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VOL. 68, No. 90
Bookstore Still
Lacks Manager
By RICHARD RAVITZ
Collegian Administration Reporter
A permanent manager has not yet been named for
the University's Book Exchange, Charles L. Lewis, vice
president for student affairs, said yesterday. He said he did
not know how soon a manager will be appointed.
Commenting on the student bookstore controversy,
Lewis said "there is too much optimism for what a Uni
versity bookstore would do" for the students.
The BX appointee will be the assistant manager to
William Fuller, of the Associated Student Activities Office.
His task, Lewis said, is to "improve the effectiveness of
the 'BX the check-cashing agency."
"The main concern of students is savings. This is why
we want to improve the the used book exchange. We have
seen a slight decline in the use of that service in the past
several years," Lewis said.
Student !Training
"We feel that better student training for positions in
the BX, more attention to procedures, may improve the
quality of service. As for the students setting their own
prices for used books, I have seen several methods of sell
ing used boOks, arid this is the most effective syStem,"
Lewis observed.
Further explaining the rationale for this system, he
said "we're not going to give students cash for their books
because we are not legally authorized to do so. We lack
,the inventory space for storing the books, and we are
.not legally authorized to set prices for books, which would
be, in effect, what we would be doing."
He added there is "no thinking in the direction" of a
direct cash-for-books system.
The student bookstore issue. "a good political issue for
students," and a "serious issue" for the University com
munity, is fraught with complexity, Lewis said.
"When one hears the term student bookstore, does it
mean a cooperative like the Harvard operation, a store run
by a private corporation or the University, or another sys
tem," the vice president explained.
Bookstore Problems
There are three major reasons why the Common
wealth Campuses have student bookstores and University
Park does not, Lewis said. The branch campuses offer a
more limited range of courses, it is easier to make up
orders, and the orders do not change much in the course
of the year.
The towns in which the campuses are situated lack
textbooks, he continued. State College merchants have sold
texts for many years.
The number and class distribution of students is steady
on the branch campuses, Lewis said. It is much easier to
accommodate a few hundred students with a student book
store than 25,000 students, the enrollment figure for Uni
versity Park.
Lewis said a "good browsing bookstore" would con
tribute to the intellectual life of the University, but added
that stores must have a turnover of stock to meet costs.
The current trend in university bookstores is towards
private ownership or institutional management and owner
ship. Some universities own the store, but do not manage
them.
Harvard Cooperative
Lewis said few new cooperative bookstores have been
started, such as the large store at Harvard University. The
Harvard cooperative is managed by a board of directors
(Continued on page six)
Kefford
Tuition
By DENNIS STIMELING
Collegian USG Reporters
"Plans are progressing as
fast as possible," said James
Kelford about the Undergrad
uate Student Government's pro
gram to fight Gov. Shafer's pro
posed $lOO tuition increase.
Kefford, special assistant in
charge of the tuition fight to
Jeff ong, USG president, gave
a resume of USG's progress
thus far and presented an out
line of his future plans.
Kefford stated that the main
impetus of his program has
been in the direction 02. inform
ing State legislators about how
University students feel con
cerning the proposed increase.
This has included a letter
opposing a tuition hike sent
to all legislators. K ,o, personal
meetings have been held with
several Republican legislative
leaders by USG officials.
William Crc ner, USG liasion
to Harrisburg, added "We
would now like to see some
Democratic leaders to create
a type of balance." One such
legislator men'ioned was House
Minority Leader Herbert Fine
man (D-Phila.).
Cromer said of Fineman, "He
will be extremely responsive".
He has already indicated in a
letter to USG that he opposes
any tuition increase."
On the other side of the pro
gram, Kefford said that con
tracts with other State related
schools are 'very encourag-
U.S., U.S.S.R. Agree On Nuclear Treaty
GENEVA The United States and the Soviet Union
jointly promised yesterday to protect all weaker nations
from nuclear blackmail and aggression. The pledge is de
signed primarily to reassure India, fearful of a nuclear
attack from Red China.
U.S. Delegate William C. Foster and Russia's Alexei S.
Roshchin told the Geneva disarmament talks their gov
ernments will publish formal security guarantees for the
weaker countries that sign next month the treaty to pre
vent the spread of nuclear weapons. These nations would
abandon their claims to atomic arms.
