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              ifc proposal on average of frosh tabled dual count of avgs upsets tally arcadia elections committee has announced that it is not responsible for the anonymous literature that has been circulated around the cam pus throughout the campaign it cit ed arcadian malvern j gross jr as the originator a bulletin was prepared by gross listing the names of the candidates who had not attended any of the recent arcadia meet ings this bulletin was with drawn shortly after publication in its place appeared a bulletin with a list of the candidates who attended one or more of the recent arcadia meetings and the names of those who were on the arcadia 16 man committee were designated by asterisks gross admitted that he was the author and stated his reason to be that he thought it would show to the voters which candidates were and which candidates were not interest ed enough to attend an arcadia meeting arcadia president ralph meerwarth said that he would not have done what gross did because he thought that sending around such a list was a serious breach of campaign ethics arcadia's election committee is sued the following statement re garding gross action see arcadia page 4 the proposed amendment calling for a 1.50 average for freshmen be fore they can be pledged was again tabled at the monday night meeting of the interfraternity council a motion calling for a pledge to carry 12 hours in the summer if his average is to be counted toward his initiation was also tabled without discussion dean byron c hayes spoke to the gathering on the proposed amend ment and fraternity scholarship on the whole personally i am not sure that 1.50 is the answer or any set of fig ures dean hayes said in any task of this sort standard can only be interpreted in individual circum see summer page 6 herberg will remain at lehigh for two weeks the conference will start sunday at 5:30 p.m with an inter denominational supper and rally in drown hall herberg will speak on anxiety vs faith for the next two weeks he will speak and hold discussions at various points on the campus a daily schedule of events will ap pear every day on the bulletin board in front of the library a schedule will be distributed with this issue of the brown and white during his stay at lehigh her berg will be a guest at the phi gam ma delta fraternity house anyone wishing to speak to him personally may call the chaplains office ext 271 by making students think about the world in which they live he has created tremendous enthusiasm in catholic jewish and protestant groups on other campuses lecturing at prince ton harvard lowa notre dame smith wellesley stanford jew ish theological seminary and union theological seminary his recent book judaism and the i modern man an interpretation of the jewish religion has been ac claimed by dignitaries of all faiths herberg is now at work on a study of the relationship of religion and social sciences catholic jewish and protestant groups are each sponsoring herberg at one of their meetings aside from these group meetings he has been invited to speak at many classes in the various departments he will also conduct two seminars for the students and faculty and one for the faculty alone and finally smashed into a car owned by v cortlandt smith a geology graduate student smith's car was pushed into the fourth car owned by warren n stuber 57 levy's car traveled a 150-foot course according to levy he had parked his car in front of price hall while visiting a friend in the dorm when he came out his car wasn't where he had left it he claimed the emer gency brake was still set when he reached the accident scene levy's car suffered damage to the left rear fender and taillight while the other cars were dented and scratched smith's car was pushed up over the curb a similar runaway accident oc curred jan 6 alexander f bodner university technician watched his car roll from its parking place in the alumni memorial lot across the street over the sidewalk and into the fence averages of all-fraternity all town and all-dorm are above the average of the entire university this statement appeared in the ar ticle on the fall semester averages in the feb 26 issue of the brown and white dean b c hayes pointed out that this was misleading because 96 fraternity men live in the dorms or hi town and their av erages were counted twice the average of the town fraternity men was 2.358 and the dorm fraternity men was 2.262 there are 87 fraternity men who live in town and nine fraternity men who live in the dorms if their aver ages are counted in both living groups the all-fraternity average is ahead with 2.082 to all-town 2.075 and all-dorm 2.0614 on the other hand if these 96 men's averages are disregarded com pletely all-dorm leads with 2.060 all-fraternity is 2.050 and all-town is 2.031 see 96 men page 6 among others betas missing in listing new pledges in the last issue beta theta pi was omitted pledges are harry grau robert henn david newcomb paul huz zard wilbur sienkiewicz lloyd davis thomas deppe rodney long man david bates gary tinkham james bain allan lindstrom cur tis scott and william dean not included with lambda chi alpha last week were john hayes and edward garr new pledges in delta chi frater nity not reported in the last issue are william jackson 56 and bruce snyder 56 delta chi also announ ces the initiation of whitey de young 56 henry steinkamp 56 richard stone 56 john webster 56 polls to be open again mar 6 8 voting for the 33 arcadia can didates will be held today until 4:30 tomorrow and monday to morrow's deadline will be 12:30 p.m and monday's voting will be held from 9:30 a.m to 4:30 p.m polls are located in christmas saucon hall packard lab drown hall and lamberton hall vo ters must present their id cards in order to be permitted to vote results of the elections will be published in the brown and white on tuesday combined glee clubs of beaver college and lehigh along with le high's brass choir will present a con cert at 4 p.m sunday afternoon in packer chapel prof william h schempf head of the department of mu sic will direct both glee clubs and the brass choir in this con cert which will be open to the beaver lehigh glee clubs will give concert of 4 sunday public free of charge works by reiche and ewald will be played by the brass choir while the two glee clubs will join to sing o admirabile commercium and alleluia by randall thompson under the direction of dr w lawrence curry the beaver glee club will be heard in a group of see glee club page 4 a twinkle-toed lehigh student and two pretty damsels glide through a tricky dance routine during music festival rehearsals in grace hall the girls hailing from such places as cedar crest and town find lehigh men quite adept at hoofing volume 65 — number 31 three rear ends meet in front of grace hall entrance the converti ble owned by a visiting muhlenberg student rolled backward down taylor st careening off one car and finally stopping back-to-back to the two parked cars mule's roustabout rousts about the second runaway campus car accident of the year took place wed nesday afternoon when an automobile parked across from price hall rolled backward downhill striking three parked cars on its erratic route only slight damage was done to the cars and no one was injured the wandering car owned by richard levy a visiting student from muhlenberg college rolled from the west side of taylor st across the road to hit a car owned by thomas e davidson 54 careened off will herberg lehigh university bethlehem pa brown and white friday march 5 1954 herberg will open interfaith conference gross fire draws ire of solon s will herberg leader of the interfaith conference will arrive here to day for the sunday meeting herberg is a graduate of columbia univer sity and is a renowned theologian and social philosopher he is a writer of both political and religious subjects the conference will continue for two weeks this is the fourth such conference at lehigh and will be quite dif ferent from the proceeding meetings centering around informal dis cussion of problems in science theology and politics the con ference will also include dis cussion of personal morality