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VOL. 63. No. 77
uscanks
Supports
Constitution
By WINNIE BOYLE
and ROCHELLE MICHAELS
Andrea Buscanics, former co
editor of Froth and member of
the USG committee sponsoring
a new Froth, defended the re
jected constitution last night..
She explained that the subcom
mittee which originally reviewed
the constitution spent one full
meeting discussing the aspects of
the document which were grounds
for. the rejection Monday.
• The constitution was rejected
by the Administrative Committee
on Student Affairs because the
Board of Directors of the publica
tion would not be able to exercise
enough responsibility,
According to the constitution's
provisions, the senior board of
editors had the power to elect
the editor and business manager,
determine general policy, and set
fiscal operations, all with the ap
proval of the Directors.
THE COMMITTEE criticized
this aspect of the constitution be
cause its members felt the direc
tors should have initial control in
these three areas.
In discussing the situation last
night Miss Buscanics stressed that
these are her own views and not
necessarily those of other students
working on the constitution.
She said that if the directors
had initial power, too much re
sponsibility would be removed
from the students most directly
concerned with the magazine.
Although the Board of Directors
would have equal student and
faculty-administration representa
tion'
Miss Buscanics pointed out
that the students serving on the
Board of Directors would be from
campus-wide organizations and
would be primarily concerned
with their respective interests.
MISS BUSCANICS also noted
that the senior board would not
have too much power working
tinder the stipulations that all
their actions must be approved by
the directors.
She said she felt that the senior
board would be the most qualified
group to recommend an editor
since they would have been so
closely involved with- prospective
aspirants for the job.
Parents of Mine Victim
Give University $2OO
The parents of Albert Brona
koski, of Bobtown, who was
among the 37 men to lose their
lives in the Robena mine explo
sion In Carmichaels on December
6, have made a $2OO memorial
contribution to the University.
Albert, 18, had enrolled in the
University's mining training pro
gram under which students alter
nate between study and on-the
job training,
Colder Temperatures Expected
In Wake of Three-Inch Snow
Three to five inches of dry,
powdery snow fell in central
Pennsylvania yesterday as an in
tensifying storm moved up the
East coast from the Gulf of
Mexico.
The snow posed a temporary
problem to land and air traffic,
but the lack of important drift
ing and the dryness of the snow
allowed plowing and cindering
crews to quickly clear roads and
highways.
COLDER Weather was expected
in the wake of the storm and the
mercury was forecast to dip to
10 degrees early today. A few light
snow flurries are indicated for
today, and the high will be about
25 degrees.
South-Central section of the state
reported the heaviest accumula
tions with amounts: ranging up to
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1963
Magness (Bth-home economics-Claymont, Del.), Joyce Brown
(Bth-elementary education-Philadelphia) an d Barbara Elser
(11th-elementary education-Springfield). Front row, Ann Schill
ing (sth-applied arts-Ambler) and Constance Becker (Bth-reha
bilitation education-Williamsport).
USG To Consider
Bill on Petitions
By JOAN HARTMAN
and PENNY WATSON
A by-laws amendment requir
ing all congressional candidates
to submit signed nominating pe
titions will be voted upon tonight
by the Undergraduate Student
Government Congress.
The controversy which has sur
rounded .the bill since its incep
tion two weeks ago centers around
the question of whether or not
the amendment will remove the
power of campus political parties
in congressional elections.
UNDER THE present by-laws,
candidates may be nominated by
political parties without having
to submit petitions signed by
their constituents. In order to
amend this, the bill must pass
Congress by a two-thirds major
ity.
Jon Geiger (fraternity), spon
sor of the amendment, said last
night that the bill will in no way
usurp the power of political par
ties.
"The value of a party nomi
nation lies solely in the support
that party can give the nominee,"
Geiger said.
"THIS AMENDMENT will re
quire the candidate to meet his
constituents, and therefore he will
be able, in a real sense, to repre
sent his area."
The issue was first brought up
six inches. Elsewhere — amounts
varied from less than an inch in
the Philadelphia area to one or
two inches in the extreme west.
Cold weather covers the entire
nation east of the Rockies and
little change in this pattern is
expected for several days. An
other surge of fresh arctic air is
plunging southward into the
plains today, and will likely rein
force the cold air in the eastern
states tomorrow night and Fri
day.
THE GULF of Mexico continues
to serve as a potential breeding
ground for storm development and
another system may move north
ward from that area tomorrow
night or Friday.
In this area tonight will be
partly cloudy and cold with snow
flurries. The high should be about
25.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
at the student encampment in
the fall when the USG workshop
recommended that political par
ties not nominate candidates for
the fall congressional elections.
Congressmen were voting by
party blocs last year, Geiger said,
and this recommendation was
made in the hope it would alle
viate this problem in some way.
In the special election held
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DG, Triangle Pledges Chosen
Marjorie Moran of Delta Gam
ma sorority and George House
weart, Triangle fraternity, were
named the outstanding pledges of
the year at the annual Pledge
Banquet last night at the Nittany
Lion Inn.
Mrs. Nancy M. Vanderpool, as
sistant to the dean of women for
sorority affairs, presented Miss
Moran with her trophy. Mrs.
