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causing an estimated personal damage of 40 edward farrell assistant superin tendent of buildings and grounds told the brown and white that the damage to the room would be re paired within a week cleaning and painting of the walls started yester day farrell said a junior was immediately sus pended by the university committee on discipline with loss of all semes ter credits for betrayal of trust as a university employee surreptitious ly securing extra id cards and de frauding the university by using them to secure football tickets at a committee meeting wed nesday this and other actions found necessary by the commit tee were taken it was announc ed by wray h congdon dean of students suspension for the spring semester and five demerits have been given a sophomore for cheating in an hour quiz attempting to deceive an in structor with a changed quiz paper and denying facts one freshman will be suspended for the next semester for entering a locked building and securing an in structor's grade book to change grades a sophomore and freshman were given the same penalty for il legally making and possessing keys to university buildings for unpremeditated cheating in an hour quiz a junior has been dropped from the course and denied credit the same plus three demerits have been given a sophomore for possess ing but not using a crib in an hour quiz a sophomore has had his identifi cation card revoked for illegal pos session of extra cards he was also given three demerits warnings were issued to four stu dents for negligence of rules govern ing the taking of a quiz residence hall regulations of scholastic pro bation restrictions and of regula tions governing laboratory reports half million donated in 52 lu endowment - - 9.8 million cort chairman of the lehigh alum ni fund 2,198 alumni broke all past records for giving and provided a total of 151,348 through the fund proceeds of the campaign were used for the modernization of taylor house dormitory built in 1906 through a gift of andredw carnegie 92,500 was totaled from six teen scholarships and fellow ships endowed by industrial firms r p hutchinson bethle 543,648 in gifts and bequests came into the lehigh fold during 1952 ac cording to treasurer elmer w glick the total endowment of the univer sity at the end of 1952 reached the figure of 9,802,820 of the total received during the past year 235,313 represents contributions to the plant fund and 70,991 was donated to the lehigh progress fond in announcing the gifts to the uni versity glick pointed out that 195 860 had been added to capital en dowment as directed by the donors all of this went into realizing the nine and three quarter million dol lar total under the direction of stewart j bethlehem fire-fighting equipment arrived a quarter-hour too late to prevent a fire in a wastepaper bas ket from causing extensive smoke damage to richards 104 on monday night breaking a window to gain ad mittance to the room an un identified by-stander helped sec tion president leland wolford 54 who entered by the door to extinguish the blaze with two hand fire extinguishers alfred davidoff 56 who discov ered the fire at about 9:30 reported that the black oily smoke which filled the room was thick enough to obscure vision totally campus po lice stated if unchecked the smoke could easily have suffocated the room's inhabitants john niffen ger 56 and bill burgin 56 had they been present at the time of the blaze fortunately police said neither of the two was in the room arriving well after the one fire engine which responded to the call a bethlehem fire inspector deter mined the cause of the fire as a ci garette dropped while still smould ering into the waste-basket which contained kleenex the excessively thick smoke was attributed to the plastic composition of the basket soot spread through drawers and between sheets and clothing hem is chairman of the univer sity's committee which is seek ing to have other business and industrial groups establish en dowed scholarship funds at le high individuals also added an other 18,000 to the scholarship funds albert b maginnes has recently been named as chiarman of the trust ees committee on bequests to the university the bequests from eight estates totaled 114,066 by a distribution of 10,119 from the estate of asa packer founder of the university the endowment fund was increased since the opening of the university in 1865 contributions from the founder and his estate have totaled 2,636,828 aii uncommon patch of ice a borrowed foreign sports car and a sport night fraternity hazing stunt added up to a fractured skull for one lehigh tosh and a miraculous escape from death without ser ious injury for his buddy at 4 a.m wednesday just outside of coopersburg the injured student malachy murray a theta kap pa phi pledge still lay in very critical condition early thursday morning in st luke's hospital as this issue went to press according to hospital authorities he had not regained conscious ness murray underwent a four-hour craniotomy at st luke's hospital performed by bethlehem neuro-sur geon dr howard r erb hospital authorities reported murray had passed the crisis early that eve ning richard di blasi 54 also a theta kappa phi pledge and the driver