Considerable cloudiness, windy, and
colder through tomorrow with a
chance of showers today. High today
and tomorrow near 55. Low tonight
near 37. Variable cloudiness and
somewhat colder Thursday with a
chance of showers.
Vol. 70, No. 16
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New Scope
The World
Labor Organization Wins Peace Prize
OSLO, Norway The International Labor Organization-
ILO-won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for 50 year. - of
striving “to improve working conditions. . .and thereby con
tribute to the safeguarding ol world peace.”
Aasc Lionaes, chairman of the Norwegian parliamentary
commiltee that awards the prize, said the ILO was selected
over 44 other candidates, one of whom was Alexander Dubcek,
former chief of the Czechoslovak Communist party.
The Geneva-based ILO currently is headed by two
Americans: Director-General David A. Morse, who heads the
U. N. body's administrative office and George L. P. Weaver,
chairman of the governing body. Weaver is assistant U. S.
secretary rf labor for international affairs.
★ * ★
South Vietnamese Kill 116 in Two Battles
SAIGON South Vietnamese forces probing the tangled
U Minh Forest deep in the Mekong Delta killed 116 enemy
troops in two battles, the government military command
reported yesterday.
One of the battles, in which government troops reported
killing 96 North Vietnamese regulars, was the biggest fight of
the year for the South Vietnamese.
U. S. helicopter gunships swarmed in to blast the enemy
positions during the five-hour !isht Sunday, and a 5300.000 AAI
Cobra was shot down and destroyed. A U. S. spokesman said
one of the two American crewmen aboard the gunship was
wounded.
Most of the enemy dead were believed to be members of
the 273 D Regiment that crossed into South Vietnam from
Cambodia last May and has been trying to sneak its units into
the U Minh, 75 miles south of the fronter.
★ ★ ★
Russia and China Open Border Talks
MOSCOW A top Soviet diplomatic trouble shooter and a
Red Chinese deputy foreign minister opened talks in Peking
yesterday about the two countries* borders, scene of bloody
clashes since last March.
Tass. the official Soviet news agency, and Radio Peking
reported the start of the talks and the participants’ names but
gave no details of what was discussed.
Heading the Soviet delegation to the conference, arranged
after last month's surprise summit between the Chinese and
Soviet premiers in Peking, was Vasily V. Kuznetsov, first
deputy foreign minister and a former ambassador to Com
munist China.
The Chinese side was headed by Deputy Foreign Minister
Chiao Kuan-nua.
The opemng of talks in Peking resumed border
negotiations broken off more than five years ago.
The Nation
Nixon Defends Supreme Court Nominee
WASHINGTON President Nixon said yesterday his
Supreme Court nominee. Judge Clement F. Havnsworth Jr.,
has been subjected to “vicious character assassination.”
At a surprise news briefing that intensified the battie over
the nomination, which is strongly opposed by labor and civil
rights leaders. Nixon said he would not withdraw the appoint
ment even if the judge asked him to.
“I find Havnsworth an honest man, a lawyer's lawyer and
a judge's judge,” Nixon said after stating he had gone over all
the criticism of opponents. “I think he will be a great credit to
the Supreme Court and I intend to stand behind him until he is
confirmed.”
Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) who has spearheaded op
position in the Senate, said “The President appears to be
leveling his guns at me personally” and called this an un
fortunate attempt to distort the issue and turn Haynsworth’s
nomination into a partisan matter.
Laird Holds Up Navy Appropriations
WASHINGTON Secretary of Defense Melvin R Laird
has moved adroitly out of step with Rep. L. Mendel Rivers’
march toward getting an extra SI billion this year for Navy
ship construction.
This maneuver was disclosed yesterday shortly after
Laird had forecast "a definite slowdown in the defense in
dustry" in coming months.
Pentagon Comptroller Robert Moot said Laird will not for
mally request appropriation of the additional money authoriz
ed by Rivers’ House Armed Services Committee and by the
House.
In Congress, a spending authorization must be backed up
by actual appropriations before funds are made available to
an agency.
Laird’s action in effect would put the spending
authorization on icc, and perhaps avoid a direct rebuff of the
South Carolina Democrat.
★ ★ ★
Hurricane Laurie Nears Intensity
NEW ORLEANS Thousands began leaving tiny com
munities scattered along Louisiana’s coastline yesterday as
tropical storm Laurie neared hurricane intensity and headed
for land.
The slowly organizing storm was located about 330 miles
southwest of New Orleans at 3 p.m., EDT. almost due south of
the marshy Louisiana coast in the state’s southwestern corner.
