THEDAILY
9/11/68
PENNSYLViNIAN*
Vol. LXXXIV No. 33 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Copyright 1968 The Daily Pennsylvanian Wednesday, September 11, 1968
Local
Two freshmen, Jan Armon and Barry Goldsmith, are circulating a petition
among the Class of 1972 to abolish the freshman commons dress regulations
requiring coats and ties to be worn for dinner. The petitioners said they obtained
nearly 475 signatures from freshmen outside the commons after Monday night's
dinner. They hope to get signatures from at least half of their class, which the
administration told them would be necessary for the petition to be seriously
considered. "An atmosphere of respectability is not achieved by a tie . . . such
an atmosphere is the result of the actions and manners of those dining, which is
a personal matter," the petition reads. It concludes, "We feel thera should be
no dinner dress rules at all."
An old campus tradition has vanished this fall. Signs warning students
and faculty members that illegally parked cars would be towed away by Lew
Smith, 38th and Powelton Ave., have been taken down. John Keyes, business
manager of the University, said Tuesday that all cars blocking entraces
to buildings or occupying reserved spaces in University parking lots will be
towed away by the Ike Altoonian towing agency to the Murphy Field parking
lot at.Curey and University Aves. Keyes emphasized that there would be no
charge made for towing the car. He also said that the agency has been instructed not to tow a car r.way if the owner arrived as they were preparing
to move it.
National
By United Press International
Only six of the 19 members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
turned up Tuesday for a vote on the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, forcing
a postponement until Wednesday. Sen. John Sparkman, D-Ala., acting chairman in the absence of Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., said he hoped a quorum
of at least 10 members would be on hand for a vote Wednesday afternoon.
Considerable opposition to the treaty developed in the aftermath of the
Soviet bloc invasion of Czechoslovakia, but President Johnson and Secretary
of State Dean Rusk this week urged the Senate to ratify the document despite official American displeasure with Moscow.
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, calling the treaty one of the most
important safeguards against nuclear war, has challenged his Republican
opponent for the presidency, Richard M. Nixon, to join him in calling for Senate ratification. The treaty is a multinational fact, signed so far by 54 countries, designed to halt the spread of nuclear weapons to countries not presently
producing them.
.Johnson and Rusk both emphasized that since it is not bilateral--that is, between Moscow and Washington alone—the treaty should not be considered a
step toward "bridge-building" accomodation between the two superpowers.
Sen. Albert Gore, D-Tenn., said before Tuesday's attempted committee
meeting that he intended to press for approval, which would send the treaty to
the senate floor. He said he felt a "great resurgence of interest" had developed in the last few days.
Votes "had" also "been scheduled off a biir tCproVWe credit for US. arms
sales abroad and on one expanding the lending authority of the International
Monetary Fund.
The treaty is one of the chief items of unfinished business before the
adjournment-minded Senate. The Senate called off its regular session Tuesday
to allow the Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee
to meet through the day. The Judiciary Committee was considering the
appointment of Abe Fortas to be Chief Justice of the United States.
Two white Oakland, California, officers were summarily fired Tuesday
after a fusillade of police bullets smashed into the headquarters of the Black
Panther Party.
No one was hurt in the pre-dawn attack, which came as an
apparent aftermath to the murder trial of Huey T. Newton, founder of the
Panthers. The officers were arrested on charges of felony assault and were
later dismissed from the force by the city manager.
President Johnson, condemning
anew the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, warned the Communist block Tuesday night that "The use of force
and the treat of force will not be tolerated in the areas of common responsability, like Berlin." Johnson told the triennial convention of B'naiBrith in
Washington, D.C. that the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia "has set back
the course of peace." But he held out an olive branch to the Russians, saying
the Soviet Union "can still change, if not undo, what it has done in Czechoslovakia." The President addressed the Jewish Service Organization only
hours after he told the American Legion convention in New Orleans that U.S.
troops cannot be brought home from Viet Nam until an "honorable, stable
peace" is attained, and "no man can predict when the day will come."
International
By United Press International
American infantrymen clashed with a Communist battalion and killed
48 soldiers in fighting that raged into Tuesday night 20 miles south of Saigon,
military spokesmen said Wednesday.
Government spokesmen also said they had unconfirmed reports of heavy
fighting in Tay Minn City near the Cambodian border about 55 miles northwest of Saigon. They said it was possible that part of the city was held by
Viet Cong. The Government dispatched airborne troops to Tay Minn City,
which was the center of a Communist attack in mid-August that resulted in
the killing of 1,000 Communist troops.
Czechoslovak Premier Oldrich Cernick, branded by the Soviet press
"a traitor to Communism" when he last came to Russia to participate in
talks following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, arrived in Moscow
again Tuesday. But this time he received a full protocol welcome at the airport. The only announced results of Cernik's visit and meetings with top Soviet
leaders were agreements for the extension of a Soviet-pipeline into Czechoslovakia and on "other economic matters." But East European Communist
sources said the talks in fact laid the guidelines for further Chech compliance
with Soviet demands and included Chech aquiesce to an economic agreement
said to tie Chechs to Moscow's purse strings for seven years.
