The Weekly
Summer Edition
No. 138
JESSE ARNELLE, first black member of the Board of
Trustees, speaking on the role of the modern university
when he visited Penn State last Noventber. His three year
term as a trustee begins July 1.
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New Scope
The World
Britains Find Bomb on Prince's Route
British security forces began a massive security check
of Wales last night -after enough' gelignite to kill at 100
feet was discovered on the route Prince Charles-will take
from his investiture as Prince of Wales.
Known Welsh extremists, who oppose the investiture,
were rounded up and told to account for their movements
since Tuesday. •
A dawn-to-dusk helicopter patrol was launched from
an army camp near the Welsh border with England.
Piloted by British army officers and manned by police
observers, they will keep a constant watch on roads and
public service installations.
A complete check of the royal route around the prin
cipality after the investiture Tuesday was made by hun
dreds of police.
The home-made bomb was found at the entrance of
MacKenzie Pier, Holyhead, where Prince Charles will
board a barge to take him to the royal yacht Britannia
after the ceremony.
The six-pound explosive was wrapped in a blue air
line bag,-behind a monument commemorating the occasion
in 1958 when Prince Charles first set foot on Welsh soil.
The bomb was found by a workman.
Army bomb disposal experts defused the bomb, which
was attached to a square clock by .a mass of wires. '
Czechs Withholding Communist, Party Dues .
,CzeChoslovak Communists unhappy with the party's
new 'polibies are withholding payment' of - their
dues, sending party income into sharp decline.
Rude Pravo, the party's daily newspaper, said yester
day some "local branch organizations of the party—as an
expression of political disagreement—are refusing to send
the money collected to the district party committees and
in some cases are depositing it in banks."
"This practice must be condemned as a gross violation
of party discipline and likewise of the principles of demo
cratic centralism," the newspaper declared. Democratic
centralism is the Comntunist rule of obedience and no
further discussion once a party desicion is made.
Withholding of Communist party dues paralleled the
decision of workers in major Prague factories to start
withholding next month the portion of their union dues
that would normally' go to the trade union hierarchy.
Top trade union leaders recently swung in line behind
the Communist party's pro-Soviet policies after reminders
by party chief Gustav Husak that party discipline re
quired this-
Rude Pravo said the number of members and organiza
tions of the party not paying dues rose from 5.03 per''cent
in 1967 to 17.48 per cent in 1968, the year of the Soviet
invasion, and hit 21.3 per cent the first four months of
this year.
The Nation
Panther Lieutenant Disenchanted With Cuba
American Black Panthers, including Eldridge Cleaver,
have become disenchanted with their expatriate lives' in
Cuba and want to leave, according to a party member.
Raymond Johnson, 22, of Alexandria, La., who said
he was a lieutenant in the Black Panthers and had hijacked
an airliner, told a newsman yesterday: "The Panthers
have not been received -in a ,revolutionary fashion. We
have been condemned to live in Cuba."
He said members or the party had been imprisoned,
isolated, banned from Havana and told they could not
organize their party in Cuba. "
Johnson said Black Panthers have been imprisoned
more than is necessary to investigate them.
"Some have been imprisoned a second time. They
have been sent to completely isolated sections of the island
and forced to work in labor. camps."
Johnson said, "It is possible some of the Panthers
will be arrested today," adding that arrests "always come
when the Panthers become. disenchanted' and after they
protest conditions and, express a desire to.leave the coun
try."
House Plans Try at Surtax Extension
House leaders planned yesterday to try to pass Presi
dent Nixon's bill extending the income surtax Monday.
A vote on the bill, first scheduled for yesterday, was
postponed when head counts indicated serious doubt that
it would pass. •
Subsequently. however, Republican leaders called their
colleagues into conference, relayed an appeal from Nixon
and then reported they had assurances of about 170 Re
publican'votes for the bill, an increase of about 40.
This would mean that votes of only about 50 of the
224 Democrats would be needed to insure passage. Demo
cratic leaders then reconsidered their plan not to call up
the measure until after the July 4 holiday.
Meanwhile emergency legislation began moving—with
some difficulties—to extend income tax withholding rates,
which reflect the surtax, through July 31. •
Desegregation Guideline. Changes Possible
The Nixon administration, in what appears to be a
reversal of an earlier conflict—settling policy decision,
said yesterday possible changes in School desegregation
guidelines are "under discussion."
The. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
issued this terse statement in response to Mounting re
ports that the guidelines would be loosened, lifting this
fall's deadline for ending all desegregation.
The revisions reportedly. were worked out by top
officials of the Welfare and Jusitee departments over the
strenuous objections of Welfare's Office 'of Civil Rights
which is charged with enforcing the guidelines.
The conflict apparently runs deep enough to have
inspired one report that Leo❑ E. Panetta, the 30-year-old
lawyer-director of the agency, was on his way out.
Powell Claims Title to Lost-Seniority
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell,- savoring his Supreme
Court victory over the House of Representatives, said
yesterday he regards it as settled that he is entitled to
the seniority he lost when the House excluded him.
Powell left open, however, the possibility that he
might try to get the - $55,000 in back pay he claims 'he is
owed. The decision remains with his lawyers, he said. .
The Harlem Democrat, back in his office for the first
time. since the court held the House acted unlawfully in
refusing to seat him in the 90th Congress, expressed
satisfaction' at the decision•
"That is the victory," he said in an interview. "The rest
is inconsequential." •
He indicated he regards his 24 years of congressional
seniority as firmly established by the court *ruling.
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Alumni Elect Arnelle Trustee
By JIM DORRIS
Collegian Editor
Jesse Arnelle. former Undergraduate Stu
dent Government President and one of Penn
State's great athletes, became the lirst black
elected to the University's Board of Trustees
earlier this month.,
Arnelle, along with Helen D. Wise of State
College and Altoona Publisher J. E. Holtzinger.
was elected by the University's alumni in
balloting conducted by mail. The three-year
terms begin July 1.
In a telephone interview with The Daily
Collegian Arnelle said "I am looking forward to
both the responsibility and the challenge of this
new office. I see the recent election as a desire
on the part of many Penn State graduates to
see changes made at the University." He said
that his election means there are many
graduates who feel the University has a long
way to go.
'More Communication'
Arnelle said "there has to be more com
munication with members of the student body
at the trustee level. I hope the trustees will
give real consideration to student participation
as voting members of the Board of Trustees."
"I think the trustees should meet as a body
more than twice a year," Arnelle said. "The
full board should meet once a quarter at a
minimum, perhaps more frequently than that.
Meeting twice is not doing the job adequately."
When asked if he thought the trustees
would listen to his ideas Arnelle said "my
minimal hope is that they will listen. I hope
they will be inclined to join in to bring about
changes."
In May, 1968, Arnelle turned down the first
Perkins: Professionals
Must Become Involved
By KATHY McCORMICK
Collegian Staff Writer
Student unrest reinforces
society's demands for pro
fessionals to become more
practical in terms of the com
mon good, said r e c e n t 1 y
resigned Cornell University
President James A. Perkins.
Perkins said the chief causes
of student unrest are "the
great antipathy among stu
dents to amoral, uncritical
judgment-making of much of
c o n temporary . scholarship"
-and-the demand for , edudation
to be broader yet more
speCialized.
Perkins told about 300 mem
bers of the 77th annual meet
ing of the American Society for
Engineering Educators being
held at the University that the
professional and the pro
fessional school are operating
in a new kind of world where
the specialist with a broad
view of life will be needed to
build the new order.
"But if the professional
school cannot turn out useful
men and women who are
broadly and specifically
knowledgeable about their
business, if it does not respond
to public need and help to lead
society toward enlightened
goals, then society's estimate
of the value of the university
will be compromised,•and pro
fessional education will be at a
discount,"•Perkins said.
Perkins attributed the grow
ing demands of society for a
change in professional stan
dards to "the decline of
religious f aith, skepticism
about the idea of inevitable
progress, and a new priority of
Justice, peace and equality of
life upon which we are not yet
agreed." Too long professional
standards have permitted pro
fessionals to work only within
the "perimeters of specializa
tion," he said.
Perkins called professional
schools "the troubled link"
between universities a n d
society. Changes in these
schools must be made to pre
vent the professional student
from "drawing into a pro-
The University Senate, approved a general policy state
ment prw,'iding for the admission of poor and minority youth
to Penn State and the establishment of a centralized office to
coordinate the admissions duties. .
