Brown and White Vol. 87 no. 35

              lehigh university brown and white 215-866-0331 vol 87 — no 35 bethlehem pa tuesday february 24 1976 campus violence reports exaggerated parr says by john copoulos recent incidents of violence on campus have been overdramatized by the brown and white according to preston parr dean and vice president of student affairs reports of violence on campus m the paper do not necessarily mean that violence has increased — i do not think that there is as much violence as the stories m the brown and white might suggest parr said william quay dean of students and sharon drager assistant dean of students have responded m the proper procedure for dealing with campus violence parr said they have acted m constraints which i know of but which we cannot reveal to the newspapers he said eugene dax captain of police has also done an outstanding job parr added there is reason for concern but not alarm parr explained until the dean's office is able to get the kind of hard evidence that will permit an evaluation of these newspaper reports m terms of their content it will be hard to take disciplinary action m some of the incidents he said parr was unable to name a date as to when hard evidence will be uncovered in the meantime there will be a review of the number of police officers but no panic steps will be taken he said the brown and white is not responsible for the success the dean's office has had m apprehending attackers parr said prior to coming up with five suspects drager told the brown and white she had closed the case it has been suggested that a story m the brown and white exposing the attack incident prompted drager to reopen the case parr explained that although the case may have been closed that does not mean that information would not be ac cepted on the subject dean drager gained access to information that she did not have previously he said the question as to whether or not drager previously had the information has been a matter of controversy about four weeks ago drager denied that either herself or her assistant attilia lannarelli had received a phone call with information on the identity on one of the attackers later a jan 30 story m the brown and white exposed the incident and reported that drager had m fact received such a phone call after denying a second time that she received the phone call she called a brown and white reporter the same day jan 30 and admitted remembering the phone call that gave her information on one of the attackers b&w photo by menard familiar sight civil engineering students take to the field again as the weather warms up here four students diligently survey the campus m front of packer chapel union's effect on university discounted the election of teamsters local 773 to represent maintenance employes will not affect university operations according to eric ottervik vice president for planning allied maintenance corporation em ployes voted last thursday to join the union by a 110-53 margin the same local was defeated by a 2-1 margin three years ago approximately 95 per cent of the eligible workers voted i don't think the union will make a great difference to the university ot tervik said he said he did not expect other university workers such as secretaries to unionize as a result of the election frank cancelled allied project manager said the election's outcome was a surprise i thought we had a chance allied currently employs approximately 170 workers formerly employed by the university these include maintenance workers groundskeepers and maids one of the teamsters officials now responsible for representing the workers richard hontz said his his first actions for the workers would not take place until the election's outcome is certified by the national labor relations board he said the certification procedure should take from a week to ten days after the election at which time he would begin negotiations with allied officials hontz said he had not yet solidified plans for negotiation demands u.s society completely corrupt we're au niggerized kennedy by sally velthaus first we're going to sing flo ken nedy co-founder of the national organization of women now a founder of the feminist party lawyer and author told her audience m whitaker auditorium thursday night members of the audience joined her m my country tis of thee sour land of bigotry of thee i sing land of indian massacre land of black slavery land of hypocrisy of thee i sing my country tis of thee land of jockocracy of thee i sing land of pigocracy land of pig gluttony land of gross apathy of thee i sing kennedy's colorful four-letter-word ridden speech dealt with the role of women racism and the pathology of our institutions in a really oppressive society as completely corrupt as ours we're all niggerized m one way or another said kennedy niggerization according to kennedy refers to anybody who's op pressed the less efficient the society is the more we're all niggerized she added the niggerization of people m part is to deny them access to the goods of the society kennedy said a lot of media attention is given to black welfare recipients according to kennedy but corporations as welfare recipients are ignored the current lockheed scandal is an exception she said the difference between corporations and people as welfare recipients is that if a recipient of welfare were to refuse to allow the appropriate governmental agency to examine their checkbooks they would end up m jail said kennedy this kind of double standard is niggerization she said when citizens see strange things hap pening m the united states they should understand that our government is capable of all kinds of little hijacks and skyjacks and hijinks m the name of national security said kennedy being on a college campus according to kennedy results m insulation from things going on m the world she said she has heard from new york to san francisco that campuses are conservative the whole fucking academic community is conservative she said kennedy quoted a college professor who once said students are like mushrooms dump plenty of shit on them keep them m the dark and they grow fine flo kennedy see audience page 6 inside ; uc bell to toll p 4 mart proctors p 5 women's week p 7 last meet win p 12