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Vol. 70, No. 19
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The World
England Proposes Stricter Drug Penalties
LONDON Prime Minister Harold Wilson's government
has decided to seek new powers for a nationwide crackdown
on drug pushers and underground drug makers, informed of
ficials said yesterday.
A comprehensive new bill to toughen Britain’s spotty
system of producing, distributing and prescribing drugs is in
preparation and will be announced by Queen Elizabeth II in
her speech from the throne opening the new Parliament
Tuesday.
The over-all aim is to strengthen and rationalize existing
measures for the control of the country’s ever-increasing drug
menace. This threat has assumed big proportions with
revolutionary developments in drugs that work on the central
nervous system.
Informants estimated the number of new drugs being
manufactured may run into hundreds and includes stimulants,
depressants, tranquilizers and hallucinogens.
Viet Cong Position for Possible Offensive
SAIGON —-U.S. infantrymen screening infiltration routes
northwest of Saigon engaged North Vietnemese soldiers in two
running battles yesterday.
Field officers said it appeared that North Vietnamese ar
my units which have been holed-up in Cambodia are moving
back into South Vietnam, possibly positioning themselves for
the kickoff of a winter-spring offensive next month.
In Saigon, the U.S. Command said that American
casualties for the past week remained near the three-year low,
with 78 Americans killed in action. It was the fourth straight
week that fewer than 100 Americans died on the battlefield.
South Vietnamese combat deaths exceeded the U.S. total
for the 23rd consecutive week, with 301 government troops
killed.
A U.S. spokesman also said that a GI captured 4% months
ago by the North Vietnamese made nis way to an allied land
ing zone Monday.
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Arab Guerrillas Attack Lebanese Posts
MIDDLE-EAST Arab guerrillas from Syria swept into
neighboring Lebanon yesterday, attacked three border posts
and abducted 4 frontier guards in retaliation for a Lebanese
army crackdown on the commandos.
Apparently carried out with Syrian cooperation, the raid
was bigger than any launched by the guerrillas against Israel
since the end of the 1967 six-day war.
A 1 Fatah, largest of the Arab commando organizations,
claimed responsibility for the forays and promised to return
the kidnapped men.
"Today’s operations were only a warning to Lebanese
authorities," A 1 Fatah said in a comunique from its head
quarters in Damascus, the Syrian capital. "The Palestine
revolution demonstrates its ability to take any measure it
deems fit to defend itself and escalate its operations."
The Nation
Nixon Seeks Merchant Marine Changes
WASHINGTON President Nixon proposed to Congress
Thursday a 10-year, $3.8-billion Merchant Marine program to
"restore this country to a proud position in the shipping lanes
of the world."
It represents an increase of $1 billion over the present rate
of spending.
Administration spokesmen, in explaining the program,
said it changes the methods of ship construction and operating
subsidies and is designed to produce 30 new ships a year when
the program gets in fuH swing in the third year.
Mayoral Races Highlight November Elections
Mayoral races in New York City, Cleveland and Detroit,
and races for governor in New Jersey and Virginia will
highlight this year’s Nov. 4 elections.
Voters in two states will decide on whether to lower the
minimum voting ages to 19 in Ohio, and 18 in New Jersey. In
North Carolina each of the state’s 100 counties will hold a local
option vote on a proposed 1 per cent sales tax.
In New York, Mayor John V. Lindsay is in an uphill strug
gle for re-election and in Cleveland, Mayor Carl B. Stokes, the
first black to win election as mayor of a major U.S. city, also
is in a tight race.
Detroit’s mayoral election has county Sheriff Roman
Gribbs, who is white, running against county auditor Richard
Austin, who is black, in a close contest to succeed Jerome
Cavanaugh, stepping down after two four-year terms.
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Military Rejects Unilateral Cease-Fire
WASHINGTON Top U.S. military leaders oppose a one
sided cease-fire in Vietnam on grounds it would enable enemy
forces to move unopposed into positions from which they could
strike serious blows at American units.
