Brown and White Vol. 64 no. 28

              for the second straight year lehigh has been selected as host for the top state forensic event of the year through the division of speech and delta omicron theta honorary debate society lehigh will play host to he sixth annual pennsylvania intercollegiate forensic tournament thursday friday and saturday the debating association of pennsylvania colleges the sponsor of the event is composed of 47 pennsylvania colleges and universities 30 to 35 of which will send rep resentatives to participate in the meet competition will be held in the extempore speech contests oratory contests and debate the extempore speech and oratory contests are di vided into men's and women's divi sion delta omicron theta will send four varsity debaters into the ver bal foray to represent lehigh the tcpic for discussion will be re solved that the congress of the united states should enact a com pulsory fair employment practices act upholding the affirmative side of the question will be richard davis 53 and george hopkins 54 while the negative team will be composed of elliott barnett 54 and james hill 54 captured by the university of pennsylvania last year the talon debate trophy will be awarded to the winning collegiate debate team this trophy rotates with permanent possession to be granted to the first college to win it three times medals will be awarded to the individual winners in the speaking contests swarthmore college won the tro phy in 1948 university of pitts burgh men in 1949 allegheny college in 1950 and pennsylvania state college's men's team in 1951 delegates will be guests of the le high student-concerts-lectures ser ies committee at its concert friday night by the little orchestra of new york bids distributed 1-5 p.m friday fraternity bids may be picked up in drown hall between 1 and 5 p.m friday they will be given out by a disinterested party at the right-hand doorway in the arcadia office the bid distribution point may be reached by walking thru the arcadia meeting room at the west end of the main lounge and circling left into the arca dia office directional signs will be posted by fraternities accord ing to herbert roemmele 53 ifc vice-president students must present their id cards in order to receive their bids after a bid has been selected the rest should be returned strict si lence is to be observed while bids are given out a student should report to the fraternity whose bid he has select ed at 6 p.m no rushing or contacting is to be permitted from thursday feb 19 at 8 p.m to friday at 6 p.m students who are on valentine disciplinary or scholastic probation may not be pledged twenty-eight men are running for 15 positions in arcadia elections will take place feb 25 and 26 nominating petitions were ac cepted until thursday an exten sion of one day past the official wednesday deadline arcadia elections committee chairman michael arra 53 explained that since posters cited thurs day as the deadline by mistake petitions were accepted on that day only two arcadians are running for re-election they are malvern gross 54 and edward dussinger 54 nine others are graduating and four have decided not to try for re election sixteen juniors nine sophomores md three freshmen are candidates seventeen are from fraternities nine are dorm men and two live in town candidates are henry franzoni 54 gayle williams 54 elliot barnett 54 buell a miller 55 robert f bell 56 gross charles saylor 54 donald c luce 54 robert f gilmore 55 and ralph meerwarth 54 also running are wallace butler 54 werner seel 55 francis r flynn 55 donald smith 54 james f kelly 56 richard glassberg 55 jack fox 54 ike rosenberg 55 william t burgin 56 and ralph hamilton 55 edward dussinger 54 thomas f nitsche 54 norman l glasswint 56 philip weigel 55 burton sut ker 55 . fracis j shamenek 54 donald concilio 54 and jamjs goltling 54 complete the list off-campus car mishap brings 53 tally to 3 see debate page 5 bers and their families are now on sale at 1 at the registrar's office in addition to the modern works the orchestra will present favorite selections by mozart tschaikovsky brahms and schumann scherman was widely acclaimed by critics dur ing the past two summers for con ducting the vienna symphony or chestra in austria the orchestre de la suisse romande in switzerland and the opera nacional in mexico city a graduate of columbia uni versity he studied at the man nes school of music in new york he studied piano under the guidance of frank sheridan and isabel vengerova compo sition with hans weisse and conducting with carl bambur ger and otto klemperer from its first season of 16 concerts in 1947 in new york the orchestra increased its schedule to more than 50 concerts last winter with a bril liant