Brown and White Vol. 83 no. 7

              lehigh university brown and white mmmmmmrndmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm bethlehem pa friday october i 1971 vol 83 - no 7 r.v.vw.v.-.x.m-:>:>::»:::-::->:::-:-:v:v-v prisoners murdered claims w kunstler by david ingram the tragedy at attica three weeks ago was " murder as monstrous and foul as any in our recent history said civil rights lawyer william kunstler as he spoke to a packed grace hall tuesday evening an audience of approximately 2,500 attended the lecture which centered around the attica uprising it was the first sponsored by the forum for visiting lecturers committee kunstler had expected to discuss the loss of freedom in america when he had agreed to speak at the university however the events at attica deeply affected him and he decided to speak about this more relevant todic folsum manifesto kunstler traced the history of the attica uprising to the folsom manifesto a bill of rights for prisoners which was the basis of prisoner demands in the prisoner sltdown at san quentin nov 2 1970 and at the uprising at aubourn correctional institution in aubourn n.y it included such demands as more letters per week for prisoners spanish speaking doctors a raise in their 0.25 hourly wage and other privileges that are denied to prisoners at aubourn the demands were agreed to by the supeiintendant warden and amnesty granted yet six months later the demands are forgotten and the leaders of the aubourn uprising are in solitary confinement the folsom manifesto was presented by the attica inmates a total of five times before they even got a reply from new york commissioner of corrections russell oswald on aug 15 oswald promised to give consideration to the demands but added that they must go through channels d block on sept 8 a fight started in the d block of attica prison which led to the prisoner rebellion and the taking of 50 hostages twelve of the hostages that were seriously injured in the uprising were released because the prisoners were unable to properly care for them this is the point in the rebellion at which kunstler arrived at the scene as one of the party of negotiators that included a congressman senator reporters black panthers ministers and others they arrived at d block at 10:30 p.m sept 10 and stayed till dawn kunstler described the prisoners as operating under an athenian democracy all of the prisoners were civil rights attorney william kunstler spoke in front of 2500 persons tuesday evening in grace hall kunstler spoke about the attica prison upris ing and termed the killing of 42 prisoners and guards 4 official murder kunst ler's speech was the first in the forum for visiting lecturers series b&w photo by mccormick campbell sees housing crisis for 72 sophs we're going to be short of housing next year noted dean of residence clarence b campbell as he discussed residence plans and problems according to dean campbell in the fall of 1972 there will be a sophomore squeeze this will occur because sophomores receive the lowest priority in the residence system consequently some may not receive housing at all new dorms are planned for under graduate students presently four sites are under consideration the first is known as the palmer site a wooded area southwest of the university center a small house there was formerly occupied by dean philip m palmer the second site is the area southeast of drave house sayre and saucon fields are also being considered but their distance from campus will make transportation a problem in addition renovation of existingdorms is also being planned a complete over haul of the interior of taylor hall was planned this year but a large freshman class made this impossible however the dbfffi was repaired last summer and more work is scheduled for next summer mcclintic-marshall and richards houses will al^o probably be renovated next summer as they are being considered as dorms for women architect's plans are complete for married and graduate student housing however a location site has not been determined sayre and saucon fields are being considered as possible sites these plans are part of projection 76 a report made last year by dean campbell pinpointing the university's housing problems and naming possible solutions projection 76 is under constant revision as it is impossible because of changing residence needs to hold to the schedule set forth last year although subject to change projection 76 provides for integrated coed dorms and a basic dining plan 866-0331 professor raymond emrich relates his experiences in heart of siberia by gary s hauk for 10-months last year a 3-room apartment in the heart of siberia was home for dr raymond emrich pro fessor of physics at lehigh and his wife emrich one of 15 u.s scientists chosen for the exchange coordinated by the national academy of science and the soviet academy of sciences lived and worked in academ goroda academy town near novosibirsk from sept 1 1970 until late may of this year he also spent several days touring labora tories in tibilisi moscow and leningrad for emrich this was not the first scientific visit to a foreign country in 1968 the former chairman of the physics department spent a semester leave in west germany his work with a soviet scientific section last winter involved pure re search into fluid dynamics emrich stressed that at least in physics there is no technological gap between the soviets and the americans in fact the russians are very eager not only to learn from us but also to share their knowledge if any gap does exist it is certainly in the area of household conveniences and even households we had six times the average space for a married couple said prof.emrich noting that a russian family of four often lives in an apartment the size of a uni versity dorm room this space does not even include a bathroom and kitchen which several families must share the emrichs were lucky being provided compliments of the soviet government with housing commensurate to what they were used to in the united states their three-room apartment with private kitchen and bath placed them among the top 100 families in the town of 40,000 we could enjoy our visit because we were treated as special people said professor emrich he noted that while he and his wife had an electric refriger ator many houses still have siberian refrigerators siberian refrigerators are metal cupboards in which food is pooled by means of a pipe running to the outside of the house where temperatures sometimes drop to 40-degrees below zero professor emrich was one of 15 u.s scientists chosen to work and live in a soviet scientific section emrich spent ten months doing pure research with soviet scientists in the field of fluid dynamics according to emrich the temp eratures in his town dropped to 40 degrees below zero honor society assists frosh in orientation cyanide held their first business meeting of the academic year on sept 28 in the university center the organization is a junior honorary society of students chosen on the basis of scholastic achieve ment leadership and extra-curricular activities — " — according to president john fields 72 the main function of cyanide is to contribute to freshman orientation and to continue this orientation throughout the year by sponsoring discussion groups social and various activities for members of the freshman class probably our main goal is to provide a mechanism for freshmen to develop leadership abilities two main topics of business were taken up at tuesday night's meeting a vote was taken as to whether cyanide would go co-ed or go the route of a few of the university's other organizations and remain exclusive to the male populace at lehlgh as the resolution was passed cyanide became one of a number of organizations on campus to admit women the other point of business brought up was the sending of a letter to the see death page 4 see cyanide page 8 see visiting page 4