Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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THE NEWS OF FOUR YEARS IN REVIEW In August 1973, more than a thousand would-be members of the Class of 1977 trouped to Lehigh during one of the worst heatwaves ever to hit campus and joined the not-so-real world of college life. The next four years were to be critical ones of growth and change - not just for us as students, but for the world. Those years saw the resignation of a U.S. president, the end of the Vietnam War, and the first landing on Mars. But for many students, the routine of tests, papers and pub nights was only seldom interrupted by news from the outside. Headlines poked through like intermittent dashes, if at all . . . Patty Hearst . . . Squeaky Fromme . . . Jimmy Carter . . . For those of you who missed it, here ' s what happened to the world during those years - as well as a few campus happenings you might recall. FALL 1973 SEPTEMBER . . . Just before we came to Lehigh, Presi- dent Richard Nixon had faced the press for the first time in five months. He acknowledged the Watergate affair had hampered his ability to govern, but said he had never con- sidered resigning . . . Some Lehigh freshmen were trying to get adjusted to their rooms in study lounges and dorm libraries. The housing squeeze resulted when 35 more freshmen than expected had accepted University admis- sion offers . . . Residents for the first time were living in SMAGS . . . Sophomore Mitch Fishkin, 19, died during a fraternity prank. Northampton County Dist. Atty. Charles Spaziani ruled that Fishkin jumped from a car in which he was being taken to Saucon Valley by three Delta Phi fra- ternity brothers ... As the University Human Relations Commission was preparing to investigate admission prac- tices of the Lehigh Marching 97, women unexpectedly marched with the band for the first time during the freshman parents ' weekend football game. Seven band members doffed their caps to reveal they were women at the conclusion of a medley of tunes from South Pacific, including There Ain ' t Nothing Like a Dame . . . OC- TOBER ... As the Watergate hearings continued, John Dean pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice in plotting to cover up the Watergate break-in . . . Three Lehigh students were arrested and charged with posses- sion of marijuana after Bethlehem police and state drug agents raided a room in M M . . . The announcement that Fine Arts professor Leon Hicks had received a termi- nal contract created an uproar from black students ... In what came to be known as the Saturday Night Mas- sacre. Atty. Gen. Elliott Richardson resigned and his duputy, William Ruckelshaus, and Watergate Special Pro- secutor Archibald Cox were fired when Cox rejected an administration compromise on the disputed Watergate tapes . . . After two years of study, the University Board of Trustees voted against establishment of a law school at Lehigh . . . NOVEMBER . . . Nine Arab oil-producing nations put up an embargo on shipments of oil to the United States . . . The White House disclosed there was an 18Vi minute gap in a subpoenaed tape of a June 1973 conversation between Nixon and H.R. Haldeman ... As the energy crisis worsened. President Nixon asked service station owners not to sell gas on Sundays and said he would seek approval of a national 55 m.p.h. speed limit . . . Lehigh and Delaware tied for the Lambert Cup after Lehigh beat Lafayette 45-13. The Engineers lost to West- ern Kentucky in NCAA Division 11 playoffs . . . DE- CEMBER . . . Samuel Dash, chief council to the Senate Watergate Committee, told a Grace Hall audience that public confidence in the country ' s executive leadership was at its lowest level in history . . . LAN Ron BLANK not her side of Rich.Nixon SPRING 1974 JANUARY . . . Allard K. Lowenstein. No. 7 on the White House Top 20 Enemies List, told a Lehigh audi- ence, If people knew what the facts were, what his (Ni- xon ' s) administration does and stands for, they wouldn ' t tolerate it . . . After mediation efforts by Sec. of State Henry Kissinger, Egypt and Israel reached an agreement to separate their military forces along the Suez Canal . . . FEBRUARY . . . Patricia Hearst was kidnaped from her Berkeley apartment by three members of the Symbionese Liberation Army . . . The Soviet Union stripped Nobel Prize winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, of his citi- zenship and deported him to West Germany . . . In a his- toric indictment, seven former White House and presi- dential campaign aides were charged in March with con- spiracy in the Watergate cover-up. President Nixon was cited as an unindicted co-conspirator . . . Tom Sculley won the 134-pound national wrestling championship, Lehigh ' s first national winner since 1967 . . . With spring in the air, about 400 Lehigh students joined the national streaking craze, observed by an estimated 4,500 spectators . . . APRIL . . . The University faculty voted to elimi- nate the arts language requirement after months of debate ... In May, the Maryland Court of Appeals ordered that former Vice President Spiro Agnew be disbarred . . . JULY . . . The Judiciary Committee released eight trans- cripts which in many cases differed from the official White House version. In nearly all cases, the White House ver- sion showed Nixon in a better light . . . The Supreme Court ordered Nixon to give up forthwith tapes and documents sought by Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski . . . After six months of investigation, the 160

