Brown and White Vol. 65 no. 7

              scl presents rains tonight in grace hall employes may be purchased at the registrar's office at reduced prices a directory of organizations on the campus will be published by the 16 man committee of arcadia soon in an attempt to acquaint students more fully with the activities on campus improvements in the orienta tion period held early in the year for the frosh were discussed and adopted the booklet will be distributed as a guide to the dorm sections the li brary and possibly the fraternities it will carry stories on each of the many organizations and activities at lehigh with special emphasis on elections history and the purposes of the club each organization will have a page and the complete book will be in loose-leaf form so that pages may be added and subtracted as is neces sary present officers will not be mentioned as these guides are in tended to be permanent records a committee will be appointed to handle publication and distri bution of the booklet the orientation program present ed to the freshmen at the beginning of the year to acquaint the new comers with the extra-curricular ac tivities on the campus was found to be successful for the most part though improvements were discuss ed a major complaint was that too few activities were represented in the discussion groups which follow ed the mass meeting at the begin ning of the evening campus chest below 53 mark nearly complete returns indicate that the 1953 campus chest charity drive has fallen far below its goal of 5,000 with only seven dormitory sections and one town group un heard from the total pledges and cash amount to 3,716.22 approxi mately 1,300 below this year's goal and about 1,200 below last year's total although there were still sev eral groups unheard from mar tin edelman 54 treasurer of the chest did not think the total would go over 4,000 fraternities surged ahead in amount collected with a total of 1,944 in cash and pledges while the dormitories were close behind hav ing contributed 1,623 altogether the town groups fell far below last year's level donating only 83 fewer groups have participated 100 percent this year than did last year they were kappa alpha al pha tau omega psi upsilon phi gamma delta sigma phi chi psi beta theta pi pi lambda phi sig ma alpha mu leonard hall dravo al taylor a taylor d and rich ards 2a band not going to boston univ cost too much the lehigh band will not go to boston because its appropriation for the coming school year is not enough to cover the trip to the bean town clinton j schmeig student director announced wednesday at rehearsal the band also voted to pass up the game at gettysburg schmeig explained that the only efficient way for the musi cians to travel to boston was by air and prohibitive costs made the trip impossible the band voted to pass up gettys burg because of the poor seating ar rangements at the bullets stadium and previous plans for the weekend by members of the marching outfit schmeig announced that the band would most likely go on all long trips next season and that the money saved by not making the two trips this year would come in handy furthermore schmeig stated that the two-week layoff before the bucknell game would give the band a good chance to rehearse shows for the games following houseparty against passage was francis flynn 55 gross contended that arcadia does not have the power to define who is eligible to election by arcadia be cause by-laws state that anyone who is not on probation is eligible he further maintained that arcadia does not have the right to levy fines or to tell student organizations who can be elect ed to office he proposed instead to have every candidate sign a statement saying he will abide by election rules and pay any fines levied in that way the committee on discipline could prosecute for breach of contract if an offender refuses to pay a fine barnett insisted that his bill was not prohibiting anyone from run ning for office it was stopping him from gaining public office fradu lently and without recognizing his punishment he pointed out that arcadia has levied fines before without interference by the dean arca dia has the right to punish vio lators he maintained the act is designed to regulate the time and places for displaying cam paign posters and other campaign material for election to arcadia or class offices it also fixes 15 as the maximum amount that can be spent by a candidate it sets up a scale of fines for vio lations of these rules the fines in clude 5 for off-campus advertising 50 cents for each piece of campaign material in the vicinity of polling areas 50 cents for each poster ap pearing before the specified date and 5 for each newspaper ad ap pearing ahead of time a fine of 50 cents is also pro vided for each poster not remov ed by the established deadline to remove confusion as to which elections committee should have jurisdiction a section was added to give the committee in office at the time of elections authority the question of the selling