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VOL 68, No. 125
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lawn yesterday will not be disappointed. Rocky and his friends will arrive at 1:15 today.
Blacks,
• Black students will meet with officials
in Old Main today to discuss a list of de
mands submitted Monday to the Administra
tion. '
Members of the Douglas Association will
confer with Charles L. Lewis, vice president
for student affairs, J. , Ralph Rackley, Uni
versity provost, and another official selected
by President Eric A. Walker.
To Establish Guidelines
According to Lewis, the meeting will
"clarify the requests" and establish pro
cedures for consideration of the 12 demands.
The Douglas Association, •representing
most of the University's 200 black students,
confronted Lewis Monday .with their list.
One hundred blacks reportedly threatened
to sit-in unless Lewis signed a "commitment"
agreeing to take positive steps to meet the
demands.
- — lncreased --Black 'Enrollment
The students demanded:
*That black enrollment be increased,
reaching a total of 10 per cent of the under
graduate enrollment after 1970
*That a building be named after and
dedicated to the late Rev. Martin Luther
King
Official Says Law Makers
Not To Abandon Student Aid
By
_GLENN KRANZLEY
Collegian Staff Writer
Although a bill to abolish
Pennsylvania Higher Education
Assistance Agency scholarships
wls introduced to the Pennsyl
vania Legislature this week,
Reed Ferguson, Director of
University Relations, said he
"can't imagine that a state
scholarship fund of some kind
won't continue?'
The bill, whose chief spon
sors are Joseph V. Zord, R-
Allegheny, and John Stauffer,,
R-Chester, is aimed at. replac
ing the scholarship fund with
an agency ;to be called the
Pennsylvania Higher Education
Loan. Fund.
Inequities Alleged
The .'PHEAA plan has- come
under attack from the legisla
tors. Staufer said, "Some re
cipients (of PHEAA scholar
ships) came from families with
five-figure yearly incomes, and
I don't believe hardpressd tax
payers shOuld be asked to fund
from the associated presS
News From the World, Nation
U.S. Asks Hanoi to Consider Proposal
PARIS = The United States, citing possible areas of
agreement, urged North Vietnam yesterday to accept a
three-point proposal "Vital to peace" in Vietnam. Hanoi
responded by insisting the Americans immediately halt all
bombing, and acts of war before other matters "of common
interest" 'could be diScUssed.
Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, the chief U.S. nego
tiator, and Xuan Thuy, chief envoy for North Vietnam.: "Id
a 210-minute discussion at the French Foreign Ministry's
conference ball and adjourned their preliminary Vietnam
peace talks until Saturday.
Each side had .its three-point proposal. Despite the
differing proposals, the American side said it declined to
be wholly pessimistic. . .
"We did find a few things where we believe we have
a common objective," an American spokesman said.
* *
DeGaulle Hails Romanian Policies
BUCHAREST Romania's commuAist legislators rose
in applause for President Charles Dd Gaulle of France
yesterday as he pleaded for the right of each nation to
speak in its own voice. He denounced "big-power domina
tion" in Europe, presumably that of the United States and
the Soviet Union.
De Gaulle told the' Romanians exactly what they
wanted to hear. They, have wrenched themselves out of
the Soviet Union's economic harness and into independent
foreign and trade policies, atlhough maintaining tight regi
mentation athome. . .
