Variable cloudiness, windy, and cold with occasional snoyr flurries through tomorrow. High today and tomorrow in the low 40's, low tonight near 30. Partly cloudy and continued rather cold Friday. Vol. 70, No. 17 USG Court Rules Out Fraternity Race By LARRY REIBSTEIN and STEVE SOLOMON! Collegian Staff Writers' The Undergraduate Student Government Supreme Court last night voided election ballots for fraternity candidates. The USG elections commission an nounced that new elections will be scheduled for next Monday in the Hetzel Union Build ing. Tabulating the Votes Senate Committee Hears Views On Student Voting Procedures By ROB McHUGH Collegian Staff Writer Nearly 50 people met last night to discuss details and procedures connected with potential student voting rights within the University Senate. The forum took place at an open meeting of the Senate Committee on Committees and Rules. William Rabinowitz, chairman of the committee, told the audience that the meeting was held “to determine how stu dents should be selected or elected to serve in the University Senate.” He add ed that there was a "general feeling” within the committee that students should be allowed to vote and the com mittee was “not hung up” on this issue. At the Oct. 7 Senate meeting, a proposal was introduced calling for full voting rights for all students currently serving on Senate committees. If this proposal were adopted, students would make up about 10 per cent of the Senate. The 24 students now on committees enjoy full committee privileges and are entitled to address the Senate, but they cannot vote. These students are representatives of the Undergraduate Student Government, the Graduate Student Association and the Organization of Student Government Associations. Rabinowitz told the Senate that any legislation giving voting rights to stu dents would probably originate within his committee, and would require a set of consitutional changes. He called for IDA Becomes Prime By STEVE SOLOMON Collegian Staff Writer Copyright 1969 by Steve Solomon (Editor's Note: This is the fifth of a seven-part series on U. S. Department of De/euse-spousorecZ research at the University. Tomorrow's installment will focus on the Ordnance Research Lab oratory, a special Navy research facility rim by the University.) The Students for a Democratic Society was in charge. Several doors on the Columbia University campus opened and deans and other shady elements of the Establishment were deposited outside. And then the doors were closed and the offices were occupied and the de mands were issued and in a sudden swarm of newsmen descended upon New York City. And it may very well be that the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) dates every event from that moment. At that moment, the spring of 1968, SDS demanded that Columbia .withdraw from corporate sponsorship of IDA, which does classified studies for the Pen tagon. In subsequent moments, none of them so spectacular but all in their turn, student groups at - other sponsoring universities—including Penn State—made similar demands. And IDA responded by chaging its corporate structure. Antiwar Target For the New Left, and especially the militant SDS, IDA (pronounced as in the girl’s name) has been an almost too-good to-be-true target for antiwar activities. Virtually powerless to strike at the Pen tagon, SDS and its loose alliance of sup porters have been striking at the closest manifestations of the military at hand. And like the Pentagon, itself cringing un der attack from Congress, IDA’s peace has disappeared, soured on student frustration with the Vietnam war and singed with obscenities and strikes and demonstrations. IDA. with headquarters a short 3ump from the Pentagon, is a private, non profit defense “think-tank” with a Sl4 million annual budget and a staff of ap proximately 606, plus a number of consul tants in the academic community. It Hatlg Collrgi 6 Pages Supreme Court Chief Justice Harry Hill said “undue influence” by pollsittcrs prevent ed a fair election.' “The USG Supreme Court believes that the elections commission (i.e. pollsittcrs) had influence on the balloting during Monday's elections. Secrecy of the ballot was violated and the pollsittcrs misinformed an unknown number of voters on this date. “We of the court feel that these infrac- —Collegian Photo by Stanley Brooks A USG ELECTIONS official keeps track of the number of votes for each of the candidates. Paper ballots were used in the election due to a breakdown of voting machines. suggestions from the University com munity concerning procedures. Rabin'";itz also said he hoped to present the necessary changes to the Senate at their next meeting which is scheduled for Nov. 4. At last night’s meeting, Rabinowitz called for procedures that would "appeal to the committee as sound and defensible” and would be acceptable to students, the Senate and the University board