Brown and White Vol. 85 no. 37

              lehigh university brown and white vol 85 — no 37 bethlehem pa thursday march 1 1f74 ms-03j1 dealers say ration plan not working in bethlehem by stephen freilich the lehigh valley like the rest of the country has been plagued by a severe gas shortage within the lehigh valley the process of rationing has taken its toll gas stations in the vicinity of bethlehem have been forced to raise their prices an average of 12 cents a gallon local gas stations are attempting to adhere to the odd-even system of gas rationing and have suffered not only economically because of the gas shortage but they have been forced to turn away regular customers the proprietor of karl's arco service station said that he had used his allocation for march two days after receiving it a serviceman at a shell station said that he was trying not to turn away any of his regular as well as semi regular customers he said that he has been able to pump gas for at least five hours a day the gas shortage cannot be blamed on the government said the proprietor of the shell station at 2960 linden ave bethlehem another station attendant said that he believes the oil companies are holding back on the station owners in order to increase their profits the city of bethlehem has had 30,000 gallons of gas appropriated toward it for emergency use the job of allocating the gas has been given to joseph antiga a member of the pennsylvania service station dealers association and a member of the democratic council of bethlehem on newsmakers a weekly program heard over wlvr-fm antiga was forced bb.w photo by packard frank colon abuses found in apprentice teacher plan by jesse s kirscii in a memo sent to the brown and white eugene m gorsky secretary of the council on apprentice teaching said that the results of a survey submitted to him imply abuses in the apprentice teaching program gorsky also stated that the abuses do not characterize the entire program or the relationship between most apprentices and master teachers because the office of secretary is non administrative because the council is currently without a chairman and because members at a fall meeting felt unable to elect a new or temporary chairman i have been unable to enforce the spirit or letter of the university forum regulations in apprentice teaching my duty is to gather data and report in formation i have asked dr zettlemoyer in the report i am submitting to him to discourage isolated abuses the forum regulations referred to by gorsky state the master teacher will colon says forum made effort to keep ottervik report secret by peter menard according to a report submitted monday to the forum by the administration committee the forum did take all reasonable precautions to assure its deliberations and recommendations remained confidential in the recent matter regarding news leaks of the report concerning filling the post of vice president for planning the four man committee was formed to investigate the effectiveness of attempts to keep such matters confidential the report went on to say that because the precautions taken in this instance were not fully effective it is reasonable to insist that future forums be even more vigilant in meeting their commitment to con fidentiality of this type of consultation it was also announced that a letter of apology will be sent to the trustees a report was submitted by the com munications committee concerning the role of lehigh horizons it was determined by the committee that the present publication policy restricts the role that horizons can play in the university community the report also states that horizons is intended as a periodical publication devoted chiefly to features concerning various aspects of the university and that this periodical nature makes adequate coverage of news items difficult and at times impossible one need cited in the report is for ex tensive in depth coverage of complex issues and another is for a medium in which frankly partisan critical attitudes can be adequately presented the committee concluded that it believes that horizons makes a genuine contribution to the lehigh scene but adds the contributions it makes leaves an important need unmet it then presented a resolution urging the administration to either provide a medium for in depth articles or else to extend the present role of lehigh horizons by some means to include such articles s in other business a motion recom mending among other things that funding for the administrative costs of the gryphon tutorial program be im plemented and that the feasibility of providing funding for tutorial costs associated with this program be in vestigated as the program is set up now the gryphons are not receiving any money from the university the legal action committee submitted a resolution that was passed its major recommendations were that members of the lehigh community be made aware of the work of this organization through appropriate campus publications and be encouraged to use and support it and that means be established whereby contributions may be made by members of the lehigh community to this worthwhile organization and that an ad hoc committee be established by the chairman of the forum to implement this recom mendation april concert will feature harry chapin by jeff bodenstab mark linder 75 concert chairman of the sac announced tuesday that harry chapin will be appearing at the university on friday apr 5 chapin who recently released a new single has been selling out concerts at colleges on the east coast chapin will present two hours of music with no opening group this concert linder said will be aimed at the college crowd linder said he expects at least 2000 tickets to be sold on campus for this concert as compared with 1000 sold for the jo-jo gunne concert linder explained that chapin's style of music and a number of on-campus promotion techniques should draw a large audience from the university he said that he hopes to give away free albums to living groups and complimentary tickets to social chairmen selling the most tickets there will be no comparison between bsw photo by flanagan samuel h missimer effect of language rule discussed by missimer by stanley palmer i do not see the language requirement proposals affecting admissions said samuel missimer director of admissions proposed new language requirements will either lower or eliminate the amount of hours in a foreign language required of a liberal arts student missimer said that he didn't think admissions should deal with the language problem i think the decision of the language requirement should be left to the faculty it is our responsibility to interpret whatever they come up with to the prospective student he said missimer added that in dealing with prospective freshmen the complaint of too many hours of a foreign language is not a major consideration incoming freshmen don't say much about the language requirement because they are afraid we might think ill of them he said missimer pointed out that more com plaints about the language requirement are received from female students and seniors than anyone else the interesting thing about the language requirement is that the seniors objected more to it than incoming freshmen he said he added that the incoming freshmen have no idea what taking a foreign language at lehigh is like he noted that the diversity of prospective college students makes the language requirement a relatively unimportant factor students might want to come to a college that keeps standards high but on the other hand students might want to go to a place that has more freedom of choice he said missimer added that he didn't think there would be an increase in liberal arts students because of a revised language requirement most students have a pretty good idea of what career they want to go into if the student really wants to go into business he's not going to switch out of that unless his career plans change missimer said see rationing page 5 see harry chapin page 4 see apprentice page 5 easterns preview a special four-page insert on the eastern intercollegiate wrestling assn championships is included in this issue easterns will be held at the naval academy on friday and saturday