Brown and White Vol. 80 no. 13

              brown and white vol so - no 13 bethlehem pa friday november i imb b*6-0331 arcadia votes to drop rotc academic credit by george j bancroft at what don parsons 70 called the best meeting we've ever had arcadia passed a motion to support the abolition of living group selectivity and to support an integrated living system at the university for all undergraduates it also pasted a metier that the reserve officers training corps rotc course be relieved of academic credit robert wei-trash 7c prcpsssd th awiite on selectivtty and integration because be is tired of the racism and selectivity maintained by the different residence systems at the university he said that he's tired of this nonsense of racism according to welntraub there la a bad situation prevalent in the nation and at the university he said that arcadia should take steps to change that situation now the bad situation welntraub was referring to was the racism at the university that is essentially maintained by the system of living group selectivity casey cogut 70 vice president of arcadia said that the university has to admit that things are not " honky-dory just because official leaflets say they are he said that the fraternity blackball system where anonimity is guaranteed io those who vote does not comply to the civil rights laws he implied that the blackball system is a convenient method for fraternities to practice discrimination even though their charters state they do not maintain disc rl minatory practise parsons said that he favored the principle of welntraub's motion and that it should also apply to the segregation practiced against the freahmen tn tne freshmen quad he said that we are putting young adults in a situation that breeds immaturity we should consider a complete change tn the residence system bill kuhn 70 asked the question of who would dictate the living arrangements if tha preeent system were done away with weintraub replied that there are too many crude people around to dictate bow you select he said that i just want to get rid of selectivity weintraub s motion passed in a cloee roll-call vote arcadia also passed a motion made by weintraub several weeks ago that rotc courses be relieved of academic credit arcadia's decision was baaed on an arcadia study of the feasibility of such credit the study produced a report with three main agruments against credit for rotc courses the first reason was that the university exercises no control over the department of military science in the contract which the army rotc maintains with tha university the committee found substantial evidence that rotc exists of and for the department of defense i part of the army contract states that the secretary at tne army sh_.ll prescribe and conduct training and military instruc tion the report states that there is a structured bureaucratic system that dictates to the university the entire rotc setup since the university has control over neither the nature of the courses the content of the courses or the manner in which they are taught the univeralty is in no position to rule affirmatively on the academic value of the military programs secondly the study found that the rotc environment restricts academic freedom and free enquiry students who wish to enroll in advanced courses must sign a contract committing them to military service the study said that the ranking baw photo by sims students cast their votes in the special elections held from oct 29-31 the issues included a referendum on the new arcadia constitution and student members of the joint commit tee on university life uhuru offers kappa sigma compromise on appearance by gary sims scott williams graduate student ln the university mathematics dap rtm t and leader of the university's organization of black students — uhuru met personally with barry schlmpf 69 president of kap pa sigma wednesday night uhuru offered a compromise to kappa sigma concerning the appearance of the black group at the fraternity house planned for this sunday nov 3 williams said that uhuru felt that perhaps their method of entering the fraternity house uninvited was hurting the effect ef their cause by alienating those imposed upon he proposed a compromise that would publish ln the brown and white an invitation from kappa sigma to uhuru to appear as originally planned williams said that since his group had already announced the meeting at kappa sigma that it was a matter of pride that they appear preferably on the invita tion of the fraternity williams said after their meeting schlmpf and himself agreed to consult their respective groups on the proposal uhuru agreed to the proposal but kappa sigma did not consent to the sunday date the brothers explained in a letter to the editor of the brown and white that they had extended an invitation to uhuru to appear at the fraternity house on wednesday evening nov 6 in response williams said his group will continue with its plans to enter kappa sigma this sunday but did not elaborate on definite proceedure williams said that revolution is eminent in the next few years all over the u.s and that the only way to stop it is to break down institutional racism and end the break in communications between the white and black community williams pointed out that uhuru was not directly attacking any one fraternity but any institution which helped maintain the strictly whit oriented establishment he termed the ipc useless in its effectiveness in the problem according to williams past meetings with ifc leaders arcadia constitution ratified the new arcadia constituion was rati fied by three-fourths of the students voting . in the election which ended at 8 p.m yes terday evening five undergraduates were also elected to the newly formed joint commission on university life jclu the jcul candidates elected were larry mackowlak and reginald jennings candidates at large eric grouse arts college wiu brownlow business and ray schmalz engineering aldo borin arcadia president said that he was very pleased with the results and that it was a great step forward for arcadia out of the 3,140 undergraduates en rolled in the university 1579 voted only eight more than the necessary so per cent of this total approximately one third were students ln the arts college one-sixth business students and nearly half were engineers residence hall and freshman voters outnumbered fraternity members but exact figures were unavailable the fresh l_n cl a contributed most votes casting nearly 580 ballots while each of the other classes were just above the 300 mark the number of students in favor of the constitution was 1289 while 316 opposed its ratification and 41 abstained from voting in an interview mackowlak stated that he favored arcadia's resolution opposing selectivity ln university living groups and will make a completely integrated dorm system his primary objective he will also work to make the university coed and continue pressure for a uni versity theater wiu brownlow is uncommitted on the selectivity issue explaining that he wishes to represent the entire student body and not just a segment of it he said he will investigate coed engineer schmalz expressed an in terest in revamping the grading system coed hhh defeated of u in baw poll by jim mcgee fi jerry hurwitz support for george wallace third party candidate continued to drop only 3.8 per cent of the 1,653 votes were cast ln favor of th former alabama governor com pared with 7.8 per cent in the second poll and 8.3 per cent to the first poll richard m nixon republican presi dential candidate gained 2.5 percent la the third presttmattml poo conducted by th brown and whit while v*qav*preei_*nt hubert humphrey stayed at 20.6 par cent in th same survey 50.7 percent of those polled voted la favor of c*d*mic credit for rotc and 55.3 percent ware against coeducation richard nixon's support climbed to 66 student rally a demonstration to rally freshmen for a boycott of lehigh fraternities was announced ln a special edition of the university free press issue late yesterday afternoon the demonstration was called for sunday at 7 p.m ln th freshman quad and all members of the lehigh community not only freshman were urged to attend the free press said that ths uhuru society had taken th correct path toward eliminating dis crimination on this campus the next logical move must be a fresh men boycott of all fraternities speakers will include scott williams and an editor of the free press th press also invited representatives from fraternities to defend their selection policies saa nixon page 12 see uhurus page 1 1 see arcadia page 13