Vol. CXXVI, No. 1 Phi Gamma Delta, DePauw University, Greencast(e, Indiana Spring 1982 Mangels, Grads Make Dinner Success 125 + 1 for another year. Apparently, however, Lambda Chapter celebrated its glorious history once again at the anthe undergrads did not fair as well on nual Norris Pig Dinner held the second the raquetball and tennis courts. For those not athletically inclinded, the weekend in April. While not the equiafternoon offered the opportunity to valent of the 125th Anniversary, year 126 certainly did not pass unnoticed. tour campus and reminisce about their Through the dedicated work of Chairyears at DePauw. man Jay Carney '84 and Paul Qua '82, The beginning of the Lambda Fel- . the fine tradition of Lambda again lowship Hour lured everyone back to . came to the forefront. · tqe ''.Garn" for a little business mixed This year showcased the new Lilly with a lot of pleasure. The business end . was accomplished with the meeting of Physical Education Center and Gaumey Neal Fieldhouse, which is :the the House Corporation, which by the name the University has attached to . · way; has been moved to occur annually the new gym until they can think of during Pig Dinner Weekend. Hopefully something better (not to mention this date will allow the undergraduates shorter). Those graduates fortunate to get a better grasp of the Chapter's enough to attend are aware that the operation. And with the increase of the Board to fifteen members, we anticinew facility offers almost limitless pate an even better opportunity for opportunities to burn off excess calories. The traditional grad-undergrad graduates to assist in our upward climb. Business was certainly not our only basketball championship saw youth claim bragging rights over experience (continued on page 4) The success of any Norris Pig Dinner is measured by the enthusiasm of its participants. Fortunately, we were agafo blessed with a core of enthusiastic graduates and undergraduates who exemplified the ideals of a strong graduate program. In his role as guest speaker; Bud Mangels Zeta '56 instilled a renewed spirit of achievement . in all of those present. He spoke on the importance of setting a priority and continuing through on this project to its conclusion. The soundness of this advice is obvious; yet, many people seem unwilling to follow through with this policy. He also spoke on the extreme importance of rush, which we certainly would not argue, and with your assistance, we hope to maintain the excellent standards that Lambda has set for itself. Our guest list included many other outstanding Fiji graduates as .well: our (continued on page 7) \r\nPage 2 Tiger Fiji Spring 1982 President's Corner COMMENTS from the CORPORATION Dear Brothers, Greetings from Lambda. As final exams and Fiji Isle approach, we at Lambda reflect on a year of growth and progress. Many improvements have been made to the property itself. 1981-82 saw the completion of backyard renovation. The yard now includes a new lawn, attractive fencing (thank you Brother Jim Sanford), and an improved sidewalk. This summer, the exterior of the house will be repainted; also, additional concrete work will be done on the porch and along the north side of the house. Improvements inside the house have also occurred. A new sauna is the latest addition to our basement. We hope to soon remodel the entire basement. First floor remodeling is currently being discussed by Mom's and Dad's Club. But more important than these tangible improvements is the growing progressive attitude and commitment to the fraternity by the brothers. More than ever, there is a sincere desire for the house to completely realize its potential. Much of the inspiration for this has come from you - the graduate brothers. George Dirks is alrady a legend at Lambda. Support from other graduates is increasing, especially through the House Corporation. New directors of the corporation include: Harry Cangany '72, Joseph Carney '50, Paul Detleps '77, Kent Fletcher '75, Steve Hancock '78, Phil Heyde '72 , Steve Jacobs '71, Paul VanBooven '73, and Joe Vosicky '71. These brothers will be meeting annually at Pig Dinner. We hope you can join them. We ar Lambda are very excited about the future. We invite you to share in that excitement. Give us a call, drop us a note, or stop by when in Greencastle. Hope to see you soon. George Dirks '29, President Perge! Kent D. Zepick '83 MEMORIAL We deeply regret the loss of Brother David McCulloch Bon '34. Our prayers and thoughts go out to his wife, Frances, his daughter, Mrs. Geoffrey Parker and the rest of his family and friends. Lambda Corporation is organized under the laws of Indiana as a not-forprofit corporation for the purpose of owning and maintaining the property occupied by Lambda Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta. Under its By-Laws, every initiate of the chapter "who is not an undergraduate" is automatically a member of the Corporation. We are rapidly becoming a milliondollar corporation, thanks to inflation. Present values for insurance purposes place the value of the house at $825, 000, contents at $60,000, and land at $31,000. The Corporation currently has some cash reserves, but these are allocated to upcoming repairs, so should not be included. See later comments. Against these assets we owe $269,000 - a first mortgage balance of $119,000 to Central National Bank, and $150,000 to DePauw. The mortgage is paid monthly, the notes will start to come due beginning in 1989. The Corporation operates on an income of $27 ,000 annual rental paid by the chapter, plus an occasional donation, and some interest earned on reserves. The rent paid by the chapter bears no relationship to the value of the property. It is pegged at the maximum which the chapter can afford to pay and still keep house bills in line. This year house bills are $280 a month on a ninemonth basis, about as high as we can go and be competitive in that