Watch your step THAI DANCERS DEMONSTRATE the coordination necessary in the bamboo dance called Lao Kratup-mai. a dance of celebration. The dance, used to celebrate the Thai holiday Loy Krathong is part of the International Holiday Festival ac tivities continuing this ‘s.egc. See story on page eight. Supreme on rights WASHINGTON (UPI The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 2 yesterday that after a suspect exercises his right to remain silent about one crime, police may still question him about another. The dissenting justices said the decision eroded the rights of suspects r laid down in the milestone Miranda case in 1966, and predicted the Court even tually would overturn the ruling en tirely. In Miranda, Chief Justice Earl Warren ruled that a suspect must be advised of his rights to remain silent and to have a lawyer, and told that anything said can be used against him. Yesterday,. the Court majority said that even after a suspect chooses to remain silent under questioning about one crime, police can question him again later about other offenses. The ruling reversed a Michigan Supreme Court decision vacating the conviction of Richard Bert Mosley for the January 1971 slaying of Leroy Williams in Detroit. Justice William J. Brennan Jr., joined in dissent by Thttrgood Marshall, said "today's distortion of Miranda's con stitutional principles can be viewed only as yet another step toward the erosion and, I suppose, ultimate overruling of Miranda's enforcement of the privilege against self-incrimination." But writing for the majority, Justice King harassment indefensible 44. By DAVE MORRIS Collegian Managing Editor Federal Bureau of Investigation wire taps and letter writing campaigns against the late Martin Luther King were in defensible acts, FBI agent Neil P. Shanahan told a group of Penn State students last night. Speaking to the Pennsylvania Legal - Society, -Shanahan, chief legal adviser at FBI headquarters in Philadelphia, said that in 1964 such action seemed justified, but "now we know it wasn't." "The evidence ‘ is out and it's indefensible," Shanahan said in no way did we defend that action-. Did we do it? Yes, we did We thought it was justified then but now we know better. "In 19¢4 if you had put the question of Martin Luther King's life or death on a referendum, what would the vote have been? 60-40?50? Who knows. Of course those result's would be a lot differen sq- t today." _ Shanahan said the bureau has changed in recent years, especially since the death of former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover m 1972. "We don't run around tapping phonon everyday," he said. "Say we want to tune in on the phone Of the Lower Slobovian embassy. You probably think that's routine, right? But no matter what is going on or what we think is going on, we have to get an okay from' the attorney general. Without a court order, we can't tap phones. "The_ days of the FBI director saying 'Okay, let's get ,on Slobovia's phone' are, I think, over." liesaidagents now have long hair, wear colored shirt'i and dOn't wear pocket han dkerchiefs, things Hotiver required. ; "He had some standards he pulled out of the Kiddie Ages," Shanahan said about Hoover. "J. 'Edgar Hoover in 1992, if it wasn't against the law, would brave kept 'skives. Instead he surrounded himself with mass' servants. We're not talking 1 . - - :I a • , 1 Cot e . • lan 'the daily Court rules of accused Potter Stewart said the suspect's Miranda rights still were preserved. Brennan's statement indicated a majority of justices might be awaiting replacement of William 0. Douglas, who retired last month, before 'reversing Miranda. Mosley had been picked up for questioning about a series of robberies. He told police he wished to remain silent, and interrogation stopped. Two hours . later, other detectives - informed Mosley of his rights and questioned him about the Williams killing. Mosley did not object to questioning, and when police revealed he had been named by an accomplice, he made self incriminating statements. The Michigan court ruled the statements inadmissible as evidence, saying once Mosley exercised his right to silence about. the robberies, police could not question him further. Stewart, saying. Mosley could have ctr off questioning at any time, wrote: "The requirement that law enforcement authorities must respect a person's exercise that option counteracts the coercive pressures of the custodial setting: "" Brennan, however, said the new ruling failed to ensure "that a confession is not obtained under the influence of the compulsion inherent in interrogation, and detention." Oswald OK's term system By MIKE JUST Collegian Staff Writer University President John W. Oswald informed the University Faculty Senate yesterday of his intention to Continue the present term system for a five-year period, beginning in the Summer Term of 1977 and extending to the Fall Term of 1982. supports OsWald's decision. He added and noncomprehensive finals to the that he appreciates Oswald taking the finals period but a noncomprehensive student's opinion into consideration and final may be scheduled during the last feels the majority of the students will week of , a term with approval of a also support the decision. department head. A proposal' to Oswald said the basic elements to be eliminate required approval by the included into the term system beginning department head will be discussed at the in 1977 are: next senate meeting. —an academic year opening with Fall - ' Oswald also asked the Senate to advise Term registration and orientation prior him on whether Summer Term should be to Labor Day, with the first day of reduced to eight weeks beginning with classes beginning the day after Labor the summer of 1976. He asked the Senate Day. to provide him with student and ad ,— Fall ; Term completed prior to ininistrator .opinion regarding this Thanksking with Winter Term matter before the March Senate meeing. providingt , a possible three weeks of In other business, the Senate passed instruction before Christmas break. amendments to the pass-fail system —Spring Term ending near the middle restricting this option to electives, and of May with , commencement in the last limiting the number of pass-fail credits week of May. ; to 12 for baccalaureate students and to Osivald also noted there was consensus a six-day - period scheduled for final six for associate degree students favoring a school calendar opening examinations after each term. depending upon theregulations of the around Sept. 1 and closing before June 1. Oswald said the new calendar will be student's college. Although a term system scheduled in published April 1, 1976. He also asked the The Senate also voted to require that this period would mean splitting Winter Senate to infprm him of any different , parent.