of the 1951 english mg escaped with cuts and brush burns of the head and hands he was admitted to st luke's wednesday afternoon however for observation shock and se dation the car owned by paul miller 54 was completely demolished ac cording to coopersburg police it had skidded and overturned on an area of ice on highway 309 at fluck's hill scene of six accidents within 10 minutes during a recent ice storm an underground stream which creates unusual icy conditions on the highway is attributed by police to causing the accident no charges were pressed against di blasi po lice estimate he was traveling about 30 miles per hour police found the sportscar turned completely around on the other side of the highway they estimated the car had skidded about 150 feet on the ice overturned and continued upside down for about a hundred feet more before righting itself and coming to a full stop some 500 copies of brown and white's intended for early morning town delivery were scattered along with gloves ci garets and hubcaps up to 100 feet away from the car miller is b&w delivery man according to police and other con firmed reports the accident came about this way di blasi and murray as pledges were sent out to a restaurant in quakertown to complete a sport night project at 2:30 a.m both were instructed not to use their cars they were able to borrow the mg from miller ad to complete the proj ect by 4 a.m they were on their way home when the accident occurr according to police reports truckers on the highway spotted the wreck and called for an am bulance from quakertown hospi tal murray was transferred to st luke's around noon wed nesday di blasi was released shortly after admittance but was admitted to st luke's for observation later in the day murray's parents were notified and they flew from long beach long island to bethlehem and to his bed four theta kappa phi brothers donated blood in the afternoon see editorial page two brown and white bethlehem pa 4 a.m pledge trip ends in tragedy volume 64 number 28 friday january 16 1953 five suspended for keys cribs warnings given m/sgt ronol strickland decorated veteran of the war in europe and recipient of the purple heart medal with cluster cited the need for blood donations to aid recovery of the wounded in the present korean campaign plasma is vital — m sgt tells why polgar to display prowess tonite if exam worries are keeping you awake nights dr franz polgar famed hypnotist has a sure cure for insomnia he will appear in grace hall at 8 tonight to perform his feats of the mind on a number of vol unteer students from the audi ence his program will also in clude telepathy demonstrations and memory feats admission is free on presentation of id cards guest tickets will cost 1.00 dr polgar returning to lehigh by popular demand achieved his ac claim from sundry performances be fore college audiences and a cbs television show titled fun with the mind see blood page 5 it was there when i needed it and that's what counts when m-sgt ronol strick land made this statement he was speaking about blood blood which probably saved his life after a shrapnel wound in the battle for normandy in world war 11 sgt strickland is the newest ad dition to the army roto staff at lehigh he arrived here after a tour of duty in europe a tour much quieter than his first trip during the last war citing the need for blood plasma to be sent overseas for the wounded the sergeant is eminently qualified to discuss the subject after his first wound in normandy when he lay waiting for medical aid for 10 hours he was firmly convinced of the value of blood and the value of having it there was a hot time in richards but nobody was home to enjoy it ifc president's crash comment when notified of the accident in volving fraternity pledges on a pledge assignment interfraternity council president bill davis 53 released the following view it is shocking disappoint ing and discouraging to learn that a boy has been injured as a result of hazing a practice many of us have worked so hard to eli minate and one no longer prac ticed by most of our fraternities here at lehigh after repeatedly emphasizing the limitation of pre-initiation activities to work projects or harmless games within a house and after receiving the apparent approval of all our member fraternities of the elimina tion of the obsolete hell week i was complacently confident that our fraternity group could be proud of its adult approach to an outmoded tradition — by the replacement of hell week with help week i sincerely hope that the frater nity system and the fraternity in question will not be judged and condemned for the thoughtless ne glect of responsibility on the part of a few men arcadia will publish directory of candidates see arcadia page 6 in an effort to better acquaint the student body with the arcadia can didates the elections committee will publish a pamphlet this is your candidate in which the names next b & w friday 13th the next issue of the brown and white will appear friday the 13th of february we hope the ominousness of the date will have no effect on the paper
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Title | Brown and White Vol. 64 no. 26 |
Date | 1953-01-16 |
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Date | 1953-01-16 |
