Brown and White Vol. 90 no. 47

              brown and white w vi ■ ww *^ v»^^p^j^v 21s-mi4ui bethlehem pa friday may 4 it7t b.a requirements motion tabled the arts college faculty tabled a motion by its policy committee to revise the current distribution requirements for a bachelor of arts degree at its meeting on tuesday the proposal was tabled until next semester when the policy committee will be asked to present the same proposal with more information on the various sections the motion as proposed by the com mittee would establish 46-48 hours of required distribution courses thirty-eight of these would have to be taken m the student's first two years presently there are a total of 38 hours of distribution requirements to be filled 18 preliminary and 20 upperclass the faculty also defeated a motion to delete the foreign language requirement approved at the faculty's mar 12 meeting it also voted to increase the number of categories from which students could choose western civilization courses from two to three another amendment changed the required hours of western civilization from 13 to 10 while the committee acknowledged m its report that the western cultural heritage area was an important aspect of the curriculum the faculty had mixed reactions to the outlined courses arguments for and against the alter native motion to increase the number of categories were raised by charles sclar chairman of the geological sciences department and ralph lindgren chairman of the philosophy division the original philosophy of the western civilization courses was to provide the student with a sweeping panorama of the cultural backgrounds of the western world not the calico quilt offered m the alternative proposal sclar said on the other hand students need some form of time reference which is important for the production of a liberal education lindgren said m support of the proposal in a motion to delete the language requirement from the proposed distribution requirements peter beidler professor of english suggested that the policy committee give further con sideration as to the placement of foreign languages throughout the distribution pattern m the college of arts and scien ce beidler predicted that the final out come will be m one of two forms : either a statement about economic personal or educational costs or a proposal to relocate 6&w photo by morrison no two men are not about to perform daredevil stunts off the ladders it's just workmen applying a new coat of paint to drown hall's window frames university physicist others successfully map quarks rv chris szechenyi mysterious sub-atomic particles known as quarks have been mapped with a new technique for the first time by alvin kanofsky a university physicist and other scientists working at the fermi national accelerator laboratory near chicago quarks are believed to be the building blocks of all matter even smaller than protons or electrons since quarks were first conceived of m 1963 and tentatively identified two years ago at stanford university they have caused scientists to re-evaluate the fundamental nature of matter the mapping achievement helps con firm the existence of quarks which has been m some doubt by many scientists the quarks were mapped according to kanofsky by measuring their momentum after they were released from hydrogen atoms split wi|g£p high energy beam the energy beam bombarded liquid hydrogen and disintegrated the nuclei of its atoms kanofsky said those nuclei then emitted a number of particles in cluding quarks that were indirectly measured as their byproducts traveled through an array of iron and plastic plates only the particles or byproducts the quarks created could be measured by the plates kanofsky said noting that quarks have never been directly observed the plates sandwiched together m a 20 foot long machine called a calorimeter recorded the collisions and energy of the quarks by creating various intensities of light that the scientists monitored such observation of quarks has eluded scientists for about 15 years with the calorimeter we can now study how much space quarks occupy and how strongly they are attracted to one dining service now offers selected second helpings by kathy mangan for the first time m university dining halls hungry students can return for seconds on selected items due to policy changes by the university dining com mittee the new dining committee was formed this year m response to student criticism of the dining service and the quality of the food at the request of m.w wood manage ment service which runs the university dining service committee members include university treasurer john woltjen robert reeves associate dean of students repre sentatives from m w wood and students from the gryphon society residence hall council rhc the forum residence sub committee and others the dining committee is a working committee not a gripe committee ac cording to wilbur blew vice-president of m.w wood he added that it points out problems and works to correct them the committee has been taking a more active role m policies than the old forum committee according to blew policy revision should help get rid of confusion and inconsistent implementation the portion policy says that entree seconds are available at lunch and dinner on at least one selected casserole item any entree can be taken the first time and then students can return for seconds of the selected although the seconds policy is experi mental blew said it was working super crunched b4w phtfo by fauntleroy this celica gt went out of control near chi psl wednesday according to a witness the car skidded and slid tideways into the tree one passenger had his feet trapped under the clutch pedal police and firemen on the scene freed him see food page 4 see language page 13 see quark page c inside farewell steck p 5 real worid etc p 7 sports parents p 12