Partly sunny and mild today with the possibility of a few showers or thundersh ow er s. High near 65. Windy and turn ing colder tonight; low near 35. Partly cloudy windy and unsea sonably cold tomorrow with temperatures i the 40s. Thurs day: Mostly sunny and cool. VOL. 68, No. 113 Senate Looks At ::ookstore By KITTY PHILBIN Collegian USG Reporter The University-operated bookstore idea has been rejuvenated this term by a Bookstore Investigation Com mittee formed by the University Senate. The committee, headed by Peter D. Bennett, chairman of the marketing department, was formed at the final meeting of the Senate last term, and is intended "essen tially to bring some objective view of the problem" to the Senate, according to Bennett. The group held its organizational meeting last Friday, dividing into two subcommittees to consider the financial and beneficial aspects of a bookstore. Committee Members • Members of the committee include administrators Robert E. Dunham, assistant to the vice president for resi dent instruction, and J. William Wilson, assistant to the vice president for business. William E. Mason, professor of economics, Joseph C. Flay, professor of philosophy, and Bennett represent the faculty. Student members are Stan Czacki (graduate-business administration-Phoenixville); Russell Messier (graduate solid state science -Hudson, N.H.); Cathy Hanks, on the bookstore committee of the Undergraduate Student Govt ernment: and Steve Gerson, USG administrative action commissioner. Bennett said the group is just becoming officially or ganized, but that the subcommittee on benefits, headed by Miss Hanks, has already met, and that the division investi gating costs will meet today. Group To Study Costs Future plans may involve collecting faculty and stu dent opinion, plus "the prosaic but necessary cost studies," Bennett said. "We are honestly aware that costs may be negative: they may be profits rather than costs," he said. "But we want to look into the concept of a bookstore and see what it might bring in the way of benefits to students and fac ulty, and the cost of bringing those benefits." Student rea NEW YORK (AP) Columbia University dem- Library lawn outside Kirk's second floor office. onstrators, with Negroes in their vanguard, fought First Big Clash their way through a fist-swinging student blockade It was the first clash of any magnitude between yesterday to bring food to a sit-in force occupying opposing groups of Columbia students during a week- President Grayson Kirk's office. Later, the block- long militant uprising that has disrupted the Ivy ade runners were pushed back after tossing food to League campus. the sit-ins. Sit-ins by -500 to 600 demonstrators protecting a A group df about 80 Negro and white student's, 'university building 'expansion program have' brought sympathetic to their self-imprisoned fellow-demon- a-halt to educational activities for most of Columbia's strators, chanted "Black Power" and "Food Power" 27,500-member student body. before rushing a superior force of 200 blockaders • The university classrooms were deserted again opposed to the demonstrations. yesterday as the sit-ins refused to budge from There were no reports of injuries in the brief five buildings they have occupied unless granted punching and kicking match on the Low Memorial amnesty. Senate To Consider Plan For Academic Probation By PAT GUROSKY • focus on the general satisfactory level of perform- Collegian Administration Reporter ance (a 2.00 All-U), rather than the present drop level average (1.4 after the freshman year, 1,6 A program changing the current system of after the sophomore year, 1.8 after the junior year, academic probation has been formed by a Uni- and the 2.00 required for graduation). versity Senate sub-committee and will be pre- For example, Godbey explained, a student sented to the Senate for a vote at its meeting who at the end of this third term has a total of 36 next Tuesday. credits and 66 grade points would be placed on According to Galen Godbey, student repre- academic warning, since a grade point total of sentative to the Academics, Athletics, and Admis- 72 would be needed to maintain a satisfactory sion Standards Committee, the plan would elimi- level of performance. nate the present practice of barring students on "Grade points will be the key of this system, probation from engaging in extra-curricular ac- not average," Godbey said. tivities. The plan also provides that transfer stu- The new plan would be based on a system of dents and freshmen would not be dropped after grade point deficiency, which would exist when their initial term at the University. Also, any the total number of grade points earned by a stu- student who earned a 2.00 or better in his most dent is less than the total number of credits earned recent term would not be dropped. multiplied by two. "This protects the student who does poorly Leeway Granted , in one college then changes majors and starts Depending on term standing, students would doing well," Godbey said. be permitted a certain deficiency. Beyond that, Godbey said that the dean of men, dean of they would be given a warning slip, giving them women, . and other administrators concluded that time to drop out and enter another college. At the idea that students on probation spend time the end of two or three terms, a student with a studying rather than participating in other ac grade point deficiency of 21 or more \'vouid be tivities was "nonsense,' , and unworkable. subject to drop action by the University. At the Helping Poor Students end