Brown and White Vol. 98 no. 11

              proposals to reinstate thursday night parties on campus were discuss ed at a student senate meeting tues day the proposal initiated by ifc judi cial chairman oli olafsson 91 would give houses the privilege to have a thursday night social once a semest er said senate member stuart jara the parties would be designated the same way ifc cocktails are assigned despite the construction of club 31 and several sac sponsored events students have created the trend of attending off-campus house gather ings and bars instead of being contain ed on campus the students are taking chances off-campus by driving under the influence after attending a party or bar olafsson said these thursday night socials refer red to as house parties would also have a number of restrictions the parties would be subject to a one month testing period and would only be offered to organizations in good standing with the university also the see pubnight page 3 enjoy the peace crop walk-a-thon to benefit hungry by alicia auditori brown and white news writer see crop page 3 more than 30 lehigh students participated in a 10 kilometer crop walk through beth lehem sunday to raise money for the hungry and needy approximately 400 walkers from the lehigh valley are expected to have raised more than 25,000 according to adel breitenstein a recruiter for crop twenty-five percent of the money raised goes to the local food centers and food banks she said the rest of the money is used to help victims of natural disasters and to improve education and food conditions in third world nations the walk was a great success said tracy the brown and white vol 98 no 11 friday october 19 1990 world-famous philosopher gives selfridge lecture lehigh university by louise weston brown and white editor in chief see quine page 5 mark twain room of maginnes hall wednes day afternoon it seems to me that quine's influence in our day is like einstein's influence when i was a student professor of philosophy ralph lindgren said there is no way of overstating the influence quine has exerted on the profes sion throughout his life at tuesday's lecture entitled from stim ulus to science quine discussed his work in naturalized epistomology which seeks a full er understanding of how science is achieved how it works and if it works well enough he presented his highly-acclaimed phil osophically technical theories on the develop ment of scientific thought from actual physical stimulation of the senses induction in the raw to the complex logical structure which gives us science as we know it today he conceded in his introduction that sci ence has despoiled the environment yet the success is breathtaking painstakingly explaining each stage of the development of scientific thought he said scientific thought is man's subjective creation the world's most famous philosopher according to professor of social relations donald campbell spent this week speaking at lehigh willard van orman quine whose expertise spans countless fields of study is the philosophy department's seventh annual self ridge lecturer it seems to me that quine's influence in our day is like einstein's influence when i was a student j ralph lindgren professor of philosophy quine arrived at lehigh monday and spent the week leading lunchtime seminars for professors of philosophy and other interested faculty every day through thursday he deliv ered the selfridge lecture monday in sinclair auditorium monday evening and attended a dinner tuesday with more than 16 philosophy minors and majors quine also spoke in the willard van orman qulne plan to restore pubnights presented to lu senators by rebecca hanley brown and white news writer hshishb inside news rauch recounts his experiencs at the dedica tion to the new business center in his name page 4 arts & leisure two perspectives on marijuana use page 1 2 sports are the engineers ready for their match against the formidable foe holy cross page 19