Brown and White Vol. 77 no. 39

              brown and white vol 77 no 39 bethlehem pa - friday march 18 1966 8660331 visitors discuss corps by dan gladding what is one of the hardest things for a peace corps worker in a strange country to get used to if the worker happens to be a girl spending her two-year tour of duty in afghanistan probably the hardest thing for her to adjust to is the role of women if she is teaching school in liberia what does she do with her spare time well if her name is barbara ferguson she might coach a track team and start a newspaper during a visit here this week to talk to prospective peace corps workers nancy holland said of her stint in the afghanistan capital of kabul and the surround ing rural community they didn't understand what it was like to be a free woman it was hard for them to accept the fact that i was moral and walked around without a veil on it was proclaimed in 1959 that the wearing of veils was no longer required of women miss holland said but very few women outside of the capital city are seen out of-doors without their veils miss holland taught english in the equivalent of an all-male junior high school we never spoke anything but english in the classroom she remembered it becomes a very dramatic method of teaching although she only taught grades seven to nine she had students it beats the draft - peace corps representative bar bara ferguson explains the function of the organization to robert gordon 69 left and david prostko 68 during the three-day visit ending today enlistments aiding college deferments the days of barracks and fa tigues may not be as close as some men in the lower portions of their classes fear if voluntary enlistments con tinue at the present rate the army may not be forced to dip into the ranks of college students to fill its manpower needs according to a selective ser vice spokesman students in good standing will probably continue to receive deferments as long as draft calls remain well below 30,000 per month enlistments are running at the highest rate since the last days of the korean conflict in feb ruary enlistments totaled 20,900 or about twice the average enlist ment rate before the increased draft calls for the viet nam buildup began the april draft call of 21,700 is the lowest since last septem ber the highpoint was reached in december when 40,200 men were inducted the enlistment advantage of having some choice of assign ment and a chance of specialized training is credited with spur ring the increased sign-up rate passage of the new glbill also provided an incentive for en listment the bill provides a month of educational benefits for each month of active duty bloody important dr joseph pomponio of tha university health center looks on as mark matig 66 donates a pint for the viet nam blood drive two hundred pints ware collected arcadia considers four - man increase a motion to expand arcadia membership from 16 to 20 was tabled pending investigation of graduate student representation at wednesday night's arcadia meeting harvey york 67 broke a 7-7 tie vote to amend the ex pansion from two to four new members drawn from rhc ifc and cabinets of the junior and sophomore class cabinets in other action the solons un animously voted to organize and sponsor an intersquad football game of the spring varsity foot ball candidates adopted the hare system of voting for officers of arcadia associates and took a straw vote indicating consensus of approval for separate voting for the president and vice-presi dent of class cabinets expansion of arcadia would take up the burden of work which is presently placed on arcadia committee members according to the executive committee york said " all members now are on at least one committee and four or five are on two or more committees originally the motion stated an addition of two members from rhc and ifc but d'arcy roper 67 proposed that two members from the sophomore and junior class cabinets would lighten the load even more roper pointed out that four new committees had been formed within a month york said several more would possibly lie created this year although arcadia is an under graduate student government as stated in its constitution the majority felt that graduate students might wish to become associated with the government upon recommendation of foot ball mentor fred dunlap richard c miller 68 presented the proposal that arcadia run the intersquad game tentatively set for match 26 arcadia would receive one-half the gate receipts of each f.o ttcket and would handle publicity of the game a fund of the athletic department providing tutors for football players would receive the other half of the proceeds adoption of the hare system of voting for officers of arcadia associates replaces the present counting method of separate ballots for each elected associate sold out tickets for the ramsey : lewis trio concert tomorrow night have been sold out morse blasts war in lafayette speech my michael marcus president johnson is without the slightest lei'.al authority to send american boys to their slaughter m the absence of a dec laration of war beyond the limited time iieriod il empower fl him to act in lie self-defense of our rountry to meet an emergency asserted sen wayne morse i ore to an audience of i'>oo at lafavette college monday night morse continued tins is a massive war--nol merely a pollre action as we are told only ihe congress has the right to declare war and the american i>eople must enforce this the president ran activate ihe military only until lie can gel to congress and deliver a war message--and he can lie there in twenty minutes he continued congress has been abdicating and delegating away its power--and tltat is not good government bv executive supremacy inevitably leads to government by men not law i detest giving blanket authority to the president advocating that is a violation of a senator's responsibility to uphold our system of â–  checks and balances he said referring to the august 10g4 1 i'islaiion following the tonkin julf encounter morse said tliat congress ran give away its authority but it hurts the country any society that pro motes executive supremacy soon loses its freedom morse took issue with tlie recent bill appropriating 4.8 billion dollars for further military expansion in southeast asia he said hat this is not merely an appropriation hut is an authorization for the pres ident to enact new policy this gives tlie administration a sweeping unchecked power to escalate the war at its will it is dangerous to give to a mere see news page 6 sea morse page 3