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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.
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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
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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.
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