4 . ,.'i':,;:':''... H:: - OlictiooS' : . Eljgibilit.i. .'1,,:-.6soloti:ori, A CONFERENCE with the parliamen tarian, spirited debate and determined voting characterized the Undergraduate Student Government Congress meeting last night. Here, left to right, are David DeMuch, USG treasurer, Benjamin No vak, USG president, Paul McPherson, act ing parliamentarian, and Ronald Faucher, SENIOR CLASS PRESIDENT Bruce Trotman emphasizes a point last night at the Undergraduate Student Govern ment Congress meeting. Trotman's proposal to let students who will be full-time, matriculated students for at least two terms run for USG offices passed Congress by a 16.7 margin. The legislation will permit civil rights worker Barry Clemson to run for the USG presidency. Workshop Scheduled For Spring With "Cooperation" as i fraternity Council's 1965 'Wm Monday and Tuesday, Marc days of spring term classes. The Workshop program sessions in nine specialized a keynote 'address by Weldon P.I Shofstall, dean of students at' Arizona State, University and a noted speakr of fraternities. The nine basic workshops and their chairmen, as an nounced by Workshops Chair man James Hicks, are: President's, Bert Velinski, Beta Thdta Pi: Treasurer's, John Boniface, Pi Kappa Al pha; House Manager's, Mike Friedman, Tau Epsilon Pi; Rush, Mike Carbone, Pi Kappa Alpha; Caterer's, Don Milligan, Delta Phi; Pledge Educator's,, Glenn Bush, Pi Kappa Phi; So-I cial, Mike Kirschner, Phi Sig-I ma Delta; Alumni and Public Relations, Mike Frischorn, Tau] Kappa Epsilon; and . Scholar ship, Jim Huck, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Minutes of the workshop meetings, compiled by . sisters Occasional Snow Expected Today Occasional light snow is ex pected today and snow flurries are indicated for tonight, but accumulations should be no more than an inch or two. To day's high will be about 38. It will become somewhat colder with increasing winds tonight and• tomorrow. A low of 24 is expected tonight and a high of 35 is indicated for tomorrow. • • „ The total accumulation of snow from last Friday's big storm was 15.9 inches, but because the snow was so wet' and packed down as it fell the' greatest '• measured snow .depth was 13 inches. Series by I FC Term s over-all theme, the Inter kshop program will be held h 29 and 30, the first two will feature individual work areas of fraternity life, and a from certain sororities, will be published and sent to all chap ter houses. - "Hopefully," Hicks sai d, "some conclusions about some of the minor problems plaguing fraternities will be reached, and some valuable recommen dations can be made by the committee chairmen and mem bers." Hicks added that some of the results of the meetings will bel submitted to the IFC as rec ommendations for the follow ing year. Keynote speaker Shofstall, a Sigma Tau Gamma member, has given several well-received speeches on the fraternity sys tem, including one at a recent national convention of Kappa Delta sorority in New Orleans, which was published in Vital Speeches magazine. Workshops will be called to order at 7:30 p.m. March 29 in the ,Hetzel Union ballroom. After the keynote address, in dividual workshop committees' will' meet in classrooms in the HUB and Boucke. Second Day 'The program for March 301 will get under way at 6 p.m. when indiVidual workshop groups will meet at fraternity houses. These sessions, Hicks said, will probably run until about 9 p.m., The Monday' night program -will be preceded .by- a private, banquet in:honor ,of Shofstall, which will be attended by fra ternity presidents, administra tive personnel and representa tives of the dean of men's of fice. Princeton fdi_go*:,:stotei:',o,o4B. USG vice president. Novak relinquished his gavel to Faucher a number of times during the meeting, while the Congress discussed a bill proposed by the USG president. Novak chaired his last meeting as USG president yesterday. He will graduate at the end of this term. VOL. 65, No. 91 AWS To Conduct Apartment Poll Buck Reports 30 Books Sold Although the number of book orders contracted by the Un dergraduate Student Govern ment Book Ordering Service did not reach previous •esti mates, BOS Chairman Alan Buck plans to recommend that the USG Congress continue the ordering service during the 1966 winter term. "We expected a small amount o f orders, but nothing this small," continued David Zurn dorfer, BOS vice-chairman, in reference to the 30 book orders which the service placed yes terday with New York pub lishers. Zurndorfer said the BOS committee had reduced its erpectations from "four figures to three," because peo ple are naturally "suspicious" of any new enterprise. Zurndorfer attributed the small number of books mainly to the fact that the BOS was unable to offer students a "de cent returns policy." He said the majority of publishers would not give cash refunds for returned books, but rather turn the money into credit toward other books. He explained this return policy put students at a dis-1 advantage in the event of de partmental changes in book lists or changes in course scheduling. "If the BOS were operating with more capital," Zurndorfer said, "we could re fund the students' money and use the credit in our future ordering." He added that USG could not be expected to appropriate the necessary capital to BOS since the success of such an operation is "very difficult to gauge." 