Senior generals also dislike the idea of a mutual cease
fire, saying they have no faith that the enemy would keep its
part of the agreement. These uniformed leaders contend the
enemy’s record justifies their misgivings.
They recall that the United States halted all bombing of
North Vietnam nearly a year ago, after reaching what were
thought to be “understandings” with the North Vietnamese.
These understandings, as outlined by U.S. officials at the
time, were that the North Vietnamese cities and stop violating
the demilitarized zone. On that basis, the Joint Chiefs of Staff
supported President Lyndon B. Johnson’s decision to stop the
bombing in the north.
But the shellings continued and the enemy kept violating
the DMZ.
The State
Mortgage Rate Is Lowest in Nation
HARRISBURG The laws of economics and the laws of
Pennsylvania have collided with a crunch that is crushing the
housing market across the state.
And, as usual, the first victim is the little man. In this
instance, it’s the average family out shopping for a mortgage
to buy a new or used home.
The reason, according to mortgage lenders, is that Penn
sylvania’s mortgage interests ceiling of 7 per cent 6 per cent
plus a 1 per cent premium is the lowest of any of the 50 states,
the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Only two other
states, Kentucky and North Dakota, have a 7 per cent ceiling.
Five states have no limit at all: Rhode Island has a 21 per
cent ceiling and more than a score of other states have rate
maximums ranging from 10 to 12 per cent.
And inflation has made it more profitable for lenders
banks and savings and loan institutions to invest money in
other types of loans and securities where they can earn more
than 7 per cent
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House Opposes State Tax Proposals
HARRISBURG The House Republican Policy Com
mittee issued a position paper yesterday warning current
state spending proposals would cost the commonwealth S3OO
million in new taxes in the next fiscal year.
This would be on top of the $534 million in new revenues
the programs are expected to require this year, the paper
said.
The House GOP estimates were considerably higher than
Gov. Shafer’s own projection in the state’s five-year budget
proposed in January.
In that document, Shafer estimated the “mandated costs’*
and expansion plans for his progtam would run some $l5O
million higher in 1969-1970 than in the current year.
But the House Republicans said their projections, based on
new estimates and information, indicate the necessity for ma
jor cutbacks in proposed spending this year.
The paper, looking at what it referred to as the “political
realities,” stated: “There is absolutely no possibility of enact
ing such a huge increase in an election year.”
The ORL, with a staff of about 600 in a
complex of buildings on the west end of cam
pus, is an intimate partner of the military
establishment; about 98 per cent of its research
effort goes into antisubmarine warfare. Its
emphasis is on problems of acoustics —the
science of sound—and hydromechanics—in this
instance the study of bodies moving through
water.
What's Inside
. ~T.”- ’SSiSb.
The Drafi Physical
All-University Day
Beckett Wins Nobel Prize
Lions vs. Bobcats
Burkhart Answers the Critics
Penny's Picks .
Collegian Notes
NUC
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10 Pages
Open Meeting
In the HUB
Liberal Arts Council Holds
Faculty-Student Discussions
By BETTI RIMER
Collegium Staff Writer
Some students walking
through the Hetzel Union
Building yesterday merely cast
a curious glance in the HUB
Heading Room. Others came
in, looked around helplessly
and walked out. But some sat
down and talked face-to-face,
freely with faculty members
who responded frankly.
The occasion was an open
meeting of students and facul
ty members and members of
the University Senate in the
College of the Liberal Arts.
The order of the day was com
munication.
Pete O’Donnell, president of
the Liberal Arts Student Coun
cil expressed the general
feeling of the people at the
meeting. "It wasn’t so much
what the people were saying
that was important. It’s the
fact that students and faculty
sat down and communicated
how they felt on different
issues, be it the Vietnam War
or the pass-fail system.”
Senate Chairman Attends
Discussions broke up into
groups of approximately ten
students and a faculty mem
ber. Notable among faculty
members present was Arthur
0 Lewis, chairman of the
University Senate.
Students speaking with
Lewis showed interest in the
abolishment of Rule W-20
which regulates the sale and
distribution of all publications
on campus.
