ttbe ComentanMORAVIAN COLLEGE STUDENT WEEKLY

Volume LXV Bethlehem, Pa., Friday, May 3, 1963 Number 2^

Dr. Gipson SpeaksOf American Rev

Reaction to many factors seen cause of grievances.by Art Grim

On Thursday, April 25, the students of Moravian College werepriviledged to have as their guest lecturer the Pulitzer Prize win¬ner Dr. Laurence H. Gipson.

Dr. Gipson, speaking before a large audience in the Beth.-Salem Room, related his interpre- ■ ■

hormer orad to be

Physics InstructorJoseph L. Powlette, a native

of Bangor, will join the MoravianCollege faculty in September asan instructor in the physics de¬partment.Powlette will come to Mora¬

vian College from Cornell Uni¬versity, where he is currently ateaching assistant. He has beenat Cornell, serving both as teach¬ing and research assistant, since1961.

Powlette is a 1960 graduate ofMoravian College having receiveda B.S. degree in physics. He iscompleting his work for the M.S.degree in Physics at Cornell.

He was the recipient of a RhoAlpha U p s i lo n Award whichgranted him the teaching and re¬search assistantships at Cornell.While at Moravian he was a

member of the Triangle HonorSociety and was a participant inthe Honors Program. He waspresident of Sigma Phi Omega,social fraternity, a member of theband and affiliated with Rho

Alpha Upsilon, science society.

tation of "The Coming of theAmerican Revolution. He believesthat the Revolution wasn't just acase of "taxation without repre¬sentation" but rather an accumu¬lation of grievances built up overa long period of time. These in¬fluences can be categorized intofour main "groupings: economic,social, political, and psycholog¬ical. In other words, for all prac-tica purposes, the American Col¬onies were becoming a maturepeople and could not be expectedto stand idly by and be run bythe inflexible English system. Ttwas the intense dislike of this

system that resulted in the ac¬tions which led to the outbreakof hostilities.

Dr. Gipson stressed the factthat not all people in the coloniessupported the Revolution. Thepeople of Allentown and Bethle¬hem are often referred to as the"nest to Tories." The Moravianswere against war on the basis oftheir religious convictions, andbecause the English had giventhen refuge in the colonies to getaway from religious persecutionin Germany. Moravian ministerscontinued to give thanks for Brit¬ish victories, even after they real¬ized they were supporting a lostcause.

Could the revolution have beenaverted? Dr. Gipson believes thatit might have been at the closeof war between Britain andFrance. It was 1763 and Francehad been excluded from British

$North America for the first time.#If England would have offerred

, us more rights at that time we'still might have been membersof the empire.Following the talk, a question

period was opened, and refresh¬ments were served.

Twelve Vie forMiss Moravian Title

Twelve Moravian College sen¬iors have been nominated as can¬didates for the honor of rulingas "Miss Moravian" at the An¬nual Spring Festival to be heldon Sunday, May 12."Miss Moravian" and her court

of six 'Ladies' will be selected bypopular vote of the women stu¬dents at the college.

Seven prospective school teach¬ers are included in the groupalong with two political sciencemajors and one each studyingEnglish, history and sociology.The candidates are: Susan Bur¬

ger, Sally Deysher, Jean Fried¬man, Susan Gares, Elizabeth Ger-gar, Janet Gleva, Betty J. Hicks,Sandra Kuehner, Kathleen Leyh,Judy MacDonald, Phyllis Peters,Joan Raidline.

Borst Named to

TopWRMC SpotOfficers of the Moravian Col¬

lege radio station WRMC havebeen announced for the 1963-64term.

They are Craig Borst, a junior,station manager; Arthur Phelps,a sophomore, program director;Jack Goldberg, a junior, businessmanager, and Louis Ronca, fresh¬man, public relations, all of Beth¬lehem, and James McMahan, afreshman, advertising, Allentown.Also, Alan Zelt, a junior, sports

director, Plainfield, N.J.; ArthurGrim, a junior, personnel direc¬tor, Reading; Barbara Dirks, asophomore, music director, Had-donfield, N.J., and Elizabeth Wet¬ter, a sophomore, continuity, WestEnglewood, N.J.

SluggersTakeOne, DropOne, inBout With Albright at Home

by Prank S. Kovaes, Jr.Moravian ended its two game losing streak by downing Albright in the first game of a double-

header, 6-2, April 2 7 on the Hounds field. Albright won the second game 2-1.Jan Fritz allowed Albright only four hits and two runs in the opener. A pair of freshmen,

Mike Scarcella and Jim Murtaugh gave up five hits each in the second game."

