Brown and White Vol. 64 no. 37

              rivals to open tonight in broughal auditorium about 2500 worth of bad checks have been passed off by lehigh stu dents since september to five local establishments and lamberton hall the brown and white learned wed nesday the pure food restaurant has suffered most from bad-check passers during the past seven months nearly 1500 in checks have bounced of this amount 1000 was made good by the stu dents as soon as their checking accounts permitted the restaurant has thrown away checks totaling at least 250 because the students graduated or left school at present at least 10 checks valued at 157 are still outstanding one dated oct 8 is for 40 lamberton hall which cashes see 2500 page 6 action will be taken against ar cadia candidates in the past election who failed to take down their cam paign posters before that stipulated deadline according to a vote taken by arcadia wednesday night malvern gross 54 in turn surrendered the errant campaign posters to michaed arra 53 former election committee chair ma after previously refusing to turn over the evidence on grounds that it might tend to split the new united arcadia gross refusal also was brought about by the failure of last year's election's committee to specify whe ther the new or old arcadia was to enforce the fining of candidates tardy in their removal of their post ers arra opposed a proposal by elliott barnett 54 to submit the posters for ruling by the new arcadia arra contended to change regulations put into ef fect for the new arcadia to abide by will not enhance the group's prestige gross was in charge of collecting the posters after the election as pun ishment for violating election cam paigning rules nearly 80 posters were gathered and held pending wednesday night's action two cars crash auto overturns two automobile accidents during the past week have brought the total number of accidents involving le high students to seven four of which have been on campus since the beginning of the semester two cars collided in the after noon drizzle wednesday on the road between williams hall and grace hall george howell 55 was driving down the hill and the other car driven by martin stockman was approaching from see cause page 4 sheridan's the rivals will open tonight at 8:30 in broughal jr high school will have a second perform ance there tomorrow night at 7:30 for the guests of ifc and a third performance at the hotel bethle hem monday as entertainment for ihe bethlehem rotary club's ladies night dinner this will be the first time in many years that mustard and cheese has taken a production farther off campus than brou ghal high school additional work will not be necessary however since the scenery lighting and stage equipment for all three performances have been designed to stress simplici ty last seen on broadway in 1942 with mary boland as mrs malaprop and bobby clark as bob acres the rivals is an 18th century comedy and since 1775 has been a favorite of professional and little theatre groups the world over it is a high farce probably most successful in character portrayal mrs malaprop whose misuse of words gave the word malapropism to the english language bob acres a bumptuous country square trying to behave like a gentleman and ro mantic lydia languish her head report stresses college danger president whitakcr pointed out the need for private colleges to jus tify their existence to the public if they are to continue to exist in his annual report for the fiscal year 1951-52 if a dual system of higher education private and public is to be maintained for this coun try then it is only realistic to judge the private college as well as the state institution in terms of essential service he said if the dual system is to be guar anteed then the burden is upon the private college to interpret its serv ice in such terms as will invite sup port from private sources equal to that provided to state institutions by their legislatures total unrestricted income for 1951 52 was 3,000,649 of which the ma jor part 53.73 per cent came from student tuition and fees instruc tion expenses accounted for more than any other item 32.24 per cent the institute of research expended see cites page 5 b&w asks aid for hp issue student humorists artists and writers of fiction and serious non fiction are needed by the brown and white for its houseparty issue a special magazine-type issue will be produced by b&w for houseparty containing reports of houseparty activities humor features on houspparty and le high history fiction and non flctlon the issue is expected to contain a minimum of 16 pages contribu tions from students not associated with the b&w are welcome wesley willoughby 53 former editor-in-chief and now sports edi tor is editor for the special issue those interested in contributing should contact him at the brown and white stuffed with nonsense from current novels ralph towne 53 as bob acres and peggy forss as mrs malaprop are aided by john archibald 54 as sir anthony absolute joseph moser 55 sup plies the romantic lead as cap tain jack absolute opposite p e gy mcgillivray as lydia helen search as lucy has her big moments with that lovable irishman sid lucius o'trigger played by ar thur roth 56 marilyn nuss as ju lia supplies further romantic inter est in her love affair with faulk land portrayed by james clarke 55 arthur anderman 56 as david warren march 54 as fag and carl guthhardt 55 supply further far cical moments mother's letter leads to concession's demise campus distributors of an ap plication for a date with a lehigh undergraduate have been notified by the deans office that their con cession has been cancelled in a letter to the distributors the deans also warned that any attempt to sell the applications illegally on campus would result see applications page 5 george howcll 55 left and fred stockman former student in striped shirt at rear right survey the damage which resulted from the collision of their two automobiles wednesday near williams hall rown and w hite lehigh university bethlehem pa friday march 20 1953 arcadia names 16 associates mai surrenders arcadia posters the vienna choir boys who will be making their third appearance here when they sing at grace hall monday at 8 p.m junior ifc proposed a preliminary report from the ifc scholarship committee and a propos al for the formation of a junior in terfraternity council highlighted ifc's meeting monday night thomas maccabe 53 head of the scholarship committee re ported that after preliminary checks on the ifc question naires the only definite cojiclu the world-famous vienna choir boys wiu present a concert of sacred music folk songs and costume oper ettas at 8 p.m monday in grace hall under the auspices of the student concerts-lectures committee the current tour features the third group of youngsters to arrive here since 1948 this will be a return engage ment at lehigh for the choir boys who appeared on the con certs-lectures program in octo ber 1949 students will be ad mitted free with id cards the concert divided into three parts will open with a group of sacred songs written in the 16th and 17th centuries after a brief inter mission some of the lads will change from sailor suits to high heeled shoes dresses and wigs for their costume operetta the program will conclude with secular music and folk songs the troupe of more than 20 boys aged seven to 1 2 years are members of an organization which dates back to july 7 1498 when maximillian es tablished the choir by imperial de cree subsidized by the hapsburgs until the first world war the group achieved fame throughout europe haydn and schubert were members of the vienna choir until their voices changed thousands of boys are brought to the institution each year by hopeful parents but only about 100 youngsters are accepted since the first world war the choir has been supported by private funds supplemented by the income derived from concert tours which began in 1926 scl presents vienna singers for third time volume 64 number 37 sixteen men became arcadia as sociates by arcadia action wednes day unanimous approval was giv en to the names submitted by vice president edward dussing er 54 chairman of the 16 man committee the committee is a training ground for future arcadians dussinger said and it is for this reason that its members are from the lower classes members of the committee include freshmen leif beck ralph bower george mac lean eliu ridolfi clyde stover arthur veinott and robert worley sophomore members are charles eisenfelder richard glassberg francis mcgill gustavo nieto louis peters arthur schaffer and wil liam wessner robert ameling is the only junior election posters on any part of the campus but bulletin boards may be outlawed as the result of a motion by jack fox 54 to ban their use in any election fox's motion was made he stated in the light of a similar recommen see most are page 5 many pass bad checks see ifc page 6