Lewis said that he had urged
the senators to “do something
about the rule.” He added that
he favored a student
Ordnance Research
On Advanced Mark
By STEVE SOLOMON
Collegian Staff Writer
Copyright 196? by Steve Solomon
(Editor's Note: This is the sixth of a seven
part series on U.S. Deparment of Defeivse
sponsored research at the University. The
concluding article, which will appear Tues
day, will be an analysis of the Penn State-
Pentagon relationship.)
Several years ago, State College held a
parade and requested officials at the Ordnance
Research Laboratory to build a float with a
torpedo mounted on it. “We threw together
some scraps and put it on a truck, Richard E.
Bland, associate professor of engineering
research at the ORL says. “It didn’t even have
an engine in it. But nobody knew the difference.
Ever since, though, everyone has had the idea
that we made torpedoes here.”
Of course they don't make torpedoes in the
ORL. But they do research and development
which enables Westinghouse to make torpedoes.
Westinghouse is now building the Mark 48
toroedo, the most advanced torpedo weapon yet
conceived by this country and perhaps the
world. It is faster than any nuclear submarine,
much faster than any torpedo. It dives the
deepest of any modern weapon. It has complex
acoustic homing and guidance systems which
will assure it of a kill miles away.
And it was designed and synthesized by
scientists at the Ordnance Research Labora
tory.
Besides playing lead in the Mark 48 cast,
i\ the Laboratory has also carried out, in its 24-
year history:
—“preliminary” studies into the anti
submarine rocket (ASROC), which is launched
from destroyers or other fleet ships.
—“preliminary" studies into the submarine
rocket (SUBROC), an underwater-to-air-to
underwater antisubmarine weapon which can
be launched by a nuclear submarine.
—pioneer investigation into underwater-to
air missiles, which started in 1947 and solved
some of the problems of missile flight through
both air and water. Its application today: the
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Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pa., Friday Morning, October 24, 1969
—Collegian Photo by Alex Beatty
ARTHUR O. LEWIS, (right) chairman of the University
Senate, listens to a student express his opinions at an open
meeting of students, faculty members and members of the
Senate held yesterday in the HUB.
dominated board to control
non-academic policies, includ
ing student publications.
Lewis said that he had
presented a proposal to the
University Senate for a student
board which was passed
unanimously. "If the students
come up with) a decent pro
posal I think it will pass. But I
hope students will ask us for
help, only this time on a volun
tary basis," Lewis said.
Lewis Made Mistake
Referring to University ac
tion on the sale of the Garfield
Thomas Water Tunnel, an un
derground newspaper, Spring
Term, Lewis said that he
thought Charles L. Lewis, vice
president of student affairs,
had made a mistake by ban
ning the publication from
campus.
"My objections to the Water
Tunnel are on a purely literary
basis, he added.
Lewis commented that • he
had supported the open meet
ing sponsored by the Liberal
Arts Student Council last
spring and he was pleased with
yesterday’s meeting.
"The discussions gave stu
dents a chance to talk to peo
ple who theoretically have
some influence. I probably
have more access to student
opinion than most faculty
members, but today confirmed
much of what I felt to be true.
For instance it showed me that
W-20 is by no means a dead
issue and that the students
want us to consider it again."
Merrill Noble, head of the
psychology department, spoke
with students on the problems
of the large university. In
Intimate Partner
response to questions about the
"publish or perish’’ con
troversy, Noble said that
research is "usually a good
thing."
He explained that in many
fields such as psychology it is
neccessary to transmit in
formation to large numbers of
people.
Noble urged students who
are dissatisfied with a course
to speak to the professor and
offer suggestions or even to
write a letter.
After the meeting O’Donnell
commented that the senators
did seem receptive but that the
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YAF Not Supporting Palladino
The Young Americans for Freedom
said last night that they do not support
Dean of the College of Engineering Nun
zio J. Palladino’s letter to the editor
which appeared in Thursday’s Daily Col
legian.
The letter called for action to force
North Vietnam "to negotiate a peace that
will give the South Vietnamese a chance
to reasonably determine their destiny.’
