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VOL. 68, No. 121
USG Rejects Penn State-IDS► Break
New USG Officers
Installed Last Night
By DENNIS STIMELiNG
Collegian USG Reporter
Undergraduate Student Government executive officers
for the 1968-1969 academic year were installed at last night's
USG meeting.
James Womer, Ted Thompson and Harvey Reeder were
sworn in as president, vice president and treasurer.
In Womer's inaugural speech he stressed the role of
students in tody's "American multiversity." Womer said
"Research is becoming primary in the University. Under
graduates have to open up dialogue and start worrying
about fundamental problems."
'Two-Way Sheet'
Womer stressed the importance of cooperation between
the Administration and student government. He said, "It is
the Administration's obligation to represent the best in
terests of the students first." He cautioned, however, that
"cooperation is a two-way street," and said that students
and student government must Cooperate with the Adminis
tration, if the Administration is expected to cooperate with
them.
Warner said that USG should strive to achieve the
basic rights for University students. He said, "We do not
have rights of academic freedom at Penn State."
In other USG action the three incoming class officers
also assumed their offices and their seats on the Congress.
Michael Kleernan, Larry Wallace and Robert Emery were
sworn in as presidents of the sophomore, junior and senior
classes.
Farewell Address
Jeff Long, past USG president, made his farewell ad
dress to the congress last night. Long's speech stressed the
importance of unity within the Congress.'
He said "Put pettiness and strife aside. You have a job
to do. Set your priorities and go after them."
"Your struggles next year are not going to be with the
Administration, but with the student body," Long said.
"You have a responsibility to be responsible."
Rich Tobin, past USG treasurer, also made a farewell
address to the Congress. Like Long, he stressed unity and
perseverance in the student government.
Court, Justice Appointed
The new president announced the appointment of Don
Antrin as USG Supreme Court Chief Justice and Parlia
mentarian to replace graduating senior Dan Clements.
Clements then announced that the seniors on USG had
decided to make an award to an outstanding faculty mem
ber who had assisted or been interested in USG. Clements
presented the award to Champ Storch, director of Associ
ated Student Activities.
Tobin, Long and outgoing Vice President Jon Fox re,
ceived awards last night from the Congress for their "out
standing devotion to student government."
REMEMBER THE CHARGE THEY MADE? In 1905, angry
students hung "Hot Air Ray," a history professor who
dared to fail a large number of students, in effigy at the
Corner of College Ave. and Pugh St. Oh, how can their
glory fade?
WEEIMBEE
News from the World, Nation
•Paris Peace Talks .Begin Today •
A PARIS The top. negotiators for the United States
-''' and North Vietnam arrived in Paris yesterday and :.,.: .
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sisted that serious efforts would be made to' end the Viet
nam war in preliminary talks. opening, today. •
North Vietnam's special ambassador, Xuan Thuy, 55,
a. smiling diplomat in a gray suit, came in a Russian-built
~.:, plane several hours ahead of U.S. Ambassador W. Averell
Harriman. They traveled to Paris from Hanoi by way of
Peking and - Moscow.
:7; French sources said that .the talks would start this
'afternoon. This plan was subject to approval by Barri
man and Thuy. Both men are due to see French Foreign
' Minister Maurice Couve de Murville in separate meetings
in the morning.
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:•,, American Troops Defeat .Enemy Attacks
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r - SAIGON Enemy forces hammered at sectors of'Sai
rl gon yesterday, adding to the toll of civilians and' the flow
of refugees in an apparent effort to influence_ peace talks
•, t . about to open in Paris. . .
ki - About 2,000 troops of the U.S. 9th Infantry Division
De were thrown into the battle and beat off enemy attempts
:i• t ' , to break into Saigon from the south' and east, an Ameri--
k- can spokesman said. • ~
- ..',ai But early today, the Viet . Cong still clung td '
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holds in the flaming ruins of shell-shattered blocks. along
r' - 'the 'capital's-southern rim, • six days , after they opened
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JON FOX, left, turns over the gavel to new Undergraduate Student Government
President James Womer at last night's USG meeting. In his inaugural address, Womer
said, "It is the Administration's obligation to represent the best interests of the students
first." However, he warned that "cooperation is a two-way street."
Colleges Announce Pass-Fail Plans
The Colleges of Liberal Arts and Educa
tion yesterday announced their plans for im
plementing the-new Sat fa
grading system.