The policy was presented by the Senate Committee on
Academic, Admission, and Athletic Standards, at the June 3
Senate meeting. Two out of the three recommendations by the
Committee were accepted by the Senate, while the third was
sent ,back-to, the Committee for revision.
At the close of the meeting; Robit 'J. Scannell, Senate
chairman, announced the election of Arthur 0. Lewis, pro
fessor of humanities and English, as the new chairman of the
Senate for 1969-1970.
- Before handing the gavel to Lewis; Scannell commented
that he would' like to see an increase in,communication be
tween the Senate and the students, and between the Senate
and the faculty, ,
H also 'recommended increasipg the efficiency of Senate
legislation. "The Senate must make a•definite effort to reduce
time lagging in determination of policy," he said, pointing out
that "many bills are introduced which sit for two years be
fore being acted upon.
Other new officers are Margaret B. Matson, professor of
sociology, vice-president, and Helen I. Snyder, assistant pro.;
fessor of educational psychology, secretary. .
' The Senate also approved recommendations by the Com
mittee on, Committees and Rules, calling for:
--The establiihment of a Board of Student Affairs, which
would "consider and formulate policy affecting student life."
—Maintaining the present voting , membership in the
Senate.
The rationale behind the exclusion of student voting mem
bership was '"a conflict of interest could arise if a person were
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pa., Thursday Morning, June 26, 1969
fessional shell." In the future, unless more faculty members
the survival of our society will become "humane professionals
depend on the ability of these and professional humanists"
professionals to keep track of who can work together.
the "unbelievable expansion of "This country needs more
knowledge," he said. professionals in every field and
Curriculum changes must one way or another it will get
provide more liberal arts foun- them," said Perkins.
dation for the professional stu- Therefore, the university must
dent, he said. He expressed develop 'more enlightened and
hopes for integrated systems determined policies to make
between schools and the use of better use of black students
combination degrees, such as and women." he said, unless
journalism and public health, the needs of the public are to
which would "give new life to "outpace tli e professional
professional schools." schools' ability to meet them."
--.Relevant - -curricula - A seriou - s - 'predirlai-n - "ni 'for'
begin to meet `the student de- the - professional student is
mands that "their education caused by the great
help them become citizen- knowledge, 'Perkins said Ttic
professionals" just as they ,student is at once forced into
"demand of the professional scientific specialization and
that he be a citizen as well as still must be prepared to take
a professional in his work." He on a broad view of life.
noted that where "professional Perkins said he made his
backwaters still exist" in op- observations from a triple
position to educational change, perspective of having been a
society and student unrest will liberal arts student, working in
work against it. the government, and having
Both professional schools been president of Cornell
and the liberal arts will suffer University.
—Collegian Photo by Roger Greenawalt
RETIRING CORNELL PRESIDENT James A. Perkins
addresses engineers in Schwab for the 77th ASEE Con
vention. Perkins told the engineers that professionals
must become aware of the, broader problems of society.
Senate Approves Admissions Statement
By RHONDA BLANK
Collegian Staff Writer
Reduce Lagging
Conflict of Interest
First Black Member of Board
annual alumni award. a large statue or the Nit
tany Lion, at the annual State College Quar
terback Club dinner where he was the guest of
honor.
Arnelle told the dinner guests that he could
not accept the award at that time, but said, "I
will come back for it when freedom is here.
when I can accept it with gratitude, affection
and humility."
And,' instead of speaking about sports at
the dinner, Arnelle spoke of the "monumental
and historical failures: the things that bring
dishonor instead of glory to the University."
'Super Black Syndrome'
Arnelle talked about Penn State's failure to
meet its commitment in•race relations, about
the "'Unvarying one per cent" of black students
here more than 10 years after his graduation
and about the University's "heavy affliction"
with the "super black syndrome."
"There has never• been a black dean of a
Penn State faculty. There has never been a
black vice president of the University in any
capacity. There is no known black Penn State
graduate appointed, assigned or consulted at
the policy-,making level of the University.
Should the University's president call his im
mediate staff in conference there wouldn't be a
black face in the room. When the Board of
Trustees meet, their deliberations have never
been enriched by the contribution of a black
trustee member, Arnelle told the alumni last
year.
