Senate Hears Walker, Rules

piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii miii associated press uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinyj NewScop e Senate Hears Walke r, Rules The World Senate App roves Changes Walker Ad dresses benate; Czechoslovaks Stage Demonst rations 'Mi g ht Suspend Inj unction ' PRAGUE — More than 2.000 Czechoslovaks, some car- In Student Conduct Rules rying American and British flags and others hurling rocks The University Senate yesterday approved recommended By RHONDA BLANK creases in costs and salaries. at police, staged defiant demonstrations in Pilsen Monday Walker pointed out that the night, 24 years after U.S. forces liberated the city from changes in the wording of Senate Rules W-ll and W-13, both Collegian Stall Writer dealing with student conduct and discipline. appropriations bill currently Nazi Germany. before the Senate " will give us Reports from the western Bohemian city said nearly The changes, presented at yesterday's Senate meeting by University President Eric A. the same amount of money we 400 police using two water cannons were needed to quell , professor of geomorphology and chair- Walker told the University " demonstrators Laurence H. Lattman had last year, even though three separate demonstrations. Forty-five Administration the University will be taking were arrested and three policemen were injured , Czecho- man of the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Student Af- Senate that the slovak informants said. fairs, were introduced because of criticism by many faculty is considering lifting the in- on 2,000 more students next year. In Prague, the Communist party newspaper Rude and student groups that Rules W-ll and W-13 were too vague junction that ivai issued to Pravo blamed the disturbance on "criminal elements" fo- and general. ' break up the Feb. 21 Old Main "1 am worried, but not menting "anti-state actions." scared." he said about the But accounts from Pilsen indicated participants were A bill proposing the adoption of a Uvo-se.mester plus sum- sit-in. situation. He added t h e mostly students and office and factory workers venting mer-term calendar was also presented at the meeting. The In an address at yesterday's U n l versity's appropriations displeasure against the government's renewed pro-Soviet recommendation was made by the Committee on Resident Senate meeting Walker said. will depend on the "general policies and attempts to minimize the role of the Western Instruction and was introduced by the committee's chairman, tenor of the nation." what the Allies in World War II. "It now appears probable thflt people and taxpayers are say- Allen R. Gray, professor of health and physical education. the emergency of two months ing about the current situation • * • Proposal for Delay ago has passed and that it will on college campuses. North Vietnamese Shell U.S. Bases not be necessary to use it (the SAIGON — Aggressive North Vietnamese troops The committee proposed that the Senate discuss the Walker said . "The American shelled three U.S. bases northwest of Saigon yesterday recommendations at yesterday's meeting but hold off a final injunction) to maintain calm University is troubled, that but when they tried to overrun one camp they, left their and orderly discussion, debate , there are groups who resort to vote until the June meeting in order "to provide time for force to enforce their de- dead stacked on the battlefield and fled " back into the faculty, students and all divisions of the University to examine and dissent." bamboo jungle. mands." He added that In trying to overrun a U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division the proposal before action is taken." In his speech . Walker also universities must learn to base 65 miles northwest of Saigon, the North Vietnamese After two motions to delay voting until as late as Winter said that because of the many govern themselves if they do not wish to find themselves ran into point-blank fire from 12 artillery pieces and a Term 1970 failed, the Senate passed a motion by Lattman to bills currently in the State storm of metal from helicopter and plane gunships and Senate. "It is almost sure that governed by an outside group. fighter-bombers. table the bill until the June meeting. Robert J. Scannel. Senate we won't have our (slate) ap- chairman, pointed out that a final vote would not be necessary —Photo by Glenn Kranxley propriations by June 30. " Speaking of the injunctive The battle pitted about 900 enemy troops against 300 process used to break up stu- dug-in cavalrymen, and while the assault broke through even then. the barbed wire Senate "The University will be dent demonstrations. Walker perimeter at several points, the North In discussing the bill, several members, including Joh n J. Walker Addresses " he said , by said when he proposed the idea Vietnamese could not stand the concentrated fire. UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT Eric A. Walker told the Uni working on credit . Coyle, professor of