Brown and White Vol. 73 no. 39

              bethlehem pa friday april 6 1962 statement recommended in sac gryphon report or charles a seidle ments arcadia was notified in a letter by rollo that the society did not wish to discuss the matter in an atmosphere of public discussion rollo's letter according to r ste ven schaivo 63 arcadia president said that the gryphon society rep resentatives would be willing to appear at a future meeting with the condition that questioning be see solons page 5 ? arcadia urge dr seidle to make public the report of the student activities committee concerning the gryphon society as soon as he may see fit at that meeting arcadia heard william quay assistant to the dean of students deliver a talk and answer questions on the gry phon society quay had chaired an sac sub-committee which com pleted a report on the gryphon society last month which had been subsequently revised by sac and submitted to dr seidle arcadia also agreed then to is sue the original invitations to the presidents and rushing chairmen of both the gryphon society and the interfraternity council earlier that week ifc at a meeting on march 19 passed a re solution asking for a university statement on the gryphon society and expressing concern with gry phon rushing policies prior to a closed arcadia meet ing planned for tuesday called lor the purpose of acting on stu dent-faculty committee appoint a series of annual lectureships in international relations has been created by the university through a 25,000 grant by an alumnus presented by the jacob and hilda blaustein foundation the grant will provide world statesmen and distinguished scholars in programs lasting a week or less speaking on major world issues the lectureships are expected to be the highest paid in the nation the first lecturer to be chosen later this year will initiate the in ternationally-oriented series during the 1962-63 academic year dr carey b joynt head of the department of international relations and dr blaustein will make the final selection of the lecturers the entire grant is to be used for the first five conferences between 1962 and 1967 at an average of 5000 per visit the addresses of each speaker will be published annually for world wide distribution all of the lectures will be open to the public as well as to students faculty and staff of the university dr blaustein is a member of the class of 1913 at lehigh where he see speakers page 5 see solons page 4 arcadia named seven students as representatives to four student faculty committees at a closed meeting tuesday it was announced at the regular meeting on march 21 that the president's office had approved two candidates submitted by arcadia for appointment to two-year terms to the student life committee appcinted were stephen j or inrto 64 and rodger v digilio 64 the balance of the committee appointments also for two-year terms was made at tuesday's meeting arcadia voted on a list of candidates for each committee which had previously been ap proved by dean of students j d leith leith's approval is required of all applications which are sub mitted to him by arcadia david r decker 64 was elected to the discipline committee elected to the board of publica tions were joseph g gellings 64 down you go — kirk pendleton is in the process of taking down george kelvington of pitt ten seconds after this two pointer the crusher slapped on the cradle and pinned the eiwa 147-pound champ in a quick 1:29 this meeting in the semi-finals shocked panther followers as their only kingpin went down the drain kirk was the only engineer grappler to advance to the finals jim detrixhe managed to fight his way back in the consolations to place fourth vp asks silence on gryphons vol 73 no 39 in international relations alumni gift establishes new lecture program cls to sponsor discussion on african states by george keiser the student activities committee report recently submitted to members of the university administration recommends a university policy statement on the gryphon society in terms of its relationship with other campus social groups assistant to the dean william l quay told members of arcadia at their meeting march 23 quay who recently chaired a sac sbucommittee which conducted a study of the nature status and role of the society to!d the solons i would hope that we will soon get a clear-cut policy statement on the gryphon society the report of the subcommittee's findings was submitted to vice resident charles a seidle dean '^.^^^^-^^^^ of students j d leith associate . , in xyoij dean piston parr and assock ta approximately eight meotlngg dean clarence b campbell bllbcommiuee mci wifh , rtet ._ the subcommittee was appoint j iib cuu^-ii ested members of he university ed last fall by sac m response 0 comm(wity and liscussed the go . several questions raised in sev c eral forms by the fraternity alumni advisory council and by some members of sac according to quay he explained that dean parr chairman of sac felt that these questions could not be easily handled by the parent committee and appointed quay to serve as chairman of the subcommittee composed of several members of sac quay a former member of the gryphon society also served as chairman of a committee whicl see nature page 8 ? arcadia names 7 sophomores to committees problems of emerging states in africa will receive intensive an alysis during the co-operative lec ture series special program april 16-18 chaired by dr charles a male assistant professor of history the seminar will present films lec tures receptions and panel discus sions dealing with the role of africa in the international sphere co-sponsors of the event are arcadia ifc the international relations club the political sci ence assembly symposium speakers include dr sanford griffith director of the african study center of the new school for social research chris topher thoron advisor of the po litical and security affairs of the u.s mission to the u.n willie a d musarurwa parvin fellow at princeton university and editor of parade printed in salisbury southern rhodesia dr immanuel wallerstein assistant professor of sociology at columbia university and author of africa the politics of independence and hisham omayad chief of the ghana infor mation service in new york city ? other speakers are dr w ross yates associate professor of gov ernment thomas m power 62 and thomas k gilhool 60 both participants in the 1961 crossroads africa program dr sanford griffith is a grad uate of the ecole dcs sciences po see cls page 5 degree deadline april 15 any student planning to grad uate on university day in june must file his application for a de gree by april 15 a week from sunday the application should be presented to the bursar's office the end of the semester a copy of the letter was released to arcadia tuesday april 3 following receipt of seidle's letter arcadia voted at a closed meeting tuesday to continue its review of the gryphon society in a conscientious manner the solons also voted to re-issue invitations to the presidents and rushing chairmen of both the gryphon society and ifc to ap dr charles a seidle vice-presi dent for administration requested a moratorium tuesday on pub lic discussion of the recent contro versy raised concerning the gry phon society in a letter to associate dean preston parr chairman of the student activities committee seidle called for a moratorium on further discussion of the issue and said i shall provide your com mittee with a full response before pear at the meeting scheduled for april 18 at a meeting before the spring recess arcadia had voted to issue invitations to ifc and the gryphon society for the april 4 meeting however no formal reply had been received from ifc and john rollo 63 gryphon society president de clined to appear unless certain conditions were met at the regular meeting on march 21 arcadia approved a motion that lehigh university brown and white quay speaks to arcadia — william l quay assistant to the dean of students stand ing right discusses gryphon society at march 21 meeting