Brown and White Vol. 68 no. 33

              fifty-eight sophomores have been notified that they are eligible to file application for admission to the col lege honors program beginning next september completed applications must be returned to the college of arts and scienecs office by monday march 4 a breakdown of the total shows that 37 men in the college of engineering 15 in the arts school 3 in the arts and engin eering curriculum and 3 in the business school achieved a 3:0 average which automatically made them eligible for consid eration by the honors council dr glenn j christensen dean of the college of arts and sciences ex plained that although the total un dergraduate enrollment is the same as when the program was planned three years ago there is a larger percentage of sophomores eligible to apply the cream is getting thicker at the top of the bottle he com mented men who file petitions will be judged on their individual merits at a meeting of the honors council see honors page 6 never before has the final out come of a war been so predictable states dr ralph e lapp tonight's cls speaker there will be no win ner even though one may emerge under the assumption he is the victor speaking at 8 p.m in packard laboratory auditorium dr lapp will point up the dangers of na tions turning to atomic weapons he will also point out the positive side of atomic and nuclear develop ment by outlining the progress made in recent years toward peaceful de velopment of such powers terrific utilization of the new forces can be anticipated in the fields of medical research and in dustry according to dr lapp dr lapp has kept abreast of new developments in the field which today possibly occupies the number one position in im portance to our nation as well as being director of nuclear science service he travelled to geneva switzerland to attend the first international confer ence on the peaceful uses of atomic energy in discussing atomic energy dr lapp emphasizes an extremely im portant aspect which needs constant repetition in relation to the cost of other techniques of waging war atomic bombs are inexpensive the result of turning completely to atomic weapons will be that no na tion will be in a position to wage a major war in any other way in 1903 were incorporated in the window arrangements and the roof fire escapes were erected at the east and west sides of the build ing three departments shared laboratories and lecture rooms before the addition and renova tion in the remodeled building the metallurgy department occu pies the basement and the first floor the biology department the second floor while the geology department is housed on the third and fourth floors two graduate biology labora tories and a photo darkroom suite are located on the third floor , a physiology laboratory for the biology departmnet has been pro vided from the former biology class room and a laboratory from the old biology research room see bill page 6 a fourth story addition and the complete renovation of historic wil liams hall has been completed at a cost of 335,000 the opening of the new facilities marks the completion of three building projects on south mountain involving a cost of more than 1,000,000 in the past three months the building which houses the departments of biology geology and metallurgy was partially destroyed by fire in january 1956 occupancy of new offices and stu dent use of new classrooms and lab oratories started at the beginning of the second semester early this month and was completed wednes day the new fourth floor addition con tains several large lecture rooms and laboratories the joseph barrell reading room a reference library and offices slight modifications of the old design of the structure built parents invited to musical spring music festival weekend will be an all-university parent's weekend according to paul j franz jr assistant to the presi dent festival weekend is scheduled for april 12 13 and 14 starting with a friday evening perform ance two saturday matinee shows a special dinner at addi tional price an evening show and a sunday concert by the brass and clarinet ensembles the idea of the saturday bullet dinner according to bob groneberg er 58 coordinator is for those parents and guests who might like to go home after saturday's matinee see saturday page 4 terwilliger calls genesis symbolic tale of period dr robert e terwilliger religious conference leader speaking to a pre-theological group he noted that existentialistic thinking is our era's contribution to christian thought an existentialist is an individual who says that the primary reality is existence rather than essence such a person is not systematic because reality is not sys tematic and is highly personal and subjective however he found many criti cisms against the mode of thinking and explained that it is a result of a nineteenth century phiosophical revolt and a revolt against the re sults of the industrial revolution dr terwilliger included several informal discussion groups in his schedule dr robert e terwilliger leader of the tenth religion conference this week told a biology class that the story of adam and eve is a sym bolic biographical story of the tragedy resulting when man sets his will above god's he explained that the genesis concept of the creation was the science of the period and is not scientifically correct through corollaries it states that god made everything and that the world is good dr ter williger discussed the problems of analogy and the mystery of time in relation to the creation touching on the classical argu ments for the existence of god workmen working two workers assembling the new aircon ditioning ducts for the university center the units will conduct both hot and cold air giving maximum comfort in summer months as well as winter the area in which the men are working will be the bookstore of the new building on the second floor two refugees in fraternities lehigh university brown and white vol 68 — no 33 bethlehem pa friday march 1 1957 hp group set drafting rules un 6-0331 paul gombar cls audience to hear atom expert tonight gedeon deak 58 sophs for honors lehigh's second hungarian arrived on campus last wednesday paul gombar will be staying at the phi delta theta fraternity during his stay at lehigh which ifc officials hope will be longer than that of lajos szabo dean preston parr said yesterday that it can't yet be known for sure whether this is the right person but he sure hopes he is members of the phi delta house say that information they have been able to get from gombar seems to reveal that he is the right person he had three years of physics and mathematics at the univer sity of budapest phi delta theta was chosen to house paul because its cook has an hungarian speaking husband the house also has a pledge attila salamon who speaks hun garian fluently gombar spent a week at bard school in new york which is dedicated to teaching the refu gees english gombar related that the school does practically no good though since the refu gee is with hundreds of hun garian - speaking people and speaks nothing but hungarian see live page 6 williams addition finished occupied spring houseparty has come closer to becoming a reality with the naming of the members of the committee responsible for submitting the students houseparty rules to the faculty for approval representing ifc on the committee are charles tillinghast 58 and robert holcombe 58 rhc representatives are joseph hopmay er 58 and kenneth graves 58 tc men are robert lucas 57 and fred jillson 59 joe gratto 58 chairman of the committee told the brown and white that he has drawn up a list of rules from those used last year and other information obtained by him he said that the rules that will be submitted to the faculty are al most finished and that he will con sult with his committee for minor changes according to gratto he has submitted a copy of the tentatives rules to dean parr for his comment under the proposed rules hours of the parties will be ex tended possibly until 5 a.m gratto said that the chief prob lem of the later party date is finding chaperones willing to stay up that late the chief changes from last houseparty lies in the fact that the saturday afternoon picnics must be taken into consideration fraternity men may be able to change their clothes in the houses before and after the formal since changing at this time saves a great deal of time for all concerned the committee chairman said that strict segregation of men see gratto page 6 singers needed spring music festival needs 20 men and 8 women for singing parts in this year's show audi tions wil be held this sunday 7 p.m in the music room of grace hall various types of voices are needed for choral and solo parts in 5 sharecropper musical