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VOL. 63. No. 72 UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.; WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB. 6.-1963'
USG To
Revising
By JOAN HARTMAN
Bills to revise several phases of
the present elections system of the
Undergraduate Student Govern
ment will be brought before the
USG Congress tonight.
Congress will meet •at 7:30 in
203 Hetzer Union Building.
A' BY-LAW amendment, which
did not pass the Rules Committee
last week because of poor word
ing, requires• all congresSional
candidates to submit a signed
petition. A two-thirds vote of
Congress is required for' by-law
amendments:
Under the present by-laws, can
didates may also be nominated by
political parties and; therefore, do
not have -to submit petitions.
Stricken Frosh
Sent to Hospital
For Lab Tests
Steven Edelson (2nd-arts and
letters-Rockville Centre, N.Y.)
was taken to Geisinger Medical
Center in Danville yesterday for
tests aimed, at determining if he
has a - strain of meningitis.
The Department of Public In
formation, in releasing inform :.
tion about Edelson, stressed that
it will be several days before
tests confirm or disprove the sus
picion of officials at Geisinger
and the Ritenour' Health Center
that the 18-year-old _student has
a form of meningitis. -
Students who live ' near Edel
son in Lyons were' given medi
cation last night as a pre
cautionary measure because some
forms of the disease are conta
gious. Other students who may
have beep in close contact with
him can' also obtain medication
at Ritenour.
Edelson was admitted to Rite
nour Monday night after he was
treated twice for an ear infection
earlier that day. Yesterday morn
ing he was 'transferred to Gei
singer after officials suspected he
might be suffering from a strain
of the disease.
Officials at Geisinger concurred
in suspecting meningitis and be
gan confirmatory tests.
Edelson's parents; Mr. and Mrs.
David Edelson, have been noti
fied and his father joined him at
Geisinger yesterday.
.
Committee
On • Froth
A decision by the Committee on
Student Organizations on whether
to recommend chartering a new
campus humor magazine Should
be reached sometime _tomorrow,
Leßoy S. Austin, acting Chairman
of the committee said yesterday,
THE LACK of a quorum pre
vented a—definite decision from
being - made- at yesterday's meet
ing. George L. Donovan, com
mittee chairman, was absent be
cause of jury duty in Bellefonte;
Ruth Falk, student member of the
committee, was ill; and Fred
Waelchli,-the other student mem
ber, was absent without giving
an excuse. Waelchli said he could
not attend the meeting because of
academic reasons.
Austin said that the remaining
persons on the — committee dis-,
cussed and r eached ` in . informal
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Consider
Elections.
Liberal Party Chairman George
Gordon said last night that he is
"unalterably opposed to all the
proposed changes."
"The- by-law . amendment runs
directly counter to the constitu
tions of the three parties," Gordon
said.
"If he (Jon Geiger, sponsor of
the bills) ' insists on pushing
through these 'actions of abomi
nations, Liberal party will insist
on a referendum on the question
of political parties and the USG
constitution," he said.
He cited-the referendum on po
litical parties held last year as
evidence that the student body
does want political parties to
nominate candidates.
In last year's referendum stu
dents voted 3,023 to 1,716 in favor
of having political parties nomi
nate candidates for Congress.
In a .letter to The Daily Col
legian last week, University Party
Chairman Francis Conte said that
his party "enthuSiastically sup
ported" this by-law amendment.
However, he added, students
Walker Reveals 3,000 Student efkit
In University's Expansion Program
By TONY FOGLIO
The University is at least 3,000
students behind in its expansion
program at this time, Eric A.
Walker, president of the Univer
sity,- said last night at Theta Xi
fraternity.
Walker said that between 25,000
and 26,000 students sho - uld now
be enrolled. Instead, he said, there
are only 22,000 students .on this
campus and the University's 13
commonwealth campuses. ,
TWO REASONS - for falling be
hind in the expansion prograM
are that the freshman class for the
past three -years has been small
and the number of students grad
uated hag increased from one
third to two-thirds of their class,
Prexy said.
The added difficulty of obtain
ing more funds from the 'state
legislature is another_ reason why
the University has not kept pace
with its expansion program, the
President said. ,
Walker said he based his figures
on the over-all expansion plans
May Make Decision
Charter Tomorrow
decision on some of the issues
facing the committee. -He declined
to giVe the exact nature of the dis
cussions.
• He explained that he will meet
separately with Miss Falk and
Waelchli today and tomorrow.
After hearing their views, Austin
said, •the_ decision should .be an
nounced presuming - "they haven't
radically changed their mind since
the last meeting."
Austin noted that he felt the
"major hurdles had ' been con
quered" in yesterday's session.
He stressed, however, that no
student was present and it would
not be fair to have announced a
decision without first, consulting
them. ,
If the Committee on Student
,Orgapizations recommends ,
_char
tering the proposed' Froth, the
Bills
System
should 'be able to sign as many
petitions as there are congres
sional positions open in the area.