But De Gaulle; assertedly a friend Of the Soviet Union,
took, the precaution in - his speech before'the Grand National
Assembly to reassure the Kremlin ;the Romanian coopera
tion-with France -"will not weaken Romania's dole rela
tions with the Soviet , Union;"_
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To 'Clarif Re • uests'
Old
Main Meet
•That a Martin Luther King scholar
ship fund be established
e That a course in Negro history be of
fered as a permanent part of the University's
curriculum
•More black faculty members
•More black graduate students
•That a section of Pattee Library be
devoted to black authors
• A reevaluation of the Uniyersity's ath
letic recruiting program, with regard to black
students
• More black athletes
•Black coaches for, athletic teams
• More black literature in English •
Courses The Undergraduate Student
*The introduction of an African culture Government will continue its
study program. discussion of the University's
affiliation with the Institute for
• Caused by Article . , Defense Analyses at its weekly
Monday's confrontation was 'believed to meeting tonight. ,
have been precipitated in part-by an article in. .Ted _ Thompson, USG vice
The Sunday Bulletin, of PAlVaeTphia: and ' , TerFrKlasky,
was quoted as saying that student dissent at- town congressman, will pre-
Penn State is not as dangerous as it is at sent a resolution to the con-
Columbia University because Penn State is gress tonight which seeks to
"not contaminated by Harlem." "obtain necessary information
The Bulletin reported Tuesday that to clarify the Institute for De
his statement was misinterpreted, and that f ns e Analyses affiliations
no racial slur was intended. peacefully, rationally and in
telligently."
At last week's meeting Klas
ky presented a petition to the
con g ress signed by more than
1000 members of the University
community requesting that
USG endorse their stand that
the University break all rela
tions with IDA immediately.
Table Resolution
COngress responded to this
demand by first tabling Klas
ky's resolution and then estab
lishing a congressional com
mittee to ascertain the facts
concerning th e University's
exact relation with IDA. The
resolution to be presented to
night is the result of that com
mittee's work, which was head
ed by Thompson.
The resolution states that
"the USG believes that ade
quate research should precede
any formal action regarding
the legitimacy of IDA affilia
tion and is concerned with the
purpose of IDA as a research
organization in an academic
community."
The resolution, in Thomp
son's wo-ds, "is worded in such
a way so that the most obtain
able information can be ob
tained. It is not worded to be
a program that gives money to
students whose fathers make
$20,00 , 1 and S? 5,000, a year."
Ferguson said that there is
a possibility that PHEAA loans
are being distributed unfairly.
He said he can't understand the
discrepencies, since parents'
income statements must be in
cluded with the scholarship ap
plications.
"Since the need for scholar
ships is increasing each year,"
Ferguson said, "the PHEAA
program may need overhaul
ing a bit."
The bill's sponsors say that
their loan plan will make more
money available to students
than the PHEAA does now. Stu
dents who get the loans will be
given 15 years to pay the loans
back, and they will repay only
90% of the original principal.
Savings of 543 million
Among the representatives objectionable to anyone."
Acc6rding to the bills spon- signing the measure was Miles The resolution calls on Eric
sors, the establishment of a B. Zimmerman sr., R-Lower A. Walker, University Presi
loan agency in the place of Paxton. Zimmerman is a Penn dent, to "furnish the USG with
PHEAA would save the ,state State graduate., unclassified information" con
,
more than $43 million. •
Ferguson said that the bill
was probably introduced in an
effort to cut the budget. More
than half the state budget is
taken up by public education,
he said.
Speaking of the let,islators,
he said, "They're searching
for ways to save money in
order to meet many demands
of education, including elemen
tary and secondary schools, de
mands for increasing teachers'
salaries, aid to private and
parochial schools, aid to state
supported universities and state
and community colleges."
The sponsors said that since
college graduates earnmore
than people who d not bave a
degree, students will be glad to
pay back loans that enable
them to attend school.
The French president is on a second day of a state visit
here. He attended a Romanian government reception last
night and planned a two-day tour of industrial areas north
of the capital Thursday with Romanian party chief Nicolae
Ceaucescu.
Bombing of North Decreases in May
SAIGON —' Despite improving weather over North
Vietnam, U.S. planes fleW sewer missions in the first two
weeks of May than they did during poor weather the last
two weeks of April, a tabulation showed yesterday.
This raised the question: Is the U.S. government slowly
scaling down the bombing of North Vietnam's southern
panhandle as a gesture in the light of current negotiations
in Paris? The U.S. Command will not comment.
Based on daily communiques, U.S. pilots flew 1,640
missions over the southern panhandle in the last two weeks
of April despite bad weather. With skies clearing, thy
have flown 1,513 missions in the first two weeks of May.
