Brown and White Vol. 75 no. 36

              blehigh university ■ m a/1 •■_ rown and white bethlehem pa - tuesday march 10 1964 vol 75 — no 36 866-0331 2 escape injury in sayre mishap a moravian student and his date also from moravian escaped injury early sunday night when the car m which they were riding ran up an embankment on moun tain drive north near the lookout cary schildkraut 19 of 215 e 68th st new york city driver of the car and karen gorski 18 of 516 red oak drive saverna park md were uninjured m the first mishap to occur on mountain drive north since construction was com pleted m 1960 chief william s repyneck of lower saucon township said schildkraut was driving north on mountain drive and skidded on the wet pavement while negotiat ing the left-hand turn at the re search triangle schildkraut bkidded across mountain drive jumped the curb crossed the southbound lane and ran up the embankment repyneck said he placed the time of the accident at 8 p.m the mishap was discovered by patrolman thomas murphy and corp john pully of the bethlehem police they called tihe lower saucon police to the scene as the mishap occurred 500 feet from the bethlehem city line m lower saucon township the 1964 corvair received dam age amounting to 50 chief repy neck estimated also damaged m the accident was a 10 speed limit sign the car was removed from the embankment by a wrecker and driven away by schildkraut patrolmen from lower saucon township behlehem and bethle hem steel co assisted at the scene speedy oil drops — the glass tube and mass of surrounding equipment are part of a physics department experiment analyzing high-velocity gases with oi droplets story on page 3 senior afrotc student finishes flight training cadet col david h mccracken 64 is the first lehigh senior to complete a 100 hour flight training program he passed his final federal aviation agency flight test last friday after landing at abe airport with an faa inspector aboard he has logged 36 hours of flying time mccracken and five other flight instruction program fid cadets have m addition had 65 hours of ground school this course covered weather flight safety aerodynamics radio operation and regulations all six cadets passed the faa course exams the first time the ground school was taught by maj robert f watson fip pro ject officer with the aid of assistant professors maj lynn e atwood and capt patrick c sessa the three officers have a total of over 18,000 flying hours since late fall the cadets have averaged two hours of flying time per week the flight instructor was albert de ronde director of train ing of the reading aviation service the air force designed the fip program to save instruction costs the cadets discover earlier whether they enjoy flying and the air force m turn finds out if the cadets have the capabilities of becoming fliers said maj watson if these cadets went right into air force flight training they would start m jet trainers flight testing included m the program involved checks after the 12th and 20th flying hours an rotc written test on ground missions and the faa ground school test all cadets had at least eight and a half hours of solo flight after the 20th flying hour the first step — air force major robert f watson lehigh fip director presents a course completion certificate to cadet col david h mccracken 64 fall semester afrotc group commander the lock of individuality elkus examines undergrads just when does death come for the undergraduate when he falls from a fourth floor window when he drives his car into a tree when he blows up the chem lab no says prof jonathan b elkus death comes for the undergrad uate because he lacks individuality the undergradutes of this na tion arrive at their colleges afraid and semi-literate elkus said at an omicron delta kappa-senior series talk friday night the public and most of the private schools have neglected you as future undergraduates through their substantial failure to teach you to read and write properly thereby leaving you vir tually unequipped to receive ideas and even to articulate your own whether m writing or m speech elkus said for this reason you are semi-literate a startling number of children do not really belong m college to begin with elkus said but come to college because the learning of a profession at a vocational insti tution has less status than the learning of the same profession at a university the undergraduate being intel ligent but inexperienced sees himself inferior to what he might become and then becomes buried m self-pity this chronic self-pity is the nationwide undergraduate malady the state of self-pity is the most luxurious of the indulgences we have at our disposal has no place m a university which is a community of scholars elkus said individuality is a very time consuming and at times an expen sive thing to foster he said it needs not only constant experience but recognition as well now the undergraduate finds himself so very confined both physically and academically upon submitting to the discipline of most any american university that he has to withhold his natural inclination to develop himself that is he can no longer be him self and since he cannot be him self he comes to pity himself the american undergraduate is moribund to the very extent that his opportunities for making choices are becoming more and more limited elkus said what is death but intellectual infirmity you should avoid death elkus said by living living he said takes both constant effort and a sanguine disposition you should first begin by im proving your literacy by becom ing fluent at reading writing and speaking english elkus said you should try to overcome your fear of questioning and encourage yourself to advocate you should take time to digest and evaluate you should spend more time m friendly and inter esting exchange and less m wrang ling over parliamentary procedure and club rules self-pity stems principally from our sentimental but at the same time expedient agreement which wrongly equates democracy with similarity of mind spirit purpose and procedure — with uni formity elkus said architects will discuss design of fair pavilions the unique architecture and construction of pavilions at the new york world's fair will be previewed by representatives from bethle hem steel co at 1 p.m and 4 p.m friday m the osbourne room university center the preview illustrated by 200 slides will show construction m various stages of the major buildings at the world's fair including the four large buiidings being constructed by bethlehem steel according to robert j biggs bethlehem steel architectural engineer biggs said the talk entitled tomorrow's buildings today steel's part m building the world's fair will last about 40 minutes and will be followed by a question period devoted to any topic concerning steel biggs a registered architect and registered engineer will be ac companied by j c pope and architectural engineer with a back ground m economics according to biggs pope has been quite close to the world's fair project for a number of years