Brown and White Vol. 64 no. 33

              see council page 4 in its first official move arcadia voted decisively wednesday to in vite living group presidents by card to future arcadia meetings controversy among old arca dians who attended the meeting quickly resulted from a motion by malvern gross 54 to extend a special re-affirmation of arca dia's invitation to living group presidents to participate without vote in arcadia meetings the motion also provided for cards murder coming sunday murder in the cathedral by t s eliot will be produced sunday mar 8 at 4 p.m and 7:30 p.m in packer chapel by mustard and cheese the play was written in 1935 for the canterbury festival where it created a great sensation e martin brown renowned london producer asked eliot to revise the script for legitimate stage presentation and with the famous english actor robert speight in the role of thomas it was produced at the mercury theatre in london where it ran for over a year first produced professionally in america by the federal theatre project the public acclaim of the drama was such that gilbert miller the american producer opened it at the ritz theatre in 1940 hobart col lege produced it for the first time in a church in america written in blank verse the play see murder page 5 monday application deadline for selective service test the third annual conference on religion will be presented this weekend by christian council the hillel society the newman club and the interfaith council mustard and cheese will bring its second production of mur der in the cathedral by t s eliot to packer chapel sunday at 4 and 7:30 p.m the university glee club under george gansz will sing at the sec ond combined meeting wednesday at 8:15 p.m will herber will discuss the god of the bible and the gods of modern man herberg's recent book judaism and modern man an interpretation of jewish religion has been called a milestone in american religious thought by reinhold niebuhr two lehigh figures dr a boy eckardt head of the depart met of religion and rev george m bean former chaplain will participate in the program eckardt will ask are we masters of our destiny or creatures of fate wednesday at 4:10 p.m in the pi tau sigma lounge packard lab bean's topic will be aren't all religions equal why be chris tian monday at 4:10 p.m in pack ard lab 466 he will speak on the christian and the meaning of sex and marriage tuesday at 7:30 p.m in packard auditorium see conference schedule page 5 ter on the selective service test or class standing among the members in the upper half of the freshman class upper two-thirds of the soph omore class or upper three-fourths of the junior class seniors accepted for admission to a graduate school satisfy the criteria if they are among the upper half of the male students in their class or if they make a score of 75 or better students already in graduate school may be considered for deferment as long as they remain in good stand ing the criteria are guides for the local boards but they are by no means compelled to follow the criteria local board classifica tion is subject to appeal to the see monday page 5 announcing the meetings to be sent to these presidents although ruled parliamentarily unnecessary because of a similar statute already on arcadia's books the motion said gross and ex-ar cadian lawrence collins 53 who vigorously opposed the referendum during the election was needed to sooth feelings aroused over the re ferendum arcadian francis flynn 55 felt the measure since actually unne cessary would be an apology to the three presidents for the defeat of the referendum backing up his campaign promise to investigate the possi bility of a humor magazine ralph meerwarth 54 moved to establish a committee to check such a possibility supported by other arcadians who had prom ised such a publication the mo tion easily passed lehigh's original silver goblet was displayed by elliott barnett 54 who asked allocation of funds to polish the trophy after some dis cussion as to the proper place for the goblet to be displayed arcadia vot ed to polish and retain it in the ar cadia room reporting for the disciplinary committee gross told of a unique case in which in spite of testimony of five faculty members to the effect that two students could not possibly have achieved such identical ans wers without cheating on a final exam the committee dismissed the case for lack of sufficient evidence epitome sales top 52 mark epitome sales have reached 460 140 more than last year according to business manager ralph meer warth 54 peter hoyt 53 is in charge of sales some 625 additional group pictures of students and faculty were ordered this year he said the photographs are now being distributed a meeting of the business and editorial staffs will be held tuesday at 4:15 p.m in drown hall seniors who do not pay their class assessment will not receive a year book a limited number will be on see epitome page 4 midnight monday will be the deadline for college students to send in applications for the selective service test to be held april 23 applications for the test can be obtained at the nearest local board students do not have to go to their own draft board for applications to be eligible