'Better Organized' Zurndorfer also said the en tire program could have been "better organized." "The BOS MRC Plans Elections, Programs Preparation for elections and, the launching of a newly-organ ized commission system are the two big projects on tap for the Men's Residence Council next term. Nominations for the three ex ecutive positions president, vice president and secretary treasurer will be held March 30' and election of officers will take place at the April 6 meet ing. According -to David Stoddart, MRC president, a new regulation barring any executive Officer from holding a position, in an individual living area, will go into effect at that time. He said this ruling will enable officers to devote all their time to one position; as .well as held eliminate any conflict of inter ests. , Increased Activity A new program, laying em phases on increased activity in individual living ,units, will also be,initiated. • (Continyed on page three)' . Not with a whimper but a bang . ~ . That's how the L political open season ended last night. The Undergraduate Student Government Congress accepted a compromise resolution en abling. Barry Clenison, Mississippi civil rights worker, to seek the USG presidency in next term's, elections. . , . Congress has been embrOiled in heated debate since last Thursday's midnight meeting over Clem son's eligibility for the , office. Controversy flared because Clemson, who has not been matriculated here since last spring, pre yiously had said he would not be enrolled here dur ing the coming spring term.'lle said he intended to return to the University for the academic year '65-'66, beginning with the fall term. • By Proxy But Clemson announced by proxy at the con clusion of the Congress. meeting that he had en rolled (yesterday) "as a full-time matriculated stu dent for the spring term." The 23-year-old civil rights worker has been vying for the Campus-Liberal Party endorsement for the USG presidency since announcing his can didacy two weeks ago in The Daily Collegian. A student 'at the University on and off since 1959, Clemson . has already completed 13 terms on campus, He must attend for three more in order to graduate, because he lost over 30 credits when switching majors at one time. The legality of Clemson's candidacy, which has enmeshed the assembly since last Thursday's emotion-packed meeting, was peacefully resolved last night with the passage of Senior Class Presi dent Bruce Trotman's resolution. It reads: "In order to be eligible for a USG executive office, a person must be able to qualify as a full time undergraduate student here at the time of his announced candidacy, and if elected, must be enrolled as a full-time student at the University Park campus for at least two full terms during his tenure of office." ~~P needs time, money and ex-, Additional time to work' in tile project and "put up perience in order to run effi-I with publishers would have more money." ciently." He noted the short put the BOS' on a more solid! USG should continue to amount of time (less than a; footing from the beginning, he publish book lists even if Con month) allotted to develop the' said. . .igress decides to withdraw its service was a drawback to its final success.. • . The committee had only ; made approximately 25 work-f ing agreements with morel than 50 publishers contacted. Zurndorfer' said many of thel 25 publishers were still in thel dark as to "what kind of open- i ation we are running." Critique: As Critique's sales reached the 1,000 mark, Jerry Liebermann, a member of the board of edi tors, announced the magazine made a profit on its first issue and was operating in the black again. During the four-day sales cam paign, Critiques were sold on campus at the Hetzel Uhion Building, the Mall, the YAF sponsored Fulton J. Lewis, 111 speech, the Sure Freedom Rally, and at the Jawbone Co ff e e House. Liebermann said copies of', Critique will continue to be sold downtown at Grahams, Nittany News and the Pennsylvania Bookshop. Fifteen hundred copies of the first issue were printed; how ever, some of the magazines had to be rejected because of print ing and assemblage errors. Reaction to the first Critique By LAURIE DEVINE Trotman's compromise bill brings to a close .t 4I P" sT 4z , 4t. 4 , 46 , Dal-1g 4,„ 4., ~.0 4 ;- 1 57Mg‘ W' ,EM .1: , ' Al c. -- 4 0 4t ... .4855 • Recommends Continuation Community College Comparison ' By TONY FOGLIO Special to The Daily Collegian • MONTICELLO, N.Y., March 6—The present furor over whether the University or the com munity .college system should be given priority by state officials is a question that must be re solved for the sake of better education. One possible answer might be for the Com monwealth to emulate the New York State sys tem of publicly-owned and supported commun ity colleges. Briefly, the NYS system puts all com munity colleges under the general authority and auspices of the State University of New York, with the local boards of trustees arrogat ing to themselves a degree of autonomy that might almost be classified as independence. THE University This is unlike Pennsylvania's system in that community colleges have no link with the University, which—theoretically, at least, and especially in times of state allocations—claims to be THE university of Pennsylvania. This is an old claim, and one which de-: serves some credit. But- the New York system would be un workable until, and unless, PSU's trustees agree . to surrender 'their conveniently-invoked "pri vate college" status to actually become the pub- lie university of the Commonwealth. If this should ever occur, PSU would be come the State University of New York's paral lel in the bordering state. Upon this supposition, then, the following system might be adopted. This has proven work able,, efficient and educationally wise-L-with some notable exceptions-4n NYS. Proposed System Both Penn State's Commonwealth campus es and the various community , colleges spring ing up around the state, particularly in the At that session USG President Benjamin No vak introduced a surprise resolution which would make any attempt of Clemson's' to seek eleCtive office illegal. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1965 The vice-chairnian expressedr:upport of the BOS, Zurndor complete—confidence -- in - the; fer added. "These lists," he eventual success of the proj-i said. "will enable a limited ect. "The vast majority of stu-I number of students, depend , dents are in favor of a student- 1 ing on where they live, to get run book ordering service. The books at prices cheaper than idea is so solid, it can only get those of the downtown stores." better each time it's tried." He, He added that in most cases added his hope USG would students will receive approxi also acquire more confidence) (Continued on page five) Back in the Black has been uniformly favorable, Lieberman noted. There have been some reqeusts for poetry in the magazine, but none was submitted for the March issue, the board member aid. Requests for faculty contribu tions, mailed last week, have started to come in, Libermann added. The monetary contribu tors who will be listed as patrons will also receive copies of Critique. The editors have also received some literary contributions from faculty members. The magazine's editorial board is now considering contributions for the April issue. Libermann said enough material has now been received, but the board is anxious to receive "q u alit y poetry, prose and fiction." Format Change Planned Some major format changes are now being planned Liber- four days of political haranguing since last week's )teated USG meeting. "All candidates for the USG executive, class offices and USG Congress must, be full-time, ma triculated students of The Tennsylvania State Uni 'versity," Novak's bill read. „. Congressmen, some summoned . from their beds to provide a quorum, debated the issue for over two hours, •until finally adjourning 'at 12:45 a.m. with no decision. In the interim between the two meetings, Con gressinen issued statements opposing the resolu tion because it was either deemed ex post facto or out of the realrh of Congressional action. Others supported Novak's proposal, saying it was "ridi culous to let a non-student run for USG office." Reconsideration That's how the matter stacked up when Con gress reconvened in' speFial session last night to reconsider the problem. Action began with a substitute motion to No vak's original bill. Introduced by Pollock Congressman Addie Andrews, the resolution provided that all USG candidates be full-time matriculated students here `at the time they are recognized by the elections commission as the legal candidates." Miss Andrews' bill further provided that all candidates "must assure the elections commission in writing that they shall serve at least-four of the five terms which he is elected." The bill was to go into effect "as of June 12, 1965." As soon as this resolution was submitted Trot man countered with his compromise. In a complicated parliamentary procedure tangle, Congress approved Trotman's resolution, rejecting the motions of both Miss Andrews and Novak. After the Clemson controversy was settled, Novak took the floor to deliver farewell remarks to Congress and his special aides. He said that mann said. They will include improvements in makeup, per haps using a new method of printing. 1114 Last Friday the editors dis cussed ways of streamlining preparation for next issue. Ac ceptance procedure and' improv ing distribution were the main points of discussion. All manuscripts received by Critique are now given approval by the entire board. It was de cided to make this operation more efficient,' that three of the editors should pre-read manu scripts before they are read at board meetings. The board also decided to give each forthcoming issue a cen tral theme. Final preparations for the April issue, including mimeo graphing and stapling, will be completed before' spring regis tration. Philadelphia metropolitan region, would be integrated into, one educational system •that would truly serve the state's educational needs. PSU's board of trustees would supervise the system, maintaining offices for curricula, plan ning, development, etc, As under the present system, the ComMon wealth campuses would be under direct_ super vision of the PSU trustees, who would name directors to oversee the running of their res spective campuses on a local level. The community colleges would be govern ed by boards of trustees locally selected, pos sibly by the same system employed by NYS: five of the nine-Member board would be• chosen by the municipal government' (e. g., county com missioners) and the other four by the governor. These local' boards would be .responsible for academic programs offered on their respective campuses, building programs, and appointment of administrators and faculty. The local boards, . however, would be re quired to. get approval of the state university's trustees for programs they wish to adopt. In this manner, the state's standards would be maintained, obviating the present probability of each community college having differing standards. , • • Flaws Revealed • However, there are flaws in this system, as there are in any system conceived by man. One obvious flaw is the possibility of poli tics entering the picture, as has happened in Sullivan County, N.Y., of which Monticello is the county seat. , - • ," / . . The particular problem "now facing • the two-year Sullivan 'County' Community College (SCCC) is the selection of a permanent site for the campus. Presently, the college is .located in a twice-converted public school. The problem actually stems from the gdb ernatorial appointments made nearly three while he had not achieved all of his foals as USG President, he hoped, that the course had been set for effective student government action in the future. - • - The retiring USG lead, whose duties will be assumed by 'Vice President Ronald Faucher until spring elections are completed, pointed to enact ment of the solicitations