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Title Essay | Published twice a week during the college year by the students of Lehigh University |
FullText | causing an estimated personal damage of 40 edward farrell assistant superin tendent of buildings and grounds told the brown and white that the damage to the room would be re paired within a week cleaning and painting of the walls started yester day farrell said a junior was immediately sus pended by the university committee on discipline with loss of all semes ter credits for betrayal of trust as a university employee surreptitious ly securing extra id cards and de frauding the university by using them to secure football tickets at a committee meeting wed nesday this and other actions found necessary by the commit tee were taken it was announc ed by wray h congdon dean of students suspension for the spring semester and five demerits have been given a sophomore for cheating in an hour quiz attempting to deceive an in structor with a changed quiz paper and denying facts one freshman will be suspended for the next semester for entering a locked building and securing an in structor's grade book to change grades a sophomore and freshman were given the same penalty for il legally making and possessing keys to university buildings for unpremeditated cheating in an hour quiz a junior has been dropped from the course and denied credit the same plus three demerits have been given a sophomore for possess ing but not using a crib in an hour quiz a sophomore has had his identifi cation card revoked for illegal pos session of extra cards he was also given three demerits warnings were issued to four stu dents for negligence of rules govern ing the taking of a quiz residence hall regulations of scholastic pro bation restrictions and of regula tions governing laboratory reports half million donated in 52 lu endowment - - 9.8 million cort chairman of the lehigh alum ni fund 2,198 alumni broke all past records for giving and provided a total of 151,348 through the fund proceeds of the campaign were used for the modernization of taylor house dormitory built in 1906 through a gift of andredw carnegie 92,500 was totaled from six teen scholarships and fellow ships endowed by industrial firms r p hutchinson bethle 543,648 in gifts and bequests came into the lehigh fold during 1952 ac cording to treasurer elmer w glick the total endowment of the univer sity at the end of 1952 reached the figure of 9,802,820 of the total received during the past year 235,313 represents contributions to the plant fund and 70,991 was donated to the lehigh progress fond in announcing the gifts to the uni versity glick pointed out that 195 860 had been added to capital en dowment as directed by the donors all of this went into realizing the nine and three quarter million dol lar total under the direction of stewart j bethlehem fire-fighting equipment arrived a quarter-hour too late to prevent a fire in a wastepaper bas ket from causing extensive smoke damage to richards 104 on monday night breaking a window to gain ad mittance to the room an un identified by-stander helped sec tion president leland wolford 54 who entered by the door to extinguish the blaze with two hand fire extinguishers alfred davidoff 56 who discov ered the fire at about 9:30 reported that the black oily smoke which filled the room was thick enough to obscure vision totally campus po lice stated if unchecked the smoke could easily have suffocated the room's inhabitants john niffen ger 56 and bill burgin 56 had they been present at the time of the blaze fortunately police said neither of the two was in the room arriving well after the one fire engine which responded to the call a bethlehem fire inspector deter mined the cause of the fire as a ci garette dropped while still smould ering into the waste-basket which contained kleenex the excessively thick smoke was attributed to the plastic composition of the basket soot spread through drawers and between sheets and clothing hem is chairman of the univer sity's committee which is seek ing to have other business and industrial groups establish en dowed scholarship funds at le high individuals also added an other 18,000 to the scholarship funds albert b maginnes has recently been named as chiarman of the trust ees committee on bequests to the university the bequests from eight estates totaled 114,066 by a distribution of 10,119 from the estate of asa packer founder of the university the endowment fund was increased since the opening of the university in 1865 contributions from the founder and his estate have totaled 2,636,828 aii uncommon patch of ice a borrowed foreign sports car and a sport night fraternity hazing stunt added up to a fractured skull for one lehigh tosh and a miraculous escape from death without ser ious injury for his buddy at 4 a.m wednesday just outside of coopersburg the injured student malachy murray a theta kap pa phi pledge still lay in very critical condition early thursday morning in st luke's hospital as this issue went to press according to hospital authorities he had not regained conscious ness murray underwent a four-hour craniotomy at st luke's hospital performed by bethlehem neuro-sur geon dr howard r erb hospital authorities