In near cloudless - weather Tuesday, U.S. pilots flew
only 101 missift is over the North. There were a few favor
able days in the last two weeks of April when they got
in 155 to 160 Missions.
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Congressmen Meet March Leaders
WASHINGTON Sympathetic - congresmen met with
Poor People's Cainpaign leaders on Capitol Hill yesterday.
About 70 senators and House members met in a
hour session with the Rev.-Ralph David Abernathy, who
said the.mass demonstrations he plans will - turn to civil
disobedience only as--`a very last resort."
Busloads, of protesters rolled toward the capital from
Cleveland, Charlotte and Philadelphia to join 500 poverty
hit Negroes already, camping in - tent-shaped wooden,
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 16, 1968
Rocky To Sseak Tossay
By WILLIAM fPSTEIN
Collegian Managing Editor
Fog or no fog, Rocky will speak at 1:30 this
afternoon on the Hetzel Union Building lawn.
With his address : here yesterday canceled
when he was unable to land at Mid-State Airport,
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller decided last night to
reschedule his Penn State appearance.
This time, however, Rockefeller will take 'no
chances with the weather. If Mid-State, near
Philipsburg, should be fog-bound today, the gover
nor will travel to University Park by car.
Forced to By-pass PSU
The Republican presidential hopeful's plane
circled Mid-State Airport for one hour yesterday,
awaiting a break in the fog. At 12:30 p.m. it was
announced to more than 6,000 persons on the HUB
lawn that Rockefeller would be forced to by-pass
University Park and fly straight through to Pitts
burgh.
Rockefeller's topic Will be unchanged for to
day: "Peace in Vietnam and the Rest of the
World."
He will speak for 15 minutes. A question-and
answer period of 30 minutes will follow, during
which Rockefeller will accept questions from the
audience.
To Walk Through Crowd
Scheduled to arrive in town at 1:15 p.m., the
governor will walk from College Ave. to the HUB.
He will pass through the middle of the crowd on
the. lawn.
Cameras• and microphones from the nation's
major radio and television networks will be pres
ent. In addition, WDFM, the University radio sta
tion, will broadcast the speech live.
As yesterday's crowd waited for Rockefeller,
more than 20 black students appeared with picket
USG To Examine ►DA
By DENNIS STIMELING
Collegian USG Reporter
Reschedules Yesterday's Talk
signs. They marched in support of demands pre
sented this week by a group of blacks to the Ad
ministration.
There was no indication as to whether the
black students intend to march again today.
—Collegian Photo by Pierre Behind
THE FEDERAL AVIATION Agency's Flight
Service Station in Philipsburg had nothing but
bad weather for Rocky yesterday when his
plane tried to land at the Mid-State Airport.
cerning IDA. sity or IDA be hurt by a sever- and the number of faculty
The resolution contains 10 ing of the formal relationships members currently employed
points or questions to be posed between the two?" on Project Jason, one facet of
for Walker. The questions in- Other questions on the reso- IDA research.
elude "What benefit does the lution cover the number of Uni- The resolution requests
University derive from its versity faculty members who Walker to evaluate the service
formal relationship with IDA?" have ~worked for IDA in the which classified research on a
and "Would either the Univer- past or are currently.doing so, college campus contributes to
Dialo f•ue.:.S•onsored b
IDA Forum Set Tonight
A forum on the subject of the Univer
sity's affiliation with the Institute for Defense
Analyses will be held tonight in the Hetzel
Union Building.
Jeffrey Polaski, student member of the
Senate Undergraduate Student Affairs com
mittee, announced last night that this forum
Today's teach-in. concerning the Insti
tute for Defense Analyses, originally sched
uled for 2 p.m.. will be held on the Old Main
Lawn immediately following Gov. Rocke
feller's speech on the HUB lawn.
will attempt to clear up the debate about
IDA and the University.
