Brown and White Vol. 71 no. 25

              , johns hopkins and others will ministration faculty and students sachusetts institute of technology examine the three colleges the ad of lehigh the eye of the commission will be on the lehigh students where ever the evaluators go observed dr wray h congdon special assist ant to the president and chairman of the evaluation planning commit tee he hoped that all the students would be alert to aid these people during their visit accreditation though not strictly required is vital to a college hoping to compete in today's highly com petitive race for top-quality students see congdon page 7 a document listing 15 factors as contributing causes to last year's lehigh-lafayette riot was sub mitted to deans leith parr and campbell by the freshman cabinet last week cited as causes of the disturbance were the suggestion at the pep rally that the freshmen help defend the goal posts after the game the lack of observance of no drinking rules at the football game by the alumni and stu dents and the failure of the police to enforce these regu lations the unfortunate coincidence of serving green hard pears at the noon meal on the day of the game the unlimited supply of pears available the laxness of cyanide to enforce no drinking during the guarding of the bonfire the excessive drinking in some roving radio cars the laxness on the part of cya nide in dink checking the failure to place restric tive measures against the carrying of weapons and missies at the game and bon fire the basic concept on the part of freshmen that the tug-of-war is a free-for-all the fact that there was no for mal disciplinary action after the freshman tug-of-war the displaying of a large poster at the varsity game urging the freshmen to defend see suggestions page 3 explain rush rules feb 2 new ifc contacting and rush ing rules will be explained at a meeting of all freshmen by interfraternity council officers in packard lab auditorium on tuesday feb 2 at 7:30 p.m contacting is scheduled to be gin the first day of the spring semester while formal rushing begins april 4 takes over from walters livdahl named editor of b w by charles miller the program of the university's institute of research serves to ar rest dangers to academic freedom commented on by a recent report of the american civil liberties union the aclu's report empha sizes three problems in the nature of research grants which restrict the university's and in dividual's autonomy govern ment security measures spe cifically restricted research grants and the predominance of funds for natural science in vestigations there is no classified research being conducted here and we do not seek research on which there is any restriction insists vice-president harvey a neville speaking as direc tor of the institute in government support the uni versity's research program main tains its degree of freedom by the fact that proposals for the research are initiated by faculty members in areas in which they are interested and would accomplish the investiga tions independently funds handled by the insti see build-in page 9 apply by feb 9 for associates applications for arcadia asso ciates will be available at the stu dent activities desk in the univer sity center on tuesday feb 2 re ported richard shulman 61 arca dia vice-president deadline for filing the applica tions will be feb 9 selection of the associates will be made at the next arcadia meeting editorial board newly-nominated members of the brown and white editorial bard for the spring semester are alan segal 60 business manager robert cochnar 61 editorial director and orlin livdahl 61 editor-in-chief orlin livdahl jr 61 has been named editor-in-chief of the brown and white for the spring semester fie was previously managing editor und succeeds robert walters 60 his post and all other ap pointments are subject to ap proval of the board of educa tions robert cochnar 61 will continue as editorial director alan segal 00 wiu remain business manager holding other top positions are george keiser 62 news editor henry enberg 62 desk editoor and stuart zimmerman 63 photo edi tor business positions are as fol lows william evoy 61 finan cial manager jack harkavy 61 comptroller and alan goldstein 61 credit manager acting positions will not see cochnar page 4 probably he's enjoying the whole thing in the only other new develop ment in the controversy was the announcement that the lehigh chapter of the american associa tion of university professors has sent a reply to thomas recent letter in a meeting yesterday at noon the chapter elected prof peter havas as its president to replace prof a roy eckardt who resigned following the re cent release of an aaup state ment on the thomas affair faculty members and students hoping for an reconsideration of 36.3 of the university regulations — granting the president power to approve or disapprove all guest speakers — were given no indication of whether the matter will be brought before the university's trustees when they meet in new york one week from today re ports persisted however that delta omicron theta president thomas gilhool 60 would attempt to ap peal the president's recent decision on thomas an ask for reconsid eration of 36.3 cabinet member to be featured at frosh dinner vol 71 no 25 freshmen list 15 reasons for lafayette riot fred a seaton u.s secretary of the interior will be the featured guest speaker at the upcoming freshman class banquet the banquet is tentatively scheduled for feb 26 at 7 p.m on the uuper floor of grace hall while all arrangements are tentative gordon hoare freshman class president stated that it is very unlikely that any of the plans will be changed also planned is an informal discussion with seaton following the banquet the location for this is yet undertermined the banquet will be open only to freshmen at a charge of 2.50 per person seaton nebraska newspaper and radio executive and former u.s new fallen snow the lehigh campus as viewed from rich ards house took on a winter wonderland appearance around 1 a.m wednesday although the weather conditions were cause for hazard ous walking an icy beauty encompassed the campus university ready for msa reevaluation fred a seaton dr neville sees no danger in research here final preparations are being completed for the rigid evaluation the university will be subjected to feb 15-17 for reaccreditation in the middle states association of colleges and secondary schools at least two dozen noted educators from colleges across the country including princeton vassal purdue notre dame mas senator from that state has been secretary of the interior since his appointment by president eisen hower on may 28 1956 the 36th person to hold the office he was sworn in june 8 1956 after unani mous confirmation by the senate a member of the eisenhower ad ministration since september 1953 seaton moved to the department of the interior from the white house where he had been first administrative assistant to the president from february to june 1955 and deputy assistant to the president from sept 1953 until feb 1955 he was assistant secre tary of defense seaton was appointed to the u.s senate december 10 1951 to fill the vacancy left by the death of nebraska senator kenneth s wherry as a cabinet member secretary seaton has repeatedly emphasized that a sound natural resources pol icy must foster both conservation and wise use the department of the inter ior he has said is keenly aware of the solemn obligation upon the present generation to conserve our see interior page 4 laffaire thomas sinks into 2nd uneasy quiet l'affaire thomas settled into an uneasy quiet this week for the second time since the controversy broke loose upon the lehigh campus only public comment to be heard on the ban of the noted so cialist on the campus came from harvard history professor dr arthur schlesinger jr who visited the area on tuesday to speak at cedar crest college schlesinger asked local reporters about the thomas affair during an interview all this must tickle thomas he said i imagine no one has thought of him as a menace for many a year not in 1960 anyhow brown and white bethlehem pa friday january 15 1960