The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, April 04, 1970, Image 1

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    Mostly cloudy, today and tonight.
High today near 48, low tonight near
34. Pertly sunny tomorrow, high
n:,?r 50. Cool Monday with a chance
of rain. Chance of measurable pre
cipitation is 20% today and 10% to
night and tomorrow. Southwest
winds 8 to 12 mph today.
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The World
Ranger Patrol Meets Enemy Resistance
SAIGON U.S. infantrymen pursuing an enemy battalion
toward the Cambodian border encountered heavy resistance
yesterday, and contact continued into the night, field reports
said.
The fighting between elements of the U.S. 25th Infantry
division and an estimated 400 North Vietnamese troops sur
prised an American Ranger patrol in the Renegade Woods, 44
miles northwest of Saigon. Sources said two rangers were
killed, and seven were wounded.
An infantry company moved into the area three miles
from the frontier to relieve the patrol and was hit by heavy
rifle and machine gun fire.
The Americans, reinforced by more ground troops,
helicopter gunships and fighter-bombers, battled the enemy
for about nine hours and reported killing 3 North Vietnamese
soldiers.
Korea Denounces Japanese Hijackers
TOKYO With a Japanese official and three crewmen as
hostages, nine hijackers finally steered an airliner to North
Korea yesterday, and the Pyongyang regime denounced the
whole affair as a plot.
The Japanese hijackers liberated 103 persons who had
spent more than three days in the plane aground in South
Korea while the slow-motion seizure proceeded.
A North Korean broadcast said the Japan Air Lines
Boeing 727 landed in North Korea "without prior notice and
our consent"—and without any guarantees by the Pyongyang
government for its safety.
The broadcast accused the Japanese of a subtle plot "to
create the impression that we want to take in the so-called
Trotskyites or criminals" meaning the hijackers, who
reportedly want to orchestrate a world revolution from
Pyongyang.
W. Germany Demands Diplomat's Safety
GUATEMALA West Germany and Guatemala clasned
yesterday on what to do about a kidnapped West German
diplomat.
The \Vest German government in Bonn declared the
Guatemalan government should give in to the demands for the
ambassador's safety. Guatemala's foreign minister said his
government couldn't do that because it would violate the
nation's constitution.
Not long afterward, Bonn was advised by its embassy
here that the kidnappers had raised their demands to freedom
for about nine hours and reported killing three North Vietna
mese soldiers.
The Nation
Nixon tirges,Postage Stamp Increase
WASHINGTON President Nixon urged yesterday quick
action by Congress to raise the pay of all federal workers and
increase to 10 cents the cost of mailing a letter.
Nixon. in a special message, said his plan would offset the
cost of wage settlements through revenue increases that "will
neither require extending the surtax or raising income tax
rates."
But, he said, further new and permanent revenue
measures—not involving income taxes—will be needed by mid
-1971. He did not specify what measures the administration
would favor.
Under an agreement reached Thursday by government
and union negotiators, some 5.3 million federal civilian
employes and military personnel would get a 6 per cent pay
hike retroactive to Dec. 27, 1969. The agreement does not cov
er about 600,000 federal blue-collar workers.
Air Controllers Continue Sick Call
WASHINGTON "We're sick," contended many air traf
fic controllers yesterday as they ignored pledges by union
leaders to get the men back and end a costly 10-day rebellion.
Attorney F. Lee Bailey and top officials of the Pro
fessional Air Traffic Controllers Organization PATCO
scheduled a news conference to order the controllers back
publicly in compliance with a court-directed agreement with
the government.
The Federal Aviation Administration reported no signifi
cant back-to-work trend. "We see a slight over-all improve
ment, but not enough to have much effect," a spokesman said.
Absenteeism continued high at key facilities in New York,
Chicago, Kansas City and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
For the first time since the sick-call campaign began
Wednesday of last week, the Airline Transport Association
reported fewer flight cancellations and shorter delays.
100,000 To Participate in Victory March
WASHINGTON Leaders of a "March for Victory"
gathered for a prayer meeting last night preceding a parade
today along Pennsylvania Avenue.
