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CAMPUS 12 COPIES Partly sunny and rather cool today. High near 60. Cool to night; low near 40. Partly sunny and a little warmer tomorrow. High near 68. Monday: Mostly cloudy with .a chance 'for showers. VOL. 68, No. 112 from the associated press t , „ Aa News Roundup: From the State, Nation CI World The World 852 Bombers Head for A Shau Valley SAIGON Flights of U.S. 852 bombers ranged north yesterday to bombard the staging bases of 15 to 20 North Vietnamese battalions capable of attacking Hue "in a matter of a few hours." Other raids by the Stratofortresses hit at Viet Cong targets only 26 miles from Saigon. The attacks pointed to the two major areas of concern for the allied commands. .The North Vietnamese troops in the A Shau Valley threaten the area below the demilitarized zone and the Viet Cong outside Saigon are believed mass ing for the second major enemy offensive of 1968. Helicopter gunships from the 17th Cavalry, combing an area six miles west of Saigon, said they killed eight Viet Cong and destroyed several bunkers. Other reconnaissance units reported finding the bodies of another five enemy killed by the tons of explosives dropped earlier in the day. The 852 raids in the north were in the general area of a visit yesterday by Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the U.S. commander in Vietnam. His trip seemed to empha size his concern about the sector. The 852 bombers hit the A Shau Valley area three times Friday, aiming once at weapons positions and stor age areas inside the valley and twice at troop concentra tions 13 and 17 miles west-southwest of Hue. Some of the strikes were less than a mile from the Laotian border. * * * U.S., Soviet Union Agree on Treaty UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. The United States and the Soviet Union pleaded jointly yesterday for quick endorse ment by the General Assembly of a treaty to ban the spread of nuclear weapons. U.S. Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg said approval of the treaty would prove to the world that agreement, "rather than discord, will be the prevailing atmosphere in world affairs." Goldberg and Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov delivered their pleas to the U.N. assembly's main political committee. The two powers asked for overwhelming support of the treaty worked out by them at the 17-nation disarma ment committee in Geneva and forwarded to the United Nations for its consideration at the resumed assembly session. A half dozen or so countries have voiced objections to the treaty and the big-power pleas were aimed at over coming their opposition. The objecting countries include India, Brazil, Italy, Japan, West Germany and Romania. Communist China and France, both nuclear powers, have spurned the treaty. The Nation Morton Predicts Rocky.'s.Aneonncernent CHICAGO = Gov. Nelson Rockefeller probably • will announce his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president in May. Sen. Thurston B. Morton, R-Ky, who is assessing Rockefeller's Midwestern strength, said yester day. Morton and William E. Miller, former New York con gressman and the GOP vice presidential candidate in 1964, were in Chicago as part of a Midwestern scouting tour on Rockefeller's behalf. Morton said at a news conference that Rockefeller is "committed to take a trip with Republican governors which terminates May 16. I believe the target date will be within three or four days of that date." Only about 50 of the more than 100 Cook County Chi cago Republican leaders invited to breakfast with Morton and Miller accepted. However, Morton said, "Considering that Illinois is strong Richard Nixon territory, I consider that a good showing." He said the Midwestern trip is not to get commitments to Rockefeller but 'to keep an open convention." Nevada Blast Causes No Serious Damage LAS VEGAS, Nev. The biggest nuclear bang in 17 years of Nevada testing rocked this sparsely populated state yesterday but caused no .serious damage or earthquakes, as some scientists and others had feared. The weapons development test of an experimental hydrogen bomb, rated as the equivalent of a million tons of TNT, sent shock waves rolling into other states, but ground motion was barely perceptible. At the nearly empty mining town of Goldfield, near the site, the jolt knocked bricks from an abandoned build ing. At Beatty, 50 miles away, bottles on a shelf were jiggled. At the mining hamlet of Tonopah Tom Hunter said of his small house trailer, "I was afraid it was