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Preachers do not get charter Greg~Elbo be involved in the decision." l After receiving a recommen- Later still the Preachers dation from the Inter-Fraternity were informed that only Hig- Council, Associate Dean of bee would be making the Student Affairs Jeanne Hig- decision.' "Higbee then in- bee rejected the petition by formed us that the ,FC would Delta Pi Alpha to be rein- be giving her a recommenda- stated as a fraternity. The IFC- tion after we presented our made two recommendations; case for reinstatement. It was The Preachers would not be a month. into the semester given their charter back this before we were aware of th'e semester, they would 'be ~I- IFC's involvement' in our af- lowed to re-petition for in- fairs," said Johnson. statement next February." Jimmy Bigger, secretary of These recommendations were the Preachers, agreed with made by a group of twelve, Johnson, going on to say he three from each of the exist- felt that the IFC is in no ing fraternities. - position to be influencing his / Jimmy Johnson, president fraternity's existence. "We of the Preachers, responded have not been on good terms angrily to the decision. "Who with the Phi Delts or the are they (the IFC) to tell the Bachelors in recent years, I Preachers we don't have the don't believe that should at- ~gU~ht~g~X!~t~x~teash~~~o~: fe~h~~ ~~:~~~~d about the t:::==:3..._-:-....::= ~_~~=""""""..;.:_.£:.liiIi ....IIIIt!;.....;._;.'J else." Johnson went on to policy making concerning the voice his displeasure at. the Preacher's charter, Higbee .tact that the IFC was given admitted that the Preachers the power to make the.recom- had been told different things The mendation. at different times during the "The IFC is not removed semester. Mowbray stated the enough to make an unbiased reason for this occurring decision, they hold grudges being that he had recently against individuals in the fra- made it official that Higbee Phoenix temity and used this to settle would be mainly responsible the grudge." Johnson also for fraternity affairs. noted the fact that the IFC "I still discuss matters with had nothing to do with the Dean Higbee, but she will be Western Maryland College Volume II. Number 11 'suspension of the charter last handling the fraternal matters; Spring, and feels they should it is part of her job descrip- felt that the behavior of the thoughts on the decision the decision was about to be not have been involved in this ticn," said Mowbray. group did not give them rea" I, Matt Baker. president of Phi made." decision. When questioned about the son to reinstate the Preach- Delta Theta, stated hie opin- Chris Carter, president of Another aspect of the deci- decision Mowbray stated, ers. "If the Preachers feel ion. "It is a shame that a Sigma Phi Epsilon, said, "In sion Johnson found trouble- "We felt the IFC recommen- they have not been treated tradition,this. old should come, light of the circumstances I some was the Student Affairs dation was such that we correctly they have the right this close to dying, but we felt think it was the right deci- Office's seemingly inconaiat- could support it." Mowbray to appeal the decision to me." the actions of the members of sian." ent policy making. Johnson went on to say that it should Mowbray did want it known the Preachers were harmful Nino Dirienzo, president of elaborated: "Dean Mowbray - be noted that the Preacher's that Higbee dld consult him and disruptive not only to Gamma Beta Chi, felt the mtcrmed us that he would be charter has not been -Ilfted before the decision was themselves but also to the decision was a mistake. "The making the decision concern- permanently, although such made. campus community as a Preachers weren't given a fair ing our reinstatement. Later an action was considered. The presidents of the other 'whole. They didn't seem to chance, they have been he said Dean Higbee would Mowbrav said that his office fraternities each voiced their attempt to really change until c~tinued to page 3 "Lost" Maryland Bush assesses Arms Race Joe Olcott enemy, to "counter-force" (the other hundreds of times over. , "The democratic process ability to duplicate the de- The concept of matching the Nearly 1,000 "lost" photographs of life in Maryland in hasn't done a thing up till now struction the other side in- number and type of weapons the first decade of the twentieth century have recently been to prevent a proliferation. of flicts), and finally to the leads to a continual, draining uncovered by a Western Maryland College_professor. A nuclear weapons---I think the concept of "strategic reserve" arms race. "There is a debate large selection of this photo record of disasters, sporting time has come for you to (having a reserve of nuclear about whether it adds events, political life, and just everyday .Maryland living will change that" said retired weapons besides the initial' more -security to increase tour the state next fall in an exhibit called "Mrs. MiUer's Navy Captain James T. Bush attacking weapons). or decrease (the number of) Maryland: The Lady from Leslie's." in Decker Audltorlum on With this last concept, stra- nuclear weapons" Bush said; , Jointly funded by the Maryland Committee for the March 2. tegic reserve, "we lost any he supports a decrease as Humanities and Western Maryland College, the traveling His speech, titled "The Nu- idea of how much was being more secure. "How can exhibit will feature the local portion of the wide-ranging work. clear Arms Race: A Failure of enough" said Capt. Bush. In- we possibly need more weap- of pioneer photojournalist Mrs~Charles R. Miller..-This "first Democracy," was one event stead of having a certain ons?" he asked. " . woman war correspondent" and popular traver writer was a in the second annual Elderd- number of weapons for a Capt. Bush said "there's got star photographer and reporter for the national magazine, ice Peace Week at WMC, purpose, Bush said, we got to to be some place to stop Leslie's Weekly, from the closing days of the Spanish- comparing the arsenals, What we need IS some- American War to World War I. She was widely acclaimed at which focused on nuclear dis- trying to get a numerical ad- thing that's simple and some- armament. i the time for her photographic scoops, exclusive interviews Capt. Bush outlined U.S. vantage. This strategy led to thing that says 'Stop now!" I" with foreign figures, and daring exploits to get the unusual strategies concerning nuclear an upward spiral in nuclear This something, said Bush, is . i story from the newsworthy and from exotic corners of the weapons through the years: arms, with each side introduc- the nuclear freeze movement. globe. • ing new weapons which the Capt. Bush supports a bilat- Working in archives and libraries around the country from "massive retaliation" (the other side soon copied. eral nuclear freeze, eventually over the past several years, Keith N. Richwine, head of concept of responding to a This build-up, Bush said," followed by an equal reduc- conventional attack on us with Western Maryland's English department and Director of a nuclear attack), to "assured resulted in a rough equilib- tionin nuclear arms. A freeze American Studies, has couectec and pieced together the destruction" (the ability to de- rium, but one that had no would affect the testing, pro- extensive-but long-forgotten recoid of Mrs. Miller's brilliant stroy 35 percent of the popu- justification since the U.S. and duction, and deployment of but brief career. lation and 50 percent of the the U.S.S.R. can destroy each nuclear weapons for both continued to page 5 industrial capability of the continued to page 5