Brown and White Vol. 80 no. 8

              lehigh university brown and white vol so - no • bethlehem pa friday october it ht 866-0331 nixon wins second poll hhh gains richard m nixon republican presi dential candidate remained the solid favorite of university students to capture the presidency in november the oop candidate polled 54.5 per cent of the 1,791 votes cast in the poll conducted by the brown end white this week in the first pell he won 84.8 per cent vice president hubert h humphrey gained support since the previous poll in september by capturing 20.5 per cent of tha vote he won 17.5 per cent in september george c wallace former alabama governor dropped to 7.8 per cent from 8.5 per cent while minnesota senator eugene mccarthy nearly equalled that mark by polling 107 votes well over half of the write-in ballot nixon gained support among fraternity men with 63.4 per cent of 799 votes while losing ground within both upper class and freshmen residence halls wallace saw his aupport dwindle to only 4.9 par cent of the upperclaas residence halls ballot he gained only slightly among freshmen and fraternities in a notable change in this poll 803 per cent of the 640 freshmen voting chose to abstain or write-in their choice for the presidency the town vote can be considered insignificant since only 88 students voted out of some 500 commuters abstentions were high aa 188 students chose that course wallace polled only slightly more than that figure with 188 students supporting the third party candidate other candidates receiving write-in votes were new york governor nelson a rockefeller pr«*lrl»nt lyndon r john son negro comedian dick gregory comedian pat paulson new york mayor john v lindsay and cartoon character snoopy the total vote of 1,791 was some 380 short of the ballot during tue last poll this figure represents 71.8 per cent of the campus ballot an equal number of freshmen voted this week compared with tha previous poll while figures on the other composite living groups dropped considerably the brown and white will conduct the third and final poll the week before the election with release of the results to appear the friday before the election construction continues on the lower campus the mart library is nezrine completion while the contract for the 2 million sine lair memorial lab oratory was recently given to winz brothers of philadelphia construction cf the h~h of liberal art will tovin «»•»« time this month mi of vie 2 miisioti r.*.cdcd fcr the building will be furnished by the class of 48 the class is ear marking its class gift of 65,000 for the project the first time m the history of the university that a class has specified what it wanted its class gift to be used for whi taker laboratory the first new structure built m the lower campus redevelopment plan opened m 1965 city pla nners too concerned with buildings not people the main problem in urban planning according to dr chester w hartman assistant professor in the center for urban studies harvard university is that most planners are too concerned with the mere use of physical space they do not consider the reprecussions on the communities where their ideas are used speaking to a large group of students in whitaker laboratory auditorium last wednesday evening hartman said that the urban planning profession is in tremen dous flux at this point the profession is in search of an identity he said that due to the concern of the younger planners for social justice in planning and for aesthe tics the profession is changing from a pure design concept of planning to one of total planning hartman said that the young profession has gone through several important " trends of development the first trend was that of the landscape architect the only concern of designers in this trend was beautifuciation the second trend was the city-beau tiful movement the planners involved in this stage were idealistic they wanted to build cities for the future and weren't concerned with the here and now the third trend was one of professional organization some planners wanted an independent agency for city planning and others wanted planning to be publicly ad ministered hartman said that a combination of the two views was called for but than plan ners and politicians could not agree with each other on methods cf city planning hartman went on to say that the fourth trend in planning was the post-war era ww n planners attached themselves to newer dynamic action programs and abandoned the planning function by this he meant that they planned buildings and cities but not communities for the people planners lost sight of the prob lems of the social justice of relocation hartman who is a leader in contempor ary planning said that the current phase of planning is concerned with the social justice of relocation he said the young planners including himself are disen chanted with traditional planning they want to plan in conjunction with the community they want to understand what the community needs and they want tha community to understand what plan ning la explaining what ia being done by the new breed of planners hartman re ferred to the students who go to planning school because they are concerned about the cities the students become dissatis fied with planning school because it does not teach them to work with the problems of the city as they define them the stu dents feel that the field hasn't caught up to them hartman then compared these students to the new planners the planners who aren't trained in urban planning he was referring to the new planning com missions made up of eight or nine spec ialists in different fields of social rela tions the next lecture in this four lecture series will be wednesday oct 30 in whitaker laboratory auditorium at 7:15 p.m ' ifc officer soys tau delta phi not withdrawn sandy mcconnell president of ifc said wednesday that tau delta phi has not legally withdrawn from ifc and is still a member of ifc he quoted a section of the ifc constitution which stated that any member fraternity of ifc must make a formal application for with drawal only after an application for withdrawal has been accepted by a simple majority of ifc members the withdrawing member not voting can tau delta phi formally and officially declare itself outside the ifc mcconnell declined to comment further on the situation he stated only their position has not been made clear to me note a letter from the brothers of tau delta phi explaining their position appears on page 5 muskie may visit campus grate hall reserved oct.23 democratic vice presidential candidate edmund muakie may vialt lehigh on oct 23 the arrangements are not yet firmed up but brown and white sources in bethlehem revealed that 1 muskie will be in bethlehem on oct 23 2 that grace hall la reserved for oct 23 and 3 that no one connected with the muakie campaign in washington or bethlehem who has been questioned about the vialt has denied lt fo example , prof j.b mcfadden chairman of the division of journalism and a known contact with tha muskie campaign said i hate to say no comment but i have to you guys are barking up a wishful tree quito frankly i'd like to see sen muskie here it would be sn honor for lehigh sources close to the office of congressman prod b rooney are also close mouthed but lt seems clear that either rooney or mcfadden have made overtures to dr w darning lewie for the use of grace hall on oct 88 for a passible muskie vialt see fraternities page 6