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VOL. 67, No. 14
USG
By DAVID NESTOR
Collegian USG Reporters
The Undergraduate Student Govern
ment elections for area congressmen and
the freshman class president begin today.
Thirty-three candidates are vying for 23
congressional seats in the elections,
which will be held through Thursday.
There are eight candidates for the
freshman class presidency.
USG Elections Commissioner Steve
Gerson said he is hoping for a very large
turnout at the polls.
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"We are hoping that everyone on
campus will vote in these elections to
show the Administration that USG really
Elections Begin
For TIM Council
Election of Town Independent
_Men Council
seats begins today. Thirty-five candidates are vying
for the 21 available council seats.
Voting booths are located on the ground floor of
the Hetzel Union - Building and at the foot of the
Mall. The polls will be open today, tomorrow and
Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The candidates are:
Mitchell A. Abrams, Donald P. Andrews, Ed=
ward J. Beckwith; James Bennardo, Gary Bongartz,
Steven J. Brett, Ronald Carelli, Thomas R. Clark,
Bob Connel, Edward C. Dicenzo, Jr., Stuart
Goldberg, Thomas J. Green.
Scott Hildebrand, Linda Kauffman, Robert Kra
jci, Bob Lachman, Robert J. Lobb, Frank C. Lordi,
Donald Musa, Fred Noll, Don Paule, Robert V.
Reago, Giacoma Restuccia, Susan "Dusty" Rhodes.
David C. Rhoads, Elliott H. Sacks, Bruce A. -
Sauerwine, Richard C. Schreep, Steven A. Smallow,
Michael .Spitz, Dexter M. Thompson, Jr., Barry
Todd, Marilyn . Warnick, Garry Wamser and Wendy
E. Weintraub.
After Homecomin • Gam
West Point Cadets
ToVisit Fraternities
Eight hundred cadets from the U.S. Military
Academy will be permitted -to attend fraternity so
cial functions after the Homecoming game on Nov. 2.
At an Interfraternity Council meeting last
night, IFC Adviser Mel Kline announced that he had
received a call yesterday afternoon from West Point
requesting that the cadets be given fraternity
privileges. The Council voted to open the houses to
the cadets after 9 p.m.
The decision to invite the cadets to parties will
rest with each chapter house.
Cpl. Fred Dailey of the State College Police
Department explained the new borough ordinance
which classifies fraternity houses as public dwel
lings. He said that in spite of the new classification,
fraternity houses could be entered for search only if
a warrant is presented or if "there is a disorder that
could be considered a breach of the peace."
The IFC Scholarship Concert with Lou Rawls
and Godfrey Cambridge will be held Nov. 9, Concert
Chairman Bob Broda said. Entertainment for the
Jan. 26 Greek Week Concert has not yet been book
ed. "It could be anything from the Temptations to
Sergio Mendes," he said.
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Heat Only Enemy Found at Khe Sanh
SAIGON A combined force of 3,000 U.S. Marines
and 1,500 South Vietnamese infantrymen - swept around
the abandoned Leatherneck base of Khe Sanh, but they
found no enemy yesterday except the heat.
Associated Press' correspondent John Witteler reported
that the allies' only casualties were felled by heat exhaus
tion as they hacked their way through' dense jungle.
Elements of the 3rd Marine Division established For
ward Fire Base Nanking on the Site of their , old Khe Sanh
battleground, where 250 Leathernecks died and 2,500 were
wounded.in a 71-day siege that was lifted in April. The
base was abandoned in June in favor of a more mobile
Marine striking force in the northern provinces.
U.S. spokesmen said Nanking was a' temporary fire
base, set up only to secure the 'Khe 'Sanh Valley. They
stressed that the Marines do not intend to stay there..
' •". * • * .* •
Thieu Says Enemy in 'Political Phase'-
SAIGON President Nguyen Van Thieu said yester
day' that the enemy has lost the Vietnam war on the battle
field and has' shifted emphasis to the political arena to
force ' a Communist-led coalition government on Smith
Vietnam.
"They know they cannot win militarily, so they move
to the political phase," he told newsmen at a Senate
re
ception.'_ = " _ _
He dwelt'on the same theme in a speech earlier yester
day to the National - Assembly, noting that 'in. the past
five months "the Communists have been unable to obtain
a single military success." ,
"The scheme , of the - Hanoi. regime 1S to -have'us"-accept
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does speak for the student body." Gerson
said.
In regard to a letter that appeared in
the Daily Collegian saying that Nittany
Halls should have two USG represen
tatives because of ,its population, Gerson
said that in all of Nittany, Shunk and
Porter there is not one person willing to
run for congress.
