Brown and White Vol. 82 no. 9

              brown and white 866-0331 vol 82 no 9 bethlehem pa friday october 16 1970 revolution in u s topic of senate hopeful by don suss revolution in the united states and its association to socialism was the topic under discussion at a meeting wednesday in the university center the meetingwas addressed by robin maisel a member of the young socialist alliance and the socialist workers party and candidate for the u.s senate maisel opened the meeting by posing the question of what kind of society do we live in he continued by saying we live in a capitalist society and a small minority of the american population the capitalist class controls this society and decides the basic ways things will run and makes all of the major decisions that affect our lives in this society four negative products of capitalism were mentioned by maisel in his dis cussion he attributed pollution war racism and oppression of women to the capitalistic control of our society he stated that although most people agree that none of these products are desirable they exist nonetheless because it is not privately profitable to eliminate them malsel's solution to this is to place production in the hands of the majority since control of production should be in the hands of the people who produce the goods by eliminating the private profit motive pollution war racism and oppression of women could be remedied maisel also listed the three ways in which the capitalist class rules our society he enumerated trickery money and physical coercion as the means of control although he noted the latter two were less often used . in order to explain his charge of trickery he used the presi dential elections of 1964 and 1968 as examples he attempted to show how the choices between presidential can didates is really the same and how there is no basic difference between the demo cratic and republican parties maisel maintained that a.s long as the people are unwilling to give up in this country the chances are verv good for having a revolution he says that the united states is pregnant with revolu tion and we are now in the first month of pregnancy 1 ' eventually he feels that it will reach a point where the american working class will create a revolution it is only necessary to have revolutionary conditions and conscious leadership for a revolution and when these converge the revolution in the united states will occur at the end of his speech two university students fred kaplan 72 and dave kent 73 questioned maisel on some of his statements kaplan took exception to two points maisel made stating that an object has a value equal to the amount of labor put into it and that the government never protects strikers only the capital ists on the latter point kaplan stated that the laborer gets a far greater share of national output here than he does in any other society including all of the socialist ones kent pursued the point and gave two specific examples of government inter vention on behalf of the people he men tioned the calling out of the national guard in little rock because of desegregation and james meredith in georgia he also added how the washington police aided the poor peoples march on washington maisel defended his point by stating that the government intervened to defend them selves from social upheave 1 and to maintain social peace and not for any moral reasons b&w photo bv mccormick robin maisel socialist candid ate for the u s senate addressed a leviathan meeting wednesday on revolution in the united states valley environmentalists fight interstate highway by john lazenby the proposed southern segment of interstate 78 running from fogelsville west of allentown through land south of allentown and bethlehem including saucon valley to the delaware river was the chief topic of discussion at the lehigh valley environ mental federation meeting at moravian college this week 1-78 has liecome the main concern ofthe federation since the group's inception last june because the proposed highway is viewed by members as the greatest ecological threat to this area the federation composed of several independent environmental groups from around the valley was formed to coordinate environmental efforts ln the area 1,300 acres of land would be necessary for the construction of the highway accord ing to figures of the lehigh county soil and water conservation district a survey by the district indicated that about 1,000 of the 1,300 acres are of class 1 land the best land for all-around use and that much of the land included in this acreage is highly erodible alfred a seiss jr president of the saucon association for a viable environment s.a.v.e , called the southern route an albatross and said that people in the allentown-bethlehem area have to unite to fight it inter-college coordinator outlines educational programs by karen herman the crestiad and paul dimmick the lafayette i look upon my office as the facili tating agency not as a seventh unit stated dr mahlon h hellerich coordinator of the lehigh valley assoc of independent colleges hellerich who accepted the newly-cre ated position in august was appointed by the presidents of the six valley institutions comprising the board of directors of the association cedar crest lafavette lehigh moravian muhlenberg and allen town college of st francis desales hellerich said that he was fortunate that " many of the programs involved were either formulated or already in operation yhon h arrived the association was organized to assist in specialized inter-institutional planning of educational programs and tocoordinate the activities of the valley schools last week the six valley schools field a joint meeting with guidance counsellors in the boston area he mentioned that this program would be repeated in the wash ington d.c area next month we are cooperating in a competitive area he commented hellerich noted that although the six colleges would be seekingdifferent types of students their source was the same at the present time several of the schools have bilateral agreements for exchange of credit dispersed among them selves however a proposal is now before the respective faculties to organize an exchange of credits on auni-lateral basis this makes available the resources of the other five schools to each student he said he noted that there were several limitations tothis proposal students would not be allowed to take courses that were currently offered at their home school and the courses in question would have to be approved by the dean and the head of the ie par tine nt he added that the six schools had already established uni-lateral cross registration of summer courses this allows the student to bypass the normal admission procedures in the summer of 1969 a group of core courses were offered at moravian for all six schools being taught by pro fessors from all the valley schools this experiment was not offered in 1970 but there was a reduction of competitive offer ings hellerich outlined a new program to be offered at lehigh upon the appropriation of funds from the national science found ation four faculty members lrom each school will participate in an educational program that would place the computer into course work this program would consist of summer courses and school year seminars for the faculty members involved after the realigning of faculty members consoles would be established at the schools and would be connected to the lehigh computer center however in the case of the schools already having computer facilities this link would not be necessary he added that a committee was h^ine formed to discuss computer facilities within the vallev this committee will meet within the next two weeks the pennsylvania department of public welfare appropriated funds to develop a social welfare program in the valley it is hoped that the consortim will provide enough courses to qualify people for social work however a major will not be offered presently a limited number of courses are offered at cedar crest and muhlenberg in social welfare the greater lehigh vallev hospital and health planning council has filed appli cation with a national organization for funds to study the feasibility of establish ing cooperative nursing program in the valley when the study is completed it most likely will be turned over to the association for consideration valley librarians will publish a list of periodical publications within the valley to augment their present teletype hook-up for borrowing books hellerich was asked if his position would include appearing before the state legislature to represent the private valley schools he answered that although the board of directors did not define this yet he felt that this would probably fall under his jurisdiction " all of us are feeling our way in adapting and working out pro cedures and although my role in relations outside the valley is as yet undefined the matter could be dealt with on an association-wide basis hellerich received his bachelors degree from muhlenberg college his master of arts from columbia and a doctor of philosophy from the university of pennsylvania he has also taken graduate studies at temple university and the university of michigan before assuming his present position hellerich served as vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at wartburg college waverv lowa foreign study program open for applications what could be sweeter than earning six hours credit for a summer spent in salzburg or paris for the 29 university students who participated in programs sponsored by the foreign studies comm ittee this past july and august the answer is " not a thing dr john van eerde led a group of twenty students in a program at the sorbonne participants included under graduate and graduate students from cedar crest moravian muhlenberg lafayette east stroudsberg and colby college the group left new york on june 24 and arrived in paris the following day where they were met by the families with whom they lodged for the summer during the summer breakfasts were eaten with those families while lunch and dinner were provided at the university or in local restaurants courses at the sorbonne included lang uage literature and art each student was placed according to his language ability previous french experience ranged from two semesters of college french to grad uate work classes began june 29 and continued three or four hours a day for six weeks two credits were allowed for each thirty hours of classroom work homework was kept to a minimum which left afternoons and evenings free for exploration in paris lectures by well-known scholars were available at the sorbonne throughout the see legal page 4 see foreign page 6