Brown and White Vol. 69 no. 39

              all in vain — a group of would-be waiters watches resident man ager wilber blew instruct on how to set a table but there just weren't enough waiters so the entire waiter service operation has been postponed until next semester waiters lacking family style out meditation . . . dean outlines clarifies rules on attendance lehighs fraternities have accepted 352 prospective brothers in the cul mination of two weeks of intensive rushing this year's figure is larger by seven than that of last year when 345 rushees accepted greek invitations the rushing season brought a re currence of the gentleman's bid to rushees on scholastic probation who were unable to pledge the gentle man's bid was innovated two years ago for the third time in the history of fraternities at lehigh freshmen were offered bids to show the houses interest in them in spite of the fact that they had to be turned down approximately 50 frosh received such bids this year in the past five years the greatest number of bids was issued in 1953 when 603 invita tions were distributed and 324 pledged houses although a large number of rushees accepted bids it is reported that some houses did not make their pledge quota which probably means that rushing will continue through out the spring semester incoming ifc president carl schier said that this was the wrong time of the year for rushing the see changes page 8 waiter service and family-style eating for university center con tract diners scheduled to begin tonight have been postponed until the opening of fall semester there are not enough waiters to provide the family-style serv ice we desire — thus we must cancel the planned program for the remainder of the semester associate dean preston parr chairman of the student dining service subcommittee told the b&w this morning if we can't do this first-class we won't do it at all — such a program must be done on a satisfactory basis explained the dean in an effort to secure the neces sary waiters the m w wood or ganization held a series of five meet ings for candidates during the past week the best attendance at any meeting was 21 — only half of the total needed for the operation a lack of publicity delays in starting the plan end of semest er and a low wage scale were the reasons given by members of the committee for the lack of response the plan has been postponed sev eral times since the opening of the contract dining plan at the begin ning of the semester we hope to have the service commence begin ning next semester noted parr see plan page 3 clarke re-elected prexy koziol named rhc veep to remove all existing misunder standings dean wray h congdon at the request of the committee on educational policy has prepared a detailed explanation of lehigh's at tendance regulations the action was prompted by a letter from arcadia requesting the recapitulation the report underscores the fact that there is no such thing as an excused absence the first reason for the ruling is because many students believed that as soon as they were officially ex cused they had discharged all re sponsibility for the absence how ever the student must assume re sponsibility for making up his lost work the second reason states that a possible scramble for excuses leads upon the part of some stu dents to dishonest practices and misrepresentation of the facts every reasonable opportunity will be given to make up work after absences after approved trips or things like heavy snow storms but if the student misses see students page 7 three students are suspended three students were suspended from the university nine assessed disciplinary demerits and one warned by the university committee on discipline during the past month infractions ranged from breaking and entering a professors office to stealing a no parking-funeral sign following is the complete re port as released by dean wray h congdon chairman of the committee on discipline a senior in the college of arts see 2 page 3 paper tells the story by the b&w society editor a long sheet of perforated paper was pinned to the brown and white office door sunday morning it read scandal in the eating plan mess in the residence halls thinking it was a joke the reporter who found it chuckled and tossed it into a waste basket then he ran to the men's room for the seventh time in five hours when he made a routine check of the health center later in the day he found that the note was not a joke at least the 50 people who had the same ailment he had weren't laughing as the reporter ran again to a men's room he jotted down the last thing a health center official had told him there were many others running around who hadn't reported the inconvenience wilbur blew dining plan man ager said he ate the food with no bad effects several of his employees weren't as fortunate as he was speaking to a report er a counter girl ran off some where and . . . and . . . and . . . this story will be continued in ... in ... in ... in the next issue of the b&w dyer-bennet here on friday james clarke f's9 was re-elected as president of residence halls council at rhc's annual election meeting monday night clarke president of the group for the past year was opposed by richard topping rhc arcadia representative and frank koziol taylor hall president the final tally gave clarke nine votes against three for each of his opponents university observers could not remember any past instances where ' the president of the dormitory group succeeded himself in office clarke's unprecedented second term will terminate however next february when he is scheduled to graduate at that time rhc plans to elect a successor to fill the remaind er of the term operating under its old con stitution rhc found itself with only two candidates for the of fices of vice-president and secre tary by unanimous vote of the group koziol was elected to the viee presidency and larry rus sel made secretary clarke and other rhc officers ex pressed dissatisfaction over the fail ure of three-fourths of the rhg sections to approve the new con stitution which would have allowed wider lattitude in the selection of candidates for vice-president and secretary richard dyer-bennet tenor richard dyer-bennet will present a program of folk songs from the british isles europe and america friday at 8 p.m in pack ard auditorium the program is the closing feature of the season's stu dent concerts lectures series a tenor skilled with the guitar dyer-bennet has a repertoire of more than 600 folk and art songs during the past five years he has sung more than 15 solo concerts in new york's town hall and carnegie hall he has appeared on nationwide radio programs and is now on his 12th coast-to-coast tour to date 15 albums of his recordings have been released in addition to being a talented singer and instrumentalist this mod ern minstrel is a composer and musicologist his repertoire includes compositions in seven languages as well as the familiar elizabethan ballads early american folk ditties haunting sea chanteys australian bush songs railroad yarns comedy songs and the ever popular love songs born in england and bred in california dyer-bennet is a uni versity of california alumnus who starred on the soccer team he made his town hall debut in march 1944 is 7 higher than in 57 hope . . . vol 69 — no 39 tuesday april 22 1958 un 6-0331 rushing nets 352 for 30 houses lehigh university brown and white