Brown and White Vol. 88 no. 24

              brown and white vol 88 — no 24 bethlehem pa friday december 3 1976 215-866-0331 5 calendar plans get open hearing forum likely to decide wednesday | by john tanzola five calendar proposals for next year d four for 1978-79 were presented before a packed house m the u.c osbourne room at an open hearing wednesday the proposals provisions range from starting classes aug 25 to reducing christmas vacation to a four-day weekend and having finals after christmas about 175 students faculty members and administrators attended the hearing sponsored by a joint calendar committee of the forum and the faculty educational policy committee the calendar committee will meet this afternoon to evaluate comments made at the hearing and to decide on a calendar to present to the forum dec 8 for approval the calendar committee's proposal for next year calls for classes to begin aug 25 with a day off sept 5 for labor day this proposal also provides for three four-day weekends during the first semester one m september for yom kippur m october and one for thanksgiving exams would end dec 23 the proposal also calls for an 11-day midsemester vacation m the spring coinciding with easter the second proposal which is the current calendar requires classes to begin aug 31 with four-day weekends m mid october and for thanksgiving exams would begin dec 15 and end before christmas although the proposal does not say on what day this proposal also calls for an 11-day vacation m march for easter among the other calendar proposals was one which called for spaced instruction the proposal submitted by the academic deans was a more radical change from the present calendar than the other proposals calling for classes to begin sept 15 there would be a vacation from oct 22 to 30 a four-day thanksgiving break and a christmas recess from dec 21 to jan 4 exams would be given after christmas from jan 16 through the 24 the spring semester would begin feb 1 with a midsemester vacation at the end of march a proposal submitted by ferdinand beer chairman of mechanical engin eering and mechanics also called for exams after christmas beer's proposal calls for classes to begin sept 15 with a midsemester vacation from oct 22 to 31 and four days for thanksgiving the christmas vacation would be reduced to four days—dec 23 to 26—and there also would be a three-day weekend for new year's day exams would be held from jan 8 to 17 midyear vacation would last until jan 30 the second semester schedule calls for classes to begin feb 1 with a weeklong break m march for easter the final calendar proposal submitted b8.w photo by bogucz robert folk professor of physics addresses an open hearing on the university's academic calendar wednesday folk said he favored fall semester exams before christmas arguing that student performance during the second semester might suffer if exams were held after christmas construction renovation cited as housing solutions by lee ann lusardi construction of a new residence hall or modification of an existing structure are the only possible solutions to the number of people who want housing and aren't getting it according to robert reeves assistant dean of students eric ottervik vice president for plan ning said however that the university cannot afford construction of a new residence building for at least 3 to 5 years the recent forum residence sub committee lottery report estimated that the residence system would be more than 200 spaces short next year reeves said that modification or con struction should be on or near the main campus at smags or m saucon valley buying or renting off-campus housing is a piecemeal solution he said because although it resolves concerns about housing options it doesn't deal with the lack of beds the university recently leased apartments at the corner of fourth and polk streets which provide housing for 16 students renting off-campus space or buying one or more off-campus buildings seem to be the only viable solutions to the shortage at present ottervik said we have looked at virtually every possibility we can think of for off campus housing he said in the past ottervik explained as much as 50 per cent of the cost of building residence halls has been covered by some form of external subsidy such as a gift to the university or federal funds unless the university receives a gift or unless sororities by olga yannitsadis all three university sororities have accepted the proposal which would provide housing for each of them m smags next fall alpha gamma delta voted unanimously for the proposal about two weeks ago said sue smith 78 president details on such things as the budget which smith had earlier indicated had to be ironed out were discussed with robert reeves assistant dean of students gamma phi beta passed the proposal by a majority vote at a meeting on monday according to ann werley 77 president alpha phi passed the proposal by a majority vote tuesday said june fasesky 77 president according to reeves making it man datory for sorority members to live at smags would be dependent on the sororities themselves and that such per sons would be expected to live m the sorority house or out of the residence system unless they were a gryphon or a university employe alpha phi members would be required moshe dayan to give lecture on middle east moshe dayan former israeli defense minister will give a lecture entitled middle east perspective on feb 13 m grace hall at 8 p.m the talk is being sponsored by the visiting lecturers committee dayan resigned from the israeli cabinet m june 1974 as a result of a dispute over the unpreparedness of israel's armed forces during the october 1973 war his autobiography entitled the story of my life was published this year he was hailed by the israeli people as the hero of the sinai campaign of 1956 however his most acclaimed military success occurred during the six-day war m june 1967 dayan was appointed defense minister on the eve of the war in the war israel took over the sinai peninsula syria's gofan heights and the jordanian west ban including the old city of jerusalem dayan has served as minister of agriculture and chief of staff currently he is a member of the israeli parliament he is presently speaking at colleges across the united states moshe dayan approve smags more to live m a sorority except for extenuating reasons such as if a member is a gryphon university employe a commuter or on financial aid it's standing rule that if a girl doesn't live m the sorority house then it's considered that she has resigned fasesky said she can petition to the national office and district governor if it is approved she does not have to live m the sorority house she continued alpha gamma delta members also would be required to live m the sorority house except under the circumstances listed above however werley said that if a girl cannot live m the sorority house she would not be forced to it is hoped that if the sorority goes there the members will want to go werley said the smags proposal would offer potential housing for as many as 120 persons or 40 sisters per sorority rush chairman of the three chapters have ad mitted that it will not be easy to increase their membership to that extent by next fall alpha gamma delta now has 26 sisters alpha phi has 25 and gamma phi beta has 36 reeves said that although 120 spaces will be made available m residence halls because of the sororities move to smags the housing shortage will not be alleviated because 120 spaces for undergraduates were reserved this year m smags he also noted that the sororities will only be making a temporary commitment of five years m smags see calendar page 5 see housing page 9 inside vendor warnings p 4 free-form dj p 7 student teaching p 9 teams open p 12