Brown and White Vol. 81 no. 26

              lehigh university brown and white m thle hem pa monday january 12 it7o nr-hfcffr vol ii - no 24 thornburg pull-out poses problem for rhc the members of thornburg house have decided to cease all connections with the residence halls council rhc stated a letter to the brown and white in the dec 18 issue the withdrawal followed rhc's passage of the anti selectivity motion in november the acceptance of the non-selectivity process brought to s head the house members feelings that rhc did not accept and respect minority viewpoints according to lee fuller president of thornburg house at present no action has been taken to solve the problem of thorn burg's withdrawal because of the mid-year intercession clarence b campbell dean of residence described the case as high priority but added that no discussion has taken place the primary problem to be discussed is the validity of thornburg s withdrawal the house members stated we shall not obey any directives of that organization nor do we expect to be forcefully subjected to any proposals of it we expect to be treated as independent of rhc authority fuller stated that thornburg has only withdrawn from rhc and not from the residence halls system the question arises of whether the non-selectivity process should be implemented for the rhc members or for the entire residence system which would include thornburg house dean campbell stated at the dec 11 rhc meeting as of right now there will be no selectivity in the residence halls system at lehigh university when questioned after thornburg s announcement v campbell refused to comment on the intended meaning of his statement campbell favors the motion because the higher priority of claim belonged to the freshmen and not to the upperclass residence ball men the non-selectivity process would be conducted as a lottery with each house submitting a list of the desired applicants the student on the other hand would submit a card stating his first and second choices in a dry run campbell figured the happiness quotient to be 90 per cent that is the percentage of student choices matching house choices the fact that 90 per cent of the choices were matched has not claimed thornburg house the members view the non-selectivity motion as a threat to their group unity the letter to the editor stated thronburg house offers something nearly unique not only by lehigh standards but by the standards of nearly all other schools in the nation a purely voluntary group spirit and unity without the coercion malarky and pledging of a fraternity the members of thornburg feel that a variety of living concepts can solve the problem of rejectivity and the decision of being selective or non-selective should be left up to the individual house b&w photo by butt tom hay den addresses u students concerning m the new left last spring hayden was just one of many speakers to owe to lehigh in 1969 for a year end review see pages 8 and 9 arcadia to choose vp election of a new vice-president heads the list of action planned by the new arcadia next semester at arcadia's first meeting on jan 28 nominations will be accepted and the solons will elect a new vice-president from among their ranks at the following meeting this situation was brought about by the decision of vice-president elect hal johnson to transfer to vassar college his application was accepted there soon after his election in late november at the time johhson defended his resignation say ing that the chance to study at vassar is too val uable to pass up after johnson's resignation arcadia had two alternatives they could call for a special popular election or choose one of their own members for the position finally due to the little time left in the fall semester to conduct an election arcadia chose the latter course arcadia also plans to discuss the following is sues next semester close contact with the governance committee of the educational policy committee which is in the preliminary stages of conducting an investigation into the ruling bodies of other schools as the pos sible basis for change in tlie university's power structure i representative from arcadia's executive committee will be in close touch with the edpol sub-committee to inform the group on student opinions and report back to arcadia on discussion raised at the group's meetings other issues that arcadia plans to in vestigate grade review board that would hear the complaints of any student who celt that an instructor had given him an un justifiably low grade the lengthening of freshman orientation from three days to a week with many of the events administered by arcadia extension of pass/fall to freshmen modification of the intramural sports point system so that there is more empha sis on athletics in the program establishment of a regular poetry forum study of the parking problem and pos sible solutions creation of an " ombudsman who would cut through the red tape for students wltb complaints formation of a realistic policy on drugs by the university expanded system of communications be tween arcadia and the student body by actions such as holding the group's meet ings in living groups and longer hours for the arcadia office in the university center bftw photo by camana not wanting to run one of our typical winter snow pictures tlie brown and white dug up one ef last wednesday's ice stem which followed the christmas day blizzard and preceded wednesday's snow and thursday and friday sub-zero temperatures . brown a white students interested in working for the brown and white during the spring semester should report to the offices in the basement of the uni versity center on january 28 at 4 p m positions are available i n news , feature sports and photography