Becoming partly sunny windy and cooler today, tf.'gh near 57. Chilly tonight; , low near 35. Mostly sunny and mild tomor row. High near- 62. Friday: Mostly sunny and warmer. Chance of rain 30% today; near zero per cent tonight' through Friday. VOL 68, No. 109 —Collegian Photo by John Bronson ~ “HAMMING IT UP for ihe Collegian photographer? No, it's just cast members of "West r 2 Side Story" in rehearsal; Show will open Mother's Day Weekend in Schwab. = aiiiiimiiimiiiiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiimiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiimiimiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifi Dialogue on Peace Day Postponed Until May 10 By BRUCB RANDALL pursued-, he said. At Harvard Collegian Staff Writer ? nd Columhis the expectation “ “ „ , is that there will be almost total The Coalition ior a Day of attendance at their discussions. Dialogue on Peace, which was xhe Coalition consists of to have taken place here Fn- a tK)ut 15 student and faculty day, has been postponed. Coali- organizations on campus rang tion spokesman Arnold Bodner j ng f rom the Undergraduate said yesterday that the event student Government to the has tee 1 rescheduled for Fn- Faculty Peace Forum. Jon “ ay > ay t®- Fox, Coalition member said, Bodner explained . that the “ X h e students were not going dialogue had been cancelled be- t 0 formally strike o 1 this cam cause even though the Coali- pus .» He explained, “They tion had planned this event at WoU ld have attended the lec the start of this term, they still tures, though, out of reverenc did not have enough time to peace >■ do the job properly The group « We cJd not fee i that an out ran. i..to considerable difficul- r jght student strike was the ties in their attempts to con- thing for Pen Statef We did and arrange for speakers no (. wa nt it to look like we were at.the dfologue. We have gone striking , our professors'.rather. Up a million blind alleys, but dian the issues,” Bodner said, only now does there appear to “\y e hope that on May 10 the “ e a l£te hSht, he said. faculty will hold classes at the . purpose of the dialogue dia i o gue,” he added, is to -itimulate discussion in - ~w .. the academic community on, Bodner said that with the the critical issues which a dequate time to mform the America today: the Vietnam fa( r ulty aad students of ‘. le war and its subsequent effects natur f e o£ this program and its on ‘Great Society’ programs, significance, the dialogue will racism and the draft,” said draw a large crowd Bodner. ‘Campus Precedent’ Friday’s affair was to have Speaking about the dialogue, been held in coniunction with Jon Fox,, acting USG president the International Student Strike said, “I feel what is excellent, on the same issues, according about it is the unification of all to Bodner. student groups, and this Penn Student) Faculty Members State first is a campus prece- Throughout America differ- dent that I feel will help bring ent couises of action will be about organized action.” He USG Election Race Still in Confusion By DENNIS STIMELING Collegian USG Reporter ward Dench, elections commis- The results of last week’s sioner, said that if the congres- Undergraduate Student Govern- sl0 " al , c ° n J; es } were reheld the ment Elections v/ere still un- enbr . e ~ election, must be re decided last night as the West ruil in Halls. Halls congressional race was Possible Reversal returned to the Supreme Court According to Dench this could for a solution. produce a reversal of last Last week the Supreme Court week's results, especially in decided that ■’ there was a rea- the contests for USG president sonable doubt as to how the and vice president, instructions for voting for a Dench then appealed to Su write-in candidate were given preme Court Chief Justice Dan to students” by pollsters in the Clements for a reconsideration West Halls area. of the West Halls decision. For this reason the court Clements refused and said, ruled that the West Halls con- “The election must and will be gressional race was invalid and he'd aeain.” must be repeated. . (Continued on page eight) Third F-11l Crashes in Thailand SAIGON A third U.S. Air Force F-11l has been lost since the $6-million, swing-wing fighter-bombers entered the Vietnam war less than a month ago, the U.S. Command reported yesterday. The command said the plane was believed to have crashed Monday night in Thailand, but it had no further information on the plane or the fate of its two-man crew. The F-llls were grounded after the second one crashed March 30 and had resumed missions only 12 days ago, after two replacements were flown from Nevada. The first plane crashed March 3, three days after going into combat over North Vietnam. Hanoi radio claimed the plane was shot down but U.S. air officers believed it crashed in a remote area of Thailand. As far as is known, the wreckage never was found. The crew of the second F-11l downed parachuted and were rescued by helicopter in northern Thailand. lis wreckage was found. The crash was attributed to a capsule of sealing material mistakenly left by mechanics that be came lodged in the flight controls. Kremfsn Anxious over China MOSCOW Communist rule in China could be over thrown because of "a surging wave of discontent” created by the policies of Mao Tse-tung, the Soviet Communist party said yesterday. An editorial ip the Soviet party’s theoretical journal Kommunist indicated that the Kremlin is despairing of China’s returning to a calm, stable form of communism. In reply to this decision, Ed- News from the World, Nation ★ ★ 8 Pages added its purpose is generally to “make the students more aware of the scheme' of things