The New Orleans weather bureau said Laurie's highest
winds were estimated at 70 miles per hour, just a shade below
hurricane force of 75. The storm was moving at eight to 10
miles per hour north-northwestward and gale winds extended
150 miles from the center.
A hurricane watch was in effect from Galveston, Tex., to
Pensacola, Fla.
An emergency operations center was set up at the
National Guard headquarters in New Orleans in anticipation
of the storm's movement into south Louisiana.
Bottlers To Sell Cyclamate-free Sodas
NEW YORK Soda bottlers began preparing to market
their new cyclamate-lree soft drinks yesterday only two days
after the federal government announced a ban, effective next
Jan 1. on the artificial sweetener.
PepsiCo Coca Cola, and Colt were among major pro
ducers announcing that they would have their low-calorie
drinks minus cyclamate, on market shelves as soon
POSS Cott said yesterday its low calorie diet beverages with no
cyclamate or sugar added would be available in a variety of
flavors within two or three days.
The Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Los Angeles said it wt‘l
resume production of Frcsca, without cyclamates. this
weekend New sweeteners for Tab and other diet products were
to be available "shortly thereafter,” a company spokesman
Said Royal Crown Cola Co. began over the weekend to produce
a new sweetener for Diet Rite Cola, a company official
reported.
The State
Testimony: Blood Found on Miss Kopechne
WILKES-BARRE A medical examiner and two
chemists backed up yesterday a contention that blood was
present in the nose and on the clothing of Mary Jo Kopechne
when her body was recovered from Sen. Edward M. Ken
nedy's car. He said such blood is common among drowning
V ' Ct John J McHugh, supervisor of laboratories for the
Massachusetts Department of Public Safety, and Melvin Top
iin "a chemist for the Massachusetts State Police, said tests
the’v conducted showed the presence of blood on the back of
her blouse, both sleeves and inside her collar.
Donald R Mills, associate medical examiner of Dukes
County Mass., who originally ruled death was due to drown
ing, said ho saw "at least one little cobweb of blood which
clearly came from the edge nostril."
Legislative Leaders, Shafer Discuss Tax
HARRISBURG Gov. Shafer met yesterday with
legislative leaders to assay progress of bipartisan talks aimed
aTre'olving the state's ninc-month-old fiscal dispute.
The meetin- with Shafer came at the request of the
legislative leaders after they, themselves, had met for several
hours oil the tax situation. ... - ,
The leaders left the meeting with the governor m mid-air,
awaiting rcoorts on specific program costs and revenue
figures from Budget Secretary David 0. Maxwell.
They were to resume the session this morning, though,
and several legislators expressed a sort of guarded optimism
about the situation.
Bath} (Eulhgi
8 Pages
USG ELECTIONS started yesterday and will continue
through today. Forty-two candidates are vying for 27 Con
gress seats and seven freshmen are running for their class
presidency.
Graduate Students To Conclude
Election of Council Delegates
By PAT DYBLIE
Collegian Copy Editor
Departmental delegates to the
Graduate Student Association Council will
be elected by the end of this week, ac
cording to a recently issued GSA newslet
ter.
Elections to the council will be con
ducted within each graduate department
ol the University. All graduate students
are eligible to vote for the number of
delegates which are determined by the
size of their department.
The council is an elected, represen
tative body of graduate students compris
ed of approximately 170 departmental
delegates. Two ex-olficio delegates arc
elected from graduate living areas. GSA
is composed of every student doing
graduate work at the University.
Department Representatives
A department having one to 34
graduate students may elect one council
representative. Two delegates may be
elected from departments with 35 to 71
students. Departments with 72 or more
graduate students may elect three repre
sentatives.
The graduates are requested to elect
an alternate for each regular delegate
As Meeting Date to Select Prexy
Trustees Rule Out Nov. 14
The University Board of Trustees has
ruled out Nov. 14 as a possible date for a
special meeting. The Board is scheduled
to discuss the selection or a successor to
University President Eric A. Walker at
the next meeting. No new date for the
meeting has been announced.
When the Oct. 10 meeting was cancell
ed. members of the Board were con
tacted in behalf ot the president of the
Board. Roger W. Roland. Richard E.
Grubb. administrative assistant t o
Walker, told the members it was hoped
the meeting could be held at the same
time as the meeting of the Executive
Committee, scheduled for Nov. 14.
Grubb yesterday told The Daily Col
legian a number of the Trustees con
tacted him and asked that the special
meeting be held on a different date.
Grubb said he again contacted the
Trustees, asking if a meeting during the
week of Nov. 17 to 22 would be feasible.