'More Significant'
"In the area of black enrollment—graduate
and undergraduate students and in the faculty
and administrative ;Iro:ls--'.ve should try to
make the University more significant than it
has been in the past 100 years," he said in an
Lewis Elected 1969-70 Chairman
voting in the Senate an policies relating to academic programs
while at the same time pursuing a degree at this University."
Thus the electorate should be limited to the University's Fac
ulty, as established by the present Senate, which was con
stituted three years ago.
Arthur 0. Lewis, the committee's chairman, later
reported that his committee did not wish to exclude the
—Photo by Glenn Kranzley
OUTGOING UNIVERSITY Senate Chairman Robert
Scannell moves out from behind the podium to make
way for newly elected Chairman Arthur 0. Lewis after
results of the Senate elections _were announced at the
Jiine meeting.
interview with the Philadelphia Bulletin. "We Shc is currently on leave from the State College
should make it more reflective of the great Area Schools to head the Pennsylvania State
educational needs of the poor and blacks in Education Association, an organization of 85.000
Pennsylvania." Pennsylvania teachers and educators
Arnelle is a 1955 graduate of the Arnelle and Mrs. Wise replace on the Board
University. was president of iTSG, ltasketball of Trustees Ben C. Jones of Pine Grove Mills, a
co-captain and played varsity football. He ma- member since 1951. and John L. Romig of Ken
jored in political science and received his nett Square. named to the Board in 1900. Both
bachelor of laws degree in 1962 from Dickinson Jones and Romig were candidates for re-
Lav, School. He is curl ently the pre.-ident of election.
Dialogue. Inc., and vice president for urban at- Holtzinger is a 1925 graduate of the
fairs of Gale Associates, Inc.. a consulting Umersity and is president and general
firm. manager of the Mirror Printing Co., publishers
Mrs. Wii.e is a 1949 graduate of Pain State of the Altoona Mirror and the Pennsylvania
and also holds the master of education and doe- Mirror. This is his seventh three-year term 'on
tor of education degrees from the University. the Board.
Thompson Rejects
SDS Rejection
By KATHY CAPLAN
Collegian Staff Writer
The decision of the Administrative Com
mittee on Continuing Education to reject the
Students for a Democratic Society's request to
hold a national convention and workshop at
Penn State has been criticized by Ted
Thompson. Undergraduate Student Govern.
ment, president.
On June 2. SDS requested to hold a six-day
national convention and workshop for 2.000
persons June 9 through 15 at University Park.
This request was refused.
On June 4, a subsequent request was made
for the dates June 16 through 22. This request
also was rejected on the grounds that "no
educational program apparently had been plan
ned through any recognized academic depart
ment or college and no one of the ACCE had
any knowledge of such plans," the committee
reported. The ACCE also reported that
"facilities and faculty are committed to all
reasonable limits," for those dates.
Floyd B. Fischer, director of Continuing
Education, said, "I confirm that no further
consideration will be given to this request or
- future requests from Students for a Democratic
Society to hold a convention and/or workshop
on the campus of The Pennsylvania State
University. The facilities will not be available
for this purpose."
Fischer later said that he is not ruling out
further requests in the fall. "We are not pre
judging for all times," he said.
Thompson said SDS is still a chartered stu
dent organization and that "all chartered stu
dent- organizations are not only allowed ; but
also have the right. to hold conventions of their
organizations. SDS is being denied, une
quivocally, its right to function as a chartered
student organization."
The University Senate recently gave the Un
dergraduate Student Government the right to
grant and revoke charters of student,
organizations. Thompson said, "This ad
ministrative committee is infringing upon the
duties and responsibilities of the Un
dergraduate Student Government. They are
University Raises Rates
University officials confirm
ed earlier this month that
room and board charges would
be increased $25 per term, ef
fective with the opening of Fall
Term in September.
In announcing the increase.
Eric A. Walker. president of
the University, explained that
the Board of Trustees, con
cerned about rising costs, in
April had authorized an in
crease not to exceed 535 per
term. Walker had informed
students six weeks ago of the
Trustee action and said an in
crease in rates was probable.
After careful analysis of r's
ing operating expenses and in
creasing food costs, University
officials have settled on an in
crease of $25 per term.
The increase will bring the
cost for room and hoard to
$320 per term for a double
room and to 5345 per term for
the limited number of single
trying to slowly step into the area of phasing
out student organizations."
"I can see and understand their tacit reasons
for not wanting an SDS convention here."
