Brown and White Vol. 77 no. 31

              brown and white vol 77 no 31 bethlehem pa - friday february 18 1966 8660331 new crossroaders lehigh's four african adventurers for the summer of 66 are clockwise from upper left jack irwin 68 james findlay 67 john rather 67 and elliot tepper 68 the group cur rently undergoing preparation with the department of inter national relations will meet with their colleagues from other schools at douglass college before leaving for the dark con tinent m june rhc fights dravo fine by neal arluck who says life m the residence halls can't be ex citing where else could 250 men wake up one morn ing to discover that they have been ordered to pay a series of fines totaling 400 because a few pieces of glass were broken although this may sound like some orwellian night mare it happened to dravo house on october 15 23 28 and december 16 the glass of a fire alarm box was found broken m a public area of dravo house fines were assessed of 50 100 100 and 150 respectively for the infractions in each case an additional charge of 2 50 was added to the bill for replacement of the glass the situation was made public at last friday's arcadia meeting when arcadian michael silverberg 69 treasurer of dravo house questioned james winchester 68 rhc representative to arcadia about the size of the fines winchester said that the fines were prescribed by a trustee regulation and added that rhc had sent a letter ln december to dean clarence b campbell director of residence halls asking that such fines be reduced to 5 10 20 and 50 winchester ad mitted however that the next trustee meeting would not be held until april and so no action could be taken until that time after the meeting silverberg told the brown and white that dravo's payment of the bills had been temporarily delayed by dean wtlllamquay assistant dean of student life contacted on monday campbell clarified the rule under which dravo had been fined the trustee regu lation involved prescribes an automatic fine of 25 for an individual who tampers with fire alarm equip ment if the individual cannot be identified the house ln cases where a particular section is not involved is fined 50 for the first offense and 100 for every subsequent offense campbell said that m cases where the breakage was clearly accidental he has the power to waive the fine however he added it is up to the accused individuals to prove that the breakage was m fact accidental campbell confirmed receipt of the rhc letter asking for a reduction ln the fines and said that he lafayette chapter quits national body by marc ross the lafayette chapter of sigma chi has withdrawn from the national organization on feb 15 the local chapter sent letters to all parties concerned notifying them that lt was surrendering its clmrter the chapter acted as the result of a document drawn up by its mem bers resolving to withdraw from the national organization if it refused to initiate chris song whun choi a student of korean ancestry before feb 15 chapter president anthony savitsky of scranton pa said that they have been m contact with the national body concerning the dilemma since the beginning of january savitsky added that we are not dealing with the national as a whole but rather we are dealing with sixty individual men of the national membership committee any one of the members on the committee better known to sigma chi's as the grand council is empowered to block the membership application of any aspiring candidate the lafayette chapter was reported to have received a letter from one of the grand council members who had placed a hold on choi stating that he would not reconsider his action in choosing the path of disaffiliation because of the evident racial disagreements with the national the chapter had the support of the college administration and of its alumni a survey taken of the alumni before the formal drafting of the resolution showed that 85 per cent dr albert c zettlemoyer four undergrads to visit africa by dan gladding africa will have four lehigh visitors this summer me miters of the university's branch of the crossroads africa program original plans called for a lehigh quota of only three cross roaders but the organisation managed to earn enough money through calendar sales and other activities to finance the trip of an extra student john rather 67 james w flndley 67 jack irwin 68 and elliot tepper 68 will spend most of this summer on the dark continent the crossroads africa pro gram is designed to bring amer ican and african students into intimate contact by having them work side by side on community projects . lehigh has been active in the crossroads program since 1961 when one of its students made the trip findley of chi phi fraternity was originally an alternate can didate for the program but when the lehigh organization regis tered an excess of funds a petition was sent to the national headquarters m new york because he speaks only fng lish flndlev will probably be sent to east africa or nigeria none of the crossroaders will be told of their ultimate deatln atlons until sometime in april looking back upon hls applica tion irwin a member of theta chi fraternity said i thou_u it was an opportunity i'd never have again — something where i'd get to meet people and go places where i'll never get to go again rather a member of the gry phon society and tepper a beta theta pi brother were not available for comment at press time dean of student activities preston parr himself a part icipant in the program two years ago prof charles f patterson jr of the government depart ment and assoc prof of inter national relations henderson b braddlck are advisors for the lehigh committee chosen to take the place of any of the first four crossroaders if any of them are unable to participate were alternates james smith 68 and joseph mlxsell 67 zettlemoyer to head research program dr a c zettlemoyer distinguished professor of chemistry lias been named director of the university's new interdepartmental center for surface and coatings research the center designed to promote enrichment and enlargement ol existing educational programs and long-term research projects m the relatively neglected areas of surface and coatings chemistry will combine the efforts of chemists mathematicians engineers and ■ physicists m a single program oround will be broken later this month for the center's three - story 1 million building to be constructed adjacent to the pre sent chemistry building the privately financed build ing to be known as the " francis mac donald sinclair memorial laboratory will house re search and conference areas seminar rooms and a large audit orium all designed exclusively for the needs and purposes of the surface and coatings pro gram surface and routings chemistry is vital to such aspects of every day life as newspaper and book production nucleating agents for weather control recovery of oil from the earth kitchen utensils and protection for rocket nose cones the university's new center will be the sixth interdepartmen tal unit formed for educational and research programs taking us place with the existing pro grams m materials research marine sciences business eco see dean page 10 see surface page 9 see initiation page 10