Brown and White Vol. 79 no. 30

              brown and white vol 79 - no 30 bethlehem pa tuesday february 20 ives ft«9-w.)t assasination speaker due dr joseph thompson a prominent critic of ths warren commission's findings in a recent book and professor of philosophy at have lord college will speak on six seconds la dallas a micro-study of tha kennedy assassina tion monday feb 26 at 8 : 15 p.m in packard lab auditorium thompson's presentation will bs illus trated with previously unshown color movie strips aad slides taken by spectators in dalles which he says raise serious questions about the conclusions of the warren commission the former consultant to life magazine on the assassination makes a devastating case against the commission's single bullet single assassin theory according to commentators in newsweek the satur day evening post and other publications in his book sts seconds in dallas thompson by mesas of spectators movies and still films proves that there may have been as many as three assassins by photographs and physical evidence he shows that the fatal shot to kennedy's head came from the right front of the limosine bs uses exercises in physics and photography to prove this lehigh will be the forum for thompson's first university lecture all royalties from his book and lectures go to recog nised charities or to funds lor us cause thompson's lecture oa campus is sponsored by the forum for visiting lecturers a student-faculty group authorised by w doming lewis presi dent last year casey cogut 69 is chairman thompson's visit will follow that of another warren commission critic last april mark lane author of ths best seller " rush to judgement , said that the assassination was a conspiracy homes destroyed for expansion by lynn havach redevelopment beneficial or tragic workmen in green overalls slowly and steadily push wheelbarrows loaded with cement along ramps into the skeletal struc ture of what is to be the mart memorial library at the corner of new street and packer avenue the area around the new building is flat covered with bricks wire and splinters of lumber - the remains of the buildings that once stood there tho homes and even business places of many south side bethle hem residents a sign on the library side of new street halfway between morton street and packer avenue tells the story of lehigh's north ward expansion of its campus packer avenue urban renewal project no penna r-249 above the sign draped from the tightly drawn telephone wires are strands of loose-hanging wire which at one time were connected to houses that stood whore the sign now stands urban renewal redevelopment or what ever term is used to describe it is a ne cessary evil in the changing world of today growth of existing facilities and ths be ginning of new facilities necessitate it in lehigh's case it was a matter of getting urban renewal program or not getting a needed academic expansion to ths north elmer click the university treasurer said recently bat lehigh la la a rather disadvantageous position in relation to many other schools in that it is hemmed in by the city of bethlehem be said flatly we weeded two urban renewal programs north of the campus to expand academically ths fact of ths matter is we just don't have ths fist lands aad wide open spaces to even consider expansion let alone the question of where to put much-needed parking fa cilities the urban renewal program has indeed been a boom to lehigh's growth it provided space for whitaker laboratory and aa ad joining parking facility ii has allowed for the beginning of construction of the mart library and it will eventually make room for a new bau of liberal arts but the offsets of urban renewal while favorable for lehigh are unfavorable for other persons mainly those displaced by bulldozers and wrecking cranes those who have to relinquish homes their fathers built years ago in this light urban renewal is ugly and ths packer avenue project offers an excellent study in contrast at ths corner of new and morton streets a dirty sign hangs over a doorway to wentirv a building as the mew street tailor shop in the shop's front window la acrum pled paper sign which reads in red letters going out of business ths venetian blinds in ths front window are drawn tight while glass clutters the sidewalk aad the wind moves large pieces of cardboard hack sad forth next door betweea the tailor shop and ths once-frequented campus barber shop is a home ths door of which much is glass la securely locked but ths glass is broken aad easily allows a man to enter on me door jam are two shredded wires - one red tha other white - to which a doorbell was connected inside ths walls are amply arrayed with miscellaneous garfflttit bill was here so what the air is a bit warmer than that outside but the smell of the building is dry and barren a dead rat lies sprawled toward one side of the floor in ths build inr s main downstairs room a blue sad white lettered pamphlet whips across the floor carried by ths wind which enters through a shattered back window the lettering on ths pamphlet tells a story about the building's former inhabitant how to make your friends happy in lust three easy steps ths third structure in ths cluster is ths barber shop which has only two of ma nine windows in the front unbroken beside ms downstairs entrance upstairs are living areas for three families inside ths main entrance is a row of three mailboxes scrib bled in pencil above them are the words bells out of order betweea ths barber shop and the home la a small walkway cluttered with rusty hear aad soda eaea and whet remains of christ mas tree branches ing toward the lehigh campus ths glass crunches beneath his foot aa ha stops aad j stares at the three structures hs waits only a moment then shakes ms head crosses tho street and continues toward the library there ha stops aad smiles draff deferments cut for graduate students national view by marty marasco most occupational and graduate deter ments were elliminated friday in a telegram from lt gen lewis b hershey director of the selective service system to all state selective service directors hershey s directive was in raspoass to a memorandum from the national security council which in tarn waa acting on advice from the secretaries of labor commerce and health education and wel fare the secretaries questioned " whether there is any c urrent justification for maintaining for deferment purposes the list of currently osae-bal activities and ths list of currently critical occu pations ths test of ths hershey directive said in part the lists of essential activities and critical occupations are suspended leaving each local board with discretion to grant in individual cases occupational determents baaed on a showing of essential community need the directive continued n with respect to graduate determents the national security council advises that it la act essential for the rniir.tei-.nce of the national health safety aad interest to provide student determents for graduate study in fields other than medicine den tistry and anted specialties ths directive said it doss not pertain to graduate students who began graduate work prior to tho fall of 1067 but doss pertain to present first-year graduate students lehigh view ths decision to eliminate graduate deferments from ths selective service system will create problems for lehigh according to robert d stoat dean of ths graduate school stout said tha most pressing problem will be with graduate teachlnaassistance ships hs pointed out that while there wiu ho a decline ta graduate enrollment bo decline in undergraduate enrollment is expected aad this could create a serious problem la meeting the aasd for graduate instructors stoat said tha other major problem will be la ths area of research ha foresees tha aaw deter laeat policy causing delays er intel foi uuuoe with research projects the fan impact of ths decision to eliminate graduate determents cannot be predicted until it is possible to accurately estimate the numbers involved accor ding to stout tha dean la ii aei.ly operating under the assumption that only one-third of the graduate students will be drafted but added thai this is only a john a stoops doaa of ths school of education said that the problems in tea education school will not bs as severe aa in the rest of the university since only about 80 per cent of us students are males of draft ago it is going to hurt the people who depend upon us to supply them with teachers more than it win hart us said stoops stoops said that while he only expected a 10 par cent decline in enrollment some of the edwswhon school programs would be hit hard particularly those with a large concentration of younger man state checks finds dr lewis not registered university president dr w doming lewis will make a personal appearance nest week at tha northampton county courthouse to register to vote lewis has recently been nominated to the state board of education when a routine check to find bis party affiliation was made lewis was found not to be a registered voter , according to the allentown morning call william johnson who handles nom inations for gov shafer pointed out that voter registration is not required for board of education membership lewis having been at the university since 64 does fulfill the 90 day resi dence requirement to be able to register dr jonah thompson