Brown and White Vol. 85 no. 16

              lehigh university brown and white vol 85 — no 1c bethlehem pa friday october 26 1973 866-4831 norman mailer to speak in grace hall oct 30 american author philosopher and f l m maker norman mailer will speak at 7:30 p.m tuesday in grace hall mailer has written six books including armies of the night which won a pulitzer prize and the polk and national book awards in 1968 the book is a per sonal account of the 1967 four-day antiwar protest in washington d.c in which he was arrested for his participation other books by mailer are the naked and the dead deer park an american dream and why are we in vietnam and his recent biography marilyn monroe political writings include miami and the siege of chicago the prisoner of sex which has been a target of the women's liberation movement and st george and the godfather in 1968 mailer ran in the mayoralty primary election in new york city ad vocating that the city be made a state and all surrounding neighborhoods gain city status the story of that campaign is told in his book running against the machine mailer first began writing seriously in norman mailer petition urges forum review of calendar by jeff bloom two forum members mike maskaleris 75 and roy taylor 75 are attempting to get the signatures of at least eight other forum members on two petitions calling for a special meeting of the forum to reconsider the academic calendar for next year which was passed overwhelmingly by the forum at its oct 15 meeting one petition will simply call for the calendar to be reconsidered but rich conway 74 forum vice-chairman was overheard warning maskaleris that under parliamentary procedure this amend ment may be found to be out of line therefore conway suggested that a second petition be drafted which contains specific amendments to the calendar the four amendments which appeared on the petition drafted immediately following tuesday's student caucus were begin fall classes five days before labor day aug 25 instead of the day after sept 3 since yom kippur sept 26 comes on a thursday close the school the next day making it a four-day weekend delete yom kippur as a holiday from the calendar start the spring semester on jan 20 instead of jan 23 and form a four-day weekend the last week of february at the student caucus meeting which lower cost law school is possible says brockway by bill white brian brockway dean of the college of business and economics revived dying hopes for a university law school at a meeting monday between trustees ad ministration faculty and student law school proponents brockway suggested that it's very easy to start a law school without a sub stantial expenditure of money ... if all of us agree that a law school is desirable there is certainly the possibility and very viable of starting a law school with minimal expense brockway said he could come up with a plan where using existing facilities a law school could be started for as little as 200,000 and if revenue from tuition was kept in trust he said the school could buy its own building within 10 years of the six law schools begun in this country this year four of them did not have a building he said it's not the ideal way of doing it but it may be a feasible way all three trustees trustee chairman harold mohler donald stabler and james walker members of the trustee law school committee — and university president w deming lewis agreed that a law school would be desirable if it were financially feasible but were skeptical about brock way's plan i think it would be almost magic frankly said lewis i don't think we have the space to house a law school . 1 don't think we have the space to put library books lewis said the registrar's office has told him there already are serious space problems either they're all wrong or they are right in which case we'll have to have additional space in which to do this lewis admitted that a law school clearly would be a net plus for the university walker expressed reservations about the quality of such a law school he said it was his impression that the board wants bs.w photo by murphy dean brian brockway student caucus opposed to revision of calendar by tom anew alt in spite of my personal reservations about the calendar i don't think it would be in the best interests of the forum to reconsider it said richard conway 74 vice-chairman of the forum at a meeting of the student caucus tuesday night conway who chaired the meeting added if nine forum members came to me and begged me to sign a petition to reconsider i might provide the tenth signature the forum would then for mally reconsider the proposed calendar that they approved for next year . conway said the purpose of the caucus was to provide forum representatives with the opportunity to discover student and faculty feelings about the calendar and on that basis decide whether or not to call a special forum meeting to reconsider the issue the meeting was attended by 26 students half of them were forum representatives or students from jour nalism and speech classes no faculty members attended the meeting mike maskaleris 75 a forum representative said the calendar had been railroaded through the forum he said the calendar was almost unanimously ac cepted because the meeting had run late into the dinner hour . people were hungry and tired maskaleris said he deplored this apparent lack of dedication on the part of forum representatives i don't think the forum should have the authority it does if this continues it's disgusting the way the forum goes slap-dash over things jeff bloom 76 said the calendar issue had received ample coverage in the brown & white and had been widely publicized three u students arrested in police drug raid in m&m three university student were arrested at 2:20 a.m yesterday in a raid by bethlehem police and state drug agents at m & m 8301 police said the three students picked up were michael r kearney 75 edmund whitby 77 and peter mcdonald 75 five people were in the room at the time of the arrest all were freed at 4 a.m on 500 bail posted by david amidon lecturer in urban studies who had been called after the arrests they were arraigned before justic of the peace john gombosi the students were charged with possession of a controlled substance — specifically marijuana other substances were found and sent to the police lab police said other charges filed pending further investigation an informed source has told the brown and white that 5,000 hits of speed worth up to 2,600 were found in the room ' no hearing dates have yet been set no university administration official knew of the drug raid before or im mediately after it occured according to preston parr vice president-dean of student affairs this is ihe first time in recent years that a drug raid has been conducted in a dorm or fraternity the campus is not a sanc tuary from the law while students are members of the lehigh community they are simultaneously members of the city of bethlehem and the state of pennsylvania and are therefore subject to all local state and federal laws parr added no black profs not fault of u the college of business and economics has no minority groups or women represented on its faculty the college of engineering has no black instructors and few of any minority groups represented on its faculty and an almost identical situation exists in the college of arts and science and the school of education brian brockway dean of the college of business and economics said this is not due to a lack of effort by the university to hire minority members to the faculty conceding that no non-white has taught any business course since i have arrived at lehigh brockway added that no minority member has tried to get a job either the college of engineering has no black or puerto rican faculty members because there are too few black and puerto rican engineering graduates said john karakash dean of the engineering college the college would like to hire faculty from minority groups but the problem is finding them he added the school of education has no written policy or quota system for the hiring of minorities but it does try to find such persons to fill faculty spots said john stoops dean of the school of education because the number of qualified people tends to be small and because of the current interest in advancement of these see lower cost page 4 see discussion page 4 see staff page • see review page 6 see student caucus page «