Brown and White Vol. 82 no. 43

              lehigh university brown and white vol 82 no 43 5;x:.x bethlehem pa friday april 23 1971 866 0331 nixon must answer what justifies death by donald suss pulitzer prize winning journalist james reston stated tuesday afternoon that the war in vietnam has reached the stage whereby president nixon must answer the question what justifies the death of x number of more americans from the time of 1971 to the time we get out reston's comments were delivered in the second of three lectures in the blaustein lectures series relations the subject of his address was entitled the problems before the president according to reston the problem of unemployment facing returning veterans must be met immediately he feels that there is a danger of very serious trouble from veterans particularly black veterans who face an extremely high unemployment rate he noted that com munities must place priorities and ensure that veterans receive first opportunities for jobs if we do not do it out of compassion he stated we must do it out of fear i our major problems were cited by reston that are presently nefore nixon l.how to end the war in vietnam and reduce the worldwide com mitments inherited from the democrats and still retain the • onfidence of the free world and avoid iso how to an i billion i a vear throughout the world with i balance of power i to the how to inflation i resulting and i how to a dominion i fear this country i maintain law he a problem i plaguing nixon how to do i these things a to get i in concerning the war in vietnam i feels that nixon is waiting i time to when i gave i apparently i nixon feel that i time is in the meantime reston noted i the president has himself i a because i he has war in i different i two weeks for i nixon the country i in with i newsman smith i a for a i from vietnam i because the safety the pow's i remaining would i be jeopardized hanoi responded i by saying they ensure i their nixon i two tests i stating a date i because the enemy i we do must i be that thieu-ky i the i enemy i reston noted that this an im i possible situation because thleu i ky keep troops in i vietnam by showing that they i strong defend i he this i too them to i problem of disarmament is i more to define i because secrecy the i reston closes blaustein series see special pullout on blastein lecture series pages 7-10 reston concludes on a happy note formal frosh representation defeated in forum meeting in what was supposed to l>e the last scheduled meeting of the present forum session held thursday night the university's governing body tabled many of the resolutions brought before it another meeting was scheduled for monday night to deal with the work still left over during the course of the meeting however the forumdid adopt several changes in the bylaws the changes dealt mainly with awkward or confusing wording but one of the ( hanges dealt with the problem of what a r epresentati ve s c onsti tuenc was and what happened if a student elected from one college transferred toanother ciriculum it was decided that the student could still hold a place in the forum in such a case unless the students who elected him decided otherwise a resolution was submitted by john fields 72 and gene mayer 71 that would have given fresh men formal recognition as par ticipants in the forum in his plan fields called for each freshman living group to elect a non-voting member who would be assigned to committees and sub committees fields said that the representatives would be our link with the freshmen the proposal raised a great deal of concern about the number of frosh representatives about 38 and the fact that the reso lution might have the power of a constitutional amendment there was also the question of whether the resolution was necessary since anyone can presently par ticipate in floor discussions and subcommittees even if they are not members of the forum fields countered by saying that he agreed but that the proposal was giving formal recognition to freshmen so that they will have more contact with the forum something thev haven't had up to now the forum decided to refer the motion to the by-laws committee to be studied another report referred back to committee was a report and recommendation on the parking problem at the university the report was submitted by robert frazier 71 who stated that his sub-committee was unable to deal with the problems of residence halls parking and the long-range parking policy due to a narrow charge because of this he said the subcommittee should be made permanent in order to study the problems the report also con tained proposals which would give parking privileges to the faculty as fringe benefits which would be specified in their contracts parking would be available in lots on the lower campus for all others for a fee of 25 for commuting students and 100 for residential students frazier made it clear that this did not affect anyone wishing to obtain a regular parking permit which would be good for parking only in residence lots frazier's report also called for the better enforcement of parking regulations frazier noted that the cam • police regarded their job mainly concerning campus . curity and he therefore recommended that a " meter maid be hired solely to enforce the regulations during discussion many noted the limitations of the report one professor calling it replete with problems perhaps worse problems than it hopes to solve although frazier said that the report was only a recommend ation and not binding and was open to amendments the forum voted to send it back to the priorities planning and resourses committee for more consideration a discussion of a constitutional amendment which would have provided for two forum elections a vear one in the fall and one in the spring also ended in a u.s needs hope nixon is uninspiring by walter wilczynski in the third and final lecture in the blaustein series james reston vice president and columnist of the new york ttr..c !, stressed the need for the us to develop a more hopeful attitude we must regain composure in this country he said noting that americans have beeun to doubt themselves and that we believe we can't deal with our problems reston placed some of the blame for negative attitudes in the country on newspapers including the times saving they were for a long time basically police-blotter journalists emphasizing what was wrong or unusual not what was the record of the community i.eston said that we must approach the nation's problems in rational terms and with a historical p_.r_-pe ive and he said wp can solve them if we are thoughtful and patient in the process in the lecture heston examined the state of the world after the second world war when he noted thp us took over responsibility for maintaining peacp and decency i.eston said that the united states hasn't done too bad although there liave been wars in korea and vietnam plus numerous uprisings explained reston either throuch terror or experience or knowledge of what weapons can do we have maintained . . absence of war between the major powers reston said tliat there is now a totally different rela tionship between the super powers whenever there has been a threat of war he said one of the nations has backed off reston cited the cnban missile crisis and the vietnam war as examples if vietnam were being fought on the principles of world war 11 said reston " much worse things would have happened such as the intervention of china of the us and bombing of the red river dams which would result in mass starvation reston also spoke on the recent friendly overtures by red china the chinese see a critical time 74 coeds enroll here missimer not worried i don't think there will be any problem in filling the 126 spaces for women in the new residence halls stated samuel h missimer director of admissions he added that to date 74 coeds have enrolled for next year although 260 coeds applied for admission to the university missimer noted that the admissions office decided not to carry out an intensive campaign of recruitment the reasons for not carrying out such a campaign include the university did not want to turn down a large number of coed applicants for it would discourage future interest the male applicants are of a caliber as to not require more applica tions and the admission office was interested in having only interested applicants seek admission missimer also stated that the new coeds possess the same academic credentials as the male students the majority of coeds are enrolling in the arts college observed missimer missimer remarked that most ofthe coeds are coming from pennsyl vania new jersey and new york he added that a number are from southern states and foreign countries he also noted several spanish speaking and black coeds will be enrolled commenting on the number of freshman applications missimer stated that male applications are down two percent but with the addition of coeds overall applications show an increase this increase is in contrast to the sharp decrease shown by many private colleges and universities for example yale's applicants decreased 18 percent and harvard's decreased 11 percent missimer stated future enrollment will depend on this year's attrition rate because budgetary requirements are based on a fixed see reston page 4 see 74 page s see nixon page 4 see undergrads page 4