W jj£ V" £ Moravian scored three runs inm ' "

Doc Nagle's up in the recent Albright Game.

Netmen Bow to F and MThe netmen of F & M remained undefeated when they extend¬

ed Moravian's losing streak to four straight, by gaining a 8-1victory. Top-seeded Bill Cartier was the only victor for theHounds as he outlasted John Plakans, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1.Three days later the raquet

squad dropped a 5-1 match inthe rain to Muhlenberg. This wasvery defeating to MoMo as theMules were "the" match. Cartierextended his winning streak tofive straight by topping DonSchoenly, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3, and againwas the sole victor; so whereare the other "winners?"

A powerful Lafayette tennissquad handed the hapless Houndsa 8-1 loss. Frosh Bill Cartier

dropped his first match of theyear to Larry Levine, who in un¬defeated in three years, by a6-3, 6-2 score. Cartier and BillGrosh combined to beat Coltonand Wertnimer, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, forMoravian's sole victory.Moravian snapped out of a six-

match losing slump on the claycourts by downing the Lions ofAlbright 6 to 3 last Saturday.

Committees NeedMore Members

The CUB Committees are look¬

ing for new members. Anyone in¬terested in serving on these fol¬lowing committees please sign upat the main desk; listing nameand committee.

Art Exhibition, Concert - Film,Food, House, Lecture - Program,Publicity, and Social Activitiescommittees.

All interested parties are ask¬ed to please sign up as soon aspossible; due to the fact thatthe heads of the committees willwant to know far in advance ofnext year the number of membersin his complete committee.

with Norman ZieglerIn the beginning of this year this writer wrote some comments

criticing the publicity department of this school. At that time Ifelt that Moravian's athletics and athletic teams were not gettingall the publicity that they deserved. I had implied that the pub¬licity department was not doingtheir job to the best of their abil¬ity. I am still inclined to believethat the athletic prigram at Mo¬ravian should receive more pub¬licity but I don't think we canblame the publicity departmentfor the neglect.Mr. Heffelfinger is in charge

of publicity. In the last coupleof months this writer becameaware of the responsibilities that

fall upon the shoulders of thisman. Mr. Heifelfinger is not onlyin charge of sports publicity butalso in charge of all the publicitythat appears in loca papers con¬cerning Moravian students. Wethink Roy is doing a good joband know that he will continueto do all he can to get more pub¬licity for Moravian's athletic pro¬gram.

The annual All SportsBanquet will be held May15 in the CUB dining room.All men and women whohave participated in the col¬lege's athletic programs areinvited to sign up for ban¬quet tickets in the AthleticOffice before the May 10deadline.

Today, Friday, May 3, isthe last of the library's Am¬nesty Days. If any of youhave overdue books, pleasebe sure to turn them in to¬

day, or you will have to paythe fine under regular stipu¬lations.

the fourth inning of the firstgame. After two outs Fritzsingled home Bob Zerfass whohad singled and moved to secondon an interference call. AndySemmel tripled home Fritz andscored himself on Andy Straka'sinfield hit.

Albright clinched the secondgame in the sixth. Steve Simonwalked, stole second, and scoredon Rich Fisher's single to center.Moravian's lone run was'scored

by Don Vogel who rapped a 440foot triple to center and scoredon Vince Seaman's hit. Vogel hadtwo hits in the second gamewhile Semmel and Lion Jim Hag-garity had two each in the open¬er.

Moravian is now 4-6 this sea¬son (3-3 in MAC) and Albrightis 4-5.

Critic s Cornerby William Horvvath

If the purpose of farce is loentertain, and the appropriate re¬sponse to it is continuous and un¬restrained laughter, then theBlackfriars' production of PhilipKing's See How They Run was asuccess in both its purpose andends.

Anyone who had the pleasureof seeing the performance musthave been impressed by the tal¬ents of Robin Veluce, PatriciaErskin, and Bruce Weaver whowere the most outstanding mem¬bers of the cast. The rest of theplayers led by May Everett, SteveLevine, and Mike Farley alsogave notable performances inspots.After a slow first Act, Miss

Veluce picked the play up offthe ground and carried it the restof the way. She was the impetusthat started the ball rolling.

The cockney maid was the per¬fect role for Pat Erskine, andshe executed it magnificently. Ifanything saved Act I, it was she.The mirror scene in that act was,perhaps, the finest in the play.Bruce Weaver possessed the

finest English accent in the cast,and his appearance in Act IImade the play an utter delight.For the rest of the cast, with

the exception of Mary Everett,who played a fine drunk scene inAct II, the comedy lie not in act¬ing, but in the situation of thefarce. Here, action takes prece¬dence over dialogue.