Isreal reported a new outbreak of fighting Tuesday along the Suez Canal
cease-fire line. The latest action took place at the point where Egyptians and
Israeli artillery, tanks and mortars fought a 5 1/2 hour battle Sunday. More
than 150persons were killed and wounded on both sides in that eneaeement. More
shootings were also reportedontheIsraeli-Jordanianborder.furtherheightening
tensions in the Middle East whipped dangerously high by Sunday's gun battle,
the worst since the June, 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Plethora of proposals
pushed to ameliorate
maelstrom of malaise
By RONA ZEVIN
The summer that brought riots to Columbia and Chicago and death to Los
Angeles brought Students for a Democratic Society to the University.
The University chapter of SDS differs from the two other major radical
campus groupso While Resistance and the Vietnam Week Committee focus
their activities primarily on the Vietnamese War and its consequences, SDS
plans to concern itself mainly with campus and community issues not necessarily
connected with the war.
"SDS will be more viable," said Jules Benjamin, GSAS, temporary cochairman of the group. "Although we hope to work with the Vietnam Week
Committee, we plan to deal with more issues than the war."
Benjamin, who was chairman of the Vietnam Week Committee last year,
hopes that this new radical group will not conflict with any of the other groups
operating at the University. Since most of the members of SDS are either past
or present members of Resistance and/or the Vietnam Week Committee, he
said that he thinks the groups will probably work together.
The new SDS chapter has emerged from its present position as the labor
committee of the SDS chapter that existed on campus before this semester.
The old SDS will concentrate mainly on off-campus organization and activity.
Benjamin said that it is hard to judge the militancy of the students at the
University this year. "We don't want to be accused of backroom politics,"
he explained. "We haven't made any definite plans for action. We have to
see what develops."
Many of the students attending the meeting were hoping that SDS had at
least some idea of action.
"I don't want to take over a building just for the fun of it," one listener
said. "But I want to do something."
The steering committee of SDS has proposed two projects for the coming
year, an attempt at getting the University to dissociate itself from the University
City Science Center and an increase in what they call "campus democracy."
Many of the 150 students who attended the first SDS meeting left unhappy.
"The same old stuff," one student
said. "The same people are leading
this and all they do is talk."
Over half of the students left in
the middle of the meeting while a
few were debating small points.
"What's the point of listening and
debating a proposal that will only be
rejected by the University," someone
else said,
SDS plans to base its case against
By DEBBIE JAMESON
the Science Center on two facts. Leo
Kormis, a Lab Technician at the
Over 1700 freshmen plunged them-
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JULES BENJAMIN addresses meeting of SDS.
Reality pales summer flush
University, said that while theScience
Center does not have many defense
department contracts at the present
time, its policy of accepting classified
research is incompatible withUniversity policy.
Two years ago, after a controversy
over two biological-chemical warfare
research projects, the University decided to eliminate all classified
research. Some of this work was
transferred to the Science Center, in
which the University owns 42 percent
of the stock.
Kormis emphasized that it is not
the research that the Science Center
is presently engaged in that is
objectionable, but what it will become.
The Science Center is presently
located in one building on the corner
of 34th and Market Streets. It will
expand into 25 buildings covering 22
acres.
Kormis described two proposals to
be submitted to the University,noting
that both were impossible. First he
suggested the University alter the
charter of the University City Science
Center to make it compatible with
the University policy of not accepting
classified research. If this is not
done,
he said that the University
should sever all connections with the
Science Center.
Although the Steering Committee
of SDS all agreed that the University
would
take no action on these
proposals, they did not offer any
suggestions for further action.
A much more concrete demand
was described by Ira Harkavy, college
junior and co-chairman of the group,
who proposed that the University give
back to residents two and one-quarter
acres of land in West Philadelphia
that will be used for development of the
Science Center. Although most of the
residents of the area have already
been relocated, Harkavy claimed that
a survey of residents that was made
over the summer showed that 65
percent wanted to move back.
Harkavy
said
that
West
Philadelphia community leaders have
said that they have the resources for
building housing for 400 people if the
University will give them the land
back.
"The West Philadelphia Corporation is the one who is really doing
the redeveloping,"
selves into the "college experience"
ar the University in a week of excitement and frenetic activity that
nipped the tail off summer.
On Labor Day the class of 1972
tumbled into the atmosphere of 800member classes, all-night bull sessions, protest committees, Philadelphia pollution, fraternities,course
credits, mixers and dorm life. To
meet the inevitable confusion the
University offered New Student Week.
"The aim of New Student Week is,
of course, to orient the new student,"
according to Colby Smith, assistant
dean of men and an administrative coordinator of the program." Our theme
is involvement," he said.
The task of " orienting" new students is particularly difficult in the
era of the multiversity. In a number
of colleges across the nation freshmen are initiated to the schools in
summer sessions during which the
students may register and take the
usual required tests. Up until two
years ago Perm freshmen attended a
summer camp. Green Lane, which
catered to a small group and was
finally abandoned for a new type of
program.
At present, during the first week
of September a round of discussions,
presentations, mixers and dinners
open up the possibilities of four years
in seven days.
On Sept. 2, 1968, the 1,779 men and
women of the class of 1972 began
trundling boxes and trunks into the
Freshmen shown the ropes
women's residence halls which house
freshmen -- Hill, Walnut, Sergeant,
King's Court — and the men's dormitory complex. This year the University experienced an over-response of
approximately 80 students, according
to the admissions office, and the housing facilities were tighter than usual.