Gerson said that the students in this
area could show that they really want to
be represented by turning out a large
vote.
Whoever gets the most write-in votes
from this area will be the new represen
tative, Gerson explained. There will be no
names on the ballots in this area, but
Gerson said that this should not prevent
The petifessor • • .
KENNETH H. WODTKE, associate professor of psycho/coy
and education. was one of five faculty members to speak
at Sunday's Free Speech Movement meeting. He an
nounced the formation of a Committee for University
Reform which• will meet at noon tomorrow in the HUB
banquet room.
Committees were formed Sunday to
investigate the establishment of a student
bookstore, downtown housing rents, the
recruitment of black students and the
student role in formation of University
policy.
The action groups grew out of a Free
Speech Movement forum (FSM) forum
on Old Main lawn.
Born two weeks ago, FSM is an
outgrowth of Walkertown, originally the
tent city set up to protest the student
housing shortage.
More than 300 students and faculty
members debated in front of Old Main
for about three hours before the forma
tion of committees was agreed on.
Urges Adoption of Issues
Jim Hardy, graduate student from
England who invited University President•
Eric N. Walker to address last week's
Walkertown gathering, urged the adop
tion of specific issues.
An onslaught of proposals followed.
Vincent Franklin, representing a
group of students protesting the alleged
high rent and poor living conditions in
apartments owned by State College
landlord and University professor Shia
, Chuan Sun, urged student support of a
rent strike.
"The landlords downtown have the
from the associated press
that step which will lead to the creation of a coalition
government, paving the way for Communist takeover by,
political means," said Thieu.
Reiterating his conditions for peace, Thieu said Hanoi
"has to acknowledge its aggression against South Vietnam
and must agree to end that aggression."
"The most reasonable way to end the war is for both
sides to scale down the level of hostilities, leading gradu
ally to a cease-fire effectively controlled and guaranteed."
LONDON Northern Ireland's prime minister was
invited yesterday to confer at No. IP Downing-St. on the
savage weekend rioting - in Londonderry. But he turned his
back on Prime Minister Harold Wilson and hurried home.
Capt. Terence O'Neill. was visiting Britain when the
riots erupted. Wilson invited the Northern Ireland leader
to London for talks. O'Neill preferred to see his cabinet
first and returned to Belfast. A cabinet meeting is sched
uled there today.
The British government has only limited power to
intervene. The official line in Belfast is that London must
stay out of Northern Ireland's affairs.
*, * *
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court opened an elec
tion-year term yesterday with-Earl Warren back as chief
justice and heard a plea aimed at boosting the presidential
chances of George C. Wallaace. •
"The -1968 -term of the "Supreme ...court is. now con
"vened", Warren' - briskly to a packed courtroom,
Gerson Asks 'For Large Turnout
the students from having a congressman.
Students living in residence halls may
vote in their respective living areas be
tween 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. and 4:30
p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
There are OA o polling places in East
Halls, one in Johnston Hall and one in
Findlay Union Building.
Fraternity men and town 'residents
may vote between 8:30 a.m. and 5:30
p.m. on the ground floor of the Hetzel
Union Building and at voting booths at
the foot of the Mall.
Gerson said that all fraternity men,
both brothers and pledges, must vote only
for the fraternity representative. Frater
nity men living out of the house, either in
FSM Adopts Specific Issues
Ily MARC KLEIN
Collegian Staff Writer
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Opening• Court Case: Wallace on Ballots?
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8, 1868
Investigative Groups Formed
students in the palm of their hands,"
Franklin said "I'm sure it is only in
Dr. Sun's apartments where the rooms
are a mess and the rent exorbitant.
"All of you are subjected to a general
gyp," Franklin continued, as the au
dience chuckled.
Charges Students 'Gypped'
"You go downtown to buy books, and
you have two and one-half bookstores.
It's all right if you have $2,000 to buy
books.
"You're being gypped by th e
landlords, by the bookstores, and God
knows by these people up there,"
Franklin said, pointing to Old Main.
Franklin said the University has an
obligation to sponsor some kind of rent
control.
Aaron Druckman, associate professor
of philosophy, brought another issue to
the group's attention.
"This is a State University, and the
only thing it lacks is color," Druckman
said. "There are only 200 black students
on this campus."
Repeating a proposal he made at last
week's Waikertown gathering, he sug
gested that Negro students be recruited
from the State and be prepared to handle
college work.
"Do you students accept the presence
of 2,000 to 3,000 black students to this
campus?" Druckman asked. "Do the
town or in a residence hall, must vote at
the booth in the HUB or the one on the
Mall.