area. Next year will probably see everything go higher. DePauw has already announced that dorm fees will be $2,600 for 1982-83, and we are usually about $200 higher than their fees annually. Out of the $27,000 the Corporation receives in rent, we have fixed expenses of$14,500 mortgage payments, $3, 700 interest to DePauw, and $3,500 for our comprehensive insurance coverage. This leaves $5,300 for repairs and replacements. This is designed to cover major items, since the chapter budget includes $6,000 to cover, for lack of a better term, "ordinary wear and tear". In a fraternity house, the wear and tear sometimes becomes "extraordinary". Up to now, this above budget arrangement has kept us on an even keel, and we are fortunate to have a little surplus as of this writing. However, we are faced with some major projects which could use all we have in reserve. One is that the concrete work on the north side has settled, and we are getting water in the basement at the time of heavy rains, or as recently, major snow melts. Correction of this, and the front slab, which has tilted backward - about $4,500. Also, we may be in for a similar expense in some replacements in the plumbing system. More on that later, as we get the results from some analysis -how under way. Also, in the not too distant future, we are faced with exterior painting and must think about re-roofing of the Phase I section. Let's hope these things don't come in bunches! None of the above comments takes into consideration some funds received from a special appeal made a little over two years ago. We were asking for $57 ,500, most of which was to prepay our bank mortgage to an extent that it would mature in 1988 rather than in 1996 as scheduled. We would thus avoid a heavy cash flow problem during the eight years between the two mentioned, in trying to pay the mortgage balance plus the principal of several DePauw notes at the same time. The response to this appeal was a little less than ten per cent of what we requested, to be exact, $5,525 from 31 members. Of the total, $500 has been spent for some landscaping, as a special gift for a designated purpose. The remainder is on deposit, along with some reserves, in a money market fund paying about 14%. Since the mortgage rate is 9 1,4 %, it does not make sense to prepay it as long as our funds can earn more. Our thanks to these brothers who have contributed to date: Frank Tupper '46; Gene Paxton '43; Dr. Jim Ross '62; Jim Stuart '75; Dr. Bob Jenkins '41; Russ Kuehl '28; Dan Sutherlin '7 6; Ralph Riecker '54; Larry Lowe '38; Dick Crowder '31; Clint Cox '38; Paul Van Booven '73; Bill Sharp '46; Bill Walsh '43; Bill Jones '30; Stan Niles '34; George Dirks '29; Craig Stokely '67; Bob Canfield '60; Bob Scism '46; John Browning '24; Tipton Ross '42; Bob Coleman '16; Jim San(continued on page 7) \r\nSpring 1982 Nuclear Freeze Pro/Con Recently, nuclear arms buildups and increased military expenditures have been in the center of public attention. In response, a movement in favor of a freeze on the production of nuclear weapons has become increasingly provalent, especially on college campuses. Inasmuch as we have two aspiring politicans at Lambda who have fallen on opposing sides of this issue, they requested that they be allowed to present their views. Remembering that the reason we are attending DePauw is for intellectual advancement, and not wanting to impede any possible political careers, we have consented to print their articles unedited. The proposal that we "freeze" all nuclear weapons procurement at existing levels has become a battle cry taken up by many American academicians who are convinced that this is the only way in which the world can be saved, and tell us that if they were the powers that they would take steps to achieve just that end. Listening to such violin cadenzas make it very easy for me to understand why William F. Buckley made the statement that he would rather be governed by the first 100 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the faculty of Harvard University. Perhaps no better assessment of America's educators is better than the one given by one of our former Presidents: ... Too many of America's intellectual and cultural elite have shown themselves to be brilliant, creative, trendy, gulliable, smun, and blind in one eye. They tend to see bad only on the Right, not on the Left. Extremely sophisticated about ideas in the abstract, they can be extremely simplistic and naive about the realities of the actual global conflict we find ourselves engaged in. "War" is "bad", "Peace" is "good" and posturing with words is everything. Now one would expect such unrealistic policy proposals from college professors and the like, but to have U.S. Congressmen and Senators and others in positions of responsibility advocate this course of action is more Tiger Fiji than disturbing. It is more than obvious that those who sponsored a call for a freeze did so for the following reasons. 1) The Democrats desire a KempRoth of their own. An oversold piece of legislation that promises all things to all people. 2) Liberals would rather take the "easy way out." That is, instead of developing policy alternatives to the Reagan economic program, to take politically dangerous steps like talking about raising taxes or cutting benefit programs to reduce the deficit, they change the subject and start to talk about freezes to divert public attention from more substantive issues. 