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DAILY NEWS Vol. 48 — No. 128 Wednesday Morning, March 19, 1969 Ball State University - 47306 versify Senate revamped ARAISO, Ind. (AP) - Valparaiso University students General studies to be topic ve won a louder voice in campus government as a of a two-day "talk-in" between students and faculty rs. at Tuesday's open hearing bcommittee composed of five members each from the University and Student senates voted unanimous By Mary Jo Mucha plete this program. It also pro- quiry, relate knowledge from al Tuesday of aproposal for one-third of the members Students and faculty members vides students with a basis for various fields and encourage con- University Senate to be students. The 32-member will have the opportunity to ex- common discourse and provides tinued liberal education. is now all-faculty. press their opinions on the Gen- professors of advanced classes William Bock, assistant pro- parate student and faculty councils would be formed eral Studies Program at an open the assurance that all students fessor of physiology and health together they would compose the single senate. Each he.t ing on Tuesday, March 25 have had similar background pre- science, is chairman of the ommittee would have equal student and faculty repre- at 7 p. m. in PM 102. paration. committee which is staffed by tation. At this hearing, the proposed All the separate general faculty from each college in the All recommendations made during the two days will be revisions will be explained. Ind- studies courses at Ball State university and students of Ball Sider this afternoon by the University Senate in its ividuals may then state opinions share common goals in the sense State. sent makeup. and contribute ideas to the form- that they promote a spirit of in- (Continued on page 2) President Albert G. Huegli cancelled classes for the two ation of the new program. Gen- s and set up the discussions in the gymnasium after eral education primarily involves Student Coalition group presented a series of demands and the fields of humanities, natural oposals. science and the social and be- Three soloists Huegli flatly rejected a student proposal that nominating havoral sciences. committees be named each time it is necessary to name a Ball State's present General w vice president for student affairs, dean of men, dean Studies Program was formulated women or dean of student activities. in 1961 and put into effect in firstsrsts A request for relaxing a coed curfew was granted before autumn 1963. Since then, instit- By Jane Iddings lease continued. the discussions started. The principal change lets freshmen utional and social changes have Receiving individual awards at Besides three members of the s stay out an hour later, till mid-night Sunday through produced conditions which made the Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz combo Ball State sent 21 repre- ursday and till 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Juniors a curricular change necessary. Festival (CJF) held last Friday sentatives for the big band com- were given the unlimited hours which seniors already The transition from teachers' and Saturday were: best flute petition. Schools represented at except that a junior's parents can ask that her hours college to university, from aca- soloist, Warren Jones, Muncie the festival were the University limited. demic divisions to colleges and graduate student; best trombone of Northern Iowa, Case Western Recommendations to be taken up today by the University the increase from 15 to 38 de- soloist, Dave Pavolka, Michigan Reserve, Michigan State and the nate include the formation of a student court system, partments point to the fact that City junior; and best combo ba University of Illinois. lowing living units a certain amout of autonomy, and older ways no longer hold any sist, Wayne Darling. Each band sends in a tape raging for more participation of students in operation significant meaning. recording ahead of time to be Pavolka's Quintet placed judged. Nine big bands and nine the Student Union. General education is based on among the top three combos at the assumption thateducated men combos were invited to play at the CJF. Besides the three mem- the festival, Jones stated. This Toll roads may be built require insight into the relation- bers getting individual awards ship of man and society grounds was the first year Ball State INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana may build four short the other members of the quin- was entered in the contest. for making value judgments and tet are Bill Isom, piano, Univer- roads to replace heavily traveled sections of highway a sense of perspective on the uni- Pavolka received his award re improvements cannot be funded at the present time sity of Illinois, and Jim Ganduglia for the third year in a row _444: _queness of man. drums, Indiana State. any other way, reports Russell H. Harrell, executive In order to achieve this pur- and was awarded a CJF Plaque. for of the State Highway Commission. First place went to the Uni- An Artley gold-plated flute and pose, Ball State requires all versity of Illinois Jazz Band for Harrell would not name the four locations, but hinted undergraduate students to com- a CJF Plaque were given to sday that one might be in Marion County. the third straight year, the re- Jones for his performance. Dar- The revenue generated will be used to improve 157 miles of ling also won a CJF Plaque. statistics show to be "killer highways," said Harrell. Judges for the contest were: roads to be widened are portions of Indiana 31, 41, Student Senate Dan Morganstern, editor of ,24 and 37. Downbeat magazine; Clark Terry, jazz trumpeter on the Association raps Italians plans hearing Tonight Show; Ernie Wilkins, ar- ranger for Count Basie; Gary ROME (AP) - The University Parents Association, An "ad hoc" committee for planned to give senators and in- McFarland, a composer and ar- med recently to deal with Rome's student disorders, Student Senate Reform is plan- terested persons an opportunity ranger; Sonny Stitt, saxophonist; criticized the Italian government for letting Daniel ning an open hearing on repre- to question the re-districting and Rev. George Wiskirchen, ohn-Bendit, the German-born student leader enter Italy. sentative redistricting Tuesday, proposal without using a great C . S. C. "Some countries, even among the most democratic in the March 25, at 7:30 p.m. in SC deal of Senate's time. rld chose to keep this agitator away from their borders, 306, according to Jerry Williams, The new system of represen- ad of letting him use the hospitality of others to chairman. tation would be based on one late written and unwritten laws," the association said Williams stated that Student senate representative for each Applications a statement. Senate is expected to act on district of 380 students, instead several constitutional revisions of the present system of one due today British board warships Thursday, but due to a time senator for each residence hall factor will not get to the re- and a designated number of sen- A 24-hour extension has ST. JOHNS, Antigua (AP) - British paratroopers forming a districting proposal. ators for off-campus. been made for applications tial invasion force boarded warships Tuesday in a Williams stated that the ob- for Model U.S. Senate to be wdown phase of Britain's long dispute with rebellious Thursday's possible revisions jective of his committee's pro- held at Ball State, accord- ilia, another Caribbean island 70 miles away. include changes in senate repre- posals is to create a smaller ing to Jeannie Deavenport, There was no immediate answer, however, to the question sentation of interest groups and senate. He added that the group chairman of the event. Stu- ter Prime Minister Harold Wilson's government will a proposal to relieve the chief had devised a system of com- dent applications are due in Wally employ force to nullify the independence claimed executive of the duty of presi- munication agents to act as aids the Office of Student Programs e mid-1967 by the Anguillans-6,000 or so people of ding over Senate. for senators, giving them more today at 5 p.m. ply African descent. Tuesday's open hearing is time for legislative duties. ()vies submit nuclear ban GENEVA (AP) - The Soviet Union put before the 17- on disarmament conference Tuesday a draft treaty to all military installations, nuclear and non-nuclear, the sea bed, the ocean floor and its subsoil. The draft was presented by the chief Soviet delegate, xei A. Roshchin at the first sessionof the talks following yen-month recess. b a message to the conference, Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin said a solution must also be found to such blems as "stopping the manufacture of nuclear weapons, reduction and destruction of their stockpiles, the tation and subsequent reduction of means of delivery strategic weapons, and securing the prohibition of mical and bacteriological warfare and others." Kosygin concluded: "Let the activities of the 18-nation mmittee be constantly directed by the aspirations of les for a relaxation of international tensions and for wring world peace." U.S, chief delegate Gerad C. Smither came with a onal letter from President Nixon containing what n said are "some new features." It was to be made AN EARLY SPRING--Ball State students take advantage of a sudden change in the weather this week. lie at the opening session. Float hours are spent outside basking in the sun, playing tennis or just conversing outside the Student S. : Center. (DAILY NEWS photo by Kathi Dyer) 2 - Daily News Wednesday, March 19, 1969 Choir, orchestra perform on By Ruth Ann Zearbaugh Brooks.