post season of performances of opera in concert form which enlist ed the talents of an array of artists from the metropolitan opera john beggs dance specialist engaged for music festival essie fisher slips on ice injures hip slipping on the icy steps as she approached drinker house on her way to work mrs ester essie fisher 71 a university employee for over 43 years fell and severely in jured her hip last thursday morn ing unable to attract aid mrs fisher lay on the ice for several minutes before lavina taylor cook at delta tau delta chanced to see her as she glanced out of the window members of the fraternity and of drinker 36 where mrs fisher is maid car ried her to the fraternity and tried to get a taxi for two hours cab companies al though contacted repeatedly failed to answer the summons and the see essie page 5 the third off-campus car accident of the semester involving lehigh stu dents occurred sunday afternoon at the intersection of easton aye and hickory st in bethlehem no one was injured karl a gabler 55 was driving behind a car operated by lucille e gross 212 main st freemansburg and owned by maynard h gross of the same address according to officers edward morris and stanley schiffert of the beth lehem police who investigated the accident the mishap occurred when miss gross pulled toward the center of the highway apparently about to make a left hand turn gabler started to cut around her right side when she pulled back into traffic the left front of gabler's car and the right rear of miss gross car were damaged the damage to gabler's car was estimated at between 75 and 100 four lehigh cars were involved in a freak four-car chain accident last week on packer aye fred s davis incured serious damage to his 1940 mercury convert ible when he drove it into the left rear end of raymond brandes 54 parked 1937 plymouth which in turn plunged into harry schaffer's parked 1950 mercury and the park ed 1934 ford of herman joerger 54 both the front and rear ends of brandes car were seriously damag ed while the other two cars in volved had only minor scars to show 3 mil societies to give ball a military theme will be domi nant saturday evening feb 28 when the mil ball will follow the lehigh-navy wrestling meet matt gillespie will provide music for the dance from 10 p.m to 1 a.m all national mili tary honor society members will see ball page 6 see accident page 6 donris day won't sing in musicfest doris day will not appear in the musical festival in april a joking remark by prof george gansz of the music department seems to have been taken seriously by some cam pus sources the result was an avalanche of false rumors circulated around cam pus john beggs a professional dance i specialist has been engaged for the 1953 lehigh music festival beggs originally from new york city is associated with two bethlehem com i panics and at the present time is ; teaching drama in bethlehem ac ' cording to albert rights faculty technical director of the show seven or more dances are planned for the all-student pro duction to be presented april 17 and 18 in grace hall there are openings for 20 men and 20 women for the dance groups lehigh students who are inter ested in participating should ap ply at the music festival office in drown hall tomorrow after 4 p.m beggs will be assisted by miss cataline panebianco of bethlehem and miss joycelyn coats of cedar crest college both of whom were associated with the 52 festival dance rehearsals are tentatively scheduled for wednesday evenings and sunday afternoons during the weeks before hte show choreography for the first part of the production includes two conventional dances a square dance and an irish reel a mod ern style bolero a soft shoe and possibly a south american dance an exhibition waltz will also be presented with an add ed group ensemble the second part will include the ballet of the flying saucers this will be a modern style number not actually a ballet both men and women will participate in all of the dances volume 64 number 28 tuesday february 17 1953 lehigh university brown and w hite 28 candidates nominated for election to arcadia lehigh university bethlehem pa 30 teams entered in debate tourney scl concert fri by little orchestra little orchestra society jamaican rhumba and the mu sical score of louisiana story will be featured works in the concert to be presented by the little orchestra society of new york in the fifth stu dent concerts-lectures series pro gram of the year at 8 p.m friday in grace hall thomas schermon founder of the ensemble making its first tour of the nation will conduct for the lehigh engagement students will be admitted without charge upon presentation of their identification cards tickets for stu dent wives employees faculty mem