Freshmen appeared moderately
pleased with their rooms. "It's not
exactly like the Hilton, but it'll do,"
said one College freshman.
After an afternoon reception for
students and parents and an allfreshmen picnic, students gathered
for the panel discussion presented
by campus leaders on the week's
theme -- student involvement and
responsibility. The presentation represented a revamping of last year's
first night when freshmen attended
Traditions Night, an evening of University sports flicks and school
cheers.
"New Student Week was intended
to get away from that social, gung-ho
spirit," Smith said. "We wanted to
focus on something other than the
band playing."
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'The students were really upset by
some of the discussion," Smith continued. "Many of the boys came back
to the dorms, still discussing it."
The presentation, dealing with
participation, student protest and
black power, among other things, did
indeed disturb many of the students;
but it also excited them.
"It was really exciting, very provocative," said one College for
Women freshman.
"It was exciting to see that there
is a minority which is very vocal,"
said another freshman. "Everybody
knows that this is a frat school and
everybody's drinking beer. I think
that perhaps because of the freshmen
class, the school is tending away from
the Establishment of fraternities."
"I was sort of disappointed'cause
they cut down the University," said a
College freshman. "It wasn't fitting
on the first night."
"The objection I had to the discussion was that there was no one to
really answer the leftist people," said
Rob Lindenberg, College student. I
would have liked to see someone without an axe to grind."
'' People were arguing and I thought
it was great," a College freshman
exclaimed.
The following days brought meetings with deans, academic advisors
and faculty. On Tuesday afternoon the
freshmen-faculty groups attempted to
bring the new students closer to instructors and administrative representatives. Again, the topics dealt
with student involvement, protest,
the draft, participation.
"We had a problem because the
groups were so large," Smith said.
"We didn't really have the small
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he said, "and
the
president
of
the West
Philadelphia Corporation is Gaylord
Harnwell. Although five other bodies
belong
to
the corporation, the
corporation, the University controls
it."
SDS is also proposing a new
constitution to govern the University.
Although again the steering committee
agreed that it would be impossible
to implement, they did not suggest
any action past the writing of this
document.
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photo by HENRY M. DEBUSKEY
PRESIDENT GAYLORD P. HARNWELL presenting a check to the Iranian Relief
Fund.
A pennsive view
A matter of distinction
By MARK LIEBERMAN
To move the nation
As the article in Tuesday's Daily Pennsylvanian made
clear, disillusionment with the political process is widespread on campus. The business-as-usual attitude both
major political parties exhibited in nominating their two
Presidential candidates showed a distinct disregard for both
popular wishes and the temper of the times, and most students resent it.#
Such resentment, it now seems will manifest itself by
widespread abstention from voting in November, or in votes
for minor party candidates like Dick Gregory or Eldridge
Cleaver.
Our point now is not to priase or recommend any such
course of action. It is just to point out that none of these
forms of protest can have any meaning or impact without
one thing: registration.
"Register-and-vote" campaigns have been ritualistic
newspaper filler since the days of Gutenberg. But this is
something else. No appeals to patriotism, to motherhood or
high school civics courses, but simple reality.
Without being registered one cannot vote for any one,
protest candidate or otherwise. Not voting as a form of
protest is valueless to an unregistered voter. This is because
when the votes are counted, the total is compared with the
number of registered voters.
If a significantly larger percentage of registered voters
boycott the polls this year, it will mean something. It will
at least force the losing party to recognize the cause-andeffect relationship between its disregard for popular sentiment and its loss of the election. And such recognition can
lead to lasting change and more party responsiveness—
precisely the goals of abstaining from voting.
The effect of an unregistered person not voting, however,
is nil: no matter what high moral purpose and conscientiousness he may have had in deciding not to vote, he is
statiscally relegated to the huge pile of transients, criminals,
feeble-minded and apathetic citizens who comprise such an
embarrassingly large percentage of the population.
An additional value to being registered is that it does
allow for voting for positions other than the Presidency.
There are senators, congressmen, governors and mayors
in every state who are responsive to the popular will, who
do have insight into the problems of the nation and ideas for
solving them. It would be tragic if they were to lose because
like-minded people, alienated from the whole electoral
It all looks so typically American. A red-blooded,
blue-eyed blond president of a traditional old
fraternity, sitting back, sport-shirt opened at the
Mysock waves like a banner the statement that
his fraternity's national directors signed, a banner
calling on all the people who found closed doors at
Sigma Chi to come back now, now that the door has
attending an all-white high school, in a bigoted
community, going to school with only one "Jewish
person."
There is a strange combination in Sigma Chi,
neck, talking about the good things his house stands
been officially opened
a combination of an old traditional fraternity
for. It was a bit different though. This time he
admitted his fraternity had been wrong. This time
the admission came that his fraternity— his symbol
of all that college life stands for—had endured a
national policy making it difficult, if not next-toimpossible to pledge a Jew, a Catholic, or a black
student.
Ed Mysock, president of Sigma Chi, is a senior.
He's watched his house bear a black-sheep label in
the' Interfraternity Council on this campus. He
can fully understand why eyebrows were raised when
it was learned that the national organization of Sigma
Chi had signed the University statement saying that
nothing in the fraternity ritual or requirements for
membership is discriminatory, and that— infact— the
fraternity does not discriminate in practice.
