CAMPUS Partly sunny and cold today OPT High near 38. 111,:tly cloudy to night with seine light snow pos sible. Low near 25. Becoming partly sunny and slightly colder tomorrow. High near 32. A major warming trend is not yet in sight. VOL. 68, No. 87 i from the associated press News ' oundup: From the State Nation & World , The World V.C. Attack Capitals, Bases, Hospital SAIGON Viet Cong shelled five provincial capitals and two airfields in the Mekong Delta below Saigon today, the second straight day of widespread communist atacks. Initial reports indicated light casualties and damage. Enemy shells also pounded widely scattered allied mili tary installations, and a Viet Cong squad shot up a hospital run by an American woman doctor for peasants in the central highlands. The U.S. Command said only one of the attacks could be regarded as militarily significant: a strike at head quarters of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division at Camp Enari in the central highlands 250 miles north of Saigon. U.S. officers noted there were no follow-up ground attacks after the shellings and declined to describe them as the start of an expected Commnuist third-wave offen sive. Guerrillas aimed mortar, rocket and recoilless rifle rounds today at some of the major population centers that had been hit in the Communist Tet offensive at the end of January, * * * Oil Slick Hits Puerto Rican Beaches SAN JUAN, P.R. The U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and the Puerto Rican government fought a giant oil slick yes terday in an attempt to save San Juan's main tourist at traction: its sunny beaches. President Johnson has ordered a team of conservation experts in to help local authorities. Before leaving Ramey Air Force Base in western Puerto Rico, where he spent the weekend, Johnson also promised to propose legisla tion to deal with damage from oil spillage. Venezuelan crude oil from the Liberian flag tanker Ocean Eagle, which split in two Sunday as she approached San Juan Bay, is still spilling on the northern coast of the city. Speculation Lowers Value of Pound LONDON International speculators renewed their attacks on the dollar and sterling yesterday, sending the pound to its lowest value ever while demand for gold con tinued high in Europe's bullion markets. The pound seesawed up and down just below its $2.40 parity level throughout the day as the Bank of England stepped in and out of the market to support the rate. Even the Treasury announcement of a $21.6 million increase in the nation's reserves of gold and convertible currencies last months failed to bolster the rate and it filially closed at s2.3997—nine points below Friday's level. In Paris, the dollar dropped 23 points to 4.9192 francs, but remanied steady in Frankfurt and Zurich. The Nation Civil Rights Debate Restricted WASHINGTON Senate leaders finally corralled enough votes yesterday to restrict further debate on a compromise civil rights bill. On the fourth attempt to invoke cloture, the Senate voted 65 to 32 in faVor ifnpoSing the debate-limiting rule. This gave cloture adherents the bare two-thirds ma jority they needed. The vote seemed to assure . Senate passage of the administration-backed civil rights protection bill with its added-on open-housing provision. But it remained uncer tain just what form the housing provision will take. LBJ Studies Letter from Pueblo Crew WASHINGTON President Johnson has received a letter purportedly signed by all the Pueblo crew urging him to admit the U.S. intelligence ship was spying inside North Korean waters and to apologize. The letter, addressed to Johnson, was telegraphed from South Korea after it was turned over to U.S. and South Korean negotiators Sunday night, the State Department disclosed yesterday. The President, it was learned, is personally studying the unusual letter, as are other high officials, The State Wallace To Run as Independent HARRISBURG—The nominating papers for president were formally filed in Harrisburg yesterday on behalf of former Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama. Wallace is seeking to capture Pennsylvania's 29 elec torial votes in the v. 5 election, running as an inde pendent third party candidate. Because his American In dependent Party has no official standing in this state, he cannot get on the April 23 primary - election ballot. * * * Pennsylvania Teachers Press for Money HARRISBURG Some 20,000 militant teachers re peatedly shouted down Gov. Shafer yesterday. The governor went before the massive throng to re iterate his personal pledge to increase the instructors' start ing pay from $4,500 to $6,000 by January, 1971. But the teachers were in no mood for promises, pledges or speeches. "Now, Now, Now, We want action now," they chanted as• their boos and catcalls interrupted Shafer's 15 minute extemnoraneous speech five times. Morse ,tares LBJ T,.. ..f-iler War es sage sage CROWD OF FACULTY MEMBERS AND STUDENTS stand in the Hetzel Union Building Stinday, surrounding Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore. Morse lec tured in Schwab, then moved into the HUB for a question-and-answer period. I , , . sk. STS M ES . _- ~„....,•,„ . , C 1 4 • llr ~ t ~.. . 8 Pages ~ . i. .J ~......„,,-,, . 7,. i • . , ... . r•., ~.fr `' :: ' .