"The United States will declare that any state which
commits aggression with nuclear weapons or which threat
ens such aggression must be aware that its actions are to
be countered effectively, in accordance with the U.N.
charter to suppress the aggression or remove the threat
of aggression," Foster told the conference.
"The Soviet Union will declare that .. . nuclear weap
on ; states, permanent members of the Security Council,
will have to act immediately . . . to counter such aggres
sion or remove the threat of aggression," Roshchin said.
British Delegate Ivor Porter announced his govern
ment is prepared to make a similar pledge.
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Thieu's Request For More Power Denied
SAIGON A rebuff by the Senate and a petition cir
culating among representatives yesterday indicated grow
ing political trouble in the weeks ahead for President
Nguyen Van Thieu
In a 40-3 vote, the Senate turned down Thieu's request
for additional emergency powers in finance and economy.
The House had voted similarly last week to deny Thieu's
request.
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Mg". He stated that Lock Ha
ven State College is in the pro
cess of sending a letter of
protest to all State legislators,
similar to the earlier one by
USG.
In addition, Kefford said
that Kutztown and Millersville
have invited him to speak to
their student governments dur
ing the University term break.
The rest of the affected schools
wil be contracted to help formu
late a unified policy of pro
test during the break also.
Kefford called Pitt and
Temple Universities "two of
USG's biggest potential allies
in this battle." As of yet they
have not responded to Kef
ford's preliminary inquiries but
he attributed this to "their
larger size makes quick action
harder." He indicated' that he
expects some action from them
"within a week and a half."
Kefford added that Temple
has been referred to as "a
poor man's college" and that
both schools as well as this
University would like to keep
their tuition rate as low as pos
sible.
The next tl.ree weeks may
be the most important in his
campaign, according to Kef
ford. In that time the House of
Representatives Appropriations
Committee will probably con
clude its State budget hearings.
In the same period the State
Senate will hold the major part
(Continued on page seven)
News from the World, Nation
16 Pages
A student rally in support of the estab
lishment of a University-operated bookstore
has been planned for this afternoon on the
steps and front
,lawn of Old Main.
Scheduled for 3:40 p.m., at the end of
fifth period classes, the rally will be high
lighted by the presentation of a 9,000 -signa
ture petition to Steve Gerson, administrative
action commissioner for the Undergraduate
Student Government.
PRESENTING A CHECK to Roger Jocoby, representing the State College Community The petition calls for The establishment
of a student bookstore on the University
Center project. are Patty Rissinger and Bob DiOrio, co-chairmen of this year's Greek Park campus."
Week. The Greeks raised over $3OO for their philanthropic project: a contribution to the The presentation will be made by a stu
building fund for a new community center. dent representing AID (Awareness through
Investigation and Discussion), the new stu
dent group which initiated the petition early
this week.
Parking
Possible
A separate parkisg, lot for
the cars of women students be
tween East and Pollock Halls
may be available for use by
either Fall or Winter Term of
next year.
Gary Wamser, chairman of
the Parking Committee of the
Undergraduate Student Govern_
ment said at last night's USG
meeting that after investigation
and consultations with the Ad
ministration, the committee
centered its efforts on Lot 52
as a separate lot for women.
Lot 52 presently accommo
dates 157 cars, and is as nearly
centralized as any student lot.
Wamser said that a survey
by his committee indicated that
from 100 to 120 women students
have cars on campus, and• a
number more said they would
bring cars if parking space
were available.
Student Inventor
Award for Apple
A labor-saving, mechanized apple
trimmer brought a $lOO first place
award and a trip to Florida to its inven
tor, Harry G. Prescott (11th-industrial
engineering-Annville).
The award was for the best techni
cal paper in the Central Eastern Region
and was made by the American Institute
of Industrial Engineers.- The trip was to
the national conference of the Institute
in Tampa, Fla.
Replaces Hand Operation
The apple trimmer, which replaces
a hand operation now necessary in a
number of Pennsylvania fruit process
ing plants, was invented and developed
by Prescott in the methods laboratory
at the University. It will be displayed
this month at the Foundry Education
Foundation Industrial Conference in
Chicago.
"Workers must now trim apple de
fects with an ordinary knife," Prescott
explained. "The trimmer, designed for
operation at the end of the conveyor
The petition, though it is only a first step, calls on the
House to put on its agenda a discussion of whether to bring
up for a vote a motion of no confidence in Thiett's admin
istration. The direct target of such a motion would be
Premier Nguyen Van Loc and his Cabinet.