The deficiencies of the produc¬tion were minor and lay in tech¬nicalities. Lighting was again amajor problem, as was also trueof the Fall production. Therewere sergeants without stripes,soldiers with civilian belts, andsome make-up discrepancies. Allof these can be expected in a col-

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McNamara sby Bill Horwath

BandFor the two decades which have passed since WW II, there have

been two strong factions within the United States Defense Department.Under the Eisenhower administration the "massive retaliation" fac¬

tion, led by General Curtis Le May, Air Force Chief of Staff, reignedsupreme. The Strategic Air Command (SAC) was the sole militarymight of the United States. There were to be no more battlefields infuture wars, only total nuclear destruction.The minority group was called the "flexible response" faction. It

was led by Generals Maxwell Taylor and James Gavin, the two para-troop generals of WW II who spearheaded every major allied operationagainst Hitler in Europe. Their aim was to limit future wars to thetraditional battlefield in order to escape the nuclear holocaust advo¬cated by Le May. In the wake of their defeat both Taylor and Gavinretired from active duty feeling that they could best serve the nationas civilian critics of pentagon policies.In March, 1961 the situation in Washington took a drastic about

face. Newly-elected President Kennedy met with his Chiefs-of-Staffconcerning the Communist thrust in Laos. Those present still recallthe President's disbelief. There were two avenues open to Kennedy:(1) unleash the frightful nuclear arm of SAC on that dimunitive jun¬gle nation, or (2) dispatch ground forces to check the Communist ad¬vance in the area. To any sane person the latter course of action wasthe more feasible of the two. The hitch came in the fact that at thattime the Defense Department could only provide the President witha few combat teams for that area —• providing that the emergencyiasted no more than 30 days and there was no simultaneous crisis inBerlin or Cuba. The United States, unwilling to risk total nuclearwar over Laos, had to settle for what it could get.The job of getting the Defense Department back on its feet was

dumped on Robert McNamara, former president of the Ford MotorCompany. The job of Defense Secretary is perhaps the most precariouspost in Washington. Since its birth in 1947 it certainly has been themost ill-fated. Of the eight men who have formally held the positiononly one or two have escaped with their honor and prestige. It hasgutted, heroes of their glory, shot holes in the sails of captains ofindustry, and tarnished the image of ivory politicians. The first,James Forrestal, set the precedant. Cracking under the strain, heleaped to his death from the window of his office in the pentagon.McNamara thus far shows positive signs of a successful reign. If

anything, he has managed to put the control of the military backinto civilian hands where it properly ought to be. General Taylor hasbeen recalled to active duty as the chief military advisor to Kennedy.But the largest feather in McNamara's hat has been the formation ofthe United States Strike Command (STRICOM) to replace the sterileStrategic Army Corps (STRAC) of the Eisenhower administration.STRICOM has not solved all the problems of interservice rivalry, butit has done a great deal to simpify the command structure of theArmed Forces. It has replaced interservice cooperation with command.STRICOM is a highly mobilized force of eight Army divisions and

three Tactical Air Forces totalling 220,000 men. It is under the com¬mand of General Paul D. Adams and his Air Force deputy Lt. Gen¬eral Bruce K. Holloway. The combat control, therefore, between thetactical Air Force and the ground forces of the Army is under one uni¬fied command post.

The mission of STRICOM on paper is not complex. To meet anyagressor threat it would immediately deploy its two highly mobileparatroop divisions, the 82nd and 101st. This initial committmentwould then be followed up by the necessary punch from the remainingsix divisions. The control of the aircraft for airlift, close combat sup¬port, battlefield surveillance, and battlefield reconnaissance would liewith Adams. The ultimate aim of this action would be to prevent anylocalized crisis from spreading into a full nuclear war.STRICOM has the capacity to react in two ways:1. It can support the commander of a geographical area which falls

under the United States Unified Command. An example of this is lastyear's Cuban crisis. STRICOM had 100,000 men and 1,000 aircraft onalert in Florida available to the Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic

Command.

2. It can operate in a geographical area not covered by the UnitedStates Unified Command such as Latin America or Africa. In this in¬stance STRICOM has the ability to muster a task force from companyto army size.For the future the possibility of fighting a war in the ruins of a

nuclear holocaust is being explored. In the event that the UnitedStates should ever recall its 75,000 troops from Europe, U. S. basedSTRICOM, U. S. based ICBM's, and Polaris firing submarines wouldform the bulk of fortress America.

