tuesday evening to present their defenses, Stiles said. The board -then dis cussed each case and convicted both houses, he added. The,, standard of principles, which was unanimously adopted by IFC two weeks ago, is intend ed to cut down hazing practices, Stiles said. Stiles added that he enumer ated four areas of the principles which the board would pay par ticular attention to at the closed session of the IFC meeting Mon day-night. THE STANDARD of principles prohibits physical contact of any type with pledges, pledge activi ties which occur outside the fra ternity house and “bad food,” which could conceivably upset the digestive system, he said. It also requires that pledges have at least six continuous hours of sleep per 24-hour period, Stiles said. He said-he stressed at the meet ing that fraternities must conform to the standard of principles, par ticluarly the' four sections he enumerated. He said that the .Board of Control reserves, the right to check houses and will also consider reports from the Dean of Men’s office, Campus Pa trol and State College police. Board of Trustees Convenes Today The Board of Trustees will con vene today in Harrisburg for its three-day semi-annual meeting. - The question of whether or not to convert the Reserve 'Officers Training Corps program from compulsory to optional is the only item on the agenda to be made public. The issue is one of the major proposals before the board ap proved by the University Sen ate in its October - meeting by a slim margin of 105-99. The Board will spend today and tomorrow in committee meetings to consider .each of the items on the agenda. They will convene in two general sessions on Saturday. ..At the first general 'meeting President Eric A. Walker will speak on. the .University activi ties since , last summer’s meeting. The final session will concern itself with general discussion and Senate Speculates On Cuban Buildup WASHINGTON (/P) The Cuban issue erupted with re newed force in the Senate yesterday over reports of a new around-the-clock Soviet military buildup on Prime Minister Fidel, Castro’s island. Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore., ordered an immediate investigation. Mbrse said he has asked the State Department for a quick briefing for his Senate Lalin- American Affairs subcommittee. His staff said it has been tenta tively set for 10 a.m. Friday. Wit nesses will be announced Thurs day. SEN. KENNETH B. Keating, R- N.Y., who was one of the first to sound the alarm -last year over reports of Soviet offensive mis siles in Cuba, also told a reporter he has “confirmed by official gov ernment sources” that a new in tensive buildup is under way. He said it involves tanks, guns, amphibious vehicles, large amounts of ammunition, planes, torpedo boats and other Soviet -weapons pouring into the island. The flurry was touched off by a New York,Times News Service report that the Soviet Union is building and improving "highly sophisticated ground and air de fenses." THE WASHINGTON-dated dis patch said large shipments of weapons are continuing to arrive, Soviet encampments are being re located and strengthened, Soviet experts are directing Cubans in constructing underground depots, hangars and runways. But it said Soviet troops exclusively are working on some sites that are closed to Cuban military person nel. The construction was reported concentrated between Havana and the San Antonio de Los Banos air base, in Camaguey Province, and in the Sierra Maestra area of Oriente Province. Informants in the State and De fense departments asked about the reports, said military construction in Cuba is proceeding at a normal pace and is defensive in character. KEATING CLAIMED Cuba is now 10 times stronger than it was last July 1 just before the Soviet missiles and bombers—later with drawn under pressure from Pres ident Kennedy were landed there. He said the weapons include MIG fighter planes capable of carrying nuclear weapons with a range that could cover many areas in the United States .and Latin America. Independents Work wife Iri Si§ In Attempt To Bui •, A group of girls interested in building the membership of Sig ma Sigma Sigma sorority have made arrangements with Nancy M. Vanderpool, Panhellenic Coun cil adviser, and with the Sorority to work with them dui’ing the current open bid period, Sandra Short (sth-arts and letters- Medina, N.Y.), said last night. According to the plan, the group of independent women will con tact women interested in joining the sorority and then submit a list to Sigma Sigma Sigma. The sorority has agreed to make selec tions for extending open bids from this list. Miss Short, one of four girls to originate the plan, said that ap proximately 75 girls have been interviewed since the end of Formal Rush. . THE SORORITY ribboned 18 coeds Tuesday bringing the cur rent total membership to 51. Mrs. Vanderpool said that the group has been granted permis sion to continue rushing until the end of the term. The Panhellenic Council usually limits the period for open bids to four to six weeks, she said. The group may also rush girls Dotes Set For AWS Primaries Primary elections for the As sociation of Women Students will be held Feb. 18 and 19 and final elections will be held Feb. 21, it was decided at the AWS meeting last night. Election applications may be ob tained at the Hctzel Union desk beginning Saturday. The com pleted forms are due no later than Feb. 8 at the HUB desk. A change was made in the AWS elections code to permit candi dates to begin campaigning imme diately after the applications have been filled out arjd submitted. This change was made to com pensate for the short campaign period. In a special report, it was an nounced that a temporary com mittee of AWS members has been set up to select a permanent com mittee to investigate the “lack of educational atmosphere" and to try to improve the environment at the University. THIS COMMITTEE will select 25 students for the permanent committee from nominations by department heads and applica tions. After the 25 have been chosen, the committee will be placed under the USG Educational Com mission. In other business, AWS an nounced that it will sponsor the Bishop’s Company, a group of pro fessional actors who present plays to colleges, universities and church groups all over the coun try. The group will present “An Episode of Sparrows” on Feb. 22 in Schwab. who do not have the Panhel aver age requirement or have not pre viously registered for rush, Mrs. Vanderpool said. However, all the girls ribboned so far have ful filled these requirements, she added. The sorority has also decided to limit pledging to three weeks and delay election of»officers until pledges have been initiated to help assimilate the groups as quickly as possible, she said. Froth Study Slated The Undergraduate Student Government committee estab lished to structure a new humor magazine will meet today, to try to fill the gap left by the English Department’s refusal to act in an advisory capacity to the publica tion. George L. Donovan, chairman of the Committee on Student Or ganizations, which is reviewing F’-oth’s proposed constitution, said yesterday he is still hopeful oi cii„rt„ring a ntw'humov maga zine with a constitution strong enough to last for many years to ecme. FIVE CENTS
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