Brown and White Vol. 84 no. 36

              brown and white bethlehem pa thursday february 22 1973 866-0331 vol 84 — no 36 gryphon role is defended duane stresses attitude bv charles w.coe former gryphon society president jim duane 73 said that recent criticism of the society stemmed in part from students not realizing the duties of the gryphons duane one of three gryphons who at tended the feb 13 counseling sub committee meeting said that gryphon duties are outlined generally in the student handbook and specifically in the coun selor's manual he added that the duties were too numerous and involved to list at the meeting but generally encompassed making the freshman year as pleasant as possible duane said students must realize that gryphons are people too and are not always able to be physically present he explained that an attitude of ac cessibility was much more important than constant physical presence william dom 74 a former gryphon and current subcommittee member suggested that the primary function of the gryphons was an intangible one — of attitude he added that gryphons because of their closeness to the students were able to handle minor difficulties on a personal level that could become major problems if allowed to develop subcommittee member john loper 73 said that many problems especially those of discipline should be handled by the students themselves rather than by gryphons forum chairman george dinsmore said he felt the roles of counseling and discipline should be handled separately the primary function of the gryphons should be to keep the coffeepot on and the crying towel handy he said counseling subcommittee chairman charles nippert a graduate student said he believed the gryphons are over burdened with what should be university functions he specifically suggested that the referrals section of the counselor's manual which lists who to see about what ) should be printed by the office of the dean of students and distributed throughout the residence halls and fraternities one subcommittee member proposed that the engineering counselors be reorganized by living groups so that they could handle more people at a time no action was taken on either proposal pending further investigation into the senior counselor program john fields 72 a former gryphon and vice-chairman of forum 11 termed the criticism of the gryphon society an at tack and said that it was not a surprise to him he questioned the motives of some of the attackers and added that the b&w photo by heck three gryphons former society president james duane 73 current president larry miller 74 and john bender 74 explain the functions of the gryphons to the counselling subcommittee federal jury refuses to indict les whitten 50 a federal grand jury has refused to indict leslie h whitten 50 a former b&w editor and two indians on charges of illegal possession of stolen government documents the government moved that the charges against whitten and the indians hank adams and miss anita collins be dropped a lawyer close to the case stated that the government presented everything it had to the grand jury but did not press them the lawyer suggested that in dictments could have been obtained if there had been more vigorous prosecution by the government whitten and adams were arrested by fbi agents jan 31 as they carried documents stolen from the bureau of indian affairs last november to whitten s car miss collins was arrested the same day at the home of friends whitten had stated that he did not intend to use the documents and had only offered the use of his car to take the material to the fbi adams the principal negotiator for the indian protestors had promised that the property stolen from the bureau of indian affairs would be returned by the end of february but said he had no means of transportation to return the documents whitten said after the dismissal that he entered the grand jury room with the implicit understanding that no questions would be asked about my news sources they asked me to recount exactly what had happened and even asked questions about the mechanics of putting together a news story he said the jury was understood to have asked whitten and the indians if they had been offered any money to allow examination of the papers no money had been offered they testified after the grand jury questioned whitten and the indians they adjourned without making an indictment asst u.s atty john f rudy moved that the charges be dismissed and u.s magistrate arthur burnett granted the motion law school is passed by forum quorum reached with difficulty by beth troy the forum overwhelmingly passed the priorities planning and resources resolution calling for the establishment of a moderate size high quality law school at the university after a quorum was finally reached at last thursday's meeting the members of the forum first con vened as a committee of the whole and discussed the law school proposal until enough additional members had been summoned to reach a quorum in thur sday's continuation of the feb 12 forum meeting the pp&r committee decided that the law school's primary justification must be its educational benefit to the rest of the university according to w beall fowler professor of physics fowler stressed that this benefit would result mainly from interaction with the college of business and economics and parts of the college of arts and sciences he said that the college of engineering would be involved to a much lesser degree stable need fowler said that statistical studies in dicate a fairly stable need for lawyers he said society's need must be a major factor in the decision to start the law school and pointed out that many lehigh law school graduates would probably practice in pennsylvania which now has a shortage of lawyers the proposed finances of the law school based on a model of about 400 students a library of about 100,000 volumes and a faculty and administrative staff of about 20 were discussed after the quorum was reached according to the model said fowler the law school would be amortized over a period of 15 years and would eventually become self financing out of tuition he said the university does not have to dig deeply into any of its present reserves to start the law school which he said will be in the upper quartile in terms of library holdings and overall quality fowler also said that the library is assumed to be essentially a gift in the mosel adding that this expectation is apparently quite realistic in the light of other law schools experience initial years fowler said that during the law school's first year a dean will be hired but no students will be admitted in the second year a few students will be enrolled and the law school will be in full swing with full accreditation in four or five years the financial model en visions a deficit of 100,000 for each of the first two years a deficit of 160,000 in the third year and a profit in the fourth year fowler explained brian brockway dean of the college of business and economics explained that the american bar association will give provisional accreditation to the law school on the basis of the model before the first class enters thus allowing the first graduating class to have full ac creditation lawrence leder professor of history said that the law school would allow the university to supply an increasing student need at a time when student interest in lehigh's traditional areas of strength such as math and business is declining leder said that by 1980 the university may not be a viable institution but added that the law school could give us a more viable budget in 1980 student prof's wife to seek area school directorship mrs janice brody wife of arthur l brody chairman of the psychology department and frank meluskey 74 have announced their candidacies for the position of school director on the bethlehem area school board both will run as democrats mrs brody in announcing her candidacy for the post said as a parent and citizen i care very much about the quality of education for all our children i feel the tone is set by a school board an administration and teachers who can work together constructively meluskey a lifelong resident and a graduate of liberty high school in bethlehem said he has had the opportunity to experience certain areas of growth and progress within the bethlehem area school district meluskey noted though that certain critical issues now face the school district and he added i have positive feelings on each of the major issues confronting the district and will make my positions known during the course of my campaign existing problems can and must be solved through sincere and honest effort he said in this way we can attempt to avoid the problems of larger school districts in big cities meluskey tried to run for school director two years ago after the voting age for federal elections was lowered to 18 he was told that the state requirement for school director was that the candidate be 21 years of age his campaign petition was also declared in valid because it was not filed by a qualified elector meaning someone over 21 legislation enacted by the state since meluskey's first attempt to run for school director allows persons 18 years old and older to run for public office meluskey is a government major at the university and has completed graduate level see school page 9 see attitude page 4 see forum page 4