FEBRUARY 9, 1968 of Apathy of Its Constituents

j from the associated press Sends Telegram to Sharer News Roundup: From the State, To Protest Tuition Hike By KITTY PHILBIN and DENNIS STIMEUNG for any organized student effort necessary achieve better results. that the University's Security Department Collegian USG Reporters to voice our'Opinions." The bill was presented to the rules does turn students in promptly after dis- Nation b World Meanwhile, three USG members are committee yesterday, where it was quickly covering illegal actions, and that reports <* Undergraduate Student Government proceeding with their plans to introduce a passed. Congress already has a long range are kept on Security Department investiga- President Jeff Long and Daily Collegian resolution at next week's meeting to re- planning committee .working on revisions, tions. The World Editor Richard Weisenhutter will send a vamp the structure of USG. however, and this may affect the proposed He said that such reports are turned telegram today on behalf of the student bill's chances for passage. over to the Office of the Dean of Men North Vietnamese Shell Khe Sanh body to protest a proposed $100-a-year tui- The sponsors of the proposed bill, which . tion hike. would establish a committee to investigate Long refused to comment on the new Rhodes also said that the University SAIGON — North Vietnamese troops shelled Khe constitutional revision of USG, are Congress- bill. He indicated that he might make a does wait until a student has been civily Sanh heavily yesterday and probed outposts of that U.S. Identical telegrams, co-signed by the two officials will be delivered to Gov. Ray- men Harvey Reeder, Dave Vinikoor and statement concerning it next week, possibly prosecuted before acting in the case, but Marine base in what could be the all-out Communist Terry Klasky. According to Klasky, a town at Tuesday night's WDFM press conference. does not depend upon the verdict of the offensive by which Hanoi hopes to take over South Viet- mond P. Shafer, the majority and minority leaders of the state House of Representa- representative, the committee would be de- At an informal meeting of USG last civil court in judging its disciplinary action nam's northern provinces. signed "to investigate the current structure night, Linda Hartsock assistant dean of on the student. The fall of the U.S. Special Forces camp at Lang Vei, tives, and the Chairmen of the House's Ap- , propriations and Budget Committees. of USG for possible changes". women, condoned a current USG call for Rhodes said that this view of action three miles west of Khe Sanh, had opened a gateway student drug education. from Laos through which the North Vietnamese could Shafer introduced iiis proposed budget The proposed committee will operate from both civil authorities and the Univer- more easily push in men and supplies to bolster elements to the Legislature Wednesday, suggesting outside the framework of USG. Its main "Frankly, I don't think we do enough sity as double punishment or "extended that state universities raise tuitions $100 a purpose will be to examine possible re- around here to inform people," Miss Hart- jeopardy" is false in that punishment of the of two Red divisions that already ringed Khe Sanh. sock said. Communist artilleryi rocket and mortar crews fired year. The budget, effective July 1, still must visions and report on their feasibility to the student is not the primary intent. more than 300 rounds into the Marine base and Red be approved by the Legislature. congress. She cited a recent study published by "If we were merely out to punish the infantrymen temporarily penetrated part of a hilltop out- In addition to the telegrams to state Klasky said that the chairman of the Princeton University as an example of student," Rhodes said, "it would be much leaders, Long said that within the next three committee will be Fox. He will choose six necessary and good drug information for easier to make decisions." post a mile away. The Marines counterattacked and, with the student body there. heavy artillery and air support, drove them off the hill. weeks legislative members will receive from congressmen and six ex-officio members to Rhodes pointed out that, in a majority Enemy detachments still held out in Saigon, Hue, him a letter of protest. serve on the committee. When questioned at the meeting about of cases referred to the University after civil Dalat and Can Tho in the battle of the cities, launched USG Vice-President Jon Fox said that When asked for his opinion on the pro- University policy on disciplining students action, the University merely notifies the by the Viet Cong Jan. 30, as the enemy threat loomed he talked with student government leaders posed bill, Fox replied that constitutional before or after civil prosecution , James student of the