Mysock doesn't try to get around the issue, he
can't. "Sigma Chi," he admits quite candidly, "of
course, has had a reputation of discrimination."
The reputation has no support now, but it did, and this
is what Mysock and his brothers have to fight.
It is hard to imagine today that a group which
considers its members "brothers" could now or
could have ever been able to distinguish between
potential members on the basis of race creed or
color, but that was Sigma Chi.
"Nobody is going to tell us to discriminate. If
I find a freshman who is a good guy and just happens
to be a Negro I'll rush him. Of course, you can't hide
the fact that he's black.
"I would say that the vast majority of the brothers
in our house are of such character that they would
judge this man on the basis of his qualities alone.
"There are many people who are not white
Christians, quite a few, I'm sure who could add a
lot to our house, a lot to any house, a lot to any
organization. It's that some people being brought
up in an atmosphere in which they have learned to
dislike some people on the basis or race or
religion and that is ridiculous.
"There are two colored boys I met here who are
really fine guys, fine enough to be Sigma Chi's,
in my opinion."
The phase "race, creed, or color, was noticeable
absent from his comments. It was just about the
only "motherhood, apple-pie, and the flag" cliche
which he left out.
"There once was a time when we couldn't
take Jews, couldn't take Catholics, couldn't take
attempting under the leadership of a forward looking
president to overcome a damaging reputation.
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Sir:
We have also noted the lost feeling that seems to pervade the political thinking of many of today's college students ("Students Express
Political Views", 9/10/68). I also was
process and therefore unregistered, could not vote for them.
unsure of what course to follow when
And it would crush completely any chance of change in the
system.
Allied to this is the fact that if a progressive senator or
governor rolls up more votes than the head of his ticket, or
even wins while his party's Presidential candidate loses, the
ramifications on state and national party politics are bound
to be enormous.
Why register?
Not at all to support the system; but to encourage—by
bestowing, or witholding, a vote—the signs of change within
it.
faced with the choice, or lack of it,
between Richard Nixon and Hubert
Humphrey.
There are those that have proposed anti-Humphrey rallies which
seem to answer Mayor Daley's tactics
That support will not be easily obtained. As
he admits, even his own membership would not
solidly support the initiation of a black member.
Yet, he announces quite proudly that the membership
discussed the University statement and found nothing
objectionable to it.
supposedly forgiven. Jerry Robinson's eyebrows,
which headed skyward when he got the word that
Sigma Chi's national directors had signed the
University statement, have lowered now, but he
can only wait to see signed sentiments put into
action.
Signed statements by a national fraternity, or
even votes by the campus IF council, are no
assurance of fraternity compliance with University
or fraternity policy.
Last year, W passed a tough anti-hazing code,
yet provided little or no policing agency. The vote
against hazing was overwhelming, yet some houses
were still found to have engaged in allowing their
brothers to play animals for all, if not part of the
six week pledge program.
Now the fraternities have virtuaUy aU complied
with the University request, with little or no
hesitation, yet there is no assurance that this policy
will be followed.
The Sigma Chi house, like most others on the
campus, is a closed house. Doors aren't locked
to outsiders, but there is a binding force which
locks the brotherhood in, shielding them from the
outside. In one, two, or three years they will have
left the fraternity house, but you can only guess
whether they'll still think like fraternity men.
Fraternities bear a certain stigma on this
campus. It is a reputation which, like Sigma Chi's,
is not necessarily good. Just signing a statement
or passing an anti-hazing code isn't changing
anything.
Every so often, Ed Mysock's western Kentucky
accent comes
through his northern-oriented,
northern tainted remarks, and you can see him
Letters to the editor
THE NEW PARTY
Mysock cannot do it alone, and he doesn't only
need his fraternity brothers to support him. He
needs the membership of the 32 other "brotherhoods" scattered throughout the campus.
ROBERT MILLER
DIRECTOR
1:30 and 8:30
Notes and comment
The avenues of dissent and proper action seem to have ended in dead ends.
Our concern for the burning gut issues of the day flared and died in Miami and
Chicago. Our flames of bright and young caring have gone to burn underground.
What is the thing this year? What is the itch, the concern, the worry? What
keeps the ceiling visible for hours in the night?
Searching for something to sink the teeth of caring into; looking for the transcendant irkling, to forget courses, sex worries, home problems. To put into
their little place the irrelevancies of education in this year of national irrelevance.
Hard coring is the thing; tight-knit SDS makes the scene that idealistic
Vietnam Week members held just a year ago. The joyous sharing and crusading
of last October forgotten under the weight of orange balloons in Miami and HHH
in Chicago (picket fences look a lot like HHH symbols).
The barbed wire of the mind holds caring in check; we make a vague search
for a striking, holding, gripping ching that just won't come.
Last year, it was easy. The war, the draft, pot; the conversation could take
them in. But now, it's different. They've joined God on the shelf of embarrassing
topics. It's like death; it's important, but you don't talk about it.
This year. This year. That's the problem. Last year, we cared. All the
hoopla of finally channeling the disengaged youth into the political process
(McCarthy); all the hoopla about finally offering a choice in the election (Rockefeller); what happened?
Did caring help? Did cleaning for Gene help? Did non-violence help? But the
worst is yet to come, one fears. Seventy-two per cent of the American people
liked what they saw when Daley's cops waded into the protesters in Chicago. So
there really isn't the wave of liberalthought.There is a wave of hate.
