Brown and White Vol. 79 no. 49

              lehigh university brown and white vol 79 • no 49 bethlehem pa - tuesday may 7 1968 866-0331 constitution changes favored by mike jeppsen members of tto committee appointed to draft a new constitution for arcadia were optimistic about the passage of their new proposals at the first public discussion meeting held in tto university center thursday afternoon all five members of the committee and several other students present in cluding aldo borin president of arcadia hailed the proposed changes as a major step toward unified student government and greater student unity the committee was appointed three weeks ago by borin when arcadians in dicated itaa a compromise between elect ing all members at large as stephen globus suggested in his constitutional pro posals and having representatives from student government group as ipc and rhc would have to be reached the new system accomplishes this by specifying that the five officers and 12 members be elected at large in general elections and that residence halls rhc inter-fraternity ifc and town councils each have a commissioner on arcadia elected in an at-large election by all stu dents in the body they represent the number of elections would be changed from one to two the first one being for officers only and the second one for members and commissioners thus the officers would m inng-r be elected by only arcadia members and the number of representatives from ifc and rhc councils would be cut from two to one town council would still have one representative tto junior sophomore and freshman class cabinets each of widen s*nd two members now would hav no representa tion tto duties of a commissioner would never include work thai did not concern his council to increase ms effectiveness and tto communication between tto coun cils and arcadia the constitution would require that these students also be tto president of their respective councils the present constitution does not dic tate tto rules for tto election of council president tjui wu each council handle tto election itself stephen globus chairman of tto com mittee said one commissioner would be more effective than two re will carry more weight as a single comlssloner be cause to is elected by a majority to coidimirm globus said the commissioner most attend both arcadia and council meetings to insure a constant dialogue borin said that the purpose of tto new constitution is to bring tto student body under one unified student government norm monhait a member of tto com mlttee said the new proposal go a long way toward making arcadia what it should be — supremo student government monhalt said tto new nnaillmjlng s proves coordination between arcadia and tto throe main governinr atruclur on campus — ifc rhc and town councils dan sassl president f rhc cornell 70 votes to cut cabinet by john gustavsen constitution change needed a motion to abolish the 70 class cabinet and replace it with a class council was passed by the cabinet thursday ■ , the change requires a constitutional amendment at least three quarters of the class will have to sign a petition to allow this amendment the present cabinet consists of an eight member executive committee elected by the class and a 60-member cabinet body selected by the execu tive committee members of the 60 man cabinet serve on various standing and ad hoc committees under the new representation system devised by larry fiackowiak 70 the council would con sist of only 18 members six of these would be class officers elected in the spring eight at large members representing frater nity residence halls town and gryphon students would be chosen by the class officers during ths first week of the fall aeiue&cer each ai-iarge member would serve as chairman of at least one committee the current cabinet system includes s stand ing committees the arcadia communications future projects evaluation and safety committees members of which are chosen from the 60-mem ber cabinet the new system would include the publicity and communications future projects concert performing arts class activities class gift ser vice finance and co-operation and evaluation committees members of all committees would be chosen from among interested members of the class itself the advantage of such a system are varied one is that more class members will have op portunities to take more active roles in class functions the new system also will make a smaller hence tighter knit working group where everyone will have a job and more will he accom plished al elsie 70 class secretary said the idea is the first breath of fresh air that lehigh student government has had in years it win make the government generally seen as a no-function by the lehigh community into an effective body " the cabinet is overwhelmingly in favor of the propoaai by a 30-2 vote even though they are slitting their own throats he continued haw phuo by duster mackowiak addresses 70 cabinet ■ u.n leader to lecture on crisis areas tonight dr jcr.n g sioessinger director of political affairs division at the united nations will speak in packard lab auditorium at 8:1 s this evening his topic will be crisis areas before the u.n stoefisinger has held his present u n position since may 1967 he is also the executive officer m the ph.u program in political science at the city university of new york and is the director of that university's research institute on united nations affairs stoesslnger has taught several courses in international relations on television and radio and is the author of the book the might of the nations world polities in our times which has been used in lemgh i r course for this work he was award ed the 1063 bancroft prise by columbia university for to best book on interna tional relations published in 1965 he has written numerous other books including the refugee and the world community power and order end tte united nations and the superpowers at the age of 11 stoesslnfer fled to czechoslovakia from na»i-hem austria he traveled to china where he lived for seven years while he was living in china he served on the international refugee or ganisation at shanghai in 1847 stoessln»r came to the united states he received ms ba degree from grinnell college in 1990 and hit ph d from harvard university in 1954 he has taught at harvard wellesley massachu setts institute of technology and columbia where he was visiting professor of inter national relation for seven years a discussion will follow the lecture which is being co-sponsored by the class of 1969 and the residence halls council it it open to the public and i.d card holders will be admitted without charge b&w wins top award the brown & white has received an honor rating of all-american from the associated college press the award which is the highest the service otters is an improvement over last semester's rating as a first class semi-weekly publication the brown & white scored consistently high in all areas of journalism which included everything from news coverage to picture content particularly noted were the professional features and pungent editorials several students have also been recog nized by pi delta epsilon national journalism fraternity for their work on the paper bob butt was awarded first place in toe photography contest alan scschin received a third place award in tto sports story contest and an honorable mention in the editorial contest honorab ls mentions were also given to norm monhalt for his sports story and tom roberts for a feature column b * w photo by bousquet checkovs the proposal was presented saturday night by the mus tard and cheese players as part of their evening of student directed one act plays alt on the program which draw almost 300 peopie to grace hall were pinter's the dumb waiter and mo here's doctor in spite of himself see review page 10 see constitution page 4