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Partly sunny and cold (buIIOCOP
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near 25. Partly cloudy and not
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Low 15. Iligh 32. Outlook for
Friday: Partly sunny and a little
milder. High 36.
VOL. 68, No. 48
from the associated press r rte;
News Roundup:
From the State,
Nation & World
The World
Sweden Grants Asylum to American Seamen
STOCKHOLM Sweden formally granted asylum
yesterday to 1' our American Navy men who deserted from
the U.S. aircraft carrier Intrepid in Japan Oct. 23 to protest
the Vietnam war.
The sailors were invited to apply for alien passports,
which would enable them to travel freely anywhere within
the country.
The U.S. State Department declined comment on the
decision.
Press officer Carl Bartch told a Washington news con
ference, however, the U.S. government is ready to assist
the four to return to the United States, "should they ask
for such assistance," and to assist the parents if they want
to visit their sons in Sweden.
The Aliens Commission, in deciding unanimously to
approve sanctuary for the four, said it did not consider
them to be political refugees, but that they would be
allowed to remain in ,Sweden for "humanitarian reasons."
Richard S. Bailey of Jacksonville, Fla., acting as
spokesman for the deserters, said they were grateful to the
commission for not considering them political refugees.
The others are John M. Barilla, Catonsville, Md., Craig
Anderson, San Jose, Calif., and Michael Lindner, Poco
no, Pa.
New Red Drive in Vietnam Expected-Soon
SAIGON Despite massive American bombailiments
and ground operations, U.S. Marine officers figure North
Vietnam is capable today of launching another major
offensive against South Vietnam's northern frontier.
A new Red drive is considered likely in the Ist Corps
area this spring with dissipation of the northeast monsoon
storm clouds now blanketing the frontier.
Sizable units of the enemy operating in the five
northern provinces and others across the DMZ are con
sidered in Da Nang, the Marine headquarters, to pose the
new threat.
With 5,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops
reported in the two northernmost provinces, Quang Tri
and Thua Thien, it-appears likely the Marines will Move
soon to reinforce those provinces with additional maneuver
battalions. These are highly mobile units.
Additional maneuver battalions would not necessarily
mean fresh troops from the United States.
Marine intelligence sources estimate Communist troops
strength in all the Ist Corps area at 50,000 men-33,000
main force and 17,000 guerrillas.
American and other allied elements total more than
100,000.
Viet War Draws Closer to Cambodian Border
WAR ZONE C, Vietnam A narrow no-fire zone
which American commanders once observed along the Cam
bodian border has vanished beneath the pressure of Com
munist military infiltration. - -
The U.S. Command has evidently removed all re
strictions on operations however close to the line.
American soldiers now operate daily right up to the
frontier.
High-altitude 852 s Stratofortresses are putting bomb
loads of 150 tons in saturation patterns within 300 yards
of the border. ,
Big howitzers with ranges up to 15 miles bristle from
jungled bases within 10 miles of the edge of Cambodia. The
sultry nights rumble with harassing fire falling on infiltra
tion paths east of the line.
The U.S. Comand informally imposed the buffer zone
upon its units in 1965. It sometimes differed in application
for air power and for ground units and was often loosely
observed when local actions raged.
Intelligence officers consider that, in frontier territory
across from the central highlands, the Viet Cong have per
haps 18,000 men available.
The Nation
Winter Storms Continue to Plague Northeast
WINTER'S WRATH continued in the Northeast Tues
day after intense cold plunged the mercury far below zero.
Snow, sleet and rain rambled through Appalachia and into
the Deep South.
More than 50 deaths have been attributed to the grip
ping cold wave which stung the Midwest Saturday and
moved through New York and New England early
yesterday.
Yesterday's low afternoon reading was 13 below zero
at Watertown, N.Y. The mercury plunged to —5l in New
York's Adirondacks early yesterday.
A fresh snowstorm dropped 1 to 3 inches along the
upper Ohio River Valley from West Virginia as far north
as Michigan. Freezing rains and sleet made highways
treacherous from Louisiana to Appalachia and northern
Alabama and Georgia.
The icejam in Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries was
expected to break with a moderation of the cold spell
which also extended to the Atlantic Seaboard.
Many of the weather deaths were caused by traffic
accidents on iced highways, fires ignited by overworked
heating units, exposure and exhaustion caused by snow
shoveling.