CHARLES A. KRAUSE
Editor-in-Chief
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CLUB,
Ethos- Up against the wall
Comes the election; the lemming-like union voters will sweep one of their
boys into office; all the not-seeing, not-caring will give Nixon or Humphrey (who
cares which) a "mandate" to keep these uppitymisfits on the run in the ghetto,
on the picket line, in Grant Park.
How can all the commentators even pretend that "liberals do well in big
cites" anymore. The mass of the voters are racist, reactionary, and almost
impervious to reasoned debate. The country's iceberg; the huge underlying
group of people who hate anything that's new: they dictate where this country
goes, not the boldly flashing meteors of all-cleansing reform.
How can there be something to care about when a police force riots? Who
can put down a police riot? Who gets called in to restore order? How can there
be something to care about when a bloated hypocrite can control the fortunes
of the largest major national party?
Last year we cared; this year, it seems, we hate. Hate the pigs who can do
only two things, hit with the right arm and hit with the left. Hate the politicians
who won't let the voice of youth and change sing in a Chicago amphitheater. Hate
the system that puts before the American people a warmed-over has been, and
a fresh-frozen sometimes was.
There has been the cry that there is a new direction toward liberal and
refreshing thought. But now, the old leader Nixon calls for "new leadership."
The Richard Goodwins and the Theodore Sorensens can't begin to compete with
the Mayor Daleys and the millions of people who thought the Chicago police
were justified in rioting in front of TV cameras while protesters looked on.
Let us reason together; how foolish that sounds after the reasoning sessions
this summer. How foolish that sounds when a man screaming surrender is
beaten senseless by smiling police. But can hate be the answer? Can hate take
the place of concern? Can hate replace positive activism?
What does it take to break through the wall that must surround the minds of
the American people. How much will suffice to make the weight of the giant
feeling felt?
Must deadening horror and apathy replace the glittering caring of last year,
last October, last March?
So people stand, asking each other, "What is the thing this year?" What is
the concern, the rub, the worry, the issue? It looks as though looking for the
thing is the thing. It looks as though despairing is the widespread activist
activity. It looks as though running into a stone wall at every possible place has
put down the relentless energy of self-righteous causers.
Can the concerns of self take the place of the concerns of the world? How
can failing math make any difference when the world is failing man? But that's
so far away, and your parents don't really care if you march against the Hump,
and they do care about that F in Math, and they might take the car away if you
do fail math, and without the car you can't see that girl in Norristown you've
been making it with, and anyway what difference does it make because last year
you missed a midterm to go to New Hampshire and that was a waste of time
because McCarthy didn't make it after all and your Dad got pissed off because
who do you think you are charging the airplane fare on the credit card he only
gave you for emergencies like his birthday.
So maybe you'll worry about that F in math and let the world go to hell,
which is where it is anyway and maybe it belongs there.
People sit; in the Drug, in dorm rooms, in apartments. What do they say,
what do they talk about? They vilify Daley, they say the Humphrey-Nixon ticket
is a farce, they ask what sort of summer did you have, they discuss weird ways
their friends have beaten the draft.
But what are they thinking, what are they caring about, what do they want?
Well?
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in kind. There are those who urge the
The most disgusting part of the discriminatory
attitude fraternities here perpetuate is that they
are strangling themselves in the process. The
Robert Hall jacket may dress a CIC member, the
unfortunate athlete may have drifted into the International Affairs Association, the dateless first-year
man may spend his evenings and weekends working
with the Tutorial Board. Yet these men will be
overlooked in favor of the boys forSigmaChi and its
32 brother IF members.
These boys would let the houses remain the way
they are, the men could only make it better.
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buring of voter registration cards.
But these are not constructive views,
these are not the type of actions that
will help to build a better America
in the years to come.
In the place of such senseless destruction, we, of the fourth party,
It is not basically a Jewish house rejecting a
non-Jew. It is more a house rejecting the rushee who
is wearing a Robert Hall sport jacket, rejecting the
rushee who was cut from the freshman football team,
or rejecting the rushee who hasn't had a date since
he arrived on campus.
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This is the hypocrisy Sigma Chi faces. This
is the hypocrisy all fraternities face. A signature
is relatively easy, even a signature on such a
seemingly all inclusive statement such as the
University distributed. Yet while these statements
have been signed, they do not come close to
relieving the mark most houses bear, not merely
for discrimination per se, but for the more subtle,
more disgusting methods they use in screening
prospective brothers.
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groups we wanted. Hopefully we can
have more of this type."
At the New Student Week information booths located in the dorms and
Houston Hall, students asked most
frequently about "drop and add",
where to eat and where to find activities. "The freshmen ask a lot of
questions," said Stanley Berke, a
booth coordinator. "We were really
impressed by their interest."
In other programs during the week
the freshmen continued to explore
the various aspects of The University.
At Wednesday formal exercises Dr.
Roland M. Frye, professor of English,
reflected that the function of the university is to provide "knowledge and
understanding" with which "menmay
be enabled to organize their own lives
and the life of their society on a more
humane and rewarding plane." Activities Night on Wednesday, during which
hundreds crowded the booths set up
on Locust Walk, offered information
to freshmen on the clubs, organizations and activities through which the
student could "involve" himself in
some way.
The challenges to a freshman seem
numberless and at times indefinable.
