Brown and White Vol. 64 no. 40

              elliot lawrence his piano and band will be featured at the house party dance may 1 while lawrence is playing on the top floor johnny guarnieri and his band will enter tain couples on the first floor of grace hall the price of tickets has not yet been determined elliot lawrence has been fea tured at more than 300 colleges and universities while attend ing the university of pennsyl vania he played for several ivy league schools as well as for col leges in that vicinity he organized his band while in high school at the age of 13 spend ing much of his time composing and arranging as well as playing two years ago his was named the band of the year by look magazine and orchestra world at see houseparty page 4 ifc divides vote on rushing system ment to permit presentation of new parking statistics to the fa culty committee on educational policy disapproval of the administra tion's proposed ban actual vote 11-0 with 3 abstentions differed from the 8-7 split in last year's group that positive action on the part of arcadia to represent effectively the students to the administration was taken said treasurer malvern gross 54 is a marking-stone for arcadia to hear student views on the parking problem arcadia will hold a special meeting on sun day at 4 p.m results of a parking survey con ducted by the campus committee re vealed that there are more parking spaces on campus than actual cars only in drinker house and to a less er extent dravo house the report stated is there a real shortage of parking spaces statistics showed that fresh men own 42 per cent of the cars in the dormitories and the ban would cause only half of the available parking spaces to be utilized during the fall semester an arcadia solution to the park ing problem without a ban will be submitted to the faculty by a com mittee headed by james gottling 54 campus committee chairman based on the survey suggestions of the campus committee include closer parking on the road below sigma phi to allow all drinker cars to be accommodated and limited parking beside richards house to see parking page 4 a 15-15 split of the 30 fraternities was the result of an ifc straw vote on monday on a suggested return to the split-rushing system used last year proponents of split-rushing pointed out that such a system allows three weekends for rush ing and provides a four day per iod in which rushees may catch up on studies should such a system be returned they stated the administration would he asked to schedule all hour quizzes during the four day per iod according to david fenton 55 final voting on the proposed change will take place in may after all as refreshments and the music of the collegians will be offered for 1.50 by idc tomorrow night when it pre sents the dorm drag grace hall's upper floor will be open for dancing from 9 p.m to midnight the drinker and richards lounges will be open from 10 p.m to 1 a.m the col legians will play in grace hall while piped-in recorded music will be provided for couples wishing to dance in the lounges unlike the dorm drag held last fall in drown hall this dance is open to the entire university robert ameling 54 chairman of the dance committee pointed out at the pre vious dance only dorm men were admitted those who do not yet have tickets can purchase them at the door ameling said idc has also abandoned its former system to provide dates for those unable to obtain them for the fall dorm drag girls from beaver col lege and local hospitals were obtain ed by the committee proposed elimination of campaign posters from campus trees and posts was defeated by aracdia wednes day the group approved a motion by elliott barnett 54 putting no limitation on the number of posters allowed barnett first proposed a limit of 10 posters per candidate but the motion was defeated treasurer malvern gross 54 pre sented the results of a sampling of student opinion on the posters which showed that 45 per cent of the stu dents polled were opposed to any ban gross circulated literature pre senting the issue in eight dormitory sections he got 138 statements in cluding six no opinions twenty-eight per cent favored banning all posters and displays ten per cent favored banning large displays but not posters twelve per cent favored banning posters but not displays thomas nitsche 54 advised don't be a compromising ar cadia he predicted that post ers would be banned eventually the no-ban vote was six for four against and two abstentions a limit of 25 was voted for cam paign expenditures by arcadia and class candidates included in the li mit were gifts and contributions violations will be punished by fines double the amounts by which the candidates exceeded the limit barnett originally asked that violators be disqualified but ar cadia rejected the suggestion also to be required will be item ized expense accounts copies of all campaign literature and a list of contributors gross's motion to hold another re ferendum with class elections on membership in the national student