I can foresee only two possible traps in McNamara's path. First, hehas yet to come to grips with the Navy Department. Still, this clash isinevitable. Will the Navy be willing to surrender the command of itsamphibious vessels for beach landings in same same way the AirForce has done with its aircraft in airborne operations? Without thiscommand STRICOM loses much of its effectiveness.

Secondly, I mentioned earlier that STRICOM looks good—but onlyon paper. As a former member of STRAC (which also looked goodon paper) I can testify to a long list of practical and operational weak¬nesses of any large-scale mobility exercise. I can well remember oneafternoon in May, 1961, when I stood on a parade field at Fort Bragg,North Carolina as a member of the 82nd Airborne Division when thissame Robert McNamara inspected our Battle Group. If you want toknow how we snowed him into believing we were combat ready stopand ask me sometime. This summer I intend to revisit the 82nd andfind out personally how good STRICOM really is from the people whot-.ctually know what it's all about-—the soldiers themselves.But for now let me be optimistic and pay my compliments to the

Secretary of Defense. The pentagon has taken on a fresh look underhis care. My expectations and the country's future depend upon peopleof his calibre. At least for the present it appears that we finally havethe cat by the tail. May Curtis LeMay rest in peace.

Announcements About

Registration for theFall Semester

Registration for the fallsemester will be held from

Monday, May 6 throughSaturday, May 11. Registra¬tion procedures will be thesame as those which were

introduced last fall at the

registration for the currentspring semester. A completeset of instructions and list¬

ing of course offerings willbe available shortly.Among the courses which

will be offered for the firsttime are Imperial Russia,Political Parties and Pres¬

sure Groups, StatisticalMethods in the Behavioral

Sciences, Offerings in theModern Language Depart¬ment have been reorganizedso as to make available a

two-credit reading course inlanguage.Various changes have also

been made in the physicaleducation requirement. Allstudents who have not com¬

pleted the physical activityrequirement will, withoutexception, register for phys¬ical education classes in thefall. Requests for exemptionor limitation of activitieswill now be processed bythe Physical Education De¬partment rather than by theDean's office. The requiredthree - credit course in hy¬giene (Phys. Ed. 104) hasbeen replaced by a one-sem¬ester. one hour per week,non-credit course in hygiene(Phys. Ed. 101H). Studentswho have not had Phys. Ed.10 4 will take the new hy¬giene course in the fall, un¬less they are in major pro-grams which previouslyhave exempted them fromthis requirement.

Anti-Fraternity?"Fraternities will go. And they will go within the next 20 years."

That's what the National Conference on Higher Education predictedrecently in Chicago. They may be right, but I hope they're not. Here'swhy.I think fraternities are a good thing, providing they're run properly.

Their history shows that they have come a long way from the secret,class-conscious societies they once were. In fact, there are only a fewcolleges in the United States that will not permit them on campus.These colleges feel that the activities associated with fraternities donot constructively contribute to the academic community. But for themost part, progressive colleges have realized that if a fraternity livesup to its credo of being a campus service organization, it will be morethan welcome. This is good, since a fraternity can benefit not only thecollege, but also its own members who receive much in the way ofbrotherhood, cooperation, and a well-rounded social life that is uniquefrom the ordinary life of the nonjoiner. And since I'm a nonjoiner,maybe I can objectively mention some of the things that are causingadministrators to reappraise their fraternity policy.In the past, the Greek letter men were thoughtful, respected and

responsible students. They had their fun, but on their own time intheir own frat-house. Then the change came. The creative urge waspointless without an audience. So the frat officers decided to gain at¬tention by making their pedges invade the campus classrooms. Profes¬sors became annoyed when clean rooms were swept; distracted whenmarbles rolled down aisles, and disturbed when pledges sat with theirheads on backwards.

These actions may have been humorous, but they were also verydistracting, time consuming, and out of place. Money tinkles awaywith each tick of the clock. For most of us, college is an expensiveinvestment.It is these childish antics that are causing administrators to

take a long hard look at the problem. Among other reasons, this iswhy they feel fraternities will have to tighten up their organizationalstructure if they want to maintain as vital a force in the future a»they have in the past.

Dean Johnson recently told Call Chronicle reporters that fraternitygoals should be more constructive. He stated, "I would like to seefraternities de-emphasized as social organizations and re-emphasizedfor their academic and cultural aspect."If the Dean's advice is taken to heart, Moravian's fraternities need

not worry about being a ghost 20 years from now—or ever. If it isnot, they will depart our company much sooner. And the good oneswill disappear along with the bad ones.

Club CarS.J.U.