A major concern among both men and
women is dating. Especially among the
boys, who outnumber women by a
ratio of three to one, the social life
is at first a disturbing encounter.
The latest edition of theBirnbaum
and Cass book, "The Comparative
Guide to American Colleges", notes
that the University has experienced
a revitalization of fraternities and
sororities compared to a decline on
other leading campuses. Whatever the
reasons for the upswing, there appear
to be some unique social pressures
at the University. To a certain degree
the University has acquired the reputation of a "social" school.
The New Student Week included
three mixers.
"There were just so many guys
and so few girls," said David Ushman,
a College freshman. "At the last
mixer somebody threw water on the
band and stopped it for a while. That
was about the most interesting thing
that happened."
"The mixers were terrible," said
a CW freshman. ' 'They were like high
school dances."
A second concern of freshmen is
the problem of academic advising.
"They (the freshmen) were very
disgruntled .that they have received no
advising from the College," Smith
said. "I think it's important for the
student to have faculty relationships
and someone to alk to."
Dr. Marshall Swain, vice dean in
the College of Arts and Sciences, explained that the trouble was due to a
changeover in the advising system.
The College is presently assigning a
certain number of advisees to each
department depending on the department size. Previously faculty members were expected to volunteer as
an adviser. The new system means
that there will be more advisers
with more individual attention for the
student.
"I know there were quite a few
students who found themselves without
advisers," Swain said. "I think the
problem is solved now."
Still another concern to freshmen
is the adjustment to group living. The
majority of new students have lived
at home through high school and the
arrival at college brings with it new
forms of independence and an unfamiliar environment.
The college career of the class of
1972 has only begun. Underlying a
number of freshmen comments is the
expectation of something different.
There is the hope among many that
classes would be challenging, that
dating would not be "just like high
school." And the freshmen had, perhaps , a growing sense of participation.
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MARK SCHLESINGER
$859,000 has been given to the University to establish
the Rena and Angelius Anspach Institute for Diplomacy
and Foreign Affairs, a training program for UJ5. diplomatic
corps.
The money was the bequest of the late Miss Jeanette
M. Anspach of Philadelphia, a 1920 graduate of the School
of Education. The institute was named for her parents.
The graduate-level institute, which will open in the next
year, will be affiliated with the department of political
science, and will be housed in Dietrich Hall. The major
goals proposed for the institute are to,
.Improve the state of knowledge about international
affairs and diplomacy;
.Prepare qualified personnel for governmental service
in Foreign Affairs and Diplomacy, as well as to train
those who intend to train others for such service;
.Provide informational services at the University on the
subject of careers in international affairs and foreign
service of the U^. government;
•patronize
our
(Continued from page 1)
The proposal is that University
policy be made by an elected group
consisting of one-third students, onethird faculty and one-third employees
of
the University. The third
category would include P-ladies,
maintenance men, and administration
officials such as the president and
provost
NCAA
(Continued from page 6)
The "sucker shift", where an
offensive lineman will assume his
three-point or tripod stance and shift
with his linemates in unison (usually
to an audible signal or cadence) has
been declared illegal. Used to draw
overanxious defensive linemen offsides, once the lineman assumes his
stance this year, he must hold his
position until the ball is snapped.
The last of the important changes
is a new clipping ruling. Previously,
offensive clipping could not be called
within three yards of the line of
scrimmage or along the sidelines.
This year, however, this zone has
been shortened to four yards from
where the ball is hiked. The purpose
of the new edict is to keep offensive
ends and backs from "shooting into
the zone and wiping out some unsuspecting linebacker."
Cross country
(Continued from page 6)
"We're facing each meet as it
comes,"
Tuppeny explained. "I
don't want the team to get tripped up
by looking too far ahead."
The harriers open the season on
the road with a dual meet at Rutgers,
Sept. 24. The home battles start with
a triangular meet against the Owls of
Temple and the Engineers of Lehigh
Sept. 28.
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.Furnish a forum of discussion on the matters of current
concern in international diplomacy which will directly involve
those in training as well as the university community at
large.
The proposed forum would be the bi-annual Anspach
Colloquim on world affairs, which the institute would
conduct.
Visiting scholars and officials will meet to
discuss problems in international affairs.
The annual Anspach Career Workshop is also proposed
to aquaint graduate and undergraduate students
with
opportunities in the field of diplomacy and foreign affairs.
The academic program for the Anspach institute is
expected to use existing courses in related fields, and to
add special seminars and tutorials to intensify the professional training for the graduate students.
The institute will provide funds for travel, advanced
training and research abroad, as well as funds for bringing
visiting professors and officials from the diplomatic and
foreign affairs fields to campus.
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BRIDGE CLUB: Fractional duplicate game tonight 7, West Lounge
H.H. All welcome.
CHESS CLUB: Meeting for all
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Houston Hall, Room 12.
CIRCLE K: Smoker, 8 PJvi.Thursday, September 12th, Smith Peniman
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HILLEL: Israeli Dance Group will
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HILLEL LECTURE SERIES: Dr.
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PJvl. tomorrow in Houston Hall Auditorium. Campus community invited.
IJiJii Coffee Hour, 10:30-11:30
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MEN'S RESIDENCE BOARD: Organizational meeting tonight at 8,
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Wednesday, September 13, 196x
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With seven returning lettermen
and a strong group of sophomores
to add depth to the lineup, cross
The sports roost
ONE YEAR LATER
by norm roos
Little more than a year ago, the ancient portals of
Weightman Hall swung wide open to greet a new tenant.