‘:: W • , t • - . ~• 0 0 - IV c.. •., . •4 .) • , ' . • J.:41`4,4:•:: . J • -A ' By KITTY PHILBIN Collegian USG Reporter Nw Goup Off Two students circulating a petition of e r ers support for the Undergraduate Student Gov-, ernment's efforts to establish a student book- . store gathered over 5,000 signatures by 8:30 p.m. yesterday. • Mdin To Hire The two students, who asked that their names be withheld, said that they are the initiators of a new, unchartered student group called Awareness through Investiga tion and Discussion. They said that the petition will be pre sented to the University Senate at its monthly meeting tomorrow morning. A petition con taining the signatures of faculty members supporting a bookstore will be presented by a senator at the same meeting. The two students, assisted by friends, said that they will continue to circulate the petitions today, concentrating on dining halls, the ground floor of the Hetzel Union Building, and fraternities and apartments downtown. Signatures yesterday were col lected outside classrooms, and, in some cases, in classes with the permission of the teacher. 'Moral Support' The petition states: "We, the under signed, do hereby offer our moral support anct also our encouragement to the Under graduate Student Government in their ef forts to secure the establishment of a stu dent book store on the University Park THE PAUL WINTER CONTEMPORARY CONSORT, which will offer a free concert • Sunday in Sohwab. The program will be sponsored by the Jazz Club. Consort To Present Contemporary Jazz By JOHN AM'SPACHER Collegian Staff Writer The Paul Winter Contempo rary Consort wil present a con cert at 8 p.m. Saturday in Schwab. The concert. sponsored by the Jazz Club, is free to the public. No tickets are needed. Jerry Weis, vice "resident in charge of promotion for the Jazz Club, called The Winter Consort "one of the best things to come to Penn State all year." Weis explainer' that the Con sort is "trying to put over that good music is good because of its content, not because of the time in which it was written." The Consort is saying that "Bach is related to Dylan somehow," he said. William E. Fox, president of the Jazz Club, described the music of the Consort as "tak ing sym phonic orchestral music, folk music and jazz, and putting it into a universal instrumental style." Fox said that the music of the Consort is "definitely jazz." HP o-olained that, there is "a Says United States Stands isolated in Vietnam Most of the students and faculty members in Schwab Sunday wanted to hear Sen. Wayne Morse criticize the Vietnam War and the Johnson Ad ministration. And that's just what Morse, D-Ore., did. Calling for an end to the "national delusion in Vietnam," Morse warned, "You should be greatly alarmed that you're living under an Administration that is' slaughtering American boys in the battlefield, without the constitu tional right to slaughter those boys." Morse said that PresMent Johnson has been vested with too much execu tive power, and that Congress and the American people should have a voice in the conduct of the undeclared war. "I dare my President to send a war message to the Congress of the United States," Morse said. "He owes it to the people to give them that choice." The Senator claimed that not a single major world power supports U.S. policy in Vietnam. "Your country and mine stands isolated in the world today because of our course in Vietnam," he said. Morse charged that the Johnson Administration has failed to explain the Vietnam situation to the Ar,,L rican public. UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 1968 campus." The student circulators said they chose the bookstore as the object of their efforts because "it is something which deserves the efforts of any concerned student group." One of the two originators of the peti tion said that of the thousands of students approached by the workers "the overwhelm ing majority said yes." The other student said that for the approximately 900 signa tures he gathered, three students refused to sign. fine line between jazz and 'classidaP music" due to the "evolution of jazz." Fox placed the Consort's music in the "im provisational realm." "They do works by Bartok and Bach and folk songs from various countries," he added. Weis termed the Consort's music "a unique synthesis of folk music." He , added that they play in a "jazz frame work" using classical instru ments. "These are all classical mu sicians and are all very well trained," Weiss said. The Consort is composed of Paul Winter, Richard Bok, Gene Bertoncini, Jim Kappes, Virgil Scott, Gene Murraw, John Beal, and guest artist Ruth Ben Zvi. The instruments they play are alto saxophone, cello, classical and 12-string guitars, percussion ins tr u meats, alto and bass flutes, English horn, bass and Dar buke, respectively. Paul Winter will also attend a workshop at 3 p.m. Sunday in the ballroom of the Hetzel 'Union Building. By BILL EPSTEIN Collegian City Editor 'Owes People Choice' Worthy of Support? Steve Gerson, head of USG's Adminis trative Action Commission, asked today that anyone desiring information on the book store proposal contact him. "A petition which is incorrectly worded could be detrimental to the whole cause of the' bookstore," Gerson said. In response to these comments, the stu dents circulating the petition today and yes terday said that "We're trying to give you the support that you have to have. Now show us that you're worthy of it. Prove to us that you can use this support to our best ad- ass-Fail Unde Stu • y • By RICHARD RAVITZ Collegian Administration Reporter Procedures for grading, registration, and drop-add in courses taken on the new satisfactory-unsatisfactory grad ing system are currently being considered and should be worked out by the end of April, L. P. Greenhill, assistant vice