of box lunches in the dorms supposedly declared illegal by the dean's office but still continuing was broached by buell miller 55 tom nitsche 54 reporting for the absent don luce 54 said that the owner of the box lunch concern had spoken to dean congdon and had informed him that he was operating the enter prise that it was not handed over to any other student as his concession and that the demand for the lunches had been suffici ent to warrant his maintaining the vending of them according to nitsche dean cong don has allowed the continued sell ing of the lunches under these con ditions ralph hamilton moved that a committee be appointed to investi gate the possibilities including technical feasibility capital invest ment and operating costs of ex tending wlrn radio coverage to see arcadia page 6 stan kenton hailed as modern america's man of music stan kenton will appear with 20 of the world's greatest in strumentalists at the moulin rouge houseparty dance oct 30 in grace hall kenton returns to south moun tain after being well accepted at the 1950 fall formal co-starring with him will be george sommers and his orchestra tickets are 5 for the dance which will run from 10 p.m until 2 a.m claude rains noted stage and screen actor will present a varied program of dramatic sketches and readings on the poening program of the student concerts-lectures to night at 8 in grace hall rains who was last seen on broadway in the highly rated production of darkness at noon tonight will feature ten nyson's enoch arden set to music especially written by richard straus for dramatic presentation jack maxim will be the piano so loist and accompanist for rains although a definite program has not been scheduled it is expected that rains will present either the raven or tell tale heart by poe the wife of bath by chaucer journey of the magi by t s eliot and builders of america by ed ward shenton the musical score for the last number was arranged by harl mcdonald of the philadelphia orchestra the opening number of the eve ning will be jack maxim's piano version of ballade in d minor by johannes brahms students will be admitted to the performance without charge upon presentation of their identification cards guest tickets for undergrdu i ate students faculty members and their wives graduate students and lehigh university brown and white plastic pill box . . . volume 65 — number 7 lehigh university bethlehem pa political control measure ratified by arcadians friday october 16 1953 b&w poll shows flowers desired arcadia can declare violators of campus election regulations not qualified to run for any office in any or ganization receiving funds or aid from arcadia for one year as the result of passage wednesday night of the political activities act passed by a vote of nine to two the act cites thos who fail to pay fines assessed by the arcadia elec tions committee and those who in the judgment of arcadia spend on their campaigns amounts greatly in excess of the legal limit set by arcadia the act proposed by elliott barnett 54 was passed d dspite heated opposition by mai gross 54 also voting each boxwood in the 30,000 collection planted in front of the alum ni building last spring wil be covered by an igloo-shaped protector as shown above the boxwoods being very fragile must be protected from heavy winds snow and spring sun 16-man unit plans activity directory the cabinet figured that the ban would save a ticket pur chaser from 2-5 through instal lation of the uniform flower abolisment several groups objected vehe mently to the ban mentioning that it was part of tradition girls ex pected flowers when dressed for a formal the escorts like to give the flowers local merchants would suf fer and some lehigh organizations would lose advertisers the poll does not mean that the ban will be lifted the senior class cabinet meets today and will again discuss the problem and this poll a final decision will be made at this meeting the breakdown of figures shows that fraternities voted for the ban 348-343 and the dormitories against it with 230 and 144 for it most of the fraternities went to one extreme or another where the dormitories showed slight edges for the most part a trend to overthrow the ban on flowers for the houseparty formal is indicated in the tabulations of votes of persons going to houseparty in a poll conducted by the brown and white earlier this week every fraternity dormitory section and leonard hall was contacted in an effort to deter mine the feeling on the ban voted by the senior class cabi net a couple of weeks ago the total figures showed that 573 wanted the ban abolished and 492 preferred the ban to remain in ex istance the results show no over powering majority against the ban but does indicate that the cabinet may have been mistaken on the stu dent body feeling when it imposed the new ruling the move was made in an attempt to help the dance patrons economize with the thought in mind that more of them would be able to attend the dance according to class president phil newman