They said they expect up to 100,000 persons to participate
in the march led by Carl Mclntire, a fundamentalist radio
preacher from Collingswood; N.J.
Their banners say "In God We Trust" and "Win the War
Now."
"We're looking for a real big turnout," the Rev. Clifford
Peterson, Phoenix, Ariz., Washington coordinator of the
march, said in an interview. "Some small groups are starting
to come in." '
Peterson said leaders are being careful to keep inflam
matory signs out of the parade and also to keep radical groups
away.
The State
State Board Orders Sewage Improvement
HARRISBURG The state Sanitary Water Board yester
day ordered 15 central Pennsylvania municipalities and three
other dischargers -to upgrade their_ sewage treatment
facilities.
The orders involve the upgrading of the Juniata and Sus
quehanna rivers.
They were ordered to remove 85 per cent of the oxygen
consuming materials and most of the suspended solids from
waste water before discharging it.
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River Flooding Causes Traffic Jams
PITTSBURGH The Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers
crested six inches above the 5-foot -flood mark yesterday,
spilling over two thoroughfares and causing massive traffic
jams., •
The rivers began to recede in the evening, but several
inches still remained on sections of the Parkway along the
Monongahela and the 10th Street Bypass near the Allegheny.
Traffic, backed up for several miles on the outskirts at
various times during the day, had to be rerouted through the
High water also closed the Monongahela parking wharf
and River Road on the city's North Side. Police special service
units were called out to rescue a motorist with two small
children who were stranded on River Road. ,
The flooding followed two - days of heavy rains, snow and'
high winds, which toppled trees and power lines all over the
area.
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..,„*,=.:Teas Ado „•. t Visita - :.. ion Pl*.n.,
By JOE MEYERS
Collegian Staff Writer
Men's residence halls in West,
North and East Halls now are operating
under some type of 24-hour visitation
program
The men's residence halls in West
Halls have approved a 24-hour, seven
days a week visitation policy which
went into effect Wednesday. The men
of North Halls voted for the same
policy, while 11 out of 24 houses in East
Halls approved daily 24-hour visitation.
The liberalized visitation policy
came as a result of legislation passed
last term by the Men's Residence Coun
cil, which called for visitation to be
determined by individual residence
Getting
Together
Senator
On Rockefeller Report
By RUTH BROZGAL
Collegian Staff Writer
U.S. Senator Frank Church, D-
Idaho, will discuss the rec e n t
Rockefeller Report on Latin America at
8:30 p.m. Monday in Schwab.
According to Charles D. Ameringer,
associate professor of history, the Col
lege of The Lib-
eral Arts Divis
ion of Latin
American Studies
asked Church to
speak because he
was' chairman of
the Senate For-
eign Relations
Subcommittee on
Western Hein i-
sphere Affairs
H e added that
several prof e s-
the de-
sors in
partment s h a r e
Chur ch 's "gen
erally lib er al SEN. FRANK CHURCH
views" on western hemisphere relations
and his discontent with the Rockefeller
Report.
Church, a Senate dove, was very
outspoken against the slack in the Ken
nedy Administration's Alliance for Pro
gress. Church reportedly advocates
Latin American government in
dependent of U.S. action, and has
repeatedly criticized U.S. military
assistance—anywhere in the world.
Church is now the third ranking
majority member of the Senate Interior
Committee and is chairman of its Sub
committee on Public Lands. He was
named the nation's leading conservation
legislator. in 1965 by the National
Wildlife Federation, and authored a bill
in 1967 to create a National Wild Rivers
System. The senator is sponsor of the
Southwest Idaho Water Development
Project, a plan providing water to ir
rigate 450,000 acres of land.
Elected to the Senate in 1956 at the
age of 32, Church defeated former U.S.
Senator Glen , Taylor in the Democratic
primary election and then went on to
defeat the incumbent republican, Her
man Welker.
