Partly cloudy windy,' and turning colder today, Afternoon tempera tures in the 20s. Windy and bit ter cold with a few snow flurries (possibly heavy) toniglt and to mo"row. Low tonight near 0. High tomorrow near 7! ' VOL. 68, No. 76 Stu • ents Send Walker Letter By KITTY PHILBIN Collegian USG Reporter Eleven students have joined with the Undergraduate Student Government, its Administrative Action Commis sion, and several faculty members in the fight for a Uni- Versityloperated bookstore. The students, all residents of Nittany 28, composed and sent a letter yesterday to University President Eric A. Walker, asking that he take "positive and immediate steps to initiate action" on a bookstore, and "to inform the stu dent body of such intentions." Don Zeaser (sth-Forestry-Philadelphia), who initiated the letter idea, said the intent is not to begin to circulate a petition and gather several thousand signatures, but in stead to get the groups and organizations on campus inter ested in the project. Zeaser said- that he feels small interested groups of students writing letters to the Administration will have more effect than only one petition, no matter how large. The student letter is the most recent link in the chain of events leading from USG's Administrative Action Com mission's letter and report on the! bookstore that was re leased last week. Commission head Steve Gerson sent letters to various administrators, none of whom ' have responded. Vice president for student affairs Charles Lewis said last week that he has not yet discussed the problem with other administrators, but that he disagrees with USG that financially the, plan is feasible. Lewis referred to it as "tying up a big_block of money." - The students' letter to Walker pointed out that, if the proposed tuition hike were to become reality, the pressure on the "student who is already hard pressed in financing college attendance" would be increased. The letter falso said that USG has supplied a report concerning the financial facts of establishing a store, and questioned why money realized from book sales "should be distributed off-campus when 'it does nothing more than promote a loss to University Park." On Thursday, two University professors came out in support of Gerson's proposal. Laurence Lattman, professor of geomorphology, said "the University owes its students a bookstore." Walter Westerfeld, professor of botany, said "every decent university has one." Both professors mentioned the fact that other major universities such as the University of Pittsburgh, Temple University, and Princeton, all have university-operated bookstores. • Lewis Addresses OSGA Session By TOM RITCHEY Special to The Daily Collegian from the Association Press Service "I have no troubl‘ communi- today. eating with students," quipped During the general session Charels Lewis, vice presEent yesterday afternoon, two major for student affairs, "they just pieces of legislation were ap don't like my answers." Lewis Iroved. First under considers discussed three aspects of stu- tion was a bill, passed by the dent government which he Undergraduate Student Govern termed "peer fear, politics and ment last term, which dele productivity," while speaking gated to OSGA the authority to to delegates to the Organiza- elect the commonwealth cam tion of Student Government As- pus representative to the Fac sociations during an after- ulty Senate Committee on Stu dinner session, last night. dent Affairs. "The role of student govern- Discussion centered on the ment is changing rapidly," he section of the bill which re told the delegates. "It will ac- served the right of USG to re celerate as your campuses tract this authority anytime grow." OSGA is unable to fulfill the Constructive activism is of prime concern to all student leaders, according to Lewis. "Too often students fail td realize that power without re sponsibility will lead nowhere." After the session he said, "I am appalled when legislation which has been approved by students g overnments is not forwarded to my desk. When I inquire as to its whereabouts, I am told 'but it was in the newspaper.' " - OSGA's Progress Lewis concluded by com menting on the progress OSGA has made in the past few years, The OSGA delegates in clude presidents ane vice presi dents from the 19 University commonwealth camous Student Government Associations. The conference which began yes terday at noon will adjourn EIKE DeGaulle Offers Britain More Trade PARIS President Charles de Gaulle and West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesunger yesterday of fered Britain more trade until the day when France will- let it become a full member of the European Com mon Market. They did not say when that would be. "Britain must do what is necessary to be in the same situation as we are, and to be with us," De Gaulle's spokesman quoted him 'as saying. "This means a very great economic effort. We note the beginning of an evolution, but we think that it is not yet enough." ' The Kiesinger-De • Gaulle statement suggested "pro gressive reductions of barriers to trade, in industrial products." This would help Britain sell its manufactures in the big Continental market. The proposal will be dis cussed by the foreign Ministers of all six Common Mar ket countries in Brussels Feb. 29. Ireland, Denmark and Norway have also applied, and Sweden would like a form of membership that does not interfere with its international neutrality. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson has said re peatedly he wants full membership in the Common Mar ket or nothing. Hussein Accuses Israel of Aggression JORDAN King Hussein of Jordan accused Israel yesterday of "premeditated large-scale aggression" in the eight-hour battle Thursday along the Jordan River cease fire line. But he said in an Amman radio broadcast he will try to prevent Arab guerrillas from striking at Israel across the b6rder. "As from today, I shall not allow anyone to supply the enemy with pretexts and justifications for aggression." , 4, .s . p,. ST'AI ,?,, , fi g ( 4V° 7 PIES ' 4v I - , i . pl o dl•i4if - kitr+ +t . :. 2655 , ‘ , , 12 CO' responsibility. This clause is a safeguard to assure Senate passage of the bill, according to informed sources. It was re ported that it is doubtful that the time will come when OSGA cannot meet to select a repre sentative. Elects Representative Louise Ferrence, OS GA vice president. submitted a pro posal for selecting the common wealth campus representative. The bill was discussed, amend ed and passed. Three to five candidates for the Senate com mittee seat will be recommend. ei• by a selection committee. OSGA will elect the represen tative at its Spring Conference. Robert Bauer, OSGA presi dent, intrcduced proposed guidelines for the establishment of student courts on common wealth campuses. The purpose News from the World Nation * * * 4 Pages Baroque? COLLEGIAN PHOTOGRAPHER DAN RODGERS caught this balustrade reflection in the golden eye of his camera last month following the big snow and the long rain. It brings to mind the architects' cry of yore: "Penn State, is an Architectural Disaster." Oh, where are their fair voices now? Notional Engineers' Dedicated To 'World Monday marks the begin ning of National Engineers' Week, a week honoring the accomplishments of modern engineering. National Engi neers' Week is observed dur ing the third week in Febru ary because George Washing ton is recognized as the father of modern engineering. The theme for this year's National Engineers' ,Week is World Health, and engineers at the University are cur rently involved in many projects in this area. The University program that is most directly con nected with world health is probably ' t h e agricultural team sent out to the Mahar ashtra Agricultural Univer sity of India, to work there toward improving that coun try's food grain production.' Another tie between health and engineering which has received much attention in the last decade is the applica tion of engineering tech- GA,YLE GRAZING President THE ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN STUDENTS released the results of this week's elections yesterday. Gayle Grazino (Bth-marketing-Short Hills, NJ.) was elected president; Nina Comly (sth-secondary education-Wyncote), first vice president; Carol Caperelli (6th-chemistry-Jessup), second vice presi dent; Carol Eisen (sth-pre-medicine-Philadelphia), secretary; and Virginia Gundlach (6th-consumer services in business-Washington), treasurer. The new officers will assume their duties Wednesday after installation ceremonies. They will serve until this time next year. the king said. The battle that started with artillery, mortar arid tank gun barrages and involved rocket and bombing attacks by Israeli jets, stretched along a 60-mile front between the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee before a cease-fire was arranged. It was the heaviest fighting between Jordan and Israel since the June.s-10 Middle East war. Israel's top soldiers threatened severe retaliation if Arab attacks continue along the west hank of the Jordan River. Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Haim Bar Lev told news men, "We have even more drastic ways of dealing with the situation." Each side accused the other of starting the fighting. Israel in• the past two weeks has reportr'd series of Arab sabotage raids in west bank territory tll at Israel occupied from Jordan in the June war. * * * Soviets Fly Near American Waters • WASHINGTON Five Soviet ;bombers in two flights approached within 70 miles of the North American coast line Feb. 9, U.S. and Canadian officials disclosed yesterday. American jet fighters intercepted them, and the Soviet planes later left the area of their own accord, the Pentagon reported. The Pentagon said U.S. Air Force Flo2s flew near enough to visually identify two of the Soviet planes over North Atlantic waters. "The Soviet aircraft evidenced no hostile intentions and the interception was made solely for the purpose of identification," a Defense Department statement said. "The aircraft flew parallel to the coast of Newfoundland for approximately one hour. "At no time did they enter the air- space of the North American continent. They turned away of their own accord and were joined by three other aircraft on their way out UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1968 