Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 12-10-1965 The B-G News December 10, 1965 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The B-G News December 10, 1965" (1965). BG News (Student Newspaper). 1912. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/1912 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. Initiative Petition Passed By Council By LARRY FULLERTON representative, had introduced by Council concerning an examin- Issue Editor the initiative petition proposal ation file in the University earlier in the year and it was Library. The Initiative petition amend- defeated. In the letter. President Jerome ment was passed by a 26-1 vote It was reintroduced at the last said he is personally in favor of at last night's Student Council meeting, in a reworked form. the resolution. meeting, but must be approved This was amended incorporating He said the resolution must again at the next meeting, before the ideas of both bills. receive faculty support and that it becomes pan of the Student Basically, the amendment, if he has looked to the SenateCom- Body Constitution. passed at the next meeting, will mittee on Student Relations, the In other business, a constit- provide students with another Senate Committee on Academic utional amendment concerning method of introducing legisla- Policy and the University's Ac- selection of freshman council tion. It also provides for an ademic Council for recommend- representative candidate was all-campus election on the leg- ations and approval. introduced, a resolution concern- islation if it is rejected or am- Two committees were ap- ing parking in the area near ended by Student Council. pointed by Baker, one is to cor- fraternity houses was passed and Jack Baker, student body pres- relate Student Council efforts in members of the Publications ident, read a letter from Pres- course evaluation research with Board were approved. ident William T.Jerome, in re- faculty work in this area. Jack Hartman, Junior Class gard to a resolution sent to him (Continued on page six) The B-G News MACHINES couldn't do... Serving a Growing University Since 1920 Friday, Dec. 10, 1965 Vol. 50, No. 45 Gemini 6 Readied .MEN COULD! Engaged in establishing, Christmas permanently on campus, the Spirit ' and Traditions Board and others put the fin- ' For Sunday Blastoff ishing touches to the tree's security. The | tree, from Napoleon, Ohio, is to be lit by Pres-^ HOUSTON. Tex^AP)--Gemini across the sky and try to man- ident Jerome at 6:30 tonight. Photos by Roger ' 6 launch crew received orders euver within a few feet, perhaps Holliday. yesterday to prepare for a Sun- a few inches. day morning firing to attempt In other news concerning the the first U.S. space rendezvous Gemini flight, it was disclosed one day ahead of schedule. yesterday that there has been Preparations at Cape Kennedy an outbreak of tuberculosis were 24 hours ahead for the aboard the prime recovery ship blastoff of a Titan 2 rocket which for the Gemini mission, the air- will propel Gemini 6 in pursuit craft carrier Wasp. Four sus- of astronauts Frank Borman and pected cases were flown to hos- James Lovell in their Gemini pitals on the mainland. 7 spaceship. Lieutenant Colonel Borman and The senior medical officer Commander Lovell will prepare aboard the ship said the outbreak for the space chase by mane- cannot be termed "anything like uvering their craft into a cir- an epidemic." Gemini flight cular orbit 185 miles above the surgeon. Dr. Charles Berry, said earth, the desired position for the he does not believe there is any rendezvous. Their present or- risk involved to the spacecrews, bital heights range from 146 to who will be taken to the Wasp 196 miles. after splashdown. The Gemini 6 astronauts. Navy Space agency spokesmen Capt. Walter M. Schirra, and aboard the Wasp agreed with Dr. Air Force Maj.Thomas P.Staf- Berry and said the T-B cases ford, are to chase Gemini 7 will not affect recovery plans. Casting To Be Held For WBGU-TY Play Casting for "Harry" the first Cast tryouts will be from 7:30 original Univeristy television to 9 p.m. Tuesday and 4 to 5:15 Johnson Defends Viet War dramatic production to be pre- pjn. Wednesday in the new tele- sented by WBGU-TV, will be vision building. Students inter- JOHNSON CITY (AP) -- Pres- suit of freedom as a deep and with heavy heart, reply in kind. held Tuesday and Wednesday. ested in technical work should ident Johnson introduced his re- moral