Rep. Rivers: Defense Research
'Compafable With Universities
(Editor's Note: This is the fourth, of a scven-pai t senes
ou U.S. Department of Defense-sponsored research at the
University Tomorrow's installment will focus on the Uni
versity’s former ties with the Institute for Defense
A.TLCjL t'IISGS h)
Tne nation was in shock. Front page headlines on cwry
American newspaper danced in thick, ominous black. People
who hadn’t heard it on the radio came down for a collee tnal
morning and cursed and had two coffees.
It was Jan. 24, 1968. a day alter the intelligence ship
U.S.S. Pueblo had been hijacked by North Korean gunboats m
the Sea of Japan. Warv had been iought over less—and the
American public knew it. fl « .. .
The press corps‘converged magnetically upon Capitol rill!
that day to record the judgments of the nation s political
leaders. All were outraged, but most counseled restraint.
Some didn't. _ r , .
“I would have gone to war yesterday. Rep. L. Mendel
Rivers, a South Carolina Democrat, said.
‘lnvade Cuba'
The statement was nol out of character for L. Mendel
Rivers, superhawk. During his 29 years in Congress, hivcks
has been the unretinng advocate of the nidi'ary solution, m
1950, he urged President Truman to threaten North Korea with
nuclear weapons. Ton years later, he recommended that
American troops invade Cuba. In 1065. he proposed a pre
emptive first strike against Red China’s nuclear laeilities. And
in the course of the Vietnam war, he has called lor a war
policy Tree from civilian restraints.
’’erhaps fortunately. Rivers’ proposals in the •'•rhere <>f
foreign relations have not carried the weight of Ins opinions on
military projects and funding, where he may be more power-
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pa., Tuesday Morning, October 21, 1969
Election Time
“to assist in the division of labor and
time that may on occasion be necessary
for a number of concerned delegates,”
according to the newsletter issued by
Klaus W. May, GSA Rules Committee
chairman.
“The encouragement by the chair
man of the departments will help to
assure democratic elections of GSA
delegates and alternates.” the newsletter
stated. Chairmen also were asked to
make appropriate election arrangements
“so that the majority of students will
have the opportunity to make
nominations, elect delegates and alter
nates and discuss some areas of major
concern.”
All elected delegates and alternates
will be expected to attend the first coun
cil session scheduled for 9 p.m. Monday
in 102 Forum, to determine credentials
and elect GSA delegates to the University
Senate.
Hal Sudborough, GSA president, then
will present a review of past and pro
jected activities and will introduce a pro
gram "emphasizing matters that are
relevant to the University, the black stu
dents and the graduate students."
"The increasing responsibility,
Although he refused to speculate on when
the meeting will be held. Grubb said he
believed that week would be more con
venient to many of the Trustees. He add
ed. however, that "no date is convenient
to everyone.”
Jessie Arnelle. 1955 alumnus and a
member of the Board from Washington,
D. C., said last night he was one of those
asking for an alternate date. Arnelle said
he already had scheduled an out-of-state
trip lor that dale.
Helen Wise, a Board member from
State College, said "there were at IcaU
half a dozen of us” who requested at dif
ferent date. Mrs. Wise said she felt *he
meeting would be rescheduled between
Nov. 14 and Nov. 27.
Both Mrs. Wise and Arnelle agreed that
the following week would be more con
venient for them and lor other members
of the Board.
By STEVE SOLOMON
Collegian Staff Writer
Copyright 196? by Sieve Solomon
USG Voting Continues;
Irregularities Charged
The Undergraduate Student Government elections con
tinue today, marred by charges of irregularities in voting pro
cedures.
At least one candidate is expected to file a grievance
today charging the pole-sitters with misinforming voters on
proper voting procedures.
The controversy arose when*Al Green cast his vote yester
day for Interfratemity Council congressional candidates at the
Hctzel Union Building table
Four IFC Scats Open
Green, a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, voted for
two of the six candidates. There are four scats open for IFC
rcprchentativcs on Congress.
According to Green, an unidentified student behind the
table sr.id he must vote for four candidates or his ballot
wouldn’t count.
Election rules state that a student may vote for less than
four candidates.
Green reported the incident to David Rosenberg, a can
didate for an IFC seat. Although Rosenberg told The Daily
Col’egian he “couldn't say if I would file a grievance" sources
said that he would.
Report* also were circulating that he would ask the USG
Supreme Court to stop the elections for IFC congressmen until
the matter was settled.
Harry Hill, Supreme Court chief justice, said he was
unaware of the matter. Hill said if a request was made to stop
the elections, it would be considered at 11 a.m. today when the
court convenes.