niques to bidlogy and medi cine. Strength in biomedical engineering has accelerated this year with the addition of a bioelectronics option leading to a Master of Science degree in electrical engineer ing. New courses being added allow specialization which will include instrumentation as applied to biological sys tems. The problems of air and water pollution are being studied from varying angles in several engineering depart ments. Engineering research conducted at the University's Center for Air Environment Studies, for example, is ,con cerned with removing pollu tants from the air which can not be trapped by the nasal passages and passes directly into the'lungs. With the advent of The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center of the University, re search in the area of health is expected to grow at a much AWS Announces Results of Executive Elections from the associated press an Rena NINA COMLY Ist Vice President ssance? Week Health' faster rate' Engineers at the University will celebrate National Engi neers' Week with a series of activities aimed at familiar izing both the prospective en gineer and the general pub lic with the accomplishments and goals of modern engi neering. On Monday, Feb. 19, there will be an exhibit on the main floor of the Hetzel Union Building, featuring the Atomic • Energy Coinmission film, "The Day Tomorrow Began" and displaying ma terial from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Astronuclear Branch of West inghouthe. , . m At 1 4 p. . Tuesday in Schwab, W. F. Rockwell will present an honorary engi neering lecture, "Beyond The Slide Rule." Rockwell, a Uni versity graduate, is chairman of the board of the North American Rockwell Corp. and (Continued on page four) CAROL CAPERELLI 2nd Vice President ' of the' area." The Pentagon clearly sought to minimize the incident, although one officer said "we don't want to make it sound too routine." He said there have been similar Soviet flights over North Atlantic waters in the past but "this is the nearest they've come in along time." Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara told news men he doesn't feel the Russian planes were testing U.S. defenses. He characterized them as training flights such as have been carried out before in that area. * * * LBJ, U Thant To Confer on Vietnam WASHINGTON U Thant, the United Nation's trav eling secretary-general, will call on President Johnson Wednesday amid little Washington expectation of a break through toward peace talks on Vietnam. U Thant returned to New York Thursday from a Vietnam peace-probe trip to India, Russia, Britain and France, including talks with leaders of those countries and with North Vietnamese representatives in New Delhi and Paris., The general results have been described as negative in dispatches from abroad, and Thant's meeting with the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Arthur J. Gold berg, Thursday night tended to confirm that impression here. However, press secretary George Christian said Thant indicated to Goldberg that he wanted to see John-. son "as was done in the past few days with other heads of state he has visited." Thant has favored a halt in •the U.S. bombing of North Vietnam as an opener for peace negotiations. Johnson wants any bombing suspension to be accom panied by a hold-down in Hanoi's drive against South Vietnam. rad Deferments Cut by Johnson , WASHINGTON (/P) The Johnson Ad ministration refused yesterday to permit draft deferments for graduate study in any fields but those prescribed by law—medicine and the ministry. At the same time, it kicked some of the props from under occupational deferments by suspending the list of essential activities and critical occupations used as a guideline by draft boards. From now on, each local board decides on its own, in each individual case, what constitutes an essential or critical activity and what does not. The new rule applies at once to anyone seeking a deferment as a graduate student. It would not cancel deferments now held by graduate students. Hershey Sends Telegrams Acting on the advice of the National Security Council, Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national director of the Selective Service System, issued the decisions in a telegram to the state directors. A panel of educators testified a week ago before a House subcommittee that failure to broaden the range of graduate study defer ments could wipe out as much as 65 per cent of the expected enrollment of new graduate students, and could triple teacher training. The subcommittee agreed and asked Presi dent Johnson to broaden graduate student exemptions. A representative of the I.J.S. Office of Education said that more than 150,000 pros pective students probably would be drafted, and that the figure might , be too low. The draft drought of deferments has Three Pilots Released By North Vietnamese VIENTIANE, L;- is (AP) Three American pilots, the first U.S. airmen to be freed after capture in North Vietnam, ar rived here last night after their release in Hanoi One of the- officers r -speaking--for-•the group, said he way: well, but "physically a little weary" and "emotionally overcome." The fliers were flown on to the big U.S. Air Force base at Udorn, Thailand, where the Pentagon reported they under went physical examinations. Two American critics of U.S. CAROL EISEN Secretary been worrying graduate schools and students for almost eight months, since President Johnson signed the 1967 Selective' Service Act. ''The act provides for deferments only for graduate students in "medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, osteopathy or optome try, or in such other subjects necessary to the maintenance of the national health, safety, or interest as are identified by the director of selective service upon the advice of the National Security Council." Graduate students for the ministry are exempted without regard for the Council's The educational community,. wondering what to do about graduate enrollment for next September, had pinned its hopes on the naming of additional fields of study by the Council. These hopes were dashed by the Council. Also rejected were pleas that the present system of calling oldest eligible draft regis trants first he changed to take some of the pressure off the incoming graduates. "The sequence of selection filling the calls will remain unchanged," Hershey said, but students already in or beyond their sec ond year of graduate study may keep their deferments. The directive applies to incoming and first year graduate students, including the estimated 400,000 male students receiving degrees this year. The Office of Education said no exact figures are available on the current number of first year graduate students but it is prob ably around 100,000. Vietnam policy who served as go-betweens in securing the fliers' release and accompanied them to Vientiane from Hanoi, accused ,William C,ullivan, U.S. ambassador to Laos, of using "heavy language" to convince the men to go to Udorn instead of returning directly to the United States. Sullivan did not comment on thy: charge. The officers are Maj. Morris Overly, 39, of Detroit, Capt. Jon David Black, 30, of Johnson City, Tenn., and Lt. David Ma VIRGINIA GUNDLACH Treasurer & State Labor and industry Secretary Resigns HARRISBURG Labor and Industry Secretary J. Hart submitted his resignation to Gov. Shafer yes terday, effective March 1, to return to the officer ranks of the United Steelworkers of America. Shafer" reluctantly accepted the resignation, labeling Hart "one of the finest labor secretaries Pennsylvania has ever had." Hart's surprising announcement came on the heels of reports published in Friday's Pittsburgh Post Gazette that he had twice last month attended two functions as a repre sentative of the USW. Hart, however, told a specially called news conference that he "at no time violated any laws or engaged in any activities which could remotely be construed as a conflict of interest." Hart said he would rejoin the big steelworkers union March 4 as director of District 19 in Western Pennsylvania and a member of the national executive board at his old salary of $20,000. State School Tax Increase Proposed HARRISBURG Three statewide educational or ganizations asked ' the General Assembly yesterday to enact another tax increase, if necessary, to provide higher teachers' salaries and school subsidies. The resolution was adopted unanimously at the regu lar monthly meeting of the Joint Action Committee, which consists of seven representatives each from the Pennsyl vania State Education Association, the Pennsylvania School Boards' Association and the Pennsylvania Congress of Par ents and Teachers. Review of the Week 1 --See Page 2 Oldest Still First theny, 23, of South Bend, Ind. Captured American soldiers have been released by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese but the Communists had never pre viously freed airmen who flew bombing missions over the North. The pilots arrived in Vient iane aboard . an International Control Commission pla n e. With them were the Rev. Dan iel Berrigan of Cornell Uni versity and Prof. Howard Zinn of Boston Un .ersity, the two man peace clelegeon that flew from New York two weeks ago after the North Vietnamese an nounced the three fliers would be releaset: as a gesture for the Tet lunar New Year holi day. Dressed in ill-fitting, grey cotton suits and dark blue turtle neck sweaters, the pilots appeared bewildered " by the camera lights that flashed on them when they stepped from the ICC plane. Brainwashed? Overly looked hagg a r d. Speaking in a toneless voice, he gave his name, rank and serial number: then said, "I was 'shot down on Sept. 11, 1967. I was treated well, as I observed other captured American pilots being treated. I would like to express my gratitude to the Vietnamese peo-le." In reply to a question, he re peated that pilots were being treated properly "even to the point of good m :ical treat ment.',' He said had injured his back in the crash of his plane at Dong Hoi. Overly told newsmen he could not explain why he was chosen to be released but that he thought the group was freed "to show sympathy with the peace-loving people of Ameri ca." (Continued on page four) * * * SEVEN CENTS
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