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              some of the allegedly assaulted by police received medical assistance president wright said that he is go ing to take the letter to director of athletics percy sadler for action wright explained that arcadia could actually take no action on the matter as the policemen were en gaged by the athletic department jim weisberg said that he would like to see arcadia send an apology to rutgers stating that it won't happen again after considerable discussion the motion was passed a discussion of the b&w's treat ment of arcadia followed solon robert myers noting that a check of the past minutes revealed a total of nine unexcused absences as com pared with 13 reported by the b&w article meyers said that only one see arcadia page 4 lackwits fat students foul up uc elevator freshmen to remain in rhc for present freshman class cabinet members of the opinion that conditions in dicate a more extensive study before we drop out decided tuesday night that the class of 62 will re main in residence halls council for the present on wednesday night the frosh committee to study withdrawal met with rhc president dick arcadia changes concession rues by paul schock seventeen and that's an elevator full such was the load that brought the west elevator in the university center to a grinding halt on tuesday oct 28 at 12:10 p.m upon the recovery of the car from between floors 17 freshmen emerged and filing out surrendered their id cards the overloaded were placed into two categories by dean j d leith in a letter to wil liam horton president of cyanide the categories are as follows 1 the first arrivals who may have been innocent victims of the lackwits who jammed themselves in after the car was reasonably well-loaded and 2 the lackwits themselves dean leith further commented in the letter it is perhaps a signif icant observation that seven of these seventeen freshmen were town boys but this may have been purely accidental and in any event cannot become meaningful in the absence of a determination of the order of entry into the elevator car he did not however indicate in his letter what was the significance of the above observation three of the town boys when queried by the b&w stated to the effect that the seven town students were the last to enter the car one went see elevator page 4 odk initiates omicron delta kappa senior leadership honorary will initi ate 13 men seven seniors and six juniors at ceremonies tues day in the university center it was announced wednesday by paul prestia president of odk the student activities committee feels that there is too little states rights in the present rhc consti tution solon jack daniel student chairman of sac told arcadia at its meeting wednesday night daniel pointed out that the present rhc constitution has neither been approved nor re jected at the present time sac he further stated has de cided to wait until the present dis pute between the freshmen and rhc has run its course before tak ing any action on the constitution it will probably then be asked that some provision be made for states rights within the constitution he added in other action the solons heard president larry wright read a let ter from the rutgers student gov ernment condemning the bethlehem police action at the rutgers game over houseparty weekend and blasted the brown and white for prejudiced journalism and the presentation of false facts in two y-lined editorial page articles about arcadialand solon len saari also an sac member told the arcadia that the rhc had too much central power over the residence halls and it is felt that rhc should be a liason group between the dorms and the university just as ifc is a liason group between the fraternities and the univer sity in regard to the rutgers letter which included a statement that topping and several other rhc members although the press was banned from the meeting by topping the brown and white learned that a committee has been created to look into the rhc constitution this is being done the b&w source said because the freshmen have raised questions about the set-up of rhc and ft is becoming more and more evident that the constitution will have to be amended in one way or another the committee headed by ed barber will consist of one member from each residence hall the com mittee will pay special attention to the areas which were questioned by the freshmen these include the representation by population on the council and the social and finan cial obligations of the council freshmen complained that they aren't fairly represented see rhc page 5 significant development president whitaker lauds uc by joe varilla president martin d whitaker has called the con struction of the university center one of the most significant developments at lehigh last year ". . . per haps in many years the value which the university places on the uc is emphasized by the annual report in which the president made his remarks the report con tains 13 full color pictures of rooms in the center this is the first time that it contained color shots president whitaker added about the uc after just one semester we have witnessed what hopefully are the beginnings of a new era in life on this campus special attention was also paid by the president to the research center which bethlehem steel will construct on top of south mountain they are plan ning to build roads and install water power gas and so on so that the upper part of the campus can be de veloped for any use for which it may be needed in cluding residential use describing improvements to the university already completed president whitaker said that the opening of the university center . . . has re leased space in other buildings for conversion to instructional use thereby greatly improving the teaching resources of the campus he said that a major item in this regard was the complete internal reconstruction of drown hall to house the college of business administration the renovation of the east section of lamberton hall was also cited this will provide office and see reception page 5 trip to europe minimum 600 prof jack mcv haight feeling that too few lehigh men go abroad has organized a committee to pro mote student travel this was done with the aid of arcadia inter-faith council and other groups the cul mination of the efforts of the com mittee will be a travel night high lighted by a number of speakers and films to explain trips to europe and encourage students to take ad vantage of the opportunity in 1958 an estimated 30,000 american students will have see european page 4 prospective concessionaries will no longer apply to arcadia directly in order to sell on campus in a re port presented to arcadia wednes day evening lehigh concessions procedure was completely revamped james weisberg chairman of arcadia's concessions committee in consultation with the self help and dean's office ifc and rhc compiled a report contain ing the new regulations govern ing concessions arcadia passed same with a 9-1 vote lehigh concessions the report noted must be of benefit to the stu dent body must be of the highest possible quality and must be priced reasonably . . ." previously arcadia rhc and ifc worked independent of each other in concessions procedure stated in the weisberg report is persons who are not author ized lehigh concessionaries will not be allowed to sell anything whatsoever in either rhc or ifc facilities according to the mimeographed see concessions page 4 wlrn truly professional election coverage praised states rights needed in rhc arcadia told vol 70 no 12 friday nov 7 1958 bethlehem pa all election statistics and feature information came from the wires of united press international the columbia broadcasting system the national broadcasting company and local representatives at bethlehem party headquarters in addition arrangements were made for direct telephone contact to eletcion centers in major cities throughout the nation the program got underway at 7 p.m brief summaries and background inforamtion on the platforms and campaigns of the rockefeller is beating harriman hey pass the coffee j quiet washington's on the line and so went wlrn's seven-hour election coverage from its studios in the university center last tuesday from 7 p.m to 2 a.m election control was a ver itable campaign headquarters in itself more than 50 staff mem bers manned the tabulation tables and charts made tele phone calls and taped inter views all in an effort to beam up-to-the minute results to lis teners candidates were given by wlrn announcers john hood bob cochnar and roy cravzow producer robert wallers had the first long-distance call to boston shortly after sign-on harvard's radio station whrb filled in wlrn litseners on the current trends in massachusetts and predicted that sen john kennedy would be re elected a few hours later the pre diction was confirmed by upi re ports a call was placed to prof paul a see long page 6 elections returns wlrn elections staff compiles and broad casts minute-by-minute elections results in addition to direct interviews with several candidates and other radio stations throughout the country these scenes show the special studio which was in operation from 7 p.m tuesday to 2:30 a.m wednesday note coffee to keep everyone on their toes lehigh university brown and white