Brown and White Vol. 64 no. 24

              dla meetings with the same speaking privileges as arcadia members the referendum to be held as part of the arcadia election feb 18 and 19 was made necessary when arca dia voted to reject the proposal at wednesday's meeting for other arcadia decisions see story p 3 idc president sam johnson col lected 1,000 signatures on petitions favoring this action thus insuring a referendum if arcadia defeated the proposal according to the proposal the liv ing group heads would not be em powered to make motions however they would be exempt from the rule that a student desiring to speak at a meeting either notify the president a week in advance or obtain the unanimous consent of the body as participants they would be seat ed at the meeting table instead of in chairs along the walls like other spectators johnson who led the support for the measure argued that un see arcadia page 4 james h wagner elections at the ifc meeting mon day night produced a new secretary phil smith 54 lambda chi and a new treasurer ray hartenstine 54 chi phi as well as the new elections d7c discussed plans for the rush ing season which starts feb 6 and also for ifc weekend march 21 in order to avoid the rushing con fusion which prevailed last year bids will be handed out in the ar cadia office the rushees will line up outside the room and in silence will go one-by-one to get their en velopes if any freshman has trouble de ciding which bids he wishes to ac cept chairs will be provided for meditating purposes it must be re membered however that strict sil ence is to be had at all times until the bids are received and signed ifc warned the fraternities are to hand in the bids to the arcadia office be tween 8 a.m and 1 p.m and they will be handed out between 1 p.m and 5 p.m mark kaufman co-chairman of the community service group an nounced the plans for the coming semester according to him there see ifc page 10 tion wagner said prepayment of tuition fees pre ferably before jan 28 should elimi nate the long lines at the bursar's office and allow us to register all upperclassmen during the first day the registrar stated freshmen will register the second day no student will be allowed to se cure his registration ticket unless he has obtained a tuition receipt or its equivalent from the bursar wag ner added payments will be ac cepted beginning today he said moreover a student who does not have the offical green light from the bursar's office will be forced to register late and will be assessed the late registration fee wagner intimated those who cannot finance the tui tion ahead of registration or who have other financial complications must obtain an equivalent receipt from the bursar before picking up their tickets wagner estimated that by placing the financial end of registration be fore the clerical more than 200 men an hour will be speeded through the checkers last year's rate was about 150 in addition to cutting one day from registration the automat ic filling in of three tickets will also be eliminated tickets seven and eight the stu dent's receipt of payment will be filled in and stamped first tickets four five and six will be eliminated at least their automatic filling in these are still on file in arcadia and the dean's office from last registra tion checkers will show the old file card to the student to ascertain whether any changes have been made if yes the old card will be yanked and a new one made out for the permanent file a check spot on ticket two will verify the fact that the student has passed through these particular checkers although prepayment will eli minate the bottleneck in the bursar's office wagner said new congestion due to the rate in crease may be created in dean robert more's office of the arts college dean more however see registration page 7 exams to begin jan 19 registration feb 2 3 exams start monday jan 19 and continue through wednesday jan 28 any student having a conflict in a section course will take the exami nation provided for the other section of the course registration for the spring semes ter is scheduled for feb 2 3 and classes will begin the following day junior class cabinet mulls hp dance marketing of blazers spring houseparty dance plans be gan to solidify wednesday evening when financial chairman marty pearl announced this year's budget to the junior class cabinet the en tire plan is based on the tentative sale of 900 tickets at 5 each jay greenstone music chair man reported that final arrange ments for the two bands should be completed in a few days and that if things go according to present plans it will be possible to feature two name bands at this year's dance john cable decoration committee see jr class page 7 jim gleckner lehigh center drives in for first period score against rutgers wednesday night he was fouled and seconds later made it a three-point play gleckner also scored 14 more as lehigh poured it on the scarlet 81-66 by john crane dick slaff and lehigh's basketball team caught fire in the second half wednesday night and behind slaff's scoring spree the engineers halted a highly-touted rutgers five 81-66 in a foul-ridden game in grace hall slaff tallied 15 points after the intermission as the engineers broke a 33-33 halftime deadlock driving and fast-breaking well the lehigh forward relied on ac curate one-handers and lay-ups to score 22 points in all he sank eight of 22 shots from the floor and six of seven fouls however it was a different story in the first half as both slaff and the lehigh five were off their usual form their shooting was below par and lehigh's deliberate weave failed to click against the rutgers defense in the second half the engineers perked up as they sank almost 50 percent of their field goal attempts showed good rebounding and con stantly set up shots with good pass ing both lehigh's weave and fast break kept working successfully and was almost helpless in trying to stop the onslaught see scoring page 9 lehigh university brown and w hite lehigh university bethlehem pa friday january 9 1953 volume 64 number 24 votes to decide big 3 seats registration sliced to 2 days tuition in advance key to cut classes start 4th under new policy bloodmobile herefeb.26,27 new goal set the student body will decide by referendum whether the presidents of ifc idc and town council should sit as par ticipants at the table at area ifc elects plans rushing blood will flow from lehigh arms to our fighting men in korea for the third year in a row plans for a third lehigh blood program for defense to be held here feb 26 and 27 have been announced by a 10-man spon soring committee this year's drive will attempt to top the record-shattering 494 pints given by the lehigh family last feb ruary the goal has been doubled to 1000 pints in 1953 according to plans drawn up just before christmas vacation the drive will be conducted this way prior to finals each living group will be asked to secure a list of prospective donors be ginning with the first day of spring classes feb 5 living group representatives will be given pledge cards they will be filled out by donors and turned in by feb 11 final step will be the appearance of the bloodmobile units in grace hall two each on feb 26 and 27 any healthy person between the see blood page 10 rutgers slashed 81-66 slaff scores 22 points see editorial page 2 spring registration has been cut to two days feb 2 and 3 registrar james h wagner told the brown and white wednesday classes will begin feb 4 instead of feb 5 as previously scheduled elimination of the third day is made possible by a plan whereby students will pay their tuition in advance of registra