president for resident instruction, said yesterday. The University's 10 colleges and the Division of Counseling will offer all students nine to 18 credits in electives on a satisfactory-unsatisfactory basis in Fal,l Term 1968. Each college is to set its own policy as to which sub jects will be included in the grading system popularly referred to pass-fail. Greenhill said "it is hoped the colleges will come up with fairly uniform policies on which courses will be included. Some colleges may offer required courses on the new basis; however, this is the option of each college to decide." Greenhill said that much of the program is subject to the needs of the colleges, as the University Senate pro vided, but the provision stipulating a minimum of nine free credits seems "pretty firm." The Administrative Committee on Resident Education Procedures, which includes assistant deans for resident instruction of the colleges and officials of the registrar's the,scheduling office and the office of admissions ( is responsible for putting the grading machinery into . motion. ' Greenhill said most of the comments. he has heard about pass-fail are favorable, and he hopes the colleges adopt policies as "flexible as possible" so students can "explore other fields and gain a fuller education." Greenhill gave a rough outline of what the adminis tration will watch for in the coming year; first, how many students are taking advantage of the courses offered to them on the alternate basis; second, what proportion of students in different colleges and departments will use the grading system, and third, how the faculty members regard the system and what suggestions they have, if any, for improvement of the system. The use of an alternate grading system leads to dis cussion of the whole grading procedure, Greenhill said. There is no clear national trend toward abolishing grades, although pass-fail measures have been adopted in many universities and colleges. "Many people rightly assert grades are overstressed in higher education in America. They say students study only for grades because of the pressures averages put upon Tuition Meetings Set In Harrisburg Today The proposed tuition hike and prise the student group making the student overnight charges the trip. at Ritenour Health Center will In.the State capital these four be the main topics of discussion will meet w::11 William Bu today as Undergraduate Stu- chanan (R.-Indiana County), dent Government officials tray- Chairman of the Senate Edu el to Harrisburg for meetings cation Committee, and Preston with State legislators. B. Davis (R.-27th District), USG President Jeff Long, Ad- Chairman of the House of Rep ministrative Act' Committee resentatives Education Com- Chairman Steve Gerson, USG mittee. Harrisburg liaison William Long said that these meet- Cromer and special assistant ings will serve to sound out to Long in charge of the tuition legislative opinions on the pro nroblem, James Kefford, corn- nosal tuition hike. ` "What we want to do there and the effort required to accomplish our objectives have never been laid out be fore the American public," he said, "because many of those in high office have themselves never understood the magnitude of keeping Asia in the hands of a pro-U.S. government. "Those who do understand it have never been willing to put the case be fore the American public." Debate To Continue Morse, who has been a member of the Senate for 24 years, said that the issues involved in the war "have moved into the living room of every American home." "What is needed, and what we are going to get, no longer goes under the name 'dissent.' It goes under the name 'national debate,' and it will con tinue as the political campaign of 1968 progresses." Morse told a capacity audience of 1,500 persons that the Vietnam War has not progressed as well as Wash ington claims. He cited a "disparity between reality and illusion that has characterized first the French and now the American pOsition in Vietnam." "It was last fall that our ambassa dor in 'Saigon, Mr. (Ellsworth) Bunker, itemized his presentation with the in formation that the Vietcong were now using boys as young as 14." Morse said that this was interpre vantage." Another petition was circulated Sunday night in Stuart Hall by the residence hall's coordinating committee. A statement issued by the committee urges Administrative sup port of a University bookstore, and says that the result will be presented to President Eric A.- Walker this morning. The coordinating committee, Jim Michali (Bth-Math-Erie) president of Fulton House; Bruce Merklin (3rd - Science - Pennsauken, N.J.) president of Montour - Pike House; Gregory Crook (sth - Engineering - Pompton, Plains, N.J.) president of Pittsburgh-Reading House, and Pat Walsh (9th-Math-Penndel) president of Sullivan-Wyoming House, con tacted 98.5 per cent of the residents of Stuart, all of whom signed the statement, yielding 270 signatures of a possible 274. Gerson announced today that, as a re sult of a meeting Friday with Administra tors, the position of assistant manager of the HUB has been created. This person will be responsible for managing the BX-ÜBA and Nine Free Credits ted as a sign that the end of the war was near, until the recent coordinated attacks on provincial capitals and the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. 