The forum will include faculty mem
bers, administrators. and students in an at
tempt to "establish meaningful dialogue dur
ing which factS may be brought out and
cbnfrontation take place on this issue,"
Polaski said:
Osborn To Speak
Polaski will be the moderator of the
forum entitled "University Research: The
Institute for Defense Analyses at Penn State"
and sponsored by the Undergraduate Stu
dent Government.
E. F. Osborn, University vice president
for research, will be the featured adminis
trator on the forum panel. Last week, Osborn
commented on IDA to The Collegian. He
said, "If the University were to sever its ties
with IDA tomorrow, it wouldn't make any
difference. Penn State does not receive funds
from IDA. There is no IDA research on. this
campus."
Additional members of the faculty who
will participate on the forum are John Hagen,
professor of astronomy, Ernest Pollard, pro
fessor of biophysics, Richard Schein, profes
sor of biology, and Paul Ebaugh, professor of
shanties near the Lincoln Memorial
Abernathy mentioned no price tag in sketching for
congressmen the broad goals of more jobs, better housing
and an end to poverty in America. Sen. Jacob K. Javits
R-N.Y. and Sen. Edward Brooke R-Mass., the Senate's lone
Negro, drew up the framework of a special House-Senate
committee to meet with the protest leaders and mold
specific progrhms,
Top leaders of both parties in the House and Senate
were noticeably absent from the session and one congress
man conceded many colleagues have taken a chary attitude
toward the march.
* * *
Reuther-Meant' Feud Comes to Climax
DETROIT = The long-threatened final break between
the AFL-CIO and Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers
was due at midnight last night, deadline set by the federa
tion for a dues payment the auto workers vow they will
not make.
As the' deadline approiched, Emil Mazey, secretary
of the UAW, affirmed his union's intention's not to pay.
The AFL.-CIO, pictures the situation as "a withdrawal"
by the 'UAW, but a UAW spokesman said "we're being
kicked out:"
Either' way, it is labor's biggest schism since the AFL.
CIO expelled the Teamsters Union 11 years, ago on charges
of corruption. The Teamsters claim 1.8 million members;
the UAW 1.6 million.
The AFL-CIO 'is made up. of 130 unions claiming 14
million members. The UAW is the largest affiliate. •
. The current Split stems from a squabble between two
men who brought' together once rival organizations into
,the AFL-CIO: George Meany, chief of the •Old American
Federation' of Labor, 'and Walter P. Reuther, leader of the
old Congress of 'lndustrial Organizations. Dues are a sec
ondary issue. •
att
USG
engineering
Tames Creegan, spokesman for the Coali
tion Against IDA and a member of the Stu
dents for a Democratic Society, will partici
pate on the panel, representing the anti-IDA
faction. Another member of SDS, as yet
unnamed, will also participate.
Polaski said of the forum, "This is an
opportunity for information to be made pub
lic concerning University involvement with
IDA so that any concerned student can find
out what is going on."
Osborn said he was very glad to serve
on this forum. He said, "We are very e,..thu
siastic to respond to the request of Jim
Womer, USG president, to speak to the stu
dent body. We appreciate that the students
have an interest in what research we do, how
we do it and who does it. Some of the most
distinguished research people, known bit
nationally and internationally, will speak."
All Invited
. All University students were invited by
Polaski to attend this forum. It will begin
in the HUB ballroom at 7 p.m.
The coalition against University-IDA
involvement will sponsor a teach-in this
afternoon in front of Old Main. The purpose
of this meeting, like tonight's forum is to
"educate more students as about what IDA
is and its relevance to Penn State."
The teach-in will feature faculty speak
ers and addresses by students outside the
University. These will include Steve Halli
well, a national officer of SDS and a member
of the Columbia Strike Committee, Joseph
Schultz, a Vietnam veteran and member of
the University Peace Forum, Michael Klare,
a columnist for the Guardian, a left-wing
newspaper and Edward Robinson, chairman
of the Columbia Strike Committee.
-By DENNIS STIMELING
& State
Police Escort Teachers to N.Y. School
NEW YORK Police safely escorted five white teach
ers into a predominately Negro school in Brooklyn.
