1 (Hl}? latly @ Gtolbgtmt 1 s~ 4 VOL. 63. No. 135 Wallace Blocks Desegregation At Alabama U. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) Court-ordered desegregation of the University of Alabama rammed into a state sovereignty roadblock erected yesterday by Gov. George C. Wallace within hours after a federal judge refused to delay en rollment of two Negroes. "I will be present to bar the entrance of any Negro who at tempts to enroll,” Wallace said at a Montgomery news conference. “This is legal resistance and legal defiance.” Wallace said he was invoking state sovereignty to defy federal authority in a move that set up the long-expected showdown be tween him and President Ken nedy, who was reported yesterday to be aware of the governor’s plans. The governor’s declaration fol lowed by about three hours a rul ing in Birmingham by U.S. Dist. Judge H. Hobart Grooms that de segregation could not be stalled because of racial unrest in this Deep South state. Grooms had opened the way for enrollment June 10 of Vivian J. Malone, 20, of Mobile, at the main campus in Tuscaloosa, and of Dave M. McGlathery, 27, of Huntsville center. Shortly before the hearing, the university trustees agreed to ad- if*:.' . : ORGANIZATIONS CONDUCT Fund Drives! Members of Gamma Sigma Sigma, service sororily, collected money for ihe United Nations Children's Fund yesterday at several down town locations, Tau Epsilon Phi, social fralem Panhel Pro Winter Tabled Panhellenic Council voted last night to table until the first meet ing next fall the proposal to have winter rush begin before the Uni versity officially opens. The proposal was brought up for discussion again last night be cause one of the sorority dele gates had voted incorrectly on the issile at the last meeting. Her vote would have made the decision a tie vote. WINTER RUSH will be essen tially the same as it has been in the past, following the same type of party schedule. The major revision involved in the winter rush program is the elimination of male drivers dur ing coffee hours. Instead, a car pool or taxi service will be set up by Panhel. This service would be only for rushees going to East Halls or mit the Negro applicants to avert contempt proceedings. "The trustees have no control over Wallace. The university is our responsibility. But beyond that we are not law enforcement officers,” trustee Brewer Dixon said. The new crisis arose amid these other developments: • Negro attorneys in Birming ham prepared a court challenge of the city school board’s expul sion or suspension of 1,081 Negro pupils arrested in antisegrega tion demonstrations. A threatened school boycott by Negroes failed to materialize. • A source close to President Kennedy said the chief executive knew Wallace intended to hold himself out as a martyr to South ern segregationists by a dramatic stand against university integra tion. • City councilmen of Greens boro, N.C., moved to check snow balling racial troubles as Negroes called for a store boycott. More than 1,000 Negroes are in jail for demonstrations. • In a student poll at the Uni versity of Alabama, the general feeling was that integration was inevitable and would be peaceful. o sal Rush Dates Decision by Council Until Fall coming from East, North or Mc- Kee Halls. The council decided that soror ity women would not call for the rushees before coffee hours. They also decided that rushees would wear Panhel name, tags throughout rush, and sororities would be responsible only for nametags for their members. Preceding the vote to table the decision on the dates for winter rush, Mrs. Nancy M. Vanderpool, council adviser, said that she would be opposed to any rushing that would be in conflict with classes. It was pointed out that many faculty members have said that they will not let women out of their classes to attend rush func tions. This would include both rushees and sorority women. Under these conditions, unless FOR A BETTER PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 22. 1963 Pepin sky, Sauer Accept New Posts versities, Raymond Pepinsky, research professor of physics, has submitted Ids formal resignation to the University and will become chairman of the department of physics at Florida Atlantic University at Boca Raton, Fla. in September. Elmer C. Easton, dean of of New Jersey, announced yester day that John A. Sauer, professor of physics and former head of the department until his resignation last spring, has been appointed to head the newly-created De partment of Mechanics. Sauer’s appointment becomes effective Sept. 1. In a statement to The Daily Collegian last night, Pepinsky said: “I have no wish to do damage to this University now, and no intention of doing so. It was my University for almost 14 years. “There have been difficulties, which in the past two or three years caused a dozen or more fine physicists to leave here, and which were climaxed last year by the forced resignation of Prof. John A. Sauer as_ department head. “Those of us who love and re spect Professor Sauer, and who were welcome elsewhere, have had no choice but to leave. “Professor Sauer built a fine department, and it was a privi- ily, collected funds for