Vanderpool stated that Miss
Moran was active in Cwens, soph
omore women's hat society and
the Association of Women Stu
—Collegian Photo by Lou Haffner
OUTSTANDING PLEDGES George Houseweart and Marjorie
Moran are flanked by Joseph Wells, IFC vice president, and
Mrs. Nancy M. Vanderpool, assistant to the dean of women for
sorority. affairs. Wells and- Mn. Vanderpool presented the
pledges with their trophies.
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GENEVA (AP) The Soviet
Union and the United States col
lided yesterday at the reopening
of the 17-nation disarmament con
ference. The Soviet submerged a
message of cautious optimism
from President Kennedy by pro
posing the United States liquidate
its nuclear deterrent force on for
eign lands and seas.
U.S. and British sources de
nounced the Soviet proposal as a
political maneuver to force the
West on the defensive.
SHORTLY AFTER the U.S. ne
gotiator, William C. Foster, read
Kennedy's message, Soviet Dep
uty Foreign Minister Vasily V.
Kuznetsov presented a draft of an
East-West treaty that would leave
the United States with only U.S.-
based intercontinental ballistic
missiles as a chief nuclear de
terrent.
The Soviet proposal would re
quire the United State to abandon
its Polaris submarine and rocket
bases abroad and to bring home
aircraft carriers and planes capa
ble of delivering nuclear bombs.
Kuznetsov turned the tables on
the disarmament talks which had
been devoted almost exclusively
to a nuclear test ban treaty as
a step toward disarmament.
BOTH THE UNITED States and
Britain went into the confer
ence which had been in recess
since Dec. 20 with the ex
pressions of hope some progress
could , be made toward a test ban
treaty.
Kennedy's message called on
the participating countries to seek
a safeguard treaty that would
promote confidence and trust
among nations.
He said complete agreement
still was not in easy reach but he
added the "prospects seemed more
encouraging than before because
dents, and had demonstrated out
standing scholastic ability.
HOUSEWEART was named
outstanding fraternity pledge be
cause of scholarship and service
to his fraternity and the Univer
sity, Joseph Wells, Interfraternity
Council vice president, said in
presenting Houseweart with his
trophy.
Miss Moran and Houseweart
were selected from seven finalists
in each of the fraternity and so
rority categories who were chosen
of the acceptance of the Soviet
Union on the principle of on-site
inspections."
KUZNETSOV promptly threw
cold water on that by refusing to
modify the Kremlin position of
two or three on-site inspections
a year on Soviet soil, Ile implied
the inspections could only be
carried out if the inspectors are
officially invited,
But the British negotiator, Min
ister of State Joseph B. Godber,
told a news conference before the
session that the West might be
willing to reduce the number of
inspections if the Russians agree
to increase the number and size
of automatic detection devices
they would allow on their terri
tory. There was no indication the
United States had accepted this
idea and its official position still
was for eight or 10 inspections.
Kennedy also called on the con
ference to seek measures to re
duce the risk of "war by accident,
miscalculation or failure of com
munications." He said both sides
had expressed interest in such
measures.
"IT IS CLEAR then that the
conference has before it new op
portunities for serious negotia
tion," the President said.
"And if agreements here be
coupled with further measures de
signed to contain the nuclear
threat, then the more ambitious
task of developing a broad range
program for general and complete
disarmament would surely pro
ceed in an atmosphere of greater
international confidence, stability
and security."
But Kuznetsov stepped forth
with a blanket call for an end to
the arms race, bringing up the
October Cuban crisis during
which, he said "the world felt so
closely the flaming wind of ther
monuclear war."
last week to compete for the out
standing pledge title.
Triangle was awarded another
honor when Richard Tufts, co
chairman of the banquet, pre
sented the fraternity with a trophy
for scholastic achievement for its
pledge class. Its'fall term pledge
average was 2.80, Tufts said.
Two changes in Greek Week
program scheduled were also an
nounced last night.
NANCY QUIGLEY, co-chair
man of the IFC-Panel Sing, said
that fraternities and sororities
competiting in the "open" cate
gory will perform tonight at 6:30
in 224 Chambers, rather than in
10 Sparks.
Dorothy Samuels, co-chairman
I>f the Greek Week window dis
play contest, said the displays will
not be judged until about 11:30
this morning. They were original
ly to have been judged yesterday
afternoon but a conflict in the
judges' schedules necessitated the
change, she said.
2 Indicted in Ga.
For Soph's Death
BAXLEY, Ga, (W A truck
driver and his nephew were
charged with murder in separate
indictments yesterday for the fa
tal stabbing of a University stu
dent in a roadside argument about
car-bumping last Dec. 29.
Named in the indictments were
Wilton Edwards, 39, and Robert
Edwards, 19. Officers had quoted
the older man as saying he slash
ed Nicholas Matthew Cascario, 19,
Bangor, Pa., a sophomore, in self
defense on U.S. 1 north of Baxley.
Edwards, who said he had been
drinking, insisted that his nephew
was not involved in the fatal
encounter.
FIVE CENTS