On the surface the actions were explained simply:
a fear among legislators in both houses that Thieu,' who
already had decreed specirl powers for the executive to
meet the Communist military challenge, was trying to
take too much power.
Various members of both houses maintain moves of
the government, including the martial law proclaimed Jan.
31, are unconstitutional.
Under the constitution, the lawmakers have the right
to recommend the replacement of all or part of the gov
ernment by a two-thirds majority vote.
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Former House Speaker Dies in Florida
NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass. Joseph W. Martin Jr.,
whose career in politics brought him the speakersilip of the
House, consideration as a presidential possibility and the
informal title "Mr. Republican" died Wednesday at the age
of 83.
The short, stocky bachelor, who first went to Washing
ton as a congressman in 1924, was stricken at the Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., home of his nepheW, George Kelly.
He was dead on arrival at a hospital. Cause of death
was not immediately determined.
Following an autopsy requested by relatives, the body
is to be returned to North Attleboro, the town where he
was born and always called home.
His political career ended two years' ago when. after
42 years in Congress, he was defeated in the GOP primary.
"You can't win them all," he said then. "I can forget
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 1968
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by Fail or Winter
Lot 52 will be partly elim
inated with the e:zpansion of the
Computer Science Building and
the construction of a new audi
torium. but Wamser said the
Administration has promised
to set aside a section of the
Spring Week Guides
.Available in HUB
Handbooks for Spring Week
containing complete rules and
entrance applicatiom for all
events will be available today.
Rich ‘Veiner, co-chairman
for Spring' Week, said that
the books will be available for
groups who wish to partici
pate from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
today in 214 Hetzel Union
Building; •- - •
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of the good apple for use."
Prescott, who began his college work
at the University's Berks Campus at
Wyomissing, will receive his bachelor of
science degree in June. He plans to con
tinue his studies in metallurgical science
at the University of Leeds in England
where he will be a Rotary International
Fellow.
Another Penn State student, Charles
F. Herman (Bth-industrial engineering-
Deland, Fla.) won second place on plant
layout and space reallocation via the
bead method.
Used at HRB-Singer
Herman said the bead method takes
into consideration the bench, equipment,
activity and desk area needed for each
employe in a plant. His system is suit
able for research and development in a
university-type operation where an en
vironment conducive to creative output
is important. Ike developed his system
for HRB-Singer, Inc., a State College
research and development firm, where
he is employed.
revamped area as a new Lot 52. The complete list of textbooks used in
Wamser also reported that courses offered Spring Term will be posted
Monday on the bulletin board on the main
parking problems in West Halls
are under examination, but "on floor of the Hetzel Union Building.
the whole the outlook for West , Cathy Hanks, a member of the Ad
is none too bright." ministrative Action Commission of the
In regard to overall parking, Undergraduate Student Government, said
Wam'ser said that 1.50 spaces USG obtained the list early at the request
in Lot 83 now under use by of students who wish to buy their books for
Shields will be returned to stu- Spring over the term break.
dents if they are needed. Miss Hanks warned that students "are
Steve Gerson, Chairman of taking a chance" buying their books early,
the Administrative Action Corn- as they are not assured of their schedules
mission presented a report to until registration, and professors have the
the congress on the results of prerogative to change the books for a course
Tuesday's trip to Harrisburg, at the beginning of the term.
by USG officials to confer with
State legislators on the tuition
problem and the fees at the members of this University community must
Ritenour Health Center. take a few minutes from their overcrowded
Gerson related that the "USG' schedules and make their demands known
group had succeeded in per- to an all-too unrepresentative Student Gov
suading two senators, Preston ernment and unresponsive Administration."
13: Davis an George N. Wade, The announcement concluded with the
to introduce a bill allowing the question, "Can we all get together once be
student fees at Ritenour, to .be_for,e,..the;book_buying holocaust begins next
deducted ' from the student's' term?"
General Deposits
the losses when I think of the successes."
Martin's success in politics began when he was elected
to the Massachusetts House in f 912. His 21-term career in
Congress started a dozen years later.
He was speaker when Republicans controlled the
House in the 80th Congress of 1947-8 and the 83rd Congress
of 1953-4.
Senate Adds Riot Provisions to Rights Bill
WASHINGTON The Senate has laced the civil
rights-open housing bill with more anti-riot provisions after
a heated debate over expanding federal police powers that
split the Kennedy brothers.
