Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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CULTURAL CENTER OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY Lehigh may once have been a haven where engi- neering students could avoid any contact with culture for four years, but that has not been so this year. Groups have been fighting for dates to present their aspect of culture to the university community, usually free of charge. CPA brought the National Players, the Cuarier String Quartet, the Danzi Woodwind Quintet and other classical concerts to Lehigh. FVLC spon- sored talks by William Kunstler, Byron Bloch, Russel Kirk and other notables. The Berman, Blaustein and Globus series continued to bring interesting and mem- orable programs to the campus. And the Concert Committee actually made money on a concert. An unhappy turn of fate caused the William Kunstler lecture to be the best attended and most topical event in this year ' s calendar. Civil rights attorney William Kunstler was well-known for his defense of the Chi- cago 7, but the Attica Prison uprising, three weeks be- fore his lecture in mid- September, brought his name to the headlines once more. Kunstler ' s lecture told of his part as arbitrator between the rebelling prisoners and the prison officials. He spoke with frustration con- cerning the unfruitful negotiations and angrily termed the ensuing deaths inexcusable homicide and offi- cial murder . Kunstler held his audience of over 2500 in their seats for over an hour with stirring descriptions of prison inequities and the Attica tragedy. The National Players returned to Lehigh this year with two plays. The Miser , Moliere ' s brisk and whimsical satire, was presented on Friday, October 1. The play is the story of an eccentric penny-pincher who attempts to thwart his daughter ' s love affair through miserly means only to have love triumph over money in the end. The Players successfully brought the 1 7th century humor to the modern audience and provided an enjoyable evening of entertainment.

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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION This book is similar to the sign on the left in that it symbolizes a departure. It is a break with the tradi- tional yearbook of the past, though this does not mean that the book is radical or freaky . The hope is that this book, through its changes, can better capture some of your feelings about Lehigh. Obviously it can- not mirror everyone ' s tho ughts on the varied aspects of university life, but it is hoped that a few of the di- verse ideas present at Lehigh will be portrayed within the 1972 Epitome. The premise of this book is that there is a single un- ity to Lehigh that cannot readily be subdivided into residence halls, sports, seniors, administration, and the like. However, it is necessary to lend some rationality to the book in order to make it readable, thus these groupings must survive to some extent. This book, then, attempts to link these arbitrary groupings through the use of magazine-style articles. Addition- ally this book will group faculty, graduating seniors, and course societies together according to their re- spective departments. That is, seniors will be arranged alphabetically within the department of their major. Croup shots of that department ' s faculty will then be included on the same page as the senior portraits. An alphabetical listing of all graduating seniors who paid their senior assessments may be found in the senior directory beginning on page 270 of this book. The articles mentioned above will cover a variety of subjects beginning with an essay on cultural opportu- nities at Lehigh on the next page. Other articles in- clude a somewhat humorous look, though not without its serious comments, at the total undergraduate ex- perience at Lehigh. Entitled It Was Four Years, it be- gins on page 94. Of course, the most obvious change at Lehigh this past year was the introduction of coedu- cation. On page 166 first-year coed Andrea Siegel gives her rather animated view of the first year of co- education at Lehigh. Immediately following this article is an interesting article by Dave Ingram on Lehigh spirit, a phenomenon noticeably absent from the apathetic campus in past years. Following the essay on Lehigh ' s sports ' year Dave discusses the intramural program, a more spirited interest at Lehigh, from the view of a most interested participant-the IM manager. Next Year: The President ' s Cup begins on page 206. The concluding articles are of a more serious nature. The first on page 226 by John Gaughan takes a look at the Lehigh University Volunteers, a group of students which is effecting important changes in the Lehigh Valley. The final article is The Forum: Struggle to Sur- vive in which author Steve Clickstein poses some im- portant questions for both the present Lehigh commu- nity and we as the alumni, in addition to providing valuable insights into the first two years of the Forum ' s operation. Hopefully the diversity of these articles will com- plement the more traditional groupings of college yearbooks— the faculty senior section (page 19), living groups (page 113), sports essay (page 178), and clubs (page 232). Within these changes I hope you find the expanded format (11 x 14 as opposed to 9 x 12 ), the larger pictures, and the increased copy to be meaningful de- viations from the traditional yearbook. The purpose of the yearbook remains the same however, and I hope that twenty years from now you will be able to pick up the ' 72 Epitome and recall your years at Lehigh. TLF

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Counterclockwise starting at left, speakers (his year included Joseph Heller of Catch 22; former Secretary of the Interior, Stewert Udall; William Kunstler, attorney for the Chicago 7 and arbitrator at the Attica tragedy; and this year ' s Berman lecturer. Arthur Okun, chair- man of the President ' s Council of Economic Advisors under Johnson.