Brown and White Vol. 80 no. 14

              brown and white vol 80 - no 14 bett>|iliehem pa - tuesday november 5 19-68 866-0331 lack of communication seen problem by uhuru by barry gray & gary sims when uhuru met sunday at kappa sterna a it said it would last week wayne mcelveen 69 president of uhuru said that the major problem existing on campus is the lack of communication between the white and black communities he said that one of the goals of uhuru is to eliminate this gulf the group of black students did not enter the kappa sigma house mceiveen was met at the door by barry schimpf ss president of kappa sigma and was told that the brothers had decided to allow no one except the brotherhood to enter the chapter house this decision was made in support of their statement last week not to meet with uhuru on sunday but to meet tomorrow mcelveen criticized the ifc for * putting off positive action oik the problem of discrimination in the fraternities according to him the ifc hoped that the situation would blow over by telling members to passively react to the march ers while supporting no reform he pointed out that kappa sigma was not being attacked singley but that all 31 fraternities were under fire scott williams communications coordinator of uhuru said that not only the fraternities but the university administration was guilty of institu tional racism because it allowed the fraternity system as it now stands to exist mcelveen said in his speech that he felt that the administration was reluctant to dirty its hands by changing the fraternity system after the speech mcelveen asked for comment from university president w dentine lewis who with other members of the goals committee was present at the demonstration lewis said l agree with your objectives but i don't agree with the particular way that you are proposing to bring reform i am happy you chose to make it a dignified affair rii be happy to continue the work for your objectives mcelveen explained that it was not the purpose of uhuru to eliminate the fraternity system ha felt that the old system could be corrected bill taylor 70 another member of uhuru said that the opportunity to discriminate was the right of the in dividual but that taking advantage of the discrim ination involved a moral issue white participation was stressed as omn a vitai factor in the elimination of discrimination uhuru called for whites to work in their fraternities to end this discrimination when questioned about the relationship of whites working against discrimination and joining uhuru williams said that the membership was not closed but since one of the primary goals of the group is to promote black pride and togetherness uhuru members preferred that whites work outside uhuru mcelveen announced that he has been invited to alpha tau omega on nov 17 and will accept the invitation of kappa sigma to meet there on wed nesday raw ph hy c*man wayne mcelveen president of the uhuru society knocks on the door of the kappa sigma house sunday he gave a speech on the kappa sigma porch after being told by barry schimpf house president that uhuru could have us of the house's grounds 200 frosh at rally by jekald hurwitz frat discrimination hit approximately 200 freshmen gathered in the freshmen quad sunday night to protest racial ami re ligious discrimination by fraternities and initltate a frosh boycott of the fraternity system the rally was organized by the students urging residential equality sure a group headed by frosh ben becker bob brodie and dave maher also present at the meeting were paul levy alan minskoff randy dix and marty tucker from the free press and bill taylor from uhuru the purpose of the boycott as stated by brodie is to protest the overall living system at the uni versity levy listed three important demands of the group 1 racial and religious discrimination must end 2 the administration must take a decisive stand against discrimination 3 the fraternity system must go levy also said future plans include the forming of committees to advise the university adminis tration on housing policies they said they want rresnmen and upperclassmen to be integrated in living groups maher called for 500 freshmen to take action against immorality fostered by frats he said if the frosh band together they can destroy the frat ernity system levy supported a college system plan similar to yale's in this system random selection is used in choosing living groups accusations were hurled at the university and fraternities by members of the free press one said president w s denting lewis is afraid lshigh will lose federal aid because of its wanton violation of the 1964 civil rights act lewis was also accus ed of trying to silence uhuru the alumni were ac cused of spending more money on fraternities than improving the university b & w photo by yewdall wayne mcelveen center holding microphone answers quest ion on porch of kappa sigma fraternity sunday afternoon after the uhuru society was denied entrance into the house coeds raise intellectual level — humanities emphasized — ed note this is the second in a series explaining the findings of the study conducted by princeton university the education of women at princeton the study was published in the princeton alumni weekly on sept 24 by george j bancroft among the problems explored by the princeton uni versity study of coeducation was the high drop-out rate among women at coeducational schools this phenomenon is supposedly caused by a female's desire for early marriage but this theory was found by the study to be a reversal of the actual situation in schools that have switched to coeducation it has been found that more men than women drop out the belief that a high drop out rate among upper-class coeds would cause princeton to become oriented toward lower level courses was thus proven false concerning the entire intellectual environment the report concluded that if intellectually capable women are admitted along with intellectually capable men the academic level of the university should improve because greater competition and more interesting classes would result m the study concluded tnat since women are more inclined toward a liberal arts education than men their admission would force a greater emphasis on the humanities and relatively less on most of the sciences including engineering such a shift would be in the interest of the university as a whole because it would raise the intellectual level of the liberal arts school to that of the science school such a shift is necessary for a university if it is to remain a university instead of becoming a specialized college the study said the university s opportunities lor service to humanity would also be improved if coeducation were initiated for women whose responsibilities outside of the home are increasing would be enabled to serve humanity better according to the study women now constitute almost one-hair of all white-collar workers in the nation the number at women in the labor force has been constantly growing over the past two decades and the rate of growth is expected to increase in the future a college education allows women to have challenging and creative careers tne report said that if princeton ts to serve humanity it cannot deny its resources to a highly productive segment of society on the basts s#e frat paje 4 see coeds page 10 u position on discrimination a statement by w demlng lewis university president concerning discrimination on campus appears on page 3