Brown and White Vol. 81 no. 39

              brown and white bethlehem pa friday,^march 13 csski-t vel tl - no 39 herrenkohl gives view on residence report by pat hendrick the happiness quotient in prof roy c herrenkohl's report to the joint com mission on university life regarding residential preferences of lehigh undergraduates paints a rather rosy picture of life in the fratermtles although the report compiled by herrenkom and george hunt a for mer umversity graduate student had only a 50 percent return some of its figures are indeed significant happiness quotient is herrenkohl's way of describing the mgh degree of satisfaction with fratermty life demonstrated by figures in the report of the freshmen polled in the spring of 1969 81 percent of theee who had chosen fratermtles as th eix residence tor 1969-70 were pleased with their selection tms comperes with 56 per cent in the residence halls and 61 percent af the off-campus group tms figure is re enforced by the fact thkt'9b per centef tha upperclass fratermty men spent all i res h man year i n the fratermtles when asked you nterested in a umversity mgh-rlse apartment i fratermtles once again came out ahead only the upperclass fraternity men expressed an opposed to respectively for the off campus students and men in the residence figures for freshmen going into fraternities were even impressive whereas of those in dence halls to life the university i for freshmen to percentages students in the residence halls off-campus in university community respectively tms department fraternities came out top social lite in the fraternities also seems percent of freshmen enter ing fratermtles found it good reactions to life off-campus rated 22 ln the residence halls in off-campus housing the freshmen definitely planned to transfer out the fratermtles and re sldence halls both showed five in this category halls appeared as a popular place for recipients to live twrty-six the upperclassmen received sc holarship as opposed to figures run ning from in fraternl ties and off-campus the key to tms trend can be found in the report's survey of financial expenditures among the three groups of the students off campus and returned neither frat i erni ties nor the residence halls showed an i b ft w photo by doster president w deming lewis and preston parr dean of student life offered their opinions on such topics as open jcul meetings at tho arcadia meeting wednesday ribicoff and salisbury lecture at lafayette by robin reinhold in answering the question after vietnam - what u s senator abraham a ribicoff d-conn stressed the importance of dealing with the potential disasters of overpopulation economic gaps environmental abuses and the racial issue while harrison salisbury assistant managingeditorof the new york times urged the united states to working out the problems with china ribicoff and salisbury spoke at the all-college symposium at lafayette college wednesday tms year's edition of the annual program established in 1968 was entitled after vietnam - what and included morning and afternoon lecture sessions the afternoon session entitled domestic priorities in a post-vietnam america featured myron tribus assistant secretary of commerce for science and technology and michael harrington author of the other america and towards a democratic m^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^m questioned whether the goals of the foreign policy are consistent actions now and in the the political gap between the ussr and the united states will become a gap i between the poor according to salisbury began ms lecture foreign policy makers have the endeavored to package solu in turn problems he i doubted that the alternatives vietnaml i zation and/or withdrawal were the correct i s ons assuming overpopulation and tms i growing economic split were lnterrealted i fewer than 100 people in i the government are working in area i referring to the he described the situation i as the blunder in addition the state department is being i pushed aside by a stronger cia and i defense in support the i used the laos situation i executive power over foreign affairs i has increased ln the last thirty years and i baw photo by deason senator abraham a ribicoff of connecticut speaks at the all-college symposium at lafayette wednesday in a lecture session entitled u.s foreign policy in a post-vietnam world harrison salisbury of tha new york times also appeared solons pose an open jcul by 808 ward arcadia passed a motion wednesday recommending that the joint committee on university life jcul open its meetings to all students w deming lewis umversity president and preston parr dean of student life attended the meeting giving their opinions about open jcul meetings it was also announced by jim kasser that three arcadians including mmself and todd tieger are invited to attend the april meeting of the board of trustees lewis a member of jcul felt that although open meetings would allay student suspicions about what goes on in jcul at times the meetings must necessarily be closed according to lewis on some questions the faculty and student members have vastly different opinions and the discussions become very heated so that any student interference could only lead to a reduction in jcul's efficiency also he fears that open meetings " . . would make lt a political body with the members stuck to the opi nions of their constituents it would not be the effective body lt is now dean parr added there are times when sticky problems arise and closed meetings would allow a greater amount of openness among the members of jcul todd tieger disagreed saying that jcul was originally formed by the committee urging residential equality to bring more openness into the umversity steve malk enson pointed out that tms motion was only a recommendation and that jcul has the implied power to close the meetings when the topics become too controversial john fields asked to bring the motion to a vote and it was passed twelve to five next john fields asked for a vote of confidence on a proposed new structure of governance for the university the plan is not complete but fields wanted to find out arcadia's reaction before continuing committee work on lt the structure consists of five councils academic administrative research development and student affairs membership ih each is weighted toward the umversity interest groups most affected by the particular council for example there will be more graduate students and undergraduate students on the student affairs council and more administrative and faculty members on the academic council the plan also calls for an all-university council witli members from all the interest groups ln the umversity norm monhait former vice-president of arcadia fea that the plan only put new names on existing university structures and thai it did not show the relationship be tual todd tieger asked fields to withdraw his motion for the vote until further i was completed fields compiled and stat - i ed an all inclusive report on the sturc ture be forthcoming in further a pre | sented ken rilander to klingman yale and president of princeton to here on government changes their tiie group on this necessarily means the resulting vote was to one have to a group in order money see herrenkohl page 4 see we are page 5