going on in this world and their potential influence on it.” A Coalition proposal stated, “Projected activities for the day-long program should be diversified enough to include panel discussions using perti nent films as catalysts for question-and-answer sessions between students and faculty: major well-known speakers to tackle the issues of troop com mitment, racism and the draft; talks given by faculty members on a number of areas related to the oeace question, such as (Continued on page three). Pass-Fail Grade Plans Complete By PAT GUROSKY Collegian Administration Reporter Plans for registering, grading and drop add in courses taken on the new satisfactory unsatisfactory grading system have been completed, it was announced yesterday. According to Leslie P. Greenhill, assist ant vice president for resident instruction, each college will determine its own policy on what courses its majors may take in the new system, popularly known as pass-fail. Ad visers are to decide on individual college policy by May 1, in time for pre-registration for Fall Term 1968, when the system will go into effect. The implementation procedures for the S-U grading system are as follows: During the last three working days mark ing the end of the 21-day drop period, stu dents will file an application requesting an S-U grade for courses for which they are currently registered. Only those applications received at the Records Office during the last three working days of this period will be accepted. Students desiring to take S-U courses in the fall will pre-register for them this term but will not make an application for a S-U grade until Fall Term. The application form must show approv al of the student’s adviser. The adviser is re sponsible for verifying that the course for which an S-U grade is requested conforms to the guidelines establisned by the College for its majors. The student will file the application with the Records Office in Shields Building, where he will be given a validated copy of the form. Other copies are returned to the office of the student’s dean, one for the Dean’s office and one for the adviser. Jrom th& associated Instead, the Kremlin appeared worried that China might cease to be a Communist country. What might suc ceed communism in China was not suggested. - “What is now taking place in China is causing growing concern and anxiety among Marxists-Leninists throughout the world,” Kommunist said. “Already clearly in sight is the danger of a change in the nature of government in the country and, hence, a real danger to the Socialist Communist gains of the Chinese revolution.” LONDON Hundreds of tough London longshore men marched on the House of Commons yesterday to shout their support for Enoch Powell, while inside he was given an elegant tongue-lashing by his own party for stirring up racial trouble in Britain. Workers in half a dozen plants in Britain went on token strikes to protest the government’s bill to outlaw racial discrimination in housing, employment and many other fields as it tame before Commons for a vote. Powell was fired from the leadership of the Conserva tive party for a weekend speech warning of “streets run ning with blood” if noriwhite immigration were not halted. He sat unsmiling on the Commons’ t>ack benches through a rebuke by Quintin Hogg, Conservative party spokesman on race relations and other domestic affairs. Hogg made it clear that the Conservatives would vote against the Labor government’s bill because they want' a more moderate one with more exemptions for .“the small man.” UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIJ. 24, 1968 PHILADELPHIA (/P) Senator Eugene Mc- Carthy ran away with the presidential preference balloting on the basis of incomplete returns from yesterday’s Pennsylvania primary election. Democrat McCarthy was the only candidate on the presidential preference ballot. With 2,197 of 9,998 precints reported, the Minnesota senator, an opponent of President Johnson’s war policy, had 91,145 votes. Another Democrat, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy of New York, polled 7,165 write-in votes. Both McCarthy and Kennedy, also a peace candidate, - campaigned briefly in Pennsylvania. Other write-in votes on the Democratic side showed 4,490 for Vice President Hubert H. Hum phrey still a non-candidate; 1,711 for ex-Gov. George Wallace of Alabama, and 1,960 for Presi dent Johnson, who is not seeking renomination. On the Republican presidential preference side, with 2,065 precincts reported, former Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon had 9,998 write-ins, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York 3,756, Gov. Ron ald Reagan of California 623, Wallance 775, Gov. Shafer 101 and Johnson 410. Favorite Son Shafer is a favorite son-candidate for the nom ination at the GOP convention this summer. He’ll head the state’s GOP delegation, which is not bound by the primary vote. There was only one major statewide contest, for the U.S. nomination, in which incumbent Joseph S. Clark defeated Rep. John Dent, who also ran for renomiiiation to his house seat. The 66-year-old Clark, critical of President Johnson’s war policy, thus will seek a third term in the Senate this November against the challenge of U.S. Rep. Richard S. Schweiker, who was un opposed for the Republican senate nomination. While he refused to concede defeat to Clark, Dent said before midnight Tuesday, “If I lose by less than 75,000 I’ll consider it a moral victory. Dent, a vocal supporter of President Johnson’s domestic and foreign policies, campaigned against Clark charging the incumbent. Democrat had been double talking about administration policies, es