Brown and White Vol. 65 no. 8

              boy's life a monthly magazine directed primarily at the teen-ager and boy scout often includes stor ies on american colleges in its list of articles designed to interest and help the american boy in the october issue of the magazine bob brooks writes of the work done on the country's campuses by alpha phi omega national service fraternity de voting most of his attention to lehigh's scout visitation day brooks tells of the adventures of the scouts in the labs on south mountain he explains the experiences of the boys as they went from lab to lab enjoying thoroughly the demonstra tions of the wonders of science given by lehigh professors he follows the scouts from the science buildings to lunch at lamberton and then to the lehigh-carnegie tech football game here brooks brings to light an other of the many services rendered by the apo's he explains their duty of parking cars at the football games adding that the job is near ly thankless and always tip-less brooks goes on to outline apo's services on other campuses closing with the thought that apo is fast becoming a tradition and the big reason is that college men are bring ing scouting up to the university level and they're making it work ized in the 48-minute presenta tion maxin started the second half of the program with ballade in d minor by johannes brahms after he completed this short piece rains continued his readings and sketches with a monologue entitled on the harmfulness of tobacco by anton chekov for the first time in the evening the audience had something to laugh at as rains assumed the role of an eccentric professor speaking before a stag audience including members of the medical profession he opened with laugh-provid ing monologue with i am not a see raines page 6 this is the sixth article on lehigh fraternities featuring today chi psi quite a few improvements have been made recently to chi psi's already beautiful house the heating system was converted from coal to oil a stainless steel sink and a new refrigerator were put in the kitchen new carpeting was purchased for the second and third floor halls and study rooms and the first floor hallway and the living room were refurnished built on the side of south mountain in 1915 the house was damaged by fire in 1941 which necessitated extensive rennova tions both inside and out alpha beta delta chapter of chi psi was founded at lehigh in 1894 53 years after the national was founded at union college there are now 26 active chapters chi psi has captured a great many interfraternity awards during the past three years they have been if football champs for three straight years and all-university champs for two in addition they have won their league basketball cham pionship for three years in a row and were if champs in 51 and 52 add to these their lea gue volleyball title and runner up for if wrestling in 51 lea gue softball 3rd place in if swimming and the all-sports trophy in 52 and runner up for the all-sports trophy in 53 this year there are 28 members all brothers but two and 26 of them live in the house there are four seniors 12 juniors and 12 sopho mores extremely large the house has 17 study rooms and two dorms the re sult is that even at capacity there by bob balestier would seldom ' be more than two men to each study room a house bill averages about 80 per month plus social fees pledges have to take phone duty and wakeups plus a daily job which they take for a week at a time work week is usually early in the fall semester with initiation following another initiation takes place in the spring chi psi ranked 12th scholastically among fraternities last spring and was above the all-fraternity and all university averages all chi psi pledges receive 10 hourly sessions of a course based on a book the man and his college published by their national and taught by a member of the lehigh faculty as a part of the regular pledge training it is designed to improve study habits provide an under standing of the true relationship between college life and life after college and to help the in dividual adjust to his new col lege environment there are chi psi's in alpha pi mv ( lambda mv sigma phi eta sigma junior and sophomore cabi see chi psi page 5 by jerry friedenheim claude rains star of screen and theater captivated an audience of 600 persons in grace hall friday night as he presented his new two man show words and music the show which is still some what of a trial run was surpris ingly well received as the stu dent concerts-lectures series opened its 18th season rains presented a program of sketches and readings most of which were set to a musical background played by his accompanist jack maxin the short white-haired star of darkness at noon mounted the stage with two notebooks three pairs of reading glasses and green and red handkerchiefs the program started with the reading of enoch arden by alfred lord tennyson with piano background by richard strauss played by maxin rains dramatized the sorrowful tale of enoch whose tale followed many of the patterns of odys seus perfect timing with the background music provided moods which otherwise the au dience would never have real vol 65 — no 8 tuesday october 20 1953 l.u bethlehem pa liquor at games to be prohibited stadium policed 30,000 cuts mark drop of 10,000 in year thirty thousand unexecused class absences mark a substantial im provement in attendance for 1952 53 the office of the dean of students announced recently the change in the all-univer sity median was from 11 in 1951 52 each semester to nine in 1952-53 ( also each semester or a difference of the median of two cuts per student this decrease applied to about 2500 undergraduates represents an improvement af about 5000 fewer cuts during each semester it was also noted of the basic tabu lations for the fall 53 semester that 10 per cent of the students at the low end of the absence scale fewest cuts per student per semester in curred less than one per cent of the total absences however the 10 per cent of the students at the upper end of the absence scale most cuts per student per semester incurred more than 32 per cent of the ab sences the senior class cabinet voted 12-1 friday in favor of upholding its previous