Brown and White Vol. 85 no. 18

              lehigh university brown and white mmmmmmmmmmmmmm vol 85 — no 18 mmmmmmmmmmmwmmm bethlehem pa friday november 2 1973 mmmmmmmmmmmm 2!.vk66-0:m m . . student breaks into frat but escapes after chase brothers of lambda chi alpha frater nity found a lehigh student near their parking lot after they had chased and lost another person they found in their house early wednesday morning no charges have been pressed yet by the fraternity and the other person has not been found according to campus police an unidentified student entered the house at 2:40 a.m wednesday through a window jeff schoff 76 house manager spotted him in one of the rooms but the student escaped schoff said another student was found outside the house who told campus police he was trying to steal a keg of beer the campus police report stated that the student outside said he did not know the person who ran from the house associate dean of students arthur mann case officer for the university discipline committee said he will in vestigate the case and try to find out who entered the fraternity as for the student found outside mann said it's not a violation of anything to be outside the building even at 2:40 in the morning sharon grossman b&w photo by tola norman mailer unhappy situation exists in america mailer says by beth troy the united states is now in a most unhappy situation as a nation and american life has become stultified said norman mailer author and critic of the american scene tuesday night mailer who spoke as part of the visiting lectures committee program addressed an audience of 1,000 in grace hall on the topics of the nixon administration cultural transformation in our society and the need for a citizens cia or fbi mailer said that we all use working hypotheses as a fundamental method of dealing with daily life we make decisions and form opinions on the basis of these hypotheses which are guesses about the real facts in any given life situation but the political events of the last six weeks have made many of our hypotheses inadequate for our needs he said giving as an example that what we think about nixon in the morning our hypothesis is not what we think of him that night mailer said that our culture can be compared to a ball which is about to roll off the table the most common solution to the problem of how to handle increasing numbers of conflicting revelations and the one that most americans have adopted is to completely wall in one's mind said mailer he said nixon capitalized on this trend by giving assurance that he would not awaken a single american mind mailer also spoke about the effect of agnew's resignation on the american people saying that it was incredible what the fall of spiro has done to any clarity of mind among conservatives as well as to the minds of members of the left mailer said that a new political in strument similar to a citizens fbi or sac resigner calls snyder insincere by peter menard i feel a certain hypocrisy in being an active member in a one-man council said student activities council sac member sharon grossman 76 in her letter of resignation presented to sac on monday night miss grossman's resignation was brought about by a number of factors she said i was not forced to resign i resigned because i was fed up with it and not getting any satisfaction out of it the only tangible result she could see from her six hours of work per week on the sac was getting a soda machine installed in maginnes hall one of the most frustrating problems miss grossman said she faced was keith snyder 74 sac president whom she described as over emotional and a very insincere person she added that he only wants people who agree with him on the council snyder denied that sac was a one-man council controlled by himself and he described it as a council of 11 equals snyder continued i have never denied that i am an emotional person . that part she's definitely right but i admitted that to the council insincere that i don't think i am miss grossman's thoughts about resignation came after she received a letter from snyder on oct 24 in which snyder suggested that she contemplate resignation due to poor health he signed it best wishes for a speedy recovery snyder said he asked miss b&w reporter forced to leave meeting mw photo by tola norman mailer bootstrap law school doubtful says brockway by robert feldman brian brockway dean of the college of business and economics said that he doubts a modified law school will be started at the university in an interview tuesday brockway one of the original advocates of the law school which was voted down for the present by the board of trustees last month presented a new plan for what he called a bootstrap law school to a meeting of law school proponents last week my interpretation of the trustees response was negative on that basis i presume that the idea of a modified law school is dead brockway said such a modified law school would consist of an initial expense of 100,000 to 200,000 rather than the initially proposed in vestment of 3.5-million purchasing books at a rate of 10,000 a year rather than 20,000 a year up to a maximum of 100,000 volumes and utilizing available space rather than constructing a new building solely for the law school brockway said that the quality of such a school would not be altered by the cutback in funds the key to a law school is the faculty brockway explained in a modified law school we would still have the best faculty the major cutbacks would be in establishing a library and building for the school office space however would not be a severe problem he said legal service for students is investigated by jeff bodenstab the possibility of hiring a lawyer to provide legal services to the university community is bt.n investigated by tne legal action committee of the forum in an effort to discover a more effective way to protect the civil rights of university students the committee whose creation was prompted by the arrest and subsequent suicide of university sophomore randy bujcs last fall was charged with this responsibility by the forum on nov 20 of last year a proposal calling for a lawyer to be retained by the university was presented to the forum earlier this year the plan was rejected until further evidence could be presented to support the plan said ferdinand beer professor and chairman of mechanics and chairman of the com mittee in an interview after the meeting wednesday the committee sent letters asking for sac member resigns heated argument follows by dave klucsik a brown and white reporter was physically escorted from monday night's student activities council sac meeting amid malicious comments by council members sac president keith snyder moved to close the meeting after heated argument had taken place following the resignation of council member sharon grossman 76 snyder said he wanted a general rap session for council members to air their complaints concerning council activities snyder said i'd like to clear the air and asked the reporter to leave the room when he refused snyder said that any further sac business that night was not in the interest of the student body snyder said that the closed meeting was necessary for sac's self-evaluation of its internal problems and for internal housekeeping snyder said if we want to draw blood enough blood will run that it will drip to the brown and white offices the council then moved to adjourn when the reporter again refused to leave snyder led him by the arm out of the room the brown and white later learned that intense criticism and personal con frontation especially involving snyder took place at the closed session in her letter of resignation miss grossman cited health reasons as limiting her services to the council miss grossman feared of sounding sour grapes in the letter but also formally expressed disappointment and dissatisfaction with the conceited and authoritative manner in which all affairs have been held " she said this remark was directed at snyder the letter also cited a certain hypocrisy in being an active member in a one-man council impeachment of miss grossman had been privately discussed by council members as early as september snyder said dave braekett sac treasurer see sac resigner page 5 see sac page 4 see law school page 5 see citizen page 4 see u may page 4 chalidze to speak valory chalidze a soviet dissident who lost his soviet citizenship will be speaking at lehigh on tuesday nov 6 at 4 and 8 p.m