Brown and White Vol. 68 no. 9

              dr theodore a distler executive director of the association of american colleges told the grad uating class at founder's day ex ercises sunday that higher education is a matter of quality everybody is entitled not to the same kind of education as everybody else but to the kind of education suited to his needs the speaker said this is important both for hap piness of the individual and in the national interest these considera tions require us to rid ourselves of mralional snobbery and pseudo tipfnorraoy he declared president martin d whitaker con ferred the honorary degree of doctor of laws upon distler sixty-four seniors received baccalaureate de grees master's degrees were given to 45 and the doctor of philosophy degree to seven others in his address distler said if we lose the standards of our four-year colleges to cater to students who are not equipped to make use of the opportuni ties they offer we shall not benefit thosje students in the long run and we fijhall be restricting the opportunities thereby we shall be infringing the rights of students capable of getting the full benefit of four years of college in discussing the shortage of trained scientists engineers and technicians distler pointed out that our expanding society is dependent on such trained personnel and needs them in ever-increasing numbers but in recent years our output has tended to fall rather than grow the trouble goes right back to the high schools where fewer and fewer stu dents have been taking the basic subjects — mathematics physics see distler page 3 future of h p depends on students discretion farkas to quiz vice-president at conference ray farkas editor of the brown end white will take part in a unique and controversial intercol legiate press workshop and confer ence with vice-president richard m nixon tomorrow at cornell uni versity to be televised nationally over the cbs network the con ference has already come under the fire of the harvard crimson and new york democrats the harvard paper has attacked cor nell for allowing herself to be duped into appearing as the sponsor of any political party president deane w malott of cor nell has rejected this charge say ing that the invitation to nixon had been issued more than a year ago also on friday cornell issued an invitation to adlai e stevenson and estcs kefauver the democratic candidates to speak on the campus more than a score of colleges and universities representing almost every section of the country have already indicated that their student newspaper editors will be present see nixon page 4 the powers of the nine-man stu dent judiciary committee were de fined last thursday during a con ference with dean wray h cong don the group was selected by arcadia earlier last week from nom inees submitted by the interfrater nity council residence hall council and town council the ulitimate authority in matters of discipline as in all other matters rests with the university's board of trustees he dean told the committee the board has delegated dis ciplinary authority to the presi dent who in turn has delegated his authority to me what i am now proposing is to delegate the authority i possess to the judiciary committee for all dis ciplinary problems arising from fall houseparty this is a substantial delegation of authority he com mented the dean explained that the committee may exercise all the pow ers i would have in problems of discipline it may place a student on disciplinary probation or a liv ing group on social probation sus pend a student and even recom mend to the board of trustees a student be expelled the only quali fication is the necessary one that i reserve the right of veto just as higher authority reserves that right over the authority it has granted me in practice i would feel ob ligated to exercise the veto only in what appeared to be a case of gross injustice he continued but since this is a situation see dean page 4 quenchua chaco tupi-guarani araucanian kechuan arawak are native tribes south of the border nad that's where houseparty-goers will be heading for one night — the evening of oct 26 have you ever longed to yen ture through the jungle sur rounded by native huts and hunters have you pictured yourself among swaying palm trees listening to distant drums the locale may be chile peru brazil argentina or columbia it matters little the important thing is that you are south of the border in its offering of a torrid jungle houseparty this fall will be unique setting effective materials costing 660 are expected to lend a touch of realism to tfriis year's dance the deep forboding atmos phere of south american wil derness will be artificiated by an evening blue fabric it will be strung along the two bleacher sidewalls the promenade walk and entrance wall contrasted to this dreariness will be a large glowing flame — so often associated with jungle natives ap dent's personal discretions for they will suffer the most by complete cancellation of future houseparties 2 upon the fraternities and other living groups who stand to lose the privilege of conn ducting any type of social func tion for a long period of time 3 upon the judiciary com mittee whose duty it is to deal with violations of houseparty rules for the university and to aid the student in observing the state liquor code a court decision recently render ed by judge william g bar thold here in northampton county strengthens the state code in that it makes it illegal for anyone to fur nish alcoholic beverages of any kind to anyone under 21 further complicating the plight of the potential violator a letter from pennsylvania's gov george m leader deploring drinknig on the see future page 2 by tom ruddell several strong suggestions for the general well-being of the stu dent body and houseparty as a so cial institution were revealed by preston parr associate dean of students last week — there were no edicts no ultimatums however the fate of the houseparty tradition hangs solely on the personal discretion and self disciplinary action of each stu dent the dean said in effect under the new policy the stu dents themselves will decide through their own conduct whether or not houseparty will remain on the lehigh social cal endar there will be no motorcycle patrols no bar registers and no spying on the part of the univer sity the new policy places the respon sibility for good conduct on three distinct groups 1 upon the individual stu scf allocates 18,000 fund the student club finance com mittee has been allocated 18,338 by the university board of trustees for distribution to various student or ganizations all of the activities received the amount they requested with the exception of mustard and cheese which was not granted an additional 500 for equip ment however the group received 200 from arcadia's roving fund and 200 from the money arcadia was allo cated for its secretarial expenses this sum was not required by ar see activities page 5 university 6-0331 lehigh university brown and w hite education is a matter of quality distler says bethlehem pa tuesday oct 16 1956 vol 68 — no 9 drinker 3a gets ist choice at tix drinker 3a was awarded first place in ticket selection for the house party game against rutgers the dormitory section earned its place by sponsoring the winner in the campus chest's ugly man contest cards for the remaining 71 groups consisting of 30 fraternities 30 resident hall sections and 11 town groups were drawn from a box one by one drinker 4 placed second in the drawing and richards 3b was third theta xi and town council placed fourth and fifth respectively tickets will go on sale at the athletic office at 9:10 monday morning oct 22 to the first 10 groups listed except where these groups are town groups succes sive groups will follow at each hour until 5:10 groups 61 to 72 will pick up their ducats on tuesday from 9:10 a.m to 10:10 a.m the town group will be able to get scats corresponding to its priority positions on tuesday from 10:30 to 5 p.m members of the town group will purchase the tickets which were withdrawn for them as their pri full discipline power given to judiciary unit see ticket page 5 procession gen percy l sadler grand marshal precedes presi dent martin d whitaker graduating class of 64 seniors and those receiv ing master's and honorary degrees at founder's day exercises sunday grace to be jungle for hp ritual hop proximately 12 feet high the con flagration will show motion which will be created by revolving flood lights they will change colors automatically a native drummer will be pic tured beating out tribal messages before the flame he will be dis played in front of the orchestral podium and behind him a blue haze will be effected ten tropical palm trees will break the blue horizon im mediately in front of the bleach ers the silhouettes will be eight feet high bordered by two of these palms will be a thatched hut native shields and cross spears see decor page 3 tiny mishap — the miniature morris car driven by peter b paschall 57 smashed into two parked cars behind taylor house late friday night fender wrinkles resulted as shown in this picture of paschall's auto