Brown and White Vol. 81 no. 27

              lehigh university brown and white s^«sss4e^ess®bb^a^^4 bethlehem pa friday january 30 1970 wnmhmmmk 846*0331 vol •! ho 27 lehigh scientist say moon rocks contain no workable materials two university professors disclosed the results of three months of research on the apollo 11 moon particles during a press conference at the bethlehem club on jan 19 dr charles sclar professor of geology and dr joseph goldstein associate pro fessor of metallurgy agreed that the particles indicate no evidence of workable mineral deposits dr sclar noted that previous research showed that the moon's surface was high in titanium content but that it was not different from the deposits of titanium on earth both deposits are unworkable according to dr sclar dr sclar was primarily concerned with searching for evidence that shock waves once passed through the moon material dr goldstein investigated the micro structure and chemistry of some of the metal particles commenting on the possible discovery of one to four new minerals dr goldstein said they were " not metallic at all . he explained that the composition of moon materials is not surprisingly different from those on earth except that many minerals are oxygen deficient on the subject of the meteorite frag ments dr goldstein stated that intense change ln temperature caused the meteorites to melt solidify and remelt creating many changes from their original form he compared their properties to those occurring ln the crater ln arizona the particles solidified ln much the same manner with the exception for the pre sence of oxygen dr sclar said his research produced considerable evidence of past multiple shocks on the moon's surface he stated there is no structure of organic composi tion on the moon ln the sense that we know it dr sclar added the probability of life is very low i think we would have been very surprised to find anything different despite his findings dr sclar declined endorsement of any cosmic theory on the moon s formation he did say that progress is being made toward understanding the moon's interior and surface the biggest mystery the two scientists encountered was that ofthe relative ages of the particles the oldest found were estimated at 4.6 billion years while the youngest were one billion years the oldest rocks are older than all but a few found on earth landings in separate areas of the moon will be necessary to gain more complete samplings according to dr sclar he cited that the apollo 11 mission yielded different particles from that of the apollo 12 mission the major difference being the color of the particles lafayette takes 25 coeds for admission next fall letters of acceptance were mailed january 12 to the first group of women to be offered admission to lafayette college announced richard w haines director of admissions at lafayette the 25 secondary school students who have the option of being among the first coeds in the 139-year history of lafayette college have until may 1 to make a decision we believe we'll be hearing from most of these women sooner than the may 1 deadline as a matter of fact i expect the first enrollment deposits to arrive in a matter of days haines said sending the enrollment deposit indicates that the girl has decided to attend lafayette thirteen of the girls are from new jersey nine from pennsylvania two from new york and one from connecticut five area residents are among those chosen from pennsylvania four attend easton area high school and one attends wilson boro high school five daughters of lafayette alumni are among the 25 chosen lafayette's board of trustees decided last month to admit women as of september 70 plans call for the admission of 135 women 115 freshmen and 20 upperclass transfer students in the fall the projected 1974-75 total enrollment will be 1500 men and 500 women the first women to be offered admission to lafayette have outstanding scholastic records according to haines academically the majority of the girls ranked ln the top 10 per cent of their class and their average scholastic aptitude test scores are 632 verbal and 644 mathe matical ranking in the top four per cent nationally the girls are also quite active in extra-curricular activities among their number are 5 class officers 11 student council representatives four editors-in-chief of school publications 17 members of the national honor society 12 members of musical organizations and members of 76 different school clubs including 21 officers twenty-two of the girls are from public schools and three are from private schools nineteen have indicated the goal of a 8.a three plan to seek a b.s in mathematics one desires a b.s in chemistry and two are engineering candidates the 25 women who were offered admission this week were selected from over 200 who have applied thus far haines said we will continue to receive applica tions through march 1 and the admissions committee will act on all applications by april 15 arcadia decides to elect new vp from among at large members by tom foley arcadia xxiv came into being last wednesday but found itself short one vice-president hal johnson 71 who was to hold that position found the offer of two years at vassar attractive and resigned the post arcadia decided to handle the matter by taking the top 13 candidates from the arcadia at-large elections instead of the usual 12 and electing the new vice-president from among the arcadia members it was announced at the meeting that the election would take place in one week and that nominations would be accepted now but that it would also be possible to make open nominations at the next meeting before the election bill alpert bob frazier and rick sed mack were nominated at wednesday's meeting there was some discussion of whether or not the session should move into the committee of the whole and allow the candidates to make their positions known it was decided that each candidate would be given five minutes to express his views during the next meeting since frazier was absent to participate ln a debate faculty and administration attendance also came up for heated debate james kasser 71 arcadia president had opened the floor to general discussion when todd tieger 71 said that the procedure deans or president lewis should be attending arc adia he continued by declaring that we should definitely have dean parr or dean quay at every meeting this brought about a ten-minute debate on the desirability of having them present at every meeting regardless of the issues to be discussed tieger s position of constant participation was endorsed by marvin levine 71 who argued that since there is a communications gap we should do the best we can to bridge lt kasser noted that the faculty and administration have an open invitation and said he favors special invitations at specific times only tieger then made a formal motion that arcadia accept as policy that dr lewis be at every meeting the question was then called and the motion defeated by a vote of seven for eight against and three abstentions in other business kasser announced that arcadians should be members of arcadia committees he urged them all to become ■ involved and asked that arcadia take an anticipatory role ln the university rick sedmack 71 was named chai rtnan of the finance and calendar committee as it was felt this was a job that required someone with experience it was announced that the concert com mittee had just contracted " the band for a two-hour concert on sunday feb 22 tickets will go on sale next week jim kasser thornburg rebuffed by dean in a letter to the members of thornburg house dean of residence clarence campbell stated that the residence halls council was still the official spokesman for the upperclass residence halls and that with the dean of residence s approval thornburg house could be held responsible for_any decision made by rhc the letter was in response to thorn burg's pre-christmas withdrawal from rhc thornburg declared their indepen dence after rhc passed the non-selectivity motion which was felt to be a threat to thornburg's way of life dean campbell supports the non-selectivtty motion he stated in the dec 16 issue of the b&w that the higher priority of claim belonged tothe freshman not to the upperclass man according to lee fuller president of thornburg house the passage of the motion brought to a head the house mem bers feelings ihat rhc w?s an inefficient organization at the meeting bob steinman president of rhc agreed that the organization was inefficient but that the members ought to have the courage to face the problems fuller stated that he regreted the response he received from dean campbell and added the dean's belief ln rhc was a bit too strong fuller continued to state that the thornburg members intended to sustain tbe flght for the right to be independent as spokesman for the houae fuller felt the organization could never face the prob lem of inefficiency effectively or realistically at present dean campbell has not indicated whether or not he will impose the non selectivity process on the house odk petitions for memberships in omicron delta kappa the senior leadership honorary are available at the student activities desk