Brown and White Vol. 65 no. 32

              arcadia to request 18,900 for scf hamilton felt it was quite an honor to be back another year i hope i can fulfill that platform he joyfully stated upon hearing of his re-election he said his first move on the new arcadia would be to work on the arcadia orientation program campus safety project and discussion of the health center three candidates received the electoral quota they were eu gene murphy 56 walter carl son 57 both 11th ballot and william zeiter 55 17th ballot elimination of the lowest candi dates accounted for the election of the remaining nine students to the 15 man governing body the election was over on the 17th ballot candidates elected in this manner were louis peters 55 99 votes paul ringenbach 57 94 votes stan ley corbett 55 93 votes william wessner 55 90 votes lawrence reynal 55 87 votes robert halten hoff 57 and john crandall 55 both 77 votes theodore baum 55 76 votes and david sidikman 55 75 votes sidikman ended the 17th bal lot in a tie with richard glass berg 55 for the 15th position after a conference with the two candidates the arcadia election committee decided to examine the ballots of those men elected ed but who did not exceed the 100-vote quota redistribution of these ballots gave the post to sidikman by a margin of three votes voting was much heavier than last year sixty seven per cent of the eli gible students participated as com pared to 61 per cent in the last ar cadia election a total of 1585 votes were recorded 68 more than last year kenneth verostick 55 has been assigned the title role in the mus tard and cheese club's forthcoming production of the celebrated comedy of naval life in war-time mister roberts the role he plays is of a lieutenant j.g stuck aboard an old bucket of a cargo ship who impa tiently fears the war will pass him by before he can get transferred to a real fighting ship mister roberts one of the most successful comedies in the history of the american theatre written by thomas heggen and johusa logan is being present ed by mustard and cheese club for two performances beginning friday march 19 all the action of the comedy takes place aboard the fictional ship known as the ak-601 which mono tonously performs its chores of car rying naval cargoes thousands of miles behind the battle lines only one woman appears in the cast she is an army nurse who comes aboard for a brief visit while the ship is in port the excited de light of the wild crew who have be come starved for the sight of a pret ty girl is hilarious this role will be played here by francis austin richard corney 54 will be seen as the embittered tyrannical com mander of the ship who hates hi efficient junior officer roberts be cause of the lieutenant's education and ability to win the loyalty of the crew edward rand 54 will be en sign pulver the bragging lazy offi cer who shares roberts bunk-room richard grant 54 will be seen as the cynical clear-head ed understanding ship's doctor some of the other members of the brawling hard-boiled crew will be played by arthur ander man 56 joseph moser 55 gil bert moskowitz 56 robert sil verson 55 and theodore gor man 57 see m&c page 4 campaign literature was removed sunday afternoon by arcadia elec tions committee chairman tom nitsche from the bulletin board in the lobby of drown hall next to the polling table the literature described as yellow and pink mimeographed lists including names of the can didates who had not attended any of the recent arcadia meet ings and corrections was the same as that of which arcadia's elections committee had pre vously cited arcadian malvern gross jr as the originator nitsche said the question whether posting the literature was a viola tion of the paa will be determined by the elections committee he also said the committee would consider the expenses incurred in publishing the literature and the possible effects it might have had on the 15 limit allowed each of the listed 20 candi dates for their campaign expenses see gross page 4 an increase of 3900 over the sum given by the university to the com t mittee on student club finance last year for student activities has been approved by arcadia for next year the total requested will be 18,900 a total of 16,000 was distributed by the committee last year 1,000 t of which came from the roving fund the request approved by arca dia will be submitted to the board of trustees by the university com mittee on student club finance amounts approved for the various organizations are arcadia 4440 brown and white 5100 band 1500 debating 1100 interfaith 60 music clubs 1400 mustard and cheese 1800 political science as sembly 100 wlrn 500 class of 55 400 classes of 56 57 and 58 each 200 drown hall fund 1500 and roving fund 400 lasting two and one-half hours this was the final session of the sev enth arcadia investiture services for the newly elected men will be held tomorrow evening president whitaker will be present at the ceremony and swearing in of new members will be performed by chaplain raymond fuessle see arcadia page 4 will herberg pre-eminent religious leader to conduct interfaith conference programs arcadia head lauds arcadia see meerwarth page 4 delivering his state of the union address arcadia president ralph meerwarth praised the 15 man group for their accomplish ments he cited some of these as 1 the parking problem was alleviated by the ban on fresh man cars 2 renovation of drown hall including painting decorating and rearranging and organizing of ping-pong tourna ments third major accomplishment of the arcadians according to meer warth was the revamping of the freshman orientation program in cluding meetings of instructors at lunch to discuss problems wlrn's broadcast of three of ar cadia's meetings and the passage of the political activities bill designed to regulate campaign posters were also noted formation of the 16-man com mittee permitted publication of the freshman activities booklet arcadia directory and the soon to-be published activities di rectory faculty-student relationships were in connection with the two-week interfaith conference being led by will herberg this week and next two seminars are being held discuss ing approaches to religion and religion and science the first of the discussions is being held this afternoon at 4 in drown hall in which herberg is presenting the three basic out looks of the world — the hea then the philosophical-mystical and the biblical-historical — dis cussing them as defining the fundamental approaches to re ligion next tuesday herberg will pre sent and discuss the same topic in rooms 1 and 2 of drown hall at 4 p.m within the framework given above herberg will undertake a cri tical examination of such central conceptions as knowledge and truth the right and the good in order to show the diverse meanings of these terms in the context of different ap proaches the underlying purpose of the dis cussions is to define frames of refer ence in terms of which basic religi ous problems may be expanded the second group of two semi see seminars page 5 festival tickets not sold mon ticket sales for the 1954 spring music festival will not begin next monday as previously announced in the brown and white group sales for all campus living groups will be held march 23 sale to the general public will begin after that according to business manager don schin del 54 exact dates for all ticket sales will be announced later this week the three-part festival featuring the billy sheridan story will be presented in grace hall april 23 and 24 tickets for the saturday night performance are priced at 2.10 1.90 and 1.75 friday admission prices are 1.95 1.75 and 1.50 only mail orders from festival alumni will be accepted before march 23 hamilton kirkpatrick veinott win arcadia seats on 1st vote carlson corbett zeiter peters wessner ringenbach veinott murphy hamilton kirkpatrick volume 65 —- number 32 tuesday march 9 1954 lu bethlehem pa 1585 vofe in election increase of 68 over 53 for the first time since the hare system of balloting was instituted in 1947 three arcadia candidates were elected on the first ballot last night ralph hamilton 55 with a landslide of 130 votes — 30 over the re quired electoral quota of 100 votes — gained re-election easily while john kirkpatrick 55 and peter veinott 56 with 114 and 110 first place votes respectively joined him on the first ballot victory verostick gets title role in mister roberts haltenhoff sidikman reynal gross posters near poll area crandall lehigh university brown and white baum