impropriety of their action . in the north. at the University of Pittsburgh and Temple changes are not always the best way to Rhodes, Assistant Dean of Men, said that in The Dean said that he has handled yesterday, and will "contact the other create better student government. He said his office "it is not a policy to turn students "well over 100 esses of that 'nature since threatened colleges also. that better informed leaders and congress- over to the authorities immediately." last summer, and only one has returned" • • Fox said that he will "keep in touch men and greater student support would Rhodes said that he does "have an ide a" for a second offense. Tet Offensive Disrupts* Vietnam Financially SAIGON — THE South Vietnamese government has allotted $5.08 million to its National Recovery Committee to repair some of the damage wrought by the current Com- munist offensive. This means a disruption in the government's shaky plans to win over the nation's 17 million people. Fratsrnity Suffers $2 /000 Damage Part of the money will come from the U.S. government. But most of it will have to come from a paring down of current South Vietnamese programs such as the pacification effort, U.S. officials say. They point out that the U.S. aid program already is stretched to the limit. Alumni Might ¦ The new program's financing represents about 25 per cent of planned nonmilitary expenditures by the government in 1968. The Communist offensive, which began Jan. 30, has Press Charges brought major destruction to scores of South Vietnamese cities and towns, meaning a drop in 1968 of expected tax By JUDY RIFE know that several brothers who income and a further strain on the government's programs. Special to The Daily Collegian were suspended from the fra- me Delta Tau Delta alumni ternity last June contributed to • • • corporation is consid ering the damage. pressing charges against broth- Jackson said stolen items in- er s and pled ges who caused cluded mattresses, chairs, The Nation several thousand dollars worth dishes , silverware, desks, dressers and household main- Strike Slows Operations at 3 Railroads of damage to the fraternity house last weekend. tenance supplies. Three major railroads conducted restricted operations The men also broke into the under strike conditions The damage was done while yesterday as a federal court re- the men were moving out of private chapter room and prop- straining order prevented the walkout from spreading erty closet and took ceremonial to a fourth road the house at 400 E. Prospect , the Union Pacific. Ave. The house was closed Jan. robes and secret symbols, U.S. District Judge Robert Van Pelt at Lincoln, Neb., many of which hac'. been in the temporarily restrained the Union Pacific from reducing 26 by the fraternity's national office. ' fraternity for decades. The the size of its frei ght train crews, a step it had ordered brass DTD letters over the Tuesday. William S. Jackson, adviser and alumni supervisory com- main fireplace, the plaque on An attorney for the Brotherhood of Railway Train- the front of the house and the men had told the cdurt that if the- mittee chairman, estimated ABOVE, IN THE house president's suite, is more scattered railroad was not re- last night that the value of chapter's scholarship plaque strained the union would have no choice but to'-withdraw were also taken, Jackson said. trash and damaged furniture. Below, wall patching plast»i its members from work " stolen-items and property dam- * ages i s $2,000. He said the In addition , lights, doors, win- decorates bathroom fixtures. Judge Van Pelt also ordered the brotherhood not to dows, glassware, mirrors, strike until good faith negotiations on the issues had taken alumni corporation would rather have the sto'en articles chandeliers, furniture , and the place. furnace thermostat were brok- Already struck over the dispute on the size of freight returned and the house cleaned up than have to press charges. en or destroyed. Trash, broken train crews are the Missouri Pacific Lines, its subsidiary glassware, ink, bleach and the Texas & Pacific, and the Seaboard Coast Lines. If the corporation does not take action, the Dean of Men 's bluebook files were scattered office will consider disciplining throughout the house. • the students, according to Mel- Wall patching plaster was * * vin S. Klein, assistant to the poured into toilets and sinks. Florida, Georgia Get Snow Flurries Obscentities were carved on Snow fell in such unlikely places as central Florida Dean of Men. Klein said the action his office would take the piano and written on the and south Georgia yesterday prompting the Weather wails. Bureau to caution motorists would depend upon a further to keep their eyes on the evaluation of the damages to Wall Memorial road and not the scenery.

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