Brown and White Vol. 74 No. 31

              lehigh university brown and white vol 74 — no 31 friday feb 22 1963 bethlehem pa crews start demolition and the walls came tumblin down — workmen began tearing down houses in the butler st renewal project wednesday in preparation for construction of the university's new chemical en gineering metallurgy laboratory building varied equipment is being utilized for the project including high-lift tractors rat poison and crow bar-armed workmen the men pull down the,walls which are then loaded and trucked away from the site the poison is used1 to control vermin prior to the demolition arcadia revises election methods arcadia xvii revised the procedures of arcadia elections monday night in order to improve the efficiency of the voting the arcadia elections review committee reported that the present regulations and techniques employed in student elections tend to give rise to confusion which caused considerable doubt as to the advisabil ity of continuing the present system the committee found these four problems most common in the election procedure first the operation of polling stations tends to be erratic and inde pendable due primarily to conflicting class schedules and other timing difficulties second with the present distribution of polling places an over whelming inbalance in the volumes of ballots handled by each station tends to result during the recent elections the drown hall station collected only 5 of the total ballots while the university center station collected nearly 50 of the total third the election and polling rules issued to polling station oper ators have not been sufficiently explicit or complete so as to avoid any possible confusion fourth due to the fact that two agencies the alpha phi omega service fraternity and the arcadia student elections committee have in the past shared the responsibility of conducting elections the avoidance of any possible confusion of authority over particular aspects of the election processes has not been sufficiently ensured in view of these problems the committee recommended the fol lowing solutions which were rectified monday night first the committee recommended the hiring of polling station operators by arcadia with this revision the reliability of polling sta tion operators in adhering to schedules would be ensured the committee also recommended that these operators be graduate students since they are more mature than undergraduates their class council requests info before closing streets may slow dorm the university's plan to construct new dormitory units in the thomas street area were delayed tuesday night by bethlehem city council's request for more detailed information from the city planning commission the council's decision included a stipulation that the proposal be treated as a single plan lehigh is requesting street closings in two separate proposals the first recommendation was to close grant getz scott and sher man streets the second part deals with thomas and parts of scott and jackson streets there has been an objection that the closing of thomas street will cut off primary access to the homes of families on first terrace city councilman paul j jani referred to the controversy as the battle of the bulge he stated that lehigh university is moving into the area from one side and bethlehem steel from the other putting the squeeze on property owners on first terrace jani feels that the happenings in the situation are not quite right he said that it appeared to him that a little more foresight could be shown by both institutions as they plan their respective expansion pro grams the commission was requested by the council to resubmit a more detailed recommendation treating the proposals as parts of a single plan pledges hear soviet view of u.s history the soviet historian sees american historical writing as worthless john h cary asso ciate professor of history said at the initiation banquet of the phi alpha theta national history hon orary tuesday cary spoke on the russian pre-soviet and soviet-view of american history jerome i fischman assistant professor of history also spoke soviet historiography begins with the basic assumptions of marxist-leninism cary contin ued the amewcan historical writings which do not have this right historical reference can not be considered informative in the russian view in addition many of the american historical writers used as references are communists from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries the united states was considered a model for russia to follow in overthrowing her feudal society most of the constitutions drawn up by russian republicans in this period were based almost exclusively on the state and federal constitutions in the united states these close ties started to dis appear in 1917 when lenin began to see the united states as im perialistic even when lenin's view became official in 1920 many writers continued to express fond ness cary cited an example from the soviet encyclopedia in the first edition printed in the early 19205 over 263 pages mostly friendly was devoted to the united states in the second edi tion printed after world war 11 there was only 97 pages on the united states most of which was unfriendly cary said the soviet concept of our colonial period lays a great deal of emphasis on the agitation for local manufacturing according to cary very often this agitation took the form of five ladies sitting on the governor's lawn on a sun day afternoon and weaving the american revolution is looked upon favorably because it ifc weekend to feature bo diddley bobby comstock council discusses post-rushing bo diddley bobby comstock and the comets and the fallguys will be the feature performers during this year's ifc weekend concert on march 16 tickets for the grace hall per formance will be sold at 4 per couple and all fraternities will be required to purchase tickets for at least sixty percent of their mem bers including new pledges during the meeting associate dean of students preston parr emphasized the need for the post rushing he stated that only 43 per cent of the freshman class ac cepted bids this semester this is a figure of 324 as compared to 360 last year parr said parr explained that the univer sity is growing and he expects the fraternities to take more fresh men proportionally with the growth of the university be cause of the frosh initiated this year he thinks that post-rushing may be necessary in order to re lieve the burden that will other wise fall on the upperclass hous ing facilities on campus the discussion resulted in the formation of a committee to look into the post-rushing situation an additional committee was also approved by the meeting to facilitate investigation of this yaers rushing program ifc officials indicated that next year's rushing system may be sim ilar to the present one but will perhaps be a longer rushing period depending on the findings of the investigation committee class gift goal won't be met the 160,000 goal set for the 1963 class gift will not be reached however it is expected that we will go over the class of 1962 fig ures estimated gordon t hoare president of the senior class he is happy with the response however the percentage of sen iors who gave is higher than the class of 1961 according to hoare but the amount each pledged is less the class gift was started with the class of 1961 thus giving them the advantage of publicity from the new york times and mag azines the class gift committee re ryan to address sls on mountain building building mountains will be the topic of dr j donald ryan professor and head of the department of geology as part of the senior lecture series at 8:15 p.m today in the university center osbourne room the lecture is co-sponsored by omicron delta kappa national senior leadership honorary dr ryan has been a member of the faculty since 1952 he was named associate professor of geology in 1957 and raised to professor an.d head of the department in may of last year he has studied uranium de posits in southwest colorado and southwest south dakota dr ryan has also done research of the igneous rocks of the triassic age in bucks county he has worked on a national science foundation project on the study of the lower cretacicous sed imentary rocks in the wyoming rockies he has written the sediments of chesapeake bay a report on research carried out for the mary land board of natural resources with the cooperation of that state's department of geology mines and water resources and the chesapeake oceanographic in stitute fsdfsdfsdfsfsdf see reliable page 6 see latin page 3 see pazzetti page 3