Brown and White Vol. 66 no. 42

              by mark evans an elaborately decorated grace hall will be the scene for next friday evening's annual spring houseparty dance the setting for the spring time in the south theme is a dixie plantation and garden on the first floor where les elgart and the band will hold the spot light decorations will be extensive the ceiling decoration will consist of illuminated stars and cutout scenic clouds suspended in the ceiling over the dance floor the illuminated stars will be equipped with blinkers that cause them to blink on and off creating a twinkling star effect behind the promenade walk the two bleacher sidewalls and the entrance endwall will be decorated and covered with an evening blue fabric that will blanket the walls completely the wall back of the orchestra will be decorated with a large southern plantation created by erecting a large white curtain and placing windows and doors in front of the curtain to create the facade of the mansion on each side of the mansion the endwall will be decor ated and covered with evening blue fabric at the front of the building the decorator will erect four large translucent cloth columns set in an opaque base in the floor and extend ing to the top of the mansion au tomatic revolving lights set in the base of each column illuminate them completely and change colors to form the second floor porch of the building a scenic porch rail be hind the columns will be construct ed and decorated with artificial greens and pink blossoms thus an attractive and effective setting is created for the elgart ensemble along the sides of the dance floor immediately in front of the bleachers approximately ten ar tificial pink blossom trees eight see pink page 3 amazing dr franz polgar brings his full array of fascinating mental demonstrations to the grace hall stage tonight at 8 p.m in a student concerts-lectures series presenta tion undergraduates with id cards and season ticket holders will be admitted free to the perform ance general admission will be 1.00 and seats in the reserved section will go for 1.50 a large advance sale of tickets in town indicates a sell-out performance divided into three main portions polgar's program of hypnotism and mental telepathy has drawn record crowds to college campuses and theater stages in the united states and south america as the first part of his demonstra tion polgar ventures into the field of mental telepathy with a series of attempts at thought transfer one of his most outstanding feats in this line is to have an object hidden somewhere in his audience and then to find it without clue or help of any kind next polgar demonstrates his radio mind with a series of rapid fire tests on literature mu sic etc in an outstanding dis play of amazing memory pow ers as the windup feature of his show polgar shows his power of sugges tion as he puts a group of hypno tized spectators through hilarious paces the ludicrous maneuvers in duced by polgar bring the show to a rousing finish polgar has made two previous appearaces at lehigh being brought back in january 1953 by popular see polgar page 4 clarification of arcadia's stand on the granting of concessions commit tee reports regarding parking areas class elections and other campus problems were discussed at the arcadia meeting wednesday evening in drown hall at the last arcadia meeting one week ago a concession to sell ice cream was granted by arcadia to arthur anderman 56 unknown to arcadia dean wray h congdon ' had previously granted permis sion to another ice cream ven dor not a student arcadian moskowitz noticing the gentleman selling ice cream ques tioned him and was informed that he had received permission from the dean upon contacting dean congdon moskowitz was informed that the dean's office reserves the right to grant every petition but has given the power to grant some petitions to arcadia moskowitz said dean congdon did not feel this particular case was subject to the approval of arcadia and thus denied the permission granted anderman by arcadia it was moved that the concessions committee group leader send a let ter to dean congdon in an attempt to clarify the issue i understand the concern of the student body over the increase in rental rates of residence hall rooms stated philip b woodroofe director of residence halls in speaking at the meeting woodroofe stated that until september 53 it was difficult to ascertain the exact financial dif ficulties of the residence halls because the various expenses were often taken care of by the buildings and grounds depart ment and other university bod ies as of september 53 cost fig ures of residence halls operation were kept together and it was found that the residence halls were oper ating in the red and had been for a long period of time because of their high operating costs improvements were not prop erly made on buildings and the in crease in room rents is needed to perform these improvements residence halls must be self sufficient stated mr wood see self back page rotc plans integration of courses because of a request by the uni versity the army rotc instruction program will offer general military science courses next year instead of the present courses offered