-•t ^ , r• +-4•PT. Mostly sunny and swar r mer - 1 77 0dain, '— high near 80. Fair tonight; rie l yt; lERARY the upper 50s. Mostly iprmy,„end warm tomorrow and EGidiiiio-filgh tomorrow in the middle 80s, hi Friday in the upper 80s. 01.2 COPIES Vol. 69, No. 135 Teach-In Raps U.S. 'Militarism' —Photo by Lurie Suhrie 'Youth's A Stuff Will Not Endure' J. Rife Thompson, May Seek Communication Climate By SANDY BAZONIS Collegian. Staff Writer Ted Thompson, president of the Undergraduate Student Government and Klaus W. May. graduate student council member, have called for the establishment of "a nc w climate of communications" within the University. In a letter to University President Eric A. Walker and Jacob J. Kaufman, director of the Office for St ude n t Discussions, Thompson and May made recommendations to the Office to facilitate negotiations and com munication between dissenters and the University. They also called for a cen tralized and distince large scale project to be undertaken for and with the black and disadvantaged students and the black faculty to increase black enrollment. The recommendations are as follows: —the Office should make further efforts to ensure the participation of the Black Stu dent Union and Students for a Democratic Society; —the director of the Office should become a member of the University Senate Com mittee on Open Expression and the ad hoc Committee on Disruption, to make the Office more relevant: —the present Office should be expanded to include an ad visory board which would be representative of divergent views within the University community. Members should include a black student, a black faculty member, a mem ber of the Senate Committee on Open Expression, a mem ber of SDS, USG, GSC, Young Ame icans for Freedom, the ad hoc Committee o n Senate To Evaluate Pass-Fail By REENI THOMSON Collegian Staff Writer How often has a student taken a course pass fail because of a fear that he is going to do poorly? And how often has a student taken a course pass-fail because cf a desire to learn something in an area completely unrelated to his major? These and a number of other questions are being asked by a University Senate evaluation committee on the Satisfactory-Unsatisfactory Grading System, the official term for pass-fail. Questionnaires were mailed - Winter Term to a random sampling of faculty advisers and stu dents connected with the system. Completed questionnaires all were returned to the Division of Instructional Services office Friday. To Evaluate Success . - According to Leslie P. Greenhill, chairman of the committee, the poll will attempt to deter mine whether the pass-fail system, still in its experimental stages, has been successful. The questionnaire asked the respondents to identify the course he was taking pass-fail, whether the course was in his major field or an elective and why he was taking the course pass-fail. The poll will be used to supplement data already received from the Records Office. On the basis of all the information, the committee will report to the Senate no later than August. The deadline was recommended in the original text of th e Satisfactory-Unsatisfactory resolution. Last fall, when the pass-fail program first was in operation, 2,720 students received credit for 3.177 courses without the grade points being tabulated into their "term averages. During Winter Term, the number of students using the system increased to 4,135 and the 'number of courses taken to 4,827. Usually Successful Penn State's introduction to pass-fail began in September 1968 at the Undergraduate Stu dent Government encampment, a pre-season conclave of students, administrators and facul- 6 Pages 'Alter Priorities That Lead to Vietnam' Academic Freedom, and, if necessary, members of several other organizations which are directly concerned with dissent; —the Senate should express a vote of confidence in the Of lice during the next Senate meeting. A member of the Senate should sponsor such a resolution: —the director should in troduce a motion to the Senate to make his office an elected one and to ensure that he shall be (re-)elected during Fall Term 1969. The Senate and the Administration shall propose a list of candidates to USG and GSC for their consideration and vote and stud en t organizations should be able to present their own candidate(s) through USG and-or GSC; —the director should be sub ject to , recall by the Senate, and USG and GSC should be able to initiate a recall in the Senate; —the director of the Office must have the right, upon re quest, to participate as an observer in any University c omm it t ee—faculty, Ad ministration or student; —the•director and the board members shall, upon request, have speaking privileges in the Senate, graduate school facul ty meetings and the meetings of the Board of Trustees; —upon request by the direc tor, the Administration and the faculty organizations shall send to the office represen tatives who have the actual powers of negotiation; —when negotiations take place, the University president should present his views personally or through his