Brown and White Vol. 80 no. 3

              brown and white v.i 0 - no 3 bethlehem pa friday september 27 ifit mil arcadia to examine rotc by mike jeppsen nixon wins presidential poll constitution passes arcadia established a comutttee wed nesday night to examine the reserve offi cers training corps rotc programs to determine if academic credit for rotc courses is warranted it is also re commended that the university offer courses in afro-american studies and unanimously passed the new student body constitution which now needs student body approval bob weintraub 69 touched off a furor of discussion when he proposed that " ar cadia request the university to either disassociate itself from or eliminate the rotc program weintraub said that lehigh cannot justify itself as a center of learning if we accept the existence of the military on campus " there's no room in the military mind for thinking weintraub continued " you must obey your commander its mere presence on campus is the acceptance of it as a valid school of thought steve globus 69 agreed with wein traub tie said that he had made a study of rotc and had found a deep collusion between rotc and the army if a ri diculous to have an outside organization dictating what is taught hs said " the university has no say concerning the courses offered vice president casey cogut pointed out that if lehigh wants to be a free university the rotc courses should be contined for those who want them he proposed an amendment to weintraub s motion that arcadia request the uni versity to eliminate credit for army and air force rotc he added that eli minating rotc doesn't eliminate mili tary service al sheppard 69 objected he said that if rotc does teach something to the student credit should not be removed cogue's amendment however passed norm monhalt 69 noting the dis agreement proposed that an ad hoc com mittee be formed to investigate the rotc program this was approved and aldo borin president appointed a four-man committee monhalt then made a proposal that arcadia call gar the addition of neces sary staff to include afro-american studies la the curriculum far tha 1000-70 academic year scott williams of uhuru a black organisation on campus said that this would definitely help to attract negro students to the university " the entire university is directed to wards white middle-class values he said excluding tha negro mors or less completely this way we will have students leaving here with some ides of tho negro past monhalt said that money has already been made available to the history depart ment for obtaining an instructor to teach an afro-american history course in other action arcadia unanimously passed the new constitution which now needs student approval to become effec richard m nixon republican presidential candidate overwhelmingly captured tha support of lehigh fssaaaaa tos aeslcosrhwiaoay taafceeiasßdwlelts this week par cent of 2,0*6 votee this represents 81.4 per eeat of tea students living oa vice prsemm hubert h humphrey nailed ml eaten 17,8 per cent ef the veto george c wallact , fafnmr alabama gov ernor obtained the support of 168 voters walla only 17.0 par eeat and 8.5 per cent of the vote went tar humphrey and wallace respectively it la significant that 14.4 per cent abstained mlnnesets senator eugene mccarthy received 64 of the 107 write-in votee fraternities cast 67.1 per cent of their vote for nixon while humphrey drew only 13.4 per cent wallace also received me greatest backing among fraternities with 88 votes for 9.2 per cent upperclaes residence halls chose nixon with set of 413 votee for 58.6 per cent however humphrey received ids greatest support among residence halls men with 20.3 per cent of the vote nixon gained the support of only 40.3 per cent of freshmen casting ballots figures on humphrey and wallace were approximately on the campus norm but abstentions were highest among freshmen robert weintraub conscientious objector describes experiences by jim mcgee a university graduate win has refused induction into the army spoke to approximately 30 students wednesday in the university center ex plaining his experience with his draft board and offering advice to those interested in a conscientious objector status neal neamand 64 applied for a deferment as a conscientious ob jector in april 1966 while he was working as a teaching assistant at the university in sept 66 he received a i a classification with the help of dr w doming lewis university president and glenn christensen vice-president and provost be was able to secure an occupational deferment which enabled him to conduct research for lawrence gipson research professor emeritus of history in nov 1907 hs left for europe daring this time he received a notice that he had been reclassified i a he accordingly appealed for a 1-0 conscientious objector classification in march he again received a i-a classification he was also told to report for induction in mav bat was able to have this date postponed until june when he was to return from europe on june 11 1000 he reported for induction at wilkes-barre bat refused to be inducted he le presently awaiting action by the gov ernraent if he is arrested and convicted he can receive a maximum penalty of five years and 3,000 neamand had several cor—nents to make about one's relation to one's draft board he recommended that a person should not be in timidated by his draft board frequently a draft board may misre present the facta or even he he said f he strongly recommended that a person should have complete university goals committee reveals specific programs by gary sims the university goals committee announced plans for specific action to correct environmental problems at the university at its meeting tuesday robert g jones professor of sociology revealed to the committee that his sub committee had pinpointed six specific problem areas he proceeded to recommend action concerning the solution of these problems first the jones subcommittee proposed that a task force be set up to study the merits of possible coeducation jones reed i a report from princeton university on coeducation the report pointed out that coeducational institutions attracted the ltitsr male stu dents also faculty seemed to be more attracted to coeducational schools in conjunction tho university goals committee suggested that a similar report be undertaken at the university this meeting of the committee on oct 6 the second point encouraged arcadia to set up a commission to study the possibility of advisory student committees in all departments to better coordinate student-faculty relations such committees already exist in some departments certain students would be selected from various majors to sit la on department meetings and meet with the department faculty the committee feci.i»u to send letters to three reproeentstlvo groups armenia ata dents president lewis adminiatration and dr glenn j christensen vice presi dent and provoat faculty to officially request approval of the plan next the subcommittee recommended that in the college of aria and sciences individualized major programs be set up which would allow a student to concentrate b a w photo by poster draft resister neal neamand 64 address •» a group of students to tall them the ins and outs of tha draft sys tem saa solutions page 8 see u grao page 8 see 352 page iq see arcadia page 10