Brown and White Vol. 80 no. 40

              lehigh university brown and white vot 80 - no 40 866.0331 bethlehem fa friday march 2i if arcadia hears student fee bill b alan b sgscsih 11l an effort to ease financiaj burdens besetting student iiriantmtteni and augment the cultural and entertainment aspects of university lift a bin was introduced at wedneeaty night's arcadia eohnf to levy a fee on all undergraduates * the motion was mad by bnm bersln secretary who pr«mqt«d a ft»ur-pag raport upportlac it barsin iiilii»wtei|til u fltet ttet such a fee is corirary to ft 1947 until that timm had plaguwl im^mlty wutenta the motion was tabted at ber«in m-«tn so it can bs taken tc unlveralty offlelau and *■*—*■ for rcmmanta cttiluia and su eeestlona . benin who is chat rman of the finance and calendar committee hopes arcadia will be able to take positive action in late april or early may berzirfs report states the fund that the collection of student am would create would be used to maintain a&d improve three firsts of student life visiting lectures popular entertainment and general actlvltl ods of ths primary eonsld*f«ioiw is that the levy which would be collected from every undergraduate afc«*dbwaentu entire spectrum of student interests as equitably as possible concerning concert tte report says that during o put two years the costs jot major entertainment have doubled with a corresponding rise tn the amount and frequency of financial loaiea arcadia has tried to mlnlmlte losses by selling activities tickets and using the gained revenue to backstop such losses heavy losses have persisted however bftw photo by butt k demonstration , lit against ufctn arcadia trims review board to 6 members by bill chastian arcadia adopted a revised policy state ment on student dissent wednesday re ducing the site of its proposed mediation board from it to six members also passed was a motion toagesser a triad week in september and one io support the construction of a track on upper taylor field the revised policy statement changes the composition of the mediation board to two umuimtru of the administration two faculty members and two students the origins statement called lor a t>oerd of two administration members three faculty members five students and the president of arcadia john schreeoet'i motion to sponsor a triad week by coordinating an arts festival a convocation and a coed week passed by a vote of 15-0 «**•»• •»£*«*» tion the event is scheduled lor sept 28 oct 8 robert fege»s motion to support the construction of a " standard lap bank-boar ded outdoor track on uppc taylor field and the installation of handball courts la taylor gymnasium also passed 16-0 kurt lesfcer chairman of the social codes committee reported that results of the study on changing houseparty rates would soon be released leaker indicated that areas in wmchchan«e might be forth coming are women guest regulations and regulations concerning party hours bruce berzin hayden outlines new left by donald palmer over 1,000 people crowded into packard laboratory auditorium tuesday night to hear tom hay den founder of students for a democratic society give an informal talk and answer audience questions on the new left in his 40 minute overview of the new left hayden traced the origins and complexion of the new left outlined its goals and butttfwried the possible implica tions of the movement a handful of demonstrators picketed outside with signs but most of the audience was enthusiastic and partisan toward hayden applauding him on many occasions hayden began his talk by refuting the reasons given in a recent issue of fortune magazine for the youth rebellion accor ding to hayden fortune blames the present unrest on television the affluence of the younger generation and the generation gap these causes contain some grain of reality said hayden but they are an oversimplification of the real problem hayden again used the article in fortune to document his contention that the new left is more than a lunatic fringe group according to fortune of today's seven million college students 750,000 are " hard-core sympathizers with the new left and another 2.3 million are fore runners of the movement that means that nearly 50 per cent of today's collect students are in some way behind the movement said hayden . hayden said that the violence of today arose partly because attempts at dialogue were thwarted in the early sixties he stated that petitions demonstrations and sit-ins on matters such as civil rights draft reslstence and the viet nam war were all turned off by the establishment when these measures failed the dissi dents especially the blacks began to take matters into their own hands said hayden hayden blasted today's giant corpora tom hayden lowa senator at graduation by gregg fales & jim mcgee subject to trustee approval sen harold e hughes d-lowa has accepted an invitation by the university to deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary doctorate on june 9 it was learned wednesday hughes a former governor of lowa with a liberal background must receive final approval from the board of trustees on april 10 a six man senior board recommended um as the keynote speaker senior class president jim huston con fir zziz hughs icocjiiitucts ttad said it was the first time to us knowledge that a senior board had been officially invol ved in the selection of a commencement speaker the board consisting of members jeff tarnoff peter dane aldo borin casey cosut stueri xfipiss sad jack srssc&sr recommended hughes from among seven prominent figures sen hughes said in his letter of ac ceptance to the university that he was surprised to receive the invitation and was certainly flattered that the senior class asked that it be extended i will be wry happy to deliver the ad dress and nt course am extremly pleased that i will receive an honorary degree he said in t letter from wasfetsgtoß on feb 20 it will be the first honorary degree bestowed on the 46 year-old first term senator hughes office in washington would not confirm his appearance here aad said official announcement would have to come frc the university hughes the only democrat to win three terms as governor of lowa bis been des cribed as the best democratic vote gutter in the state's history a former truck driver and an admitted reformed alcoholic hughes entered politics when he got upset with the state commerce committee a vietnam dove and a gun-control advocate in a hawkish rifle-owning state hughes narrowly defeated republican state harold e hughes s<w lowa pa*e 4 see arcadia page 6 see hayden page 6