Coed plan awaiting okay
. By JAN SEAMAN,
pr* Collegian Staff Writer
University students, may
take up an alternative
lifestyle starting Fall Term.
An experimental coed
; housing proposal is awaiting a
' decision by Vice President for
Student Affairs Raymond 0.
Murphy. .•
The proposal, submitted by
the Office of Residential Life
and the Association of
Residence Hall Students,
suggests v converting one or
more of the towers in East
Jlalls (Tener, Sproul, Pinchot
and Brumbaugh) into a coed
■ dorm for the experiment.
' If the proposal is accepted
this week, coed housing will
begin this fall and continue
until spring 1979. Sexes will be.
alternated by floors to ;
provide individuals- with the
“privacy he or she needs”
, and include “opportunity for
interaction between the
sexes,” according to the
proposal.
“The principle behind any
Aunt to oppose Gandhi
NEW DELHI, India (UPI)
Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi’s aunt, a former
ambassador to Washington,
London and Moscow,
yesterday attacked India’s
state of emergency rules and
said she will join the op
position in the March national
election.
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coeducational living option is
to allow mature interaction
between members of the
opposite sex,” the proposal
said.
The proposal also recom
mends that a male and female
bathroom be built on each
ftoor so no residents must
travel to another floor to use
appropriate facilities. The
other structural recom
mendation the report makes
is that at least one male floor
is joined with one female floor
by a common lounge either
recreational or study lounges.
ARHS and Residential Life
gathered information from
more than 30 colleges and
Commonwealth Campuses
before submitting the
proposal. They will evaluate
the experiment in winter 1979
to decide whether coed
housing works at Penn State.
All full-time students will be
permitted to apply for coed
housing without parental
permission. Assignment to
spaces in the experimental
Vinkayalakshmi Pandit, 76,
a sister of the late Jawaharlal
Nehru, became one of the
most prominent announced
opponents to Gandhi’s. rule.
She charged the national
emergency declared by the
prime minister has
“smothered and destroyed”
India’s democracy.
halls will be made on.a first
come, first-serve basis.
In each tower there are 320
spaces available According to
the proposal, the number of
students from each class who
will be assigned spaces in the
coed halls will be proportional
to the number of students
from each class applying for
all dormitory spaces.
For example, the per
centage of freshmen assigned
to coed spaces will be equal to
the percentage of freshmen
living on campus.
‘‘Coed residence halls
should operate very much like
any other single-sex
residence halls,” according to
Pro and con unionization groups vie for votes
Faculty union groups outline organization plans
be resolved there, according to the release.
“In other words,” Charles Craypo, issues
chairman, said, “whoever is bargaining for
us will represent us only on the issues we
want raised.”
By MATT BENSON
Collegian Staff Writer
The Pennsylvania State University
Professional Association (PSUPA) and the
Penn State Independent Faculty have an
nounced organizational plans in their Bids for
the faculty unionization vote.
In a release, Issues Committee member
Roger Cornish said PSUPA has updated
plans for a democratic organizational
structure if elected to represent the faculty.
PSUPA would be run by a delegate
assembly, with each campus electing
delegates to represent faculty, researchers
and library personnel according to a
population formula, Cornish said.
All programs and issues for collective
bargaining will arise in the assembly and will
the proposal
One resident assistant will
be assigned to each house,
and a night receptionist will
be on duty.
“Residential Life and
ARHS haven’t gotten' a
response from Murphy and
University President John W.
Oswald about the proposal,”
Phil Grosnick, assistant
director of Residential Life,
said. He said it is important
for the University to act
quickly if the plan is to be
implemented Fall Term.
Student dormitory contracts
may be submitted on March
10, the first day of Spring
Term.
To insure, democratic operation, all
matters of dues, permanent constitution and
bargaining issues have been reserved for the
delegate assembly to handle if PSUPA is
voted in as bargaining agent, according to
Gerald Phillips, public relations chairman.
Segments' of PSUPA’s platform will be
released in the next few weeks so that the
potential membership can understand
PSUPA’s position on all major issues,
Phillips said.
He added that copies of the entire platform
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Ellis to seek judgeship
Alan Ellis, a State College
attorney, yesterday an
nounced his candidacy for
Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas of Centre County, in
dicating that he would seek
the nominations of both the
Democratic and Republican
parties.
“It’s time for some fresh
blood, new ideas and
creativity,” Ellis said, adding
that he would be a “judge for
change.”
Ellis said the focal point of
his campaign would be to “de
mystify the law so that it
works for all of us.” He said
he was best qualified to do
that.
He said he sees no reason
will be mailed to all potential voters in the
March 30-31 election.
The Penn State Independent Faculty said
in a release it has formed a speakers’ bureau
to explain its viewpoint that the University
faculty should remain of
unionization.
Roy Buck, in charge of assigning speakers,
said last Saturday the group has had six
requests so far. According to Buck, speakers
have been requested for and assigned to the
following Commonwealth Campuses New
Kensington, Fayette, Ogontz and Bucks
and to the Colleges of Business
Administration and Agriculture at
University Park.
In addition to the speakers’ bureau, Buck
said at least two regional meetings will be
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why a good trial lawyer could
not be a good trial, judge. A
judge should serve a position
of moral leadership and be in
a position to suggest changes,
he added.
Ellis indicated that he
would be running a low
budget campaign with money
frond personal funds. He said
his campaign would be a
frank and open one in which
he would ask questions of the
voters to find but what people
want in a judge.
“I intend to make the legal
system more accessible by
holding night court sessions
and directing the four justices
in the county to do likewise. I
see no reason why a person
held for Commonwealth Campus faculty
members.
The organization Saturday mailed 3,300
copies of two newsletters to all faculty
members eligible to vote in the election. The
letters discuss the group’s opposition to
unionization, and appeal to interested faculty
members to enlist in the movement.
George A. Van Horn, in charge of
newsletter editing and production, said
future newsletters will discuss “the costs of
union bureaucracy, strengthened self
government, the good of the students, a
responsive administration, what the unions
don’t tell faculty members, the myth of
inevitability, and the myth that it can never
happen.” '
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should have to miss a day of
work to see justice,” Ellis
said.
Ellis said if elected he
would, “ride the circuit,”
periodically holding court in
Philipsburg, Snow Shoe,
Penns Valley and State
College.
Ellis, 33, is president of the
American Civil Liberties
Union in Centre County. He
has lived in the county for
eight years. After graduating
from Penn State in 1964, he
attended Villanova Law
School. He has worked under
the U.S. District Court, and
has taught law at the Golden
Gate University in San
Francisco.
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