The warmest spot in the nation yesterday was St
Petersburg, Fla., where it was 82.
The State
Steel Customers Prepare for Possible Strike
PITTSBURGH Steel companies are firing up idle
furnaces and hiring more men as production booms out of
fear of a nationwide steel strike this summer.
Strike-protection buying is running a month ahead of
predictions, analysts say, and the buying pace is a month
ahead of the pace in 1965 the last steel contract year.
The new year is shaping up as one of the best ever for
the profit pinched industry. Heavy demand is expected
from the defense, auto and appliances industries, but the
big surge now is from hedge buying against a possible
strike Aug. 1, when industrywide contracts with the United
Steelworkers Union expire.
Steel's biggest customer—the automakers—will stock
pile at least 15 per cent a month above their immediate
needs to build 90-day inventories.
Both President I. W. Abel of the United Steelworkers
and the companies sought to avoid the hedge buying per
iod by eliminating the threat of a strike with a proposal
for binding arbitration.
But the proposal was rejected and it now appears
likely that crisis bargaining will prevail.
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ERNEST C. POLLARD, head of the biophysics department, denounced violent student
demonstrations on the nation's campuses yesterday at the University Senate meeting.
Collegian News Editor Mike Serrill comments on the speech on page two.
Pollard,
'Violent'
By - MIKE SERRILL
Collegian News Editor
Ernest C. Pollard, head of the Depart
ment of Biophysics, yesterday called for sus
pension of all students who "disrupt the oper
ation of the University" while participating
in anti-war demonstrations.
Pollard's comments, presented to the
University Senate, were part of a general
statement denouncing violent demonstra
tions on the nation's campuses. He said that
"something of crucial value has been lost"
when students will listen courteously to
Timothy Leary, the well known LSD advo
cate, but shout down representatives of the
Johnson Administration.
He described Leary, who spoke here last
spring, as one who would willingly turn col
lege students into "chemically dependent
sub-humans," but defended Leary's right to
speak on campus.
Pollard said that efforts by local police
to calm unruly demonstrators were not ade
quate, and that "a stronger deterent," the
threat of suspension, is needed.
Pollard said that disruptive demonstra
tions "deny academic freedom and deny the
rightful use of the campus to functions (of
which) the majority approve." He emphasized
in his statement that he was referring only to
students who disrupt; I am not referring to
any students who protest by any of the nor
mal methods defended by the First Amend
ment."
Rusk Speech Disrupted
The former Yale professor cited a recent
speech by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, at
which the students "clapped in unison" in
order to drown out Rusk's words, as an in
stance in which suspension might be an ap
propriate penalty.
Pollard deplored the fact that many
"responsible people" support disruptive
demonstrations. He is convinced that the
demonstrating 12 per cent of the nation's
student population is made up of three com
ponents: "a small but militant percentage"
State Off
In Dealing
Town Independent Men's
Council has succeeded in ob
taining the cooperation of
state officials in dealing with
consumer complaints a n d
housing complaints from stu
dents living in State College,
according to Dave Ninikoor,
chairman of the , Undergrad
uate Student Government's
Legal Awareness committee.
Vinikoor worked with TIM
president Ed Dench and TIM
housing chairman William
Rodgers in securing the help
of the state officials.
Vinikoor announced that
the State Bureau of Consum
er Protection will now handle
all complaints on such mat
ters as security deposit re
turns, rent escalation clauses
and other matters not con
cerned with the actual physi
cal conditions of buildings.
Code Enforcement
TIM has also secured the
cooperation of State Secre
tary of Labor and Industry
William Hart in enforcing the
state housing code.
Vinikoor said that Hart has
agreed to investigate all hous
ing complaints and stated
that if complaints were not
corrected to TlM's satisfac-
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 10, 1.968
Says Suspend
Demonstrators
,
determined' to i)V6tthrow - the - government of
a society they , are convinced 'is "rotten,"
"students who don't want to be drafted,"
and students who are against all wars at all
times.
The nationally known biophysicist said
in an interview that he ."by and large sup
ports the position of the Administration in
Vietnam," but wants to help "achieve an
honorable peace." To this purpose, he has
attempted to organize a nationwide body of
scientists and through them make available
to the Johnson Administration a fund of
scientific knowledge to aid the war effort.