the Cancer Crusade. Pictured in front of the Corner Room are (left to right) lan Abarbanel, John McDermott, Rich ard Sherman, Lynne Davis and Constance Upde graff. rush were held before classes be gan it would have to extend over a longer prriod of time so that it would not conflict with night classes. Dorothea Gerber, rush chair man, said this would mean that rush would then go further into class time and would probably interfere with studies. THE COUNCIL also voted to change the dates for the first events of fall rush. Originally there were six parties scheduled for Friday, September 25, how ever, a Jewish holiday begins at sundown that night. The council voted to change it to four parties Friday afternoon and nine on Sunday, September 27. Sororities will be limited to a budget 0f.565 during winter rush. Two members of the Department of Physics have accepted positions with other uni- the College of Engineering at RAYMOND PEPINSKY . . . resigned lege and a delight to serve under him. “Among the more than half dozen men who will leave the University by next fall, four of us are going to headships in good universities elsewhere. This in it self is a tribute to John Sauer. "Penn Stale will not see his like in scholarly and administra tive excellence and in human decency and dignity for a long, long time. “I have been granted the privi lege of participating in the or ganization of a new university, in one of the lovliesl parts of this country. “It is time for me to look for ward—not back to disaster. In m \&' s . K'' USC To Consider Si Suspending Endorsement Of Life Insurance Plan Temporary suspension of the Undergraduate Student Govern ment’s endorsement of the Uni versity Life Plan will be consid ered tonight by the USG Congress. A bill, sponsored by Walter Weiwiora (East) and Richard Trigilion (town), proposes that the life insurance endorsement be suspended until the policy is re viewed by the interim Congress this summer. EXPLAINING the bill, Wie wiora said he is mainly opposed to the administration, rather than to the policy per se. He pointed out that individual companies had no opportunities to bid on a plan outlined especially for students by USG, as was done with the sickness and accident insurance. Congress accepted the life insurance policy as presented by the company, he said. Wiewiora and Trigilio propose that the present plan be reviewed, with other plans offering similar benefits, by insurance advisors and USG personnel. They also suggested that USG might prepare an outline plan to be bid on by various companies. Recommendations made after the investigation would be turned over to the interim summer Con Rutgers, the state university “Penn State has been very fair to me, in permitting me to take with me to Florida many of the research facilities which I will need to complete present studies and begin new ones. “I will serve as a consultant to this University for a year after my resignation, to complete con tractual] obligations for the agen cies which supported my research programs here. “I leave many friends here, and I remember good years before the bad times. “I wish Penn Stale, and par ticularly its students, well.” Sauer said last night he would submit a formal resignation to John J. Gibbons, acting bend of the department, today or tomor row. Gibbons was appointed depart ment head when Sauer resigned. Since that time, he has been seeking to find a permanent head of the department. No perma nent successor to Sauer has been publicly announced. At the time of his resignation and when questioned subsequent ly, Sauer would give only per sonal reasons for his resignation. He has denied that he was forced to resign. Sauer declined comment yes terday on the reason for his up coming resignation. ITc staled that the problem was too complicated and involved to review at this time. Last year, at least eight mem bers of the physics faculty re signed, Pepinsky said. As a consultant to the Defense Documentation Center in Wash ington, D.C., Pepinsky will travel beginning September throughout Europe to deliver lectures on physics at various Universities. gross for preliminary approval, and, afterwards, to the fall Con gress for final action. In other business, Congress will head the first reading of a consti tutional amendment proposing that USG Congressmen be in quired to attend meetings of their areas’ governing bodies. Congressmen should then be required to submit reports of the area meetings to the USG Secre tariat. Consistent non-attendance by any Congressman would be a basis for his impeachment. USG President George Jackson, sponsor of the bill, defined the impeachment clause as "a penalty for the gross violator who never attends meetings.” IMPEACHMENT proceed i ngs will be brought against Carol McFadden (South), who has missed more than two Congress meetings without submitting an excuse. A two-thirds vote of Congress is necessary to consider impeach ment of a congressman, and an other two-thirds vote is necessary for indictment. Congress will also vote on a by-laws amendment limiting a congressman’s excused absence to two per ter-'. FIVE CENTS
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