Cloudy and cool with occasional light ra:„11 .today, high roar 57, Mostly cloudy and cool tonight, low near 45. Partly cloudy and cool tomorrow, high near 62. Sunny and milder Saturday. Vol. 71, No. 120 way out? IT MAY APPEAR that this coed is trapped in the display case outside Schwab, but she's really organizing a notice for an upcoming event. When completed, the sign will tell of the Penn State Choir's annual Spring Concert, 8:30 p.m. Saturday in Schwab. Legislators about Mark By JIM WIGGINS Collegian Contributing' Editor A new chapter in the year-old Mark 48 torpedo controversy unfolded Tuesday night with charges by two congressmen that the Navy has withheld information on field tests of the torpedo, making it impossible for Congress to responsibly evaluate the future of the S 3 billion wea pons program. _ _ . Rep. Charles W, Whalen Tr., R-Ohio and Rep. William 5., Moorhead, D-Pa.. charged on the CBS news program 60 Minutes that manufacturers of the torpedo have not been able'tO overcome major design problems—excessive noise that would throw the torpedo off-target was cited in particular. Both complained of lack of information about test runs of the torpedo and challenged Pentagon assertions that the Mark 48 will be ready to go into production this summer. Deputy Defense Secretari , David Packard refuted the charges. "I've already made a review that checked with my independent experts and I'm confi dent we have the best torpedo in the world here in the Mark 48 and we're going to go ahead and put it into produc tion," he said. In answer to charges, that in formation about the testing of the Mark 48 was being withheld from Congress, Packard said that although the Navy has set no date, test results should be releas ed "as soon as the contractor selection process is finished, sometime this •sum- Men.' Holds Cards Close Responding, Moorhead said. "Packard seems to want to keep the cards close to his chest. I think that the Congress should vote money for a weapons system without having seen the results of the tests." John C. Johnson, director of the University's Ordnance Research Laboratory, concurred last night with Oswald slated to speak before meeting of BSA University ,President John W. Oswald will speak at the meeting of the Black Staff Assistants tonight at 7 p.m. in 102 Forum. The meeting will be "more or less a Progress report", according to Barry IVlanns, BSA director, in which students can ask questions of the speakers con cerning the staff and its activities. Present with Oswald this evening will be Edward V. Ellis, faculty assistant to the president; Raymond 0. Murphy, act ing vice president of student affairs and Charles S. Spence. director of residence hall programs. The meeting is open to all students. Maims said the meeting will be "loose" and "very informal" with the emphasis on "informing students" as to the ac complishments and the aspirations for BSA. Prognosis Report The speakers will present a "prognosis report.' he explained, rather than very formal statements. Manus pointed out that: the assistants have met twice with Oswald since they were organized , approximately three months ago. He said Oswald probably will offer feedback on those meetings. "We asked the speakers to be more honest than kind." Manns stated. "We want to know exactly where we stand." He added that "the same goes for the students." The emphasis at. tonight's meeting is on frankness, he said. "Whites as well as blacks are invited," he explained, point ing' out Nhat interaction "is one of 'the seasons for BSA. \ • BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE 3.8 c PAID • State College, Pa. 16801 Permit No. 10 6 Pages ~ ~~ .%~~y Packard's statements, dismissing charges by Whalen and CBS that ex cessive operating noise caused by pro blems with the Mark 48 design throws off the torpedo's acoustic honing device. "Their interpretation of that (the noise problem) is wrong," he said. "I agree with Packard." ORL became involved with the Mark 48 program in 1964, when it was sub contracted by Westinghouse Electric Corp. to serve as technical advisor on the project. Westinghouse is vying with the Cleavite Corp. for the Navy contract to produce the torpedo. Both corporations have produced preliminary models of the Mark 48 which are now being tested by the Navy. SI Billion Overrun Last year ORI, was implicated in a $3 billion cost overrun on the Mark 48 pro ject by A. Ernest Fitzgerald. a former Pentagon cost analyst who charged that ORL and Westinghouse had collaborated to conceal cost changes in the project. Early last month ORL was absolved of wrongdoing in its work on the Mark 48 by University President John W. Oswald, who, after conducting a study, "ten tatively concluded that there is no evidence that ORL . willfully withheld from its own subcontractors or the Natty any information necessary for the con duct of any' assignment." On the air -Tuesday night, CBS reported that the present Navy