Nancy Christensen and Linda Cook

Elections are the big news on campus this week. Here is apartial list of the new officers of Moravian's organizations.Women's Recreation Association: president, Karen Penny-

packer; vice-president, Sue Watt; secretary-treasurer, MyraCritic's . • .

(Cont. from p. 1, col. 5)lege production and ought tohave been noticed only by thecritic.A major compliment to the di¬

rector and designer of the setis due. This area was very im¬pressive and unprecendented inits completeness and quality atMoravian.It must always be remembered

that the Blackfriar's productionsare totally a student effort donetotally on school time. A greatamount of studies is sacrificedfor the sake of the theatre. The

ony reward for the people tak¬ing part is that self-satisfactionwhich stems from the knowledgethat all involved produced a max¬imum effort. I thank the cast ofSee How They Run for makingboth the Blackfriars and Mora¬vian College just a little moreproud of their existence.

The Comenian

Friday, May 3, 1968

Editor Reed TreibleAssoc. Editors Stanley Urevik,

G. Bruce BoyerPhoto Editor Tom HaupertSports Editor Ron DysonNews Editors ...Nancy Christensen,

Linda Cook, Nancy OlenwineColumnists John Kohl,William Horwath, Gerald Still,Norm Ziegler, Harriet Pierie,Dave Bethune, Woody Grossman,Chuck Berger, Ted Meixell, PrankKovacs, George Dorer, Joy John¬ston

Typists.Becky Nosal, Karen ChervyStudents at Large.... Phil Katowitz,Charles Canning, Mike Shoup

Faculty Adv....Mr. Gerhardt Zeller

Represented for national ads by Na¬tional Advertising Service, Inc.18 E. 50th St., New York 22, N. Y.

Heimbrook; committee chairmen,hockey, Lois Leison, basketballand volleyball, Marcia Mueller,tennis, archery, and badminton,Sue Sussman and Lynn Schlosser.Political Activities Club: pres¬

ident, Sharon Yaeck; vice-presi¬dent, Tom Jacob; secretary, JudyMorecz; treasurer, Barbara Finn;U.S.G. representative, Don Jacoh.Veteran's Association: presi¬

dent, Tom Bishop; vice-president,Vince Seaman; secretary, MikeShoup; treasurer, John Pavelko;U.S.G. representative, Blake Car¬ter; correspondng secretary, BobBenner.

The Vets also replaced the dic¬tionary that was stolen from thelibrary with a new one. This onehad its proper resting placestamped in gold lettering on itscover. We hope it lasts longerthan the last one.

Kappa Pi Kappa: President,Bob Mushrush; vice - president,Bob Bowen; secretary, RichardHafner; treasurer, John Baliet;historian, A1 Proctor.WRMC: Station Manager, Craig

Borst; program director, ArtPhelps; Personell director, ArtGrim; chief-engineer, Dave Hen-ritzy; sports, A1 Zelt; librarian,Bobby Dirks; continuity, BettyWelter; Advertising, Jim McMa-han; Publicity, Lou Ronca; busi¬ness manager, Jack Goldberg, ad¬visor, Mrs. Beecher.

Phi Alpha ThetaMoravian's history club Phi

Alpha Theta held a tea on April30, in honor of Dr. Mary Ken¬nedy. Dr. Kennedy, who is leav¬ing our campus to teach in SouthAmerica, was honored for her

many years of superior serviceto Moravian College. The tea washeld between 3 and 5 p.m. in thePresident's Reception Room.

Phi Alpha Theta, along withthe Student Union Lecture Com¬mittee also sponsored a dinnerand lecture by Dr. Lawrence Gip-son of Lehigh University on April25 in the Student Union Build¬ing. Dr. Gipson, Professor Emer¬itus, is well-known in the field;of history.

Phi Sigma TauPhi Sigma Tau National Honor

Society for Philosophy has al¬ready engaged several speakersfor the Fall semester. W. T.Stace, Professor Emeritus from'Princeton University, will speakon the topic "Ethics." Also, Mr.Clarence Holbrook Carter, an art¬ist from Milford, N.J. will speakon the "Criteria of Art."

Campus Christian AssociationThe Campus Christian Associa¬

tion spent a weekend of fun andfellowship at Camp Kirkridge inBangor, Pa. Linda Saderholmscheduled the program while JimWyrtzen acted as chief cook.Twelve students were chaperonedby Mr. and Mrs. George Tyler.

Mr. Tyler, who was guestspeaker, led the discussion. Hegave a series of three talks:"What is Jesus Christ to Us?Developing Our Personalitiesthrough Chris', and ReachingOutward."

The retreat, which lasted fromFriday April 19, to Sunday April21, concluded with a meeting ofprayer, responsive readings, andmusic.