He has thus far received 260 letters from
scientists willing to cooperate. Pollard will
- discuss the purpose of this body tomorrow on
WPSX-TV.
idol To Aid T
With Compla
tion he would personally
come to State College.
Hart has already sent sev
eral inspectors to State Col
ley, Vinikoor said. As a re
sult of their investigation
Hart reported that "fire ex
tinguishers have been re
placed, emergency light bat
tery units repaired and the
arms of self-closers on doors
adjusted."
Repairs Ordered
Hart also reported that
"steps are now being taken
to install safety glass in all
patio doors." Last term two
students were seriously in
jured when they fell through
patio doors at a local apart
ment building.
Other violations were dis
covered and ordered re
paired at 248-250 S. Burrowes
St. and the Metzger building
apartments at 111% S. Allen
St.
Bluebell Statement
Vinikoor also revealed that
Burt Rudy, owner of Blue
bell apartments has issued a'
statement stating "there will
be no rent increases made
during the first and present
(lease) term."
Biophysics Director
Pollard came to the University in 1960
as a — visiting professor, and in 1961 accepted
an appointment' as professor ofbiophysics.
In 1963, when the department of biophysics
was established, he was named its director.
He obtained his bachelor, of arts and
doctor of philosophy degree in nuclear
physics from Cambridge - University in
England. In 1930, he was named assistant
lecturer in physics at Leeds University in
England, and in 1933 came to the United
States as a Sterling Professor at Yale, where
he resigned in 1961 as chairman of the De
partment of Biophysics..
During World War 11, he served as a
division head of the Radiation Laboratory of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where
he worked with microwaves and ground and
ship radar. For this work, he was presented
the Presidential 'Certificate of Merit.
Pollard has co-authored three books, one
entitled "Applied Nuclear — Physics," pub
lished in 1942. The book was one of the few
pre-World War II texts to include a descrip
tion of nuclear fission.
On Jan. 1, 1967 Pollard was designated
by the University Board of Trustees as Evan
Pugh Research Professor, in recognition of
his research on the effects of radiation on
small living cells.
The Bluebell management
provoked much controversy
early last term when lease
holders were given only 30
days notice, as compared to
the 60 days notice they were
guaranteed in their leases,
that rents were to be raised.
Rudy's statement, a copy
of which is on file at the
State's Department of Justice,
effectively removes the threat
of raised rents until present
leases expire this summer.
Vinikoor and Dench had
demanded last term that the
escalation clause be removed
from the Bluebell leases.
Rudy's recent statement made
no mention of withdrawing
the controversial clause.
However, Rudy did an
nounce that Bluebell "will
now give lease holders 90,
rather than 60 days notice,
before raising rents,
Vinikoor also announced
that the Bluebell manage
ment is now permitting him
or any TIM Council repre
sentative to be present dur
ing inspections of apartments
for damages incurred by the
occupants.
IM
ints
Longer Warning
Senate Approves
Pass-Fail Gra,i es
By RICHARD RAVITZ
Collegian Administration Reporter
The University Senate passed yesterday
a limited "pass-fail" grading system which
will enable students to take courses outside
their major without being concerned about
grade points.
The new grading scheme, officially
called the Satisfactory-Unsatisfactory Grad
ing System, becomes effective this Fall Term.
All colleges and the Division of Counsel
ing are. required to permit students to sched
ule at least nine credits necessary for grad
uation on the basis of the alternate system.
Will Reduce Academic Tensions
In justifying the alternate grading sys
tem, the Senate committee stated that "the
need to achieve and maintain a good grade
point average increases tension, emphasizes
grade-getting rather than learning, and re
duces the student's enjoyment of learning
for its own sake."
While deploring "this cautious approach
to intellectual exploration and this lack of
committment to learning" the committee•con
ceded there are "penalties presently inher
ent" in the conventional system.
The committee said the new system will
help broaden the students' academic back
grounds and help "free themselves from
some of the tensions arising out of competi
tion for grade points."
Includes Courses in Major
An amendment proposed by delegates of
the College of Engineering deleted part of
the resolution which did not allow students
to take courses required in their majors
under the pass-fail system.
In its place, the resolution states "Re
quired courses in the major may be included
under the satisfactory-unsatisfactory option
if departmental policy permits."