of Trustees. Any changes in the Senate constitution will require approval by the Board of trustees. Richard Cunningham, a member of the Committee on Committees and Rules, said last night. “The Board of Trustees has never directly rejected Senate legislation or a resolution in its history.” Discussion last night centered on methods to be used in selecting students to serve in the Senate. A representative of OSGA said his organization favored selecting voting members in the same way students are now chosen to serve on the Senate com mittees. Under this plan, any student attending a Commonwealth Campus would be eligible. Students submitting applications would be interviewed bv a review board and would present their views to the OSGA assembly, which meets three times a year. The assembly then would elect the OSGA delegates. The OSGA representative said it breaks down into the Weapons Systems Evaluation Division (WSED). Research and Engineering Support Division (RESD) and Communications Research Division (CRD), all of which are engaged in weapons research. The Jason Division, which employs part-time 40 to 45 of the nation’s most outstanding university scientists, is oriented primarily toward issues of national security, such as the antiballistic missile, and Vietnam. Essentially identical to other federally-funded research organizations such as the RAND Corporation, IDA nevertheless was bequeathed a critical defect at birth. Whereas RAND was founded by the Air Force and asssigned a board of directors who serve as in dividuals and not as representatives of other organizations, IDA was created as the corporate creature of 12 universities, under the trusteeship of officers representing each of them. The rationale behind this unique relationship goes back to 1956. when IDA was founded. The Cold War was thriving at the time and both the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in crash missile programs. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, so the story goes, was concerned about the dearth of scientific competence in the Defense Department’s Weapons Systems Evaluation Group (WSEG), which is charged with analyzing the effectiveness of various weapons. Salary advantages and the desire to remain in an academic setting was apparently keeping the high level talent away from the government. Wilson asked James R. Killian. Jr., then president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, if his institution would provide scientific research for WSEG. Killian, already involved in strategic and intelligence studies for the Eisenhower Administration, thought it preferable to have an academic consor tium tackle the task, thus providing a broader base for the recruitment of scientific talent. IDA then was founded as a corporate entity under the trusteeship of officers representing five universities: Cal Tech, Case, MIT, Stanford and Tulane. Seven Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pa., Wednesday Morning, October 22, 1969 Due to 'Undue Influence' lions prevented a fair election from taking place. We hereby rule in favor of a new elec tion. The decision of the court is final,” Hill said. Barry Newman, fraternity candidate, made the appeal to the court to rule out the ballots. He charged that pollsittcrs instructed voers to vote for a slate of four candidates. Election rules state that a student may vote lor less than four candidates. The results of the oilier elections were made official. Joel Magaziner was elected freshman class president. “I hope to make an attempt to unite the freshman class,” Magaziner said. “I hope as soon as possible to follow through my plat form for a freshman class newsletter.” Magaziner also indicated that ne would probably appoint Rich Horn and Steve Kanter as co-vice presidents of the freshman class. Walter Schoen and John C. Lcighow won uncontested races in North. There were 33 write-in candidates, however, gathering a total of 58 votes. Denny Lott, president of North Halls Council, attributed the splinter votes to poor campaigning by the candidates. He said that the North voters “wanted diversity.” TIM Vice President Terms Elections Turnout 'Poor' By MIKE GOMEZ Collegian Staff Writers Town independent Men’s Council elections drew only a small amount of voter par ticipation in two days of ballot ing. According to TIM Vice President and Elections Com missioner Jeff Lobb, “Only about 400 students out of a would be impossible for a student to present his views to all Commonwealth Campus students. Several people mentioned that as an alternative the student body at each individual campus be responsible for the election ofV'delegate or delegates. Bill Burke, treasurer of GSA, said GSA wanted its delegates to be selected by the Graduate Student Council rather than be elected at large. Charles Davis, professor of English who submitted the resolution for voting rights for students now on