From September to December 1966,
Church- was a delegate to the 21st
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pa., Saturday Morning, April 4, 1970
Majority Vote for Daily 24-Hour Policy
WE ALL KNOW that the census bureau is trying to count
everyone this year. What we would like to find out is who
lives in the cab station on S. Allen. Of course it's possible
that the census taker was just tired and decided to take
a taxi.
2 Announce USG Candidacy
Church To Talk
halls. The bill was approved in March
by the University Senate.
Perseverence is Key
Concerning the new .policy, John
Cressman, president of West Halls
Council, said, "This shows that if the
students in residence halls feel strongly
about a policy, it can be adopted if they
persevere. Thanks to the help of the Of
fice of the Dean of Students, this desire
of policy change has gone smoothly
since it was proposed at a WHC meeting
during Fall Term. 6
He added that over 60 per cent of
the men in West Halls voted for the
new visitation policy.
According to Cressman, the four
West Halls residence halls will operate
under the following rules:
—Students will not be able to have
guests in their room if their roommate
objects.
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session of the United Nations General
Assembly.
Church has opposed increases in in
dividual income tax rates, suggesting a
return to the excess war profitstaxo
return to the excess war profits tax of
World War 11, making 'a levy on those
corporate profits which are due to in
creased business because of the Vietnam
War. Voting against ending the gold
cover on U.S. - currency, he has been a
critic of short-term measures to curb
the U.S. balance of payments deficit.
Church also was the keynote speak
er at the 1960 Democratic National Con
vention in Los Angeles.
The senator's discussion is open to
all students.
Senators Question Department's
Failure To Investigate Carswell
WASHINGTON (AP) Senators
seeking to block the Supreme Court
nomination of G. Harrold Carswell
demanded yesterday that the Justice
Department explain why it didn't pro
duce "significant and easily discovered
information bearing on , the nominee's
fitness."
In a letter to Atty. Gen. John N.
Mitchell, four senators said that in the
past the FBI has been under instruc
tions to investigate a federal judicial
nominee's racial attitudes with par
ticular care.
Yet in the case of Carswell, they
said, disclosures of a 1948 white
supremacy speech and the Florida
judge's participation in incorporating a
segregated golf club were revealed by
private citizens.
Questions Asked?
At the very least, said the- four,
they wanted to know if Carswell had
been asked the most elementary of
questions:
"Is there anything in your
background . . . that might embarrass
the President or militate against your
appointment to the Supreme Court?"
The letter, signed by Democrats
J05:...0h D. Tydings of Maryland. Birch
Bayh of Indiana, Alan 'Cranston of
—All guests must be escorted to
and from the room.
—All activities in violation of local
and state laws are prohibited.
Individual Residence Halls
Denny Lott, president of the North
Halls Association of Students,
emphasized the fact that the adoption
of the liberalized visitation policy was a
matter for the individual residence
halls, and not the NHAS.
"At last, each residence hall is able
to tailor its visitation policy to its own
individual needs." Lott said.
Ken Schwartz, president of the
East Residence Halls Association, said
yesterday that the residence halls in
Si mono
24-Hour
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Simmons Hall Thursday became
the second women's residence hall to
pass 24-hour visitation.
Hastings Hall already had passed
the liberalized visitation Tuesday night.
The results of the voting in Sim
mons are as follows: 251 voted for 24
hour visitation seven days a week; 119
favored visitation from noon until clos
ing Sunday through Thursday, with 24-
hour visitation Friday and Saturday; 55
residents voted for no change in the
present open house policy and 29
favored visitation from noon until clos
ing, seven days a week. Of the 493 resi
dents of Simmons. 454 voted.
No Violations
Sue Irons, president of Simmons.
commented on new open-house policy.
"It's really amazing. I've been wander
ing the hall& -this evening-, and I
have yet to run into a fellow. The
fellows I saw earlier in the evening
were all escorted. There have been no
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Jim Rott m u n d (9th-secondary
education-Coatesville) and Tom Koval
(sth-pre med-Vestaburg) last night an
nounced their candidacy for the
presidency and vice presidency, respec
tively, of the Undergraduate StAdent
Government.