_ Gerson said that in areas using paper
ballots, votes will be invalid unless the
voters tear off the number from the bot
tom of the ballot and deposit both the
ballot and the number in the ballot box.
List of Candidates
In addition to the one area which has
no candidate, there are sevc areas in
which the candidates are running unop
posed. In South, Pollock A. Pollock C.
West A and North halls there is only one
candidate and in East A and East C there
are two candidates for two congress seats
each.
. . . and' the student
REPRESENTING STUDENTS protesting alleged high rent
and poor living conditions in apartments owned by State
College landlord Shiou-Chuan Sun, Vincent Franklin
claimed "all of you are subjected to a general gyp" and
urged student support of a rent strike.
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his cheerful manner masking the controversy that has
crackled about the court during the summer recess.
The court waded directly into election fights, ruling
in three cases and hearing a lawyer for Wallace argue that
Ohio should be forced to place his name on the presidential
ballot for the Nov. 5 election.
* * *
France Urges End to Czech Occupation
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. France declared yester
day that only an end to the Soviet military occupation of
Czechoslovakia could remove bars to East-West coopera
tion in the search for world peace.
In a policy speech to the 125-nation United Nations
General Assembly Michel Debre, the French foreign minis
ter, described the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia as
"another dark day in postwar history."
He asserted that, without an East-West detente, peace
is impossible in Europe and the world, and added: "There is
no detente that can accommodate • itself to occupation
troops stationed by force."
• * *
State Senate Contest Nears Resolution •
YORK, Pa. r York County Icitizens are due to learn
who represents them in the Senate when the results of
a long-contested election are announced, probably today.
The York County Board of Elections has 39 more
Yates to count before it determines whether Robert Beers
or Henry Leader will' represent the 28th district in the
state senate.
The two opposed one another in the general elction
of November, 1966. Leader, the Democrat, emerged from
The following is a complete list of the
candidates and the areas from which
they are running:
South Halls, one representative, Toni
Benedict; Pollock A (Hartranft, Mifflin,
Beaver), one Al Rubenfield; Pollock B
(Shunk, Nittany, Porter), no ca n
dictate; Pollock C (Schulze. Wolf. Either,
Heister), one, Laura Wertheimer; Sim
mons-McElwain. one Judy Rubin and
Mary Ann Ryan: West A (Hamilton,
Thompson,) one, Dennis Stiineling; West
B (McKee, Watts. Irvin, Jordan), one,
Barbara Mizik and Jeffery Shear.
East A (Tener, Sproul, Brumbaugh,
Pinchot. Geary), two Aron Arbittier and
Torn Ritchey; East B (Curtin, Packer,
Photos. by Wllitam Epsletn
fraternities accept it? Do the dormitories
accept it?"
In reply to Druckman's remarks,
Franklin, a black student, said, "I don't
want any black students to come up here
and face the problems that I'm lacing. I
don't want them to come up here and get
gypped."
A debate developed concerning the
Power of the Undergraduate Student
Government.
Norman Schwartz, candidate for
USG congressman from town, said, "The
reason Walker is willing to talk to USG is
that he knows it can't do anything. If
USG can't do anything, we'll take other
action.
"When the students decide to do
something, we'll do it," Schwartz contiL
hued. "And if they (the administrators)
don't like it, we'll do it anyway because
it's our university."
War Veterans Platform
Dexter Thompson, another USG con
gressman candidate from town, said he is
a war veteran and is running on a plat
form to improve the veterans' status
here.
Thompson said he and his running
mates, Lee Simons and Marty Finan, feel
that veterans should not be required to
take physical education courses.
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Bigler, Pennypacker), one, Bette Jean
Corson and Libby Hegyes; East C (Hast
ings, Stuart, Snyder, Stone, McKean),
two, Patricia Noll and Regina Stepahin;
North, one Alan Krivoy.
Fraternity, four, George Beighley, ;
Robert Brinley, Hank IVlillman, Jim
Sandman, George Strachan arid Fred ;
Westphal; town, six, Marty Finan, Terry
Klasky, Bob Lachman, Don Paulo, Ken
Rodgers, Lee Simmons, Nor m a n
Schwartz, Dexter Thompson, Barry Todd ;
and Richard Wynn. -
The eight candidates for freshman
class president are Gary D'Orazio,
Robert Kepler. Steve Mackin, Roger Mel
lott. George Rampulla, Don Rappaport,
Robert Simon and Dave Still.
