Brown and White Vol. 83 no. 42

              lehigh university brown and white vol 83 - no 42 tuesday march 21 1972 866-033 r valley groups educate advise against abortion by bill white editor's note this is the second in a series of three articles on the abortion law movement in the lehigh valley this part deals with the anti-abortion movement no thinking parent would feel an abortion is better than adoption we must guard against setting an arbi trary definition of who shall live who shall die the old the retarded die crippled etc may be the next to go richard stone president of pennsylvanians for human life the antl abortion movement in the lehigh valley consists primarily of two groups — the pennsylvanians for human life phl and its smaller offspring birthright in its position paper on abortions phl says our first priority must be to protect the lives of innocent developing human beings from death through abortion we oppose abortion for the same reason we oppose violence racism poverty they are all destructive of human life mary stone wife of phl's president says the organization's main function is educational part of our anti abortion problem is a bad press she explains we don't get things in the paper — even letters to the editor so the group maintains a speaker's bureau with lecturers available complete with slides on life before birth mrs stone says phl does not participate in lobbying and campaigning but admits that they " may go in that direction in the future for now they encourage people to write letters to legislators birthright has no hand in public camp aigning against abortion its 30 or 40 woman volunteers take 24-hour turns by the phone waiting for calls from expectant mothers women with problem preg nancies who call 432-2222 are counseled to keep their babies v mary and anthony scoblick b&w phot ° by ° wl four students charged held in drug raid four university students were arrested early thursday when police raided their packer ave residence and uncovered what the raiders described as a manufacturing laboratory for the hallucinogen dmt as well as materials necessary to produce the drug held in default of 10,000 bail were patrick mark russell 73 robert llnday allred 73 warren oakley fuller 73 steven michael landberg 73 was held in default of 5,000 bail all were com mitted to northampton county prison on charges of possession and trafficking in narcotics and dangerous drugs the ten man raiding party was com posed of northampton county first asst district atty jack gallagher county detectives state and city vice squad members and a state police chemist they confiscated narcotics paraphernalia as well as a quantity of seeds the raid was part of a state-wide crackdown which resulted in the arrests of 13 people from the allentown-bethlehem area the day before the students were arrested b&w photo by owl a heated debate followed residence subcommittee chairman david good man's proposal that freshmen not be required to live in residence halls the motion passed at monday's forum meeting forum recommendation allows freshmen to live off campus by scott penniman the forum passed a recommendation last night made by the sub-committee on residence to allow freshman to live off campus the motion included other recommendations that the university set a goal for equal housing residence halls be self-supporting on a cash flow basis with profits to go back into housing and the university strive to find housing for all freshman david goodman member of the sub committee on residence argued for the recommendation stating that freshman are capable of deciding where they want to live he pointed out that at the age of 18 one can vote and is eligible for induction into the armed services goodman added that it is unfair to those freshmen who desire independence to deny them of a choice of residence preston parr dean of student affairs objected to abolishment of the freshmen on campus residence requirement on the grounds that the experience of living on campus is a vital one and that freshmen coming into the university are not in a position to judge the value of the on-campus living experience parr explained that on campus living allows freshmen to ajust to the independence of living away from home and is valuable in that they learn to live with other students parr added that freshmen form lasting friendships because of the require ment lending continuity to campus relationships professor ferdinand beer questioned the validity of parr's argument by stating that if a student and his parents don't desire the residence experience then it is likely they will not gain anything from on-campus residence clarence campbell dean of residence objected to students using personal bias in judging whether the residence exper ience is a satisfactory one he explained that the amount gained through on-campus residence is dependent on the individual the forum also carried a motion re vising the deposit required upon signing residence halls contracts the new policy would allow a student a refund of his deposit upon involuntary withdrawal from the contract hal koplin member of the sub-committee on residence explained that the old policy called for 150 which was not refundable unless the student died or was involuntarily inducted into the armed services while the new policy calls for only 100 refundable in instances such as academic expulsion loss of scholarship money or for reasons of health in the case of voluntary withdrawal the new policy calls for a graduated scale of refunds under the old system the refund was sacrificed automatically when the student voluntarily withdrew from his contract under the new system the student will get back 60 before may i s4o before july 1 and 20 before august 15 koplin explained that this is fair to students who discover where they are going to live after signing the contract koplin added that in the new system a student is motivated to notify the residence officials as soon as he changes his mind in the old system the student lost the refund no matter when he broke his contract robert grzywacz student forum mem ber objected to the entire idea of a deposit on the grounds that signing a binding contract would be enough of a deterent against voluntary withdrawal two members of harrisburg seven give opinions on conspiracy trial by bruce g toole " power has responsibilities far and above those who haven't got it this was the statement of anthony scoblick in supporting the right to hold the government responsible for its actions just as individuals are scoblick and his wife mary were the guests of the forum for visiting lecturers committee and chaplain hubert l flescher at a lecture sunday evening in packard lab auditorium tony and mary scoblick are members of the harrisburg seven group on trial for conspiracy to blow up government heating tunnels and to kidnap presidential adviser henry kissinger mrs scoblick discussed the group's relationship with f.8.1 informer boyd douglas and the letters which douglas helped smuggle between father philip berrlgan and sister elizabeth mcallister mrs scoblick said she felt douglas had been used by tha government at a great cost to himself both personally and physically she said douglas went to great lengths to make the government's case appear credible including testimony in court which was much more detailed than any previous state ments douglas had made to the authorities mrs scoblick criticized the use of a person in custody saying douglas was only cooperating so he could still get out of prison after being caught smuggling berrigan's letters mrs scoblick said she thought the authorities must have been " pretty hard up to make a case against the group on the correspondence between berrlgan and sr mcallister mrs scoblick said that the majority of the letters were con cerned with their communication problems berrlgan was not allowed to send or receive letters and with the whereabouts and activities of friends the rest dealt mainly with a wilming ton delaware draft board raid only a very small part deslt with the actual conspiracy see valley groups page 4 see dorm deposit page 4 see scob licks page 4 forum elections forum undergraduate elections :| will begin tomorrow in the second i floor lobby of the uc the elections i 8 will be held from 9 a.m to 9 p.m i tomorrow and 9 a.m to 7:30 p.m i :|: on thursday i.d cards are required |; || for voting ballots must be marked j with numerals indicating preference i || due to the weighted ballot