Brown and White Vol. 85 no. 17

              lehigh university brown and white : 77 : :->:_; 7777-7 77 :: - 7:7 7 : ::: :■: . vol 85 — no 17 bethlehem pa october 30 1973 8864331 students submit petition for calendar meeting a petition calling for a special meeting to amend next year's calendar was sub mitted friday by forum members mike maskaleris 75 and roy taylor 75 the petition received the 10 signatures required to call a special meeting the amendments include starting classes several days earlier in both the fall and spring semesters and either deleting the yom kippur holiday or cancelling classes the next day thereby creating a four-day weekend taylor said he is very much in favor of starting the spring semester jan 20 in stead of jan 23 which would allow a four day weekend in february he noted that this ch ige would alleviate the strain of eight straight weeks of classes neither taylor nor maskaleris would speculate on the chances of obtaining the necessary quorum of 30 per cent of the forum members at the meeting taylor said however that i'm going to try very hard to make people understand why 4t is worthwhile to come to the meeting maskaleris added that he felt that the amendments had a fairly good chance of passing if the quorum could be obtained senior gift campaign begins nov 5 harry r gustafson of phi sigma kappa president of the senior class says it is the duty of the seniors to contribute to the class gift campaign the 1974 campaign begins nov 5 with a kick-off dinner at the hotel bethlehem and runs through nov 19 since lehigh's already high tuition covers only 60 per cent of the actual in dividual college cost the other 40 per cent depends upon donations and endowments gustafson said it is up to the seniors to make sure that the university can stay a private institution and maintain the high standards for which it is well known the present pledge to the class gift campaign is 20 per year for a 20-year period when the campaign began in 1938 the pledge was 12 per year for 20 years until 1960 the money was accumulated and put into insurance policies where it earned only one per cent interest since 1961 the money has been invested in mutual funds where it earns 8 per cent interest this year the class of 1954 will talk to the present seniors to find out the current needs of the university the class of 1954 will vote on the use of the money at their 20th reunion the class of 1974 will use their money in 1994 if the desired response of 60-80 per cent is achieved the matured gift in 1994 monetary loss on hark is greater than expected ~_ by eileen canzian about half as many people as expected attended hark an off-broadway musical production sponsored by the student activities council friday evening according to sac president keith snyder a financial loss had been expected however the lack of attendance caused the io6s to be greater than anticipated sac expected to underwrite the production for about 8600 said snyder adding that this amount equalled that spent by sac for the lecture by parap sychologist russ burgess which was free to the public however hark cost sac about 750 since only about 150 people attended snyder said sac originally had planned to charge no admission for hark due to the unusually large expense involved in the production however an admission fee of 50 cents for students and 1.50 for non students was charged to help defray ex penses snyder said snyder said sac had counted on the attendance of pa en ts on campus for upperclassmen parents weekend in estimating attendance at hark the arrival of many parents on saturday morning rather than friday evening was one factor contributing to the miscalculation he said snyder also said that many of the parents that were on campus friday evening were at a dinner in the uc which was not over by the production's 8:30 p.m starting time because it was upperclassmen parents weekend snyder said it was also presumed that there wouldn't be any fraternity parties friday evening possibly increasing student attendance several halloween parties held friday evening may have caused fewer students to attend he said faculty won't send wire calling for impeachment by steve freilich a tele ram urging that impeachment proceedings against president nixon begin immediately should be sent to washington d c on behalf of the university faculty said wesley johnson van sciver professor of physics at a faculty meeting monday the motion was defeated it is not the job of lehigh to take sides on such an issue said university president w deming lewis joseph p mcfadden professor of journalism said cabling congress should be an individual choice in other business mcfadden chairman of the educational policy committee edpol moved that qualified undergraduates be granted the privilege to transfer their harrisburg urban semester grades to their lehigh transcripts the motion passed unanimously forbes brown professor of mechanical engineering moved that edpol study the effects of in-class and non-class days in terms of a student's educational ex perience brown's motion proposes a study of the current university calendar if the results of the study are unsatisfactory then the committee should study alternatives to the present calendar brown said brown's proposal is related to action of lhe forum's calendar committee which is studying semester alternatives on a short term basis brown said he also wants to prepare the faculty for calendar changes aurie dunlap professor of international relations will retire dec 31 it was announced by chairman qf the department of mechanics and mechanical engineering ferdinand beer that a memorial service will be held for alan slenning former professor of mechanical " engineering who died saturday the service will take place at 4 p.m sunday conway says rh-1 1 complex is sufficient by drew wofford if rh 11 is on line we will be short 35-50 spots said rich conway vice-chairman of the forum at a residence sub committee meeting when talking about the residence system for next year this is about right said conway as it allows for no-shows and dropouts as to filling rh-11 conway said the procedure is the same as that of other dorms rh-11 is geared for groups of four we will try only to put four people together who have asked to live as a unit for put ting four people together who don't know each other is not recommendable the gryphon is not the crucial factor in not putting freshmen in rh-11 in his report to the forum's residence subcommittee conway also spoke about rh-12 currently an initial study is being made of the financial and physical ability to build it it's on semi-shaky grounds it's definitely not being considered as ab solutely necessary especially by planning and development " william jesse assistant to the dean of residence said concerning rh-11 changes are in no way changes in layouts of the buildings or the apartments the majority are either cosmetic or struc tural among noticeable changes are the replacing of the natural stone on the end walls by jumbo brick changing the facade from redwood to stucco and deleting the individual room airconditioner ducts only the living room and dining areas will be airconditioned the planned outside pond has also been cancelled conway also announced the new residence hall occupancy rates for 1974-75 ibiw photo by cramer mike maskaleris hicks terms stay at u rewarding and exciting by effie commas i don't like to be involved in a lot of controversy said leon hicks assistant professor of fine arts i don't think in terms of minority . 1 don't deal on that level so i don't get involved in it . there are just differences in opinion he said hicks said that minority versus majority conditions will always prevail but there are people around with good intent so the machinery will run smoothly hicks recently fired said this new generation especially at lehigh is so bright because students can just take an idea and work with it on their own many of the students have great ingenuity ac cording to hicks after graduating from kansas state university receiving ma and mfa degrees from the university of lowa studying for three years under mauricio lasansky the famous printmaker studying art history in europe and leaching al several other schools he was hired to teach printmaking at the university i developed the printmaking program and developed the physical facilities for avant-garde which uses photo engraving and contemporary new graphic imagery he said the students have helped out with the budget problems by improvising facilities and making their own equipment such as setting up photo etching machinery and a ventilation box it is possible to do every level of printmaking here according to hicks the work shows a human and personalized aspect that is lacking in technological imagery made with good equipment he said hicks continued my own art reflects the new imagery but i use traditional techniques he said however i am a teacher first and an artist second hicks is planning to continue teaching when he leaves my stay here has been most rewarding and educational . it was exciting he said hicks is a member of the cosmos club which honors faculty for professional achievement leon hicks see gift page 6 see petitions page 4 see conway page 4 mailer to speak the norman mailer lecture scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m this evening has been rescheduled for 8 this evening in grace hall radio the norman mailer speech will be broadcast by wlrn