Weather Forecast: Rain, Mild VOL. 64, No. 31 Constitutional Convention Defeated by Stat 3 Voters PHILADELPHIA (/P)—For the sixth time, Pennsylvania voters have rejected a proposal to rewrite the Keystone State’s 89-year-old constitution. . , The question went down fighting iii Tuesday’s election with some 2.2 million /otes split almost in half. It never had come so close before. Returns from 9,116 of 9,246 precincts found the proposal trailing by more than 38,000 votes— 1,097,708 against revision and 1,059,455 for it. ' The remaining precincts were in 19 counties and of these, 17 were voting against revision by varying margins. ; Contributing “yes” margins of 10,000 or more were Bucks, Lac k a wanna and Delaware counties. Bipartisan Support The proposal had bi-partisan support, including Gov. Scran-! ton and four former governors, Democrats and Republicans! alike. USG To Consider Support of State Appropriations Bill By MARY ANN GRZENDA A bill proposing that the Undergraduate Student Government support the passage of twice-defeated non preferred state appropriations will be presented to Con gress tonight. If the bill is passed, USG President George Jackson, the . bill’s sponsor, will send letters to both state party chairmen, to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House, to the majority and minority leaders of both houses and to the edi tors of the major metropolitan newspapers in the state, The letters will strongly urge the Pennsylvania General As sembly to act as soon as pos sible on the appropriations bills. Last summer, the legislature failed to approve the appro priations. Gov. William W. Scranton recently said he will put the issue on the agenda of the special legislative ses sion meeting next week if Democratic leaders assure him the bills will get enough sup port to pass. Since the bills require a two thirds majority of the total membership of both houses for passage, the majority Republi can representative cannot en act the bills alone. Supreme Court ■ In order to reduce the amount of time spent by Con gress in debating semantics and arguing constitutional and by-laws revisions, a bill will be presented to give the USG Supreme Court authority to review, and decide cases in volving the constitution, by laws and Congressional legisla tion. The bill also states that the Supreme Court shall act as a standing screening body for all proposed constitutional arid by-laws amendments. Added Responsibility- Increased duties and respon sibility and more complete representation of constituents are advocated in a third bill. The bill proposes that Con gressmen chair major USG committees, attend major meet ings of representative bodies in their constituent areas and maintain weekly office hours in areas they represent. Last week a bill to appro priate $2OO to each currently operative political party was defeated. A bill will be pre sented to delete that section of the constitutional by-laws which advocates a yearly congressional appropriation to each party. Grad Committee Feels Solution Reached On Tax Situation By JOHN THOMPSON The Committee for Fair Borough Taxation of Grad uate Students has reached what it considers a final settlement of the problem of local per-capita and occupa tion taxes, committee chairman Richard Rehberg said yesterday. As reported last week, out-of-state students and students who pay taxes in other Pennsylvania communities will be exempted from borough taxes upon presentation of a tax re ceipt or other proof of non residency. However, students who con sider themselves residents of communities outside the Uni versity area but do not pay taxes there must write to their local school board for exemption from State College borough taxes, Rehberg said. To qualify as a non-resident of this area, students must not be registered voters here, have no children enrolled in the pub lic schools nor have parents in this area, he said Content of Letters Letters to school boards should contain a statement that the per son. is complying with state school laws by informing board members that he has reached the.age of 21 or over, Rehberg said. Two carbon copies of the 'etter should also be sent to the board, with a request that one copy be initialed to signify com ’liance with the law { he said. This copy should then be re turned to the student. The receipted carbon copy will serve as proof to the borough tax collector that the student is ■ lailg (p§ (EoUegtan USG May Organize Quiz Series A competition similar to Gen era! Electric's College Bowl pro gram is being tentatively planned for early winter term by the Undergraduate Student Government Intellectual Climate committee. The committee has requested a $l5O appropriation from USG to cover publicity, trophies, and the construction of a buzzer system. Several years ago, an invita tion to participate on College Bowl was rejected. Since that time, the Association of Women Students formulated the idea of holding a College Bowl on campus and formally referred the project to USG.' . The tentative schedule for'the competition includes six con secutive Tuesday night sessions in the Hetzel Union assembly room 28. Twenty-four students will participate in the competi tion, and they will be chosen on a first-come, first serve basis. Participants may or may not [represent sororities, fraternities, residence hall units, and cam pus organizations. Questions for the program will be selected by the committee, with the aid of faculty members. Finals Broadcast College Bowl finals will be broadcast over radio station WDFM. The two final teams will [be awarded trophies. Participants will be required jto pay a small entrance fee to help defray costs and' to insure their interest in'the program. George Jackson, USG presi dent, has supported the pro gram on the basis that it “will involve intellectual competition which will stimulate and em phasize the academic aspect of a Penn State education. 