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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
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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-
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'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 "
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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.
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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 ..
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