business administration, and Donald H. borrowing money to meet the to a group of university presi- Ford, dean of the College of Human Development, mentioned versity Senate yesterday that the injunction barring siu needs of the University's ex- dents a year ago. they were the great cost that would be involved in changing the present dents from massing in Old Main may be lifted. tended programs, and in- not very impressed, but now, The Nati on "this mechanism is getting to calendar system. be a very popular one: not only Kennedy Calls Proposed ABM Ineffective Suggests Deletion with university administrations WASHINGTON — A 344-page study commissioned by In recommending changes for Rules W-ll and W-13, Latt- but with student groups Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on the Safeguard antiballistic themselves." missile concludes that the system proposed by the Nixon man's committee proposed that the controversial clause TIM Travels to Harnsburg administration "cannot perform effectively the missions which gives the University the power to dismiss students Walker said the advantage in suggested for it." "whose conduct is prejudicial to the good name of the getting an injunction issued is "Our principal conclusion is that there is no need for University," be deleted. that "the burden of taking ac- a decision to deploy the Sentinel-Safeguard ABM system at tion is shiltcd from the Lattman pointed out that this phrase could very well apply Bills this time," said the four main authors, Abram Chayes of To Lobby for Housing university to the civil govern- probably Harvard Law School and Jerome Wiesner, George Rath- even to a halfback who fumbles during a football game. By DON NAUSS Because of the recess. TIM will ment." He said the injunction jens and Steven Weinberg of Massachusetts Institute of Rule W-ll also states that no student may be subject to Collegian Staff Writer postpone a campus-wide referendum on the of Feb. 24. which was issued to Technology. discipline under the general charge of unethical, immoral, bill. The referendum is to demonstrate stu- break up the demonstration at Kennedy suggested the report in February, before the Three members of Town Independent Old Main, docs not itself legal- Safeguard go-ahead was announced dishonest or destructive behavior. All charges against students dent support for the bill in the state capital by President Nixon. Men's Council met yesterday in Harrisburg ly penalize those named in the The announced purpose was to give the public and Con- must cite a specific alleged offense or offenses. and in the University Administration, ac- injunction. Only violation of with Rep. Max Homer (D-Allegheny) to gress the benefit of hearing the nonmilitary side of the No Additional Furor cording to Rhodes. the injunction brings about argument. discuss his proposed housing bill. be run legal action, he said. Referring to the opposition of many students to the pre- "The referendum will probably • * * The bill calls for university approval beginning of fall term vious wording of Rule W-ll, student member Galen Godby, of after May 26 or the Referring to the Special Joint Chiefs Label ABM "Insurance " of off-campus housing for health and safety when the bill will be in the Senate and un- Judiciary Board which he WASHINGTON Lattman's Committee, expressed approval of the new recom- — A report by two prominent scien- standards, rent controls, and the elimination dci stricter opposition." Wynn said. organized to examine the cases tists and a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff mendations. of five students who par- of discrimination against students. The group was satisfied with the accom- calls the Safeguard antiballistic missile ABM system "in- "This resolution will clarify the situation so the furor will ticipated in the Old Main sit-in. surance against war." not arise again," he said. The group which consisted of Rick plishments of the trip, according to Rhodes. Walker said he felt such action It says, "It may well be, in fact, the single most "Homer appeared to have a sincere interest was necessary because of the important step Several members pointed out that the bill does not cite a Wynn. TIM president; Jeff Lobb, TIM vice the United States can take toward a real in the bill and the students concerned. He inadequate disciplinary system and lasting peace at this moment in history." specific court or disciplinary board which would review the president, and Dave Rhodes, TIM secretary- indicated he would consider all of our criti- presently within the "Antimissile defense is an essential component in the cases of students who are charged with an offense. Lattman treasurer, discussed with Homer the weak- University. - network of military systems designed to give the Ameri- explained that the- whole disciplinary system is being reviewed nesses of the bill and the possibility of cism and amend the bill if possible," he can people a seamless garment of security in an age of said.

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