going to roll over." The blast came at 7 a.m. in a chamber 3,800 feet under lonely Pahute Mesa, 100 miles northwest. It was 50 times snore powerful than the atomic bomb that smashed Hiro shima during World War 11, and slightly more powerful than the biggest previous test here. In Las Vegas the shock wave swayed buildings. The AEC said it received five reports of structural damage in Las Vegas, such as loosened bricks and a cracked foundation—about the same as after any large shot. * * * The State Officials Disagree on Hiring of Negroes PHILADELPHIA. Dust is gathering on $15.2 million in federal construction projects as government officials and contractors lock horns over the hiring of Negroes. The stalemate is the result of the "Philadelphia Plan" set up in November by the Philadelphia Federal Execu tive Board, which can block federal awards to contractors who don't provide for hiring minority group laborers. Bennett 0. Stalvey Jr., coordinator of the office of federal contract compliance of this area, charged that five contractors have failed to resolve racial imbalance in their work crews. Among their 8,500 members, he said, local craft unions have only "between 50 and 60 Negro members—less than one per cent." "Philadelphia and Cleveland were two cities chosen for this plan because the craft unions are so very exclusive," he said. Henry Taylor, executive vice president of the General Building Contractors Association, also admitted to a stale mate. He said Negro workers would have to be absorbed by the unions, but added, "You can't do it overnight" James Loughlin, business manager of the Building and Construction Trades Council representing about 30,000 area workers in 55 union locals, said Thursday that the workers were worried about federal officials getting too pushy on the issue. "The feeling in some of our unions is that if they try to put nonunion members into these jobs, our people will just walk out," said Loughlin. , -mumaramatarmiewmazake , wkarziaviataatao What's Inside ACADEMIC WASTELAND PAGE 2 PEANUTS PAGE 2 LAXERS HOME TODAY PAGE 3 TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME .. PAGE 3 VILLANOVA LEADS PENN RELAYS ...PAGE 4 r - STA t tt a °,1855. * * * .::'~~,i~~. 4 Pages Carmichae ' NEW YORK (AP) Black Power militant H. Rap Brown and Stokely Carmichael briefly invaded the Columbia University campus yesterday, to lend support to a four-day student sit-in of five occupied buildings, The demonstration continued after the school was closed for the weekend. Brown, currently facing charges in Maryland of inciting a racial riot, announced: "We're going to let Columbia know that if they don't deal with the black brothers in her e, they're going to have to deal with the black people of Har lem " He and Carmichael spent about 50 minutes in occu pied Hamilton Hall where Negro students have been demonstrating against the erection of a new university gymnasium on 2.1 acres of a 30-acre playground on the edge of Harlem. Some non students also are known to be in the hall, but not how many. Earlier, the university agreed to halt coaaruction on the gym for the time being, in deference to complaints that the new building would THE NEW FOLK, a folk-rock singing group with a "message," will perform at 8:30 to night in Schwab. The group's second appearance at Penn State in two years is sponsored by Campus Crusade, an interdenominational student organization. Tickets are available at the main desk in the Hetzel Union Building. Government Of University By PAT GUROSKY Collegian Staff Writer The academic freedom of the University is jeopardized when outside forces dictate what to teach and what not to teach, and . the Uni versity is gradually finding itself in just that situation, an Administration official said yes terday. "The government, at all levels, is slowly and subtly taking over the control of colleges all over the country," Kenneth Holderman, director of the Commonwealth Campuses said. He added that the University is not unique in facing this problem. Holderman explained that because colleges have to rely more and more on the govern ment for funds, they are relinquishing a certain amount of control on how that money is spent. "The University doesn't need this. It's de plorable," he said. There is little the University can do about this, Hoiderman claimed. "The public isn't aware of the problem, and even if it were, it might not understand it," he added. Commenting on the Heald-Hobson report on branch campuses released last week, Hol derman said parts of the report the Univer sity was