However, the group will provide for
circulation of the letter, as requested by
Palladino, by posting it on YAF’s table in
the ground floor of the Hetze! Union
Building so that others may have the op
nuclear-tipped Polaris missile, perhaps
American’s most important deterrent.
—research into hydrodynamically shaped
submarines. One of the Laboratory’s con
tributions was the design of the “USS
Albacore,” whose successful hydrodynamic
properties were incorporated into the Navy’s
modern nuclear fleet.
—design of the first cavitation-free pro
peller which can move a torpedo 50 knots at 50-
ioot depths. (Cavitation is the vaporization of
water and the formation of small cavities in the
low pressure regions produced by fast-moving
water rushing by propulsar blades.) In addition
to ships, such work contributes to the complex
pumping operations in missile propulsion.
—the development of new propulsion
systems for ships and weapons. These systems
include rotors of wide speed ranges, including
the shrouded propeller, pump-jet, and multi
stage blading.
—designed electroacoustic transducers for
the homing systems of most torpedoes
developed during and since World War 11,
including the torpedoes Mark 21, 28, 31, 34, 37,
44 and 48. (Transducers are the elec
tromechanical devices in sonar systems which
receive or generate sound.)
—done noise measurement and analysis of
Navy ships and “other craft" (most probably
enemy ships), of torpedoes Mark 35, 37, 45, and
48 and of sea life. Such studies are done so that
sea noises may be identifiable from mechanical
noises, and so that American ships may be able
to mask their own sounds to prevent detection
by hostile craft.
All of this, according (o Elbert F. Osborn,
vice president for research, is “small
potatoes.” And it is, if the ORL’s budget of ap
proximately 58.7 million for the current fiscal
year is compared with the $l2O million or so
lavished by tile Pentagon upon the Instrumen
tation and Lincoln Laboratories of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But
even on such a miniature monetary scale, the
presence of the military on the University cam
pus is as troublesome as at Cambridge, where
a special review panel was formed earlier this
year to study MlT’s relationship with the Pen
tagon.
Ironically, the ORL’s origins go back to
Cambridge, Mass., in the summer of 1941,
when a small research group explored Improv
ed submarine detection and location systems
for the Navy. The entry of the United States in* . MODEL ANALYSIS in the subsonic wind tunnel. Wind
to World War II led to a rapid evolution of the Thg R££?J . , , , , , . . ..
research team into the Harvard Underwater ' * « rushed by the model, and aerodynamic properties axe.
Sound Laboratory a year later, -where the re- WafGt Tl/IHIGI measured,
quisite manpower and monetary resolve was *
USG Approves
Easing of Fines
By PAT DYBUE and BILL BROADWATER
Of The Daily Collegian Staff
Guidelines to ease campus traffic fines and
remove many evening parking restrictions
were approved by the Undergraduate Student
Government last night.
The guidelines, presented in the form of a
bill by the USG executive, will become ef
fective Winter Term and will apply only to un
dergraduate students.
Students will receive a warning on the first
violation and will be subjected to successive
fines of S 2. S 2, S 5, S 5 and SlO according to the
bill. Violations will be recorded on a term basis
and a warning will be issued for the initial
violation of each term.
No Present Warning
Present regulations require fines of SI. S 3,
S 5 and SlO and are compiled on a j early basis
with no warning provision.
Students will be required to report violation
tickets received to the Traffic Violations Office
within two class days after the dale on the
ticket. A SI late fee will be imposed on both
warning tickets and subsequent tickets if a stu
dents fails to report within the required time.
The bill also opens the lots around the
Ritenour Health Center, Pattee Library and
Sparks which are not designated as "yellow"
on the University traffic map to student park
ing between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m.
Passage of the bill was encouraged by USG
President Ted Thompson who helped compile
the adjustments last summer with Ralph E.
Zilly, vice president for business, Raymond O.
Murphy, dean of student affairs and officials
from the violations office. Thompson also
reported to Congress that most of the proceeds
from traffic fines are turned over to the USG
Scholarship Fund.