More attempts to dilute the open-housing part of the
controversy-laden legislation were in prospect yesterday
but Wednesday's fast-paced action centered on riot-preven
tion.
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., supported a proposed
amendment that would make sniping, destroying property
or other violence during a riot a federal crime.
His brother, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., strong
ly opposed the amendment, which was defeated 64 to 27.
Robert Kennedy said it would "change the whole com
plexion of the civil rights struggle" by bringing the fed
eral government into local law enforcement "to a degree
we never contemplated when I was attorney general."
Teachers' Strike Continues; Four Arrested
PITTSBURGH A school official denied yesterday
charges by a group of parents that conditions in Pittsburgh
schools 'are unsafe because of a strike by one-third of the
city's 3,000 teachers.
Deputy sheriffs arrested four more teachers yester-
Old Main R • Ily
Set for T •day
By KITTY PHILBIN
Collegian USG Reporter
'Unresponsive Administration'
An undisclosed source began Circulating
notices of the rally yesterday, encouraging
attendance because "the time has finally
come when the many sincerely interested
A spokesman for AID said that various
THE MECHANIZED APPLE TRIMMER is demonstrated by its inventor, Harry
Prescott, (11th-industrial engineering-Annville).
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Bookstore Support
& State
day for violating a court ban against demonstrations at
schools. They were fined $5O apiece by Judge John Hester.
The striking Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers had
issued written instructions to teachers Wednesday night to
not show up at schools following the arrests of 58 pickets
over a two-day period.
School officials, however; reported 440 pickets were
counted yesterday at many of the city's 24 junior and
senior high and 88 grade schools.
They said pupil attendance was normal for this time
of year in grade schools, but said it was off about 20 per
cent of normal in the secondary schools, where youngsters
are being instructed in split shifts by limited teaching
staffs.
Drug Officials Hampered In Investigations
HARRISBURG A Health Department official said
Thursday protection of the constitutional rights of sus
pects is the main reason state narcotis agents are required
in certain cases to give 72 hours notice to headquarters
before making dope raids.
"This is not an attempt to stop enforcement of nar
cotics laws," said Dr. J. Thomas Millington, director of the
Bureau of Health Service.
Assemblymen Berkes and Gallagher had cited a
Greensburg "pot" party involving students from the all
girl Seton Hill College as an example of a slowdown in
enforcement.
They said agents notified headquarter's and were told
to await state police instructions before proceeding with
the, raid. "As far as we know," they said, "these instruc
tions have yet to be forthcoming."
A Better Tomorrow
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student leaders had been contacted, and that
they had promised to attend.
Gerson will be present to receive the
petition, as will USG President Jeff Long,
Vice President Jon Fox, and Men's Residence
Council President William Sinclair.
The four class presidents have also
promised to attend: Mike Hobbs, senior
class; Mitch Work, junior class: Hary Reed
er, sophomore class; and Scott Miller, fresh
man class.
The AID representative said that a pub
lic address system will be installed, and en
couraged students with questions on campus
issues to attend and present them to the
student leaders.
'Back Up Signatures'
"Come out and back up your signa
tures," the spokesmen said, referring to stu
dents who signed the petition during the
past week.
"It you ignore this opportunity and go
back to your residence halls and complain
about the apathy on campus, you're a liar,"
the AID member said.
Gerson confirmed that he will attend
the rally, and said, "The students from AID
are doing a very commendable job with the
petitions. I hope they will continue their
work in supporting student government."
Gerson added that he is "glad of the fact
that we don't have to solicit student support,
but they they give it willingly."
Reiterating USG's stand on the book
store, Gerson said that USG is encouraging
establishment of a store for the academic,
cultural, and service values.
"The academic and service arguments
for the bookstore are stronger than the eco
nomic arguments," he claimed.
Gerson summarized the desired result
of the bookstore campaign as "having the
proper books at the right time."
Immediately following the rally, Ger
son. Long, his special assistant, James Kef
ford, and several other USG members will
leave for a weekend convention of the Penn
sylvania Association of College Students, in
Philadelphia.
While in Philadelphia, Gerson and sev
eral others will meet with the owner of the
Whitman Book Shops to discuss details of
Whitman's proposal to sell books here at a
minimum discount of 18 per cent.
Vice-President for Student Affairs
Charles L. Lewis has given USG permission
to initiate a trial purchasing program for
Spring Term. -The plan would involve the
ordering of books for 20 students to test the
technicalities of the Whitman offer.
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