% must be informed if a student Term by the Christmas break, Oswald interpretations regarding their policy of under 21 years of age withdraws from said "there is consensus that the longer final examinations no later than the the University. the' instruction period is before the March Senate meeting. The Senate Was also informed by- Christmas break, the Jess is the ob- At its January meeting, the Senate University Provast Russell E. Larson jection to the term split." may decide to change its policy that a student may repeat a course that Michael Ostroff, Undergraduate regarding final examinations which will he has failed prior to this term even Student Government Academic go into effect next Fall Term. Their though the course repeat rule has ended Assembly president, said he favors and revised policy restricts comprehensive this term. ARHS uriPgrits dormitory p lan By LYNNE TRAVIS The plan would operate on a stratified Collegian Staff Writer system, with students divided into The Association of Residence 11 groups students continuing in the Students voiced its support for the ew dorms, off-campus students, Corn sttatified dorm assignment plan w ich monwealth campus transfers and would operate on a first-come f t- others. The number of spaces allotted to served basis. each group will be in proportion to its ARHS President Sam Malizia sal be percentage of total applicants. Students planning on transferring to received strong support lor the plan from Commonwealth Campus University Park 'will submit their ap representative Scott Deardorffna plicatiops at the campus they attend. Nov. 14 committee meeting. ; Some single rooms will be converted to doubles and some large double `rooms to The President's Committee on triples. These rooms, which will be Assignment Procedures . withdrew its assigned only by request, Will have previous recommendatipn for a lottery reduced rates. system, and instead* proposed student This is expected to add: about 1,000 be required to submit dorm applications spaces, although many of these spaces at three locations across campus one may be eliminated during winter and for East, one for North and West and one spring terms if there isn't the demand for Pollock, South and Centre. for housing Oswald said he made his decision after reviewing two recommendations from the University Calendar - Commission which proposed, either an early semester system or a modified term system. After reviewing the mem-- mendations, Oswald said he felt the two proposals presented "no clean-cut educational advantage" over .the present term system. The Senate will vote: in January on whether to keep pass-fail dalong with these new amendments. If they decide not to keep it, the Senate will reconsider part of amendment submitted by Senator Arthur Lewis, which would allow a department to permit a student to take courses used to meet their basic degree requirements under the pass-fail system. This was suggested because snme w i t academic departments; such as ' the College of Engineering, do not pro *de electives for its students to take der Photo by St., Bankruptcy bill amended Foripl signs New York loan bill WASHINGTON *(UPI) Without fanfare, President Ford signed into law his bill, yesterday to provide $2.3 billion in federal loans to help New York City escape bankruptcy. , But as a stopgap in case the loans prove inadequate the House passed, 373 to 29, a bill to amend the bankruptcy laws to make it'feasible for a city the size of New, York to file for bankruptcy before a federal court. The House Judiciary Committee said existing law, unchanged since 1937, was "hopelessly archaic and Unworkable." Ford had proposed revisions along the Some sunshine will return to State College tomorrow, but today's forecast calls for occasional snow tapering off to snow • flurries by afternoon. This snow fits into the nuisance category since only one or two inches are expected. Variable cloudiness 'and cooler toght. Low: 26. Partly cloudy and seasonably cool Thursday. High 37. about slavery circa 1858, we're tall Shanahan listed "the changing the FBI facelift. "People ask us how we could go 'around America in the 40's, gather up all the Japanese-AmeriTns in a net and incarcerate them in California, he said. "It was an action taken to be reasonable at the time. "J. Edgar Hoover in 11942, if it wasn't against the law, would have kept slaves." FBI agent Neil P. Shanahan "If there are three t Palestinian Liberationists on a corner in State College yelling 'down with Zionisai,' we wouldn't be, worried. But you Can bet three Japanese on a street corner in Elmira, N.Y. yelling 'banzaf in 1942 would have been locked up in a minute." He said the hardest thing was getting people to realize the FBI is! going to make mistakes. "If we make a mistake, then we'll accept that and we'll try to do better. 'And wehave made mistakes. Several quest4ns dealt with security of ' important documents and who had access to them:One woman asked if there were any safeguards to prevent FBI director Clarence Kelly from destroying or selling information_ She referred to former director. Patrick Gray, Barnes successor who while in destroyed files related to 'the Watergate case. Weather "ng about right now." imes" as another factor in Continued on page 8 l== the pass-fail system. In other action, the Senate redefined conditions of part-time students. A part time student is now defined as a student scheduling fewer than eight credits per term in all modes of instruction. A half time student schedules four to seven credits per term while a quarter-time student schedules two to three credits ger term. New classifications are nec •Scary to determine how much .financial aid a part-time student may receive. Oswald said another reason which prompted his decision was that "there is no clear consensus of faculty preference of one system over another, although there is a clear preferende of the students for the term system." lines the House