committees, said he favored a system that would be “respresentative not of the council, but of the graduate students as a whole.” Opinions varied on how under graduate student delegates would be selected. Students suggested that they be elected at large, chosen by the individual colleges and chosen by other voting divisions, such as living areas. Arthur 6. Lewis, chairman of the Senate, said that unless a set of proposals is submitted to the Senate for the Novem ber mating, action will be seriously delaved. If the changes are submitted in November, discussion and amendments can take place at that time. The main motion could be voted on in December and be submitted for action by the Trustees at their January meeting. Lewis said, if all these deadlines are not met. the Trustees probably would not act on the proposal until their next semi annual meeting in June. more institutions joined in the next six years: the University of California, Chicago. Columbia. Illinois, Michigan, Penn State and Princeton. Obscurity Shattered Operating uncontroversially for almost a decade, IDA's obscurity was shattered in the fall of 1967 by protesting students at the University of Chicago and Princeton University. Princeton students were especially incensed: von Neumann Hall on the Ivy League campus housed the Communications Research Division of IDA. a highly secret group working on “specialized problems of com munications” allegedly, code - making, code-breaking and related matters. Faculty committees established at both universities considered relations with IDA. Both recommended that their institutions remove their name and prestige from IDA: many faculty mem bers were disturbed that the universities had sanctioned an organization over which they had no effective control, since 75 to 80 per cent of IDA’s work is classified. The demonstrations at Columbia University the following spring gave the issue national exposure. Protesting the University’s ties with IDA, Mark Rudd, the campus SDS leader, wrote Columbia President Grayson Kirk that “all Colum bia professors currently employed by the IDA (should) be obliged to resign^their posts as IDA military-intellectuals.” The tension spread to Penn Slate, like Columbia a sponsoring institution, but with only limited faculty ties with IDA. Neil Buckley, a traveling cor respondent of SDS, led a drive to have Penn State sever its relationship with IDA, although the University had no pro fessors employed hy the Jason Division and. a year later, apparently had only three working for the institute in limited roles as consultants- Indeed, at University Park, at least, a conservative campus, the IDA issue remained obscure. The Undergraduate Student Government did, in a fit of revolutionary fervor, pass a resolution on May 16. 1968. requesting information about the school’s affiliation with IDA. A week later. University President Eric A. Walker, a trustee of IDA, replied. Class Newsletter ★ ★ possible 9.000 eligible voters rights of students living in took part.” Lobbb termed the town.” showing, “very poor.” He Mohan, who received the noted that last year it took at highest vote total, mere’-* least 158 votes for a candidate stated “Shucks, I’m a to win a TIM seat while in this politician.” year’s balloting only 40 votes TIM balloting was held in were necessary to gain a coun- con j u nction with Un cil position. dergraduate Student Govern- Candidates finishing among men t elections because, as the top 21 in the 28 man field Lobb said> » USG has the man . were elected. The results were powcr to handle it.” as follows: Bill Mohan, with Accortling to TIM off.cials JS \2 tcSt rvpp n d I2R : Toserfh the new, y eiected council will AmendX. G 124 l?a°sley. hoki Us first meeting next 123; Ted Le Blang. 122 and Monday. Dennis Stimeling. 114. Also elected were Fred Noll. 106: Thomas Carbaugh, 103; Richard Monti, 101; John Ingram, 99: R. Rand McAf foose, 98; Henry Mishel, 94 and Frank Lordi, 91. Others elected were Stephen Krausen, 65: Ned Schwartz, 62: John Short, 58; Eric Rosenthal, 56: Den Nauss. 47; Jeff Stengel, 42 and Terry Pun diak, 40. Those not elected included William Freed. 39; Kristen Girrcll. 37: Richard Pye. 37; Charles Sharbaugh, 37; Jerry Boscia. 