The Weekly Summer Edition Vol. 69, No. 140 DAVID DODDS HENRY, president of the University of Illinois and a Penn State Alumnus, speaks to guests at last week's dedication of a new research library. The stu dent in back is a member of a group protesting for blacks and against more books. associated press ~!ewScopei Nixon Administration To Publish Guidelines WASHINGTON The Nixon administration, which spent five months putting together last week's statement on school desegregation guidelines, is grappling with a bizarre new problem: How to word another statement saying what the first meant without ending up with three sets of guidelines. The new statement is to take the form of a letter to school districts "clarifying" the statement issued by Wel fai e Secretary Robert H. Finch and Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell last Thursday. That statement appeared to relax somewhat this com ing fairs deadline for complete desegregation of most schools set in guidelines issued by the previous adminis tration last March. The statement however drew sharp criticism as being contradictory and confusing. The letter—apparently a response to this criticism— had been expected early this week, but has been delayed. A spokesman for the Office of Civil Rights said yesterday he did not know when it would be sent. The spokesman said no agreement has been reached on final wording. He also said there had been no decision on to whom to send the letter and whether or not to en close a copy of the statement it would try to explain, or even whether to send the letter at all. * * * .Senate - Delays - Secret - ABM - Session ---- • WASHINGTON The Senate, amid increasing wran gling between supporters and opponents of the Safeguard anti-ballistic missile system, put off again yesterday a planned secret session. Instead it heard a blistering attack by Sen. Margaret Chase Smith on what she called "disastrous decisions" on Vietnam by the Pentagon's civilian chiefs. "Attempts are being made to make the military the scapegoats for the disastrous decisions made by their ci vilian bosses through the elite, but woefully inexperienced 'whiz kids,'" she said. "The pattern has been to always credit the civilian bosses with any successes and to blame the military for any failures," the Maine Republican maintained. Referring to former Secretary of Defense Clark M. Clifford's proposal for withdrawal of all U.S. ground troops, Mrs. Smith said, "The proposal advanced by Mr. Clifford is really a basic plan that Gen. William C. Westmoreland proposed some time ago—but for which he has been given no credit." Mrs. Smith, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee and an opponent of the ABM, made no reference at all in her speech to the controversial Safeguard system. Her remarks drew praise from senators in both parties and on both sides of the ABM issue. * * * Nickel Stock Soars to New High WASHINGTON The value of mineral exploration company stock, which was owned by Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel and which he has received Senate per mission to delay selling, has soared to a new high. Nobody seems to be able to explain why. On Tuesday, the stock in Alaska Interstate Co., closed on the American Stock Exchange at 324, up 37 points on a volume of 39,300 shares traded. Last month The Associated Press disclosed that as of the begining of June, Hickel had not begun to sell the stock. Sources close to Hickel refused yesterday to say how much, if any of the stock has been sold now. The value of the stock had never previously been as high as the closing price Tuesday, according to the com pany's president, Robert Baldwin. The volume of shares traded Tuesday is approximately 40 times the normal vol ume, Baldwin said in a telephone interview from company headquarters in Houston. On Tuesday, in a market that has been bad in recent weeks for similar stocks, Alaska Interstate recorded the largest price gain on the entire American Stock Exchange list and was the seventh most actively traded issue. Both Baldwin and market analysts in New York said they were at a loss to explain the activity and rising price. * * * Subcommittee Claims Tank No Improvement WASHINGTON A House armed services subcom mittee said yesterday that the Army has poured $1.2 bil lion into a new missile-firing tank that, in the subcommit tee's opinion, would not be a significant improvement even if it worked. The House group's report is the latest difficulty to be fall the Sheridan tank and its weapon system. The unanimous findings parallel an earlier, but as yet unpublished, General Accounting Office report that accuses the Army of rushing the Sheridan into production before testing had been successfuly completed. "Ten years of effort and some $1.2 billion have now been committed to the Sheridan-Shillelagh effort," the sub committee said. "Yet there is no convincing evidence that the system represents enough of an improvement in com bat capability over existing weapons used in a proper mix, or appropriately modified to justify any such expenditures of time and money." The Sheridan system is considered defective, the sub committee said, because a reliable conventional ammuni tion shell has not been developed. The report says one soldier in Vietnam was killed and three others severely burned because of shells that misfired or were unneces sarily vulnerable to explosion from land mines. The subcommittee recommended that no further Sher idan tanks be sent to Vietnam until the defects are reme died. Some 64 Sheridans are there now. * * * Fulbright, Laird Clash Over ABM System WASHINGTON Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird says that while the U.S. Intelligence Board never made such a finding, its information supports his conten tion that the