1 ’ USG Congress will vote on the College Bowl appropriation at its meeting tonight. a non-resident and should be exempted from local per-capita and occupation taxes, Rehberg said. A sample of a suggested letter appears on page 3. The letter form has been approved by the committee’s lawyer. The procedure of writing to school boards is a temporary arangement for this year, Reh berg said. For the Future “For following years,” he ex plained, “the committee has de veloped an alternate procedure for coping with the matter of local taxes on graduate students. “The committee has firm rea son to believe that from now on most students meeting non residency requirements will not be obligated to pay taxes in the borough or surrounding town ships.” Details of this procedure will be released within the next two months, he said. The committee chairman said the borough and surrounding townships “probably hold the distinction of having some of the highest per capita and occupa tion taxes in the state.” Efforts [to reduce these taxes for resi ident graduate students have I proven unsuccessful, he added. They vigorously supported the move to call a constitu tional convention- next year. Scranton labeled the. present const :f ution antiquated and sometime unworkable in to day s cnanging government scene. Since Scranton has the pow er of the government now, the vote was considered a blow to him. Opposition came basically from groups which said a new constitution would pave the ""’v for a graduated income tax. bcranton denied this, saying it was a Supreme Court ruling and not the present Constitu tion that presently prevents the graduated income tax. Also voter apathy—fewer than a third of those who cast state-wide ballots didn’t even bother to take a stand on the issue—plus strong rural’ oppo sition killed the bill. Voting Returns Returns from 9.150 of the state’s 9,246 voting precincts gave: Against a. constitutional con vention—l,lo6,o4l. For rewriting the state’s bas ic 1aw—1,066,770. The apparent margin of 40,- 000 “no” votes was less than two per cent of the total cast. The 96 missing precincts are scattered mainly in counties that have opposed the ques tion. While., the-, lost, voters' did approve three amendments to the present Constitution—the only way under present law it can be changed. Passed by heavy majorities were: •An amendment to permit state scholarship loans to nee dy students. •An amendment to provide for emergency stale govern ment in case of enemy attack. •An amendment to author ize “Project 70”, a $7O million conservation program involv ing heavy state borrowing. All-Student Week Set By Greeks i A Greek Week sponsored by Greeks for all students not only for fraternity and sorority mem bers, is being planned this year by the Panhellenic and Inter fraternity Councils. | Independents and other or ganizations will be invited to par ticipate in some of this year’s Greek Week activities planned; for Jan. 26 to Feb. 4, Dolores Gomez, program co-chairman, said. Panhel and IFC had con sidered dropping Greek Week this year because of criticism from other organizations in past years. t “We decided we wanted a program which was something more than patting Greeks on the back,” Miss Gomez said. Four Preps A music festival with the Four Preps', vocal quartet, in Rec reation Hall will lead off the week’s activities, followed by a bridge tournament, a sing con test and exchange dinners. Independents wishing to par ticipate in Greek Week are in vited to contribute original writings for a Greek Week book let. These writings should re flect “more emphasis on the purpose behind Greeks, not ex clusively on Greeks,” Miss Gomez said. Suggested areas for original work include poetry, fiction, factual articles of interest, satire, humor, photography, art and cartoons. In past years, only a list of the week’s events were printed in the booklet. Materials selected for publica tion will be printed with author’s ;name and organization. Typed copy should be presented at the Hetzel Union Desk by Nov. 11. Greek .Banquet Other organizations also will be invited to the Greek Banquet, Feb. 4. A representative from the Undergraduate Student Gov ernment, Association of Women Students, Men’s Residence Coun cil, Town Independent Men’s Council executive branches ‘will be invited. Greek representatives at the banquet will include all frater nity and sorority presidents, ad visers and. outstanding pledges. UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., THURSDAY-MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1963 ,A —Collegian Photo by Den Coleman MISS AGRICULTURE FINALISTS: One of these girls will be crowned Miss Agriculture, 1964, at the annual Ag Hill Party to be held Saturday night in Recreation HalJ. The finalists are, from left, Barbara Grassmyer, Bar bara Smith, Elizabeth Pierson, Sandra Grazier, and Eliza beth Poellot. University Produces Movie on History Of Educational TV The history and development of instruction via television is the subject of a new film recentlyproduced by the University under the auspices of the U. S. Office of Education. The 38-minute film will soon be distrubuted to various institutions throughout the country which are consider ing the use of television as a teaching medium. The title of the film is “In structional Television at the Pennsylvania Stat° Uni<"— 1954-1964—A Case Study at One University.” It will be t _. ..- viewed later this month at the National Association of Educa tional Broadcasters meeting in Milwaukee. Penn State was one of the pioneers in the movement to wards television instruction. Ac cording to Luther F. Kepler, supervisor of television produc tion, the first TV courses here, initiated in 1955, were given in psychology and chemistry. The film traces the develop ment of educational television at Penn State, shows the causes for House OK's $690 Million For Colleges WASHINGTON (AP) - The House gave overwhelming ap proval yesterday to a bill au thorizing $1,195,000,000 to help the nation’s crowded colleges expand. A 258-92 roll call vote sent the bill to the Senate, where a stiff er fight is expected over a pro vision making federal grants available to private and church related colleges. The bill would launch the fed eral government on a major new role iri education. It calls for a three-year program of grants and loans for institutions from the junior college to the graduate school level. Speaker John W. McCormack, D-Mass., who hailed the solid' bipartisan support the House I gave the bill, said it would be of “inestimable value” both to higher education and the nation. The bill would authorize $690 million in building grants for junior colleges and colleges, $145 million for graduate schools, and $360 million in long-term, low-i nte'rest con struction loans Tor all higher ed ucation institutions. At the college and graduate school level, the grants could total only one-third of the con struction cost of a project and for junior colleges the federal) share could be 40 per cent. The bill would give a strong thrust to the development of pub lic community junior colleges by requiring that each state set aside 22 per cent of its share of: the $690 million for such con struction. •Each state’s , allotments would be based on its high school and college enrollment. Failure of the House and Sen ate to agree on a compromise killed the bill, last year. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE By TUDI MATEJCZYK ‘ its growth, and provides com ments from several University officials regarding its future. 4 Patterns of Use Various instructors utilize four different “patterns of use” in eaching at the University, Kep .er said. Some courses which meet three.times per week are trans mitted completely by television. Music 5 follows this pattern. Other courses meeting three times per week are carried partially by TV. Large history classes are conducted iri this manner. Two weekly meetings may be on TV, while the remaining one is devoted to recitation and dis cussion. An example is account ing 1. . Television may be used simply as a supplement—a “demonstra tion amplifier”—to experiments carried on during lectures. Archaeology and anthropology courses occassionally use this method of teaching. . Teacher-Student Oriented Kepler termed the film "teacher-student oriented.” It concentrates on the pattern used by history courses at the University and reflects what is actually done in television in struction. In the course of the film com ments are made by Penn State officials about special factors which must be considered prior to inaugralion of educational television. L. P. Greenhill, associate di rector of the Division of Aca demic Research and Services, speaks on the selection of equio ment and facilities for TV teach ing. Walter H. Wiegand, director of the physical plant, explains the adaption of these facilities to television. C. R. Carpenter, director of, •the Division of. Academic. Re search and Services, discusses the future of educational tele vision. In Kepler’s opinion the film is an objective case study of University TV. “We draw no final conclusions about the use of television and we make .no strong statements that this is the ultimate,” he said. PSU Chess Team Defeats Lancaster The University Chess Team defeated the Red Rose Chess Club of Lancaster 7-1 in a tourna ment Saturday in the Hetzel Union Building. Those scoring for the Univer sity team were Richard Abrams, Brian Frink, Robert Szendrai; Henry Huffman, Dennis Dunn, Douglas Ray and Stephen Shutt. Abrams,. Frink and Szendrai have been rated by the U.S. Chess Federatiori and officially classified as “experts,” Henry IHuffman, club secretary, said.. Fee Increase Seen In '64 A,slight increase in University room and board fees will almost inevitably