Fred Shabel, the retired head basketball coach and
assistant athletic director at the University of Connecticut,
had been chosen front over 50 candidates to replace Jerry
Ford as Athletic Director at the University of Pennsylvania.
On May 31, 1967, "t was announced that Shabel, a 1954
graduate of Duke University, had become the first nonalumnus to head up Penn's Department of Intercollegiate
Athletics.
Leaving Storrs, where he was selected in 1964 as New
England Basketball Coach of the Year, and arriving in the
City of Brotherly Love, Shabel immediately recognized
one problem in particular, that he would have to combat
from behind his new desk in Weightman Hall:
"Since the Ivy League was formed (1956), Perm has
had three football coaches, and now is on its second athletic
director. When I arrived, they had just changed basketball
coaches, and there were new track, baseball, and swimming
coaches. Charlie Scott was thinking of retiring as soccer
coach."
What Shabel saw upon his arrival at West Philadelphia's
only ivy-covered campus was "a sports organization that
required stability and tenure."
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SHABEL
.we can achieve excellence in all sports
However, restrictions or regulations have not begun to
dim Shabel's view of tin Ivy League. "We're committed
to the Ivy League, and that's great. To have a successful
Ivy League football team would make up extremely happy."
******
While Shabel criticized the "organization for its
instability, he praised it for its quality. "Last year the
athletic program was on solid ground; but everything was
interpreted through football," began the sophomore athletic
director.
"Crew was eminently sound, Soccer, under Charlie
Scott, has always been sound. (Dick) Harter had recruited
(before I arrived) a decent basketball team, and a solid
freshman group—and I say this as an ex-basketball coach.
"Wrestling looked like it would be good—we didn't
know they would go undefeated. We had just built new
sw'im facilities and hired an Olympian (George Breen)
for swimming coach.
"Jim Tuppeny, from Villanova, came over as coach for
the track team, and, right away, we had abubbleout on
Franklin Field for indoor track. There were two or three
times as many kids running as before; over 20 track
records were broken. As for hockey, a new rink was just
approved."
Following this documentary, Shabel turned around and
asked, "Do you see what I'm building? You can't measure
our athletic department because our crew was in two
Sports Illustrated articles or, on the other hand, because
we don't fill Franklin Field for our football games.
"We have an extremely healthy competitive program
under way" Shabel then emphasized. "This is the important
statement to drive home."
Of all the sports used to illustrate Penn's underrated
athletic prowess, football was conspicuous by its absence.
Although coach Bob Odell managed to bring his first Penn
football team to a 4-4-1 record in 1965, Penn has not enjoyed
a winning season since 1959. The last one before that was
in 1950. In 1967, the gridders posted a 3-6 log.
"We recognize what has to be done in football and its
importance," declared Shabel.
"Our football organization is growing stronger. Recruiting efforts have been strengthened, and now there is one
full-time man just for football recruiting alone."
"But this is not just the case for football," Shabel added.
"We think the whole alumni structure around athletics should
be co-ordinated."
How does the alumni situation at Penn compare with
those at Duke and U Conn, two schools at which he spent
considerable time?
"Very, very similar" enunciated
Shabel slowly, "...in that apathy is a by-product of a
losing situation in any sport at any institution.
"Where was the apathy at the Princeton tennis match?
Or when we wrestled Cornell?" he continued. There
wasn't any; both teams were winners."
******
How far can Penn sports be expected to go? "By
the nature of the schedule, we can achieve excellence in
all sports," replied the athletic director, hinting that Penn
can achieve national prominence in any sport but football.
Scheduling and other restrictions imposed by the Ivy League
counts out the possibility of national prominence on the
gridiron«
As the head of a large university's sports program,
Shabel is forced to make countless decisions. And, as he
stated, 'One of the penalties of leadership is that when
you make enough decisions, you will always be criticized."
If possible, Shabel would like to escape any justified
criticism. One area of criticism he would particularly
like to avoid concerns the racial issue. "As yet, we have
not encountered any problem with our Negro athletes,"
he explained. "However, and this is the key point, there
will be a meeting with our Negro athletes in a few days."
The purpose of this meeting, according to Shabel, "is
to set up lines of communication. I don't want to sit up
here in my ivory tower—I want to know right from the
boys if anything is wrong."
The most publicized part of an athletic director's job
is that dealing with the varsity athletes. However, Shabel's
definition of the role of sports on the university campus
extends beyond varsity sports.
"There are many roles of athletics ...as an outlet
for young men who have a little more ability than can be
satisfied in an intermural program...as a great rallying
situation for the college community... as a way to identify
with your university... as a way to tie in the alumni groups
with the university," he replied in his typically careful
and methodical fashion.
"I can't justify my position as Director of Intercollegiate
Athletics unless I am also concerned with the recreational
needs of the academic community. I don't think you can
justify intercollegiate athletics without a successful
intermural and recreational program.
"The ice rink package is primarily designed for the
recreational community," he stressed. "The new tennis
facilities for year-round play--these are all concerns to
satisfy the student body. We're also exploringthe possibility
of a synthetic surface and lights for Franklin Field—so
students could use the field day and night."
country coach JimTuppeny has reason
to look optimistically toward another
successful season.
