Brown and White Vol. 77 no. 43

              brown and white vol 77 - no 43 bethlehem pa - friday april 15 1966 866-0331 no change seen in fire fines by william hylton it looks like corporate fines for the misuse of fire equip ment in the residence halls are going to remain unchanged dr charles a seidle vice president for administration told a group of student leaders monday that the matter would not be presented to the board of trus tees today as had been previously announced during a meeting called for the purpose of discussing the fines and responsibility seidle said since no specific alternate sys tern to the present fine system has been proposed the trustees would not be asked to consider the matter he expressed doubt that the fine problem would reach the trustees at their june meeting either in defense of the corporate fine system seidle said we must take into account what the responsibility of the trustees is the trustees hold the respon sibility for the lives of the stu dents he said and every effort must be made to insure 1 that all fire equipment ls in working order at all times in instances of fire equipment misuse all over the country there are fines involved he said he did not indicate whether the fines were levied corporately or solely upon the culpable individual or individuals " desperate responsibilities are at stake here clarence d campbell director of residence halls and associate dean of stu dents said and desperate mea sures are required the basic problem ln the eyes of seidle and campbell is to find a workable system to impress upon the student his responsibil ity to see that fire equipment ls not misused both administrators main tained the present fine system which was initiated ln 1949 does work while neither man could cite statistical evidence camp bell said he was sure there was a sharp drop in the number of misuse instances when the fines were initiated campbell said there were 17 incidents involving misuse of fire equipment in the months from september to february of these 12 have involved the breakage of that small piece of glass in the fire alarm boxes all the inci dents have been ln the freshman residence halls campbell and seidle said the number of incidents has remained fairly constant over the past several years casey cogut freshman class president and arcadia president harvey york 67 suggested that increased publicity concerning the fines would clarify that no ftne is involved if the individual who damages equipment reports the incident york opined that a student who accidentally damages fire equipment sometimes doss not report the incident because he fears drastic punishment russell feroe 67 gryphon president said the fines would be more effective as a deterent if each individual had to pav out of his own pocket rather than having the fine paid from the house treasury while feroe seemed to strong - clarence 11 < axnpbell dr charles seidle fire regs proposal kept from trustees by neal arluck the president's office has refused to forward any proposal to the board of trustees for a change in existing fire regulations harvey york 67 arcadia president reported at wednesday night's meeting that rhc's proposal for a reduction in fire alarm penalties which had been backed by arcadia will not be presented to the board of trustees when it meets today he announced that the president's office has decided that it would be unwise at this time to recommend to the board of trustees any changes in the existing regulations arcadia passed a motion by york to establish " a special committee which will investigate existing conditions and submit a final report of its findings to arcadia york pointed out that since the next meeting of the trustees will not be until june the 400 in fines which have been levied against dravo house " must be payed at the moment mike sllverberg 69 arcadian and dravo house treasurer told the brown and white that the freshman cabinet executive committee would meet to determine what action will be taken on paying the fines other major action at wednesday's meeting included the approval of a motion by robert becker 68 student rights committee head for the institution of a pass-fail system at lehigh the motion explained usia officer to speak the hon burnett anderson deputy director of the united states information agency(usla will speak monday april 18 at 8 p.m in the osbourne room university center on " usia — the mission and the myths sponsored by the friends of the bethlehem public library anderson's talk is open to faculty and students and will be followed by a question and answer period and coffee he will be introduced by u s congressman fred b rooney anderson's talk falls on the first day of national library week and he will touch on usia's use of libraries overseas as well as on the agency's role in viet nam he is the usia's chief policy planner a former newsman and foreign correspondent anderson served from 1941 to 1944 as press secretary for minnesota governors harold e stassen and edward j thye he was a writer and political columnist on the minneapolis daily times from 1944 to 1947 and worked in scandinavia for the american broadcasting company and cowles publi cations until december 1952 when he entered u s govern ment service as press officer for the mutual security ad ministration marshall plan ln germany he transferred to the u s information agency in 1954 as director of press relations subsequently he served usia as deputy director of its press and publications service counsellor for public affairs in teheran iran and director of planning anderson received an arthur s flemming award in 1955 as one of ten outstanding young men in federal government burnett anderson brothers 4 to sing hp when spring houseparty arrives two weeks from now it will be opened by one of america's long standing folk singing groups -- the brothers four ever since the group released its first record ing greenfields in the late 1950'5 it lias eeri in demand for college concerts almost as much as j d salinger is in collegiate literary circles as one critic put it the group's recordings often done ln a special humorous style include " the new frankie and johnny the frog " the return of the frog and " 25 minutes to go other recordings although not as well known include ballads of social protest light ethnic songs and a variety of american folk music done in the group's own style the response to the quartet has been just as spec tacular in europe as lt has been here columbia re cords reports that the brothers four are among that company's three biggest foreign sellers the brothers bob flick dick foley mike kirk land and john paine originally met as sigma chi fraternity brothers at the university or washington although originally started just for laughs the group was soon on the night club circuit ui seattle and other pacific coast cities as the story goes a clieerleader friend of the group called the boys one day and disguising her voice and pretending to be the secretary of a night club mana ger invited them to come to an audition true to form the manager had never heard of thern whenthev show ed up but agreed to listen and after hearing them hired the group the group will begin houseparty activities at 8:30 p.m in grace hall on april 29 tickets will cost 5 per couple with all seats unreserved junior class cabinet members will be given tickets to sell at the cabinet meeting wednesday while the tickets will go on sale at the student activities desk soon thereafter freshman should buy tickets through their fraternities or at the activities desk uns-.m tickets will be sold at the door the concert ls being sponsored by the junior class bye bye theta xi - there's a cat in the frat caterpillar that is the old theta xi house at packer avenue and adams street was gutted oy fire in january and is being completely razed the property will be part of the future sight of the en gineering library see arcadia page 8 see rh page 14