adopted, but applicable only to the nation's six cities of over one million population. But the House decided, 2011 to 145, to make the new bankruptcy procedures available to all cities so the largest cities would not be stigmatized. The chief change in the bankruptcy la* would waive the requirement that a city win the approval of 51 per cent of creditors bondholders., pensioners, employes and vendors for a plan for financial reorganization before it is permitted to file for bankruptcy. New York has an estimated 250,000 Intellectual morality attacked Dante Germino Ten cents, per copy - Wednesday, December 10, 1975 9 Vol. 76, No. 64 16 paces University Park, Pennsyhranla Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University The date for applying for the dorms would probably be moved up. In other business, ARHS set up a committee to try to reestablish the allocation of housing funds by Food and Housing Services instead of the present system which requires each residence unit to raise its own activities funds. ARHS also plans to voice its disap proval to Food and Housing Services for the removal of students' bikes from their rooms during term break. Malizia •also said that curtains in students' rooms were closed over break as a heat-saving measure, a move recommended- by the University's Executive Energy Conservation Committee. fk advised ARHS members to instruct their area residents to keep plants on the windowsill or arrange with bondholders and winning their advance income tax, and a $597 million cut in approval was felt to be impossible. spending by state agencies. But whatever financial plan for The law authorizes Treasury delayed or reduced payment of Secretary William E. Simon to make obligations is proposed must be loans of up to $2.3 billion over the next 30 declared "fair, equitable and feasible" months to cover brief periods when the by a judge and accepted by a two-thirds . city's expenses exceed its revenues. vote of the city's creditors. , The first loan for $l4O million or $l5O Meantime, Albany's Democratic Gov. million —is expected to be made shortly Hugh Carey announced a stern program after Congress enacts a necessary ap to restore equilibriuth to the state's propriation to actually provide the finances. Carey called for a year-long money. Senate action is scheduled for freeze on: state workers' salaries, an today. Outnumbered opponents gave up increase in state taxes of $555 million, the fight, saying it was "futile" to block partly through a surtax on the state the bill. By JACK MUNSCH Collegian Staff Writer Moral anarchism, not a con stitutional crisis, is the major problem facing the nation as it ap proaches its Bicentennial celebration, according to Dante Germino, directOr of the University of Virginia's Political and Social Thought Program, in a speech to about 100 people in the J. Orvis Keller Conference Center last night. its search for intellectual leaders capble of restoring moral order in society, Germino said that America can be assured of one thing.— such leaders will rarely be found in the universities. He condemned•; political science and business administration departments for teaching management and manipulation while neglecting ethical responsibility. "The only morality students are exposed to is that of the 'hyperac tivists,' who are eager to be in front of every trend, and who demand instant, doctrinaire solutions to controversial issues," he said. Germino traced the Watergate crimes to the edaations of thepeople involved = buainess and political science whichled to their inability to solve ethical problems. In fact, he said, the shabby morality which resulted in Watergate persists m government. • For example, he said, "during the same week that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was speaking in Minneapolis on- "The Moral r Foun dations of Foreign Policy,' he advised ' President Ford not to receive a visit from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn i ,one of the world's most eloquent defenders of freedom." 3 COPIES a housing supervisor to have students from one floor keep all their plants in one light area such as a study lounge. ARHS plans to work with OTIS and USG to arrange one campus -wide book sale to be held in the HUB at the beginning of each term. This is expected to improve the present system of each dorm area holding separate book sales. Centre Halls Residence Association President Dave Hindman said this would offer students a larger selection and better chance of selling more books. ARHS will print a booklet • for next year's freshmen giving a description of residence hall life and possibly including i floor plans of typical rooms for each 'dorm area. The booklet is expected to better inform new students as to the availability of space in residence halls. During his presentation, which was sponsored by the University and Bell Telephone Company as the first of a 22-part lecture series by prominent people across the state, Germino contended that the future of democratic freedom rests oh America's willingness to accept the idea that man is ultimately good and that good, not evil, lies at the heart of the universe. "If God is dead, -then everything is permitted. And if there is no moral reality, then constitutional govern ment will fail, for it can survive only when a common moral reality sustains it," he said. Although Germino persistently denounced America's foundering morality, he did not link it with foundering religious institutions. However, he quoted Thomas Jef ferson that "the God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time." He went on to attack what he called the "Playboy Philosophy that freedom means pursuing your own opinion regardless of its content." Self-indulgence is often mistaken for liberty, he said, and such a philosophy is not a sign of freedom, but of decadence. The . audience, which consisted largely of faculty members, seemed to have mixed reactions to Germino's sentiments and some questioned his moral conservatism. One listener declared that morality and democracy seem to, exist in op posite proportions, and that in arc police state theie is little evidence of immorality such as crime. Another contended that during the Cold War America used a perverted form of moral and - spiritual pride to justify bringing the world close to war.
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