Another candidate for an IFC scat. Jeff Michclson. a
member of Sigma Alpha Mu, said he was aware of other cases
of possible misconduct. According to Michelson. one of the stu
dents. after marking just one name or. his ballot, was told by
a person sitting behind the HUB table, “you were supposed to
vote for four people.”
In the other case, the voter was asked. “Why didn't you
vote tor jour names?”
Michclson said he wasn't certain if lie would a file a
grievance petition.
Whether the people behind the polls were unaware of the
GSA Meeting Scheduled
fill than the President. Rivers, as chairman of the influential
House Armed Services Committee, legislates military matters
and determines the spending of nearly hall of the Federal
budget—the SBO billion budget of the Department of Defense.
Rivers has used his chairmanship as a lever to reward his
district with jobs and riches, and thus perpetuate himself in
office. He runs on the per
ennial campaign platform of
“Rivers Delivers.” and indeed
Rivers does deliver. Military
installations in his district, for
which he claims the responsi
bility of attracting, include:
the Charleston Naval Station,
Charleston Shipyard, Charles
ton Naval Hospital. Beaufort
Naval Hospital. Charleston
Naval Supply Center. Charles
ton Naval Weapons Station,
Charleston Polaris Missile Fa
cility Atlantic, the Marine
Corps Air Station in Beaufort,
the Marine Corps Recruit De
pot at Parris Island, and
Charleston Air Force Base.
Defense contractors have
also made a sudden appear
ance dunng Rivers four years
as chairman: factories have
been built by Lockheed. Mc-
Donnell Douglas. Avc’o. Gen
eral Electric, and J. P-
Stevens. ,
Rivers can bring Ins constituents such prnsepnty because
Look Magazine said, “he is arguably the single most important
man in today's defense establishment. He is the broker who
By LARRY REIBSTEIN
Collegian Stajf Writer
obligations and utility of GS A
necessitates a sustained concern and in
volvement by the departments' graduate
students. Their council will only be as
good as the graduate students and
departments want it to be,” the newslet
ter concluded.
Dana Friedman. Students for a
Democratic Society co-chairman and for
mer GSA representative from the depart
ment of mathematics charged in a letter
issued yesterday, “GSA is one of this
University's most typical bourgeois en
terprises: indifferent, conservative, reac
tionary. racist, selfish.”
Stooge of Administration
“It (GSA) is. whether the leadership
of GSA realizes it or not. a stooge of the
Administration.” Friedman stated. He
charged that some of GSA’s delegates
are nominated and '‘elected” with prior
approval of the faculty in the depart
ments and that some are appointed by
department heads.
Friedman said the Administration
has allocated funds to GSA “with the
implicit understanding that it be used for
socials, such as dances and beer at Ski
mont.
“The faculty and the Administration
want to keep GSA a stooge, indifferent
and unconcerned about social issues: in
short, irrelevant to the needs of the ma
jority of the grads, and to the minority
interests, including particularly the black
undergrads and grad students." Fried
man said.
The letter also stated that if GSA is
to become “concerned." the faculty and
Administration will be endangered "when
graduate students take action" in the in
terest of the entire graduate student
body. "They do not date support or en
courage GSA." Friedman said.
Disband GSA?
Friedman said disbanding GSA would
remove the "last vestige of a democratic
appearance (for faculty and Ad
ministrators)." “It (GSA) gives the Ad
ministration a means whereby it can
discern what is on the grads’ minds, and
then forestall any action on the part of
the grads."
Friedman’s letter implies that
nothing beneficial can come from GSA,
but that SDS may "be relevant to both
the minority interests and to the real
interests of the majority." He added.
“Any sincere grad can join (SDS) without
the ‘approval’ of his faculty nurse."
“We are a democratic societv. GSA
is an Administrative Servant
Association," Friedman concluded.
L. MENDEL RIVERS
rule that a voter could vote for any number of candidates or
they were intentionally deceiving the students, lies behind the
controversy.
There wore a number of complaints that most of the poil
sittcrs at the HUB table were members of Zota Beta Tau
fraternity. Gary Roehestic and Barry Roberts, candidates for
IFC seats, are members of that fraternity.
Several interested persons asked whether the poll-sitters
were attempting to influence voters.
Saul Solomon, elections commissioner and member of
Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, said yesterday afternoon that
because of the postponement of the elections from last
Wednesday and Thursday many of his staff were not able to
work yesterday and lodav Thus he said, he was forced to ask
a large majority of Zeta Bela Tau fraternity members to sit
at the table.
When asked about the alleged impropriety of persons
behind the table Solomon said. “It would ne illegal for those
working at campaign tables to suggest names to voters.”
