Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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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

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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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FALL 1975 SEPTEMBER . . . The FBI captured Patty Hearst in San Francisco, ending a 19-month search. Three months after her abduction by the Symbionese Liberation Army, she had announced she ' d joined the SLA to fight for the freedom of the oppressed people. She was charged with armed robbery . . . The University had its first woman police officer . . . Lehigh imposed a $5 fine for skateboarding . . . There was serious concern for Presi- dent Ford ' s safety after separate assassination attempts by Lynette Alice Squeaky Fromme, 26, and Sara Jane Moore, 45. Ford said he would not capitulate to would-be attackers by canceling personal appearances . . . Some Lehigh students were taking Saturday quizzes . . . Lehigh beat Penn in football for the first time since 1889, winning, 34-23 . . . RH-11 students complained about maintenance problems . . . OCTOBER . . . Foreigners fled Beirut as fighting in Lebanon spread and the death toll mounted . . . Leaders of the Senior Class Gift Campaign accepted and then rejected Erect a Fu- ture as the campaign slogan. It was to be used with a picture of the phallic Spiral Dork tombstone in North Bethlehem . . . The Nobel Committee awarded the 1975 Peace Prize to Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov ... A front-page headline in The New York Daily News read Ford to City: Drop Dead after the President a day ear- lier had said he would veto any legislation giving the city federal loan guarantees to avoid default . . . NOVEMBER . . . Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 77, one of the most adamant defenders of the liberal view of the Constitution, retired, citing failing health . . . Brian Hill took over as coach of the University varsity basketball team . . . Portugal pulled out of Angola, leaving the former colony in a state of civil war . . . The U.N. Gen- eral Assembly adopted an Arab-backed resolution defining Zionism as racism . . . The Lehigh field hockey team was undefeated in regular play. The team lost in the Mid- Atlantic Women ' s Intercollegiate Tournament . . . Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 82, died after ruling Spain with an iron hand 36 years . . . The Arts faculty passed a resolution urging the University to abandon its 20 per cent quota on women . . . The Engineer football squad won the Lambert Cup and was invited to play in the NCAA playoffs, in which Lehigh lost to New Hampshire . . . President Ford agreed to give federal aid to New York City to help meet its seasonal cash flow needs and avert default . . . The administration-faculty team beat the students, 20-14, in the first Donkey basketball game . . . DECEMBER . . . More than 100 Bethlehem resi- dents signed a petition calling on the University to allevi- ate pollution from its power house on Packer Avenue . . . Lehigh recognized Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Phi, and Gamma Phi Beta as its first sororities . . . South Boston High School was placed under federal control after two weeks of testimony in which black students said they had been harassed and beaten by white students and ignored by the administration and faculty ... A bomb hidden in a baggage claim area of New York City ' s La Guardia Air- port exploded, killing 11 and injuring 70 persons . . . SPRING 1976 JANUARY . . . Saturday Night Live and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman were becoming part of the evening schedule for many students . . . Coach Fred Dun- lap, who had led the Engineer football team to two Lam- bert Cup awards in three years, announced he would leave Lehigh to coach at Colgate, his alma mater. His post later was filled by John Whitehead . . . The Supreme Court upheld public financing of presidential campaigns, but overruled parts of the post-Watergate Federal Election Campaign Act, including spending limits for candidates . . . Fifteen Lehigh students and English Professor Peter Beidler began renovating a house on Vernon Street as part of the course, The Art of Self-Reliance in a Technologi- cal Society. The course received coverage from Time magazine and CBS and ABC television . . . Chinese Prime Minister Chou En-lai died at 78 . . . The University Board of Trustees approved another $250 tuition hike de- spite the $568,000 surplus run the previous year. A $100 hike in room and board fees also was approved ... It was reported a Midnight Marauder had been entering unlocked rooms in M M House and harassing women there . . . FEBRUARY . . . CBS news correspondent Daniel Schorr was relieved of his duties for an indefinite period after admitting he had leaked a copy of a House committee report on the CIA to The Village Voice . . . Godfrey Daniels opened on Positively Fourth Street, offering an alternative to bars and the Hill . . . More than 22,000 persons died in an earthquake in Guatemala . . . The National Center for Disease Control warned state health departments to be alert for a virus later to be called swine flu . . . Flo Kennedy, lawyer, author and co- founder of NOW, told a Whitaker Lab audience, We ' re all niggerized . . . Patty Hearst was convicted of armed robbery . . . MARCH . . . Egypt ended its Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with the Soviet Union. Presi- dent Ford a few days later said he would proceed with sales of military transport planes to Egypt, despite protest from American Jewish leaders ... It was reported that political pressure exerted by top Bethlehem officials had prevented the University from leasing 36 row houses on Birkel Avenue. The houses would have virtually solved Lehigh ' s housing shortage . . . The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that states could prosecute and imprison persons for committing homosexual acts, even if they were performed in private between consenting adults . . . Two days later the Court unanimously ruled that the mechanical re- spirator keeping Karen Anne Quinlan, 22, alive since April 1975 could be disconnected . . . Wrestling cocaptain Mike Frick ended his Lehigh career by being named an NCAA champ the second year in a row . . . The University Blaustein Lecture series featured former Sec. of Defense James Schleshinger, former Under Sec. of State George Ball, and renowned political scientist Hans Morgenthau . . . More than 150 students attended a Forum residence kcfSBD