Brown and White Vol. 66 no. 45

              by mark evans for the first time in a number of years spring houseparty passed without the usual rain deluge from friday afternoon until sunday balmy skies old sol and music took possession of the lehigh campus girls began arriving on the scene friday morning anxious to begin the weekend fun many were in attendance at classes with their dates and no doubt picked up some valuable knowl edge throughout the afternoon's proceedings free at that at fiveish cocktail parties started and ran until dinner time follow ing the evening meal some of the fellows and their dates took in the m&c comedy the tavern other couples used this time to relax and prepare for the formal at 10 drink er richards and taylor residence halls held their cocktail parties from i 7 to 9 j ten p.m found the gals dressed to kill leaving their weekend homes to attend the dance with their smartly dressed escorts les elgart and the rhythm aires were the attraction at grace hall and both prcoeeded to live up to their advance no tices especially elgart his ag gregation performed for the 814 couples present in a smooth easy and mellow manner and played many lively tunes up stairs the rhythmaires did their see bevan's page 6 jack humes 57 see cut told the brown and white wednesday night that about 2 a.m last sunday he was attacked and beaten by a group of six men who ap eared to him to be jenkins tremper head psych german depts local high school students humes claims he met the six on university aye near the tempos while he was going to delta upsilon to look up some friends after one of the group asked him if he had a firecracker humes says he was slugged humes says he then grabbed one of the men and applied a strangle hold as both men fell to the ground the rest of the group began kicking humes knocking him out and breaking his nose after he came to humes says he then decided to go after the man who slugged him and seek his re venge at the wye below the flag pole he met the campus police who took him st luke's hospital for treat ment tavern brews laughs at m&c mustard and cheese's version of the george m cohan comedy suc cess the tavern was excellent ly produced and presented and all those who missed the tvo weekend performances should consider them selves unfortunate the play set in a backwoods gin mill was a complete satire of the mystery melodrama and achieved the desired results partial credit for the success of * the play should go to the stage crew and thoburn barker tech nical director of m&c for the see pierson page 11 appointments of dr william l jenkins to the headof the psycholo gy department and dr john s tremper to head the german de partment were made tuesday by president martin d whitaker they will assume their new posts july 1 dr jenkins who joined the lehigh faculty in 1935 suc ceeds dr adelbert ford who is retiring june 30 after 24 years at lehigh dr tremper succeeds dr robert a more who is resigning to devote full time to the duties of dean of the jack humes campus problems discussed college of arts and sciences dr jenkins a noted authority on the sensitivity of the skin is a grad uate of brooklyn polytechnic insti tute he received his master's and doctorate degrees at the university of michigan currently he is engag ed in research on design factors in controls and short-cut statistical methods dr tremper came to lehigh from cornell in 1939 he was graduated from colgate in 1928 and received his master's and doctor's degrees at cornell before coming to lehigh he taught at colgate and cornell dr j s tremper by the student body and approxi mately 450 cars parked on campus by the faculty and staff the univer sity is seeking a solution to the prob lem president whitaker said the university was considering more angle parking with the possibility of widening the road running in front of packer hall to the library and instituting angle parking there residence hall prexy schiesser said his group might recommend that freshman parking not be al lowed on campus this would alle viate the residence hall parking problems somewhat he said director of residence halls philip b wodoroofe stated that one morn ing a 5 o'clock last week 360 cars were parked in residence hall campus problems and suggestions for the good of lehigh were dis cussed wednesday evening in lam berton hall at the dean's annual dinner attended by members of the administration and faculty and many campus leaders president martin d whitaker vice president smiley deans congdon leith and hayes ar cadians and other campus lead ers took part in after dinner dis cussions on parking social problems town-student relations and easter monday vacation proposals president whitaker replying to a question on the campus parking problem stated our problem is not unique he said that many other schools have the same problems with over 1800 vehicles registered parking areas president whitaker revealed that each new parking space for one car coss the university 100 ralph w hamilton suggested that driving on campus should be made a privilege with per mission denied to drive on cam pus to those who have an ex cessive number of traffic viola tions another question what is the status of the social situation " was asked by ralph hamilton of those representing the administration dean wray h congdon stated that the tendency is definitely not toward a dry campus town-student relationships were mentioned as a very pressing prob lem the general opinion was that bee dean's page g dr rhine to speak at scl plant research after teaching grade school in ohio and botany at the univer sity of west virginia in 1924-25 rhine went to duke in 1927 besides having written many ar ticles for national periodicals dr rhine holds membership in the american society for psychical re search american academy of arts and sciences american psycho logical association southern society of philosophy and psychology phi beta kappa sigma xi phi sigma phi and phi lambda upsilon he is a corresponding member of the par ent society for psychical research in london new world of the mind will be the topic of dr joseph b rhine famed duke psychologist in a stu dent concerts-lecture series presen tation tonight at 8 in grace hall there will be no admission charge currently serving as the di rector of the parapsychology la boratory at duke dr rhine has reached the apex of 30-odd years of teaching experience he founded the unique parapsychol ogy lab and has aided in making it nationally famous for its find ings its chief work is in extra-sensory perception or the capacity of cer tain persons under favorable test conditions to perceive or acquire knowledge without the use of rec ognized senses the laboratory ven tures into thought transference and telepathy nad has also confirmed the hypothesis of psychokinesis or the direct influence of moving objects by the will of men dr rhine was born in 1895 in ju niata county pa he married in 1920 and is the father of four children dr rhine has had a distinguished education receiving his b.s degree in 1922 from the university of chi cago his m.s in 1923 and his ph.d in 1925 from the same institution he has also been awarded a fellowship at the boyce thompson institute for dr w l jenkins happy hp galas blessed by old sol miss gail commetti beams happily at the moment it was an nounced that she was houseparty queen her escort jim bevan 55 gives out with the spell-bound look at his speu-binding date can't blame him vol 66 no 45 bethlehem pa friday may 6 1955 un 6-0331 candidates for office to speak at drinker by john mimnaugh students will no longer be able to give as a reason for not voting in class elections a lack of knowledge of candidates and their platforms as wednesday at 4 p.m in front of the drinker balcony all students can see and hear the 19 candidates for presidency of the three classes with the petitioning period jack humes attacked by 6 saturday night of hp for class cffice having ended last monday 43 candidates have filed petitions students will hear 19 of them all candidates for president speak in a pro gram sponsored by delta omi cron theta honorary debating society arcadias election committee nel son l bond 57 roy w wegen 57 frederick m o'such 58 members of the 16-man committee and arca dian gilbert e moskowitz 56 chairman has obtained arcadia's approval to hold the program each of the 19 presidential candi dates will be given three minutes to three minutes on any topic he chooses although it is preferred that candidates speak on their election platforms those candidates wishing to speak longer than three minutes will have to do so under a stream of water as planned a stream of water will be aimed at the speaker's platform at the three-minute mark to keep speeches from becoming too long duncan p aspinwall henry d benjamin h robert garrasquillo robert g heidenreich and arthur f schaffer candidates for the senior class president will be the first speakers they will be followed by the can see 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