Homecoming Role
MRC Looks At
Constitution
By DIANE LEWIS
Colierian Staff Writer
Men's Residence Council presented two bills calling for
constitutional changes, discussed the role of MRC in
Homecoming and announced three new appointments at last
night's meeting.
The first bill presented to the Council last proposed a revi
sion in Article 111, Section C. of the constitution under
eligibility of office. The bill, which MRC passed in the first of
two consecutive votings, replaces the original constitutional
requirements of candidates having at least a 2.2 all-U, a 2.4
previous term average and a 2.0 while holding office, with a
general requirement that they be "in good standing with the
University."
The bill passed unanimously with one abstention. Ac
cording to constitutional voting procedures, the bill must be
voted on at two consecutive meetings before it is enacted as a
part of the constitution.
Election Bill Tabled
The second MRC bill calling for constitutional change in
election of officers, was tabled until the next meeting. Under
the present system, executive officers are elected by the vot
ing members of the legislature. The amendment proposes that
the executives (president, vice president and secretary
treasurer) be elected by the area house presidents.
Discussion on the proposal concerned the question of
whether the house presidents were involved enough in MRC
affairs to be given the responsibility of electing the executives.
MRC President Gene Cavalucci said•the purpose of the con
stitutional change was to "strengthen the role• of the house
presidents." - -
Cavalucci said it was a matter of bringing the elections
closer to the area house presidents.
In other action, the chairman of the lIIRC Homecoming
Committee, Harold Sokowlove, reported to the Council the
compromises reached with Ton Fox, chairman of the
Homecoming Committee. Sokowlove said AIRC should work to
make Homecoming a "truly all-campus event."
Lists Compromises
"I'm tired of hearing that IFC (Inter-Fraternity Council)
does all the work so why shouldn't they get all the credit," he
said. The compromises give the men in residence hails the
right to use t v-:dence halls windows to compete in the judging
the right for e..,ch house to sponsor its queen and the op
portunity for more banners to be displayed in the Hetzel Union
Building.
CaNTalucci also announced three new appointments. They
are Bob Shaffer. a Pollock Tribunal Chairman, as executive
vice president; Bob Cavalucci, house president in Pollock, as
MRC supreme court justice; and John Powders, East Halls
treasurer, as publicity chairman.
The next MRC meeting will be held Oct. 21 at which time
the Senate subcommittee investigating the residence hall
visitation bill, will give a report of its research.
Police Seize Drugs;
3 Students Arrested
Three University students that the students were
were arrested early yester- "bound over to Centre County
day morning on charges of Court."
possession and use of mari
juana in
an apartment in Gold told the Collegian,
we're not sure if we're
Bluebell.
going to stick with the idea of
The defendants, Larry Dal- waiving the hearing. But the
ton (10th-science- authorities are under the in-
Philadelphia), Marvin H. pression that we are. I am
Gold (7th-liberal arts- glad to get out of that jail.
Philadelphia) and Raymond though. It's a hell of a place
Sirchie (7th-arts and ar- and it's so small."
c hit e c ture-Conshohocken)
were arraigned before State State College police entered
College Justice of the Peace the apartment with a search
Guy Mills yesterday. warrant. They found five con-
The three defendants waiv- tainers of marijuana. (ap
ed hearing and Mills set their proximately half a pound). a
bail at $250 each. They are pipe and a cigarette rolling
now out on bail. Mills said machine.
& State
that meeting with a slight margin over the incumbent
Republican Beers. But some 1,200 absentee ballots re
mained uncounted. •
Before the tabulating could get under way, Leader
challenged the process by which absentee votes are counted.
In a case that went all the way to the State Supreme
Court, Leader contended it was the function of the district
elections board to count the absentee ballots.
As of yesterday, the unofficial count, including those
absentee ballots already counted, stood at 35,969 for Beers
to 35,954 for Leader.
* * *
HARRISBURG Senate Republican leaders recom
mended yesterday that the legislature return Nov. 7, a
plan whcih would give lawmakers about 13 working days
to act, on the session's unfinished business.
Sen. Robert.D. Fleming (R-Allegheny) announced the
plan after a meeting of the Republican members of the
policy-making Senate Rules Committee. He said he would
contact House Republican leaders to see if they agreed
on the return date.
Lawmakers have been in recess since July 17, despite
efforts of -the Democratic minority to return. The recess
was declared for the national conventions of both parties,
although many lawmakers had assumed they would be
back by inid-September.
Fleming said the major legislation still to be con
sidered by lawmakers includes implementation of the ju
dicial article of the constitution; revision of the 21-year old
Public Employes Act and confirmation of Judge Richard
Wentley of Allegheny Juvenile Court.
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