Engineering members said that many stu
dents are required to schedule social science
courses as part of their degree program. A
major in civil engineering, for example, may
be required to schedule classes in literature
as a requisite for his degree, although the
courses are Outside his college and seemingly
unrelated to his major.
Reluctant To Change
Many of the members were at first re
luctant to tamper with the system. Several
members rose simply to say that they were
confused. At least one member proposed
shelving the proposal, a suggestion greeted
with laughter from the chair and the floor.
The amendment passed after it was made
clear that accreditors of the College of Engi
neering' had insisted on equal status for
Con Con
Private
HARRISBURG (AP)—Phila
delphia delegate German
Quiles withdrew yesterday his
appeal of a ruling that his
proposal to permit state aid for
nonpublic schools went beyond
the Constitutional Convention's
limited scope.
The highly controversial is
sue was to /have been debated
and put to a floor vote today.
A majority vote would have
upset the\,ruling and permitted
the convention to ..lrisider the
proposal
!Lilies said he had decided to
drop the appeal after he dis
cussed the matter with several
private attorneys.
"I have been advised by
counsel that the legal opinion
of the convention's staff was
sound," Quiles said.
"he proposal had been re
jected last Friday by Lt. Gov.
Raymond J. Broderick, con
vention president, who ruled
that it did not fall within the
convention's jurisdiction to con
sider only four specific areas
of the Constitution.
In response to newsmen's
questions, Quite.. said he had
not discussed the proposal with
any church leaders before it
was submitted to the conven
tion.
"I talked to a lot of delegates
and they told me they liked
my proposal," Quiles said, "but
a lot of them said they were
afraid to vote for it."
Quiles said he belived the
proposal would have been re
jected if it had been put to a
floor vote.
"I did it (introducec: the pro
posal) to help the Puerto
Ricans in the Philadelphia
community," Quiles said
With Quiles' appeal Ltd of the
way, delegates still were sched
uled to debate and vote today
Surveyor Hits Moon
PASADENA, Calif. (AP)
The seventh and last of the
amazingly successful Surveyor
spacecraft landed gently yes
terday in the most rugged area
yet visited by the U.S. moon
exploration program.
Moments after the 5:05 p.m.
PST touchdown the tiir e e
legged little scout, carrying a
camera and soil sampling in
struments on the series' first
exclusively scientific mission,
radioed that all was well.
Pictures of a creater-pocked
highlands area near the south
central edge of the lunar disk
were expected within' an hour.
Flight controllers at Jet Pro
pulsion Laboratory cheered ju
bilantly at word that the craft
had found a safe landing spot
on the boulder-strewn shoulders
of the 15,000-foot-high crater.
"The signs is are quite
Effective Fall Term
science and non-science courses in the var
ious degree programs.
The resolution as approved follows:
The system shall be open to all bacca
laureate candidates enrolled in all colleges
or Division of Counseling. •
The system shall permit each student to
schedule at least nine credits but not more
than 18 credits on a satisfactory-unsatisfac
tory basis. (No student shall be required to
schedule any course or courses on a satisfac
tory-unsatisfactory basis: no student who
chooses to do so shall be denied the right to
schedule at least nine credits on this basis).
Students shall not be allowed to sched
ule more than two courses on a satisfactory
unsatisfactory basis in any one term.
Required courses in the major may be
included under the satisfactory-unsatisfac
tory option if departmental policy permits.
Students shall be permitted to transfer
from a satisfactory-unsatisfactory Grading
System to a conventional grading system
(A-B-C-D-F), or vice versa, within the drop
period. No change shall be permitted after
that period.
Quality points for satisfactory-unsatis
factory courses shall not be tabulated toward
the student's grade average; however, credit
shall be recorded toward the student's total
credit requirements if he passes the course.
An unsatisfactory grade shall receive neither
credit nor quality points. If the grade is U,
a course may be taken again, but only under
the conventional grading system.
"Satisfactory" in a course scheduled on
a satisfactory-unsatisfactory basis shall be
defined as the equivalent of "D" or better
on the conventional grading system in that
course.
The resolution concluded with the rec
ommendation that the resident instruction
office study the system in the colleges and
the student reaction to the new system. The
study will be reported to the Senate in Au
gust 1969.
