Brown and White Vol. 64 no. 32

              12 as seniors to be honored twelve air science seniors have received word from the air science department that they will be desig nated as distinguished afrotc stu dents pending the maintenance of high attainment and successful com pletion of their air science courses selection was based on aca demic achievements qualities of leadership high moral character and keen initiative and the rec ommendation of his senior afrotc instructor see afkotc page 8 a proposal requiring all living groups to attain a scholastic average for any one semester within 10 per cent of the all-university average or face social probation until the aver age can be obtained will be recom mended to the faculty according to a letter from associate dean of stu dents byron c hayes received by all fraternity presidents saturday hayes said in the letter that in attempting to account for the miserable scholarship being exhibited by a large number of fraternity men he had made a study for the first three weeks of this semester and found in a high percentage of cases involv ing on-and-off probation men and men with 3.0 capabilities who are making less than a 2.0 record an excess of cutting and many questionable excused ab sences he deemed the letter to serve a three-fold purpose first to ask fra ternity officials to take positive ac tion to reduce absenteeism second to ask fraternity officials to exercise their power to produce maximum scholastic result from each indivi dual fraternity member third to warn living group heads that while individual action will continue to be taken by the dean's office studies are underway which may result in actions impinging upon any fraternity whose scholar ship down to the last man is not respectable or creditable in a seven point warning hayes went on to say that while attendance in class will not in sure that a student will make the record of which he is cap able it is considered the prim ary indication that he is trying to keep faith with those who in most cases have made sacrifices to send him to college he added that regular attendance at all classes is expected and that re quests for excuses for reasons other than illness or death in the family see haves page 8 blood flowed freely thursday and friday as 673 pints were donated in lehigh's third blood for defense program to top last year's record by 79 pints tremendously successful was the reaction of dr charles a seidle chairman of the drive seidle lauded students who spent many hard hours orga nizing conducting and assuring the success of the campaign top among the group praised by seidle for their endeavors was rich ard glassberg 55 who was termed tireless others cited for their ef forts were sam johnson 53 idc mark given 53 ifc and mark kaufmann 53 representative of campus chest also praised were representatives john arnesen 53 arcadia fritz smith 53 apo rudy kuser 54 wlrn david leith 53 town coun cil and wesley willoughby 53 brown and white an additional 90 members of the lehigh family volunteered blood but were rejected for phy sical reasons on thursday 325 pints were contributed and 348 were given friday walk-ins contributed 110 pints 82 of them appearing friday after a last-minute appeal these helped off set the failure of over 60 pledges to turn out husband and wife teams played a big role in this year's drive with two of them taking part mrs charles a seidle wife of the drive chairman served as a volun teer red cross staff aid in charge of registration and is responsible for compilation of many of the figures quoted in this story t/sgt and mrs raymond crawford made up the second team crawford an afrotc instructor played the role of donor while his wife served as one of the nurses on duty with the two bloodmobile units at grace hall six students and faculty members gave their fifth pint of blood during the drive they are andrew gra ham 53 thomas walter 54 thom as jones jr 53 warrant officer russell wall prof edgar mulhaus en and prof robert norris barnett second in bu extemps competing against 27 other schools lehigh debater elliott bar nett 54 took second place saturday in the extemporaneous speech con test held as part of the boston uni versity national invitational foren sic tournament in boston richard davis 54 and barnett won four and lost two in the debate contest colleges from 14 states made up the competing teams dwight freshley instructor of speech and debate coach served as a judge record crowd hops amid howitzers guns harold fritz 54 right is shown asking francis j minlitach of allen town about the purpose of his trip to bethlehem as part of a retailing survey by the economics depart ment dressed to kill those military boys in their uni forms won't out do me threatened theodore bubb 53 consequently bubb went to the military ball saturday night dress ed to kill in a get-up that defied even the most decorated and braid ed of the top brass his uniform was complete from top hat and admirals epaulets to red sash and i like ike button bubb's only comment — i felt rather conspicuous iteming arcadia adviser uv ncruen at uamunu s>wc«ia vi me new group of 15 arcadia heard vice-president e kenneth smiley advise representing the student body at large not just the members backers at the installation friday bunny hops precision drills and military equipment displays high lighted the mil ball saturday night in grace hall as nearly 350 couples the largest crowd in recent years turned out for the affair sponsored jointly by the arnold air society scabbard and blade and the pershing rifles a drill team composed of picked members of the three sponsoring groups performed during the intermission their routine varied from precision square dancing to close order marching quadrilles two times during the evening matt gillespie's orchestra swung into the bunny hop causing nu merous congo-bunny lines to spring up throughout the hall one was led by a highly militaristically be decked merrimaker dressed in s combination admiral's and general's uniform decorations followed the militarj vein with machine guns howitzers and mortars on display volume 64 number 32 blood records shattered as 673 contribute hayes urges new pro rule hits averages brown and w hite lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday march 3 1953 lowell raynor 56 gives blood for a good cause in the recent visit of the bloodmobile to the lehigh campus attending him is mrs how ard cairns vu book designed to attract frosh reaction by the fraternity houses to the letter sent out by dean hayes has been very unfavorable spokesmen for 24 houses contacted all felt that the recommendations are unreasonable if dean hayes wants to kill social life in the fraternities he should move everyone into the dorms instead of coming out with these cat and mouse state ments and rules said a delta phi representative several houses spokesmen ex pressed the opinion that dean hayes proposal doesn't solve anything al pha tau omega said that it was op posed to the plan because even if the house averages go up the spiral effect will still cut out some of the houses because the all-university average will go up chi phi gave a broad statement it is a very biased viewpoint from hayes partly because he fails to realize that out of all the activities and sports they are predominantly consisted of fraternity men because of the participation in these activi see reaction page 8 the first vu book since pre-war days has been published by the pub lic relations office in conjunction with the office of admissions for dis tribution to applicants the book which contains over 100 pictures of university build ings and activities is designed with the purpose of acquainting prospective students with le high the make-up of the book was started last spring according to robert f herrick director of pub lic relations meetings were held to get ideas of what would be most ap pealing to readers with the help of the epitome and other publications more than 1000 negatives were made available to the office each new layout was pre sented in conferences with the ad mission office and juggled around until the best were chosen the pro duct was finished early in january the reason that such a book was not printed since before the war was that first things had to be done first as a person's application process moves up the ladder more and more in formation is sent out to him so that lehigh is always fresh on his mind the vu book is among these refresher books and there fore was delayed in its publica tion the book is a two-year project the changes made in that period leaves the book inaccurate for fur ther use construction of the test ing lab will make the aerial views obsolete said herrick the book is too expensive for general circulation out of the 25,000 copies printed for the two-year per iod 12,000 are sent out to applicants each year with the remainder going to alumni interested in admissions