Brown and White Vol. 82 no. 39

              lehigh university brown and white vol 82 ho 39 0__06oe^_£m bethlehem pa friday march 26 1971 866-033 i residence hall plan in limbo according to dean campbell by donald suss the status of projection 76 a report prepared by dean of residence clarence b campbell to outline the university's residence needs over a six-year-span appears to be m limbo according to campbell p-76 was adopted m principle by a subcommittee on residence and m that way is still valid and still stands campbell noted that the basic philosophy set forth m p-76 is still the guiding philosophy on residence needs but that some precise elements are not likely to come about by 1976 as a result different steps will probably have to be taken m order to arrive at the same point place as was originally set forth m p-76 two major points of p-76 that were considered essential to help eliminate overcrowding and will not occur are the full renovation of taylor hall and the building of new undergraduate dor matories by 1972 as a result overcrowding will continue and may become more acute as larger freshmen classes and women students are admitted and the amount of housing available remains stable originally it had been hoped that the number of freshmen housed in the freshmen buildings would be reduced by 1972-73 campbell noted that this plan also is now m limbo and the present situation must continue untila new building is erected plans now call for a new building by 1976 and present planning is proceeding on this assumption he added however that any new buildings will be dramatically different from the present structures according to campbell instead of a full renovation of taylor hall the building will be rejuvenated over the summer and open for housing next fall this rejuvenation will probably take the form of patching up the building and could run into 100,000 m repairs campbell stated that the housing situation will probably remain for the next three years about what it has been m the last fifteen m terms of providing housing for all students who desire it as a result of the opening of the new rh-lodormatory complex next fall there will be no " sophomore squeeze next year for the first time since campbell came to the university m 19f»7 however he added i suspect that beginning m 1972 we will very definitely have a high sophomore squeeze sopho more squeeze comes as a result of the fact that sophomores receive the lowest priority of all people m the residence system and not all sophomores who desire housing receive it two unexpected events have added to the problems of sophomore squeeze and pro viding housing for all undergraduates who desire it first campbell noted that co education was an unexpected added element originally rh-10 was planned to be an all male residence complex which would have eliminated the problems of overcrowding however with the intro duction of women the number of spaces available for upperclassmen will now diminish by approximately the number of women admitted a second problem is the present higher rate of attrition at the university this relates to residence difficulties m that m order to offset the financial loss sustained it has become necessary to admit larger freshmen classes since all fresh men are guaranteed housing this reduces the number of spaces available to upper classmen campbell noted that if planning had gone into effect when p-76 was originally drawn up the university could have had new housing constructed by 1972 he added that dormatories can be built m two years but the problem is that a design must be used that tias already been executed a site must exist to put up this design and the money must be available to pay for the design at moravian he added dorms were constructed m one year alternative possibilities are available for the university to construct housing facilities m a short period of time campbell said that presently we are investigating among other things the feasibility of modular housing he noted that a factory is presently being built m new jersey that will be capable of stacking apartments on a site within six months these facilities which have been used m the past are constructed of poured concrete and meet hew housing standards taylor dorm was originally scheduled to be renovated next year m p 76 however a freshman class of 1050 makes taylor indespensible to housing and unavailable to renovation undergrad elections begin this monday elections for undergraduate members of the forum will be held monday and tuesday eighty of the 1 body's seats will become vacant due to graduation or the normal expiration of a member's term of those 80 44 are undergraduates to fill these seats 116 have been nominated 37 from the college of engineering for 17 seats 24 from the college of business administration for 6 seats 23 from the college of arts and sciences for 11 seats and 32 at-large for 10 seats there are 1g irraduate seats to till five will be from the college of arts aiid sciences and will l>e voted on at the same time as the undergraduate elections elections for the four graduate seats from the college of engineering will be held tuesday and wednesday the college of business with two seats to fill have not yet announced their plans the five seats for the school of education will be decided m elections held from april 1 to april 8 any student curently enrolled m the university is eligible to vote m their re spective constituencies faculty elections will be held between now and april 5 the college of engineering has six seats to fill the business college three the arts college eight and mis cellaneous ilree for a more complete picture of undergraduate elections turn to page 4 no reduced language despite student support despite overwhelming student support fo its adoption a motion that would have reduced the lanivuare requirement m the bachelor of arts program to serond-ycar proficiency was defeated yesterday afternoon m a rlose vote by the arts college faculty two recounts of hie vote were required before the motion was defeated the motion as presented last week hv dr norman melchert professor of philo sophy read as follows karh student m the b.a program is required to achieve second-year proficienc m one language other than enplish . for those languages offered m a r r>-4-3 sequence second-year proficiency is understood to mean completion of the first 10 hours or its equivalent an amendment passed yesterday to this motion added that courses taken under this requirement may be taken on a pass fail basis the proposal was originally passed overwhelmingly hv an oral vote of the combined students and farultv attending the arts forum meeting however m order for the motion to officially pass the forum it was subject to the approval of the faculty alone on the third vote of the faculty the proposal was finally lost by a 17-20 vote the advent of three votes being necessary to decide the issue was indicative of the closeness of the faculty opinion the first vote of the faculty resulted m a 17-17 tie a recount was then taken that again revealed a split vote this time by an 18-18 count the final vote wasa surpris ing vlctorv for those against the motion following the second faculty vote melchert who had originally proposed the motion arrived late at the meeting chicago 7 trial co-defendant to speak monday i)ave dellinger who was a co-defendant m the chicago 7 conspiracy trail will be appearing at grace hall on march 29 at 8 p.m dellinger's talk sponsored by the forum for visiting lecturers com mittee fvlci is entitled the price of dissent and is open to the public free of charge although he is primarily known for his participation m the conspiracy trail dave dellinger has been a nonviolent revolutionary and pacifist since the 19405 born m wakefield mass he earned a degree m economics at yale university and was elected to phi beta kappa he was awarded the henry fellowship and attended new college at oxford uni versity england he also studied at union theological seminary m new york city although he could have had a draft exemption as a ministry student he refused to register for the draft dellinger was promptly jailed for this m 1940 and dave dellinger see dellinger page 7 see pass-fail page 6 weighted ballots both forum and sac elections will i>e conducted on the weighted ballot system you vote for anv number of candidates in order of preference registering second place vote will hurt your first c hoice