The individual colleges are responsible
for implementing the system and will file
a report of their plans before July 1. Work
on the alternate system was done by the
Senate Committee on -Resident Instruction,
a 15 member group chaired by John C.
Griffiths, professor of petrography. The
Undergraduate Student Government and
Paul M. Althouse, vice president for resident
instruction, along with faculty members and
administrators were actively involved in
pressing for the reform.
Not To Consider
School Aid Issue
on appeals by delegates Peter
T. Dumbauld of Somerset
County to the rejection of pro
posals affecting state aid for
higher education. •
In another development,
Broderick extended until to
morrow the deadline for dele
gates to submit proposals from
the floor. The original deadline
Shafer Comes
Under Fire
HARRISBURG (AP )—Rep.
Eugene M. Fulmer com
plained yesterday that Gov.
Shafer, .vacationing .in .the
Virgin Islands, has not yet
signed the $48.5 million ap
propriation bill for the Uni
versity into law.
"I urgently request that you
do everything possible to have
the bill transmitted to the
governor . . . for his imme
diate signature," the Centre
County Republican said in a
telegram to Budget Secretary
Arthur F. Sampson.
The Penn State measure,
along with appropriations of
$2B million for Temple Uni
versity and $27.6 million for
the University of Pittsburgh,
cleared the General Assembly
on the final day of the 1967
session last Dec. 21.
Shafer left for a 10-day-to-,
two-week vacation in St. Croix
last Thursday. He has until
Jan. 21 to sign the bills or
else they will take effect with
out his signature.
Sampson said he may travel
to the Virgin Islands to con
fer with Shafer.
"Luck 7" Beats Odds
normal at this stage," a spokes- The target area was a 12-
man said a few minutes after mile-wide circle centered 18
touchdown. miles north of Tycho.
Computers had givta Survey- The sloping shoulders of the
or 7 at best a 43 per cent crater, photographed by earlier
chance of success. Lunar Orbiters, are Lo pocked
The "Lucky 7th" is the final and littered with boulders that
unma%ned U.S. moon visitor. the odds were against Surveyor
Earlier Surveyors have found finding a spot level enough for
four safe equatorial sites for safe landing. Its tripod legs
astronaut landings, which are span 13 feet.
expected to start next year. A small plateau that is corn-
Surveyor 7, launched Sunday paratively flat was picked for
from Cape Kennedy, Fla:, end- Surveyor 7's target.
ed its quarter-million-mile - oy- The chance of success was
ag by firing braking lockets 50 computed at 43 per cent, but a
miles above the lunar surface, spokesman said that it might
These slowed its 6,000-mile-an- be optimistic.
hour plunge to 3 m.p.h. at 13 Surveyor 7 was given the
feet above the surface; and heaviest load yet, in the $5OO
the rocket settled gently on its Ginillion series a c television
shock-absorbing legs. camera, a scoop to dig trench-
The landing v , eight of the 10- es as deep as 18 inches, and a
foot-tall skeletal craft was 630 radiation device with which to
pounds. analyze the soil.
Unfunny Proposal
—See Page 2
SEVEN CENTS
Text of Resolution
Limit of Two Per Term
Request Report
had been last Friday, but that
was extended because of the
large number of woposals that
could not be prepared in time.
Eleven more proposals were
introduced yesterday, bringing
to 184 the total now ruder con
sideration by the convention.
To date, 216 have been rejected
as not. germaine.
Among yesterday's proposals
were ones that would:
*Retain the minor judiciary
in less populated areas of the
state under guidelines estab
lished by the State Supreme
Court.
•Increase the terms of state
senators from four to six years
and the terms of House mem
bers from two to four years.
•Increase the number of
county commissioners from
three to five and require that
the candidates receiving the
most votes be named chairman
of the commission.
•Eliminate the state's $1
million debt limit and prohibit
the' authority system of financ
ing.
Abolish authority financing,
with the exception of the state
Public School Building Author
ity and other self-sustaining
authorities now operating.
After the general session, the
Legislative I pportio nme n t
Committee's Subcommittee on
the Composition of the Legisla
ture voted to recommend re
tention of the General As
sembly's current makeup: 50
senators and 203 House mem
bers.
The subcommittee's recom
mendation now will be con
sidered by the full committee.
A number of. proposals, sev
eral calling for sharp reduc
tions in the size of the House,
were before the subcommittee.