rule as an accomplishment of his administration. The rule, completely, approved by the Uni versity Senate a, week ago .today, gives USG the power to regulate student fund diives on campus 'Bad Publicity' Congress now has the power to pass "laws" because of the solicitation rule and should assert its authority, Novak said. He said congressmen should, learn to live with "bad publicity" and not be disturbed by it in the course of their duties. NoVak also said he "may not have been the best president in terms - or organization and admin istration" but that he hoped the , "hard work and effort" of his administration would not come to nought. The president, whose own election last spring was by one, of the closest margins in history, thank ed the 'B2 persons" who had termed the election in his favor and made him the first Liberal Party candidate to win a USG executive post. He also expressed his thanks to the present congressmen for their support and said the new structure of USG, as established by the revised constitution enacted last fall, pointed toward more productive student government during the coming year. Novak said he had learned the only way to deal with "no's" from the administration is to ask "why" and then circumvent their opposition. "They will never change," he said, but added that a re sponsible student government could work out meaningful compromise with them. Novak made 'no direct reference to his defeat on• the Clemson controversy, or to the upcoming spring elections except to say that when elected last spring he had promised only to "make things exciting" and he felt he had achieved that goal. Questionnaire, Letter Sent To Parents The Association of Women Students, working with the offices of the dean of women and the dean of men will send a letter and questionnaire to a sampling of Univer sity students' parents in order to get an opinion on its pro posed amendment to the University policy concerning visi tations to downtown, residences. The letter. and the' accompanying questionnaire will reach parents some - time -before the term break. Student Affairs Research recommended to AWS that a 10 per cent sampling of ,parental opinion would make valid evidence for the proposal's tearing before the Uni versity Senate committee on Student Affairs. The proposed policy amendment states: "Under socially accepted conditions any undergraduate student who has parental permission, which is on file with the office of the dean of men or dean of women, to visit a member of the opposite sex in a residence in State Col lege may do so." Under the current ruling, no undergraduate men oi: women are allowed to visit downtown living quarters of the opposite sex, and both men and women are held re sponsible for infractions of the rule. AWS defines a socially acceptable conditions as those in which the living room is separate from the sleeping quarters. Women of sophpmore standing, according to AWS plans, will be allowed to visit the downtown residences if they have parental permission. In the case of transfer students, they will be allowed visitations after one term on campus. Sulpension Penalty ' Penalty recommendations under the proposed amend ment to the University policy state that the student who violates the ruling would be suspended or dismissed from the University. AWS is sending the letters and questionnaires to par ents to receive opinions, not definite permission for stu dents to visit downtown residences. Reasons behind the proposed amendment state that present ruling has led to many administrative problems because of its limited effectiveness. The letter to parents points out that coeds cannot be reached in .case of emer gency, and the new ruling will eliminate this because they will be required to sign out for the address they intend to visit. AWS has stressed that any and all opinions on the pro posed policy change will be welcomed. Further, the organ ization asks that students urge their parents to consider the letters and questionnaire and return them to the AWS office by April 1. years ago Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, a Republican, solicited the names of potential trustees from the county GOP chairman, who accordingly submitted a list from which four Republicans Were selected. Although this may seem to be sufficient reason to regard the board skeptically, the prob lem doesn't end there because Sullivan County, a nationally famous resort area about 80 miles northwest of New York, is beset with sectional problems. One of the county's 15 townships—and the second largest—was aroused at the Rockefeller appointments because only one of its residents was named to the SCCC board. In contrast, the two other largest towns were represented by two men each. When, after 19 1 / 2 months of deliberation, the board finally agreed by a razor-thin one-vote margin, to select a site at the county seat, the sectionalisM latent in Sullivan surfaced. As a result, the trustees were pressured, as were the county board of supervisors (comis sioners in Pennsylvania), to rescind their site resolution—which they did 17 days later. As of this writing, there is extreme disgust at the maneuverings and machinations involved in the site selection, which is important because of the economic benefits the township finally chosen will derive. In addition, there are whisperings of wheth er Sullivan County really needs, or deserves, a college. If the question` of politics can be nullified, and if the problem of sectionalism does not crop up, this system would almost certainly resolve Pennsylvania's quandry as to priorities while assuring the students of Pennsylvania uniform ly good education throughout , the state. See Page,6 111111111111111 Both Responsible Situation' Unresolved SIX CENTS
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