Brown and White Vol. 64 no. 44

              see mcgurk page 5 phi beta kappa arts and humani ties honorary and the oldest of all greek letter fraternities will ini tiate 40 seniors on sunday at 4:30 p.m in the arcadia room in drown hall dr howard j ziegler head of the philosophy department and pres ident of the lehigh chapter will be in charge of the initiation membership is offered each year to outstanding members of the senior class who have shown unusual ability in liberal arts studies however the lehigh by-laws permit the election of four engineering students to the society each year the newly elected members to the society are william coles rodney crislip william farkas bruce frankenfield mark given jerald hanks charles klabunde paul kre nitsky david leith george loeff ler joseph morgenstern donald oplinger william reeves john rothenberger daniel shook wil liam reeves john rothenberger daniel shook william trench lindsley webster william wes terman wesley willoughby carl see phi beta page 4 dean hayes explains reasons for strict rules enforcement by jerry friedenheim my job is to make men out of boys associate dean byron c hayes said this week and to get them to do well the job that they have come here to do when questioned on the rea son for the sudden enforce ment of social rules many of which had been ignored for sev eral years dean hayes answer ed a good rule in the book should be enforced the latest of the rules which dean hayes is enforcing is a rule which forbids the serving of beer or other alcoholic beverages on the sunday of houseparty first of all sunday is one day lawn and two rows lining the main walk in front of the alumni memo rial building they will comprise the largest gathering of boxwoods this side of virginia rain had delayed movement of the plants for two weeks but work was resumed last week when the trees were prepared for transporta tion at the estate according to j m brun yon kers n.y land architect in charge of the transfer between 20 and 25 men together with four trucks a flat depressed center trailer and a digging crane will be used to complete the operation within the next two weeks he noted that the trees vary in size from small ones of two or three tons to specimens weighing 30 to 40 tons the largest has a spread of 24 feet and a height of 11 feet brun added that so far they had had no trouble moving the smaller trees but expected quite some diffi cuty in finding a route to campus which will include bridges wide enough for the largest tree to pass uninjured once planted with the aid of the crane the trees will take very little special care except that they must be covered for see boxwoods page 5 i out alcohol dean hayes explained when we can have nice affairs with secondly most people feel you can get along without it furthermore it is dangerous to send people home after drinking alcoholic beverages it is dangerous to the fellows driving the girls home and to the girls driving themselves home after a party another reason is that students should start getting back to the work for the following week i am not satisfied with the scholarship of the university as a whole replied dean hayes to questions pertaining to proposed action on scholarship the im provements in scholarship have see haves page 6 first of the tree boxwoods a five-ton specimen arrives at its new resting place in front of the alumni building lehigh university brown and w hite friday april 24 1953 ifc notes profs chaperone refusal volume 64 — number 44 drown open during hp dreamboat dance prize lehigh university bethlehem pa the boxwood trees are here al most 30,000 worth of them first of the collection of 97 english dwarf and tree box woods arrived on campus last three-part weekend which in cluded a dixieland concert a mustard and cheese presenta tion and the annual monte car lo dance were 2,001.89 the pre-freshman committee an nounced that its program for high school visitors will be ready by next fall each house will take part by accommodating and entertaining the boys mark kaufmann 53 co-chairman of the community service committee gave new restrictions on working conditions according to kaufmann see ifc page 6 brubeck's bop to close scl questionnaires dealing with the chaperone problem will be distribut ed to all fraternities and faculty members as a result of a motion passed at the ifc meeting monday night according to ifc president william j davis 53 the refusal of many professors to act as chaperones is at the present time the greatest social problem faced by the fraternities in the first form to be filled out by the fraternities the members will be asked to list their experiences with and requirements for chaper ones the purpose of the second ques tionnaire will be to find out which of the faculty members are willing to accept the responsibility of serv ing as chaperones they will also be asked for their views and grievances on the subject a profit of 877.51 for d7c weekend was announced at the meeting total expenses for the elliot lawrence phi betas to initiate 40 seniors arcadia decided wednesday to keep drown hall open for dancing on saturday and sunday of house party as suggested by dean byron c hayes action came when vice-pres ident edward dussinger 54 moved to have the building open from noon until midnight on saturday and from noon un til 11 p.m on sunday dussinger reported that many requests for such action had been received both by dean hayes and by the drown hall house committee present plans call for music to be piped into the first floor lounge and also outside of drown hall from wlrn to enable dancing on the ter lace which has not been done for some years dussinger said renovation of drown hall and es tablishing of an organizational set up to make the fullest utilization of drown hall at the lowest possible cost may take place this summer the arcadian reported according to arcadia's vice president president martin whitaker was favorably im pressed with a report submit ted by the drown hall house committee including the major remodeling and organization see houseparty page 5 a car and it runs maybe the dreamboat a nonde script car of undetermined vin tage will be given away as a door prize at the houseparty dance next friday night in an unprecedented move as a re sult of their meeting wednesday night the class of 54 sponsors of the dance decided to purchase the car it will be painted white with brown trim drawing the lucky number for the winning ticketholder will be the houseparty queen coronation of the queen is scheduled to take place at approximately midnight drawing for the car will take place about a half hour later the dreamboat will grace the deck of the showboat on the top floor of grace hall where elliot lawrence will play from 10 p.m to 2 a.m johnny guar nieri will provide the music on the lower floor the dance com mittee also hopes to have the car on display around campus early next week tickets to the dance cost 5 sales men have been assigned to each fra ternity house and dormitory section town council is facilitating sales to its members today is the last day to apply for dormitory rooms for house party dates idc vice president robert ameling reminded late comers paul sichert 54 was credited with suggesting the purchase of the car now we have to get one that runs said 54 president wilson stout cosmo club ball tomorrow night tim bortz's orchestra native cos tumes a floor show crowning of the ball queen and prizes for the most original costumes will highlight the international ball tomorrow at 9 p.m in grace hall closing the one-day regional con ference of the cosmopolitan club the dance is open to the whole uni versity admission is 1.30 more than 100 students from colleges in this area are expect ed to attend the conference the see cosmo page 4 this year's scl series will close tonight amid the throbbing jazz of the dave brubeck quartet in grace hall at 8 p.m high among the selling composers brubeck had four of his numbers chosen by metronome magazine as the best jazz records of march in addition to composing he says his object is to incorporate classical music into jazz made up of brubeck paul desmond on alto sax ron crot ty on bass and lloyd davis on drums the quartet has recently been featured at birdland and the bandbox in new york and in storyville in boston tonight's program will feature such numbers as how high the moon mam-selle me and my shadow blue moon and body and soul 30,000 worth of boxwood here largest collection this side of va week after being transplanted from donor r p hutchinson's estate on macada rd when planted the trees will form a 500-foot hedge surrounding the negroes scores lower mcgurk dr frank mcgurk assistant pro fessor of psychology told the newly organized comte sociological society wednesday that the negroid race does not score as high on psycho logical intelligence tests as the cau casoid race does mcgurk spoke on race differences in the library browsing room i don't know whether intelli gence tests test intelligence he said but they do indicate ability to do work in school below the college level ashley montague and other writ ers who claim that there are no in tellectual differences among the races were criticized by mcgurk for wishful thinking he said these