Brown and White Vol. 77 no. 15

              brown and white mmwmmmmmmmm v01.77 no 15 sh bethlehem pa - friday november 5 1965 866-0331 frosh parents here for weekend the presentation of the opera don pas quaie by the turnau opera players to morrow at 8:15 p.m in grace hall will be the highlight of this year's freshman weekend the weekend program will begin tomor row at 10 a.m with a coffee period for the parents followed by the convocations of the three undergraduate schools the arts and sciences program will be held in the osbourne room of the uni versity center the business administra tion program in the lecture room of drown hall and the engineering program in pack ard lab auditorium president w deming lewis and w g succop chairman of the university's parents committee will welcome parents at each of the three convocations which are designed to acquaint them with their son's curriculum faculty members and academic and extracurricular opportunities speaking at the arts and science convo cation will be dr w ross yates dean of the college sidney s herman assistant professor of biology and ralph n van arnam associate professor of mathematics and astronomy speaking at the business administration program will be dr l reed tripp dean of the college dr alvtn cohen associate professor of economics dr robert h mills associate professor of accounting dr adolph s butkys assistant professor of economics david e shoup 66 vice president of university's student invest ment fund and officers of the association internationale des etudlants en sciences economiques et commerclales speakers at the engineering convocation will be dr robert t gallagher associate dean of tha college charles w brennan dean of students robert r panoe super visor of counseling and testing daniel t flshco research assistant in education dr william a smith jr director of the computing laboratory and james r oy ler jr 67 a member of the gryphon society see story pago 7 following the convocations will be a 12:30 p.m luncheon for frosh and their parents in grace hall and the lehlgh unlverslty of pennsylvania freshman foot ball game beginning at 2 p.m in taylor stadium saturday's schedule ends with s tea spon sored by the residence halls council in the university center which will give parents students and faculty members a chance to talk informally the university of fine arts exhibit in the alumni memorial building end the per manent art exhibits in drown hall and the university center will be open to pa rente during the weekend parents are invited to attend the uni versity chapel services in packer memorial church at 11 a.m roman catholic mass will be celebrated in the osbourne room of the university center at 10:30 a nv end in packer memorial church st 12:30 p.m thermonuclear survival expert to speak nov 76 herman kahn a specialist on the problems mankind must sur mount if it is to survive and function in the thermonuclear age will speak on " escalation and crises at 8 p.m tuesday nov 16 in packard lab auditorium the public is invited kahn's appearance was announc ed today by dr carey b joynt head of the department of inter national relations and william e bonnell editor-in-chief of the brown and white cosponsoring organization kahn military and political policy strategist and author is founder and director of hudson institute inc harmon-on-hud son new york n y earlier in the day he will be honored by the sponsors at a luncheon in the rathbone room of the university center in the afternoon he will give a presentation speculations on the year 2,000 at the weekly three-hour international relations seminar conducted by joynt the evening presentation will be followed by a reception in kahn's honor at chi psi fraternity house in sayre park kahn is expected to use slides at both the seminar and evening appearances the evening program will include a question period kahn and his organization have been subjects of extensive press coverage this year the sunday new york times and new york herald tribune newsweek ujs news and world report and the new republic have all devoted attention to him kahn is probably the most widely read author in his field his latest book on escalation was pub lished in may he is also author of " on thermonuclear war and " thinking about the unthinkable in addition to scores of articles and research papers a physicist and specialist in national security affairs kahn is principal founder of hudson in stitute as its director he is responsible for the institute's overall research program and ac tively participates in it for 12 years he served as a research analyst in the physics division of the rand corp working on problems in applied physics and mathematics oper ations research and systems analysis , weapons design and diffu sion civil defense and strategic warfare in addition he has served nor thr op aviation and the douglas aircraft co as a mathematician he also has served as a con sultant to many private firms and organizations including the avco corp the boeing aircraft co pratt and whitney aircraft corp rca the sandia corp the stan ford research institute and the system development corp while associated with the rand corp he wrote articles on gamma ray absorption monte carlo meth herman kahn whose ideas on problems of military and po litical policy probably attract as much attention in moscow and peiping as in the pentagon and tha capitals of tha wast will speak in packard lab auditorium at 8 p.m nov 16 upper classmen to be granted unlimited cuts by neal arluck two major policy changes of the university were announced at wed nesday night's arcadia meeting starting in the spring semester all juniors and seniors will be ex empted from class attendance regulations also announced was the formation of a student faculty subcommittee of the educational policy committee the new attendance regulation was approved by the faculty at its november meeting in announcing the policy change dr glenn j chrlstensen vice president and provost said the purpose of this action is to recog nize maturity and responsibility among the upperclassmen at the university where active partici pation in academic exercises is emphasized the new regulation which spon sored by the educational policy committee and the student life committee does not include ab sences front scheduled examin ation and special academic exer cises such as laboratory sessions the turnau players in a scene from their production of gaetano donizetti's italian opera don pasquaie which they will sing in english in grace hall saturday at 8:15 p.m as the top event of freshman parents weekend 6 to be initiated by pbk two lehigh alumni dr howard f fehr 23 and dr robert b honey man 20 and four students will be initiated as members of phi beta kappa national scholastic honorary society in university cere monies tuesday afternoon highlighting the day's program will be a centennial lecture by fehr on mathematics as one of the humanities at 8:15 p.m in the osbourne room of the university center the lecture which is open to the public is sponsored by phi beta kappa and the departments of mathematics and education following she 4:15 p.m closed ceremony in which the six men will be initiated as members of the honorary there will be a reception in the faculty lounge fehr who is presently head of the department of the teaching of mathematics teachers college columbia university received his b a degree from lehigh in 1923 and his m.a degree five years later he is the author of 13 mathematical textbooks and has edited and contributed to publications of the na tlonal council for tha teaching of mathematics and the organization for economic cooperation and development a native of bethlehem fehr is a former president of the american association for the teachers of mathematics a fellow of the american association for the advancement of science and many other pro fessional and educational groups honey man graduated in 1920 with a degree in metallurgical engineering and received an honorary degree of doctor of humane letters in 1900 he has devoted much of hla life to the collection of books dealing mainly in literature and tha history of science the honey man collection at the university which he presented in 1955 consists primarily of american and english literature following his graduation be served as sn engineer in charge of operations of coal mines in colorado and as a petroleum geologist he is also a member of the grolier club kappa alpha society and tau beta pi national engineering honorary fraternity see kahn page 9 see arcadia page 9 iyr debatef norman thomas former j i presidential candidate on the f | socialist party ticket will | j replace james farmer as i i william f buckley's dec 6 | | debate opponent thomas who on several i | occasions has spoken at | | the university and who later | h as the result of a contro | | versy had a lehigh speaking | engagement canceled ex | pressed interest in debating > i buckley possibly on the viet - p nam issue the topic how \ | ever is uncertain until it is § p confirmed by buckley who | | was recently defeated in the | new york mayoralty race | the interfraternity coun i | ell and the young republl | cans club are coaponsoriaf 1 || the grace hall debate ifc % - has agreed to pay a maxi | mum of % 2,000 for the event %