estimate of cost-per-torpedo is $600,000. eight times greater than the ,original estimate of 875,000. Estimates Encouraged Questioned about the cost rise. Packard said often the armed services and defense contractors are encouraged to make original cost estimates too low because of Pentagon fears that if , the estimates are too high. Congress will not approve them. He said.' however, that, "Looking back, I think it's a very good Pointing out that students can question any aspect of BSA at tonight's meeting, Manus listed the staff's functions as social, political, cultural ,and economic duties. He said that his staff is "action oriented" and places heavy emphasis on change." BSA was organized through the student affairs office to try to alleviate racial tension in the residence hall areas and to help disadvantaged black students on campus. Manns explained that the goal of BSA is to case racial tension on campus through mutual understanding between blacks and whites. The greatest problem, he said, is that whites are afraid of blacks due to "ignorance or prejudice." Community Setting Eliminating this problem while developing a "community setting for blaclis" -at the University is the aim of BSA. Six stateagsistantS work with Mantis in the various' residence hall areas. Michael Carpentei' is the staff assistant for South Halls and acts as an adviser to the Educational Opportunity Program. Eldridge Gibson deals with residence and finances. Gibson works out of East Halls. Lee Coffer, staff assistant from Pollock Halls, is in charge of planning and pro gramming. Students Standards Board ad visor is Tom Brown from the East Towers. Darryl Trent, working out of West Halls, is in charge of counseling services. Charles Cooper is financial con sultant. in Centre Halls. Published by' Students of The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pa., Thursday Morning, May 13, 1971 Tuiti • n increase may .ite necessary for 1971-72 By BILL SANTAMOUR Conegian Senio^ , Rena*te* University President John W. Os wald said yesterday there is a distinct possibility that a tuition increase might be required to meet the University's financial deeds for the 1971-72 school year. Responding to Pennsylvania Gov ernor Milton J. Shapp's budget message calling for an 581,205,000 appropriation for the University for the• next fiscal year, Oswald said, "Governor 'Shapp's budget message recognizes, the 'Univer sity's urgent need for additional funds, even though the proposed increase falls well below what we consider essential requirements." Shapp's request, which is subject to legislative approval, compares to a $69,200,000 appropriation for the 1969- 70 fiscal year and an expected identical amount for 1970-71. Although Oswald expressed mild disappointment over the proposed ap propriations, he said, "I recognize that the governor and the legislature face an appeal for funds in excess of expected revenues and that other requests of great importance also cannot be met in their entirety." Financial Binds The State Legislature, notoriously hesitant about granting funds for the University, has put the financial bind on the administration several times in the past. For the past two consecutive Years the UniverSity has been forced to bor row funds in order to continue oper ations. This year the University started borrowing in January when state stop gap funds were exhausted and the in dark 48 tests M=EIMMI Asked by newsman Mike Wallace if he believed the Mark 48 was worth .the money at 5600.000 per torpedo. Packard said; "We've got to be careful in being concerned about the price if the per formance is good. Now if we get something that isn't any good at that price, then we're really in trouble." During the , program Wallace noted that last year the projected cost of the entire Mark. 48 program was S 4 billion, this year it is down to n billion. Ac cording to Moorhead. the reason for the cutback is not a decrease in production costs but a reduction in the number of torpedoes that will be produced. "There is still a question of whether they need all of the torpedoes at the reduced figure," he said. "There is no cost saving, just fewer torpedoes." Poor attendance for demonstrations Peace movement slows down By JOHN . WEAGRAFF Collegian Senior Reporter The People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, organizers of the Mayday demonstrations in Washington last week, urged all those who participated to "take the action home." To this point the action at Penn State has consisted of rallies, not overwhelmingly attended, and "Disarmsbyville." an idea that a ma jority of the protest leaders do not sup port. A rally was scheduled for yesterday afternoon on Old Main lawn but when no one but the protest leaders appeared they decided to discuss why the campus move ment seemed to be struggling, as well as what measures might be taken to initiate some sort of productive actions On cam pus this spring. Dave Dankovic. vice