The College of Liberal Arts will allow
students to register for as many as 12 credits
on a Satisfactory-Unsatisfactory basis, but
not more than one course per term.
Credit taken on a S-U basis will not be
acceptable toward either the basic liberal arts
requirements or the minimum credit re
quirements in the student's major.
If a student transfers to a major in which
he has earlier taken a course on a S-U basis,
he will ; not be required to repeat the course
for a letter grade, but he will be required to
substitute another course in that field.
• Penn State spirit is alive and
well, for, students are not merely
living, but they're living it up—
and they've been doing it for
years. . .
The University has a long
history of student custom s,
pranks, protests and occasional
notorietygiving an impression
of anything but apathy. -.
Columbia's recent disorders
are nothing new here, for 1905
was a vintage year for Penn
State student strikes. The first
occurred in February after the
history department and particu
larly Professor P. 0. Ray had
given an exam and failed many
of the first semester students:
Boycott Classes
The sophomores retaliated by
boycotting class, and hanging
"Hot-Air Ray" in effigy on the
corner of College Ave. and Pugh
St.
Later that year the "great
strike" occurred. The underlying
cause was student feeling 'that
attendance rules were too de-
from the associated press --:"
•
The flow of refugees from the fighting fronts rose
sharply and the food supply in Saigon sank dangerously.
Food prices soared:
WARSAW, Poland Rinriors of Soviet troop move
ments near the Polish-Czech border spread in Warsaw
yesterday and the movement of some Western diplomats
was restricted. The Polish Communist party newspaper_
Trybuna Ludu aimed a blast at the "alien, anti-Socialist
trend in the political life of Czechoslovakia" and demanded
that it be "forcibly silenced."
Washington sources reported that Polish sources had
turned ' back an American political officer on , his way
from Warsaw to the Polish-Czech border, and the British,
Foreign Office disclosed that two of its military attaches
had been prevented from leaving Warsaw. •
Informed sources in Warsaw said that military attaches
on 'Wednesday had identified Soviet troops on the move
from east , to west, south of the city of Krakow. That is
about:4o miles from the Czech border. . ,
WASHINGTON SenatOLHouse"cofiferees adopted,
formally yesterday a measure to s boost: taxes $lO billion and
cut federal spending . : $6 billion—thereby moving President
Johnson closer to a thorny choice. . _
• If' accepted by the House and Senate, , the legislation
will present the President with the choice of accepting it
By PAY GURCSKY
Collegian Administration Reporter
Credits for which a grade of Satisfactory
Pranks, Customs Alive in Past
By JOHN BRONSON
Collegian Staff Writer
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Soviets Nearing.POish-Czech Border
Johnson Uncertain on Tax Surcharge
UNIVERSITYPARK, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1968
Liberal Arts, Education
is earned will count toward the 124 credits re
quired for graduation.
No change from , the S-U system to the
conventional system of grading will be per
mitted.
College•of-Education - - - -
The College of Education has submitted
'a statement for each of its nine programs
describing the manner in which it will im
plement the S-TJ grading option. Policies pe
culiar to individual programs are available
through the department heads.
Students may exercise the S-U option
for 18 credits.
Consistent with the purpose of acquaint
ing students with new areas, students who
wish to use the S-U option are encouraged to
take some courses during the year on this
basis (usually six credit hours). Other rules
on the maximum number of credits per term
or per year vary from program to program.
manding. The immediate cause of
conflict arose from a faculty no
tice forbidding students to use
their allowed cuts just before and
after vacations.
The rule irked students into
action. They quit going to classes
for 10 days.
Mais Meetings
"Daily mass meetings were
held to consider overtures, air
new 'grievances,' and prevent
breaks in the ranks."
Eventually the students re
turned to class with the promise
from the college that no retali
tory action would be taken, and
that students would have more
ready access to the administra
tive officers to air complaints.
To go on strike in protest
may seem a bit extreme, but back
in 1897 students in Dr. Pond's
chemistry course were even more
aggressive in their complaints.
Shell Old Main
When he had failed many
of the students on an exam, they
rolled one of the cannons out in
front of Old Main and shelled it.
Every window from, the third
—Collegian Photo by Dan Rodgers
floor on down was broken, along
with all the windows in the
Chemistry Building.
The administration mus t
have considered the cannons an
noying, for they were eventually
filled with cement and mounted
as memorials, but irate students
found other ways to show their
dislike for unpopular professors.
A custom which flourished
from 1889 until the twenties was
the "graveyard," where various
professors were buried with con
siderable ceremony.
