Brown and White Vol. 77 no. 12

              brown and white 866-0331 vol 77 - no 12 bethlehem pa - friday october 22 1965 met-chem lab named for whitaker the aftim of the tatte dr martin d wtai taker university president from 1946 until 1960 hu been mind to the 2.75 million metallurgical and chemical engineering building dr w deming lewis silver sit y president and mj rathbone president of the board of trustees announced this afternoon that the martin dewey whltaker ' metallurgical and chemical engineering building 1 will be ready for occupancy later this fall begun m may t m 4 the five story building will be formally dedicated m the spring dr whltaker directed the establishment of the first atomic power plant designed for peacetime purposes at oak ridge between 1043 and im6 he began work on atomic projects one month after the japanese attack on pearl harbor the engineering complex named after him is part of the 922 million centennial campaign which was started june 6 1959 under whltaker's presidency other centennial campaign plans include construction of a residence hall for graduate students and a 1.5 million hall of liberal arts whltaker served as eighth president of lehigh guiding the university through the nations post-war adjustment and through an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity during his administration lemgh's total assets almost tripled endowment was more than doubled and sponsored research at the university was increased four times also under ms leadership the teaching faculty was enlarged the physical plant enlarged and many new developments in undergraduate and graduate programs underta his association with atomic energy began when he was summoned to the university of chicago m january of 1942 m 1943 he was appointed director of the clinton laboratories at oak ridge term where he overlooked plutonlum development through its early stares and w!inftte4 the design operation and construction of what was to be the first peacetime atomic energy plant at oak ridge he remained at oak ridge until he assumed the lehigh presidency m 1946 serving m varying capacities m the bethlehem community chest historic bethlehem tec the bethlehem chamber of commerce and the bethlehem rotary club he was the lehigh valley director of the korea society an international friendship organisation endorsed by president elsenhower whltaker held both state and national posts with educational organisations including presidency of the pennsylvania association of colleges and universities the american society far engineering education the governor's state planning board for the state of pennsylvania and the national commission of accrediting whltaker earned his bachelor of arts degree from wake forest college in 1927 his master's degree from the university of north carolina m 1930 and his doctorate from new york university five years later he also received honorary degrees from lafayette college moravian college rutgers university and wake forest college he was acting chairman of the department of physics at new york university when he was summoned to chicago m 1942 honor system ballot is approved by solons by neal arluck arcadia has taken the first step toward an honor system at lehigh by a vote of 13-0 the arcadians put their support behind a student referendum on the system the referendum will be held during the december election before the vote was taken james becker head of the student rights committee reported that the pro posal he had submitted to arcadia last week had been warmly received by many facutly mem bers maury poscover arcadia pres ident emphasized that the arcadians were not voting on any particular honor system but that they were merely voting on whether or not to put such a system before the students for a vote william f mor 66 chairman of the arcadia associates foreign opportunities committee report ed on a tentative proposal for study abroad it was described as an attempt to increase educa tional opportunities for lehigh students through study at some european university the lehigh sailing club asked arcadia for 100 to help defray the cost of participation m a three day regatta by 10 lehigh students to the u s naval academy a motion to appropriate the funds was approved 14-1 on the suggestion of treasurer stew early 100 was appropriated for the course evaluation booklet poscover announced that work on the booklet is progressing smo othly and that it will be on sale the first week m november arcadia passed unanimously a motion by safety committee chair man martin cohen that arcadia make a recommendation to the faculty committee on safety to consider the specific safety problems of altering the remaining tank traps and placing reflectors along the sayre park roads poscover announced that ar cadia would make campus safety its priority concern m the near future b aw photo he is ugly - one of the less conceited students on campus water buffalo enthusiasti cally admits that he is ugly proceeds of the ugly han contest go to the campus chest bulletin the young republicans club received word late yesterday that james farmer national director of the congress of racial equality has agreed to debate william f buckley here on dec 6 buckley a conservative republican from new york city agreed to let farmer choose the topic for debate in april farmer led two irajor marches by more than 1,000 per sons on the bogalusa la city hall threatened a boycott against the crown-zellerbach corp largest employer m the city and finally left town m an effort to reduce racial tension there in washington d.c he urged the house judiciary subcommittee to broaden voting rights legislation then under consideration to allow registration of persons with criminal convictions failure to do so would deprive many civil rights workers the right for which they had demonstrated he pointed out at the time of the now famous 5-day march on selma ala farmer led more than 200 demonstrators from the white howe to a park near the capitol for a rally ' buckley a 39-year-old columnist and editor of the national review declared his candidacy for mayor of new york city june 24 to in troduce the other candidates to the new york that seethes with frustra tion while politicians conduct their quadrennial charade a controversial figure today's new york times editorial for example describes him as william f buckley jr the conservative nominee has dropped any pretense that his role m the campaign is other than that of a spoiler his supercilious brand of goldwaterlsm is full of elliptical appeals to every backward impulse m the community tak approved by ifc unanimous approval of a motion to support tax m its effort to become the 81st greek letter fra ternity on campus and announce ment of changes m open house dates were the chief actions taken by the interfr&ternlty council tuesday a committee formed to investigate tax's unique situation on campus reported that tax had passed with a high degree of excellence the criteria set up by the ifc for admittance to the council as a fraternity the first open houses days when freshmen are permitted to visit fraternities will be held on nov 13 and 14 the 13th is assigned to the hill houses m lower sayre park and the 14th has been given to the town houses the four other open house dates have not yet been assigned in other action the possibility of co-sponsoring william f buckley with the young republican club was discussed the council also decided by unanimous vote to contribute 100 to the campus chest the criteria used m determine tax's right to recognition as a greek letter fraternity were organization self - government constitution economic stability scholarship and social activities in supporting tax's goal of becoming a local greek letter fraternity the council also stated that it will support tax if and when it seeks recognition from a national fraternity . ugly tops 1,200 as delta chi wins by louis neureuter a total of 1,206.23 was collected m the apo sponsored ugly man contest which concluded yesterday waterbuftalo thomas p luss 66 sponsored by delta chi took first place with 144.09 according to donald l booth 67 chairman of the contest the other 10 winners were delta upsllon's richard c thor berger 68 130.74 richards a-2's arthur h mam assistant dean of students 122.72 pi lambda phi's steve w huggit ross 67 107.86 mam a-l's victor c oflesh 68 91.19 mtm b-2»s henry t berger 67 74.57 beta theta pi's john s steckbeck assistant professor of physical education and director of lntramurals 66,12 drinker b-3's dudley c brown graduate assistant m english 64.15 emery house's lawrence r speen 68 52.57 tau delta phi's andrew p segal 67 45.59 the 1,206.23 collected m the monday to wednesday library step campaign is a recent record the past high was 890 m 1961 only 216 was contributed last year the money will be donated to the campus chest's goal of 5,000 sponsors of the top ten ugly men will receive ticket preferences for the houseparty football fine in previous years only the top three ugly men received seating priorities see late pag 6 see 10 ugly page 10 dr martin d whitaker