Since assuming the coachingposts
for cross country and track two year's
ago, Tuppeny's harriers have sped two
consecutive 8-3 seasons. This year's
seasoned squad may well improve on
this fine performance.
Jerry Williams captains the team.
In the past, the slender senior has
been a star on both the Franklin Field
track and the Fairmount Park fivemile course. Currently holding the
school track marks in the mile and the
half mile, Williams, in a dual meet
against St. Joseph's last; season,
knocked 25 seconds off the Belmont
Plateau course record, running the 5
mile distance in 27:15.
Described by his coach as a "hard
working, good leader," the4:06 miler
was the first Quaker to cross the finish
line in the Heptagonal meet on New
York's Van Cortland Park course
last fall, finishing ninth and earning
a place on the All-Ivy cross country
team.
Perhaps the biggest surprise for
the 1967 team was the fine running of
junior George Lokken. Lokken was
number three on his freshman team,
but in his first three varsity
appearances, the lanky soph led the
entire Quaker team over the finish
line.
According to Tuppeny, Lokken's
fine performance helped to ignite a
new competitive spirit in his
teammates. Finishing tenth in the
Heptagonals, Lokken's showing also
rated him a berth on the All-Ivy
squad.
Other returning lettermen include seniors Bill Caldwell, Bill
Kelso, and Justin Lavin plus juniors
Bob Acri and Dave Ladanye.
Knee trouble kept Ladanye out of
competition last season and he underwent corrective surgery last fall.
The knee has held up in practice this
far, and Tuppeny expects that Ladanye
will return to his freshman form, when
he was eleventh in the IC4A frosh
meet.
Soph Dan Stevens led the Penn
frosh to an 11-4 record in 1967. His
record breaking performances in the
past give every indication that he too,
will be an important contributor to the
scoring.
Rounding out the squad are sophomores Gen e Maffey and Bruce
Hrivnak, a 4:23 miler and a 1:56 half miler, respectively.
Penn's three losses last year
came at the hands of the Iw
League's "Big Three," Harvard,
Yale, and Princeton. The Red and Blue
again will be hard pressed to beat
the trio, since all three have last
year's teams returning almost intact.
One hopeful note, however, is
Penn's fifth place finish in last year's
Heptagonal meet.
In this meet
Penn managed to outrun
both
Princeton and Army, giving rise to
speculation the Tigers may again be
ripe for an upset.
"The success of this season hinges
on the way Ladanye and Stevens run,"
commented the coach. "They can
produce the points we need to take
some close meets."
"All the kids have a lot of desire
to make this year's team better then
last year's," he continued. "They
have a good winning attitude and are
working together to help each other
out.'
(Continued on page 4)
JERRY WILLIAMS
All-Ivy coptain
New NCAA rules
to affect gridders
By AL BADEN
Football rules are like football
stadiums—they grow old, seldom
changing.
However, no one bothered to tell
the National Collegiate Athletic Association this fact, and for the second
year in a row, the NCAA has opened
its mouth, bared its teeth, and put
its foot down.
Last season, in an attempt to protect punt return specialists, whose
thankless job it had been to waltz
through a stampede of onrushing defenders, the NCAA prohibited interior
linemen from moving downfield until
the punter had booted the ball.
The change forced Penn coach
Bob Odell to move his defense into a
tight formation to protect the kicker,
making coverage of the ensuing punt
more difficult.
The results were not favorable to
the Quakers, as enemy specialty
teams blocked three punts and ran
back the same number for touchdowns.
This year, the rule has been revoked, and Odell is not one to complain. The Quakers will return to the
loose, spread coverage which held
the opposing return forces to less than
three yards per punt in 1967.
And, numerous new rules have
been instituted on a trial basis for
the '68 season. Time outs will be only
one and one-half minutes in length as
compared to the previous two.
But, in an attempt to slow down
the game in the final minutes of each
half, a time out will be called by the
officials after every first down.
"This rule will make each half
considerably longer," comments the
Penn coach, "but it will merely add
to the devices which teams will use
in the closing minutes, rather than be
the single tool used."
The rule gives the officials time
to move the yard markers down the
field; previously, the clock continued
to run while the chains were being
moved. Also, quarterbacks will not
have to rely solely on the sideline
pass or intentional grounding to stop
the clock, producing what the NCAA
hopes will be a more wide-open game.
The famous "sneak him down the
field" tackle eligible play has been
eliminated through a new numbering
rule. Interior linemen now must have
a number between 50 and 79; last
year, a tackle wearing number 80
could line up outside the tight end and
move downfield, often through a defense unaware of his eligibility to
receive passes.
(Continued on page 4)
When he's not directing the sports picture at Penn from
behind his desk in Weightman Hall, Shabel can be found
as a spectator at most Penn sporting events."I make it to
every event I can," the busy administrator declared.
Determined to strengthen the image of Penn's brawn,
Shabel is still aware of the fact that the prime purpose of
the university is to strengthen the brain.
An addendum to his philosophy on athletics in the
University, however, allows Shabel, as athletic director, to
reconcile his drive to better Penn sports with the main
purpose of the university. In conclusion, Penn's Athletic
Director of one-year standing exclaimed, "Academics are
primary, athletics secondary—but there is no reason why
we can't strive for excellence in both."
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