Brown and White Vol. 83 no. 6

              lehigh university brown and white 866-0331 bethlehem pa..tuesday september 28 1971 vol 83 - no 6 p p & r gives approval to the ten year plan by glennis l clark the priorities planning and resources pp&r committee approved a 10-year building plan thursday which will provide lehigh with an " all university complex the plan will appear on the floor of the forum for consideration in the near future an all university complex was high on the list of priorities to be completed within the next decade the complex will contain a convocation area to be used for large gatherings and intramural facil ities and lockers in addition the building is to house athletic facilities for indoor varsity sports the estimated cost of the complex is 6 million or 10-percent of the total cost of the 10-year-plan discussion concerning lehigh's building plans for the next decade was started by paul j franz jr vice president of development when he urged members of the pp&r committee to make a decision as to which plan they thought most feasible mr franz said that if a plan is presented to the trustee board by oct 15 we can get started raising funds for the building program he also noted that the most lucrative time for fund raising would be this fall not all members of the committee were pleased with the tentative building plan ironically those who raised the most objections to the proposed plan were student members of the committee their main contention was that an all university complex should be further down the list of priorities paul maloney 72 said lehigh sheuld be more concerned with student-teacher ratios granting more student scholarships and building up endowment maloney said that lehigh's student enrollment is rising while faculty size is diminishing he also pointed out that lehigh provides scholarships to only 10-percent of the student body but most universities of comparable size provide approximately 40-percent of their students with aid maloney labeled a fieldhouse complex or any unit to be used primarily for athletics as a terrific waste of money an all university complex would be the last thing i'd build he added prof thomas e jackson of the mech anical engineering department countered with the idea we need a large facility at lehigh whether it's called a fieldhouse ... an all university complex . . or a convocation area another major issue discussed at the meeting concerned the raising of funds franz who plays a large role in such matters did not reveal how or where the money for building would be raised the tone of the meeting seemed to indicate that donations for the 10-year-plan would be greatly enhanced by including an all university complex high on the priorities list donors would more readily support an endeavor which would have something to do with athletics john fields 72 con tended that if the trustees were fully aware of the academic situational lehigh then they would not so enthusiastically support latnletic endeavors the problem of how funds are to be acquired led to discussion concerning the nature of donations received by the uni versity mr franz noted " most of the money received from donors is not ear marked for a specific purpose however large donors who comprise a small per centage of the total contributors do earmark their money bob grzywacz contributed to the meeting with a presentation of an alternate 10 year plan his ideas were stimulated by the fact that last year lehigh had no long range plans he said that the basis of his plan was to maximize interaction between people in the university com nunity perhaps the most significant phase of his proposal was the exclusion of a fieldhouse within the next ten years consequently the members who objected to the list of priorities were in favor of grzywacz's proposal pulitizer prize winner lawrence gipson dies by john klucsik the death of dr lawrence h gipson research professor emeritus of history at the university was announced early sunday gipson who won the 1962 pultizer prize in history was ninety the award was made for the triumphant empire thunder clouds gather in the west 1763-1766 volume xof his fifteen volume life work the british empire before the american revolution see related story page 4 a member of the lehigh faculty since 1924 gipson was head of the department of history and government until 1946 when he was named research professor of history of the lehigh institute of research since then he has devoted his time to completing his masterwork and also to a history of the university which was to be titled lehigh university the first century glpson's monumental series sets out to re-examine the events leading to the break-up of the old british empire and the creation of the united states of america in it's scope the series deals with the empire in a period of tranquility before there was any deep cleavage between the mother country and the north american colonies it then proceeds to describe the great war for the empire and to analyze the implications of it's outcome finally it considers in detail the developing factors that led to the revolutionary movement within the thirteen colonies and ends with the declaration of independence of these colonies in 1776 in addition to the 1962 pulitzer prize the series has brought gipson several other national awards including the loubat first prize in 1948 for the first stx volumes and the bancroft prize in 1950 for volume vii he also won yale's porter prize in 1918 and the 1922 justin winsor prize given by the american historical association for his jared ingersoll a study of american loyalism in relation to british colonial government in 1969 gipson received an award of merit from the american association for state and local history the award honoring his series was for integrating local and regional history into a perspective of the national and imperial three hospitalized lawrence henry gipson professor emeritus of history student hurt in accident a lehigh student and two other persons are listed in fair condition as of monday evening following a one car accident on bingen rd one half mile south of saucon valley last friday night charles rolke 73 is being treated for a fractured nose jaw and left leg plus multiple cuts rolke is the owner of the 63 saab which was totally demolished according to police reports the small foreign car is reported to have struck a tree when it failed to make a sharp bend in the road miss kevin kalmes 20 the driver of the car is being treated for a fractured right ankle and lacerations of the scalp michael mullinix 20 is being treated for a concussion and multiple scalp lacera tions miss kalmes and mullinix both from chicago had recently moved into their apartment 226 w third st last week mullinix is a former student of lehigh according to police miss kalmes did not have a driver's license with her at the time of the accident although she said she owns one if she cannot produce her license police said rolke will be charged with allowing her to drive the car b&w photo by mccormick the ten year plan being presented to the priorities planning and resour ces committee by robert grzywacs 72 at its thursday meeting / ' â–  see students page 4 see professor page 4 kunstler speaks tonight william m kunstler noted civil rights lawyer will speak tonight at 8 p.m in grace hall as a guest of the forum for visiting lecturers committee after the speech kunstler will answer questions from the audience this is the first in fvlc's series of lectures for this year and the address is open to the public with out charge kunstler has been noted for defending the right of dissent and civil disobedience most notably in his defense of the chicago 7 he most recently acted as an agent for new york state commissioner of correction russel g oswald at the attica prison uprising