representatives; —the Office should change its name. The name Office of Dissent Settlement may be more appropriate and the• Of- Participants Complete ty members, according to then-USG vice presi dent Jon Fox. Over the previous summer USG congressman James Sandman, had conducted research on nearly 100 universities which were initiating or had a pass-fail program. The study indicated that in the majority of cases the pro gram was successful. The resolution to initiate a satisfactory unsatisfactory system here was passed almost unanimously by USG during Fall Term 1967. The only major controversies, according to Fox, involved presentation of the program to the University Senate and the inclusion of physical education in the Senate resolution. The motion to include physical education was not passed. On Jan. 9, of last year, the S-U resolution from the Resident Instruction Committee was passed by the Senate. The resolution required all colleges and the Division of Counseling to allow students to schedule at least nine credits on a S-U basis with a maximum set at 18 credits. A spokesman for the committee stated the purposes, for passing the program: "The need to achieve and maintain a good grade point average increases tension,. emphasizes grade getting rather than learning and reduces the student's enjoyment of learning for its own sake " • Amended for College Control Larry Spancake, USG representative on the committee. • described the bill as "fairly liberal." He disclosed that the S-U resolution in the committee originally had included all courses outside the major as available on a pass-fail basis. But when it reached the Senate floor, the bill was amended to allow college control over S-U requirements. Jon Fox, who actively pressed for the reform, said the concept of the system is "a valid one." He added ironically, "I've never taken a course pass-fail. The way my schedule has worked out, I have no more electives left." Beyond a few basic rules. (as stated in the University Senate resolution) each college aitg Totirgi fice should be useful to any dissenting group and reform organization: —the Advisory Committee on Disadvantaged Students should discuss the BSU demands and the Office Inc Student Discussions should not in terfere with or duplicate the work of the committee. USG To Hold Hearing e n NSA Membership An open hearing will be conducted this morning to determine whether the Undergraduate Student Government should remain in the National Student Association. Joe Myers, co-chairman of USG's In ter University Affairs Committee, said last night that the purpose of the hearing is to decide whether USG should renew its membership in NSA. USG had a trial membership in NSA last year, and the earmg will determine whether USG should become permanently affiliated, according to Myers. Students May Testify , Myers said that students may present a five-minute prepared testimony begin ning at 8:30 a.m. in the Hetzel Union Building assembly room. NSA is an organization composed of student governments of colleges and universities throughout the nation. The organization is divided into a political wing and a service wing. Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pa., Wednesday Morning, May 28, 1969 By PAT DYBLIE and DENISE BOWMAN Collegian Staff Writers Dale Winter, religious affairs associate, at tacked what he called U.S. orientation toward militarism, at a teach-in on the Hetzet UniOn Building terrace yesterday. The teach-in was part of the Undergraduate Student Government fast and vigil in protest of the war in Vietnam. Winter said the goal of an objector to the war should be to "alter the priorities that lead to Vietnams." Winter said he was worried by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's statement that after the Vietnam war, the United States should not expect major cutbacks to military spending. He said the decisions concerning the proposed anti-ballistic missile project are "decisions for the 1970 s and 80s." "Once these measures are passed, our priorities are fixed," he added. Products of War Winter said the products of the Vietnam war have been torn families and "the forced exile of over 15,000 young men who cannot accept U.S. militarism." He offered complete amnesty to the exhile , a , a means to reunite the country and to "restore to America the spirit it once possessed." Quoting Christian martyr Deitrich Bonhoffer, Winter said, "Some ask what is to come. Others ask what is right. That is the difference between a "slave and a free man." Winter said the Nuremberg principles show that a man who follows orders without making a humanitarian judgment is just as guilty as those in the leadership position. "Silence is complicity," he said. Deplores Priorities Winter said he deplored the order of priorities which allowed millions of dollars to be spent on Vietnam and "only 553 a year to be spent on feeding a destitute American." He said that as long as the same order of priorities exist, Americans can expect increasing military deaths, campus unrest and cities "that blow up like a powder keg." Following the keynote