pecially in Vietnam. Clark is recognized as a dove in the continuing Washngton battle of hawks and doves. The vote from 2,996 of 9,460 precincts, gave Clark 147,383 and Dent. 113,600. ' ■' British Labor Champions Racist McCarthy Takes Primary ; Clark Wins Senate Contest Johnson Supporters The 60-year-old Dentj ; a. native, of Jeannette, Advisers to Have Information By May 1 Instructors will grade all students using Grade points for Satisfactory-Unsatis- A-B-C-D-F grades'and conversion to S or U factory courses will not be tabulated toward grades will be made in the Records Office for the student’s grade average, but credit will those students who filed applications. be recorded toward his total credit rdquire- This limited system permits each stu- ments if he passes the course. An unsatisfac dent to schedule at least nine credits but not tory grade will receive neither credit nor more than' 18 credits on a Satisfactory- grade points. If the grade is U, the course Unsatisfactory basis. piay be taken again, but only under the con- Students will not be permitted to sched- ventional grading system. . ule more than two courses on a Satisfactory- “Satisfactory” in a course scheduled on Unsatisfactory basis in any one term. the S-U basis will be defined as the equival- Students will be permitted to transfer ent of “D” or better on the A-B-C-D-F sys from a S-U grading system to a conventional tern in that course. A-B-C-D-F system, or vice versa, within the Required courses in the major may be drop period only. included under the -S-U option if depart- Students In Choice For the past month Univer- ’6B at the University, said. “We the urban crisis. The editors sity students have been wear- are hoping that everyone at of Time Magazine have re ins buttons bearing the slogan the University will vote. It will leased a clarification of the “April 24.” only take a minute of their sec o n d referendum question Today is their day, the day time.” - dealing with the course that that students will cast their rpu. i lnf . pi... a , fiR . the United States should pursue votes in Choice ’6B, the Time T^ m^ Uo ‘ ;°, r 1 68 in Vietnam. The clarification Magazine national collegiate f twelve candidates says that “ tem P° rar > r suspen- Presidentia primary. The voter is asked to make a sion of bombin B” should be Polling places have been set f thM nhnioo interpreted as the temporary up throughout the University, {‘‘' S V® and ' thlrd choice suspension of all bombing,, and “Students may vote in the 101 u u ' “to maintain the current level same places as they did last The voter is also asked to of bombing” .• eans to maintain week in the USG elections.” vote on three referendum ques- the current level of limited Joseph Chirra, head of Choice tions dealing with Vietnam and bombing. T6SS was elected to Congress in a special election in by margins of better than 2 to 1. 1958 and has, served there since. He has had a The constitutional reyision questions involving varied career in labor, business, politics and gov- local government, state finance and legislative re ernment. apportionment were running well ahead in the Clark first was elected to. the Senate in 1956, yes column. Proposals on the judiciary and taxa overcoming a Republican trend in the state. He tion encountered some opposition. was reelected in 1962, again reversing a GOP Shafer appeared to be winning a notable vic trend. A lawyer, he served as city controller and tory for his administration in the returns on the mayor of Philadelphia, elected to both offices pn constitutional amendments. The governor had a reform platform. made the job of updating the state’s century-old Amendments Passed constitution his major goal shortly after he took Based on early returns, Keystone state voters, office last year, in a light turnout, appeared to be approving the The proposed amendments, which could vitally proposed constitutional amendments, .three of them (Continued on page three) PHILADELPHIA (AP) Pennsylvania’s voters, on the basis of early returns last night, appeared to be approving by hefty margins all five pro posals designed to modernize the state’s 94-year old Constitution. With 755 "of the state’s 9,450 precincts report ing, proposals on local government, state finance and legislative apportionment were being approved by margins of better than two to one. Proposals on the judiciary and taxation found the going rougher, but were ahead by more than 17,000 votes. Allegheny County Rejecting Con Con Returns from 78 of Allegheny County's 1,213 precincts, however, showed that voters there were bucking the statewide trend and rejecting all five proposals. First returns from Philadelphia were heavily in favor of the revision questions. . The prestige of Gov. Shafer’s administration was riding on the outcome of the questions, since Shafer made the task of updating the state’s cen tury-old Constitution his major goal shortly after he took office last year. Although previous efforts to call a constitu tional convention had failed, Shafer was success ful in his campaign. The convention, approved in the 1967 primary election, met for 90 days to con sider four articles: the judiciary, local government, taxation and finance and legislative apportion ment. Shafer is an announced favorite son candidate for the Republican presidential • nomination,_ but all of. his-pre-election campaign efforts , were di- To Cast Votes Methodist Church, EUB Merge DALLAS The United Methodist Church, the big gest merger in American Protestant history, was established yesterday in a drama of vivid symbolism and stirring solemnities. The merger includes the former 10.3-million-member Methodist Church and 