Brown and White Vol. 84 no. 16

              lehigh university brown and white vol 84 — no 16 bethlehem pa tuesday october 24 1972 866-0331 mcgovern blasts nixon in bethlehem appearance by jeff bloom mr nixon who has pledged us to e secret plan to end the war four years ago has demonstrated one thing : he's one man who really knows how to keep a secret said sen george mcgovern saturday before a bethlehem crowd of more than 5,000 mcgovern accompanied by sen edmund muskie of maine gov milton shapp of pennsylvania and rep fred rooney of bethlehem spoke in city center plaza during a campaign swing through the state mcgovern blamed the nixon administration for the 550 americans either missing in action or captured during the past four years in vietnam mcgovern pledged to bring home all prisoners of war and men missing in action from vietnam within 90 days of his inauguration he said there is no way that the next president of the united states or this president of the united states will restore those prisoners to their homes until we recognize that the time has come for us to quit supporting the corrupt military dictatorship in saigon that doesn't even have the support of its own people mcgovern pledged to cut the military budget he cited president eisenhower's farewell address saying if the military takes too much it actually weakens the nation by depriving it of the resources that we desperately need to build up sources of national strength mcgovern added you don't measure the defense of a country simply on the basis of b&w photo by owl 1 to r gov shapp sen muskie sen mcgovern and rep rooney at the conclusion of the bethlehem mcgovern rally the crowd was estimated at more than 5,000 solow attacks club of rome disaster model the no-growth proposal of doom only diverts attention from the really important things that can be done to help make things better said dr robert m solow professor of economics at massachusetts institute of technology and advocate of economic growth he spoke wednesday night in opposition to an address given tuesday night by no-growth advocate dr e.j mishan mishan is affiliated with the club of rome which concluded by computer that the earth is headed for disaster if economic growth is not halted the conclusions are often referred to as the doomsday models solow said however growth is as a means to solve the problems the debate was part of the economics symposium last week spon sored by the pennsylvania power and light co solow said that the doomsday school diverts attention from the really important tasks to be done yes solow began the end of the world is coming the earth will fall into the sun in a few billion years anyway if something else doesn't happen first but in hunt says society not oriented toward liberal arts education by andrea siegel a liberal arts education in america is put in a position where it must fail said john w hunt dean of the arts and science college speaking on no joy in academe in the neville lounge last thursday he noted that society asks too much and too little of the liberal arts education the too much said hunt is that liberal arts is asked to produce people who fit into a specific work slot when they graduate from college the too little he said is that schools do not plant seeds of doubt in students about the world and the society which engulfs them our society does not seem to want liberally educated men and women said hunt since world war 11 liberal arts programs have been asked to justify their utility pragmatism and direct social usefulness he noted he said however the 1960s were a golden age in that the decade was education-centered but this has changed and society is now more vocation-centered he declared this is why many young people have chosen not to go to college said hunt they want to be able to discuss the changes that are happening around them and to debate accepted values they do not see a chance to do this in colleges therefore in many schools there are courses such as curiosity 101 and 102 said hunt which appease these youths he said that the intellectual depression we are now experiencing may have a great deal of value because it gives liberal arts colleges " a chance to regroup according to hunt colleges should be able to show society that there is another dimension to life besides productivity and to conduct the liberal arts courses for themselves rather than as preparation for professional graduate schools a college graduate said hunt should have a free mind and a consciousness of values his imagination should be en larged and he should know have and be able to perceive style in its broadest sense in addition said hunt he should be able to discriminate principle from instance he should realize that riches are not needed to make a life of these added hunt if we do our job well said hunt students will not be able to find jobs that exhaust their mental capacities when professors can say that their students are able to do all that said hunt then there will be joy in academe dean john w hunt housing for sophomores may be limited next year by martin baron nearly 200 sophomore students may be forced out of the residence system for a semester next year said bill jesse liaison with the administration for the forum's residence subcommittee if rh-11 isn't finished there will be very few sophomores in the residence system jesse said rich conway residence subcommittee chairman said the residence halls system isn't going to have any place for them in two meetings last week the subcommittee examined the growing crisis in university housing priorities for housing assignments were spelled out and a proposal on the problem of social dues was sent to the forum jesse estimated that if rh-11 the palmer site apartment complex is not ready by september the residence system would be unable to handle about 200 students chances that rh-11 will be finished by september are slim he said if it appears that the complex will be completed by october students will be temporarily housed somewhere on the central campus but if it is scheduled for completion two months after the beginning of classes students will be moved to smags saucon married graduate housing for one semester jesse emphasized that smags would only be used as a temporary substitute for rh-11 his office is entertaining no thoughts of making smags undergraduate housing he said current priorities make the burden of the housing shortage fall on next year's sophomore class the two student categories which receive top priority for a spot in the residence system are incoming freshmen and this year's upperclassmen upperclassmen may claim squatter's rights a term which means that an individual see housing shortage page 5 see mcgovern page 4 see economist page 4 : : : v:-x-:yxv:-x-:-:-x-:-:->x-:-x-:v:-:-:v theatre trip a theatre trip has been arranged 1 if for a performance of shakespeare's i i much ado about nothing at the § ii wintergarden theatre in new york 1 city nov 1 the performance 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