Brown and White Vol. 77 no. 24

              brown and white vol 77 no 24 bethlehem pa - tuesday december 14 1965 8660331 honor down - not out the spectre of an honor system has been tempor arily exorcised by the lehigh student body which voted overwhelmingly to reject the arcadia-sponsor ed proposal however according to maury b poscover 66 president of arcadia the honor system is going to be reintroduced he said he would propose at the next arcadia meeting that a committee be created to study the honor system poscover pointed out that it took muhlenberg 10 years to put its honor system into effect the first time it was introduced at muhlenberg it was defeated just as soundly as it was here the final tally showed 429 in favor of the honor system 1,115 against with 60 abstentions nearly 70 per cent voted " no the proposal for an honor system was first intro duced to arcadia last spring by james e becker 66 but at that time it was decided to shelve the pro posal until something tangible could be decided upon becker attributed the defeat of the honor system to " preconceived attitudes he was also of the opinion that although the vote was not on a specific honor system the system which would have been effected was essentially the one voted on with only a few minor changes poscover disagreed with becker feeling that there were many points which the faculty might have changed such as the mandatory reporting clause the narrowness of the coverage and the procedure of introducing the system poscover although he supported the system ori ginally had reservations which he overcame as he learned more about the system he attributed the defeat of the honor system partially to the fact that the student body held some of the reservations he had held earlier hill is invaded again local youths questioned by neal arluck the second attack on lehigh students in the last week occurred friday night at sigma chi fra ternity house fred selby 68 david smith 67 and dennis kluy 66 were treated at st luke's hospital for minor injuries selby told the brown and white that the incident occurred about 11 p.m friday he said he was standing outside the fraternity house with a few other students when two carloads of " mostly juveniles pulled up to the house the occupants of the cars selby said asked the students if they wanted to fight and when they backed off the cars drove off when the cars returned about 10 minutes later selby said he was struck with a stone as he was entering the fraternity smith reported that he was in side the house when the youths returned for the second time he said he went out on the porch and asked a youth to leave the premises he was then attacked in the youth he said police are still investigating the incident to determine the youths responsible both selby and smith told the brown and white that they will press charges when the assailants are uncovered kluy said that he had no com ment several bethlehem juveniles have been apprehended by the police and questioned one of the juveniles reportedly told police that the attack was in retaliation for an alleged attack on his car by student on the campus earlier in the evening police said no information would be released on the juveniles until this week the first incident occurred last sunday night when a 22-year-old bethlehem man was arrested on charges of carrying a weapon in ins car and hit-and-run charges following a fight behind the delta phi house after which shots were heard rired in the area in that incident james h hogrefe 66 was treated for ruts if the nose anthony m helles 07 and former student john a hnrtonx jr were also involved b w photo by ed yewdall christmas in bethlehem brings forth the many lights and other decorations which make this christinas city u.s.a this manger scene was found at the college union building at moravian college's north campus cant pledge students told in good hoax ' many freshmen and other residence halls students opened their university center mailboxes friday and learned they had been declared ineligible to pledge any social fraternity next semester a printed notice on a white 3 x 5 file card told recipients the action by decision of the interfraternity council was a result of your recent activity ." initialed by " j r.p the cards told students by means of a checked box to report to dean brennan immediately acting swiftly upon the arrival of the first stunned frosh at his office charles w brennan dean of students had the remaining cards removed from the mail boxes sitting in his office later in the day brennan recounted how students stopped him on the campus waving their cards terming the stunt a good hoax brennai said his secretary was intercepting all the cards for him h&w photo by john bf.rtpxson sour notes came only from the foul weather during syracuse weekend failing to dampen the warm yuletide spirit as packer memorial church was filled to capacity for the traditional sun day christmas vespers service the chatham college choir combined with lehigh's glee club and brass ensemble to present a program of christmas carols newly-elected solons give their reactions by dan gladding " the new arcadia has a great deal of potential "... . a good group of arcadians it's going to be a very good group " i think we can ret a lot done in arcadia xx these were somo of the re actions of the nine newly elected members of lehigh's student government arcadia when inter viewed by the brown and white winning in the elections last week were rol>ert h becker g8 james w flndlev 07 william c lowe 60 james e miller 68 richard c miller gb james it oyler 07 and elliot e th per cb reelected to arcadia for a second term were martin i cohen 67 and stephen m wllcox 07 becker an advocate of an honor system at lehigh is disappointed in the defeat of the honor system referendum i didn't expect it to go down that heavily he said " i wonder if there is any future in it now very impressed with the results of the election becker would specifically like to nee arcadia sponsor two or three studv iiiiv iwfnre exams during which classes would be suspended ftndley desires a stronger ar cadia in the ii imn oi student curriculum decisions and financial controls over weveral campus bodies the fxample of carlton college-»where a student-faculty admintstrutor body makes all salary and personnel declsions smould he examined though not ni i-ssarilv made a naxtel for .* future arcadia he believes james miller would like to .•••■ a stronger line of communications lift w»«»mi arcadians and the student body lie would bring this about i riving greater publicity to future 1 1 h inn's and arcadia decisions lie wants to make sure students know who tlwir representatives are and where thevcanlie reached ovler is impressed with the new arcadians saving that all were elector for their demonstrated v iliinriii'ss to work and that there are no cliques within the present l>odv as there have lw»en in past ones . he said that the reason for uu honor system would be to attest to the maturity of student *," there inii'ht lie better ways of saying this ilian throughan honor clause tepper also expected the defeat of the referendum npcau.se students misunderstood what they were voting for the passing of the referendum would merely have meant that the faculty was etng asked to consider an honor system with no specified model wucox a strong supporter of an honor system said of the ref erendum defeat " maybe again some other year he was gratified by the enthusiasm generated by it he also advocates the extension of arcadia's influence -• an example being letting an arcadia committee issue freshman vehicle permits for weekends next year taking the chore away from the dean's office cohen lowe and richard miller were not available for comment