Brown and White Vol. 80 no. 4

              lehigh university brown and white vol 80 no.f <£ bethlehem pa 1 friday oct s i96s 866-033 aaup poll indicates approval of coed u a poll conducted and released by the local chapter of the american association of university professors aaup in con junction with the social relations depart merit of the university indicates that as overwhelming majority of the faculty approve of making lehigh coed ' ucational a tabulation of the responses to date about 50 per cent of those sent out shows 76.6 per cent favoring coeducation 20.4 per cent opposing and three par cent undecided the questionnaire made considerations for university position and college of 60 returns from full professors 42 70 per cent favored coeducation 16 26.7 per cent opposed it snd two were undecided of 57 associate professors 48 84.2 per cent replied affirmatively eight 14 per cent were onpuasd sad oas was undecided assistant professors were 33 82,8 per cent for 18 15 per cent against with one undec ided the returns of eighteen instructors indicated 15 83.3 per cent yes aad three 16.7 par cent no the adminis tration returns shewed that they too favored coeducation twelve 80 per cent favored it seven 88 per cent opposed and one was undecided others including each pecpis as library staff and clerks showed four 66.7 par cent for one 18.7 per cent against aad one undecided in regard to responses by colleges eas phases ev butt student activists hold two demonstrations thursday night approximately so students staged a walkout at a lecture ay republican senate candidate richard sch walker while other students protested rotc in front of price hell peace proposals for middle east hinted by eban by gary sims in his first lecture here thursday night abba eban minister of foreign affairs for israel revealed four areas concerning the current arab-israeli crisis in which he plans to release new proposals for peace in the near future eban was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree by president w deming lewis in a ceremony before eban's speech diplomacy in the nuclear age the middle east there was speculation that eban might release his specific proposals about peace in the middle east in one of the three blaustein lectures at the university but the israeli minister instead resigned to limit the revelation to the areas the pro posals would concern the first consideration area by eban was how was the proposal of peace is to be defined he pointed to the difference between a period of tranquility or an honorably negotiated peace he cited four steps toward the latter negotiation recognition agreement peace the second problem area was that of territorial boundaries eban termed israel before the june 1967 conflict as a " house without a fire escape he said that a permanent boundary can only come through negotiation among involved states and specifically proposed that the sinai peninsula be emptied of any military activity eban said when sinai is empty there is peace but when full there is war eban also expressed a desire for an open and free boundary between israel and jordan the city of jerusalem was the next consideration eban called for the earlier division not the reunification as achieved by israel to be condemned he called for an abba eban protest by student activists attacks presence of rotc about 300 students protested the existence of rotc on campus and the " military mind in america in front of price hall thursday night the students from cedar crest muhlenberg and lafayette as well as lehigh heard speakers condemn the militarism and the " small-thinkers the mean minded people that allow it to exist randy dix 69 one of the editors of the free press stated the objectives of the rally he said all we're trying to obstruct is the narrow-mindedness at lehigh he stated that the demonstration was not held to protest abba eban's visit david amidon instructor in history at lehigh warned that the wheels of repression are almost certain to grind in january with the inauguration of a new president he pointed out that activists should avoid direct confrontation with the repressors since the current wave of activism had crystallized repression in a merica he asked the people in attendance to kssp their idealism alive until they got into the seats of power barry wlllner editor of the lafayette spoke against the external invaders that made universities the slaves of money and self-righteousness and " models of the inequities of the outside world • john gibbons professor of geology and advisor to lafayette's students for demo cratic reform announced that the lafayette curriculum committee had voted tuesday to abolish compulsory rotc and would most likely also recom mend to the board of trustees to abolish academic credit the vote against com pulsory rotc was 85-44 gibbons also stated that the " stagnation and sellout of universities and their " vocationallsm were symptom of the crisis which has the potential to destroy democracy marty tucker 69 also of the free press declared that my optimism is not the politics of joy it is the politics of reality he said that the " military mind perpetrates the vietnam war the vast majority of students say that they don't want to fight he said that the draft wasthenußtary's control over students and general hershe/s the biggest pig in ths country tucker said that it was people like hers hey who brought on chicago after the speakers had finished a person in a rotc uniform burst through the circle around the speakers and demanded equal time for the pro-rotc point of view he accused the listeners that the very fact that you are here shows that you are immature he put forth other arguments which were received without excessive heckling and it was not until four masked figures kicked a white clothed figure into the lights that the watchers realised that the uniformed speaker was also part of the guerrilla theater presentation designed to mimic the pro-rotc position activist walkout mars talk by gop candidate by lou lightfoot the appearance of richard s schweiker republican candidate for u nited states senator before an audience of 150 in packer lab auditorium thurs day evening was marred by a protest walkout of about 40 student activists forwarned of the expected walkout schweiker began his address by thanking those in attendance and pardoning the people whose busy schedule prompted them to leave early he went on to attack the ills of ths present american political system he pointed to crime in the streets the vietnam war and spiraling inflation as a few of the symptoms of this present sickness there is something wrong with the system when so many of the public particularly the young have lost faith in our political processes he blames the legislative process itself for not being adjusted to society we who are politically responsible have not met the change we are the last to examine the system we must reform congress begin ning with the filibuster and seniority rights before we can attack the system schweiker went on to advocate a lower voting age the elimination of the electoral college and draft reform as areas of needed action within the system when discussing his ideas on draft reform which include the resignation of general hershey s one-year common manpower pool and eventual replacement of the present system by a volunteer army schweiker avoided a question from ths ses schweiker page 4 see poll page 6 see israeli page 4 odk applications for membership in omicron delta kappa the senior leadership honorary are available to juniors and seniors at the student activities desk the deadline for submitting an application is 5 p.m on tuesday oct 8