in the separate branches of ordnance en gineering and infantry the new plans which will be similar to the present methods of air force rotc courses have several advantages in that they are designed to provide the student with a well-rounded ba sic knowledge essential to offi cers of all branches of the army problems presently encountered in assigning students to classes are to be eased by the new system which is to be put into effect in sep tember since some cadets entered ad vanced courses under the existing see summer page 3 lightning bolt numbs jones william jones jr 57 was slightly injured tuesday evening when lightning struck the home of mrs lena geiger fountain hill jones school residence the sophomore business stu dent from cape may n.j said he was listening to a ball game on the radio at 8:45 p.m when he was tossed about on his bed by the bolt jones later reported that he thought he had been knocked out for about 30 to 45 seconds when he came to he said that his nose was bleeding and his left leg felt numb mrs geiger who was sitting downstairs with a lady friend said she noticed a flash but that neither thought much of it until jones de scended and explained what had oc curred he was treated at st luke's lospital b&w begins college eating survey 2 basic skills needed aiken by dick gaintner speaking on the topic seating the wrong things in the wrong places dr william a aiken pro fessor of history addressed about 250 members of the freshman class last tuesday evening at the group's annual banquet in the beethoven maennerchor after a roast beef dinner and several short talks by the offi cers of the freshman cabinet dr aiken discussed the differences between european and ameri can higher education centering his remarks about students rea sons for going to college dr aiken said most of you about 85 per cent have come to lehigh simply to get a job in eur ope this is not the case the students attend the university for the ex pressed purpose of securing an edu cation which will prepare them for living in close harmony with their fellow men these european students take the idea of acquiring a job for granted and concentrate their abilities on in creasing their intellectual prowess they also display a great courage self-assurance and a senses of val ues see european page 5 paying for food directly to the col lege on the other side of the ledger were those who seemed discontented with their present eating facilities nineteen schools fell in this cate gory five could either pay the col lege or pay as they ate two paid when they had meals and 12 paid the college directly it is interesting to note that of the 62 replies receiv ed 36 reported food bills were paid directly to the college fourteen others said they had options to do so although many more reported general satisfaction than dissat isfaction we will attempt to couple them up to give a good cross-section of their points of view and their reasons com plete with quotations from in see food page 6 editor's note this is the first in a series of articles based on a brown and white survey of col leges throughout the united states the project was under taken to provide suggestions for the new university center while it is still in its planning stage the survey concerned only eat ing facilities and procedures student opinion on the systems is included by george l beezer for several months the brown and white has been at work gathering information from other colleges and universities concerning eating pro cedures how food bills are paid the quality and quantity of meals and suggested improvements the survey sent across the though nearly every reply showed that students desired improvement in food served in college dining halls of those satisfied many paid their food bills directly to the schools some paid their board with tuition least objected to of all was price quality particularly drew derogatory remarks with quan tity running a close second some replies mentioned that freshmen were annoyed at being compelled to eat at a university operated dining hall ten of those who indicated satis faction with their present systems were in the pay-as-you-go category nine colleges gave the students a choice of either paying bills to the school or paying as they ate twen ty-four indicated satisfaction with country by the b&w produced interesting results the ques tionnaires were sent to editors of college newspapers for their interpretation of student opinion on individual questions the re sults are quite informative and the response has been over whelming many of those reply ing included newspaper clip pings concerning attempts to im prove eating facilities as well as personal notes requesting the survey results a total of 62 colleges and univer sities responded some were board ing schools while others also were attended by commuters and local residents the majority of the replies indi cated that students were satisfied with present dining facilities al brown and white vol 66 — no 42 bethlehem pa friday april 22 1955 arcadia clarifies concession stand un 6-0331 by john mimnaugh polgartomystify by hypnotism mind telepathy spring stars to twinkle at elgart h-party ball les elgart arcadian moskowitz investigated a white truck