Brown and White Vol. 68 no. 6

              drive nets 2.7 million bethlehem pa friday oct 5 1956 debates on politics in grace hall at 8 vol 68 no 6 lehigh university brown and white hp lists tom tucker billy butterfield bands phone university 6-0331 supper time — dean hunter 59 above was bitten by a small cop perhead tuesday evening on the beta stairs hunter and friend don hammond then played with the snake for ten minutes then they dropped a big stone on the snake and killed it it was time for supper copperhead bites dean dies writhing in agony by ray farkas dean c hunter 57 was bitten by a 13-inch poisonous copperhead snake tuesday evening in front of beta theta pi fraternity hunter who did not realize that he had been bitten until 20 minutes later — 6:20 p.m — was given first aid at the health center and then treated at st luke's hospital and released hunter said he felt pretty lousy when contacted wednesday the snake was not so fortunate hunter and a chi phi brother don hammond killed it with a small boulder after toying with him for 10 minutes it all happened on the front steps on the southern side of the beta theta pi fraternity at approximately 6 p.m hunter plodding up the hill to the chi phi house did not notice the copperhead as he ascended the beta stairs the copperhead however took note of hunter and striking out at the student's rieht foot he nene trated hunter's white bucks from the high slde looking from the road above the new wing to the university center the observer notes steel skeleton-like frame works which will soon be hidden by huge stone walls see gifts page 6 the original packer hall-dormi tory campaign goal has been ex ceeded by 480,878 according to atest figures released by the uni versity originally setting its goal at 2,200,000 the campaign has net ted 2,680,878 to date top area in the drive was bethlehem donating 576,000 for the new buildings the pitts burgh area was first in amount collected over and above their goal collecting 379,600 for a goal of 200,000 every one of the 39 campaign areas topped its goal and funds are still being received since the proj ect was started costs have risen so lhat the amount now collected will just cover the building with addi tion funds now needed for furnish ings by letting the contracts on the two new buildings immediately the board of trustees saved an esti mated 250,000 since two strikes one in construction and the other in steel have taken place by awarding the contracts at the early date the economic effects of these strikes were avoided arcadians seat one can't find other candidate billy butterfield tommy tucker ifc proposes plan of limited contacts two bands one playing dance able music and the other providing listenable rhythms will vie for the attention of houseparty goers on oct 26 tommy tucker and billy butterfield will compete on an equal basis on both levels of grace hall tucker will play downstairs announcing the affair which has caused a great deal of con cern and controversy in recent weks andrew n homer 57 publicity chairman predicted the bands for this fall's house party will offer a bit of devir sion from those of past years in that a six-man dixieland com bination will entertain lehigh's dixie lovers tommy tucker and his orchestra will provide music to dance to at the friday night segment of hp the group has appeared at hotels the atres ballrooms and clubs across the nation the hotel astor in new york the roosevelt hotel in washington d.c the copley-plaza in boston the essex house in new york and the statler in cleveland are a few of the places where he has played also the wardman park hotel in washington the el patio ball room in san francisco and elitch's gardens in denver the see diversion page 4 foreign aid military spending civil rights and other vital campaign issues will be debated at 8 tonight in grace hall when sen styles bridges r-nh and sen john j sparkman d-ala clash the men both important figures in their parties hold sharply con trasting viewpoints on major issues bridges is an exponent of cutting down federal spending sparkman is an advocate of increased mili tary spending and foreign aid sparkman's record in congress shows him closer to fair deal than most southern democrats bridges was one of the most outspoken crit ics of the new deal although their political views are divergent they have similar back grounds both were born on farms bridges in maine and sparkman in alabama they both taught school and have journalistic backgrounds as legislators both men have taken active interest in foreign policy legislation and subver sive elements in government sparkman a southern liberal ran for vice-president on the democratic ticket in 1952 with adlai steven son bridges was the youngest gov ernor in the history of new hamp shire assign rooms for hp dates rooms for houseparty dates of residence hall students will be as signed oct 10 11 and 12 from 7 to 9 p.m in the bamboo room of dravo house the cost will be 6.50 and this will include the rental of a room and linens rhc breakfast friday's pre-dance party and saturday night's party arcadia wednesday night voted two of its seats vacant but filled only one of them the seats vacated were form erly held by richard lenna 58 who is now in a seminary at niagara univ and stephen m mera 58 who resigned because of scholastic deficiencies ned mccann 57 who was the next candidate in line based on the arcadia elections was named to fill one of the vacant seats peter j kennedy 57 who is second in line for an arcadia seat will be appoint ed when arcadia can locate him they had tried unsuccessfully to find where kennedy lives arcadians considered that the job done on the freshman handbook was poor and one member noted that dr charles a seidle director of admissions wants to take it over fred o'such 58 said he had conferred with clarence camp bell director of scholarships and see solons page 5 residents of new dorm have single pix chance students who plan to occupy the new dormitory this year are requested to come to the upper floor of grace hall monday so that section pictures may be taken for the 1957 epitome pic tures have been scheduled by sections as follows a-l 7:00 a-2 7:30 a-3 8:00 b-l 8:30 b-2 9:00 b-3 9:30 near the end of october the suggested plan would en able fraternities to contact pros pective pledges until a reason able hour three nights of the week and leave the dorms com pletely free of fraternity men the remainder of the week the current ban prohibits contact ing after 7:30 p.m but there is no restriction regarding afternoon con tacts council members agreed that only those members of the student body who have houseparty dates would be allowed to attend the weekend functions stags are once again out lawed both freshmen and upper classmen discussion concerning house party brought about a motion that a separate open-house weekend be scheduled for fresh men since many of them fail to see contact page 6 confronted with the recent off limits ban in freshman residence halls in the evening the interfrater nity council adopted a plan at its monday meeting aimed at regulating freshman contacting however the plan must be approved by philip b wood roofe director of residence halls before it may be put into effect and enable fraterities to resume contacting on a limited scale after considerable deliberation by council members james taylor president of chi psi made a motion that fraternities be allowed to con tact freshmen monday wednesday and thursday from 7:30 to 10 p.m the motion was adopted without a dissenting vote if the plan is acceptable to wood roofe the new contacting hours would begin following the first freshman hour quizzes sometime see hunter page 6