reported murray had passed the crisis early that eve ning richard di blasi 54 also a theta kappa phi pledge and the driver of the 1951 english mg escaped with cuts and brush burns of the head and hands he was admitted to st luke's wednesday afternoon however for observation shock and se dation the car owned by paul miller 54 was completely demolished ac cording to coopersburg police it had skidded and overturned on an area of ice on highway 309 at fluck's hill scene of six accidents within 10 minutes during a recent ice storm an underground stream which creates unusual icy conditions on the highway is attributed by police to causing the accident no charges were pressed against di blasi po lice estimate he was traveling about 30 miles per hour police found the sportscar turned completely around on the other side of the highway they estimated the car had skidded about 150 feet on the ice overturned and continued upside down for about a hundred feet more before righting itself and coming to a full stop some 500 copies of brown and white's intended for early morning town delivery were scattered along with gloves ci garets and hubcaps up to 100 feet away from the car miller is b&w delivery man according to police and other con firmed reports the accident came about this way di blasi and murray as pledges were sent out to a restaurant in quakertown to complete a sport night project at 2:30 a.m both were instructed not to use their cars they were able to borrow the mg from miller ad to complete the proj ect by 4 a.m they were on their way home when the accident occurr according to police reports truckers on the highway spotted the wreck and called for an am bulance from quakertown hospi tal murray was transferred to st luke's around noon wed nesday di blasi was released shortly after admittance but was admitted to st luke's for observation later in the day murray's parents were notified and they flew from long beach long island to bethlehem and to his bed four theta kappa phi brothers donated blood in the afternoon see editorial page two brown and white bethlehem pa 4 a.m pledge trip ends in tragedy volume 64 number 28 friday january 16 1953 five suspended for keys cribs warnings given m/sgt ronol strickland decorated veteran of the war in europe and recipient of the purple heart medal with cluster cited the need for blood donations to aid recovery of the wounded in the present korean campaign plasma is vital — m sgt tells why polgar to display prowess tonite if exam worries are keeping you awake nights dr franz polgar famed hypnotist has a sure cure for insomnia he will appear in grace hall at 8 tonight to perform his feats of the mind on a number of vol unteer students from the audi ence his program will also in clude telepathy demonstrations and memory feats admission is free on presentation of id cards guest tickets will cost 1.00 dr polgar returning to lehigh by popular demand achieved his ac claim from sundry performances be fore college audiences and a cbs television show titled fun with the mind see blood page 5 it was there when i needed it and that's what counts when m-sgt ronol strick land made this statement he was speaking about blood blood which probably saved his life after a shrapnel wound in the battle for normandy in world war 11 sgt strickland is the newest ad dition to the army roto staff at lehigh he arrived here after a tour of duty in europe a tour much quieter than his first trip during the last war citing the need for blood plasma to be sent overseas for the wounded the sergeant is eminently qualified to discuss the subject after his first wound in normandy when he lay waiting for medical aid for 10 hours he was firmly convinced of the value of blood and the value of having it there was a hot time in richards but nobody was home to enjoy it ifc president's crash comment when notified of the accident in volving fraternity pledges on a pledge assignment interfraternity council president bill davis 53 released the following view it is shocking disappoint ing and discouraging to learn that a boy has been injured as a result of hazing a practice many of us have worked so hard to eli minate and one no longer prac ticed by most of our fraternities here at lehigh after repeatedly emphasizing the limitation of pre-initiation activities to work projects or harmless games within a house and after receiving the apparent approval of all our member fraternities of the elimina tion of the obsolete hell week i was complacently confident that our fraternity group could be proud of its adult approach to an outmoded tradition — by the replacement of hell week with help week i sincerely hope that the frater nity system and the fraternity in question will not be judged and condemned for the thoughtless ne glect of responsibility on the part of a few men arcadia will publish directory of candidates see arcadia page 6 in an effort to better acquaint the student body with the arcadia can didates the elections committee will publish a pamphlet this is your candidate in which the names next b & w friday 13th the next issue of the brown and white will appear friday the 13th of february we hope the ominousness of the date will have no effect on the paper |
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