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f from the associ ated press ^^^ , n Attem pts To Define Terms 1 News Roundup:• From the State,/ USG To Hear 'Rights Report a By ALLAN YODER Aron Arbittier, East Halls congressman and one of Congress also will vote tonight on a Constitutional Collegian Staff Writer the authors of the original Bill of Rights, said that the amendment calling for a change in the name nf USG to Nation & World committee was attempting to define' the terms "student the Student Government Association. The amendment calls The Undergraduate Student Government will hear affairs" and "authorized bodies." for the seating of the president of the Graduate Student a report on the Bill of Rights tonight fram Student Af- Much of the original opposition to the bill stemmed Association as an ex-officio member of Congress. The World fairs Committee Chairman Tom Ritchey. from the lack of definition for such terms. The first amend- Lachman Author The Student Affaiis Committee has been studying ment read, "USG- shall be the sole authority and final The amendment was written by Bob Lachman, USG Czech Leaders Appeal To Striking Students the Bill of Rights since its defeat at the last USG meeting judge in all areas concerning student affairs on the Uni- town congressman. Lachman said he does not expect the PRAGUE — Czechoslovakia's leaders appealed last two weeks ago. The Bill, made up of five constitutional versity Park campus." Many dissenting congressmen said bill to pass and added he hopes it will be given to the ¦n ight to striking students to end their massive sit-ins and amendments, then was sent to committee for revisions and "student affairs" could' mean anything that goes on at the Rules Committee for revision. Lachman said the Rules "stop in time the danger which is threatening us." research. University. Committee will be able to do the necessary research on The joint declaration broadcast by the presidiums of The committee has heard reports from administrative Released in Winter the amendment. Certain provisions, such as a way for the Communist party, the government, the National As- personnel, faculty members and congressmen who op- graduate students to elect their own congressmen, should sembly and the Trade Union Council said "irresponsible posed the Bill. Arbittier also said the revised version of the Bill of be included in the amendment, he said. people" were trying to channel student activity to "divide 'No Comment' Rights probably will not be released to Congress until the Lachman said the purpose of the amendment is to the working class." This is a serious accusation in a- Com- beginning of Winter Term. Arbittier added that Ritchey, make Congress a "more representative union and to pro- munist country. Ritchey would make no comment on tonight's report. in his report to Congress, would include reports from mote the welfare of the student body as a whole." The students, protesting a loss of freedom under Krem- His reluctance to speak is consistent with the committee's administrators and faculty whom the committee has inter- According to Lachman, USG needs "an image change." lin pressure in this Soviet-occupied country, said they policy of keeping its meetings closed. viewed. These include Charles L. Lewis, vice president He said, "With an increased constituency of all Penn State would prolong for 24 hours the sit-in strike that had been One congressman summed up the committee's feeling for student affairs, and Laurence H. Lattman, professor students, we'll have more power when we go to Presi- scheduled to end at 8' p.m. The strike began three days when he said, "I think it's only right that USG members of geomorphology, and chairman of the undergraduate dent Walker and the Board of Trustees." ago. be the first to know about the findings of our committee." student affairs committee. (Continued on page four) But there were reports that disagreements among the students over an ending time had resulted in a compro- »"T T wPJ^S- mise that would end the strike at noon today. ETSTSrl ' * wT^m VC Attack U.S.