Brown and White Vol. 78 no. 35

              lehigh university brown and white vo 78 nex 35 bethlehem pa - tuesday march 7 1967 866-0331 proposals are made for safety provisions the committee on safety has made recom mendations for major improvements including the addition of a part from the university center to packard laboratory according to george kane professor of industrial engineering and a member of the committee final approval must come from the facilities committee kane said the committee made three recom mendations which are being considered for cost by the facilities committee besides the path to packard lab the other recommendations are for a path from the university center to the library and a one-way street past the president's house kane said there ls some doubt that all three improvements are necessary traffic surveys in the tall indicated that the entire street from sayre park gates to memorial drive could be made one-way without major inconvenience he said he added that lf the street was made one-way walking would be safer and there would be less â–  need for a path to packard lab a major objection to a path leading to packard lab accord ing to kane is the fact that it will destroy the beauty of that area kane said that since the university center mall ls the only untouched area on the lower campus many people want it to be preserved a decision on the recommen dations will be made ln several weeks he said he is very optimistic that they will be accepted b*w photo by carvill is this lehigh ehgiheer investigating the properties of static electricity actually he is just engaging in the latest campus fad kite flying in saucon valley arts building planning moving along slowly plans for the new hall of liberal arts are moving along slowly but surely said w ross yates dean of the college of arts and sciences recently the 1.7 million structure to be built opposite packard laboratory and west of the pro posed new library will be the largest addition of classroom space since the construction of packard lab in 1928 the hall will contain facilities for the english history govern ment international relations classics religion andsocial relations departments the firm of lovelace and spill man is designing the proposed headquarters of the college of arts and sciences which will be ln the planning stages for the rest of the year and for which funds are still being raised it is hoped that construction will begin late this year or early 1968 the building will have three floors and will tentatively contain seven classrooms four seminar rooms and commons rooms for each department these will serve as meeting and discussion areas for students and faculty the entire building will be air conditioned and modernly equipped the wheels of progress are turning - slowly the moderns i 7 million hall of liberal arts will begin to rise either late this year or early in 968 the building will be the largest addition to classroom and office space since packard lab was completed in 1928 deans council gives view of due process by marty marasco and george carvill the university committee on discipline ls ln the process of working out a final proposal on procedural due process under consideration are two proposals one prepared by assistant professor of law brian g brockway and the other by the deans council the two proposals are both in the form of recommendations to the committee on discipline c.0.d brockway presented his proposal to the c.o.d shortly after the new discipline code was unveiled by the c.o.d oct 21 the proposal covered several areas among them the manner of giving notice the right to a faculty friend lnadmlssable evidence and double jeopardy shortly after receiving the proposal the c.o.d sent it to the deans council for their recommendations . these were presented to the c.o.d last friday in the form of another complete due process proposal the c.o.d must now formulate an official due process code associate professor of chemistry james diefenderfer,a member of the c.0.d stated that the deans council proposal said " most of the changes are in style and not ln content dlefenderfer stated i am going to remain with that truism until it ls proven otherwise dlefenderfer added per sonally i think there are some points i would like to have ex plained further referring to some of the changes made ln the deans councils proposal however brockway stated after the c.o.d meeting friday that there are several areas where i violently disagree with it the deans council proposal and tm sure the student body will also two of the areas that brockway was referring to are the search and e cure section and the clause on double jeopardy in the brockway report it ls proposed that a search may only be carried out by an au thorized university official specifically the report states that for this purpose any uni versity official does not include a student either as a principal or agent brockway said i don't see why any student should he given the right to search another stu dent's room except to quell a disturbance assistant dean of student life william l quay presented an amendment to the deans council proposal which states that the authorization for search and seizure may be delegated to student officers or counselors under the following conditions an appropriate represents national commission proposes draft change a radical change of the draft has been recommended to president johnson by the national advisory commission on selective service the essential proposals in the report of the panel are for a virtual lottery among eligible 10-year-olds and the replacement of the nation's 4,100 neighborhood draft boards by no more then 500 area centers applying uniform draft policies after a seven-month study on the draft the commission concluded that the youngest of all qualified men should be drafted first starting at age 19 and that they should be inducted ln s random and impartial order however fewer then half of these men would be needed by the armed services as in a war sue has vietnam the rest having escaped call up ln their peiod of " maximum vulnerability , would therefore become virtually exempt a majority of the commission urged the abolition of almost all student snd occupational deferments soas tomakethe risk of induction equal to all physically and mentally fit 19-year-olds however s substantial minority of the panel seven or eight out of 20 recommended the continuing of undergraduate defere ments â–  provided that they were subject ed upon graduation to random selection with the next group of 19-year-olds the majority of the commission nevertheless would not cancel the deferments of stu dents who were slresdy enrolled for degrees when the system changes the selective service act which expires ln june would also be altered by the commission to " consolidate the system under more centralized administration to make regional appeal hoards more representative of different population groups and to provide equitable appeal procedures the commission besides rejecting the elimination of the draft also rejected proposals for compulsory national service of some kind such as the peace corps or vbta as alternatives to military duty see ouay page 3