Brown and White Vol. 80 no. 47

              lehigh university brown and white *****•*«-—-■• g^uugu mvm gg vil tt-wt 7 irmlehem ft m*mvvoktof mttmiitu news in briefs p e&ce ral iv a bum rally is planned for 4 p.m today m the cedar crett quad it was learned yesterday a new group yetttii crusade for peace is sponsoring the rally the group wishes to expand to include all valley colleges the rally is open to anyone and everyone a spokesman said trials upl the jury deliberating the fate of slrhan slrhan m los angeles asked the judge yesterday to clarify his instructions regarding second-degree murder the action indicated that the jurors are considering a lesser sentence for the admitted slaver of sen robert kennedy in memphis term judge arthur faquin set may 26 as the date for a hearing to decide whether james earl ray will get a new trial faquin must decide if a letter ray wrote constitutes a motion for a new trial < " '■ harvard upi a harvard university dean suffered a mild stroke yesterday while trying to end the school's student strike the student u&ns&tuni m us school ttsttrtca asd amnesty for arrested sf e-ts ends today draft upl the june draft call will take 25,900 men into the service all draftees will go into the army except for 2,000 needed fey hie marines tne defense department also announced that it is cutting the draft of doctors because of an increase m enlist m»ft north korea upl searchers have picked up two pieces of shell scan ed fuselage a flare and a parachute from the sea of japan where a u.s recon naisance plane was believed downed by north korea there is no report of any survivors president nixon is expected to report tomorrow morning at a press conference about what he will do m regard to the incident some members of congress recalling that the president said he will not tolerate abuse from a fourth rate power are demanding retaliatory measures varying from economic boycotts to u.s action to military response information is flowing by gregg fales the communication centre has received interest cards from 500 people and has correlated 125 categories after its first 10 days of operations most of the persons showing in terest m the centre so far are undergraduates at the university but co-coordinator john ussery 71 said a few non-university youths are also listed he said leaflets were boire distributed to faculty members to extend to non-student mem bers rf the lehlgh community an invitation to make use of the centre the aim of the centre was re emphasized as an attempt to break down divisions at the university the leaflet said and stressed the potential of the communication centra cannot be realized unless tne faculty and administration take an active part ussery said the same ap plied to students the statement said the centre was a non-partisan group which does not support radical groups directly this is under stood to mean the centre works for people for communication whatever the message we're available as much for yaf as for sds for example said andy goldberg co-coordinator the centre is fully staffed by about 25 students the full 16 hours a day the um^rsity center is open it's a lot of work and means as much as 12 to 20 hours a week for most of us ussery said the subjects listed so far by the centre range on the serious side from astrology to urban problems to zen on the lighter side the centre has received tn bftw photo by cam aha support for disobedience called bigger than ever by mike jeppsen dr howard sfin profettor rf government at boston university told about 80q people in packard lab auditorium last night that civil disobedience today is a re sult of frustration caused ly un - responuivw ponrtcai chassis and inadequate legal safeguards to free speech zinn who spoke on the war and civil disobedience said that people are forced to resort to civil disobedience because political channels are mazes m which people get blocked 1 and they feel the need to cry out to the country that some thing is wrong and we can't wait until the next election he it«t*4 list trss :;:;{!• sa especially suspect m ame of war zinn said he also believes freedom of speech has become a kind of half-myth m america and said it really does not count m wartime or when a person's life is involved he cited from history to butt ress ms point lincoln sent thousands of people to prison for speawne acalnst the civil w*r he said during world war ii the espionage and sedition acts sent people to jail for speaking against the government and when m 1965 david 0 brian burned his draft card on the steps of the boston court house as asyrabolof fre peecb proper administration of ml litary affairs - r „"..., the frustration results m growing opposition to the war be explained aad tfcs op position is *&£§£■?,&«£«?, sd broader than ever before la american history 1 people are coming to the realisation thai the american civilisation is not what it is cracked up tc be this is a definite change he said what ever was wrong with us before was always small and correct able we had a built-in eraser but oow liberal solution tradit ions solutions that we tfoftosfed on so long are not making it 1 ' the resulting protests are de finitely within the bounds of democracy he feels laws and governments are set up to achieve human ends 3 freshmen have formed cat group activities jerry hurwitz ron meisler and john farnum all ixvaxixxmvx tmv aimuuhceu the organization of the " counter - activist team cat & ee»!y organized group to be affiliated with the yaf its purpose will be to counter the growing leftist movement on campus according to hurwitz the group will organise friday at 4 p.m at the flagpole dining dress codes protested at dinner students protesting the dress regulations were permitted to go through the cafeteria lines yesterday evening according to mr thomas azzaitna director of food service dean shurtleff and ! agreed to mi students go through the line however they wished to dress most students wore a buttoned down shirt accompanied with some sort of wtndbreaker and many wore the coat or tie all these students are dressed neatly said azzalina a meeting to discuss dress regulations is scheduled for today at noon azzalina emphasized that the meeting was scheduled long bsfsrs tit decision to demonstrate was made he added dress regulations have been under consideration for some time now and it la not because of the demonstration that the meeting is being called u students protest army job recruiters by donald palmer nearly 60 undergraduates gathered outside the placement office in christ mas sauc on hall yesterday at noon to protest army recruitment on campus a spokesman for the group said that their main purpose was to establish a dialogue with the recruiting agent on the issue of campus recruit nt&iii by the military the demonstration lasted for over three hours during which time a petition condemning the war and university involvement with the military was circulated forty people most of them tir!snt signed it throughout the demonstration the protestors were orderly and students going to and from classes were not bothered two campus police viewed the protest from their car parked a short distance away but did not intercede charles bremen de«n of students and dr charles seidle tics presiueut for administra tion cams to the demonstration site at 1:30 p.m brennen said there was no objection to the protest as long as it remained orderly when he was questioned about why the placement office failed to open at the scheduled time 1 p.m seidle assured the protestors that the office would be opened and thai the recruiting agent would b available ■ when the office was opened at 2:30 everett teal director of placement refused to say who ordered him to delay the opening by an tour and a naif when asked why it was not opened on schedule he said you never know when a group gets together when mob psychology will take over y teal stay«d m the placement office library for about an hour and talked with 12 of the demon strators about the role of the placement service on campus the army recruiting officer explained that he was on campus merely to counsel students about job opportunities m the army and he refused to discuss any matters not related to that topic see students pag 3