of the fourth, fifth, or sixth term this number According to Godbey, the AAAS Committee would be 18, at the end of the seventh, eighth believes the University is not doing students any or ninth term it would be 15, and at the end of favors by letting them hang on if their average the 10th, 11th or 12th, it would be 12. is low. According to Godbey, the new system would Troops Battle in Central Highlands SAIGON U.S. troops battled fresh North Vietnamese regulars yesterday in the central highlands, one of the critical areas in South Vietnam where the enemy may be planning to attack. The battle broke out 26 miles west of Kontum where U.S. 4th Infantry Division troops dug in for the night came under mortar, rocket grenade and smallarms fire. With the help of artillery and helicopter gunships, the Americans fought back and in the early morning hours the enemy pulled out. When the U.S. troops swept the battlefield latei, they found 46 enemy dead and three crew-served weapons, a U.S.. spokesman said. U.S. losses were two killed and 20 wounded. The enemy bodies were clad in new North Vietnamese army uniforms, the spokesman reported. This is the third area where enemy troops in new uniforms have been en countered recently. The others were around Saigon and near Hue in the north. Nasser Readies Forces for War CAIRO President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt ac cused Israel yesterday of defying world opinion by going ahead with its plan for an Independence Day parade in Jerusalem and told his troops to be ready for war. Speaking to officials and men at a base somewhere in Egypt, Nasser said U.N. efforts to settle the Arab-Israeli ETA.. 4, 574,.. - f'.4Y. AV ' (it atlr tip rogirtlytt orsr _ al 1 1 , .485. Columbia Sit-in Erupts In News from the . World, Nation & State * * * 8 Pages COLLEGIAN EDITOR Paul Levine last night announced the new Board of Editors for the 1968-69 year. Front row—(l-r), Managing Editor William Epstein, Editor Paul Levine and Editorial Editor Mike Serrill. Second row—Copy Editor Gerry Hamilton, City Edi tor Judy- Rife, Office and Personnel Manager Phyllis Ross, Senior Reporter Pat Gurosky, Copy Editor Kathy Litwak and Senior Reporter Kitty Philbin. Third row—Photog raphy Editor Dan Rodgers, Copy Editor Richard Ravifz, Sports Editor Ron Kolb, Senior Reporter Dennis Stimeling, Assistant Sports Editor Don McKee and Assistant Photog raphy Editor Pierre 131licini. (Continued on page three) , from the associated press r conflict have failed and "the sequence of events indicates the battle is inevitable." He said Egypt's armed forces are training day and night for the coming conflict, but said: "Our duty is not to be dragged into battle before we are fully prepared and before we have corrected our shortcomings." Referring to Israel's refusal to accept the resolution, Nasser said: "Israel will pay the price for this defiance very dearly." He told his troops they must "be ready to die in the coming conflict." Brooke's Daughter To Wed White Student NEWTON, Mass. The 19-year-old daughter of Negro Sen. Edward W. Brooke, R-Mass., plans to marry a white college student whose mother is a Democratic committee woman. "Daddy said, '0 you're so young' but Don's varents convinced him by vouching for Don's stability," Remi Brooke said of her wedding plans announced yesterday. Her intended is Donald R. Hasler, 18, of New Milford, N.J., a freshman engineering student at Monmouth College in West Long Branch, N.J. His father, Eugene Hasler, is a machinist for Lever Brothers in Edgewater, N.J., and his mother, a Democratic committeewoman in Englewood, works for Stock Forms Co. in Englewood, N.J. Miss Broke said the wedding will be June 22, at her family's summer home on Martha's Vinyard if proper re ligious arrangements can be made, or otherwise in church. Both she and Hasler are Roman Catholics. UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1968 legian Board Named ' New Co Violence Bio sh adYl e Possibility of a break in the deadlock came when Kirk said he was willing to accept a student-faculty ad-ministrative committee of 12 to act as a court of appeals for any punishment meted out to the demonstrators. Such a committee had been recom mended by a faculty group. Meanwhile, a sixth building, Uris Hall, was seized by 300 nondemonstrating students, who said they wanted to keep it out of the hands of rebels who might shut it down. Over the weekend, about 200 nondemonstrating students launched their blockade of the Low Library in an effort to starve out 100 or so rebels in Kirk's office. Paul Vilardi, a pre-medical student and former football player, said his blockade group was in sympathy with the sit-in's aims but not with the tactics. The blockade thwarted initial efforts to replenish the food supplies of the sit-ins in Kirk's office. Also barred from entering was an unidentified woman who said she was a doctor and who tried to bring' a shopping bag full of medical supplies into the library. The blockaders spent the night bivouaced on the lawn outside the library in rather chilly spring temperatures. With the dawn, they shook themselves out of blankets. The student demonstration began April 23, with a group of Students for an Afro-American Society protesting Columbia's plans to build an $11.5-million gymnasium on two of 30 acres in Morningside Park. The city-owned recreational area separates Columbia from Harlem. The protestors, joined by white Students for a Democratic Society, contended Columbia's expan sion onto city-owned park land deprived the Harlem community of needed recreational space. The university last week agreed to suspend con struction of the gym at least temporarily. However, the demonstrations continued, with the students hi sisting on total amnesty. President Kirk already was on record as saying they were liable to disciplinary action for violating university regulations. * * * Loymigts — seize Halls SDS Joins Protest Goldberg Denies Rumors of Rift UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. U.S. Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg is making a determined effort both publicly and privately to knock down reports that his resignation was prompted by disagreement with President Johnson. In a statement issued yesterday "in response to press queries" Goldberg said such reports "are entirely without foundation." Some newspaper dispatches from Washington report ing Johnson's announcement of Goldberg's resignation last Thursday noted that while the President expressed regret he voiced no praise of Goldberg. Saturday a source in Washington released the texts of the formal exchange of letters between Goldberg arid Johnson regarding the-resignation. The letters were de scribed as lacking much of the warmth customarily dis played in such situations. In his statement to the press Goldberg said the tim ing of his resignation arose solely from the fact that John son at his last Cabinet meeting gave leave to any member to -resign before the end of his ad4ninistration to meet personal needs. Shafer Pleads Equal Rights in State HARRISBURG Gov. Shafer implored the General Assembly yesterday to join with the executive branch of state government to ensure equal rights and equal op portunities for all Pennsylvania citizens. "Across the land, the shouts of white and black racists form a cacophony of hate that continues to harden the al AID Rejects Tuition Hi.'....-,.,;-,- By JOHN BRONSON Collegian Staff Writer The proposed tuition increase came un der fire by Awareness through Investigation and Discussion (AID) Sunday night in a dis cussion aimed at plannning to prevent the increase. Steve Gerson, chairman of the Adminis trative Action Commission of the Under graduate Student Government, said, "A tui tion increase in itself may not be necessary, but an increase in money for the University is necessary whether it comes from Harris burg or the students. With mass student support we can exert pressure in Harris burg to obtain money in ways other than a tuition hike.", Gerson explained that there were $5OO million ' worth of appropriation requests made to the State this year by various state agencies the University included. $2OO million has been made available, leaving a gap of $3OO million. Included in this $3OO million gap would be the margin of additional money that the University needs more than the amount appropriated, The tuition hike is one way to get it. Harrisburg's 'Children' Jim Womer, president-elect of USG, said that students must be informed of the prob lem and made to realize that a tuition hike is imminent. Then they must be motivated to act now, not after it has been put through, Womer said. • "Harrisburg sees students in a grateful role with the feeling that they provide an education for us," said Womer, "To them, we are legally still all children." Gerson agreed, saying, "To some repre sentatives, the world of students is a world of study and not politics." "The problem is, there is no one point for people to get excited about: You don't get the support that's needed," said Linda Sue Barnes (12th-history-Rogers, Ark.). "Somebody has to make a mistake to shock students," explained Womer, "they aren't oriented to action unless you give them something to fight about." Through USG, Womer plans to set up a Inter-University Affairs Committee to co ordinate activity with Temple University and the University of Pittsburgh in an effort to present a united front again:st a tuition hike, Even though Gerson, Womer, and sev eral other USG officials were present, AID has ,no official affiliation with USG. Accord ing to Richard Goldstein, treasurer of AID, "AID will try to coordinate, various student leaders and student groups in an effort to secure the solution to various problems that confront the Penn State student." • Several ideas for immediate action on the proposed increase were suggested. Among them was a plan to establish a "speaker's bureau" in which 20 or 30 students, well versed in the tuition situation, would go to the fraternities, sororities and residence halls, tell the students what is happening, and ask them to write letters to their representatives protesting a tuition increase. Gerson went one step further and asked that the speakers get their audience to write letters immediately after the talk. He then proposed to put the letters on a large truck - and deliver them to the governol- in Harris burg. "It would get state-wide publicity and perhaps state-wide sympathy," he said. Another of the members suggestedsend ing these informed students directly to Harrisburg to talk to the legislators them selves. Demonstrations and rallies were dis- Narcotics Agents 1 ere sent a major source of informa- is relatively minor because of tion on narcotics on campus: the accessibility to nearby Speaking at the invitation of Philadelphia and New York A state narcotics official ad- the Pollock-Nittany Residence City, both large drug centers. Council, Decker and Jack Ar mitted last night that a full- In response to questions con timeY narcotics investigator is the Federal and Pennsylvania instructor affiliated with cerning the medical aspects present