Solomon was unavailable tor further comment ias* n ght.
Mike Andrews, elections co-chairman, said the prepon
derance of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity students at the tables was
a problem.
"The situation poses the problem where other candidate."
believe that this group is influencing voters.” Andrews said.
Andrews also said the candidates have a legitimate
grievance.
Roehestic said that the elections commission “didn't do
anything wrong."
"There's no reason for an uproar,” he said. "If there were
other fraternity members interested, they would have applied
lor pole-sitting. But no one else applied and Zeta Beta Tau
fraternity brothers did the job."
Roehestic said he did not believe that wrong instructions
were given to voters.
Misunderstanding at Table
"There could have been a misunderstanding at the table.
People interpret the rules wrong. When I voted, nobody told
me how many candidates to vote for and nobody mentioned
any names and there were no fraternities mentioned.”
Rochestie said.
He said that he expected the Supreme Court to turn down
any grievance.
"The candidates are raising hell because either they're
losing or they want to better their chances,” Rochester said.
Roberts, a member of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, told The
Collegian that he called various fraternities to find out if they
had any complaints about the elections.
He reported that most of the persons said they were
aware of the large number of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity mem
bers at the table but were not influenced by them.
Meanwhile, yesterday's voting was termed moderate by
Solomon. In the HUB. the count was estimated at 250. Voting
will continue today at the HUB from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and dur
ing dining hours in the living areas.
Grievance sessions will begin at 6.30 tonight Solomon said
that all candidates must bring receipts of all campaign
materials used to the HUB.
Ballots will be counted when the polls close Solomon said
the results would hopefully be in by midnight.
University To Establish
Black Cultural Center
The University has begun steps to establish a Black
Cultural Center
Working with members of the Black Student Union and
the Commission on University Life. University President Erie
A. Walker has recommended that a non-profit corporation be
established that could hold funds, rent or buy property and
otherwise serve as a permanent management structure for
the Center.
He asked the University's legal counsel, Love and
Wilkinson, to assist in drawing up incorporation papers and
providing legal counsel in the establishment of the Center.
Walker pointed out that assistance in landing the Center
was “a difficult but not impossible task and one on which we
are proceeding as rapidly as possible.
"As soon as the Board of Directors for the Black Cultural
Center has been chosen. I would like to meet with the mem
bers and see what can be done to advance this project,”
Walker said.
Funds from well-known foundations generally arc not
available for landing student center*, and at the present time
state and federal funds cannot be used, the University
newsletter “On Campus” stated.
"But by working together, I believe we can find funds for
the Center," Walker said.
Senate Committee on Rules
Plans Open Meeting Tonight
The University Senate Committee on Committees and
Rules will hold an own meeting to hear student and faculty
views on how student voting in the Senate should be
implemented.
The meeting is scheduled for 7 tonight in the Assembly
Room of the Hetzel Union Building.
The committee already has a number of suggestions,
Senate President Arthur 0. Lewis said, but is seeking a
broader spectrum of opinion.
puts it all together ” An interview with Rivers follows:
I)o you think classified research is consistent with open
forum, open-inquiry concept of the American university?
"Here, a molehill .s being falsely set forth as a mountain.
Of the total del cum* research sponsored on campuses, 96 ner
cent is for unclasMhed work. Only four per cent of the work is
classified and therefore the issue is over-emphasized.
"1 firmly believe that some classified research is consis
tent with ihc mogram.> and public service responsibility of
universities. Some universities possess strong interests and
special skills for applied research needed for high-priordy
defense activities. In addition, quite a number of university
researchers c.wiving out unclassified studies wish to have ac
cess to classified data, both to broaden their understanding
and to facilitate their rc-.eareh.
"Unclassified manuscripts are prepared and very fre
quently appioved for open publicaMon following a graduate
student’s completion of research involving some classified
material. Usually, the basic finds m a scholasfc sense can be
approved for open publication, although the specific defense
of the work remain el.issihed.”
Should defense research be conducted on university cam
puses?
"Defense research is compatible to the programs and re
quirements of universities. The nation needs this first-class
research poriormed at uni\critics to preserve our leadorsluo.
There is a continuing need by defense for consultat.on and ad
visory services which often grow’ out of sponsored research
activities. There is a recognized continuing national need for
graduate education in ic'-earch fields related to defense.
“Through support of university research. Defense has
shouldered its part of the national responsibility for assuring
an adequate supply of advanced trained manpower.”
Do you '•et* any danger to our pluralistic dtmvi.ioy if
universities become dependent, as some have become, on huge
(Continued on page four)
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Seven Cents