president of the Student Peace Union, told The Collegian following the discussion that he felt one reason the Penn State movement seemed to be struggling was, until the present. the Central Pennsylvania Peace Union has been addressing itself completely to the Mayday operations and neglecting the actions on campus. He noted that the an tiwar movement at the University has not really concentrated on campus related problems since last spring. ORL Research Quite a bit of investigation has been done on the' activities of the Ordnance Research Lab and Herbicide research during the Fall and Winter Terms of this year, but this had not resulted in any great amount of action:he said. One of the major reasons for the inability of the campus antiwar move ment to effect any manner of productive actions is the particular role that the CPPU has assumed as an organizing body. Dankovic said. When the CPPU was first organized in March their function was to act as a loose coalition in which various antiwar groups could meet and exchange ideas for actions on campus, he said. Dankovic noted that the main rallying point of the groups represented in the CPPU had been the Mayday activities, but. now that they were over the group had no single objective. Although the CPPU had been made up of people from groups with differing ideologies, the Mayday, activities were supported by everyone and the dif ferences became unimportant. B u t without this unifying objective the CPPU has become more or less a n "amorphous — group of people without any defined goals. he said. Different Results Dankovic said the CPPU has been holding an undue amount of meet- legislature was bickering over Shapp's proposed tax program. Last year legislative appropriation delays forced the University to borrow $54.5 million over a period of several months. Student Coalition Responding to that financial crisis students from Penn State, Temple Uni versity, University of Pittsburgh and the . University of Pennsylvania or ganized a student action coalition to urge the funding of non-preferred allo cations. At that time the Four Univer sity Coordinating Committee lobbyed for the cause in Harrisburg . Oswald said he is pleased that Shapp has included support for the Murphy states reasons Legality of HOPS By BONNIE SHOK Collegian Senior Reporter Raymond O. Murphy.. acting vice president for student affairs, yesterday emphasized that the University is "checking into the legalities" of ""The Other Vision: Hemophiles of Penn State" as an organization and is no t "investigating the people" who are mem bers of the group. In an interview with The Daily Col legian. Murphy said the University is ex amining only "the legalities of this type of organization on a state-related cam pus." HOPS' charter has been suspended temporarily until the University Legal Council reviews the legality of the organization and decides whether HOPS is in keeping with the University's educational policy. This means that HOPS, whose aim is to try to change attitudes on homosex uality through legal reform, public education and individual counselling. may not use University facilities for meetings or advertising purposes. No Position Murphy maintained that th e University "doesn't really have a position with respect to HOPS." Referring to a comment made by Un dergraduate Student Government Presi dent Benson Lichtig that the University went over USG's head in revoking the charter, Murphy said Lichtig "is quite right in that statement." Murphy explain ed that the Board of Trustees has in dicated that University President John W. Oswald has final authority with regard to all matters of student affairs. Referring claims by students that the University is concerned. with a possible adverse reaction by the State Legislature to the existence of HOPS. Murphy said "no one in Harrisburg has spoken to us" about this matter. Advisory Committee Murphy told The Collegian that the student affairs office is working to form a student advisory committee for the Ritenour Health Center. He explained that he would like to have "a good sampling" of 'students from various areas on the committee plus some students from the health area. logs which are attended by different peo ple each time and consequently the results of each meeting are different, He added that this led to quite a bit of con fusion as to what actions the group had decided to take. This resulted in poor planning for the designated activities, such as rallies. The CPPU has become a separate organization that acts not in the name of the groups represented in it, but rather as a group in itself, he said. During the discussion yesterday it was decided that a coordinating com mittee would be organized in conjunction with the CPPU to act as a decision making body. The status of the CPPU will be to act simply as a corn 3 major student governments to form communication system By THERESA VILLA and RICH GRANT Collegian, Staff Writers A system to create