on campus. Drug Commissions, spoke of marijuana use, Decker said Art Decker, employee of the briefly about the problems of that the drug is "certainly not Pennsylvania Bureau of Health, drug usage on campus. Deck- addicting" in the sense that no Narcotics Division, working er, an agent with five years' body tolerances are built up. out of Williamsport, said that experience in the enforcement However, he said that mari his office is receiving informa- department of the Narcotics Di- juana is habit forming and can tion through the s' vices of a vision. said that there is "more cause persons to become chron full-time investigator at the marijuana around here than is users. Although marijuana University. Refusing to discuss anything elge" and that "any is not a narcotic by strict def the activities of his depart- heroin in this area is rare." inition, its use is enforced with men's agent, Decker 'revealed He said that the problem of the same severity applied to that student informers repre- dope pushing in State College other narcotics, Decker added. By MIKE ALEXANDER Collegian Staff Writer * * * AlD's Activities Student Informers Used ready fixed racial positions many of our citizens have tak en at the extremes," Shafer warned in a special urban crisis message to a joint session of the House and Senate. "The polarization of leadership under demagogues . . . is happening, "Together . . . we have a profound and awesome duty to restore reason and balance to our communities in this time of conflict and tension. "So today, I am asking you to join with me in a clear and unmistakable commitment to assure equal rights and opportunities for all citizens." HARRISBURG Gov. Shafer has a heavy schedule of political conferences and meetings on tap these next three weeks, _beginning with a visit from former Vice President Richard Nixon today. An aide said Nixon would be Shafer's guest for lunch in the Governor's Office today in a meeting requested by the t;OP Republican presidential hopeful to discuss na tional politics. Tomorrow, , Shafer is to attend a luncheon of the World Affairs_ Council in Philadelphia to hear New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller deliver what has been billed as a major address on Vietnam. Also tomorrow, the governor is to huddle with other top Pennsylvania Republicans to review the posture of the state delegation at the GOP national convention in August in Miami, Fla. Shafer wants to take an uncommitted delegation tied to him as a favorite son. cussed, but the idea did not get full support Womer stated that "if we took over buildings, Harrisburg would have few op tions but to send in the national guard— which I don't think they would hesitate to do." Both Womer and Gerson agreed that demonstrations are effective but that an ex treme amount of activism can hurt the Uni versity."A Berkeley at this campus is a cal culated risk," said Womer. Little Rioting Here Penn State is not notorious for its demonstrations, but it does have its history of discontent. Womer related a story of stu dents seizing a cannon from the old Armory (now the site of the new wing of Willard) and shelling Old Main in the early part of the century in protest of mass flunkings. _ More recently, students have cam paigned for apartment visitation, and restor ation of National Defense Student Loans (NDSL), and have gotten results. Student Power 'Old Hof Here "Student power" may be a new term bandied about at election time or appearing on the front pages of today's student news papers, but the idea has been around for some time—even at the University. Jim Womer's story of protesting stu dents shelling Old Main with a cannon is a somewhat obscure fact, but records in the Penn State Room of Pattee Library do men tion it. The following is an account out of "The Reminiscences of Joseph P. Ritenour," one time director of the College Health Service. "I heard the most terrifying noise. I thought it was a storm. I looked out the window and saw the stars shining, however, and thought that it could not be thunder. Then I heard muffled voices say 'Hurry up, get more sod.' Then 'Get away, get away.' "The most terrific explosion you ever heard shook Old Main. I was afraid to look out the window. The next morning when I came down there was the cannon in front of Old Main. It had broken every window in Old Main from the third floor on down. Every window in the Chemistry Building was broken too. "The students . had just gotten their grades in chemistry and many had flunked. They were-taking -it-out-en:=Dr. Pond. When the students registered they always had to pay a damage fee. (To cover farmer's claims for stolen cows, etc.) The students wouldn't get any money back anyhow so this stimu lated destruction. They thought they might as well go back and break something up, "The next day in Chapel Dr. Atherton would rave about the type of students we were. He said he would fire anyone ,if he caught them, All in all it was a great re ception." That was in 1897; in 1905 students went on strike in protest of a college rule con cerning unexcused absences. The rule stated that cuts would not apply 24 hours before or after vacations. The rule aroused the sentiment of the students and they absented themselves from classes for 10 days. A mass meeting was held in the Auditorium, and through the efforts of Ex-governor James A. Beaver and H. Walton Mitchell the dispute was finally settled.—John Bronson * * * Shafer, Nixon To Meet on Politics Dorm Drinking —See Page 2 SEVEN CENTS
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