most interested in were 'those the public had viewed as least important. "The report came to the conclusion that what we've been doing has been done well," he said. "It established the fact that we have AWS Elects 36 To Fill Residence The Association of Women Students resi dence hall presidential-vice presidential elec tions Tuesday put 36 coeds into representative posts. The girls are: Marjorie Anonow (6th-social welfare-Mal vern) and Ellen Weisburg (9th-rehabilitation education-Allentown), Cooper-Hoyt; Barbara Strand (7th-Spanish-Broomall) and Judy Rossi (6th-consumer services in business-Tyrone), Ewing-Cross; Barbara Kemmerer (9th-second ary education-Broomfield, N.J.) and Judy Donina (6th-French-Courtney), Haller-Lyons: and Cathy Sterley (6th-liberal arts-Warren) and Sandy Geho (6th-liberal arts-New Hope), Hibbs- Stephens. Mary Sweda (3rd-counseling-Pottstown) and CyndY Sbalise (3rd-science-Wilkes Barre), Mc- Kee; Janice Jebsen and Elaine Frintz, Runkle; Marty Martin (7th-social welfare-Scranton) and Marty Bond (6th-art education-Levitown), Mc- Elwain; and Shelley Johnson (3rd-liberal arts- East McKeesport) and Meg Raymond (3rd science-Drexel Hill), Simmons. • • Also, Kathy Verdelli (Bth-consumer ser- UNIVERSITY PARK; PA., SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1968 H. RAP BROWN New Folk Concert Tonight deprive the Negro neighborhood of needed play space. However, the students said they would not end their dem onstration until they were guaranteed amnesty. Estimates of student participation in the four-day dem onstration have ranged from 200 to 400, more than half of them white. There are about 27,000 students at the Ivy League school that overlooks Harlem. Meanwhile, across town in Brooklyn, Long Island Univer sity reached an agreement with a handful of demonstrators who on Thursday barricaded themselves for nine hqurs in the office of Acting Provost William T. Lai. About 65 students took part in the LIU demonstration, most of them Negroes. The Brooklyn campus, one of four occupied by the university, has 7,000 students. The LIU administration agreed with demands for more scholarships for Negroes, more Negro teachers, courses in black history and culture, a review of salaries of Negro non academic employes and office space for the protesting Stu dent Organization for Black Unity. Total amnesty also was granted the protestors. The only point on . which LIU did not yield was a demand that . the Brooklyn center not be sold to the City University of New York as planned. Mayor John V. Lindsay's office had announced, shortly before Brown and Carmichael arrived at the Columbia cam pus, that city police were "standing by and ready to move Control Charged been serving the academic needs of many people at the lowest possible cost." Holderman said that he "disagreed phi osophically" with the part of the report that suggested the University should not be in volved in occupational education. "As a land grant university, Penn State has the responsibility to train people to do 'the work of the world'," he said. "Through our charter we are charged with providing practical education for the working class. The Board of Trustees and the President feel we know what is best for the University." The Heald-Hobson report also recommend ed that seven of the University's branch cam puses be converted into locally controlled com munity colleges and that others be phased out completely or merged with others. "These ideas are not feasible under ex isting laws," Holderman said. "We have been studying these things for a long time: but problems must be resolved, and resources must be available, before anything is done." "The University has to be more conserva tive about changes, because we have to live with them," Holderman stated. According to Holderman, the Heald-Hobson report was done "with a limited time for study,, by a limited number of people." The University aided the researchers in compiling information, especially on financial matters, he said. Women Hall Posts vices in business-Hummelstown) and Ruth Hendry (9th-social welfare-Yardley), Curtain; Susan Monk (6th-liberal arts-Pittsburgh) and Fanny Pearson (3rd-liberal arts-Plymouth Meeting), Bigler; and Janet Grover (3rd-educa tion-Easton) and Lynda Clements (3rd-liberal arts-Easton), Packer. Joanne Borrelli (6th-liberal arts-Turtle Creek) and Amy Wilson (3rd-science-New Castle), Pennypacker; Mary Neilan (6th speech-Somerset) and Peggy Murphy (4th- lib eral arts-Lansdale),Stone; an d Christine Middleton (4th-education-Chester) and Joellen Franz (6th-liberal arts-Lansdowne), Hastings. Joellen Marley (6th-speech Pathology and audiology-Levitown) and Nan Diehi (3rd-edu cation-Clearfield), Wolf; Lillian Perez (6th liberal .arts-Roaring Spring) and Carole Shore (6th-sociology-Cheltenhrm), Ritner; Sue Geise (6th-education-Altoona) and Sue Rhine (6th family studies-Emmaus), Shulze; and Ann Gray (9th-elementary and kindergarten education- Wiliamsuort) and Marsha Wiener (7th-liberal arts Philadelphia), Heister. Terms of office extended one year. end Time With Students = rown Jo Crowd Estimates LILT Meets Demands Slow Vietnam Pullout Expected WASHINGTON (AP) Ad ministration officials said yes terday they have no time frame in mind for thQ gradual take over by the south Vietnamese Army of the major 1, ar effort and the gradual reduction of American involvement. "There is no specific time plan, only a goal," said one of ficial. "it is more a matter of a change in attitude, a change in approach so that Sout Viet namese troops can be moved into more active combat areas. "We want 'them to know that the time has come to face up to their responsibilities." he said. Gradual Reduction Secretary of Defense Clark M. Clifford told the annual luncheon of the Associated Press in New York last Mon day: "The increased effective ness of the South Vietnamese government and its fighting forces will now permit us to level off our effort and in due time begin the gradual process of reduction." When a reporter sought clari fication, Johnson administra tion officials said "there isn't any pat, specific aim in time." These officials stressed that any new major offensives by the Communists could delay the achievement of the goal. Firm forecasts of scaling down U.S. involvement have been fruitless so far. Old Prediction In October 1963, then Secre tary of Defense Robert S. Mc- Namara and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor reported to President John F. Kennedy their view "that the major part of the U.S. military task can be corn pleted by the end of 1965." Student Dissent on Rise From the Associated Press Students protested the war in Vietnam and racism with dem onstrations and classroom boy cotts at a score of universities and colleges across the nation yestei day. Other demonstra tions were held abroad. The protests led off two days of antiwar activities to be fol lowed today with demolistra tions, parades and rallies in about 21) ,American cities. The widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was to speak at a huge gathering expected in Central Park in New York City. Th e Student Mobilization Committee to End the War In • Vietnam had hoped that nearly one million college and high ements E xp l ains school students and teachers in the United States and abroad would take part in yesterday's activities. But generally it appeared r t er p ro bl ems that only a small number of students were taking part in the activities. At some campuses, the University of California at Berkeley, for instance, the Tuition Hike AID Topic The proposed tuition in crease for state universities will be the topic of an Aware ness through Investigation and Discussion (AID) meet ing at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in 301 PJucke. Participants in a panel dis cussion will include James Kefford, Steve Gerson, Wil liam Cromer ,Jim Womer, Jon Fox, Ted Thompson and Terry Klasky, all of the Un dergraduate Student Govern ment, and Norman Schwartz, who co-sponsored a tuition petition earlier this term. inS in whenever the University asks for them." However, it was campus police who met Carmichael and Brown at the gate at Amsterdam Avenue and 116th street and denied them entry. The two adult Negroes then began shaking hands with Negro demonstrators through the gate way. Suddenly, the 'younger Negroes jerked Brown and Car michael through the police line. Brown and Carmichael emerged about 50 minutes later, as 1,000 students clus tered about the entrance to Hamilton Hall. Brown read a statement in support of stu dent demands, including a general amnesty. He said the demonstrators were in a "fight against the racist pol icy of this university." By the end of 1965. th? United States had moved deep into the war, rather than disengaging. Last November, Gen. Wil liam C. Westmoreland predict ed it might be possible to start scaling down U.S. , forces within the subsequent two years. Two months later the enemy jolted U.S. plans by launching his heaviest nationwide offen sive of the war, and nothing has been heard since about Westmoreland's two-year pre diction. To. prepare