Soviets are aiming for a devastating first strike nuclear capacity. But Chairman J. W. Fulbright, D-Ark., of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee disputed this contention en a key point in the Senate controversy over deployment of the Safeguard antiballistic missile system. Fulbright accused the Pentagon of scissoring out of closed hearing testimony statements by CIA director Rich ard Helms which he said disagreed with Laird's estimates. Ti Totirgi 6 Pages artoo Appointed Grad De t n By KATHY McCORMICK Collegian Staff Writer The new dean of the Graduate School foresees growth, problems and "many pleas an: associations" in the future in his new position. James B. Bartoo, a specialist in mathe matical statistics. was named dean of the Graduate School to succeed M. Nelson McGeary who retired on July 1. Bartoo was chosen by a selection committee made up of representatives from the graduate faculty of each college. The appointment is subject to confirmation by the Board of Trustees. Bartoo is head of the department of statistics and is a former head of the depart ment of mathematics. One of the biggest problems facing the University is finding sufficient resources he said. He said a dean "must operate by per suasion a great deal." Though he is not cer tain of his persuasive abilities, he said his "mathematical-statistical background might help me in the area of resources." One of his major concerns is to "main tain and enhance the strength of the grad uate students." He said that as faculty as sistants who have a, voice in curriculum development the graduate students have a "tremendous impact on the undergraduate school." He suggested that graduate students should possibly become more involved in advising the undergraduates. "The financial situation of graduate stu dents is very critical," Barton said. He ex plained that the general philosophy of the University is to provide a stipend to enable graduate students to attend school. "The stipend is not quite a starvation wage, but Speaker Cites Division Of University, Society The chasm between the academic world and society has never been wider and public support for universities will continue to fall short until that chasm is bridged, the presi dent of the University of Illinois said last week. Speaking at site dedication ceremonies for the $4.75 million first unit of a proposed new research library at the U,niversity, David Dodds Henry said: "Our expectations for providing the necessities in every academic department, in cluding the library, will be dependent upon the restoration of .public. confidence_ in the university's capability of self-management and in its goals for continuing service to peo ple and society generally. "Society, university and library are all of one piece. This is true of structure. It is also true of function. Universities and their libraries provide the impetus, the momentum and the feedback which sustain the perpetual cycle of societal conservation, regeneration and renewal." But Henry, an alumnus of Penn State, also predicted that higher education will have an increasingly difficult time financial ly in the next 10 to 20 years as compared with the last two decades. "At a time when the dollar commit ments to cur institutions should be vastly increased, inflation, tax resistance, and mone tary uncertainties are barriers to growth," he said. "Disenchantment with science is spread ing among the uninformed, some blaming science for having created problems, others claiming that science has not been suffi ciently effective in solving problems. "Public anger with campus disruption Bailey Expresses Blacks' Anger "All blacks share a monolithic mind set against those things that have been oppressive and degrading to us and to our parents." With this statement Donn F. Bailey, instruc tor of speech and an active member of the Black Student Union, attempted to sum up the feelings of blacks all over the country. He said that something must be done at this University and everywhere in the country to succeed in the struggle for black liberation. Clarifying his statement further. Bailey said, "Most blacks are angry with the way we have been excluded from the decisions made about us." He said that every black, in spite of his outward attitude, shares these feelings. The black man has learned to mask his feelings over the years of oppression, but his discontent is showing more and more. Psychological One Bailey said that the problem with whites concerning blacks is a psychological one. He said that people must project their own negative feelings to other people in order to maintain some degree of peace of mind. The black people have always been the object of this projection. Further, Bailey said, "White people aren't content to leave people alone. These people are weak, but they have a lot of power. So they take out their weakness on the blacks while exercising their power. "You see, we are in a position to define the whites more than they are to define us. We change their diapers, clean their homes, do their work. By living with them, we can de fine them," he explained. Bailey said that the black people are in the process of studying their culture and themselves. What they learn about themselves together with what they learn in the white man's home has brought Bailey to the conclusion that the black man is tsrong but lacks power. If the white man could allow him self to go all the way with the black man and let him use his strength, that strength added to the white man's power could lead to harmony between the two races. "If there can't be this reciprocity of strength and power, the undeclared war (between the whites and the blacks) will be declared," Bailey said. _ - - There is a definite trend toward doing something about the blacks' problems. Bailey