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              lehigh uni versity brown and white vol 81 mo si jtglihih^i^gra¥^gijl 24 1970 866-0331 uf apportionment discussed by ifc by robin reinhold the interfraternity council ifc unanimously approved in principle that members of the university forum uf should be elected according to academic and residential constitute ncles the action came at tuesday's meeting the proposal suggested that 25 representatives be chosen from the three colleges and that 25 representatives be chosen from resident based electorial districts each set of representatives would be proportionally selected according to the number of electorates ln the const tuiencies john graham president of ifc expressed concern over the apparent lack of representation awarded to living groups during the all - university session last week he reasoned that the forum authorized to set policy ln extracurricular matters should be com posed of living group representatives with interests other than academic matters many students will regard the proposal as the fr aternltie's attempt to stack the forum with pro-fraternity members but one ifc offi cial pointed out that the proposal limited the system's participation in the forum the nine fraternity representatives would be balanced out by the four business college representatives the majority of the fraternity system ls composed of business students ifc agreed that fraternities should have a major voice ln the forum i since the y represent approximately one half of the university the idea of at-large members was unappealing to ifc because they would concern themselves with their individual interests and not the interests of a constituency of students arcadia and the joint commission on university life were cited as examples graham urged house presidents and members to endorse the proposal during the next all-university meeting on april 28 he added that details and revisions still had to be worked out but he support ed the proposal in general other proposals presented during the ifc meeting concerned the revision of rushing and contacting regulations the revision of intiation requirements and the allotment of funds to crossroads africa house presidents will present to their respective fraternities three proposals advocating change in the present rushing rules ifc members will debate the advantages of various rushing schedules at the next meeting the motion to change the intiation re quirement was also tabled until the next meeting b&w photo by camana save our environment was the message of wednesday's earth day see story below and re lated stories and photos on pages 4 6 7 8 and 10 geology ethics needed for survival on earth by pat hendrick francis trembley professor of ecology at the university opened the afternoon portion of the earth day program with an address on " my pet subject the environ ment trembley said the only way to deal with our current problem is through education of the public to the earth around us most animals are born with an inherited wisdom he said and they don't ruin their environment he conti ned that not enough people understand the laws that govern life on earth this is the root of our pollution dilemma i present you now he said with the biggest learning job in man's history if s either that or get off the face of the earth trembley gave a partial list of the environmental crises that we are headed for among these he listed air pollution over-population and organic wastes in the worlds oceans another one he named was inorganic wastes such as the mercuric compounds now being dumped into lake erie this is inexcuseable he said erie pa w?s once the greatest fresh water fishing port ln the world unfor tunately this ls no longer true pesticides he said are destroying our food sources h e continued that the food supply which we hope to get from the ocean ls rapidly going down the drain in concluding trembley said that we've come to crisis times and unless something is done this is the death of the species homo sapten he told listeners you have to learn to 1 1 ve with it nature for the sake of your own species survival lies ln developing an ecology ethic it's your world he said " and you will have to develop a loyalty to your own species stronger than any national loyalties this he said is the key to surviving this dilemma alter a musical interlude supplied by a folksinger elaine white mrs marguerite mood a presidential candidate ln 1972 on the environmental ticket spoke on the ills in society which we shall call monsters the monsters she said are products of our society and comprise such things as pollution war and inflation she continued that people need to be informed and educated because this world filled with these monsters has no future " i would like to talk a little bit about prejudice war and freedom she said calling these examples of man's in humanity to man the defoliation chemi cals being used in south vietnam are 54 per cent arsenic and mrs mood said that the effects on those who eat the rice replanted on these lands could be disas terous she continued that the present disneyland type of government or instant insanity is not telling the people the truth about such matters she described the progression of the human race as a progression from spring through winter saying that we have gone full cycle and are starting again we're at spring again she said and we have two choices we can sit here and do nothing or we can plant a seed of brotherly love robert rodale president of the rodale press inc an emmaus publishing firm said wrongly used technology is the basic cause of our environmental degradation today technology he continued " creates products that we think we need but don't actually need he displayed a number of the modern labor saving foods grad students pushing for fair representation by ken siegel graduate students from the education school fearing that the proposed university forum could leave them powerless met tuesday night and took steps to insure that they would have a meaningful role in the new governance system the graduates approved the formation of an education school committee to be headed by james selgas that will work with undergraduates to determine a fair number of education school representatives on the forum the members also made a motion addressed to all sectors of the university community that every student at lehigh shall have fuu rights the motion acts as a request to take notice of the education school's interests even though most of its constituency is composed of part-time students john stoops dean of the education school expressed the sentiments of many graduate students saying that they won tbe satisfied with tokenism and adding that education students don't want to be subject to the policies of the forum without being politically significant stoops praised the undergraduate reform movement of the past several weeks but expressed regret that because the events occurred with such surprising suddenness many part-time students could not participate in the discussions the tuesday night meeting chaired by graduate students jack bolig and richard gorton was attended by over three hundred persons several current undergraduates who will enroll ln the education school next year participated ln the discussions jack holt formerly an undergraduate at lehigh and now a student in the school of education outlined the events that led to refurbishing university governance system he said that the forum can deeply effect the education school but added that benefits of the forum could be attained only if the school had sufficient representation on it see pandora's page 10 ■ : *:::-:: : m ii jf all-u meeting i ki i tuesday §. the university's undergraduate if || and graduate students will meet a 1 tuesday at 7 p.m in grace hall to iii p begin discussion on the methods of fl iii elections and apportionment of stu % i dents on the university forum uf § the recommended constitution for jig & the uf calls for 60 elected students ii i apportioned by the principle of one i p man one vote ln a formal referen ij iii dum ln a manner to be determined ijf ii by the student body the faculty will meet monday at | § 4:00 p.m in packard lab to act on jj | the proposed constitution including | functions organization and compo \ i sition of the forum the format of the constitution was h changed for clarity's sake by a f campus committee consisting of | president lewis don parsons and 1 francis wuest chairman of the i i psychology department