At the present time, students may
only sign one candidate's peti
tion. -
Campus Party Chairman Robert
Perugini was unavailable for com
ment. -
THE SECOND change that Gei
ger is propoSing eliminates special
congressional elections. This pro
posal requires a constitutional
amendment.
The amendment states• -that
when a congressman is disquali
fied from membership, the candi
date who was the runner-up in
the election will serve for the re
mainder of the - unexpired term. If
the disqualified congressman had
run unopposed, then the area
council president - will appoint,
with the approval of his council,
a replacement.
This amendment was referred
back to Rules Committee Jest
Week, when Geiger inserted the
provision . concerning the runner
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adopted by the University in 1957.
At that time, the University
counted the number of possible
college students living in Pennsyl
vania in 1980, calculated the per
centage which would probably go
to college and then the number
of potential Penn-State students,
Prexy said.
In 1957, 22 per cent of the state's
population was attending college.
This figure is below the national
figure of 28 per cent, he said.
As a result of this study, the
University found that there would
be 180,000 potential Pennsylvania
students by 1970--:provided the
Percentage remained stable. If the
population were to increase one
per cent every: two years, the
figure would be 240,000; if it in
creased by one per cent per year,
300,000 potential students would
he seeking admittance to colleges
and universities' in 1970, Walker
said.
The University's share of these
students was thought to be 12
per cent, as it has been. Another
*survey was conducted of "inde
final decision of whether or not to
grant the charter will be made by
the Administrative Committee on
Student Affairs.
THE CHAIRMAN of that com
mittee, Robert G. Bernreuter, has
previously declined comment on
when his committee would act on
the magazine's charter.
If Austin announces a negative
decision by his committee, the
sponsors of the new magazine
must appeal to Bernreuter's com
mittee if they want further action
taken on the charter:
Fraternity AVerage
Delia Chi fraternity was er-,
roneously reported yesterday
as having the—third highest
average for the fall fermi. Tri
angleifraternity was third. I
'No Confidence' V•te
Will Bring Elections
OTTAWA (/P) —Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's Con
servative government toppled last night on a vote of no
confidence assailing his indecision over accepting "U.S. nuclear
warheads.
FIVE CENTS
New elections for Parliament must be held within 60 days
throughout Canada. ,
The vote was 142 to 111.
A last-minute attack by Diefen
baker on so-called U.S. intrusions
in Canadian affairs failed to save
his minority government; The op
position Liberal, Social Credit and
New Democratic parties combined
forces in the House of Commons
and voted the government down.
DIEFENBAKER'S government
had failed to retain its parliamen
tary majority in elections last
June, but had managed to govern
with the quiet support of the
right-wing Social Credit party,
whose 30 seats held the balance.
But in the end it was a Social
Credit motion that defeated Die
fenbaker. It charged that the gov
ernment had failed to give'a clear
statement of defense policy and
had failed to live up to its bud
getary responsibilities.
The political fate of Diefen
baker, 67-year-old former country
lawyer, was left in doubt. Even
before the vote, informed sources
reported that some of Diefen
baker's Cabinet ministers were
pressing for his resignatioh in an
effort to stave off the govern
ment's fall.
However, Gov. Gen. George
Vanier undoubtedly will ask Die-
pendent colleges" those which
are not state colleges or large
universities such as Temple and
the University of Pennsylvania
and found these colleges' expan
sion plans were quite limited, the
President said.
THE BOARD of Trustees told
the University administration to
adopt two expansion plans; one
for each of the projected per
centage increases in population,
Walker said. An expansion pro
gram with a range of from 25,000
to 35,000 students by 1970 was
considered, with the 35,000 maxi
mum implemented, he said.
—Collegian Photo by Den Coleman
PRINCE JACK SUBA holds firm in his desire to break the
.strings which bind him to the puppet's role in the Five O'Clock
Theatre production of "The Puppet Show" yesterday. His puppet
colleagues, Princess. Judy Barton and Jester Fred Marcus, ask
what he intends' to d ' with the 7
JOHN G. DIEFENBAKER
. deposed Prime Minister
fenbaker to remain at the head
of an interim government until
elections arc held.
Key issue in the Diefenbaker
government's downfall was the
delay in execution of Canada's
1959 commitments to arm with
U.S. nuclear weapons as part of
the U.S. - Canadian defense of
North America.
THE ISSUE was brought to a
crisis by a U.S. State Department
statement last week criticizing the
delay. Dieferibaker charged that
the statement was an unwarranted
intrusion in Canadian affairs. The
opposition agreed, but the Liberal
party especially also agreed with
the U.S. government that Canada
should accept the nuclear war
heads without delay.
Canada has invested $7OO million
in missiles, planes and artillery
with nuclear capability. Liberal
leader Lester B. Pearson charged
that they were wasted without the
warheads. But Diefenbaker in
sisted on further delay, citing
changing defensive arrangements
and what he called the threat to
Canada's sovereignty posed by
U.S. control of the warheads.
The dispute split Diefenbaker's
own Cabinet. . .