said he feels that the solution lies in group movement. Power li's in the masses—individualism cannot solve anything, he said. At Penn State, the Black Student Union demonstrates Bailey's statements. As an active and progressive member of the BSU, Bailey explained that the organization acts as a catalyst to form a close black community. With continued coalescence of the organization, the work needed to call at tention to the atrocities committed by some professors and their courses against blacks can be accomplished. The BSU is carrying on the struggle for liberation at the Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pa., Thursday Morning, July 10, 1969 Foresees Growth, Problems and Pleasant Associations By RENA ROSENSON Collegian Staff Writer Member almost." he said in a interview with The Daily Collegian. Barton said it bothered him that there is no mechanism for graduate students to meet the cost of living. He noted there is "no overall pattern to help relieve the situ ation in the University." As yet he said he has no ideas for solving the problem. Bartoo said the Graduate Student Asso ciation is a well-organized group with broad representation. Referring to political activity, he said, "It's a good thing, though like every thing else, one could go to excess." Graduate students must strike a balance in then• ac tivities because their first commitment is to academic progress he said. As such, he said graduate students "have to be protected from becoming too involved." He added that "By and large. graduate students are more com mitted to their studies than undergraduates." "The problem of finding resources will be forced upon us," said Bartoo. He said the schools will have to provide more detailed justification of their resources as there is more and more competition for state money for higher education. Whereas the legisla ture is able to relate to some programs that are more occupationally oriented, the Uni versity- has to support and justify a "wide spectrum of programs," he said. Bartoo referred to the University's plan for future growth that involves gradually admitting more graduate students and less undergraduates to the University Park cam pus. He said one long range problem might be the support of graduate students when there are not enough undergraduates to be taught. At present more than 4,000 graduate stu- has undermined confidence in the academic community, and political activism of facul ty members has altered public trust in schol arly objectivity." On the subject of libraries, Henry told an audience of about 100 guests that the computer will "supplement rather than re place the library materials we are familiar with, and even the most sophisticated elec tronic circuitry will remain an aid, not a sub stitute, for men's minds in contact with books." . . . . "Books are the memory of civilizations, the seedbins of renewal and growth," he stated." They 'are the riches of the ages. Ig,nore them at your own peril, enrich them if you can." Following his talk. Henry joined Univer sity President Eric A. Walker. Library Direc tor W. Carl Jackson and other dignitaries in drilling through a piece of rock with an air hammer as a symbol of the occasion. Walker also spoke briefly recounting how, when he was a young engineer, one of the humanities professors on campus pointed out to him the "library is the human ist's laboratory." "It is here where he gets his facts and figures, and the tools he has to have. It is here in the library where he puts together his theories, tests them and then gets them rolling. I resolved then and there that if ever I had a chance to push libraries, I would do just that, providing for the future of this vital tore of knowledge." The dedication ceremonies were held on the parking lot just east of Pattee Library where the new research facility will be built. Several students also attended the dedication ceremonies with signs opposing the expendi ture for a new library. Sees Possible Harmon University, Bailey said. There is a heed for a substantial in crease in black students, and "we want outsiders to see that Penn State is a good school for blacks to attend. We don't like recruitment. If blacks here do their work, their brothers will want to come here," he added. The BSU is acting with the trend toward group move ment. In the fall the organization will be restructured to be governed by an excutive body rather than the usual one man, a president. Bailey said the executive body %%ill consist of five committtee heads: a communications chairman who will take charge of all communications within and outside of the University; a cultural activities chairman who will try to create an increase in cultural awareness; a counseling chair man who will recruit graduate and undergraduate students and take charge of job placement; a financial chairman who , ,1 ' 4• -.;...-• - ;',-;.. 1 ;?. .1• ' -- - ''''r :.,3:4".;,; - . P . ' ,;`7l . 1 q1;1 ' ... -,'"' s f •7' , . . - 1 - r" f:,..7-. 4 :4 4 t; t s - • (:::4 - - 6 i ..: " ..-'1 , .• 0 , t r 4... t. ..:•.:-• 41 / 4 •4e- 1 ,11 46 , 01.=..... 16 / • ' ..4 ....S. A ....... • ............... 