Brown and White Vol. 64 no. 42

              festival expenses record 5,600 music from earth and space comes to lehigh tonight as the 1953 music festival opens in grace hall at 8 the sixth annual extravaganza will represent months of planning and cooperative effort by students from every curriculum and from ev ery living group in the university after the full dress rehear sal last night the dancers and musicians are ready for the show guest artists motion pic tures color slide projection spe cial sound effects and all of the major music groups of lehigh will combine forces to present the theme to the audience to night and tomorrow night eccentric design was the keynote in the building of the modernistic setting over the stands in grace hall the stage will represent the earth and a 97 foot screen behind the set will serve as the backdrop with slide projection to give the space effect over 90,000 watts of electrical en ergy will be required for lighting the stage this exceeds the previous record of 70,000 watts set by the 48 festival more than 2500 man hours of work have been contributed for the show on the various construction crews guest stars who will appear in the festival include pat lock wood formerly featured vocalist with artie shaw lin rinehart a student at wilson college who was chosen to sing in the show from hundreds of applicants tom waring one of the found ers of fred waring's pennsyl vanians and students from juil lard school of music who will play in conjunction with le high's orchestra and band music from earth part i of the production will feature a musical travelogue with songs from many lands supplemented by the dance see festival page 3 this music festival is the most expensive one yet according to wil loughby blocker 53 financial man ager but all expenditures which to tal 5600 have been met he said staging was the biggest indi vidual expense blocker said that 4700 was spent in that field while the remainder of the money was spent for publicity office expenditures and miscel laneous items this year's bud get is 700 greater than last year's which was the previous high two thousand dollars was spent to build the stage other large expen ditures were for lights hiring musi cal specialists and for other con struction any money that is made from the festival is reinvested in future festi val productions it is hoped that the lights that now have to be rented will soon be bought with the money made the festival is entirely self sufficient it receives no money from the student activities commit tee blocker estimated that if the same show were to be produced on the new york stage it could not be produced for less than 100,000 by ronald van horn it would have been all over when i looked outside and saw the ice in the birdbath if it hadn't been for jack like any other opening day of trout season the clock went off promptly at 4 a.m but today it had an antagonizing tone to it i turned it off and looked out the window into the back yard draft quota way down 32,000 to go in june good news for students only 32,000 men will be called by selective service in june the defense department an nounced wednesday the quota for succeeding months is ex pected to be equal to the june call or less ; the quota for june is 21,000 less than that for may all those drafted will be taken into the army frosh car ban ok to 57 men dr charles seidle director of ad missions reported wednesday that applicants and possible applicants this year did not seem to object to the possible ban on freshmen cars on trips to high schools dr seidle told men interested in lehigh that there was a possi bility that a ban on freshmen cars might go into effect because of the parking tie-up he did not find that the men he talked to had objections to the ban athough they were told that per missions for cars might be granted the second semester depending on a minimum average and permissions from parents and deans earybird anglers get worm no bite there glimmering in the dim light from an all-night neon sign at the corner gas station was the ice — a thin sheet of it in the birdbath i stood there shivering in my bare feet this couldn't be i ran to the desk stubbing my toe against the bedpost and fumbled for my ele mentary physics book that verified my suspicions — the temperature could be no more than 32 degrees fahrenheit i went back to bed fifteen minutes later a vio lent tapping on my window startled me into a sitting posi tion and just when i was finally making time with marilyn mon roe life's cruel peering through the window was jack giglio 53 a jar of slimy worms in his hand a gleam in his eyes and a battered hat pulled down over his ears i knew what was hap pening let's go he shrieked he had see fishing page 6 arcadia's proposal to allow fresh man cars next fall ran up against a stone wall of opposition tuesday night when idc voted down this most recent suggestion to alleviate the parking problem idc then passed a motion that the council stick to its original proposal which was to allow no freshman cars the first semester and only a limited number the second semester idc felt that the problem had been tossed back and forth enough and that to attempt adoption of a new plan now would only result in no solution at all by the start of next semester as of now according to the uni versity catalogue no freshman can have a car next fall those students meeting certain reuirements will be allowed cars in the spring how ever this plan has yet to be accepted by the faculty committee on educa tional policy the arcadia proposal called for banning of freshman cars with the issuance of valentines freshmen receiving valentines for seven or more hours would not be allowed to have cars at the end of the first semester any freshman failing seven or more hours would not be allowed to have a car for the second semester the student body believes that there is a parking problem was one of the conclusions that arcadia came to as a result of 1,182 returned questionnaires on the parking ban proposal however by a vote of five to one the student body voted against the proposed ban be cause they do not seem to feel that the problem is that serious questionnaires were sent out to the dorm sections and the fraterni ties and 1,182 were returned six hundred seventy-two dorm men and 510 fraternity men answered the returned questionnaires showed that there is an increase in the number of cars as the year pro gresses the total has increased from 376 to 441 with the greater increase among the dorm men in the past six months freshmen have more cars than the three upper classes combined in the dorms the fifty-sixers have 100 cars while all other classes combined have 88 since oct 1 the freshman cars have almost doubled while the number of cars belonging to the men in the upper classes has remained constant most of the cars are here on a full time basis about one-third of the cars are here on a part time basis better than two-thirds of the re plies to the questionnaire felt that there was a serious parking prob em at present but less than one third of the voters felt that fresh men cars should be banned idc rejects arcadia proposal to allow freshmen cars in fall students oppose ban 5 to 1 lehigh university bethlehem pa arcadia alters ban plan no cars until valentines friday april 17 1953 lehigh university brown and white volume 64 — number 42 music from earth space tonight at 8 in grace hall arcadia amended its parking proposal wednesday night after its origi nal recommendation was received coolly by the faculty's educational policy committee that afternoon although no decision on the proposal was announced by the com mittee the committee's reception of the plan led arcadia to believe that it would not be passed the parking proposal was amended so as to ban freshman cars until the thanksgiving vacation freshmen who received no valentines would be permitted to have cars this modifies the first recommen dation in that freshman cars would be allowed before thanksgiving originally if a freshman received valentines in seven or more hours he would not have been permitted to have a car after thanksgiving whether lehigh will continue its affiliation with the national student association will be de cided in a referendum in the class elections may 7 and 8 ar cadia decided during the discussion on nsa treasurer malvern gross 54 said the students were not getting their moneys worth from nsa as the program has been conducted here vice-president edward dussinger 54 said the referendum would serve to define the issue of nsa more clearly for the students three refer enda have endorsed nsa member ship showboat hp setting finishing touches were applied to the music festival wednesday evening as performers go through their paces in full dress rehearsal in preparation for tonight's premier a showboat will decorate grace hall for the houseparty dance while couples dance to the music of elliot lawrence and johnny guarnieri the price of dance tickets will be five dollars elliot lawrence the featured band will appear on the top floor because of the larger danc ing space there the top floor will be decorated like the for ward deck of a showboat and will be unusually colorful ac cording to john cable 54 chair man of the decorations commit tee the lower floor of grace hall will be decorated like a wheel house and mast area guarnieri's band will play here the bleachers will ac see houseparty page 3