About 100 demonstrators offered no resistance as twice
that number of police escorted the teachers. The community
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educational governing board of Brownsville residents fired
the teachers for alledged misconduct last week.
After the firings there were a series of confrontations
with demonstrators which reached a climax Tuesday when
ten other teachers stayed out of school in support of the
five who were denied admission. The school is the latest
symbol of a mounting struggle for power between slum
neighborhood militants and the city-wide board of educa- 1;1
z
tion.
Assemblymen Propose Modernization ~,
;'•
HARRISBURG Joint House-Senate conference corn- i
mittee reached agreement yesterday on a compromise pro
posal calling for a study by a 12-member citizens' commis
sion of ways to modernize the legislature. ; 4 4
The compromise plan, which must be adopted by both
House and Senate before it becomes effective, would give i;.i
the commission until next Dec. 1 to submit its findings to
the General Assembly. 0
The proposal, which originated in the House, was 11
turned over to the conference committee last month after : , :z1
the two chambers could not agree on a deadline for the k ,
commission report. The original House version would have z„:
required the commission to submit its report by July 1. 1, : ,
The Senate, however, wanted the report delayed until Jan.
1, 1969.
The conference committee also agreed to delete from ; 11
the proposal a section that would have appropriated $15,00n m
to finance the commission's study. A
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Black Demands
---See Page 2
If the weather should prohibit an outdoor
program, the speech will be moved to Recreation
Building.
William Cromer, chairman of the local chap
ter of the Young Republicans and state chairman
of the Republican College Council, said last night
that a band will be present on the HUB lawn.
He reported that plans for a motorcade this morn
ing have been dropped.
Cromer will introduce Rockefeller, who will
be presented with an engraved sculpture of the
Nittany Lion.
Checked With Administration
"The governor realized all of the work that
went into his scheduled appearance here," Cr:.mer
said last night. "He wanted to do everything pos
sible to return, so he checked with the Adminis
tration. which gave the OK."
Rockefeller will leave University Park imme
diately after his speech and the question-and
answer period, at about 2:30 p.m. He will return
to Pittsburgh.
Cromer said that Rockefeller canceled his
Pittsburgh meeting with Pennsylvania's delegates
to the Republican national convention, in order
that he might appear here today.
The governor met last night with four other
Republican governors to discuss the GOP national
campaign platform. He will return to Pittsburgh
today to meet with the state delegates.
Will 'Woo Young Voters
The Associated Press reported last night that
Rockefeller's speech here is intended to "woo
young voters with declarations that he supported
their urge for an end to the war in Vietnam
through negotiations for an honorable peace, that
the voting age be lowered to 18, and that there
be an immediate reform in the draft laws."
Ties
science and the academic coin-
The resolution with the ques
tion to Walker, "Supply in
formation as specific as pos
sible of an unclassified nature
concerning the general value
and function of the Institute
for" Defense Analyses." This
statement is the major impetus
of the information USG is at
tempting to gather with the
resolution.
Thompson said he expects
Walker to cooperate fully in
ansNA eying the questions posed
by the resolution if USG should
pass the legislation. He said,
"I see no reason why, within
a reasonable time, he would not
have answers to satisfy our
needs."
This afternoon Thompson,
Klasky, James Creegan and
Douglass Cooper, all of the
USG committee to investigate
IDA, will meet with E. F.
0 s born, vice president in
charge of research. The USG
resolution is expected to be dis
cussed at that time.
Resolution Will Stand
"The point of this meeting
is to investigate the situation
by going to the people who
know and not just writing chal
lenges to the Administration for
propaganda value," Cooper
said last night.
The outcome of this meeting
may affect the fate of Thomp
son's resoution, Thompson said.
Jeff Polaski, moderator of the
USG-IDA forum to be held to
night, had requested that
Thompson and Kla•':y with
draw the resolution oecause of
the forum. Klasky said, "I will
not withdraw the resolution.
The resolution will stand."
Thompson supported this
stand and added. "We will not
even consider withdrawing the
resolution until after the meet
ing with Osborn this after
noon."
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