Brown and White Vol. 70 no. 4

              no makeup permits will be issued for absences for three days immedi ately preceeding and following va cation periods thanksgiving christ mas and spring dean j d leith has announced only serious illness satis factorily authenticated by the health service physicians will be recognized as adequate cause for granting makeup permits no makeup permits will be granted for extra travel time in addition the usual regulations concerning working students at christmas recess will prevail in cluded are the following 1 the student must be clear of scholastic probation 2 he must have no fail ing valentine grades during the current semester 3 his attendance record must be satisfactory and 4 his parents must attest the necessity of his working to cover college expenses leith again quotes the attendance regulations section i regular at tendance at all classes ... is expect ed of all students dean of students j douglas leith in action aimed at living groups which alternately go on and then off social probation has proposed to the student life committee a modifica tion and extension of present group probation regulations under leith's proposal living groups would be subject to three different kinds of probation the kind of probation a group would receive would depend on the number of times it had gone on probation previously in a nor mal span taking seven semesters which would consist of the current semester at any time and the six semesters immediately preceding it as a normal span leith has pro posed the following probations probation one — if within the normal span period for any living group a first semester of probation status whether for reasons of academic discipline or otherwise occurs a group will be ineligible for social privileges until it has been restored to good standing probation two — if within a normal span a second semester of probation is recorded against any living group ... in addition to the limitations of probation i all initiation privileges for the group will be suspended until the group has been restored to good standing probation three — if within a normal span a third or later semester of probation is recorded against any living group ... in ad see revision page 4 director seidle says this is a good sign even though some of the increment is definitely due to more students making multiple applica tions the tightening college situa tion in the past several years has put fear in the minds of many in answer to the question about the effect on visitors and prospec tive students of the university's re cently improved facilities dr seidle said during the summer when the admissions office was already in its new temporary quarters atop the university center boys who came to the campus for interviews were definitely impressed the effect was also noticeable last spring during candidate days when those who had re ceived notice of acceptance were see no page 5 chest director blasts frosh for giving 10 cents profs to debate nuclear ban delta omicron theta honorary debate society will present a sym posium on the topic an interna tional agreement to prohibit further development of nuclear weapons on thursday at 4i15 p.m in tshrist mas-saucon hall room 314 dr carey b joynt head of the department of international relations dr raymond b sawyer associate professor of physics maj robert rankin as sociate professor of military sci ence and dr saul barber as sistant professor of biology will consider certain facets of the topic president thomas h gilhool urges all interested students to attend the discussion red face for crimson ace ivy crust bites the dust students grow up in the crimson the have to make their mistakes harvard president pusey brandishing an elegant ball-point pen a pedigreed newsman from the imperial harvard crimson safaried across the lehigh campus last week to write about the natives it must have been a most rewarding educational experience much can be learned from backward cultures so the distinguished pillar of the prolific press began compiling a set of notes ". . . when wind in wrong direction physics department instruments fouled up . . . dust settles . . . every college has to fight false images ". . . pretty plain-spoken campus boys feel free to blast . . . south z a*ed aai s able to make all their contacts if the ugly man contest goes over as expected he said we will get another 500 receipts of the ugly man contest go to the campus chest each year pledges have been coming in along with the cash zerweck said however we do not expect to collect 100 per cent of the pledges because some students ignore them our big question lies with how well the town students will respond to the drive he added in past years the university aver age was about 1 per person zer weck concluded we need 2 per person to have a successful cam paign ugly men ape-like 1 ', ivy-league sickening by 808 grinchuk ugh ugly uglier ugliest most ugliest alpha phi omega's ugly man contest designed to net funds for the campus chest is in full swing again fourteen living groups sure they've got a win ner or a loser depending on how you look at him have scoured the campus for the ugh ugly uglier ugliest candidate they could find the brown and white always ready to do its duty interviewed each of the living groups to deter mine just why they selected their man the answers were deep with freudian undertones and overtones of the 14 men in competition seven are on the university staff this to a psychologist is probably significant the university staff members are wilber blew price hall and harvey barbash chi psi of the university dining service dr h v anderson of the chem istry department drinker 3 b coaches john steckbeck dravo d 4 and michael cooley phi delta theta director of ad missions charles seidle sigma chi and edward o smith of the history department pi kappa alpha other candidates are bruce hall ander sigma alpha mv sylvester j lewis leonard hall don selesko dravo a 3 steve vandivere dravo b 2 william schaeffer delta tau delta and david wis mer gryphons steckbeck a perennial candidate see 14 page 5 at this point i have no figures but things are going along well roger zerweck director of solicit ors said last sunday summing up the campus ghest drive returns are far from complete but figures indicate high per capita contributions to date he added we still expect over 5,000 zerweck said but we will not reach our goal if some ireshmen continue to foul things up by giving only 10 cents he explained in some freshman residence halls sections individuals were giving under 50 cents apiece zerweck said the campaign would be continued for another week be cause solicitors have not yet been ifc makes two changes in rush rules vol 70 — no 4 tuesday october 7 1958 un 6-0331 leith proposes 3 kinds of pro scl asked to weigh revisions two changes were made last week in 1958-59 rushing rules but ac cording to ifc president carl schier no one is completely satisfied with the rules as a whole schier pointed out however that this is the best that can be done under the circumstances and under pressure put on us last year to come up with something he called the rules a compromise measure ifc is still unsatisfied with the rushing dates members point out this year's dates march 13 to march 22 will work a hardship on both fraternity men and the freshmen the final day of rushing on which bids will be issued and pledging dinners held is the first sunday of spring vacation most members of ifc wanted rushing held the first week of the second semester but this was voted down schier said the faculty wanted rushing held some time when it would not conflict with any other campus activities rushing was formerly held during the first week of the sec ond semester but was changed last year when compulsory freshman eating went into effect the two changes which were made in the rules as they appear in the handbook describing lehigh frater nity life are part b number 4 — by december 19 1958 each freshman wishing to be eligible for rushing shall submit a date list for the first four days of rushing to a person specified by ifg each freshman submitting a list must specify a different house for each of the first four days those freshmen failing to submit lists those freshmen who submit lists which do not specify a different hmise for each of the first four days and those freshmen who break dates during the first four days herein named friday march 13 to tuesday march 17 will be referred see ifc page 5 blessed are the sick for they get makeups ooomphhh — under the expert tutelage of john s steckbeck associate professor of physical education a lehigh man's muscles bulge and veins tighten as he jerks the weight must be at least 10,000 pounds if weight can be judged by facial expression alone no recession seen in admission office by jim wright and charles f miller over 600 prospective freshmen have already been interviewed by the office of admission dr charles a seidle director says this number is a 50 per cent increase over the number of such parleys in previous years another 50 per cent increase lias been noticed in the number of students keeping in contact with the university several years prior to actual application brown and white