decision of not allowing flowers at the moulin rouge formal houseparty dance in grace hall oct 30 the vote followed an hour long discussion during which representa tives of both sides of the flower ban aired their views the cabinet which also forms the fall houseparty dance com mittee took its final stand on the issue after examining results of a brown and white poll which showed 492 persons in fa vor of the ban while a larger number 573 opposed the ban the poll covered those students who plan on going to housepar ty from all dorm sections all fraternities and leonard hall ' with the dance only two weeks away and plans by almost all those going already made the cabinet felt it would be unfair from the financial standpoint of the 492 persons who wanted the ban to remove it at such a late date cabinet members report ed that many of those who favored the ban expressed fear that without the ban they would be unable to at tend the dance according to men queried by the cabinet many men had already in vited dates on the understanding they would be able to save from 3-5 through the uniform flower ban the cabinet noted that to remove the ban now would place an unfair fi nancial burden on these men and would be reneging on the cabinet's previous commitment to these ban supporters the cabinet expressed con cabinet upholds flower ban 12-1 corn at not being able to please everyone but felt the vote so close in the poll that less injust ice would be done if no further expense were added to the dance arrangements for those planning to attend class president philip newman opened the meeting by stating it was the job of the cabinet to run the dance but noting the cabinet should consider the opinion of the whole university he asked wheth er the cabinet was in favor of con tinuing the ban noting that he felt a two-thirds majority of students planning on atteding the dance should be in favor the ban for the cabinet to uphold the ban two seniors both representing the brown and white and the only members of the student body other than cabinet mem bers in attendance at the meet ing and one cabinet delegate spoke in opposition to the ban no petitions opposing the ban had been filed with the cabinet executive board those opposing the ban argued that town fl.ower dealers would lose an estimated 4,500 because of the ban they also felt it would give le high a bad name from the stand point of visiting dates all three ex pressed the belief that it was unfair to the girls who expect flowers for a formal dance they also questioned the cabinet's right to ban flowers the cabinet announced that those insisting on wearing flowers would not be allowed in the dance and ar rangments will be made for a flower check room improvement at chi psi include conversion to oil frosh car ban to be removed for houseparty freshmen will be permitted to have cars over houseparty weekend according to a letter from dean by ron c hayes which was read by jim gottling 54 chairman of the cam pus committee at last wednesday's meeting of arcadia dear mr gottling on strictly a trial basis this semester the restriction on freshman motor vehicles will be relaxed for the friday satur day and sunday of houseparty weekend the following is emphasized es pecially to freshmen 1 the restriction will be in full effect through thursday oct 29 and beginning monday nov 2 2 a particularly dim view is taken by both administration and faculty in the matter of ab sences from class on the friday and monday of houseparty weekend no excuses for absen ces on these days should be re quested 3 the practice of restricting traffic on the upper campus espe cially saturday evening of house party has proven quite effective and will continue this year 95 epitomes still unclaimed ninety five copies of the 1953 epi tome are as yet uncalled for by owners and those who have made deposits ralph n meerwarth 54 busi ness manager of the 1953 epito me stated that epitome office will be open for one day only friday oct 23 from 2 to 5:30 p.m for students to pick up their copies those who fail to do so will for feit their deposit and will have no further claim according to meer warth anyone caught attempting to take liquor to football games at taylor stadium will have his liquor confiscated and will be reported to disciplin ary authorities gen percy l sadler director of athletics said last week sadler told arcadia president ralph meerwarth 54 and brown and white editor-in-chief dan klein 54 that his decision to enforce the university regulation prohibiting liquor in taylor stadium stems from the drunken conduct of a few spectators at the buffalo game dean wray h congdon said that disciplinary action would be taken against the two students ejected from the stadium during the buffalo game he also announced that taylor stadium would be policed during games ~~ ticket takers from the pinkerton detective agency will be asked to spot those attempting to take liquor into the stadium sadler said they will report offenders to a campus policeman who will be stationed near the entrance i am very much concerned by the students action last sat urday sadler said appropri ate action will be taken to cor rect the situation . dean congdon also deplored the incidents at the buffalo game which had aroused complaints from mem bers of the faculty as well as from many other persons in the univer sity dean congdon released the fol lowing statement to the b&w 1 any such act is disgraceful and reflects seriously on the reputation of the student body 2 such heedless and inconsider ate acts undermine the whole effort to put responsibility on students for the control of their own affairs rather than to place them under a police system of control 3 because of this experience the university has no alternative but to police the stadium during football games 4 i have seldom experienced a more thoroughly aroused en tire student body in protest student protest was also voiced in last wednesday's arcadia meeting when meerwarth announced he would confer with sadler in an at tempt to prevent future incidents he suggested cyanide as a group to help enforce the ban rains captivates 600 with ' words and music boy's life runs article on scout visitation day apo's work on campus brown and white jiaucie kains