Brown and White Vol. 88 no. 12

              lehigh university brown and white vol 88 — no 12 bethlehem pa tuesday october 19 1976 215-866-0331 mohler against housing proposal if freshmen not assured housing by eileen canzian editor-in-chief harold mohler chairman of the university board of trustees said friday he would not support a residence halls lottery system which did not guarantee housing to freshmen in an interview with brown and white editors mohler also discussed anticipated tuition increases and the possibility of admitting students to the university without regard to sex the forum residence subcommittee which is preparing a lottery proposal for next year is considering not guaranteeing housing to incoming freshmen the sub committee's final proposal will be presented to the student life committee which will then present a proposal to the forum as a whole for approval the ad ministration can appeal the forum's decision to the board of trustees although mohler said he personally would be against a lottery system which did not guarantee housing to incoming freshmen he said he did not know how the board as a whole would react to such a proposal he said however that he has talked with other trustees who share his view on the necessity of providing housing for all freshmen who want it the board has not yet discussed the possibility of abolishing to the university's current 20 per cent maximum quota on the admission of women undergraduates mohler said a draft of a new university 10-year plan recently compiled by eric ottervik vice presidnet for planning is based on the assumption that un dergraduates will be admitted without regard to sex the board would have to determine how the quota's abolition would affect the composition of the three colleges and the sex ratio of the student body as a whole mohler said he said alumni reaction to such a change probably would be tapped before a decision was made but said this reaction would be used only as an in dicator the board of trustees has to make the final judgment he said mohler said he guessed tuition would go up by 250 again next year but said this has not been decided yet he noted that although tuition is projected to increase by 250 annually this a ball park figure which is re-examined every year b&w photo by bogucz gov shapp at a press conference friday said he did not recall a reported campaign deal with robert vesco the alleged deal reported by a pilot employed by vesco in volved an exchange of lowered plane fare for the admission of vesco's son into the university through shapp's influence harold mohler shapp doesn't recall vesco admission deal byjanemarcin news editor and ed bogucz managing editor gov shapp said friday he does not think an arrangement was made by one of his administrative aides to facilitate the admission of financier robert vesco's son into the university in a recent book a pilot formerly em ployed by vesco reported that vesco let shapp use one of his planes at a reduced rate for a campaign trip six years ago in return vesco reportedly asked that shapp use his influence to get his son into the university the pilot said he conveyed vesco's wishes to norval recce shapp's administrative aide at the press conference shapp said recce does not recall such a conversation i don't recall any conversation of such a commitment i never met mr vesco . never even shook hands shapp said shapp said he knew only that the plane belonged to a company owned by vesco shapp made his remarks at a fate of frosh in room lottery not determined by ken bandler news editor a residence lottery proposal being considered by the forum residence sub committee is a percentage system which m itself neither guarantees nor denies housing to incoming freshmen according to peter lilienfield 77 sub committee chairman lilienfield said the proposal is based on the idea of reserving campus housing for a certain percentage of each class by sex but said the subcommittee has not yet determined what any of those figures will be he explained that the figures which appeared m a recent brown and white article were merely hypothetical exam browne ticket sales good sac account breaks even by dan tilles the student activities council sac has already broken even for the jackson browne concert and may make up most of the 3500 loss incurred by the harry chapin concert with the remaining tickets according to gary hirschberg 78 sac concert committee chairman we only sold 1800 out of the 2400 needed to break even for chapin so if we sell out for jackson browne we'll be just a couple ' of hundred dollars short hirschberg said there are less than 100 tickets remaining for the jackson browne concert on thursday hirschberg said monday . of the approximately 2940 tickets which have been sold more than 2500 have been to university students he said hirschberg added that the sac still does not have any shows lined up for the next concert slot the first weekend of december because most tours will be wrapping them up for the holidays shows are always hard to book for the end of the year because most artists record during this period hirschberg said the show thursday will have three acts valeric carter will open the show and will play for about one-half hour she will be followed by orleans who should play for an hour hirschberg said jackson browne will be the third act and see new page 5 see ticket page 5 inside closing loopholes p 4 adults adopted p 6 flu clinic p 8 mini-park p 9 bullets blanked p 12 see shapp page 8