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
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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.
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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)