see posters page 7 pects of each system have been con sidered the only other major rules change suggested would end all contacting at 10 p.m instead of at 11 p.m as was the case this year constitutional revisions aimed at strengthening and eliminat ing inconsistencies in ifc's con stitution and by-laws were pro posed by george robinson 52 as the product of a committee study of the documents the chief change would cause elec tion of officers in april instead of at the end of may according to president william davis 53 this plan would use the learn as-you-go system which allows new officers to benefit from the advice of out-going officials ray hartcnstine 53 reported to see ifc page 7 afrotc active duty reduced to 3 years starting this june initial active duty tour for a.f.r.o.t.c graduates will be re duced from four years to three in cluding flight training effective with june graduates of 1953 thirteen to fifteen months will be spent by the flight cadet in flight training after this period he will be a fully qualified com bat pijot however this policy ilii the past has been to have the new pilot serve about a year in stateside duty before being ship ped overseas therefore if training consumes 13 months the rated officer has only 23 months remaining to serve on active duty at least 12 months of which will be in the united states air university headquarters air force r.0.t.c has announced this change in the enlistment time in or der to make flight training even more desirable to a.f.r.o.t.c grad uates dean reports 74 on valentine pro seventy-four students are on val entine probation for the remainder of the spring semester according to dean wray congdon in a class break-down of the figures 38 freshmen are on pro bation 22 sophomores 13 juni ors and one senior the highest number of hours fail ed by one man on valentine proba tion is 14 five students are failing 13 hours one is failing 12 15 are failing 11 and 24 students are failing 10 hours the majority of those on proba tion are engineers with business and arts students following valuable hedges given for lawn a collection of 97 english dwarf and tree boxwoods considered by landscape architects as one of the finest and largest callections in the united states will be planted on the lawn area east of the alumni build ing the collection valued at 30 000 has been presented to le high by mr and mrs r p hutchinson of bethlehem ac cording to president whitaker approximately 500 feet of box wood hedge will surround the lawn two rows of nine boxwood trees each will line the main walk lead ing to the administration building the planting will take place as soon as the ground is sufficiently dry the largest tree in the collection 15 feet high with a circumference of approximately 75 feet is about 200 years old originally it was planted in front of the site of king george's tavern about one mile from new tripoli pa historical records indicate that this tree was the scene of a duel fought between a polish of ficer and an american officer during the revolutionary war james m brun yonkers n.y nationally known landscape archi tect will be in charge of moving the shrubs and trees from the hutchin see boxwood page 7 artist's conception of how the walk leading to the alumni memorial building will appear after 18 of the 30,000 collection of 97 english dwarf and tree boxwoods have been planted five hundred feet of boxwood hedge will surround the lawn lehigh university brown and w hite vol 64 no 40 insurance drive passes record short of goal friday april 10 1953 faculty postpones action on freshmen auto ban lehigh university bethlehem pa faculty action on the freshman car ban proposal was postponed un til may at the request of arcadia which went on record against the ban at a special meeting monday arcadia asked the postpone hp to feature elliot lawrence and guarnieri solons veto poster ban see insurance page 3 surging ahead in the drive to sign up members of their class the men of the class of 1953 have passed all previous records for participation in the annual class insurance drive as of this week the senior class is al ready at a mark reached by the class of 1950 in late april currently 302 seniors out of the 574 eligible men have signed the insurance plans which name lehigh university as the beneficiary after twenty years and form the sum for the class gift the planned goal is 125,000 chairman charles rogers termed the drive a fine accomplishment thus far but warned that much remained to be done if the class were to achieve the goal of 75 per cent par ticipation planned we expect to collegians band to play at drag fat lockwood pat lockwood festival thrush pat lockwood formerly featured soloist with artie shaw will make her last stage appearance before re tiring at the 1953 music festival pat appeared in the first festival in 1948 when she was a senior at beaver college and returned for the following houseparty to sing with sam donoh ue's orchestra another featured singer will be lin rinehart a student at wilson college