36; Dennis Mitchell, 31 and William Corry, 31. Lobb suggested two reasons for the low election turnout. One was “a lack of publicity.” Another was the fact that the dates for the election had been changed, leaving many poten tial voters confused as to the actual dates for the balloting. Lobb found one bright spot in the election. “I’m happy that all incumbents won.” he said. “Last year’s group was the best working TIM council ever,” David Rhoads. TIM secretary-treasurer, added. Lobb stated that the low turn out will not hurt TlM’s ef fectiveness as an organization. “We still have a lot of sup port.” he said. “It won’t hurt us as a bargaining agent for students living in town.” Krausen said of his election. “I hope to help protect the Target for New A distinguished-looking man with thinning gray hair and glasses. Walker has been a staunch defender of defense research. During World War 11, he helped develop the acoustic homing torpedo at the Underwater Sound Laboratory at Harvard University, and when the Laboratory was divided into two separate working groups in 1945, he headed the group transferred to Penn State as the Ordinance Research Laboratory. In his reply. Walker quite predictably said that Penn State, as a corporate citizen, has the responsibility to see that the United States is never again caught in the unprepared, vulnerable position in which it found itself at the outset of World War 11. “We believe that if the government (either state or federal) calls upon its citizens to do something which is m ac cordance with the established policy of the nation,” he wrote, “they should do it. If the federal government calls upon Penn State to help plan national defenses, Penn State should do it.” Walker pointed to the University’s af filiation with other organizations “possibly as many as 500.” implying amazement that IDA was being singled out as an incarnation of the devil. He was asked what benefits Penn State receives from its formal relationship with the institute. “I would say not a great deal.” Walker answered, “although we have oc casionally found it desirable to call upon some of the IDA people to help us in systems analysis and planning. One of the items on which we received considerable help was the system for setting up regional economic analyses for Pen nsylvania counties. This work is still con tinuing at Penn State without any formal IDA assistance.” Although IDA officials emphasize that universities donate neither money nor facilities. Walker said that the institute benefited from its relationship with the University. ‘‘The University maintains,” Walker said, “through the president and vice president for research, a relationship with IDA involving assessment of the The most closely contested race was tn Pollock-Niltany, where seven candidates ran for three seats. Jan Fierst (220 votes), Victor Laupuma (203) and Steven Greenberg (198» gamed USG scats, but Bonita Sue Cope (194) and Rich Malce (177) were close enough to cause Elections Co-chairman Mike Andicws to initiate several recounts. “I’m going to work for better student faculty communication.” Miss Fierst said. ■*Wc need more action instead of words. All students should know what USG is doing and that it is not just a name.” Laupuma was overwhelmed with his, election. "1 never won anything before in my life,” he said. Student Vole in Senate Joe Myers, elected from town, said that he would work for a student vote in the Uni versity Senate. He said that student franchise only in non-academic matters “would be a slap in the face.” "The University Senate should be a com munity senate,” Myers said. “And I would include the Administration in it, as well.” Saul Solomon, elections commissioner, said the turnout was “good.” He indicated that contested races in North and South would have brought even more voters to the polls. ★ ★ Paul McCartney Dead? Abbey Road is the street: the crack on the stone vail is where Paul McCartney’s car crashed; he’s barefoot because no one is ever buried with his shoes on; and if you listen to the end of "Strawberry Fields Forever" while standing on your head, you can hear, very distinctly, ”1 buried Paul." Most of it is synbolism with some interpretation and a smattering of fact. But that has not quieted the tremendous rumor mill which has been grinding our new angles to the "Paul McCartney is dead" controversy. The Associated Press reported last night that Bealle representatives in London have denied all reports that McCartney is dead, describing him as “hale and hearty.” The “clues” which have convinced many persons that McCartney is dead have been sitting around on records and on record cov ers for the past three years. But it was not until last week that students started to un cover and interpret them. The rumor seems to have begun last week when the Michigan Stale Daily, the student newspaper of Michigan State, ran an article on McCartney's death.” Supposedly, the popular vocalist and lyricist died in a car crash in London three years ago, before the release of the “Sgt. Plpn National Defenses Following are (he voting totals for the USG elections. • denotes winner North—2 seats 1. Walter Schoen* (231) 2. John C. Lcighow" (215) South—l seat 1. Helena Ruoti* (78) East—s seats 1. Dave Schmitt' (704 2. John Benjcs' (680) 3. Bruce Shaw' (667) 4. John Johnston (546) 5. Terri Borio* (692) 6. Maisie Benefield’ (652) Pollock & Nittany—3 seats 1. Jan Fierst' (220) 2. Steven Greenberg' (198) 3- Haro,d Woetfel Jr ' (95) 3. Victor Lapuma' (203) 4. Tom Willenbecker (83) Freshman class PresMent 5. Rich Males (177) 6. John Stevenson (135) 2 Craig Melidosian (2 00) 7. Bonita Sue Cope (194) 3 _ gteve Reiss (233) Center—2 seats I. Judy Elkington' (128) 5. John Szada Jr. (130) 2. Kathy Hilbush (99) 3. Etheria L. Brown' (123) 7. Thomas, Lix (130) Controversy Persists By ALLAN YODER Collegian Editorial Editor quality and value of IDA work, ex amination of its organizational arrange ments, and suggestions concerning Us operations.” In retrospect, the students were late arrivals among those voicing ire with IDA. Though never a major controversy, HENRY S. ALBINSKI Associate Professor of Political Science the institute had come under mild fire from Congress a few years earlier regarding its finances. There were charges that IDA, along with other non-profit Defense Department-related research centers, was being overly extravagant with the taxpayers’ money. A House committee study revealed a pair of rather dubious expense account adventures and charged that IDA’s salaries were somewhat more liberal than those paid at comparable institutions. IDA refuted the charge, although the May 17, 1968 issue of Science magazine revealed that recently retired IDA presi USG Results Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ” album. Pointing to that fact, some have said that he died on Abbey Road, which is also the name of the Beatle’s new album, when he crashed into a wall. Again according to rumor, the Beatles were working or. an album entitled “Smiles.” .•IcCartney’s death, however, caused them to abandon that album and to begin w f ork on a new one--“ Sgt. Pepper.” During the next two years, the Beatles also have produced “Magical Mystery Tour, ’ ‘ The Beatles—a Double Album,” and their most re cent. "Abbey Road.” In addition, Paul McCartney has been seen on the Johnny Carson Show', in the movie “Yellow Submarine" and around town in Lon don. But this argument has been answered oy some with the allegation that McCartney has been rcolaced by the Beatles with a look alike named Billy Shears. Supposedly, Shears won a look alike contest before McCartney died and has posed as the "cute Beatle” ever since. In fact, between the first song on the “Sgt. Pepper” album and “A Little Help From My Friends” the Beatles sing the name “Billy Shears” as a transition. Those that claim that they know McCart ney's voice, and are sure it is him singing the (Continued on page /our) Left dent, Gen. Maxwell Taylor, received an annual salary of $49,000 and 71 other IDA professionals, received at least $25,000. It was the shenanigans on campus, though, that most deeply wounded IDA. Faculty members who previously had been unaware of their university's relationship with IDA—or. more likely, who had never heard of IDA—suddenly became quite concerned with the issue. “Not a few' faculty members felt that their lack of knowledge of the universities’ ties with IDA and of the nature of IDA’s work for the government, much of which was classified, w'as unac ceptable, because of their feeling that they were not sufficiently involved in determining the conduct of the university’s affairs,” Robert W. King, a ranking IDA official told me. “In some places, the view’ was quite strong that if the faculty could not be informed about all the work in which the university had the remotest involvement, then that association should be discontinued.” Pressure from both faculty and stu dents led to a change in IDA's corporate structure in the spring of 1968. Members of the Institute now served as individuals, and not as representatives of universities and elected trustees ( including themselves) from the general public. The campus demonstrations also af fected at least one of the sponsoring institutions. Princeton, in September 1969, made it official policy to a\oid membership in research groups engaging in such projects as government defense work. A policy statement issued by the University Research Board and approved by faculty and students declared that membership would be avoided in organizations characterized by. among other things, classified work, and work ‘’generally inappropriate to the objectives of the university.” The statement said that Princeton’s experience with IDA “in dicates that the university should scrutinize outside memberships careful ly But for IDA, there was in reality lit tle effect, except perhaps some undesired Chance To Talk -see page 2 Seven Cents Town—B seats 1. Dennis Stimeling* (102) 2. Stephen Krausen (84) 3. Don Shall* (173) 4. Jim Antomono* (95) 5. John Short (78) 6. Joe Myers* (156) 7. John Beisinger* (116) 8. Walter Grondzik (88) 9. David Penkala (83) 10. Paul DeWalt* (135) 11. Larry Rosenbloom* (91) 12. Michael Roechel* (153) 13. Evan Myers (44) West—2 seats 1. Russ Bensing* (169) 2. Ray De Levie* (159) 4. Steve Macklin (154) 1. Joel Magaziner* (344) 4. Michael Hogg (118) 6. Ronald Leßendig (227) Became Concerned (Continued on page three)
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