Brown and White Vol. 66 no. 40

              948 expecting easter cards are valentined proposed altering of the present election procedure by a referendum on the class ballots in may so that the date of arcadia elections would fall between thanksgiving and christmas vacations was the subject of a motion passed by arcadia at its meeting april 13 the referendum which will replace the present rules as set forth in article i of the by-laws of the constitution of the student body pro poses changing the date of the arcadia elections from early in march to sometime in late november or early in december and also would prevent freshmen from running for arcadia several other points are changed by the proposed revision anyone on valentine probation would be in eligible to run officers would be elected at the first meeting instead of at the third a lame duck council will also be initiated by the referendum ac ceptance i.e the new arcadia will sit with the outgoing group as ob servers until they take office at the beginning of the second semester the council feels that this in novation will be of definite benefit to the incoming group the referendum which con tains four points will be voted upon as a unit so that it will pass or fail to receive accept ance as one single proposal william e zeiter vice president told the group that wlrn should return to the air in several days ! experts are now checking the field plot of the station and their re ports and authorization will start wlrn in motion see frosh page 9 southern motiff is spring hp theme by mark evans springtime in the south has been selected by junior class officials as the theme for the 55 spring houseparty dance decorations for the april 29 dance to be held in gace hall will fea ture a southern plantation and garden setting recalling the era of the glorious south before the civil war lehigh kentucky colonels and their belles will prance to the music of les elgart and his band who are scheduled to appear as the feature attraction of the weekend with the rhythmaires in the supporting role jazzing it up on the lower level students wishing to purchase cor sages for their dates are being giver the ok flowers having been classi fied as optional this edict shoulc solve ihe problems that have ariser in pa j years due to flower banning corsages may be optional but at ire is definitely not as always tor see flowers page 4 nine hundred and forty-eight un dergraduates received valentines at the midpoint of the spring semester the office of the dean of students an nounced today this number compares with the 1,110 valentines sent out last fall and the 940 delivered in the spring last year with the current enrollment of 2,455 the 948 valentines represent 38.6 per cent of the roll this signi fies a drop in percentage from 42.6 last fall and 39.0 in spring 1954 freshman engineers had the larg est number of valentines 213 the breakdown in order of number of valentines reads freshman engineers 213 business administration 210 arts 108 mechanical engineer ing 83 industrial engineering 81 chemical engineering 75 civil engineering 52 electrical engineering 52 metallurgical engineering 28 en gineering physics 19 chemistry 10 mining engineering 9 general col lege division 4 and general science and mathematics 4 the current percentage of 38.6 of men with valentines marks the sec ond highest spring semester valen tine distribution since 1950 with the only higher figure being the 39.0 percentage of spring 1954 the low point percentage-wise in the last five years occun-ed in the 1951 spring semester when a total of 798 valentines or 30.8 of the class en rollment of 2.593 were distributed it seems to be curtain time as prof albert rights and assistants jerk at the cloth mildly uninterested glee clubbers follow the action during a pause in their rehearsal for allegro bethlehem pa lehigh university brown and white friday april 15 1955 seats available for allegro's premiere at 8 volume 66 — number 40 ifc action puts delta tau delta theta xi on pro increased costs necessitate rise in dorm rentals election day shift to fall proposed by john mimnaugh two fraternities delta tau delta and theta xi are to be placed on probation as a result of the investi gations of the interfatei-nity council judiciary committee it was an nounced at the ifc meeting mon day evening in packard lab because of illegal rushing methods and an illegal initia tion the two fraternities will be placed on probation for ap proximately one month from april 18 to may 13 according to rulings by the committee evidence of alcoholic beverages having been served to rushees in the chapter house during rushing placed delta tau delta on proba tion a rushee had informed the ju diciary committee of the serving of the beverages the house was also fined theta xi because it failed to file properly an initiation petition with the registrar initiated an unquali fied person and was placed on pro bation fined and reprimanded