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and a little warmer tomorrow.
High near 68. Monday: Mostly
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VOL. 68, No. 112
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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.
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' 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
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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.
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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.