address, students broke up into discussion groups, the first led by Winter and Al Lingis, associate professor of philosophy, and the second by Robert Shor treed, president of the State College American Civil Liberties Union. A student in the first group said the reason for the "generation gap" is not necessarily a The political wing permits NSA to make policy statements on national and international issues and allows the organization to act as lobbyists. - NSA's central organization i s generally considered to be a leftist oriented association. NSA: 'A Sounding Board' According to Myers. Young Americans for Freedom consider NSA "to be nothing except a sounding board for leftists ideas." NSA's service wing deals with legal affairs, academic reform and consumer Ea= Myers said the hearing will be con ducted in a congressional manner. Stu dents presenting testimony will be sub jected to questioning by the Inter University Affairs Committee. Tom Ritchey, USG's president pro tempore and east halls congressman, said, "The most important consideration Questionnaire determines its own policy concerning courses that may be taken on a S-U basis. The Colleges of Science and of Education, have no specific requirements; rather, each department within a college is responsible for maintaining its own S-U program. The Department of Astronomy limits its ma jors to nine credits while the physics depart. ment allows students a maximum of 18 credits on pass-fail. The premedical-medical program, under the joint control of Jefferson Medical College and the University, does not permit any credits on a S-U basis. Enjoy Learning When questioned about the feasibility of the S-U program, students seemed equally divided on the subject. The usual positive comment was, "It took away the pressure and the wor ry—you could learn and enjoy the course." Critics of the system suggest everything from abolishment to an entire curriculum on pass-fail. Dale Hettich, a nineth-term English secondary education major, said, "If all the courses were pass-fail, it would work. But the combination as the system is set up now doesn't work. As soon as the pressure is remov ed, the students don't do any work. It's not the students' fault; it's the system." Many faculty members were reluctant to comment on the system while it still is in its trial stages. Conversion of grades from the conventional letter grade to the S-U grading system is done in the Records Office. Theoretically, the faculty have no knowledge of students who are taking courses pass-fail. "This is like an insurance policy; the students are taught and graded on the same basis," Robert J. Scannell, associate dean of Undergraduate Resident Instruction and chairman of the University Senate, said. Some faculty members have been confronted by students who explained that they need not take the final examination since they passed the first two tests by a comfortable margin. .One faculty adviser said she is "disappointed in the way students are using it now. They are difference in ideologies. "My father and I both don't want to sec me go to Vietnam, but we disagree on the methods to avoid it," he said. Another student said he believed that parents want changes in the existing system as much as their children. "We agree on the ends, but not the means." he said. Lingis said the foremost obligation of a person is to determine for himself the dif ference between right and wrong. Silent Majority' One student said he noticed the existence of a "large, silent majority" which is removed from the issues. If we want something to come about, we must get the power structure disbursed so it will affect those who are the most involved." he said. Shortreed. speaking on the "Continual Realization of American Freedom," said the United States — rarely has been a free COllll - has been self-righteous for the most part." He said that through killing thousands in Vietnam, the country is becoming "more brutalized." He added that terrorism "never maintained anything." He told the group of about 20 students. "If you think this is a free society and act like you are living in one, you are wrong." "There is no constitution unless people stand up for it," he said. He added that each new generation rededicates the Constitution and "it will be changed only if the people decide to change it." Statement Distrihuted Bob Lachman, chairman of USG's Steering Committee to Protest the War in Vietnam, said that he was satisfied with the results of the teach-in. "I do not like a lecture situation and I think the small groups came off well," he said. A statement titled "Individuals Against the Crime of Silence" is being distributed at the site of the vigil, according to Lachrnan. Interested students may sign the statement "to demonstrate that the conscience of America is not dead." USG will forward the statement to a California committee which will send all statements to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Lachman said the statement will be presented tomorrow to USG as a resolution. Although USG cannot endorse the statement as a body. Lachman