communication bet ween student government organizations and to establish a student voice in University affairs was passed last night by the Undergraduate Student Govern ment Academic Assembly. Named the Executive Agreement of Cooperation, the system provides for coordination of efforts in academic af fairs between the Graduate Student Association and the college councils. Each GSA representative in a depart ment will contact an undergraduate in the same department and form a joint departmental committee. According to Steve Arkans, assembly president, graduate students have more resources at the departmental level than undergraduate students at the college level. Each college council will coordinate all the department action in its college. Tom Ingersoll, GSA president. referred to a letter to the Student Advisory Board from University President John W. Oswald, which asked that some student body report to him on the progress made in gaining a student voice in academic af fairs. Oswald urged active student par ticipation in University affairs. Ingersoll said. He added, "Instead of student governments Cooperating together, each goes its own way." When a college council works for stu dent membership on various policy com mittees in its college, it would take its Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in his budget message. 52.358.000 is ear marked for educational costs at the medical center. The University had requested more than 57,000.000 over the 1970-71 and 1971-72 budget periods to cover hospital start-up costs and other debts acquired in Opening the Hershey Medical School. Resident Education Shapp's budget includes 553.302,000 for resident education. 04.710.000 for continuing education. 53.142.000 for ex tension education. 014.340.000 for or ganized research a n d 03.353.000 for departmental research. Oswald said that "by increasing tuition modestly last September and by operating on an austerity budget, the lie also said the too physicians recently hired to loin the Ritenour staff will arrive on campus sometime in June. Discussing the traffic situation at the University, Murphy said, "We have a 21st century traffic problem on a campus essentially designed for the horse and buggy Traffic Problems "It's time." he said. "that we really move to some long range solutions to the traffic problem instead of patching together one solution after another. - Asking "Who disarmed Disarmsbyville." •Murphy said he does not know whether students are "more weary of the war or, of the anti-war movement." He indicated that the movement ob- students." he added. viously did not get the response that stu- "Just the notion that Colloquy. is dent leaders had expected. "Frankly. I corning has helped to create an at think the thing just disintegrated," he ad- mosphere on campus which is totally dif; ded. ferent from last year at this time." Speaking about the antiwar move- Murphy said, adding that "the whole ment in general, Murphy said students University owes a great deal to the deserve credit for altering the attitudes Renaissance Festival." NUC condemns decision regarding HOPS charter The New University Conference, a group of radical faculty and graduate students, recently adopted a statement condemning the University for tem porarily suspending the charter of an organization known as "The Other Vision, Homophiles of Penn State." According to the NUB release, the University administration has "blatantly violated civil liberties of all Penn-. sylvanians. especially of students and faculty at University Park." The NUC maintains that "the decision of acting vice president for stu dent affairs Raymond 0. Murphy to revoke without cause or -reason the privileges of the Undergraduate Student Gov e r nment-chartered organization. HOPS. is but the latest in along series of reactionary and obscurantist assaults munications organization where'.. the separate antiwar groups such as the Peace Coalition, the Revolutionary Union, New University Conference, as well as representatives from different residence hall and town areas who wish to remain unaffiliated with any group, can meet to inform each other of their own specific plans. he said. From now on the separate groups will be organizing their own activities and using the CPPU only as a source for sup port. Dankovic said. The CPPU will no longer be the primary organization doing the greater part of the planning for bringing Mayday home: the responsibility will be left to the smaller t: and more an orgized groups. problems to the joint departmental com mittee. This committee would contact the department head and inform him of the recent University Connell recom mendation that students participate in academic affairs. An intergovernmental operations com mittee also would be formed to consist mainly of Student Advisory Board mem bers. This committee will coordinate the executive agreement. Also this com mittee is responsible for reporting to Oswald if a dean