Brown and White Vol. 82 no. 7

              brown and white vol 82 - no 7 bethlehem pa fr.day october 9 1970 2v 866-033 1 v :â– â– " : # i*i o_-__f0 f rhc to equalize funds for living group functions by walt wilcynski in a precedent setting derision monday night the residence halls council rho voted to extend an economic variation of the one man one vote concept to uni versity freshmen the rhc decided to eliminate specially-budgeted fixed amounts of money for various freshman social programs in stead rhc will put money into a freshman fund which the underclassmen could use as they see fit rhc will also allocate the same amount of money per man for section parties regardless of whether they are sponsored by freshmen or upper classmen previously upperclassmen had received a proportionally larger amount details remain to l>e worked out the decision resulted from a long debate sparked by the requests of representa tives from mcclintic-marshall and the centennial houses for funds to replace stolen stereo equimment . they charged that tho thefts were not their fault but resulted from faulty locks several representatives from the other upperclass halls objected to the request stating that their sec tion shad as much need for funds and that requests of this kind could get out of ha nd a debate followed a motion to give an interest free loan to the houses for the stolen equipment this motion passed another was de feated that would have had rhc pay half of the stereo's cost of the stereo's cost as the debate continued several council members voiced concern over the apparent neglect of the freshmen who constitute twice as many residence hall dwellers as upperclassmen in an effort to focus attention on the neglect bill jesse 73 a gryphon m drinker â–  house proposed a motion that would have allocated 300 each to drinker richards and taylor and 500 to dravo for fresh men to purchase stereo equipment of their own it was decided the motion was not feasible hecause of the high cost scarc ity of freshman section parties and the right of freshmen to attend upperclass open parties jesse readily admitted the motion's impracticality saying that was more symbolic than anything else the idea behind it was sympathized with by many delegates i think it's time we did something for our freshmen l>ecau.se they're getting royally screwed said one delegate the motion was defeated but the motions to redistribute funds more equit ably and to set up the freshmen fund were made and passed however the council failed to act on the questions raised concerning the dis proportionately low representation fresh men have m rhc freshmen who re present almost twice the number of upper classmen m the residence halls and con tribute most of the rhc's money pre sently have only four votes m the council b&w photo by mccormick ) residence halls council president rick whiffen makes a point m the rmc meeting that saw freshmen receive for the first time a financial allotment proportionally equal to that for upperclassmen commission on compus unrest asks nixon's moral leadership by don suss the president's commission on campus unrest issued its report on sept 26 and railed for president nixon to use his reconciling moral leadership as the first step to prpvent violence andcreate under standing the report also directed recommendations to the students and the universities the commission was formed last june following the student killings at kent statp m ohio and jackson state m mississippi although the effectiveness of the report will not be known foi some time it appears that it may be severely hindered due to the administration's negative re action vice president agnew has criticized the report for using the president as a scapegoat many local college administrators feel that the vice president's statementagainst the report will severely limit itseffective ness dr claude dierols dean of students at muhlenl>erg college expressed the general opinion of most of the administra tors when he stated i don't think it helps that the administration has already had a tendency to repudiate the report university president w deming lewis stated that if the report is implemented it will be effective however he went on to add i don't know if it will c imple mented and i don't know if the president will take the lead as it recommends most administrators feel that it is now up to the individual colleges and uni versities to take the initiative and re evaluate their policies m terms of the recommendations of the commission i don't know whether it is appropriate for me to speculate about what mr nixon will or will not do said preston parr vice president of student affairs i think that what we at lehigh ought to do is not wait for mr nixon to respond because he may not get around to doing that but rather for us to look at it m terms of what it recommends to students and tothe university and see how it applies to our situation parr went on to give his evaluation of the report state dept to present lecture series a 4-man team from the u.s state department will hold a series of lectures m the lehigh valley oct 19-20 dealing with community meetings on u.s foreign policy the team of foreign affairs specialists will attend classes and hold lectures at the university allentown college of st francis de sales cedar crest college lafayette college moravian college and muhlenberg college the purpose of these meetings is to bring members of the community m contact with knowledgeable washington officials the goal of these meetings is an exchange of ideas and information about foreign problems policies and programs heading the team will be ashlev (_ , hewitt jr special assistant to the as sistant secretary of state for inter american affairs along with him will be william t shlnn jr office of soviet union affairs bureau of european affairs jason h parker office of regional af fairs bureau of east asian and pacific affairs and david bloch public affairs officer bureau of near eastern and south asian affairs the team will participate m a discussion on the world's trouble spots at 8 p.m ashley c hewitt jr does polywater exist experts seem to disagree polvwater the recently discovered and very controversial form of water still has scientists and chemists battling as to whether the substance does m fact exist or not in the latest round of verbal attacks prof robert e davis of purdue university said that he had found conclusive evidence that there was no such substance as polywater polywater was first discovered m 1962 by a russian scientist dr boris v beryagln but the news of this discovery did not come to the front until an american publication wrote of the substance m june 1969 dr davis cites new evidence from russian journals which state there were im purities m the samples of polywater tested and that these organic impurities were m face human perspiration i.e sweat the university's own authority and researcher on the subject of polywater dr fred erick m fowkes was wrong m his findings and that dr davis did not cite any new information fowkes who is chairman of the chemistry department feels that he him self is about 40 percent certain that polywater does exist a conference hosted at the university this summer for the american chemical society helped spur much of the controversy concerning polywater almost 400 researchers and chemists attended the conference and most of them probably left still unsure as to whether this new form of water exists or not dr fowkes has been working on obtaining samples of polywater for almost a year and a half he felt almost sure that polywater existed at the beginning of ids research but new findings have provided many new doubts as to its exi stance see nixon page 3 see state page 4 see fowkes page 5