Brown and White Vol. 82 no. 18

              brown and white vol 82 no 18 bethlehem pa friday november 20 1970 866-033 i forum abolishes saturday classes by gary dohanich as of the spring semester 1971 the tradition of regularly scheduling under graduate classes on saturday mornings shall come to an end this resolution was passed by the forum monday in the wake of concerned debate over the feasibility and alternatives to ending saturday classes the forum also passed a substitute motion to the don miles resolution which asserts the university's obligation to consider the interests of south bethlehem in university construction plans which affect the south side community eight of pro posed 10 recommendations on graduate and undergraduate housing presented by the student affairs and the priorities planning and resources committee were also passed the saturday classes resolution moves the 8 a.m.-12noon block of saturday classes to wednesday from 6:30-10:30 p.m to avoid having the same classes meet con secutively on wednesday evening and thursday morning classes designated wednesday in preregistration will meet on monday thursday classes on tuesday friday classes on wednesday monday classes on thursday and tuesday classes on friday this class scheduling also preserves the normal sequence of days citing the undermining basis of saturday classes on the educational experience due to a lack of attention and attendance the forum accepted the academic affairs committee's resolution by a majority vote albert zettlemoyer provost and vice president commended the academic affairs committee on their hard work in exploring the alternatives to saturday classes objections the moves wore made to stall action on the saturday class resolution nicholas lapara instructor of philosophy moved to refer the proposal to committee for further study of alternate rescheduling plans lapara submitted one possible alternate plan to the forum which involved five courses meeting for 50 minutes three times a week and six courses meeting for 75 minutes twice a week the motion to refer the main motion to committee was defeated albert wtlansky professor of mathematics proposed a substitute motion which called for poll of students and faculty before the forum decided upon the saturday b&w photo by costanza howard bel takes the floor in monday's forum meeting which saw the ab olition of saturday classes become reality students with classes scheduled for saturday next semester will have those changed to wednesday evenings ohio grand jury f.b.i reports disagree on shooting justification editor's note this is the last of two articles concerning the reports by by the special ohio state grand jury and the f b /. on the shootings at kent state and the conflicting con clusions they reached by donald suss the ohio state grand jury and the f.8.1 differed markedly in the areas investigated with respect to the kent state disorders while the f.8.1 investigated the events of the day of the killings may 4 and tried to determine what started the actual shooting the grand jury seemed more concerned with the events that led up to the confrontation although the grand jury did indict 25 people in connection with the disturbances of may 4 they did not attempt to any great extent to determine whether the national guard was justified in firing upon the students instead they dedicated much of their report to excoriating the administration and some of the faculty for fostering the conditions that precipi tated the confrontation lethal weapons one area where the grand jury's recommendations did coincide with previous reports was the suitability of the arms issued to the national guard the jury concluded that the weapons issued to the national guardsmen are not appropriate in quelling campus disorders the jury also stated that nonlethal weapons . . . should be made available to the national guard in the future this recommendation was in accord with the findings of the president's commission on campus unrest scranton report which stated that the " guardsmen should not have been able to kill so easily in the first place the f.8.1 summary also paralleled some of the conclusions reached by the scranton report both reports contra dicted the statements of some national guard officers that a sniper on the kent state campus started the shooting snipers ? the f.8.1 report stated there was no sniper the great majority of guardsmen do not state that they were under sniper fire and many state that the first shots came from the guardsmen the summary added that there is nothing to indicate that any person other than a guardsman fired a weapon three reasons were cited to reinforce their contention that the guard clearly did not believe that they were being fired upon first no guardsman claims he fell to the ground or took any other evasive action also all available photographs show the guard at the critical moments in a standing position and not seeking cover second no guardsman claims that he fired at a sniper or even that he fired in the direction from which he believed the sniper shot finally there is no evidence of the use of any weapons at any time in the weekend prior to the may 4 confrontation and no weapon was observed in the hands of any person other than a guardsman both the f.8.1 and scranton reports refuted the statement by some guardsmen including general robert canterbury c ommander of the guard troops on campus that the guard ran out of tear gas prior to the shootings the f.8.1 report noted that at least two officers were aware that a limited supply of tear gas remained and that one of these officers had ordered one of the remaining canisters loaded and ready for use the report also contradicts the statements of national guard officers that the towd of students had moved to encircle the guardsmen just prior to the firing it stated the guardsmen were not surrounded photographs and television film show that only a very few students were located between the guard and the commons where they were headed they could easily have continued in the direction in which they had been going the f.8.1 summary also took exception to the statement by the ohio grand jury that there was a constant barrage of physician gives reasons for opposition to abortion abortion is like the flag and apple pie these were the words of dr james diamond in a speech delivered here monday night diamond a practicing physician since 1948 said that since the popularization of abortion law repeal many people use the term without knowing exactly what it means diamond briefed the audience on the biological actualities of abortion and detailed the dilation and curettage vacuum and hypertonic injection methods the sum of these methods make abortion the most widely practiced form of birth control in the world and the coming generation will have to cope with it as diamond's speech moved to other aspects of the issue he stated i believe that the liberalization of abortion laws in the united states is bad national policy bad government bad medicine and bad philosophy he explained that the unborn child has rights especially the right to life and must be spoken for when people consider legis lation which would abridge this right the right to live can never be at another's convenience presently he said no one knows the legal status of the unborn child diamond countered the argument that legalising abortion will eliminate deaths resulting from operations by quack doctors he said currently ninety-five percent of all abortions are performed by certified doctors and only five percent are done by " auto mechanics and other untrained people prize winning prof gipson in accident dr lawrence h gipson pulitzer prize winning professor emeritus was listed in satisfactory condition after being hit by a car near his home at delaware ave and fiot st on tuesday he was admitted to st luke's hospital and was found to have incurred a broken left leg and bruises on the lower half of both legs gipson is famous for his monumental 15 volume work the british empire before the american revolution he won the pulitzer prize for the 10th volume entitled the triumphant empire thunderclouds gather in the west 1763 - 1766 his last volume will appear on dec 7 his 90th birthday police reported that gipson was struck by a station wagon driven by edward posner posner told police that he was travelling from 20-25 miles per hour before seeing gipson however it was reported by police that there were 60 foot skid marks at the scene posner has not been charged but the matter is under further investigation gipson contends that he did not see the car when he stepped from the curb see forum page 4 see ohio page 8 see doctor page 4