Brown and White Vol. 64 no. 34

              pierre van paassen called for a re turn to religion's old role of the conscience of the world at the first session of the conference on relig ion brith sholom community cen ter's friday evening service the churches of all sects he said are not fulfilling this re sponsibility but instead picture god as all-forgiving and con doning all man's shortcomings favor of the referendum although defeated by less than the necessary two-thirds vote meerwarth plans more action and importance for the big-four which consists of the liv ing group presidents and meerwarth as arcadia president also included among meerwarth's ideas for student government im provement was a greater amount of publicity for arcadia tentative ob jectives call for wlrn broadcast of discussion and voting on important issues as well as a special portion of the brown and white to be devot ed to arcadia news dussinger who alcng with gross has previously been an arcadian will be in charge of the sixteen man committee of arcadia associates for which more work is planned under the new administration prior to the nominating specc and voting john arnesen 53 out going president presented to dr diamond a decanter and six glasses in appreciation for his ten years service as adviser to arcadia dr diamond is the donor of the br of office of the arcadia president a key which meerwarth received im mediately after his election meerwarth's opposition included wallace butler 54 elliott bamett 54 jack fox 54 malvern gross 54 and buell miller 55 ralph meerwarth 54 became the seventh man to head arcadia since its re-oi-ganization in 1946 as a re sult of balloting by that group last friday unaivmtfus voting gave ed ward dussinger 54 the vice presidency and re-elected mal vern gross 54 to the arcadia treasurership buell miller 55 who was the first member elect ed to the new arcadia captured the post of secretary and dr clarence a shook of the mathe matics department was named arcadia adviser to fill the vacan cy left by retiring dr herbert m diamond defeating five other candidates for the presidency each of whom stress ed arcadia action and unity meer warth was elected to his office on the basis of a six-point platform for a better arcadia primary objective of the new ar cadia meerwarth said will be real cooperation between arcadia facul ty and the administration the arcadia chief stated furth er that arcadia will consider the whole student body and not specific groups we will remove the non-action label from arca dia by taking positive steps to solve all problems because of the majority vote in see van paassen page 5 but god is not so easy-going ac cording to van paassen he remind ed the congregation of the biblical story of jacob wrestling with a mys terious angel who broke his thigh bone before bestowing a blessing is this world of suffering and in justice god's world van paassen asked he deplored modern man's materialism and forsaking of spirit ual values especially those men who mouth words of god while break ing his commandments religions most critical failure has been the condoning of social and economic injustice the so ciety of friends was the only sect to protest the atom bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki he said and he pointed to amer ica's obsession with profits and refrigerators while millions suf fer and die modern man has been confronted m & c to present rivals ' mar 20 richard brinsley sheridan's the rivals one of the greatest farces in all dramatic literature is in full re hearsal by mustard and cheese this play will be produced mar 20 and 21 the saturday evening perform ance being part of ifc weekend fes tivities preceding the monte carlo dance recreating the role of robert acres will be ralph towne 53 with joseph moser 55 playing the role of the hero captain ab solute john archibald 54 will be seen as sir anthony abso lute and arthur roth 56 as sir lucius o'trigger mrs malaprop will be interpreted by mrs marguerite forss wife of vincent forss instructor in ce and mech marguerite mcgillivray of quakertown will appear as lydia languish helen search and marilyn nuss students at moravian college for women will portray the roles of lucy and julia respectively others in the cast are warren marsh 55 arthur anderman 56 james clark 56 and carl guth hardt 55 dancers begin rehearsals in grace hall for the music festival which will be held april 17 and 18 left to right are evelyn shelbo ronald estes 55 phoebe english edward ettinger 53 pat o'connell and richard glassberg 55 m & c wins praise for production of eliot's murder ' by joe morgenstern murder in the cathedral return ed to packer chapel sunday in an attractive and intelligent mustard and cheese setting t s eliot's ac count of the martyrdom of thomas becket murder in the cathedral was staged as two years ago in con junction with the current confer ence on religion packer chapel's sombre beau ty the chapel choir and george gansz's organ music established an effective mood the mustard and cheese company took it from there and did well by eli ot's challenging verse drama the undertaking was an ambitious one for whatever atmosphere the surroundings provided could have been tragically denied by an uncon vincing delivery of the blank verse happily no such calamity occurr see murder page 5 three editors of moraviatfs belfry make working on brown and white's copy desk more than a dubious privilege the visitors are eleanor simmons jane culp and nan dexheimer the regulars are donald wight 55 robert jenkins 55 and in the slot william de camp 54 sound system developed for mute grace hall a mute building speaks at last installation of a 29-speaker 10-microphone sound system in gra«e hall was completed fri day and used for the first time at the prep school wrestling tournament that night the system consists of 18 speakers scattered over the ceiling of the hall two speakers in the lobby and a console control panel in the press radio balcony at the west end of the building according to designer john lisle 35 the setup is complete custom built and took about three months to construct cost of the project which allows 10 microphones to be simultaneously in use was not an nounced although the sound equipment will be used for all events held in grace hall alexander bod ner of the public relations de partment noted that it was pri marily designed with the music festival in mind lisle who also designed the speak see grace page 5 festival construction begins choreography rehearsals start with opening night five weeks away the 1953 music festival has pro ceeded from the planning stage to actual construction work a 100-foot stage is under construction in the festival work room beneath the south stands in grace hall and student electricians are v/orking on sound and lighting problems rehearsal has begun for the seven different dance numbers which will be included in the all-student production these will be two con ventional dances a square dance an irish reel a modern style bolero a soft shoe an exhibition waltz and the ballet of the flying sauc ers one of the highlights of the second part of the show tickets will go on sale mar 24 after a drawing is held to determine liv ing group preference in the purchase of blocks of seats according to wallace j butler 54 sales manager last year's system of drawing received some criticism concerning its fairness and this year a new method will be used which will eliminate the faults of the old system the details of the new procedure will be an nounced in the friday issue of the brown and white including this year's ticket prices arcadia elects meerwarth head dussinger veep lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday march 10 1953 volume 64 — number 34 perfect average achieved by 22 for fall term inewiy-eiected arcadia officers talk things over after their victories friday they are edward dussinger vice-president ralph meer warth president buell miller secretary and malvcrn gross treasurer van paassen notes religions failures lehigh university brown and wh ite twenty-two students achieved perfect averages for the fall semes ter according to the dean's list eleven seniors two juniors six sophomores and three freshmen have 4.00 averages they are bruce a franken field arts charles e klabunde arts alan w koppes ie her bert a roemmele bus fred rick a saal ee-ep daniel a shook arts alfred w stubner me william f trench arts lindsley e wester arts wes ley f willoughby arts and carl h zimmerman arts all are seniors william p whyland ee and george l aiminsky em juniors carl h albright ee-ep charles e brady me alan e greener ep paul e klinedinst jr chem e george d ryerson chem and rob ert wisniewsi arts sophomores john r hillegass ch.e arthur f veinott ie and william e zeiter freshmen also got perfect averages other seniors among the 111 see 133 named page 6