Memorials were erected and
sarcastic epitaphs describing each
professor in no uncertain terms
stood as visual reminders of the
students' complaints.
Devil's Telegram
One of the epitaphs was in
the form of a Western Union tele
gram from the devil to the stu
dents. It concerned Marsh W.
White—"the big eared wonder"
and the text read: "To Penn
State students, He burned with a
black smoke and a pungent odor."
Another one of the students'
favorite ways of antagonizing
to get the added revenue he feels the country needs or
rejecting it to avoid a spending cut he has said runs
counter to the national interest.
The White House gave little indication yesterday which
course he will take.
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Solution to Cheyney Unrest Sought
HARRISBURG The State Board of Education adopt
ed a resolution yesterday supporting the Department of
Public Instruction in seeking solutions to problems of stu
dent unrest at Cheyney State College.
By unanimous vote, the board urged Gov. Shafer and
the legislature to speedily provide, the funds necessary
to remedy deficiencies immediately.
The resolution did not detail what, if any,' deficiencies
existed, but students had demanded improvements in
areas of curriculum, faculty and physical plant.
There was no debate
,prior to , the board action, but
afterward David H. Kurtzman, superintendent of public
instruction, and Frederick Miller, state commissioner of
higher education, reported on the situation at Cheyney.
Student Competes for 'Shower Power'
NEW, WILMINGTON The news won't make the
splash that - pitcher Jim Catfish Hunter's perfect game did.
And there will be no wave of surprise like that which rip
pled across Amerim i after Dancer's Image was disqualified
as winner , of the Kentucky Derby.
But Li his own quiet way, Dave Mills, 19, of Westmin-
own Congressman Presents
1,000 Name Petition
By DAVID NESTOR
Collegian USG Reuurter
The UnB.ergraduate Student Government
night refused to demand that the Uni
•sity disaffiliate itself from the Institute for
tense Anaylses.
A bill asking that the University make
iilable all documents concerned with IDA,
it is sever all relations with IDA and that
University no longer have any affiliation
th the organization, was presented to the
, ngress by Terry Klasky, town congress
in. The petition that accompanied the bill
is signed by 1000 students, faculty mem
os and alumni.
Klasky said his reason for introducing
resolution was, "I was presented the res
ition by my constituents who I do repre-
It, and for that reason I was obligated as a
igressman to represent their ideas and at
st initiate a dialogue on their. point of
Intended 'To Reveal Involvement*
Klasky said that the first part of the reso
ion, calling for the University to publish
knowledge in its possession about IDA,
s intended "to reveal University involve
nit with IDA and not to reveal any secrets
confidential research. I just wanted Con
tss to be aware of the facts."
Klasky added, "I didn't support the sec
ond part of the bill, because I feel such action
would be inappropriate at this time because
Congress doesn't know the facts."
The bill was subsequently tabled and
sent to a specially established committee
headed by the new USG Vice President Ted
Thompson.
James Creegan, one of the bill's chief
Sitting on Something Big
Terry Klasky, sponsor of the bill, said
All programs will allow students to that the USG is sitting on something big. "We
specify uncontrolled electives to be taken
under the S-U option. Programs vary in lati- must find out what the University's role is as
tude to allow students to take controlled elec-
an educational facility."
tives on a S-U basis. Creegan said that the quality of this Uni
versity
The programs vary iri allowing students from the campus.
to take required courses in education using A spokesman against the bill said that
the S-U marking system. Several programs the work of IDA is vital to the safety of the
permit no S-U marks for their students in re- country. He said that the faculty is also en
quired education courses (Rehabilitation Ed- titled to academic freedom which may be
ucation, Elementary Education, Vocational impinged if this bill is passed by USG. /
Education, Music Education, .and Business Creegan said that according to the fact
Education).
sheet a great deal of the research done by
The Department of Art Education ex- IDA is not defensive.
eludes only student teaching from the S-U Terry Klasky told the Congress in in
option, Special Education limits the S-U op- formal discussion that Creegan promised him
tion to six credits in the major field and two no action would be taken until next week
departments, Secondary Education and Home after the USG committee has an opportunity
Economics Education place no restrictions to study the proposal. "This is a threat, Con
on the use of the S-U option for professional gress, and I don't like it. But that's the way it
education courses taken by their majors. is." Klasky told the Congress.
their professors was to drop bags
of water on them from the upper
floors of Old Main.