the South Viet namese 'for shouldering the ma jor burden of- war, 'the Casserly To Speak At Chapel Service J. V. Langmead Casserly, his present position in 1960. professor of philosophical theol- Casserly received his bac ogy, Seabury-Western Theologi- calaureate from the University cal Seminary, will speak on of London in 1931, his master's "Hope," at Univeisity Chapel degree in 1944, and his doc- Service 11 a.m. tomorrow in ton ate in 1949. He was made a Schwab. Fellow of Kings College, Lon don, in 1953. Born in Lc..don, ordained a He is also the author of a deacon in 1933 and priest in dozen books, the latest of which 1934, Casserly served for a are "Death of Man," published number of years in tows and last year and 'Toward a The country parishes and was lee- ology of History," published in turer in sociology at the Uni- 1965. versity of Exeter. The University Chapel Choir, From 1952 to 1959 he wa,s with Raymond Brown directing professor of theology at the and with Torn Irwin as tenor General Theological Seminary soloist, will sing Pablo Casals' in New York and for the next 'Tota Pulchra.' year was visiting professor at Organist June Miller will Seabury-Western while in resi- play a prelude and a fugue by deuce at Bishop Anderson Bach and a work by Ernst Home in Chicago. He accepted Pepping. Target: War, Racism scene of earlier major anti- for Peace. draft demonstrations, most The students demonstrated students ignored pickets urg- and cut classes on campuses in ing them to cut classes. New York, Connecticut, Massa- The Student committee, or- chusetts, Georgia, Ohio and ganized in Chicago in 1966 and California. In New York City, headquartered in New York, is high school students joined in a coalition of student govern- the boycott. ment kroups, left-wing student In Prague, more than 1,000 group§ and antiwar organiza- Czechoslovak students staged tions. Its executive secretary an anti-American demonstra is Linda Morse, 24, of Phila- tion in front of the U.S. Em delphia. bassy. The committee is affiliated In Pa-is, a Viet Cong flag with the National Mobilization was hung on the Arch of Tri- Coalition to End the War in umph and another on the Eiffel Vietnam: Other m 'mbers in- Tower in preparation for a elude SANE and Women Strike street demonstration later. Reasons for the University's refusal to grant a charter to the Citizens for McCarthy were re vealed j esterday by an offi cial of the Undergraduate Stu dent Government. USG and the Administration have been• under fire for sev eral days from Al f r ed- Di Bernardo, head of the Mc- Carthy group for allegedly hampering the organization's efforts by refusing it a charter. Dan Clements, chief justice of the USG Supreme Court, said the group did not follow the necessary procedure to get the charter. Clements said the group should have gotten a model constitution outline from. the Associated Student Activities Office. This form is merely to be used as a basis, and is a skeleton form wit li blank spaces for the name, officers, and purpose of the group. Week In Review --•See Page 2 SEVEN CENTS t in [5.1..-,i , " - :::'"5 - 1 - : .':-,- -...... ~.i- ..- ~. They sprinted across the campus, through a line of fac ulty members in white arm- bands who were assisting campus guards, and into Hamilton Hall. The front door was held open by young Ne groes inside. United States is embarked on a largescale program to mod ernize Saigon's regular and militia forces. Psychological Impact Administration officials said this plan also may have psycho logical impact on the North Vietnamese leadership. As they view it, the Hanoi regime may now have to look ahead to the prospect of deal ing with a well trained fighting force that ultimately could be as big as 900,000 men—a force that, unlike the 'americans. "would not nick up and leave." Clements stressed this form is only a suggestion for a group. He said that Di Bernardo did not elaborate on this general form, but merely filled in the blank spaces and returned it to the ASA office. Champ Storch, director of student activities, said the Mc- Carthy constitution could not be accepted in that form, Clem ents said. Storch then requested that an official of the McCarthy group come in and discuss chartering. Several days later, Storch received word that the group no longer desired a charter, according to Clements. Clements also said there is "no doubt" that the groun would be .chartered if it fol lows the correct procedure of writing its own constitution, and submits seven copies to the • Supreme Court • for • hear ings.