Congress voted to refer to USG’s Student
Affairs Committee a resolution requesting the
University Senate to recognize spokesmen from
But Will Circulate Letter
portunity to support it by signing their
names under it.
YAF members agreed to participate
in the model United Nations which will
occur on February 19-22. in Chambers.
They considered sending delegates to
represent such countries as Australia,
Japan, the United States and Yugoslavia.
There will be a S 5 fee for each
delegation (or country) entered, and
three representatives will be sent for
each delegation.
This model UN will meet to discuss
international problems (such as the Mid
dle East and Rhodesia) and try to seek
resolutions for the situations. It will
Lab Works
48 Torpedo
translatcd into the crucial acoustic homing
torpedo, which helped sweep Germany off the
seas.
In 1945, after the war. the laboratory was
divided into two groups, with the acoustic hom
ing torpedo team moving to the University un
der Eric A. Walker, now president of the
University.
Under contract with the Naval Ordnance
Systems Command, the ORL’s facilities have
grown with its budget: the main facilities at
University Park include the ORL Main
Laboratory, the Smithfield Building and the
Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel, the largest
operating high-speed water tunnel m the tree
world and the titular inspiration for a campus
underground newspaper.
The ORL also has field test stations at Key
West, Florida, florida, and Key port.
W-20: Repressive Rule
--see page 2
the Black Student Uninn and the Association of
Women Student', when deliberating problems
relating spocneally to those groups.
Interfratei mty Council President Harv
Feeder questioned if the i evolution would mean
“throwing out the window the fact that we ask
USG to be the sole voice for the entire student
body.” Rccdcr said that he felt recognition of
the two groups might moan “further fragmen
tation" of students.
Nina Co.mly. AWS president, stated. "I sup
port this (the resolution) because we are a
special interest group." She said USG
represents the student body “as a whole” and
cannot specifically accomniodate interests of
women and black students.
"Doesn’t Exclude USG”
“The resolution doesn’t mean to exclude
USG but. rather include groups to lend expertise
to certain problems.” according to Terri Borio,
USG East Halls congresswoman.
Winners in this week’s congressional elec
tions were certified by the USG Elections Com
mission and inducted into Congress by Harry
Hill. USG Supreme Court Chief Justice.
Two West Halls candidates, one of w'hom
was seated on Congress, charged to the Elec
tions Commission that Hay DeLevie, winner of
a West Halls scat, had terminated his residence
hall contract and moved to an apartment
before being certified.
DeLevie was certified after a pre-meeting
grievance hearing with the Commission but his
case will be taken to the USG Supreme Court
on Monday. Chief Justice Harry Hill said that
impeachment proceedings will be taken by Con
gress if Del.evie’s-alleged move is found un
constitutional.
Congress approved a recommendation by
Thompson that Tom Ritchc>. former East
Halls congressman, be appointed Parliamen
tarian. Hill resigned his post as Parliamen
tarian at Congress’ initial session Fall Term
“to devote more time to my duties as Supreme
Court Chief Justice.”
follow a basic format similar to the rules
and procedures of the real UN.
YAF members also plan to send a
weekly newsletter conccring the ac
tivities of their organization to its mem
bers. The name they chose for the
publication is “The Pipeline.”
Allan Montross, YAF chairman, said
that they were planning some activity for
the Nov. 14*15 Moratorium, but no
definite plans could be revealed until next
week.
Montross also stated that some profit
had been made from the YAF table in the
HUB, and that new supplies would have
to be ordered.
Washington, and a calibration station at Lake
Black Aloshannon, about 20 miles northwest of
University Park. Research and experimental
stages are undertaken at the University and the
testing at one of the three field stations.
Measure of Control
ORL officials say that research project
proposals are conceived in the Laboratory and
forwarded to the sponsoring agency (Depart
ment of Defense), as with all other research on
campus. This independence, according to of
ficials. prevents the ORL from becoming a
satellite of the Pentagon, and maintains a
measure of civilian control and restraint.
“Essentially. 1 * said George F. Wisiicemis,
director of the Water Tunnel, “this Laboratory
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