does not agree to allow student representatives on any corn •mittees in that college. The intergovernmental operations com mittee will put pressure on two sides, one on Oswald and one on the college or the department. Ingersoll said. Arkans said on the departmental level To speak at Old Main Shapp to open festival Gov. Milton J. Shapp, who will serve as the honorary chairman of the Renaissance Festival, will officially start the event with a speech and proclamation at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow on Old Main lawn. A state government spokesman said the details of the proclamation could not be released because the governor has not signed it yet. but said that it would be read at Friday's opening ceremonies for the Renaissance Festival. In accepting the position•as honorary chairman of the festival Shapp said, "The University will be able to get through the current year without incurring a deficit." However. to accomplish this, he said. some programs "essential to the development of the University have been deferred." Faculty salaries which arc already comparatively low fell even further during the year. he added. "We face many financial uncer tainties," Oswald continued, "Mandated cost increases, inflation, the cost of educating 2.500 additional students we are committed to take, maintenance of newly-opened buildings, and plans for improving services to disadvantaged students will add significantly to our costs again next year." investigated and ideas of people throughout the coun try. "In a decade. they have turned public opinion 180 degrees around on the situation," he said. State-wide Conventio% Commenting on a state-Wide con vention of representatives of collegiate student governments to set up a lobby for students in Harrisburg. Murphy termed their efforts "fine." adding that.'"it's per fectly right for them to lobby if they want to." Murphy said that the Colloquy schedule looks "very interesting." and in dicated that he is "eager to attend" the various programs. "I'll be interested in seeing what kind of response N‘e get to the workshops from against human dignity by the Penn State central administration." ' HOPS was chartered by the• USG Supreme Court as an organization whose aim is to try to change attitudes on homosexuality through legal reforms,. public education and indi v i dual counseling. On Monday. Murphy confirmed the suspension of HOPS until the University Legal Council can review the legality of HOPS and reach a decision on whether or not the organization is in keeping with University educational policy. HOPS was organized to deal with problems relating to the University, such as job discrimination, lack of available information on homosexuality in -the library and classroom hostile attitudes of the psychiacric clinic and discriminatory administration policies. According to HOPS, the term "homophile" refers to anyane, homosex-: ual or heterosexual, who advocates the end of discrimination against homosex uals. The organization is open to all members of Penn State's academic com munity. In its statement. the NUC noted that --- - , "the legalities of this (HOPS') charter were investigated by the University employed, attorney. Ben Novak, and the constitution of HOPS met every legal re quirement •of the nation. \ state and University." According to the NUC statement, "the charter was duly granted by the USG Supreme Court without challenge from any quarter." NUC claimed that the suspension of HOPS "tells us that things should stay as they are . . and students should keep their mouths shut, their noses clean and study." The NUC called for a "radical response on the part of PSU students against this new, deliberate provocation by Old Main."—BS there will be more student input in academic affairs. The Ac a dem ic Assembly approved the agreement, and it will go into effect next week. The Assembly also discussed advising problems in the various colleges. Some of the problems include a lack of advisers in specific majors on the Commonwealth Campuses, too few advisors for the num ber of students and a lack of professional advisers familiar with industry. Arkans mentioned that a ways and means committee will be set up to review all reports coming from the USG Student Senate and to recommend if they should be passed by the Assembly. A budget of $1.927.50 was approved for the Academic Assembly and will be in corporated into the USG budget for 1971- 72. festival represents a unique and impor tant venture in raising funds and focusing attention on many needs of disadvantag ed students across the Commonwealth. "The whole concept of a renaissance to signify a rebirth of efforts to help needy students from environments of educationally and socially disadvantaged is something I heartily endorse and call to the attention of my fellow Pen nsylvanians." the governor said. "The (Continued on Page Three) Seven Cents
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