Thompson continued, "but the reasons they
gave are, as far as the Undergraduate Student
Government is concerned, insufficient and will
not stand the test of time."
SDS held its national convention June 22 in
Chicago. The convention was marked by a
dramatic split in SDS. The Progressive Labor
faction was read out of the Society by SDS
national officers.
The P. L. were expelled as "counter
revolutionary," by the regulars backed by the
Black Panther party. The national leaders
walked out averting a takeover of the
organization by the P. L. which had brought
about 600 members of its own group arid it's af
filiate group, the Worker-Student Alliance, to
the convention.
Pat Forman of San Francisco, inter
organizational secretary of the P. L. faction.
denounced the walkout. as "a service only to
imperialism." and termed it "reactionary
because it is unprincipled."
Both factions elected officers with John Pen
nington named national secretary by the P.L.
group and Mark Rudd, leader of the 1968 Col
umbia University disorders, national secretary
for the regulars.
Both groups held news conferences to an
nounce their newly elected officers and to ac
cuse each other of "serving the interests of im
perialism."
The Progressive Labor group has accused•Ho
Chi Minn, president of North Vietnam, of.
selling out by negotiating' in ,Paris and".'has
branded many student demonstrations as "ad
venturous, diversionary and- alienating to the
working people."
It opposed the "People's Park" struggle in
Berkeley as a liberal reformist move, and it re
jects attempts to organize alienated youth.
The new loaders announced plans for a
"massive" demonstration to coincide with the
trial of eight persons on ,charges of conspiracy
to foment riots at the Democratic Convention
last summer.
rooms available. In the Nittany University Park Campus also
Halls area, the increase will be will be increased 515 per
$lO. bringing to $285 the cost month.
for a double room and $3OO the The increased rates apply at
cost for a single room. In• all campuses of the University
creases in room charges for where rooming facilities are
graduate students living in offered. Such facilities are
Atherton Hall are $lO per term available at Altoona. Behrend
for a double room and $5 for at Erie, Capitol at Middletown,
the single rooms. Mont Alto and at the Milton S.
Hershey Medical Center in
Apartment rentals on the Hershey.
Publication Schedule
The Collegian will publish Because of the small size of
once a week during the Sum- the summer staff, heads of
o st tii d e e r nt gro o u r p g s an a u r .a e tio a n s s ked an t d o
mer Term. The paper will be
issued each Thursday morn- bring information about their
ing for ten weeks. activities to The Collegian of-
In the fall, The Collegian lice in th e basement of
will resume its regu 1 a r Sackett by Tuesday evening
Tuesday through Saturday for publication in that week's
publication schedule. issue.
He said the newly-formulated Senate "has not had ade
quate chance to prove itself in its present form."
Through Senate committee work, he said, students are
able to prove their governing capabilities. adding that the
establishment of the Board of Student Affairs is an In
termediary step to more student power in policy making.
The bill charges the Undergraduate Student Government,
the Organization of Student Government Associations. and the
Graduate Student Association to formulate a "specific pro
posal in cooperation with the Committee on Committees and
Rules and the Committee on Student Affairs for the establish
ment of a Board of Student Affairs."
A report by the Senate ad hoc Committee on The Daily
Collegian was approved. which made recommendations
"directed toward strengthening the adherence of the paper's
staff to the highest possible journalistic practices and princi
ples."
The committee was formed as a result of adverse
criticism towards the Collegian for its alleged biased news
reporting and editorial policy.
Examined Relationships
The Committee examined the relationship of the Collegian
and Collegian Inc., its publisher, to the University community
through meetings with members of the Collegian staff, Col
legian, Inc.. professional newspaper editors, and members of
the University community.
Among the committee's recommendations were:
—The addition of a professional Pennsylvania journalist to
the Board of Directors of Collegian Inc., to be chosen by the
Board.
—The formation of an Executive Committee by the Board
of Directors, to maintain a closer working relationship with
The Collegian student editorial and business staffs and its ad
viser.
—An increase in the University's allocation to The Col—
legian "permitting the paper to publish more official docii
ments and texts, to give more news of student organizatiOns
and minor student activities, and to provide more in-depth
studies and reports.
—The selection of a Professional Consulting BOird
which
(Continued on page sir) . -
Heed the Words of
Socrates and Walker
--see page 2
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