Brown and White Vol. 80 no. 10

              lehigh university brown and white vol 80 - no 10 bethlehem pa tuesday october 22 h b*4-0331 need for class government questioned by 70 council by lou lightfoot the students who attended the class of 70 " firing line last thursday even ing witnessed a spontaneous and very pointed debate in which several members of the 70 council condemned the existence of their council and the other class governments at lehigh the firing line held by the council to solicite views from the public on the present system of class governments was attended by only seven interested students undaunted however the council explained their present program and dis cussed some of the philosophy behind their recent formation of the council after a few remarks from the audience concerning the class concert and treasury the council was asked by a member of the 71 class cabinet if it recommended the council form of government for the other classes he also asked if the council truly represents the entire class bill kuhn arcadia representative for the council answered this way the stu dent government doesn't have to be re presentative it doesn't have to be responsible to the class as such but rather to general student opinion we are an extra-curricular activity a self-edu cating course of study we have no direct obligation to the class unless such an obli gation ls demanded of us by the class david amidon instructor of history and class advisor later stated that he agreed with kuhn bill taylor vice president noted that the governing body of the class should only be large enough to accommodate those members of the class seriously interest ed in class affairs we have only 18 members because these are the only people really interested in working for the class the council agreed that the turnout at the " firing line proved his point ed herrold 71 cabinet member ques tioned the ability of the council to get things done tony tumminello 70 coun cil member remarked that three interested people working on a project can accomplish more than 10 disinterest ed people doing the same job morris noted that all the functioning committee of the council were staffed bv a sufficient number of interested class members he pajama parade scheduled frosh bonfire cancelled the freshmen will be allowed to take part ln the traditional pajama parade to the women dorms of moravian college during lafayette weekend according to harry sobel 71 of arcadia's lafayette advisory committee sobel also announced at the 72 cabinet meeting last night ln richard's lounge that there will be no bonfire proceeding the lafayette football game a proposal waa made to construct some kind of substitute structure in order to retain the spirit previously generated by guarding the bonfire concerning the pajama parade no moving vehicles or alcoholic beverages will be allowed sobel emphasized that they do not want any freshman walking on tha bethlehem city center prooertv . " a lot of upperclassmen are going out on a limb for the freshman class so we hope they will conduct themselves in a mature manner sobel eald , in other business the cabinet narrowly passed a motion to urge the administration to consider coeducation for the university an explanation of the class dues wes given by bill kuhn 70 chairman of the freshman life committee of arcadia and jim heupeter 69 vice-president of rhc of the five dollars part of it goes toward the freshman epitome pictures the remainder goes to cover dorm damages and lafayette weekend expenses failure of reconstruction blamed on lack of equality by george j bancroft last night in a fact-filled lecture prof james mcpherson of princeton univer sity told a near capacity audience in packard laboratory auditorium that the civil war and the reconstruction periods were actually a second revolution in the united states the civil war accomplished a revolu tion in the black man's status said mcpherson however the revolution was only partially successful the black man was given freedom but not equality the historian explained mcpherson's lecture the failure of reconstruction emphasized that failure ln terms of the nonaccompllshment of the war alms according to mcpherson there were three war aims 1 the preservation of the union 2 the preservation of the union plus the emancipation of slaves and james mcpherson faculty poll captured by humphrey vice-president hubert h humphrey captured 44,7 per rent of the lehigh faculty vote ln a presidential preference poll conducted by the brown and white richard m nixon republican presi dential candidate captured 46 of the 150 votes cast a mere 90 per cent or the ballot twenty-two members qt the faculty chose other candidates george c wallace for mer alabama governor received only two votes in addition there were 14 absten tions in the college of arts and science humphrey gatnsd his most support he polled 56.4 per rent of the 78 votes cast nixon received only is votes from the arts college while other candidates poll ed is votes there were 9 abstentions from ths arts faculty nixon however won the poll of the en gi neerine faculty with 86 of the 88 voters casting their vote for the former vice president humphrey received 16 of the engineering ballot while other casualties received 13.9 per cent of the votes six engineering faculty chose to abstain there were only 14 votes cast from the business and education schools with nixon receiving seven votes and hum phrey five the total of 150 faculty votes was less than half of the over 800 faculty mem bers at the university yet it is hie highest compared to poile conducted ln previous election years in the last three elections lehigh facul ty have supported the democratic can didate even in 1656 when eisenhower was the landslide choice of both the nation and lehigh students the vote was only 49-40 ln support of the incumbent presi < dent in 1960 john f kennedy was the slim victor in the faculty poll winning by two votes 73-71 again ln 1964 lyndon baines johnson was an overwhelming victor over barry gold water 48-7 humphrey's victory with 44.7 percent of the vote was far from the sentiment of the lehigh studeni body ln the most recent poll as the democratic candid ate polled only 20.5 per cent in that poll nixon was the overwhelming victor with 54.3 per cent of the student vote . the percentage of abstentions was high er among faculty members than the e.5 per cent total for students the university glee club performs mozart's solemn vespers in combination with the weils college choir on saturday the glee r h traveled te walls for the concert see arcadia page 4 see reconstruction page 9