Brown and White Vol. 76 no. 7

              by a t lee extremists of the left are system haters and people lovers while extremists of the right are system lovers and people haters gordon hall told a crowd of more than 100 people wednesday night hall a professional expeser of hate groups gave a lecture on ex tremism at the brith sholom com munity center he said that leftist extremists had lost faith in democratic methods of social reform and be lieved in total and disorderly change he added that this method was basically marxist hall said that leftist extremist groups claim to be friends of the downtrodden and oppressed this approach makes them particularly attractive to intellectuals and those who discover politics on saturday and start picketing on sunday in contrast rightist extremists left right — cordon hall lectured on political extremists at the brith sholom community center wednesday night he pointed out the differences between extremists of the right and of the left hall was sponsored by the brith sholom com munity center and the unitarian church of the lehigh valley love america but do not under stand the democratic system he said organizations like the john birch society see no conflict in disrupting lectures and vigorously supporting the right of free speech hall said here said hall you will find the anti-jewish anti-negro and anti-catholic propaganda he at tributed this to the overzealous patriots who define enemies of society in their own terms fre quently leading to wild charges that cannot be proved hall quoted from the politi cian a book reissued by the john eirch society in may of 1963 to put the matter bluntly eisenhower has been sympathetic to commun ist ends hall said rightist extremists were usually well-organized under a single leader he cited the john birch society's robert welch and the american nazi party's george lincoln rockwell as examples of extremist leaders sometimes said hall i feel that their rightist extremist theme should be individualists of the world let's go marching for ward collectively into the past hall distirguished extremist groups from constructive liberals and conservatives the latter he said are law-abiding and do things in what is rather loosely called the american way both liberals and conservatives found ample room on the broad middle ground of american poli tics to express their differing philosophies he said se extremists page 4 tion the choir will sing at the pro gram under the direction of prof robert cutler following the ceremonies a brass choir of the university band under the direction of prof jonathan elkus will play at the flagpole guests honorary degree recipi ents and members of the board of trustees will be the guests of dr and mrs neville at a lunch eon in the asa packer room receive degrees in addition 150 advanced degrees will be awarded president harvey a neville will confer the degrees candi dates will be presented by dr w ross yates dean of the college of business administration dr alan s foust dean of the college of engineering and dr robert d stout dean of the graduate school chaplain raymond e fuessle will deliver the invocation the scripture lesson and the benedic dr lewis eschews narrow approach lehigh's tenth president will be installed at founder's day cere monies on sunday in packer memorial church dr w deming lewis a dis tinguished american leader in space and communications will be officially installed by dr m j rathbcne president of the board of trustees dr lewis will succeed dr harvey a neville president of the university since 1961 also during the services over 200 advanced and bachelor de grees will be conferred of these about 19 or 20 ph.d.'s will be graduated according to dr robert stout dean of the grad uate school this is a significant increase and a portent of things to come donald c luce 24 president of the public service electric and gas company newark n j and robert c weller president of mitchell college new london conn will receive honorary de grees fifty-five graduating seniors will president harvey neville hall defines extremes of both left and right by tim wentworth there is no reason why lehigh should not get into space research and technology in the broad sense said president-elect dr w dem ing lewis in a monday morning press conference i think that space technology hp queen all entries for the house | | party queen contest must i i be submitted to box 37 of 1 the university post office | by saturday oct 17 is important in general particular ly automatic control and comput ers but computers are fundament ally mental bulldozers — there still has to be someone steering them he added but we should not pin our development to space technology in the narrow sense he stressed the purely technical man can't expect to go very far said dr lewis himself a rhodes scholar and holder of three degrees from harvard technology and research are not enough for the whole man dr lewis said he promised to keep an eye on the development of lib see president page 4 sheltermate no 28 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm vol 76 — no 7 bethlehem pa — friday october 9 1964 866-0331 lewis to be installed as 10th prexy sunday lehigh university brown end white ann — a five-foot-seven freshman at moravian she lists dating as her major interest the daughter of a bethlehem steel executive ann was a former resident of the christmas city but now calls new jersey home her pet peeve is the early hours enforced by the college for ann however fun can be had at any time