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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Shafer, Nixon To Meet on Politics
Dorm Drinking
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