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¥ ¥ ¥ r iV iV Mary Beth Krafty didn ' t come to Lehigh with any dreams of athletic glory; the University didn ' t disappoint her. After six varsity letters at Bethlehem ' s Liberty High, and captaining the Softball team her senior year, you ' d expect her to step right into a starting role. Right? Wrong. Krafty warmed the bench in basketball, appearing only in games whose outcome was certain. A knee injury in a game long lost last year has caused problems of one sort or another ever since. Krafty didn ' t mind sitting in basketball. She said Living at home, I got into sports to meet people. Playing was secondary. Softball was another story. I really thought I should be playing. I didn ' t like being used only when someone else didn ' t show up, she said, Krafty didn ' t feel protesting would do any good. I ' m not one to raise a stink, she said. I wouldn ' t know how to raise one properly. Krafty said she has stayed in sports to see how far I can take myself. She added that There ' s something about being on a team, a special relationship with people that you won ' t find walking around on the streets. As these three athletes demonstrate, the dream of the 90-yard touchdown run, or scoring the winning goal, or sinking two clutch free throws to beat Lafayette, can ' t come true for everyone. Schmidt, Fener and Krafty also prove that not only the stars are super. 159

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After being in office less than a month. President Ford announced he was granting an uncondi- tional pardon to former President Nixon for all federal crimes he committed or may have committed while serving as president. The announcement was met with widespread criticism . . . Eighty-eight students returned to campus to find that their promised apartments in RH-11 were not finished. The students were put up in residence hall study rooms and libraries . . . Bishopthorpe was opened as an alternative residence option for Lehigh stu- dents . . . Plus-minus grading was being used for the first time, and the course drop period was shortened from 12 to 7 weeks . . . The family of Mitch Fishkin filed a $21- million lawsuit against the University, administrators and Delta Phi fraternity . . . OCTOBER . . . Students learned that tuition, which had gone up $200 for 1974-75, would increase even more the next year even though the Univer- sity had run a $463,000 surplus. Tuition would go up by $250, with an additional $100 increase in room and board • . . Rep. Morris Udall became the first of a slew of con- tenders for the Democratic presidential nomination ... A baby was delivered in Richards House . . . Palestine Lib- eration Organization leader Yasir Arafat addressed the United Nations General Assembly and called for one democratic state where Christian, Jew and Moslem live in Justice, equality and fraternity in the Middle East. After nine days of debate, the PLO was granted permanent ob- server status in the U.N. . . . Eight former national guardsmen were acquitted of charges arising from the 1970 Kent State University slayings of four students . . . DE- CEMBER . . . Theta Chi alumni recommended asking three homosexual members of the fraternity to move out of the house. Fraternity brothers were split 18-18 on a vote to decide whether to endorse the alumni recommen- dation. The gay brothers later moved out voluntarily . . . Wilbur Mills resigned as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee because of the controversy surrounding his relationship with strip tease dancer Fanne Fox. Mills later publicly attributed erratic behavior to al- coholism . . . Little-known Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination . . . Nelson Rockefeller was sworn in as the 41st vice president of the United States, giving the nation an unelected president and vice president . . . SPRING 1975 JANUARY . . . John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Robert Mardian were found guilty of all charges in connection with the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Unindicted co-conspirator Richard Nixon had not been required to testify during the 64-day trial because of his health . . . FEBRUARY . . . The University canceled classes for a day because of a heavy snowfall ... In Boston, Dr. Ken- neth C. Edelin was found guilty of a manslaughter in the death of a male fetus . . . Varsity basketball coach Tom Pugliese announced he would quit at the end of the sea- son. The team finished the season with a 1-23 record . . . MARCH . . . Lehigh wrestlers swept Easterns. Later in the month, Mike Frick and Mike Lieberman were champs at the NCAA competition . . . APRIL ... It was an- nounced unemployment had reached 8.7 per cent, the highest rate since 1941. The University Placement Office reported that seniors were receiving 10 per cent fewer job offers than usual . . . The faculty approved a compromise nine-week course drop period . . . Uncle Manny ' s tavern opened and quickly became a Lehigh institution . . . South Vietnamese President Duong Van Minh announced an unconditional surrender to the communists, ending the long and bloody Vietnam War. The surrender came only hours after the emergency helicopter evacuation of all Americans living in Saigon and thousands of South Viet- namese who feared for their lives . . . MAY . . . Years behind national trends as usual, Lehigh students filled Grace Hall to see the original Broadway production of Hair . . . Cambodian forces captured the S.S. Mayaguez and its 39-member crew. After diplomatic ef- forts to free the ship failed. President Ford ordered in air. sea and ground forces . . . JUNE . . . Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency and arrested 676 persons, including leaders of all opposition parties. Press censorship also was imposed . . . JULY ... In a symbolic gesture of detente, U.S. and Soviet spacecraft linked in space and astronauts from both coun- tries shook hands . . . The FBI in August entered the search for missing former Teamsters president James Hoffa, who ' d been missing for three days . . . 161