said he hoped that individual congressmen would indicate their approval by signing it. in NSA reaffiliation is that both sides have an opportunity to air their views." According to Myers, USG dissaf filiated from NSA in 1965 when Ramparts magazine uncovered it as a subversive organization. When NSA's constitution was altered, USG rejoined on a one-year trial period, which ends this month. Myers termed the present NSA as a "central distributing point for in formation concerning University cam- puses across the nation." Hearing To Determine Stay "I feel we haven't got as much out of it (NSA) as we could have and I feel that these hearings today will determine whether this organization warrants our staying in." Myers said. He stressed that any student may submit recommendations to the corn mittee at the hearing. The committee will present its recom mendations to USG tomorrow for deliber ation by Congress, Myers said.—P D taking an overload just to get three credits." The intention of the Senate in passing the resolutioh, according to Greenhill, was to allow students to explore subjects on an intermediate level for which they might not have sufficient background. Misuse of the system by con centrating S-U credits in the fundamental courses is very easy. Wary of Misuse Ralph G. Ascah, premedical adviser, said he is wary of such misuse. "The principle is a good idea." he said. "You can explore a subject in the company of graduate students and ma jors in the field. But I'm not sure it is used this way. There scams to be a sizeable enrollment in perhaps more elementary courses rather than advanced ones." There also is a danger in overuse of the S-U system. Difficulties may arise in transferring to another university and in applying to graduate schools. Eugene S. Lindstrom, assistant dean of the College of Science. said. "I think, by and large, it is pretty good. The only thing I'm wondering is that in professional schools, especially in medical schools, competition is getting tougher. I don't know how these professional schools will react to this." he continued. Most faculty will admit there are favorable and unfavorable aspects to the S-U program. Arthur 0. Lewis. associate dean of the College of the Liberal Arts, expressed the view of the majority of the faculty and administrators questioned. "The satisfactory-unsatisfactory system is, perhaps for the great majority. serving its purpose, which is exploration." Lewis asserted. "You can experiment with the.: , -.,:L•ca--1 , 31,...:2.eczi,m=xT..5.',„z grade pressure removed. There is some evidence, though, of a group. I don't know how large, who are using it as an easier means for getting through."' Scannell said, "The goal behind the system is to explore areas of study. Hopefully. it en courages students to broaden their outlook and to take a challenge. If it is working, it should be continued' and expanded " R iminumuutimini associated press ummiliiiiiimiimm New Scope The World Viet Cong 'lnfluencing' U.S. Public Opinion SAIGON The North Vietnamese recently have increas ed their shellings from the demilitarized zone, leading some U.S. officers yesterday to conclude that the aim is to Inflict casualties and Influence public opinion in the United States. "They're trying to increa-e our casualties to get the peo ple back home up in arms to hurry up our withdrawal." said one spokesman for the U.S. Command. "It's part of their overall strategy. "They've been stockpiling supplies right across the DMZ like mad since the bombing halt. They've never honored the agreement. They've used the DMZ as a sanctuary and to con tinue to build up fortifications there." U S. officials claim that in exchange for the bombing halt of the North Nov. 1. Hanoi agreed to refrain from all military actit itv in the six-mile wide buffer zone dividing North and South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese deny this. Defense Heads To Plan Nuclear Guidelines BRUSSELS, Belgium If the Soviet Union posed an fin mediate threat to Europe. would it he wise for the Western allies to •how they mean business by setting off a nuclear demonstration bomb at a place where it would do no harm? Would it start a nuclear war or overt one? These arc questions Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird and .ix West European defense ministers will deal with at a meeting tomorrow in London after consultations here on other defense matters. Main participants of the Nuclear Planning Group include Denis Healey of Britain and Gerhard Schroeder of West Ger many, who will present their joint proposals on guidelines for the use of tactical nuclear weapons. Their work is a summary of secret reports on different aspects of the question preserted at the group's last meeting in October. The Nation Apollo 10 Astronauts Brief Lunar Crew HOUSTON The Apollo 10 astronauts returned home yesterday from their moon-scouting adventure and im mediately began recording the lunar knowledge they obtained to prepare the Apollo 11 crew for a moon landing. After a hero's welcome the astronauts began recounting their experiences on