Brown and White Vol. 81 no. 44

              brown and white vol 81 no 44 bethlehem pa friday april 10 1970 866—0331 spring is also state of hind by toh foley it is spring it is not only the season but lt is also the peaceful student activist movement involving the university the spring movement can trace its ancestory back to the cure movement of 1968 and the coed movement of 1969 spring appears to have borrowed liber ally from both movements with an at tempt made to combine the best parts of the previous movements from cure the movement borrowed the idea of a concrete proposals which can be pre sented before a reviewing body backed with an unanimous or nearly unanimous vote of the movement's members spring has adopted a sort of wait-and-see policy concerning coeducation while the move ment has voiced strong support for the measure the concensus among mem bers ls that for the time being they are content to wait until the trustees have made their decisions before the move ment will decide on a definite course of action from mid-february 1970 the organi zation of the spring movement began to develop since the movement claims to have no leaders those involved in the movements early development were its first members and coordinators among these are mike golden mike kimmel bill hamilton and todd tieger the spark that ignited the spring move ment came from a meeting on april 7 present were eric ottervik vice-pro vost david amidon history instructor don parsons former arcadia president and three hundred students the moder ator was michael golden the program shifted from a discussion among three men to an interchange between 303 men according to a news release from ron kla-pko wlrn general manager the meeting swayed from the agenda it ended up featuring the sou not tne three many of those involved in the april 7 meeting were present at the birth of the spring movement into university life this meeting was largely a preliminary event ai which a few ideas were expres sed but the mal n appeal was that those assembled ln the snack bar at noon on april 8 should return to the same place that evening at 10 p.m and bring a friend one point brought up several times was the idea that if you have a gripe about the university and you do not use opportuni ties such as tms to express yourself when something might be done about it you forego your right to gripe spring received additional support from the convocation of the student body by arcadia before lt suspended itself this made the movement the only organiza tional body representing a wide range of people after the rhc and the ifc an nounced that they would follow arcadia's lead so far however only rhc has fol lowed arcadia ln suspension the move ment was also strengthened by being the recipient of a large mass of people after arcadia had transfered its power to the student body the evening meeting was the keystone of the movement it was her that the de cision to organize a student strike was mad three specific demands were for mulated to be presented before the board of trustees by three students given the privilege of reporting to the board for forty - five minutes tms meeting also save a good indication as to how the student body stood on the issues facing them an overflow crowd jammed into the u.c student lounge a majority of these remained for more than three hours as the group worked on the spe baw photo by deason mike golden speaks to the students in the snack bar over the issue of uni versity governance ha presented to tha audience a university publication con taining all rules affecting students ha urged mora decision-making power to the students arcadia-suspends self no effective power " under tho existing governance situation of lehigh university arcadia the student council is incapable of effectuating the objectives of its consitution and the goals of the student body " arcadia therefore suspends all student government functions and activities under its auspices until such time as the students are able effectively to exercise power in the governing of this institution except honoring all financial commitments up to and inclu ding april 8 1970 and no further this ls the essence of an amendment made to a motion by bill alper 71 w hi <• h was passed at wednesday afternoon's arcadia meeting alport's original motion con cerned problems regarding basic educational policy it suggested that each living group hold a meeting attended by an arcadian to discuss problems in the educational policy which have been encountered by students the information was then to be in corporated into a report edited by an ad hoc committee and effectively implemented by arcadia don miles made an amendment to this motion to enable the student body to meet ln the university center and then miles and alpert followed tms by co-signing the amendment that suspends arcadia the meeting began peacefully enough but it soon became apparent that the members were saving their energy for the impending discussion of governance alpert began the discussion on governance by saying the members of arcadia have to take an interest in basic educational policy and problems concerning lt alport's remark was largely in reference to todd tieger s announcement that pre sident lewis had rejected arcadia's motion to allow students to speak at faculty meetings charles unsold said what we have now is largely a result of the lack of respect for student voice miles then set the tone for the rest of tbe meeting saying " this organization ls completely impotent . . in effect . . it's just a club miles went on saying we've been trying for three months to be effectively powerful . . . and we haven't been able to do that miles concluded that the only way for arcadia to become effectively powerful is to follow through on the amendment hs said that arcadia must a panel discussion in the osbourne room began th first of a series of meet ings called by spring an unidentified group of students david amidon history instructor don parsons former arcadia president and eric ottervik vie pro vost talk with mike golden about university issu.s students say strike until demands met by robin reinhold approximately 1,200 students over whelmingly voted thursday night to con tinue the strike called by spring until student demands are met by tha admin istration presumably by the weekend of april 24 that weekend trustees will meet with students in discussions over spring's demand that flve students be admitted on the board of trustees don parsons former president of ar cadia announced that the three student representatives todd tieger jim kasser and parsons the first to attend a trustee meeting agreed to meet board members on april 24 to try to communicate through sensitivity training parsons stated that board members were willing to listen and had pledged to come to the campus to talk parsons presented the audience with two alternatives they could take in view of the agreement you can be interested in getting things done or just having a spring fling he urged the students to continue the strike until demands are met jim kasser president of the suspended arcadia also supported the continuation of the strike but emphasized that partici pants should " go toward the goals and not the means of the movement to secure more goverance power for the student body he added don't forget about clas ses talk to your professor on wed nesday strikers were urged not to attend classes todd tieger former member of ar cadia further stressed the idea of be coming goal oriented and stated that strikers have to get over the idea that we spring supporters are putting on a show any kind of violence at this point will be no good at all the trustees will let us down according to the youngest board mem ber kirk pendleton the trustees are extremely willing to establish communi cation between them and the student body he said the trustaos will go more th*n 50 percent of ths way pendleton said he had no answers to resolve the groups differences and that he believes the two were and still are coming closer to gether in response to the board's sudden change of plans to hold their meeting in new york city pendleton felt the change was ne cessary very difficult and important business had to be decided upon and the campus situation was not favorable for conducting the business according to him the decisions made at the meeting were reviewed by dr w deming lewis the university's president co-education the primary issue discussed still remains undecided because of the financial factor involved in converting an all-male school into a coed school he predicted but did not promise that the decision on coeducation would be reached in the may meeting of the board of trustees he esti mated that the expense would range between 8-10 mil lion he also offered his own opinion on spring's demand that flve students be on the board of trustees he stated that there is a tremendous amount of student power from the cure com mittee urging relevant education move ment in april of 1968 he said the move ment had been exciting and had " made us listen lewis added that just listening and demonstrating wouldn't achieve goals it takes work study and university par ticipation citing the coed report lewis pointed out the work involved in its cre ation the proposal for coeducation at the university began wtth the cure movement went to tne joint commission on university life who delegated it to a sub-committee that reported back to jcul before being presented to the adminis tration for acceptance he urged that see strike pag 8 see why page 8 see all pag 4