Brown and White Vol. 81 no. 23

              lehigh university brown and white xmfmmkmwrrwmmmwmmmaammmm bethlehem pa i «*•'- ammmi™mmmmimw*in**mmmmmw friday december 12 it 866-0331 vol 81 - no 23 tieger meisler top arcadia election vote last night the arcadia-at large election decided the 12 students who would occupy seats as representatives on the arcadia xxiv it was estimated that 1,050 students voted and that the majority of the voters were freshman the winners are as follows todd tieger 6221 ronald meisler 5770 john fields 5556 charles steele 4534 steve malkenson 4077 robert grzywacz 3906 jon shehab 3848 chip magdellnskas 3556 tim bayer 3410 ronald klasko 3370 robert frazier 3312 richard sedmak 3107 and john finn 2824 only two candidates shehab and malkenson have had previous experience as members of arcadia-at-large jim kasser president-elect of arcadia felt that the new men would bring new ideas of change referring to the resignation of hal johnson vice-president elect kasser said that according to the procedure for filling a vacant office finn the 13th place can didate will obtain a position m the at-large seats professor barrett davis the chairman ths speech department and ■ university parliamentarian interpreted i constitution to mean new i arcadia vice-president i from the ranks at-large members i on other kasser a i re-election by body would i popular candidate other than a i member is fairer to have i vote than have hand i arcadians has not been reach i on how to solve b&w photo by steele " out - of - pocket - prints currently en display in the alumni memorial building ara tha work ef japanese artist to shi yoshida and his father the exhibit includes woodcuts blocks etchings and litho graphs peace corps recruits 37 in visit here this week by robin reinhold the returning peace corps workers definitely add to the leftist movement because the experience one receives from the work makes him more aware of the hypocrisy of the government according to ben hoskins peace corps representative who served two years m west cameron africa and who helped recruit here this week see related story on page 9 hoskins described his experience m increased by five points the rest of the american money truong said goes tothe viet cong to build fortifications out of american cement and barbed wire and to purchase american drugs truong ls not for immediate withdrawal of american troops he feels that the united states owes south vietnam some sort of plan and aid for reconstruction he aiso feels that the a jrie_.r people are trying to inflict their own culture on the people vietnam is m a state of super-inflation at the present the authorities are bla tantly wasting funds and this can be seen from the price increase from 100 to 700 per cent m commodoties the 50 per cent mortality rate of children up to five years old shows the lack of medicinal funds and knowledge truong sums up the conflicting ideals m american and vietnamese people as a definite gap between the cultures - united states computers verses south vietnamese intelligence africa as getting a better look at another culture and a better look at the american culture the two ye m west cameron has caused him to move 30 degrees farther to the left . at present hoskins and gail swantko are serving as representatives of the peace corps their job consists of visiting college campuses to inform students about the opportunities the peace corps offers collecting the applications from interested students and conducting language tests for the applicants hoskins stated that lehigh has been the most successful campus m terms of collecting signatures for the peace corps hoskins and miss swantko have visited seven campuses including princeton rut gers and franklin-marshall thirty-seven applications were filled hoskins estimates that three quarters of these will be accepted and that one third of the people accepted will resign from the program before the two years of service ends there was no particular type that applied hut the one common character istic was the applicants concern for people stated hoskins he added that his reason for joining was this concern the number of volunteers is decreasing and he attributes this decrease to the newly instituted draft lottery the change m administrations and to the change from a democratic advertising firm to a republican one he added that not everyone should volunteer for the peace corps because it can do more harm than good to the individual who ls not suited the shortage of qualified volunteers is a growing problem because the number of countries requesting peace corps workers has increased from five to 66 during the organization's eight year exis tence hoskins pointed out the increasing number of requests is one indication that the peace corps ls achieving success hoskins even views the incidents where the host country asked the workers to leave as an indication of ' success the host country showed the ability to aid its people without american assistance this ability is what the peace corps ls trying to develope stated hoskins david truong truong explains goals aims of vietnamese by jerry megasko the basic goals of the vietnamese people can be summed up as first they want freedom from foreign domination be it china the soviet union or the united states and second they want to build a government which gives them justice and a sense of national dignity and security with equal opportunity these points were stated by david truong former leader of the south vietnamese coalition as he lectured tuesday night m packard lab auditorium truong is the son of troung dinh dzu the runner-up to president thieu and vice-president ky m the 1967 general elections ln south vietnam he ls now a political prisoner and his son as well as a number of u.s congressmen have called for dsu's release as a necessary step toward a coalition government m south vietnam truong almost expects nixon to with draw another 35,000 troops as a christmas gift to the american people however he feels that with more with drawal of troops the casualty and death rate will increase due to lack of protection the mortality rate ofthe south vietnamese will also sharply rise truong does not believe that the war wiil end within the next 3-4 years this began as apolitical war mnd must be ended ia a political settlement in 1963 almost 40,000 political prisoners were released but now according to truong there are over 28,000 again and more are being imprisoned each day for no reason stall vietnam has a long history of warfare truong traced it from the chinese control tor 1050 years then tbe mongolian inva sion ths french ln 1885 followed by the japanese and the british at eaa tts according to truong the united states was pouring f2f million a month into ths war but only 25 per cent ever reached tbe people now it is up to 3 billion a month but the percentage has only is no 366 really safe it depends on quotas editor's note the following article is an attempt to raise and answer ques tions on some of specifics of the lottery the first question how safe is 366 ls impossible to answer at this time any new developments will be reported m future issues of the b&w . the initial shock of hearing your sacro sanct lottery number tersely rattled off by some plastic news commentator has ebbed considerably by now - presumably you know roughly what your chance of induction is and you're reconciled to lt but if you're ln the 250 plus category the safe third don't be too hasty making plans to drop out after graduation or to leave school to enter this year's extra large draft pool according to the university of detroit's student newspaper varsity news the head of michigan's selective service has warned students with high numbers not to give up their deferments he saiu that for michigan draft quotas are expected to require calling everyone number 1-366 col paul askt new york city's draft director said the situation could be similar there in an associated press article askt said that this year the city has had to scrape the bottom of the barrel tor meet quotas apparently lf draft quotas aren't reduced for these and other areas during 1970 even 366 may not be too lucky a nu mber and the lottery will have been meaningless university registrar james wagner who recently attended the annual meeting of the middle states association of cot legiate registrars and officers of ad mission at which the lottery was discussed questions the accuracy of these articles hs feels that the 250-366 group is still safe wagner said that the quotas for each board are supposed to reflect the number of 1-as available for that month if this turns out to be the case then those ln the safe group probably wili not be called said wanger it ls possible that these warnings from ss officials are scars tactics being employed to keep those with deferments and a high number from dropping the sea safe page 10