obligation that will not let And not until reason perished in "Harry" Is an original drama contact Mr. Ungurait. marks on Viet Nam in his speech us go." the aggressor's path did we turn written by Donald F. Ungurait, to the AFL-CIO yesterday by first in 1916, and again in 1941, The President continued: producer-director of WBGU-TV saying: to force, as the ally of freedom. "I know it does not always seem and instructor of speech. Mr. Choirs To Perform "Every day someone asks: that way. Political uncertainties Ungurait will also be in charge The sounds of Christmas will 'Why are we in Viet Nam? Then the President said: often abscure our underlying pur- of production of the play, which come to the University Ballroom "And every day I want to an- "I know it is said by a few: pose. Our own failures as men-- will be televised Feb. 4. at 8:15 p.m. Sunday as theSchool swer: not for economic reasons; "But Viet Nam is different. Our pollticians and generals, dip- "Harry" is a war story about we are spending our treasure, not stake there hardly Justifies one of Music presents its annual lomats and reporters--cause us five men, four of them soldiers Christmas program. reproducing it, there. boy's life." ' And not for reasons of sel- to question the wisdom of our Viet Nam is different. The and the fifth their prisoner. The Appearing in the first half of course. plot revolves around the psychol- the concert will be the 60 mem- fish pride; the lives of our sons aggression has chosen a different ogical and emotional problem of ber Collegiate Chorale, singing are too great a price for national "And nothing, perhaps, app- terrain, a different people, and a what to do with the prisoner a selection of Christmas carols vanity. ears so contradictory to the cause different kind of war to satisfy when the prison camp is ordered under the direction of Dr. Fiora "Not for reasons of empire; we serve as the use of force his appetite. But his goal is the abandoned. Contino, associate professor of our own sense of others' rights to advance it. Not even the ab- same-someone else's freedom. "Although the entire cast of music and director of choral and the harsh judgments of his- sence of alternatives to the use "To defend that freedom to the play is male, a large group activities. tory on the conquerors do not of force to meet aggression les- permit its roots to deepen and of students is needed to work on Other musicians scheduled to speak well of either the morality sens our distaste for it. grow without fear of external the technical aspects of the pro- appear in Sunday's concert are or the logic of imperial Johnson said: suppress ion--is our purpose in duction," Mr. Ungurait said. the Treble Clef Singers, the Fine ambitions." "Only when petition and per- South Viet Nam. Unchecked ag- He said that no experience is Arts Children's Choir, the A Johnson said: suasion failed was the shot fired gression against free and necessary to work on the play, Cappella Choir, and the Sym- "We are there because for all that was heard around the world. helpless people would be a grave which he " hopes will bring new phony Orchestra. our shortcomings, for all our Not until appeals to common threat to our own freedom--and talent into the field of television Program tickets may be ob- failings as a nation and a people, sense brought forth the cannon's an offense to our own con- dramatic production." tained at the Music Bldg. we remained fixed on the pur- roar at Fort Sumter did Lincoln, science." page 2 The B-G News, Friday, D*c. 10, 1965 News Editorial Page From Our Readers Conklin Men Disputes Student Evaluations the average student is deeply con- allel in business for faculty pres- To the editor: vinced that tenure leads to slack Display Leadership A few observations about the tige and professional status. teaching and that faculty mem- student- evaluation controversy. Several students have told me bers with tenure are practical- TI*e men of Conklin Hall are to be commended for taking a vital 1. Student evaluation may be you don't get tenure in business. Interest in*he campus and city community. Throughout the year. ly out of the control of thier valuable in very large univer- Hence, students infer that pro- departments and the school. Dr. Conklin's men have been performing tasks for others, with hopes sities where communications be- fessors should be a superior type Ogg spoke to this point recently, of stimulating other housing units to follow suit.