occur within the next year, President Eric A. Walker disclosed yesterday. , The President denied, however, rumors that a similar increase in the cost of tuition is also forthcoming. Rising prices, over which the University has no control, have precipitated the situation, he said, and the endj result will probably be an in-' crease in the room and board! charges. Walker gave no further de tails on the increase. He stressed that he is strong ly opposed to an increase in tui tion and said, “I will fight to hold tuition where it now is.” Currently there is no tuition increase in sight, he explained, and no University body is con sidering such an increase. Room and board charges were last increased in 1961 when the cost of a double room and board was raised to $265 a term from a former charge of $254. At the same time, tuition was increased $l5 due to a refusal of the state government to grant the University’s request of $23.1 million in funds. | The final appr oprla t i o n granted to the’ University was less than $2O million, and Walker then said the amount was not enough to operate, during the year. Highest Fees Students at Penn State, ac cording to latest figures com piled by the University, pay the highest academic fees of all who attend land-grant colleges and universities in- the nation. Walker also stated his position on freshman customs, their worth and continuation. “In my opinion,” he said, “it is not in order to have any kind of freshman customs that are in the nature of hazing. But if a program can be planned that will help entering students get acquainted with the University, the campus, and their'.fellow students and help them. adjust .to Perm/ State;- then' !’ would en dorse it.” " "• 'The.President’s statement fol lows roughly the same lines as those views on customs ex pressed by several other Univer sity administrators in recent 1 interviews. No Critical Effect Failure of the State Legisla ture to act on the non-preferred appropriations bill, including the University’s request of 525 mil lion, should have no critical ad verse effect on the state of the University, Walker said. Interests payments will have to be paid, he added, but the Uni versity’e finances are in sound condition. The same problem has arisen! before, he said, and, on one oc casion, the appropriation was de layed for 18 months. Banks where the University acquires loans in such circumstances do not hesitate to advance the ! money, Walker said. Heavy Rain Brings End To Drought . The heaviest rainfall in more' than a year is expected in State' College today as a vigorous! storm moves northward along the coast. This soaking rain will bring an end to one of the worst droughts; in Pennsylvania’s history. Only 0.27 inches or rain had fallen in the past 36 days. The rain began as drizzle yes terday morning but became a 1 steady rain by dark.,At 11 p.m.j 0.40 inches had fallen. Heavy rain was expected late last night and' today with total rainfall from this storm possibly reach ing 2 inches. This would make it the heaviest single rainfallj since. October of last year. | The storm developed in the [Gulf of Mexico'Tuesday night and while moving across the 'southeastern states yesterday it became a very energetic system, j Heavy rain spread far ahead of the storm and winds increased! to gale force near the center. Between three and five inches of rain are 'expected' in south eastern Pennsylvania before the rain ends, late today. Winds should be strong in eastern Pennsylvania and rather gusty are likely throughout the; state today and this evening. I Gradual clearing is expected* in the wake of the storm late today or tomorrow. Tempera tures should remain cool today and tonight. A high of 55, is seen for this afternoon and ' a low of 42 is indicated for tonight. Som. e' sunshine and mild weather is predicted for tomor row and a high of 58 is likely. It should be partly sunny and mild in Columbus, Ohio, Satur day‘for the football game be tween Penn State and Ohio State. By LARRY LAMB Berlin Crisis Ends As Russians Lift Autobahn Blockade BERLIN ( JP ) Two days of crisis on the autobahn ended yesterday as the Russians lifted a blockade of a U.S. Army convoy and it rolled grimly into West Berlin. Both sides claimed victory in the struggle after control of traffic along the superhighway. The grave confrontation ended-in the early morning hours after the British and French sent convoys onto the autobahn in a show of support for the U.S. convoy. The Amer icans had been blockaded by armored vehicles since Monday at Marienborn, western end of the 110-mile highway to Berlin. Western officials said the Russians dropped a demand for a head-count of the 44 U.S. soldiers in the convoy. This was directly opposite to the picture Khrushchev paint ed in a Moscow meeting with a group of visiting U.S. busi nessmen. “It is possible that you and Debate Set On Racial Occurrence • A public debate on the re cent racial incident involving an assistant professor of mathe matics and a Negro student will be held tonight. The l debate will follow a meeting of the Student Union for Racial Equality at 7:30 p.m. at the Wesley Foundation. The Negro student has charged that on Oct. 30 the teacher made derogatory re marks to him in class. The teacher later apologized through The Daily . Collegian, saying the remarks were an attempt at humor. .