Brown and White Vol. 91 no. 49

              lehigh university brown and white volm-ifo.9 77 bethlehem pa friday april 25 mm 215-4wi-41k4 caps gowns contract to be honored by barb robertson in spite of a request by the international ladies garment workers union ilgwu to boycott cotrell and leonard inc a manufacturer of academic caps and gowns the university will continue to honor our contract with cotrell and leonard according to austin gavin executive consultant to the president workers of the albany new york-based firm have been on strike since aug 8 protesting unfair labor practices since they walked off their jobs other non-union workers have taken their places and caps and gowns ate continuing to be manufactured the original employees and the ilgwu have issued a formal complaint to the national labor relations board citing the company for threatening to close the factory should the employees choose to be represented by the union interrogating employees on their thoughts about the union keeping union activities under surveillance threatening that employees who were on strike would not be allowed to return to work and stating that no suspected union sympathizers would be hired meanwhile the employees and the union have asked colleges and universities which are customers of cotrell and leonard to boycott its products so far the ilgwu claims as many as 80 percent of the colleges and universities in the area have boycotted no exact number was given the university will not participate in the boycott gavin said the decision was made by gavin university president deming lewis and david lewis professor of modern languages and chairman of forum x why should we try to settle the dispute gavin asked pointing out that it is up to the nlrb to decide whether or not the workers have a case a court will make a decision based on witnesses testimony and a full legal procedure he said we don't know the full story it is not for us to judge them gavin added that the university has had a contract with cotrell and leonard since last february michael winston a representative of the ilgwu said there are two clauses in the contract which would allow the university to pull out of the contract the first is that no charge will be made for outfits canceled 28 days before delivery and the second is that the contract is void if the company is unable to ship the outfits he said adding that truckers are not crossing the picket lines gavin is playing a game by pretending you have a moral obligation winston said while dealing with a company that has no moral regard for its workers gavin disagreed with winston's inter pretation of the contract the first clause he said refers to a small change in order for a student who is not graduating or for a late request it does not refer to changing companies as for the second clause gavin said that cotrell and leonard has guaranteed shipment of the caps and gowns winston said he told gavin that boston university joined the boycott because their order was not shipped on time but gavin said an employee of boston university called to say the order mixup was entirely her fault and not cotrell and leonard's this is not the only time the ilgwu has not presented the truth according to gavin he said the university of maine and swarthmore college were both told by the ilgwu that the university has joined the boycott no plans were made to boycott what finals mw pmto by jim morrison so say from left pete sansom m todd sume 81 steve michaeteon 81 and mike harding 80 as they uke time out from the books to catch a few rays and down a lew beers on zeta pal's roof fioretti , perrone winners in top sac election upsets by sharan daniel four student activities council sac members were ousted by newcomers in the race for top council positions wed nesday pete fioretti 82 was elected president over tisha amoruso 81 current sac lecture chairman and art greenwood 81 in a close race kim perrone 82 chair man of the i^high college republicans won the vice president slot over judy aigen 81 who has worked on the council for three years concert chairman-elect fred schaufeld defeated incumbent john nersesian 81 and tony bosco 81 won the position of lecture chairman over current freshman representative david slutsker 83 unopposed races other winners were secretary kim miser 83 treasurer laurence bertan 83 and publicity chairman beth fraikorn 82 of alphi phi is sorority representative bill kerr 82 from sigma nu will represent the fraternities andrew alt man 82 is the independent representative and joe kuss 82 residence halls council representative serving on the visiting lectures com mittee will be linda brett 81 didi foley 81 brian bronsther 81 and nancy felix 81 next year's plans fioretti who said he was excited but not really surprised when contacted with the results wednesday night said he is looking forward to making more of the students happy with activities at the university next year i plan on implementing a lot more social activities he said in addition to more movies and concerts he said he would like to bring events different than what has been done in the past to the campus although he had no specific ideas yet people get tired of the same old thing year after year he commented • perrone said she is also excited — about working with a very good slate of people they are all very interested and excited about working on the council she com mented i hope next year we can get a lot of the good ideas brought up this year into ac tion she said adding that she plans to improve financial management within the sac and work more closely with the administration to get things done struck out — a strike by the international ladi-s garment workers union against cotrell and leonard inc manufacturer of caps and owns was not successful in pur suading the university to cancel its order . . . ( see story below ) sac to present first x-rated film since 1 978 show by tom dipi azza the first x-rated film to be brought to the university since 1978 will be shown this weekend when the student activities council sac presents last tango in paris the film will be shown in packard lab auditorium at 7 p.m and 9:90 p.m on both nights according to laura schrier 80 sac president last year the story of o also rated x was scheduled by the sac however it was cancelled after objections to the film caused the social and cultural events review committee to review it and later recommend that it not be shown the committee was set up two years ago by president deming lewis following the controversy that arose with the showing of another x-rated film deep throat i don't foresee any problems schrier said i haven't heard of any people who object to this movie as of wednesday no members of the university community 4 had brought a petition of complaint before the com mittee according to its chairman dean of students william quay quay said an objection could still cause him to convene the group but only if there was an overwhelming compelling reason see sac page 4 - inside state of the forum p 4 doggone it p 6 stickers squeak by p 12