initiation petitions are to be filed 10 days in advance of the initiation with the registrar so he can ascertain whether the in dividual has the necessary aver age for initiation in this case the individual did not have the necessary average in a special meeting after the regular meeting a motion that ifc suspend the probation period placed on theta xi and delta tau delta tau delta for houseparty weekend see juniors page 8 delays resumption of broadcasting the board of publications at its meeting of tuesday denied the re quest of wlrn to resume broadcast opci ations george d ryerson 55 sta tion manager and stanley c starr 55 chief engineer sub mitted an installation report on the coaxial distribution system and an accounting of the ex penses the report stated that coaxial ca ble had been installed in richards drinker and dravo houses upon see board page 12 by dick sugarman due to increasing costs of main tenance renovations and new fur nishings a residence hall rental in crease averaging 38.50 per room will go into permanent effect this summer upon looking into operating costs of the dorms it was found that current income did not meet current expenses and if we are to improve the situation as far as physical plant goes more income must be made available the above statement was made by philip b woodroofe director of residence halls commenting on the new dormitory rental increase a letter sent to all residence hall members fom the office of the trea surer made the increase official the letter signed by elmer w glick treasurer pointed out that the average rent of dormitory rooms at three institutions of similar size and chaacter — r.p.1 m.1.t and carnegie tech — is 134.00 per se mester 52.50 below that of lehigh glick also referred to steps being taken to improve the phy sical facilities and services available to those living in our dormitories this statement according to wood roofe meant the interior painting of dravo house new furniture in the other dormitories and a more con centrated effort to improve the sur ounding grounds of the residence halls etc rents are as follows taylor and price 50 and 75 richards and drinker 75 to 135 and dravo 80 to 110 effective this summer they will be taylor and price 75 to see rents page 4 a musical with a plot is the bill of fare tonight at 8 in grace hall as the 1955 edition of the spring music festival opens a two-day run of richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein ips 1945 broadway hit allegro dick thompson 56 and merle lctowt head a cast of over 100 play ers with bill murray 57 and peggy lewis assuming the leading roles tomorrow evening tickets for tonight are still available at the box office tomorrow eve ning's performance is sold out allegro's plot centers around a doctor's life and the desire to attain financial success while longing to treat his patients as they are while not as malfunctioning machines joe taylor jr a small-town doctor in a family of small-town doctors has to make a choice in college to continue in his medi cal studies or switch to a curri culum which would lead to oc cupation in a more lucrative line of work his decision to stay with medi cine his marriage to his child-hood sweetheart jenny brinker and the onset of the great depression in the 1930's lead joe to move with his family to chicago where he sets up a practice catering to the wealth of the gold coast allegro which opened a 315 performance run on broadway in 1945 is one of the string of winners in the rodgers and hammerstein stable which includes oklahoma south pacific a spanish adapta tion recently opened in madrid the king and i and most recent ly carousel from the 1945 broadway hit come the songs the gentleman is a dope so far and money isn't everything to assist with the vocal numbers john beggs returns to head the choreography his ballet carnival will assist local talent in four bal lets beggs directed the dancing for the stage biography of billy sheri dan's life which was included in last year's festival the festival orchestra is under the direction of prof william h schempf head of the department of music the chorus is being con ducted by prof robert b cutler director of the lehigh glee club prof albert a rights is in charge of dramatic direction other members of the cast in clude jo anne smith lorie dot tcrcr rose marie navarro ber nice bergenstock irene sieg fried and francis austic who will sing the supporting femi see allegro page 9 merle letowt left stars in the friday night production of allegro and brunette peggy lewis takes over the lead for the saturday per formance small wonder that tickets for each night have been going so fast notice this tuesday and wednesday march 19 and 20 mark the last two days that proofs can be turned in for this year's epitome on these two final days a repre sentative of merin studios will be on the campus this is absolutely the last time that proofs can be ! turned in according to ferd thun i editor of the year book