the eight-day flight that took Air Force Col. Thomas P. Stafford and Navy Cmdr. John W. Young to within 9.4 miles of the moon's surface. Stafford, Young and Navy Cmdr. Eugene A. Cernan will spend 11 days talking into tape recorders and reviewing every step of their flight. The Apollo 11 crew, scheduled to attempt a moon landing in July. roust have the data and recollections of Stafford, Cer nan and Young to cut the risks of their flight. Groundwork Laid for Tax Crackdown WASHINGTON Unprecedented restrictions on primate foundations, designed to prevent them from filling, up invest ment.s and dispensing funds to individuals, have been ten tatively agreed on by House tax writers. The House Ways and Means Committee, reporting yester day on its first round of tax reform deliberations, also disclos ed proposals to do away gradually with the privilege of wealthy donors to write off their whole income against charitable donations. Other decisions, all subject to later review and formal votes, included: —Curbs on the use, by investors of the special . farm Operations tax provisions to shelter other income from tax ation or convert fully taxable income into capital gains. —Elimination of the now-legal procedure for lowering cor porate taxes by organizing a business into several subsidiaries. * * * Nixon Asks For Post Office Revision WASHINGTON Declaring "tradition is no substitute for performance." President Nixon asked Congress yesterday to scrap the historic Post Office Department and establish a government-owned, self-supporting corporation to handle the mail. The alternative. Nixon said, is continuation of huge annual postal deficits, constantly increasing rates and threats of mail delay; and breakdowns. Nixon's proposal would replace the department with a cor poration administered by a nine-member board of directors and operated like a private business. It would be known as "the United States Postal Service." The plan was announced by Nixon and Postmaster Gen. Winton M. Blount at a White House news conference. Blount spelled out details at a separate briefing for newsmen. 9 Patrolmen Found Innocent in Slayings FLORENCE, S.C. A biracial jury quickly found nine white South Carolina highway patrolmen innocent yesterday of civil rights violations in the shooting of 30 young Negroes, including three who died, in Orangeburg last year. The jurors, including two Negroes, deliberated one hour and 29 minutes. They had to consider the case of each of the nine defendants separately. The defendants sat impassively as the clerk began reading the verdict individually for• each one, but each appeared to relax as his name was called and the clerk intoned, "not guil ty., U.S. District Judge J. Robert Martin Jr. had warned the courtroom against emotional demonstrations when the ver dicts were read. Killed during the Orangeburg confrontation were Delano Middleton, 17. an Orangeburg high school pupil, and South Carolina State students Henry Smith, 19, of Marion and Samuel Hammond, 20, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Military Accused of Wasteful Purchasing WASHINGTON A House-Senate economic subcommit tee accused the military yesterday of wasteful purchasing practices it says have artificially inflated the budget and lined the pockets of defense contractors. And the subcommittee said it is disturbed by evidence that the Pentagon considers "cost control as an antisocial ac tivity." Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., the subcommittee chair man, in remarks accompanying the report, spoke of "the absence of effective controls over the procurement of weapons systems and the existence of questionable practices in the Department of Defense." Pentagon officials promptly replied they agree with much of the highly critical report. And they said the Nixon ad ministration is overhauling procedures for purchasing weapons systems. The State GOP Leader Refuses Support of Budget Bills HARRISBURG House Republican Leader Lee A: Donaldson Jr. declined yesterday to co-sponsor the ap propriations bills that would implement Gov. Shafer's propos ed $2.5 billion budget. Donaldson noted that the GOP caucus in the House favored a "hold-the-line" policy on new spending and opposed imposition of new or increased taxes. The governor has recommended a 5 per cent increase in state spending for the coming fiscal year and enactment of a statewide personal income tax and higher business levies to raise revenue. Donaldson said that if a joint executive-legislative liaison committee is able to reach a bipartisan accord on the issues of spending and taxes, he would co-sign the compromise legislation. Otherwise, he said. Republicans would continue to press for a scaled down budget in the House, and it would be up to the majority Democrats to make their position known. What's Inside Letters, Letters, Letters YAF, SDS, MRC Collegian Notes ' Baseballers Beat Navy College Football 1985 .. Penny Strikes Again .. End of Probe —see page 2 Seven Cents . Page 2 . Page 3 . Page 4 . Page 5 . _Page 5 . Page 6
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