Brown and White Vol. 83 no. 38

              lehigh university brown and white vol 83 - mo 38 bethlehem pa tuesday march 7 1972 166-0331 blaustein lecturer harold wilson blaustein talks stir add int'l atmosphere from its inception the blaustein lectures have been over whelmingly popular in a school that was known more for sllderules and a good wrestling team than anything else the lectures brought to lehigh a certain grace and cultural excite ment that was definitely lacking the series established by dr jacob blaustein in 1965 has brought to the campus annually a world statesman to discuss over a period of several days an international topic and there were some pretty powerful speeches too general taylor beseeching the american people to support the vietnam war effort in 1966 abba eban damning the united nations in a preview of his address to that organization just a few weeks later w averell harriman calling on college youth to march on washington and organize moratoriums in protest to the war equally as popular as the major addresses have been the personal contact afforded the students to question probe argue and even socialize with the lecturers so it was not uncommon to see gen taylor surrounded by students in heated debate or paul henri spaak dining with international relations majors or james reston rapping with the brown-and-white about the responsibilities of the press in covering radical groups blaustein himself was renowned inter nationally a pioneer in the petroleum industry blaustein was president and a director of the american trading and pro duction corp baltimore in 1910 with his father the late louis blaustein he founded the american oil co which was merged in 1954 with standard oil co indiana of which he was a director until his death in november 1970 he was president and director of a number ef other industrial organizations an industrialist philanthropist and financier blaustein was also a statesman of international note he had been given significant assignments of international scope by five u.s among these he had been united states delegate to the united nations a member of the president's mobilization policy board during the korean war a member of the state department's committee on international business problems and a member of the president's commission on marine resources — oceanography other presidential assignments for blaustein have included missions to austria england france germany latin america israel and north africa h|hhh|||h approval of law report draws mixed reactions by gary s hauk with the public disclosure last week of edpol's report on the appropriateness of lehigh's building a law school approved unanimously by an unprecedented 19 of 20 committee members present reactions among faculty and students came in varying degrees of approbation and skepticism prof joseph b mcfadden chairman of the subcommittee which researched the mountains of data underlying the report summed up the feelings of the members of edpol by calling the idea of a law school appropriate to the objectives of the university mcfadden said he personally believes a law school would not lose money at lehigh and would contribute to the uni versity's indirect costs however he added i think there exists a legitimate concern that maybe a law school would subtract from what we are now doing or ought to be doing and we must face that concern the general feeling that a law school should not hurt existing programs was echoed almost universally dr robert d stout dean of the graduate school emphasized that once the initial capital investment has been made to get the school off the ground the law school should be self-supporting stout also said that the source of the initial investment in the school is an important consideration should the uni versity receive a grant of say a possible 5-million specifically earmarked for the law school there would be no problem without such a grant though the question of appropriations probably would go through much the same discussion as that past prime minister will lecture in april former british prime minister and present opposition party leader harold wilson has been named the 1972 blaustein lecturer wilson will deliver three major public addresses on the evenings of april 19-21 in addition wilson will address muhlenberg's student honors convocation on the morning of april 18 the convocation will be open only to invited guests wilson is currently leader of the british parliamentary labour party and as such leader of the opposition in parliament a position he has previously from february 1963 until the change of government in 1964 he served as prime minister from 1964 until 1969 when he was upset by britain's current prime minister edward heath while prime minister negotiations for britain's entry into the european common market were resumed britain reappraised and reduced her overseas military responsibilities e.g in hong kong and the controversial rhodesian crisis developed in which a white supremist regime declared independence for the predominantly black african state the seeds of the present irish civil war were also sprouting during his term i domestically wilson arduously sought to strengthen and vnodernize the country's economy by encouragement of advanced technology increased concentration on britain's export drive and adoption of stringent prices and income restraints during his tenure as head of state wilson travelled freely and took part in numerous overseas meetings and dis cussions in europe north america and africa his journeys included attendance in 1965 at a meeting of representatives of the european free trade association countries a 1967 tour of the six countries of the european economic community and several visits to new york washington ottawa and moscow he also made several journeys in con nection with the rhodesian situation in cluding a tour of commonwealth countries in africa and meetings with lan smith the insurgent rhodesian prime minister in march 1969 he visited nigerian and went to ethiopia for talks on the biafran revolt in nigeria since his ouster as prime minister wilson has been a most vocal opponent of britain's entry into the common market harold wilson 150 dormitory deposit will deter residence holl controct breaking this year's students planning to live in the residence halls will i_c required to put down a 150 deposit upon signing of the residence halls contract the reason for the deposit according to professor george conard chairman of the student affairs committee is to act as a deterrent to those students who would deny another student a room by signing up and then backing down from the committment to deter breaking of the contract no refund is made unless the student dies or is inducted involuntarily into the armed services the subcommittee on residence of the student affairs committee objected to this policy as unfair to a number of students hal koplin 72 member of the subcommittee explained that students who are rejected for academic reasons numbering 18 in residence halls last year lose their deposit necause they are notified too late he added that those who transfer or lose financial aid also find out about these changes too late to collect a refund the subcommittee said koplin has drawn up a number of alter natives to the deposit plan which will be presented before the residence halls council and the forum which has jurisdiction on policy „ one suggestion is a " sliding-scale deposit a system which would reduce the refund according to the length of time a student waits before breaking his contract koplin explained that this plan provides a motive for the student to report his change of mind as soon as possible while in the current system the student is penalized 150 no matter when he reports ids change of mind another suggestion is that distinctions be drawn for why the student violates the contract such as voluntary and involuntary if the withdrawl is for reasons suchas academic failure the entire sum of money would be refunded koplin stated that he expects and agreement can be worked out with the residence office without having the matter decided on by the forum he added that he will work with the residence halls people towards a flexible procedure we cannot de lineate justification for refunds said koplin but we can set up guidelines he explained that residence halls would still have to make the final decision on refunds but the burden would be less severe if the guidelines suggested by the sub-committee were adopted b&w photo by owl rumor has it that the first prize robot winner in the parnassus art competition pictured above has been hired by buildings and grounds as a tuning fork-snake drain pipe maintenance man see story page 8 see law report page 4 see students page 4 see labor page 4