'Things Are Deteriorating' "The planning, the protection by local people, and the weapons used were not- the work of 14-year-old boys," he explained. "Yet, we still have not heard from our own capital the admission that far from improv ing, things are deteriorating in South Vietnam. "Much more than a credibility gap is at work. We have a total lack of reality, a total absence of clear pur pose, and no knowledge at all of how much it will cost the American people in men and money to carry out what ever it is we are trying to accomplish." The Senator found fault with Johnson's handling of the Gulf of Ton kin incident in August 1964. He said that this incident led to a "functional declaration of war," as opposed to a congressional declaration. "We committed an act of construc tive aggression, ,an act of war, against North Vietnam," he said. "The (USS) Maddox on that occasion was a spy ship. The North Vietnamese had every right to chase her on the high seas." Morse said that The United States should have gone before the United Nations at that time, "but we knew (Continued on page four) . • • • - the check cashing agency. Petition • Present at the meeting were Vice Presi dent lot Resident Instruction, Paul M. Alt house; his assistant, Robert E. Dunham; Vice President for Student Affairs Charles L. . , ea Lewis; Director of Student Activities Champ R. Storch; Gerson; and USG President Jeff Long. . . B X Manager "Universities in other countries do not use letter grades, but often simply 'pass' or 'fail' on the grade transcripts," he said. In November, 1967, Yale College's faculty voted to replace numerical grades with a modified pass-fail system for a five-year trial period. Actually, the change was only a substitution of honors high pass-low pass-fail for A-B-C-D-F, with the D grade absorbed. The new grades are for final marks as they appear on the transcripts. The graduate school of this University, on April 7, 1964, changed its grading system from High-Pass-Fail to A-B-C-D-F. The graduate school gave six reasons for the change. One, letter grades give more exactness to the stu dent's record. Two, the H-P-F system had no relative in other schools. Students often were burdened by providing ex planations to prospective employers and fellowship sources. Three, other graduate schools had difficulty in evalu ating the performance of doctoral candidates grading on the University system especially because H was less fre quently given for- a course than A had been granted for courses in other universities. Four, the same problem that was presented in point three, in the_case of grants by the National Science Foundation. Fifth, the three-grade scale tended to lessen ,pressure on students on the lower level and tended to lead toward a relaxation of academic standards. Six, the most important reason perhaps, other uni versities use the conventional methods, thus making it difficult to appraise the University's performance - and standards. I C Approves Yout Project By NANCY , SCHULTZ Collegian Staff Writer The Interfraternit, Council unanimously approved la s t night a self-help project for unemployed Negro ghe t to youths in Harrisburg. IFC agreed to sponsor a seminar program whereby members of the Negro frater nities on campus would instruct several groups of youths in business techniques, such as bookkeeping and accounting. Arrangements will be made for young women to be taught sew ing and housekeepin. b skills. Larry Lowen, IFC president, stated that through this project there is a "strong Potential that we might prevent the outbreak of serious racial troubles in Harrisburg this summer." He said that one of the pur poses of this project will be to build relationships on mutual confidence and trust, in order to 'Constructive Aggression' Sobering Up ---See Page 2 In the public release on the meeting, Long said the creation of the assistant managership" is a very meaningful step on the part of the University," and said that the credit for the step "rests completely with Steve Gerson." Long also said that he "equates the es tablishment of the position of assistant man ager with the apartment freedoms gain two years ago. This action, however, was done in a much more mature fashion. The results are proof of this." In a letter to Long from Lewis concern ing the meeting Friday, Lewis said that the recent proposal of the Whitman Book Shops of Philadelphia to sell books at an 18 per cent discount was also discussed, but that there will be no official response until USG rep resentatives go to Philadelphia td investi gate the proposal. "Should USG wish to experiment on ordering books through this consignment procedure, there. is precedent for such ef fort," Lewis' letter read. Lewis also said that recruiting for the assistant manager position will be initiated immediately. Yale on Pass-Fail avert racial strife 'n the city. Only Negro fraternities are participating in the eject. It was stated that if white fra ternity members were in volved, progress of the project would be impeded due to what was called a lack of communi cation between Negroes and whites. In other business, the council approved the, WMAJ-sponsored radio program listing Greek activities, and the publication of a rush pamphlet for both sorority and fraternity rush. The first WMAJ program will be heard at 11:45 p.m. Thurs day. In conjunction with the Pan hellenic Council, IFC will spon sor rush programs during the Spring Term at the Common wealth Campuses, with the goal of encouraging transfer stu dents to rush sororities and fraternities, —Collegian Photos by Pan Rodgers MORSE GESTURES as he discusses foreign policy, the Johnson Administration, and the draft. SEVEN CENTS ....................
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