“An apology is not enough,” SURE Chairman Jacob Hey man said yesterday. “Action must be taken.” Plan Formal Action Heyman said the organiza tion will take' formal action on the incident following the de bate. All interested persons are invited to attend, he said. SURE was organized earlier this term to promote “equal rights and fair treatment” for members of all races, especial ly in the State College area. The group now has about 50 members, Heyman said. A final constitution for the organization will be drafted tonight, the chairman said, and presented to the Committee on Student Organizations later this week. Members of SURE commit tees will also be assigned to night and chairmen • elected, Heyman said. The committees include a planning committee to coordi nate SURE activities, a griev ance committee to handle com plaints of discrimination, a housing committee to investi gate dormitory incidents, and a committee on public accom modations to investigate charges of discrimination in fraternities, sororities, restau rants, hotels and other public j places. 733 Freshmen Will Participate in Panhe! Rush Seven hundred and thirty-three girls will participate in Pan hellenic rush which begins this weekend, Thea Gerber, rush ing chairman, announced Tues day night. Freshmen will attend 27 ses sions this weekend and formal winter rush, which will also in clude transfer students, will be gin Jan. 4. A letter explaining rush will be sent to approximately 30 girls who will be transferring to the University during winter term. These girls will also receive fall rush booklets and a regis tration card which they can re turn if they are interested in rushing. A change, in the. signing of! preferential cards by rushees was recommended by Barbara Baum, president'of Delta Zeta. - Rushees will sign their pref erential cards in their individual rush groups with their rush guides instead, of in the, Hetzel | Union lounge as in previous I years. insuring Congressional iC - . , , w 1 Responsibility -See Page 2 FIVE CENTS I would not be here today” if the argument had not ended, Khrushchev said. Reason Why He declared the dispute was solved only because the com mander of the U.S. convoy agreed to “observe the estab lished procedure” regarding So viet checking of the convoy. Unless this had been done, the Soviet premier said, “he could not have yielded and they would have had to move over our dead bodies.” He added that Western con voys will be held up in the future if the Western Allies fail to observe what he de scribed as established proce dures. In any case, the autobahn was open again and two more U.S. convoys, one eastbound, traveled the length of the high way yesterday. The blockaded U.S. convoy ofl2. vehicles reached West Berlin from Marienborn soon after dawn. It encountered no difficulty at the checkpoint of Babelsberg just outside Berlin, where the Russians held up an American convoy last month. Maj. Gen. James H. Polk, U.S. commandant in Berlin, said the Russians “are trying to make the point that they call the shots on the autobahn, and we are determined that they will not make it.” Polk said previous holdups of Allied convoys may have been due to misunderstanding. Ambassadors Discuss Role In Diplomacy Formal sessions began last night in the meeting of more than 60 present and former am bassadors and career foreign service personnel, which con tinues through Friday at the Nit tany Lion Inn. George V. Allen, former am bassador to Iran, Yugoslavia, India and Greece, and president of the Tobacco Institute, Wash ington, D.C., was the first speak er. Allen’s topic was “The Am bassador and Contemporary Diplomacy.” The meeting, among the largest of its kind ever as sembled, is considering the role of the American ambassador in a time of rapid change. Informal Discussion Much of the program is de voted to informal discussion and exchange of ideas among the ambassadors. To facilitate the discussions, no observers or other outsiders are being per mitted to attend the sessions. Formal presentations today include Homer Ferguson, am bassador to the Philippines in 1955-56, on “Selection, Prepara tion and Briefing of an Am bassador” and Gerald Drew, former ambassador to Bolivia and Haiti, on "The Ambassador at His Post.” The program opened with a reception hosted by President Eric A. Walker yesterday after noon. Society To Distribute Polio Vaccine Sunday Type 111 of the Sabin oral polio vaccine will be distribu ted at the Ritenour Health Center from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. This is the final step of the anti-polio program sponsored by the Centre County Medical Society. Type I vaccine was distributed in May, and Type II .was given in June. Persons under 21 must have written consent from a parent or guardian in order to receive the vaccine. Married prr/ons under 21 may sig«» tor their children. ' The vaccine V administered orally on a 'V.np of sugar, or given to 'ynants .with an eye drop"*!. Distilled water will b£ trvailable at the center for JRaoetics not wishing to take the sugar.
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