5.1r.....016"...... DONN F. BAILEY, instructor in speech and member of the Black Student Union, speaks out against whites and white universities. dents are enrolled at University Park and at graduate centers in the King of Prussia, Cap itol and Behrend campuses. Those three, along with the Hershey Medical School. offer professional masters. Continued growth of such off-campus graduate schools will de pend on the resources available and on the local needs he said. Bartoo was born in Vermont hut was raised in Edinboro. Pa. After receiving his bachelor's degree from Edinboro State Col lege in 1947, he taught mathematics in the Henry Speaks, JAMES B. BARTOO, newly appointed dean of the Grad uate School says that a critical problem he will have to Student Welcomes face in his new position is finding financial resources. Experts View Computer CAPE KENNEDY (AP) With the countdown scheduled to start today, the Apollo 11 astronauts yesterday reviewed the computer programming that they hope will guide them to a precision landing on the MOM Astronauts Neil A. Arm strong, Michael Collins and Edwin E, Aldrm Jr. met with experts from the Massachu setts Institute of Technology to review the computer navi gation programs designed to automatically keep Apollo 11 on a perfect course to and from the moon and guide Armstrong and Aldrin to a touchdown on the surface early on July 21. Launch crews installed bat teries aboard the lunar land ing spacecraft as preparations continued to start the count down clock at 8 p.m. today, aiming for liftoff next Wed nesday at 9:32 a.m. in Shared Strength Countdown Begins Toda Altogether. the countdown in- computers aboard the space eludes 93 hours of tt ork and ships. an additional 40 hours 32 min- Floyd Bennett, a space agen tlteS for crew rest or to solve cy expert in landing and take problems that may arise with off procedures from the moon. Apollo 11.'s complex 363-foot- believes the most dangerous tall Saturn 5 rocket and space- part of navigating to the sur cra ft combination. face will occur at the moment "The kind of accuracies of landing. we're dealing with arc cx- The touchdown is the tremely precise" in navigation most critical phase because computer programs, a space all your unknowns are corn agency official said, mg together—the lunar ter- Computers on the ground will rain is uncertain and your back up those on the Apollo fuel is nearing depletion," he spacecraft calculating how cru- said. cial maneuvers should be per- Flight planners expect Arm formed, strong and Aldrm t+ ill have But in several key instances- enough fuel in their lunar rood such as when the astronauts ule to burn the landing engine are behind the moon out of slightly more than one minute contact with earth tracking longer than they expect to stations and during rendezvous need. This margin could be and docking maneuvers be- used to hover like a helicopter tween the command ship and to check out the site or per lunar module landing craft— haps shift the landing point the spacemen will depend on slightly. will concern himself with ways and means of increasing the treasury: and, a political activities chairman who will take political initiative concerning the black community. Communal Response Bailey cited the reason for this change in the governing powers of the organization as the need to move away from the single leader toward a communal response in which many men will take part in the activites of then• organization. The ever changing leadership allows each man to know what is going on more than a one man leadership would, he. said. Bailey came to Penn State from Chicago after teaching there since 1954. He received his bachelors and masters de grees from Indiana University, Indiana, and came here be cause the University was in need of a black instructor and I was in nced of a doctorate." he said. He plans to return to Chicago when he receives his doctorate in August, 1970. but "meanwhile, there is a lot of work for me to do here," he added. In the spring of 1969 he was awarded a Ford Foundation Advance Study Grant a hich is awarded to black graduate students in need of a doctorate. Referring to the grant. Bailey said, "It will allow me to devote more time to my graduate work and also to the BSU." He said that he does not feel that he is obligated to relinquish his work with the BSU because of the "in" with the Ford Foundation which is a result of the grant." Bailey said that the question of what he, as a black instructor, is doing in a white University is one which runs through his mind constantly. "I am not here to better myself." he said. "I am here to acquire a white credential to allow me to infiltrate white institutions and act as a spy. I will turn those credentials against those institutions which are against large numbers of blacks." Successful Liberation Bailey went on to say that those blacks who are on college campuses feel themselves drifting from their brothers who are still in the ghettos. Since the best plan of action for successful liberation requires that the blacks stick together, it is important that those in the ghettos realize that their educated brothers are not attempting to get into the white world and forget their black brothers. "Intend to use the information I get not to get away from our blacks who have not reached the college campus, but to go back and help them," he said. Bailey was reluctant to express his own personal ideas because "I don't count myself. It is the whole of the black population who's ideas count," he explained. But he did say that most of the time he is angry with whites. He said he is hostile towards some, friends with a few and skeptical of the rest. "I don't consider my skepticism to be cultural paranoia. The parachute jumper is not paranoiac because he tests his parachute to see if it opens before jumping, is he?" he asks. Faculty: Speak, Stop the Action --see page 2 Erie School District. lie continued his educa tion at the State University of lowa, where he received an 11. S. degree in mathematics in 1949 and a Ph.D. in 1952, also in mathe matics, He joined the University faculty in 1952. He said. "The fact that I've been here 17 years indicates I like the place." In 1961 he became head of the departmnt of mathe matics and in 1968 when a department of statistics was established he requested to become head of that department. Foundation Grant Seven Cents
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