750,000-member Evangelical United Brethren Church in a new denomination of more than 11 million confirmed members in this country. The key words of unification first were spoken by two bishops of the merging churches, E.U.B. Bishop Reuben H. Mueller, of Indianapolis ,and Methodist Bis' 1 -' - ' 1 loyd C. Wicke, of New York. The succession, starting with a small - and white boy, representatives of various levels L .urch life—two youths, two adults, two church officials, six clergymen—moved forward to join hands and speak the words of union. Delegates this afternoon went into committee session, beginning two weeks of legislative business to chart di rections of the new church. Tornadoes Devastate Midwest Tornadoes swirled out of a broad band of thunder storms and smashed sections of the Midwest yesterday, leaving 21 dead, scores injured and hundreds homeless. A tornado watch issued hours earlier by the U.S. Weather Bureau forewarned residents of Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky. Small communities in all three states were devastated by twisters. Several hundred miles to the east another tornado Voter Trend Shows Approval Of All 5 Con Con Proposals Campaigns for Amendments '6B Today ★ ★ ★ rected at securing approval of the five constitu tional questions. Veteran political observers have said defeat of the questions would be a serious blow to Shafer’s prestige, although passage would not necessarily win the administration undying glory. Pre-election oppositon to the questions was not so intense as that directed against revision campaigns in the past. Two State Supreme Court justices, however, Chief Justice John C. Bell Jr. and Michael A. Musmanno, took pot shots at the judiciary article, and a taxpayer’s suit was filed in an effort to keep the questions off of the ballot. The suit was re jected. The self-avowed conservative Constitutional party, which opposed the convention call, was publicly opposed .to all five revision proposals. Bptli the Republican and Democratic parties endorsed the proposals, and a bipartisan team of influential citizens waged a vigorous campaign to win support for the questions. In the final week of the campaign, Shafer, former Govs. William W. Scranton and George M. Leader and others made a whirlwind, 21-city tour designed to spark interest in the constitutional proposals. • The chief enemy appeared to be what Shafer described at a news conference as “a general apathy towards the election across the state.” 1 Shafer said the apathy stemmed from the fact that few real, political contests would be decided in the primary. t ; mental policy permits. Greenhill explained that the new sys tem has been devised so that students will have the opportunity without grade point consideration to: • assess their own interests and abilities as they attempt to choose majors by explor ing a variety of areas of knowledge; . • broaden their range of choice of courses in areas for which they do not have the back ground usually assumed to be necessary; and • free themselves from some of the ten sions arising out of competition for grade points. “It has been discovered,” Greenhill said, “that students fear the consequences of chosing courses outside the academic areas most relevant to their majors. Knowing that a low grade will affect their grade point average, and perhaps the chance of grad uate school admission, students play it safe and limit their choices to courses for which they feel best prepared. “In choosing a major,” he continued, “students are also reluctant to give free rein to their tentative interests and to explore them further for fear of jeopardizing their academic standing. Also, the need to achieve and maintain a good grade point average in creases tension, emphasizing grade-getting rather than learning and reduces the .stu dent’s enjoyment of learning for its own sake.” 'Greenhill said that the institution of a Satisfactory-Unsatisfactory system is “a de sirable \ innovation which will encourage a more free-ranging choice of courses and re-' duce some of the tensions arising from em phasis upon grade averages.” & State hit the Wheelersburg, Ohio, area, killing six persons. A deputy said six other persons were unaccounted for as the twister demolished an old building being used as a feed mill and farm supply store. The victims were thought to have been working in the building. Near Cincinnati, tornado-like winds hit western Cler mont County and then dipped down again at Ripley in Brown County. The storms occurred shortly after the twister hit Falmouth, 35 miles' south of Cincinnati. Teacher Agents Seek Negotiations PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh's public school teachers vote today in the collective bargaining election a third of them went on strike to get. Both of the organizations competing to represent the teachers say they’ll try to start negotiations with the Board of Education as soon as possible. “The tremendous turnout at the election rally dance last night has convinced us we’ll win,’’ Jerry Fuchs, execu tive director of the Pittsburgh Teachers Education Asso ciation, said yesterday. “We’re very optimistic and we think we’ll win,” said Albert Fondy, president of the smaller Pittsburgh' Feder ation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, which staged an 11-day strike against the city’s schoois in February and March. Part of the strike-ending agreement included a promise from state" legislators that they would introduce a bill specifically permitting school boards to bargain with teach ers’ unions. Give Your Hand --See Page 2 Oppose Convention Call ★ ★ ★ SEVEN CENTS
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