3) Liberal politicians, journalists and academicians still cry out that Ronald Reagan and Alexander Haig are "warmongers," "desire armed conflict," and so on add nauseum, and like to use the nuclear freeze to supposedly prove their point. Since Reagan is against the freeze he is "against peace," so they say, and they proceed to call upon the electorate to fight Reagan defense policy. This type of twisted logic is best illustrated by the following: God is Love, Love is Blind. Ray Charles is Blind, ergo, God is Ray Charles. I rest my case on that argument. In short, I wish college professors across the nation would encourage careful examination of all issues and not continue to indoctrinate students with oversimplifications that lead to false and detrimental conclusions by a student body that is composed of many individuals that have not yet realized that "Ph.D." many times stands for "piled higher and deeper." To reduce the issues to such sophistic statements as "we have enough to blow up every Russian seven times", or "nobody wins in a nuclear war" is not only misleading, but rejects the tenets of Euclidean thought that are an essential ingredient of our political process. This is precisely the type of educating that encourages students to wield rhetoric and slogans, not concrete ideas or well-thought solutions. Sometimes I wonder whether we are slandering the educational tradition to call such a process by that name. One point, however, is clear. There are no easy answers to the nuclear dilemma, Page 3 or any other problem for that matter. To antagonize the populace with false hopes through alleged solutions, which are not couched within the realm of possibility, can only be detrimental to the arms control process, and the rest of our political process as well. Reuben F. Johnson '82 Perge! Quite obviously, the proliferation of nuclear weapons is the most grave issue confronting the human commun~­ ty today. Mounting public realization of this mindless arms race is finally compelling world leaders to pay heed. However, based on the historic failures in achieving meaningful accords between the two Super Powers, a grassroots movement favoring a freeze in the production and deployment of nuclear weapons has emerged. Those who belong to this movement are not members of seditions, Kremlin - oriented, Communist organizations. Rather, they represent a vast cross-section of Americans ranging from concerned mothers to erudite scientists to distinguished U.S. military officers. My friend and brother, Reuben Johnson, and others of the neo-fascistic, far-right would have Americans believe that the rise .of the nuclear freeze movement is a direct result of a Communist conspiring bent on the weakening of U.S. military capabilities. McCarthyist rhetoric of this sort is a fundamental impediment to the mutual trust necessary for substantial bilateral reductions in the Super Power's arsenals. Because a spirit of trust is a prerequisite to bilateral arms reductions, the U.S. should freeze its nuclear weaponry at present levels for a period of one year. This could be done without compromising our second-strike (deterent) capability. In contrast to the Soviet Union, a majority of our nuclear weapons systems are not landbased. Specifically, what I am saying is a U.S. nuclear freeze would not leave our Polaris and Trident submarines vulnerable to a Soviet first-strike. Moreover, the logic behind the freeze is that the Soviets, who are currently facing a (continued on page 4) \r\nPage 4 Tiger Fiji Spring 1982 Nuclear Freeze (continued) 125 debilitating economic malaise, would gladly reciprocate by instituting a freeze of their own thus enabling them to reduce the enormous drain on their resources. Logic dictates that they do so since they realize that categorical nuclear superiority is not possible. Hence, with the mutual trust engendered by reciprocal Super Power freezes, meaningful bilateral reductions could take place. Contrast this with the fallacio\ls reasoning of Messrs. Johnson, Ha'"ig, Helms, and Reagan who advocate the further deployment of nuclear weapons only to have them withdrawn at a later date. In short, this is a paradoxical policy of reduction by escalation! The nuclear freeze concept, admittedly, is not a guarantee to avoiding a nuclear holocaust. For clearly if after one year grace period the Soviets did not reciprocate, the U.S. could act accordingly. Yet, because there is a distinct possibility that such a course of action might prove successful, it would be not only to our advantage but to the advantage of all the peoples of the world for the concept of a nuclear freeze to become an integral part of U.S. Foreign Policy. William H. Tipton '82 Perge! + 1 (continued) priority, however, as the end of Fellowship Hour led directly to the commencement of Pig Dinner itself. Of course, both the stem and stern of the pig had to be saluted before the festivities could begin in earnest. George Dirks '29 did the honors for the former, while P.J. Stanish '85 accommodated the latter. (We could not actually eat the pig - the scrawny thing looked like it had spent its years on a Beverly Hills Diet Plan). Upon the completion of dinner, Master of Ceremonies Paul Qua put his Vl'.it on display -- those of you who know Paul realize what that means. Paul relinquished the podium to Joseph Carney '50, who brought greetings from the Archonate, and George Dirks for the House Corporation Report. Lambda Chapter took this opportunity to reward George for his many years of dedicated service with a scroll signed by all those present of- fering our thanks. Joe Carney then announced that he had begun a fund drive among his fellow graduates and awarded Lambda with the fruits of his efforts. Thank you Joe and grads for your support! This brought us to the unquestioned highlight of the evening, our guest speaker Bud Mangels (see associated article). As was put so aptly by one undergrad, "Never have I seen a room full of guys that quiet and that attentive for so long." The close of the official ceremonies offered everyone to celebrate another traditional college pasttime - the local bars. While lacking the numbers that 125th brought, this Pig Dinner Weekend did not fail to live up to greatest expectations. Everyone in attendance was again reminded of the quintessential part of the ritual - Phi Gamma Delta is not for college days alone. \r\nJqi ®ummu ~dtu 1Q11mhb11