Running on an independent slate,
their platform includes the improve
ment of student parking facilities, revis
ing the advisory system, cutting back
the amount of money used for research
for private firms and keeping the Het
zel Union Building open later at night
for study,
Undergraduate Student Govern
ment President Ted Thompson last
night released the following statement
to The Daily Collegian.,
"I would like to release the candi
dates for the executive and class of-
California and Republican Edward W.
Brooke of Massachusetts, was the
Carswell opposition's chief move on the
final full day of debate:
Sen. Robert P. Griffin of Michigan,
the acting GOP leader, told newsmen
the leadership count showed 49 hard
votes against the motion that comes up
Monday:to send the nomination back to
the Judiciary Committee.
That would be more than enough to
block the motion since four of the 100
senators are not expected to be present
for the first key vote.
If the nomination of the 50-year-old
Florida judge survives recommittal the
Senate will vote Wednesday on con
firmation.
46 Against Recommittal
An Associated Press count showed
46 votes against recommittal, 39 for and
13 uncommitted for a total of 98.
Republican Karl E.. Mundt of South
Dakota and Democrat Clinton An
derson of New Mexito are sick while
Republican Wallace F. Bennett of TRah
and Democrat Claiborne Pell of Rhode
Island expect to be absent.
The AP poll counts Bennett for and
Pell against Carswell, but does not
count Anderson and Mundt.
By TINA HONDRAS
Collegian Staff Writer
Rottmund, Koval To Run as kidependents
By PAUL SCHAFER
Collegian Staff Writer
49 Against Motion
Volunteers for Victory
that area are now operating under new
policies
11 Houses Approve
Aside from the lI houses which ap
proved daily 24-hour visitation, the
others approved 24-hour visitation on
weekends only with various small
changes in the daily schedule.
"A couple of the residence 'halls ap
proved 24-hour a clay visitation on a
trial basis and are having revotes in a
month," Schwartz said. "Some of the
students who were opposed to this
policy have agreed to try it on an ex
perimental basis for the next month
and then revote on the issue at that
time."
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avors
olicy
violations of the rules, and I expect
none. There is no mass pandamonium.
I'm extremely proud of them all," she
said.
Two resident assistants from Sim
mons spoke about the new ruling. Casey
Foley (9th-sociology-Pittsburgh) said,
"It deserves a lot of communication and
discussion. It's something that has to be
taken seriously." She added, "We are
adults, and the individual has the right
to make a good decision."
Miss Foley said she expected
security to "remain the same. It puts
the responsibility back on the in
dividual: it leaves it up to the in
dividual's discretion."
Another R.A., Karen Edwards, said.
"The privacy of the residents won't be
threatened unduly because the men will
be escorted to the rooms, with the con
sent of the roommates."
Bali, the agreed, "Behavior
patterns aren't going to change."
(Continued on page three)
ficers' positions from the executive or•
der that was issued Tuesday, March 31.
as of today.
"The reason that I am doing this i-;
mainly because we now have an elec
tions commissioner, whom I have con
fidence, will carry out the responsi.
bilities given the commissioner by the
Congress.
"I would also like to announce that
there will be a candidates meeting at 7
Monday night in 215 HUB. All candi•
dates must attend."
Rottmund said many University
faculty members are "wrapped up in
research, not in teaching." Kobal, add
ing that "Students should come
first," said the money allocated for
research could be better used to obtain
more qualified personnel.
Rottmund and Koval favor the for
mation of a joint committee of USG and
University Senate members to revise
the University advising system. They
believe the current system is too im
personal.
Criticizing the recent dispute over
the date USG elections will be held and
last term's debate over the seating of a
congressman, Rottmund claimed that
USG showed "irresponsibility," and add
ed, "there are so many more important
things to talk about."
Regarding their candidacy. Rott
mund said he and Koval are running
"on the desire to do something" for the
students. "We want a better Penn State
through the betterment of USG," he
said.
--see page 2
Seven Cents
ROTTMUND