• Camp• North of Saigon lst$ SAIGON — North Vietnamese troops, in their second attack within a week, struck at a U.S. camp north of Sai- Arnelle Justifies gon yesterday as enemy rocket and mortars rained on cities and towns without letup. The attacks underscored once, more that fighting in South Vietnam will continue regardless of what goes on at peace negotiations in Paris. The North Vietnamese opened up with mortar fire on a night bivouac of U.S. 1st Division infantrymen 24 miles Ethnic Power north of Saigon. Then about 150 enemy soldiers attacked the camp with machine guns and grenades. By MARGE COHEN to a flag and a nation that felt no allegiance for At daybreak, after three hours of fighting, artillery them." Collegian Staff Writer and gunships drove off the attacks. U.S. headquarters said "We have suffered in silent humiliation." at least 12 enemy soldiers were killed. One American was he said, "while the white man has enjoyed the killed and 12 were wounded. Saying consistency and tolerance should determine American foreign policy for better best of society by the mere accident of being The action was south of where a South Vietnamese born white." ranger fire base was attacked by about 500 North Viet- international relations, H. Jesse Arnelle said namese . Nov. 14 in the first enemy-initiated action in last night this country's policy now is an It is time for the black man to "demand ¦weeks. "enigma wrapped in a riddle." visibility and the best our nation has to offer," Speaking at the Human Rights-United Na- he said, telling a story of an innocent man im- • • • tiors banquet in the Hetzel Union Building, Ar- prisoned for a crime he did not commit. Future of European Money Hangs in Balance nelle said "out of the nightmare of slavery "Restitution must be .made," he said. BONK, Germany — The future of the French franc and came a set of attitudes woven in the- fabric of The black man is saying '"We are here to perhaps other Western currencies hung in the balance yes- this now badly tattered cloth of democracy." stay,'" Arnelle noted , addin g that no longer will terday at an emergency meeting of the men who run This overshadows the "threat of envisioned the black man "show indifference to his treasuries and central banks of the world's 10 wealthiest dangers," he continued. heritage." nations. First for War Most major money markets were shut to check specu- It is not in the nuclear "balance of terror" lators' attacks on the franc and rising pressure against the that the danger to America lies, Arnelle said, No longer should the black man "be a first dollar and the pound in the second international monetary but in the denial of the black man to share in class citizen for the purpose of war" and a se- crisis of 1968. _- _ . _ _' - ':, „ ^^^ S^^ W^ BSSi-, the "American dream." , cond class citizen in times of peace, he said. Both the dollar and the British pound were affected L ^ ^ ' .J" . "Today, the black community -is the envy No more should the black man be "first' incidentally by the near-panic flight of capital from France. FORMER STATE SPORTS GREAT, H. Jesse Arnelle' and Mr. and Mrs. Mickey Bergstein, and concern of the American political system," class in support, of justice, but second class in Speculators had rushed to change French -francs for West Bergstein is station manager of WMAJ), shown here trading remarks. Arnelle spoke to Arnelle said. "No longer does the black man experiencing justice," he further emphasized. German deutschemarks, considered at the moment to be about 300 students, faculty and Stale College residents last night in HUB Ballroom. pound on the white man's door for integration. Arnelle said the white American "pur- the world's strongest currency. He has found racial pride and historical posefully obscured the reality that the black To cool off the fever, both France and West Germany significance." man shares his dream. ordered their foreign exchange markets closed for the Sharing this "one black American's "Until Americans accept at home that the' rest of the week. Tourists and businessmen needing to thoughts on the black man and the American universality of men outw.eigh their difference," swap currencies had to depend on available stocks in com- dream," Arnelle said "the black man is doing Arnelle continued, "problems will continue." mercial banks and other local outlets. Affairs Group his thing." '- " "'" , Anthropologists have reported that " men are 95 Student > New Meanings percent more alike than they are different," he explained. The Natio n Through the ' revelation of the black Lou Rawls "The controlling factors are culture and en- Fulbright Committee May Fi g ht Nixon Moves Delays Vis itdtion Action historical culture, black artists like vironment." he said. "And the common and Aretha Franklin and black literary figures universal desire to achieve WASHINGTON — Richard M. Nixon's campaign "doing his denominator is a statements point to the possibility of continued differences By DIANE LEWIS The committee still is work- present, must be hung on the like James Baldwin the black man is freedom and the fullest of man 's God-given ing on the bill and the door. breaking away from the old bag and between the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Collegian Staff Writer thing, potential, to be productive and/or creative, fo postponement is not a "buck- If the bill passes, each establishing a bag of his own," he said.

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