Brown and White Vol. 82 no. 40

              lehigh university brown and white vol 82 - no 40 bethlehem pa tuesday march 30 1971 866-033 1 dellinger calls laos invasion a major disaster by bill white i^acifist revolutionary david dellinger called the united states invasion of laos the american dien hi en phu in a lecture on the " price of dissent sponsored b » h forum for visiting lecturers in grace hall last night dellinger a co-defendant in the chicago conspiracy tr:al discussed american in olvpment in indochina the distinction between force and violence american courtroom justice and f.8.1 infiltration of leftist forces during the course of his address which was followed by a question and answer period dellinger said the laotion disaster exposes the utter deception of the nixon laird rogers et al claim that vietnam ization is working " he added sarcastic ally it exposed america as a pitiless human giant " the next few weeks he speculated will tell whether the a merican people will realize there is no light at the end of the military tunnel dellinger said i can think of few things more disgusting than the sight of americans holding theirbreath hoping that only south vietnamese troops would be killed in the invasion he quoted ellsworth bunker ex american ambassador to south vietnam who once said that vtetnamization was a program for changing the color of its corpses dellinger added that the war against the indochinese people is actually a war against the american people dellinger also touched on the william galley court martial proceedings his first reaction was i hope they find him not guilty not he said because calley isn't guiltv but because he is being used as a scapegoat for crimes far beyond one person's actions " mv lai has become the scapegoat like william callev was the scapegoat he said for american atrocities dellint r er called for the people to " indict i.vndon johnson indict general west moreland indict general abrams indict richard nixon and added what we really ha\e to do is to indict war dellinger also discussed the prisoner of-war problem his investigation began in iw>g whet he visited saiiron and hanoi and met with ho chi minh dellinger was concerned about pre^s reports of american prisoners being driven through the streets of hanoi but came awav assured that thev were false he said that when support for nixon's vietnam policies began to wear thin almost but not quite — steve shields breaks away from penn state's andy matter two seconds too late in 2nd over time period of the championship bout at 167 shields escape came two seconds after the buzzer giving matter a full minute ride shields then rode the lion junior out in the 3rd period but lost the match on a referee's decision lehigh placed 7th in last weekend's nationals for the highest finish since 1967 see story on page 12 b photo b v shfhah dr joynt chairman of ir dept calls vietnamization misleading by george j bancroft a group of r>o church men and women from 20 states and the district of columbia returned from a trip to the paris peace talks saurday with a set of five convictions and four appeals to stop the war in vietnam among the group from nine protestant denominations was dr c'arev b joynt chairman of the university department of international relations and a ruling elder of the first preshvterian churrh bethlehem while in paris the group spoke with leaders of the four official delegations to the paris conference on vietnam the united states the republic of vietnam the democratic republic of vietnam north vietnam and the provisional revolutionary government of south vietnam prg thev also spoke with vietnaiae.se catholic priests budhist monks former government officials french scholars and journalists and other officials the consultation came up with five convictions on the vietnamese war that the indochina war must be stopped that no military solution including vietnamization is possible in the conflict that a political solution necessitates a change in attitudes and methods of negotiation tliat a troop withdrawal pledge by the united states would help the negotiations and that the only wav to secure the release of prisoners is through a political settlement dr joynt emphasizes that the delegation went to paris as private citizens not as a negotiating partv beside the scheduled meetings of the group lie met privatelv with members of the negotiating parties members of the french press government and french scholars his impression of the talks is thai " the american delegation needs tar more freedom of action to negotiate he savs the people lie talked with were convinced iho negotiations are completed deadlocked and that the distrust a men the dele rations is so overbean n 1 that a third part is needed as a mediator between them several of jowit's contacts in i'arr who cover southeast asia for the french press or v 1 art asian specialists in the french government a.e him then opinions on the conflict according to jovnt none of them liavn anv faith in the viotnamization progtam of the n'lxon administration or in the ability of south vietnam to survive without american support language d's f's always high by jeff balsai in the warfare between the student and his school everyone has probably had his moment of glory but here at least that moment can be harder to come bv while the general trend of grades across the entire university has been up two departments — german and romance languages have given consistently high per centages of d and f grades over the past 10 years this could be attributed to the fact that to satisfy the language distribution requirement for the arts college no language course may be taken pass-fail as can the rest of the courses used to fulfill distribution and not see related editorial in a student's major sequence the reason for this according to w ross yates dean of the college of arts and sciences is that grades are the only effective barometer available to measure a student's progress in a language course and that grades are also an effective incentive for making students put effort into language courses the effort is necessary yates feels because students who do poorly in one year of a language are lkely to flounder in the ne^t vear no favor dr john van eerde chairman of the department of romance languages holds the same belief as yates van eerde said that " vou do a poor student no favor to push him through a course only to meet the problems of the next year without adequate background the grading policy of the romance languages department may be reflecting this philosophy for the last few vears see chart a language requires particular concentration and the academic atmosphere in the last few vears has not encouraged this van eerde said the beginnings of language study require meticulous painstaking work there is no short cut to learning a langvage when asked to comment on the rise in percentage of f grades in the romance languages department from six percent in 1h66 to 14 percent in 19g9-70--van eerde said that perhaps the rise reflects the attitude that low ds are no favor to students he added that he does not feel that lower grades point against language or any other subject absence can hurt absence according to van eerde can affect a student's performance in language courses in his own experience van eerde said he has found that a person who is absent often does badly because language study is the kind of thing that needs practice van eerde said the department is asked by the university to hand out attendance regulations according to van eerde these regulations apply to the first four semesters ndthat after three cuts all cuts are counted th ( the portion of the grade called daily work after four semesters the instructors tell the students what the attendance regulations will be in their courses van eerde does not feel that early morning classes are the reason tor low grades either there are four courses given at 8 a.m and two at 9 a.m out of a total of 20 sections van eerde said he believes it is better to offer drill courses at the earlv time since it is easier to do language exercises than discuss ideas as is done in the literature courses " no good foundation dr john übben chai rmanof the department of german said the language grades are not like grades in other fields because there is generally no good high school foundation the grade distribution lias alwavs therefore been lower he attributes the losses in german i to the fact that the course offers introductory material at a much faster rate than high school übben said he has instituted some changes in the department because he believed german i grades were consistently too low the assignments and objectives weren't learned because the assignments were too long übben said he noted that german 31 the third-year level course has a low i and f rate he also said that grades are often a function of the personality of the instructor and low grades mean that the instructor is either not getting the 1 material across or expects too much übben said he feels a student who makes an effort if he is near the passing mark should be given an opportunity to try he said lie told teachers to consider see dellinger page 5 see low d page 4 see dr joynt page 8