Brown and White Vol. 81 no. 4

              vol.bl - no 4 bethlehem pa friday september 26 1969 lehigh university brown and white 866-0331 jcul approves coed report by john cri the report of the study committee on coeducation was received and accepted by the jmm commission on university ufe jcul at its wednesday meeting in a motion that wee adopted jcul agreed to peas the report on tor further study and to release the report to the lemgh community beginning oct s the release of the report was delayed until oct 3 so that copies can flret be set to those university trustees who were not a part of jcul dl scussion of the report was hi ghly favorable with the deletion of one sentence in the introduction and the addition of the results of the alumni questionnaires being toe only changes made in other business an ad hoc committee on residence was established to examine the multifaeeted problems and opportunities of the experience of residence at lehigh university ee part of the total educational process the committee will report periodically to jcul and submit a final report by may 1 1070 it will be chaired by dr robert g jones assistant to the president other members of tbe committee are george dins more associate professor of civil engineering roger siutter associate professor of civil engineering clarence campbell dean of residence william quay assistant dean of student life and ames nlemeyer associate executive secretary of the alumni office students will be named to the committee by arcadia ipc rhc the town council organization for the enhancement of afromanlty oea and the gryphon society in addition a student living off campus who done not represent any of tbe above groups win chosen although no money was allocated to the committee st wednesday's meeting funds will be made available as soon ae the committee haa met and decided what its direc tion will be jcul also made appointments to its subcommittee on interests of black students members ere dr lawrence leder chairman of the history deportment dean quay ifc votes oea support by cliff deitch the interf rater nit y council unanimously approved a five-point program in support of the recent kirby house conference in a meeting tuesday night the proposal as accepted includes the following programs 1 an immediate grant of one-hundred dollars to the oea for use in its cultural center 2 the interfraternity council will work in close cooperation with tbe office of financial aid toward a goal of thirty-five jobs within tbe fraternity system and within the university 3 the fraternity system at lehigh will offer its facilities to the oea and the university for use in the recruitment of black mgh school students the inter fraternity council will also offer its facilities for black students invited to participate in the black cultural week 4 the interfraternity council will cooperate with the oea to co-sponsor a lecture or university wide cultural event dealing with some aspect of the problems toeing blacks in america 5 a human relations liaison com mittee will be established to work closely with the oea and with the university human relations committee to coordinate the development and implementation of the above programs drafted in the form of a letter to dr lewis the ifc statement affirms the importance of the kirby house conference it describes the fifteen kirby house demands as demonstrating utter sin cerity utter rationality and utter lightness the statement presented to the body by craig hagelin 70 calls upon the univer sity administration to take all necessary steps in meeting these legitimate demands it acknowledges that the ifc can play a significant role in improving the situation of black students at lemgh william quay assistant dean of student life clarified the second point for the ifc membership job openings will be added to the overall pool of the office of finan cial aid the number presented is viewed as a goal b&w photo by deason willi an quay assistant dean of student life clarifies point at tuesday's ifc meeting where a five-point program in support of the recent krihy house con ference was approved hp concert to be held bulletin the sale of 2600 tickets by friday noon has convinced arcadia to hold a fall houseparty concert prospects for a substantial loss on saturday's concert with wilson pickett and the steve miller band have made it very possible that there will be no fall house party concert according to figures late thursday only 2500 tickets worth r>2oo had been sold thus fhr since the total cost of the concert runs to 9,700 arcadia stands to lose as much as 4500 since the finance and calendar committee has only 5000 to backstop all concerts for the entire year this means that arcadia would have only 500 to cover losses for all concerts during the remaining 1968-69 academic year as a result of tms critical situation arcadia is unwilling to bold the houseparty concert unless lt is certain that its losses will not be above a certain minimum amount yesterday afternoon bruce berzin chairman of the finance and calendar committee and arcadia concert committee chairman rich sedmakhem an emergency meeting with hi living group preside the meeting was held at a critical time since the university must signup sly and the family stone for the houseparty concert by this afternoon or the contract win die to make the concert worth running university living groups must commit a total of at least 2700 students by noon today fewer tickets sold would mean more than a 500 loss if 2700 tickets ere not committed for sale there will definitely be no fall house party : concert since there ie not enough time to sign up another equally popular group for that concert on tbe other hand if the living groups commit more than 3000 students the concert will actually make money the total coat for this concert would be about 14,000 with tickets being sold tar 5.50 each or 4.50 with a student activities card it arcadia does decide to hold toe houseparty concert and it loses money theee living groups which today committed a certain number and later actually bought fewer tickets would be charged tor the difference the university has promised to force living groups if necessary to pay that amount the original proposal benin and sedmak submitted to thursday's meeting would have required all those units who wished to commit themselves to the purchase of their full ss per cent allotment of tickets for tbe houseparty concert this proposal met much opposition from living group heeds charles loss 70 member of the arcadia concert committee and in charge of ticket sales suggested a substitute proposal that was finally approved he urged that houses be able to commit as few or ae many members as they wished vietnam moratorium tbe vietnam moratorium committee e national organization io bring strong pressure on the administration to end the war in vietnam through national student strikes held an organizational meeting at the university yesterday in drown hall the meeting was attended by a small group of students interested tn bringing to light the anti-war feelings throughout the lehigh valley according to charles f vihon a faculty member of the group the purpose of the moratorium is changing minds and convincing people not necessarily provoking confrontation the moratorium to take place on oct 15 calls lor a day long strike of classes by faculty and students during that day the participants hope to reach out ta the community aad build a feeling about academic attitudes in the community don parsons 70 arcadia president suggested that the morning ot oct 15 be used tor a teach-in to solidify support for the movement on the campus in the afternoon students aad faculty would fan out into the community and in a door-to-door approach such as the one used in the new hampshire presidential primary by u.s sen eugene mccarthy try to convey to the residents the toolings of the university community vihon added that in the avowing a rally could be held in which a rationally recognized backer of the peace movement woum address tbe strikers he suggested sandy gottlieb of sane and curt cans who along with al lowenstein organized the dump lb»t movement last year ifc reaction to parr letter said favorable by lou ughtfoot " actually the university is not putting its nose into our business it has a very legitimate concern with fraternity management and we're very glad to get any help that we can this is the tooling of jack klme inter fraternity council president on the recent letter issued by dean of students preston parr in ms letter parr pointed out that the problem of fraternity indebtedness and general house management is reaching crisis proportions among university chapters the university cannot allow the present situation to continue the letter stated we are requesting the inter fraternity council to develop a manage ment system program . . to take effect in the spring semester of 1970 according to kime the fraternities have been expecting such a statement from parr's office and reaction is favorable among the houses the uni versity is providing us with the impetus we needed to solve tms problem it is really a valuable service parr noted that while the extent of fraternity financial problems varies over time and that during any one period most of the local chapters are doing well the minority is large enough at the present time to provide a reason for concern this concern he feels is being shown by the fraternity leaders who are very responsive to suggestions for improving the system parr feels that what is needed is a restructuring of the system which will allow the houses to run their own finances but which will provide for a stricter method of accountability he is insisting on 100 percent participation in any such system morris keen director of the fraternity service association fsa wmch acta as a purchasing agent and general clearing house for fraternity problems tools that perhaps the fsa can be enlarged to see ed pol page 7 see ifc pege 6 saa houses page 10