Brown and White Vol. 82 no. 6

              brow n and white vol 82-no 6 bethlehem pa tuesday october 6 1970 864-0331 city officials express disappointment in u bv steve glickstfin three bethlehem citv officials express ed disappointment over the university's decision to abandon the monocacv creek housing project and to instead build on saucon vallev mavor cordon pavrow south side 76 committee chairman reese jones and city redevelopment authority executive augustine concilio all said that the uni versity had let the bethlehem community down mavor pavrow said the decision to move to saucon valley would hurt the communitv both socially and economically he fears that students isolated on the other side of south mountain would cease to be in terested in the affairs of bethlehem according to pavrow the withdrawal from monocacy has cast the city an estimated 4 n 000 annually in taxes more over south side businessmen already facing financial difficulties have lost a source for potential customers payrow added we gave lehigh a helping hand by allowing them to expand their academic campus past packer ave in addition the city changed the zoning regulations in monocacv creek to make it available to lehigh for housing we feel that lehigh has deserted the com munity in its decision pavrow suggested that the university investigate highrise projects on the south side as an alternative to saucon valley junes appeared very much interested in the sociological aspects of the situa tion he said the decision to abandon monocacv niav prove to be a plus to the community because ol its value in areas other than university housing however the total withdrawal to saucon vallev is definitely detrimental according to jones the key to rebuild ing an area is to increase the population density and to make extensive use of land for a " multiplicity of purposes monoracv creek is important because it lies near a proposed highway and it would serve as a center to increase business land use and population and to improve housing and recreational fac ilities jones said that the university by going after cheap land in the short run is making it expensive for everybody in cluding itself in the long run he added that '' lehigh has established a dangerous precedent for building other things in saucon valley and that to do so would create a hopeless environment in the citv in 20 to 30 vears b&w photo by camana the new residence halls behind taylor stadium and the tract recently acquired in saucon valley area are both designed to aid expansion of the university's housing system middle-east situation analyzed by foreign affairs authority by jeff balsai one result of nasser's death is a possible power struggle in egypt result ing in a great deal of in-fighting in the arab socialist union according to dr aurie n dunlap associate professor of international relations this is the one political party in egypt and the in-fighting will probably be between the moderates and the hawks on the subject of israel vice president anwar sadat can serve for only 60 days as interim president under the egyptian constitution dunlap explained after this period of time an election must be he'd for a new president who must receive two-thirds of the vote of the partv dunlap classifies sadat as moderate on israel and said that sadat and nasser were cooling down in their attitude toward israel mohammed soli man the president of the soviet egyptian friendship com mittee is the other moderate official according to dunlap soli man may come to the fore if the alignment of the new government is pro-soviet as it is bound to be anvway he said the leading hawks that have a chance at the egyptian presidency are alijsabrey a member of the party executive com mittee and mohammed fawzl commander of the egyptian armed forces if either one of these men reaches the presidency egypt's policy toward israel will take a considerable harder line intensifying the struggle dunlap said there is no strong man in the arab league with the charisma of nasser dunlap said consequently the arab league could become more fragmented than it had been previously in the weeks preceding his death nasser held two arab summits and half the members of the arab league didn't show nasser's dreams of arab unity were going down the drain dunlap said and this may have hastened his death since his health was failing dunlap said the rise of the palestinian guerillas is possible because of this fragmentation this may lead to political instability in the arab countries resulting in takeover attempts by the guerillas the governments are scared 1 of the gueril las dunlap added especially since the more moderate guerillas are now demon strating new militant tendencies dunlap noted that if an egyptian leader who is moderate on the soviet union gets into office soviet leaders may have to re-think their middle east policy and " pull in their horns this means thatthe soviet investment in egypt will not have paid off dunlap said the soviet leaders don't really care about egypt and israel but are using the conflict to gain para mount influence in the middle east if israel disappeared dunlap said one of the major reasons for soviet influence in this area would be gone the soviet union is trying to use their influence in the middle east to accomplish some of their ends one of her primary goals dunlap said is the reopening of the suez canal for trade and ease of access to the indian ocean for her navy the soviet government would also like to establish a major air force base on the southern shore of the mediterranian ac cording to dunlap she can probably do this if she keeps the arabs in her debt the russians also want to turn the arabs anti-west and anti united states so they will nationalize their oil industry thus since the arabs would be economically and militarily dependent on russia they could obtain a commitment from the arabs to sell the soviet union oil at low cost the soviets could then sell oil to the west at high prices or not sell it at all said dunlap dunlap also said that he is no longer alone in the opinion that russia never gave up her dream of world domination citing the strategic arms limitation talks as an example he said that the russians forum committees stalled to be held at noon today the five forum committees met thursday in the university center to elect chairmen and vice-chairmen in each meeting however elections were postponed because of absences duo to jewish holidays the community relations committee meeting was held in room 303-r the members felt that the mating could be conducted despite heavy absences seven of the 23 members were not present miss barbara solt non-member and newly appointed co ordinator of community relations and volunteer services for university students introduced herself to the committee and enumerated the various projects she had initiated to improve community relations in doine so she praised committee member prof victor valenzuela for his efforts in supervising a movie program for the spanish speaking community valenzuela elaborated the movie pro gram and projects fie had taken part in during the summer these projects include a newsletter that is circulated to the spanish speaking community chuck steele 71 of the lehigh univer sity volunteers and a student member of the committee asked if the committee would accept the administration respon sibilities of the volunteers council the committee decided without a vote that it did not want to take on the council as it was not a part of their prescribed function it was decided before the meeting was adjourned that a meeting would l>e conducted on monday at 12 p.m to elect officers other than hold a discussion of its role in the forum the planning and priorities committee did little in the way of definite action 15 members were present at the meeting but elections were not held instead it was decided that a meeting would be held monday at 4 p.m for that purpose the student affairs committee decided unanimously to incorporate the sub-com mittee on residences of the former joint committee on university life jcul)into the forum committee john steckbeck professor of physical education complained to the committee about the poor athletic facilities of the university elections for the committee were post poned until 12 p.m tuesday two other committees moved election dates up the budget committee will meet monday at 1 p.m the academic affairs committee will meet on tuesday at 4 p.m see mid-east page 4 see breathing page 5