for the selective service test an applicant on the testing date 1 must be a selective service registrant who intends to re quest deferment as a student 2 must satisfactorily be pursuing a full-time college course undergrad uate or graduate leading to a de gree 3 must not previously have taken the test new regulations which will sub stantially tighten the deferment cri teria by raising the standards are in formulation because the limited manpower supply no longer justifies deferment of so many students ac cording to maj gen lewis b her shey director of selective service gen hcrshey also feels that enough korean veterans will be returning to take the places of college students who may be drafted the gi bill provides financial aid to veterans enter ing college or who had their college careers interrupted by service and who re-enter after their completion of service presumably the criteria which will be tightened all up and down the line include criteria for con sideration for deferment as a stu dent are either a score of 70-or-bet volume 64 number 33 lehigh university bethlehem pa ifc-faculty group to study scholarship friday march 6 1953 lehigh university brown and w hite hearings begin on argyle case prof h barrett davis faculty adviser aa justs an unidentified actor s costume during rehearsal for the mustard and cheese production of murder in the cathedral to be given sunday richard grant 54 is looking on third religion convo will commence tonite committee hearings began this week on the nearly four month-old case concerning the banning of ber nell argyle 53 founder and student leader of the collegians from parti cipating in any lehigh musical acti vities argyle had been barred dur ing the middle of last novem ber because of his alleged un gentlemanly conduct in a dis pute with robert boudreau fac ulty adviser over boudreau's dismissal of ralph bach 53 from the collegians bach has since been reinstated in the col legians the closed hearings are being conducted by a student-faculty com mittee with dean hayes as chairman and alvin lewis 54 acting as stu dent chairman earlier this week argyle had been called before the committee but facts of the hearing have not been released two students and two music department faculty members will appear before the committee this week details of the case will not be re leased until the hearings are com pleted according to lewis ' the interfraternity council unani mously opposed the recent dean's of fice probation proposal at monday's meeting the letter was described as the scarlet letter and a blanket authority to levy scholastic proba tion as he dean hayes sees fit president william davis re ported that dean hayes apolo gized to him for some of the ad jectives used in his letter davis said he pointed out to the dean that former associate dean charles a seidle commended the fraternities on their scholas tic showing last spring hayes had termed fraternity scholarship miserable further consideration of the dean's proposal was left for the exe cutive committee supplemented by george robinson 52 and thomas maccabe 53 the committee was instructed to meet with hayes and perhaps invite him to attend the next ifc meeting hayes said i am in no way discriminating against fraterni ties according to davis the dean was only concerned to see that the fraternities improve their scholastic record davis report ed particularly those fraternities which are in the lower brackets the proposal will be presented at the april 1 faculty meeting hayes indicated he inferred that the fac see faculty page 4 arcadia to invite big 3 by card humor magazine to be studied a better solution to the problems presented by dean byron c hayes in his letter to ifc and fraternity presidents will be part of research conducted by a committee made up of ifc and faculty members during the next few weeks according to ifc president william davis in a meeting of the ifc exec utive committee and one of ifc's advisers paul franz with peans wray c congdon and hayes it was decided to hold off action on the letter sent out last week until ifc could come up with a plan of its own a special committee of ifc would run a survey of scholastic achievement among fraternities and would investigate the possibility of a program aimed at evolutionary im provement of scholarship without a regulation such as the one recently proposed according to davis it was also stated that the commit tee will investigate the possible so lutions to the problem of excessive cutting and low grades of a few fra ternity men without restricting so cial privileges of entire groups action will probably not take place before mid-april since the averages will not be computed for another two or three weeks once action is taken on the pro posed regulation it would prob ably be modified to facilitate the solutions resulting from the in vestigation by the ifc special scholarship committee any change in university regula tions would involve all the living groups it would be inconsistent with our democratic ideas to have different regulations for fraternities than for the other living groups hayes commented davis said i was very pleased at the favorable result of our discus sion on the controversial proposal