An article in the September,
1943 edition of Froth describes
the bagging incidents. "There is
a story about an inspection visit
by the board of trustees which
an alumnus said might be true
but could not verify.
"As the tale goes, just as
one of the trustees was entering
the door, a big bag of water hit
him square on the top of his silk
topper.
"Another favorite trick was
to combine a bottle of ink with
the water bag, and perhaps a
handful of sand or fine dust to
make it really messy for the tar
get.
"The bags themselves were
not the kind that come with a
nickle's worth of candy, but ten,
twenty and twenty-five pounders.
Professors were fair game, which
goes to show the change in the
codes then and now."
One of the best known inci
dents of Penn State's early days
is called the "Camp Suspension"
supporters. said that it is important to realize
where the burden of guilt lies. "We are in a
state of social turmoil where people are de
manding the rights to self determination.
Much of the work of IDA goes counter to
this. They try to control and surpress revolts."
Creegan said that IDA is not doing de
fense work exclusively. "It is involved in
much highly clandestine research, and the
student body is kept in the dark." . .
Steve Gerson, chairman of the Adminis
trative Action Committee, presented a letter
to USG President James Warner summariz
ing a meeting with the University Vice Pres
ident for Research, E. F. Osborn. The letter
stated that IDA does no research at Univer
sity Park, but that some faculty members do
participate in research for IDA in their spare
time. The letter said, "The position of the
University is that it certainly cannot control
what faculty members do on their own time."
Ed Beckwith, representing Awareness
through Investigation and Discussion, asked
for proof that IDA is in any way hampering
the education of the undergraduate student
at the University.
Alfred Di Bernardo, a graduate student
in political science, said that the individual is
not effected, and that since the University
neither profits nor suffers, "Why have it?"
The bill was tabled when USG decided
that it really did not know enough about the
organization at the present time.
After the bill had been tabled. Jeffrey
Polasky, a proponent of the bill, said that all
he wants the USG to do is, "study, get the
facts, look at different sides of the issue and
initiate some meaningful dialogue. James
Creegan sad that if the USG will not act, the
students will have to act independently.
"There are 1,000 angry people who are not
going to wait much longer."
Harvey Reeder, USG treasurer, intro
duced an amendment to drop the second sec
tion of the bill dealing with the University
disaffiliating from IDA. Reeder said that
USG was voting to sever relations with an
organization that 'it does not know enough
about.
Makes It Messy
& State
ster College is slowly but surely, drop-by-drop, closing in
on a record.
In the shower stall of a motel room in this Western
Pennsylvania college town, Mills, clad only in swimming
trunks, sits patiently, but somewhat drowzily, on a chair
while water from the shower head beats against his skin— '3'
minute-after-minute, hour-after-hour,
His goal is to remain in the shower 100 hours, maybe
120, and crack what is believed to be a record 91 hours of
continuous showering set by a Princeton University student
last week.
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Injunction Stops Sleep-In at Temple
PHILADELPHIA A show of force by some 500 ti
policemen under the personal command of Police Corn
missianer Frank L. Rizzo, changed the minds of some 150
student demonstrators at Temple University last night
about testing a court order banning campus protest gather-
ings.
The injunction had been issued yesterday morning to
break up a sleep-in of 51 students in ivy-covered 'Mitten 1:k !
Hall, the campus social activities center. The demonstration
had been called to protest university policy on student
participation in university administration and other com
plaints.
Temple has an enrollment of 35,000 full and- part- g
time students.
Last night's gathering capped a day of student vitupera
tion against university officials and several rallies in pro
test
of the court injunction.
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Best Move: None
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SEVEN CENTS
Kept in Dark'
Why Have If
of 1889.
The whole affair revolves
around "Calamity" Musser and
the Johnstown flood. It seems
that "Calamity" had gone home
for a vacation, but did not re
turn on time, alleging high wa
ters as his excuse.
Since word of the flood had
not yet reached the faculty, they
promptly suspended him.
Class Suspended
This action upset his class
and they backed him up by
cutting and examination. For this
act of insubordination, the entire
sophomore class was suspended.
Not to be outdone by the ad
ministration, the class "marched
to the field near the University
Inn (now the University Club)
and pitched tents, calling the en
campment 'Camp Suspension.'
"Here they remained for
several days until the faculty,
now realizing the truth of the
flood story, reinstated the class
without further ado."
(Note: All material for this
and the following articles has
come from the Penn State Col
lection in Pattee Library.)
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