Brown and White Vol. 70 no. 22

              dr i bernard cohen will speak on the place of science in the american national life tonight at 8 in the osbourne room of the uni versity center dr cohen a harvard univer sity professor is here under the auspices of the departments of chemistry physics philosophy geology and history and sigma xi and phi beta kappa in con junction with the cooperative lecture series committee dr cohen who is associate pro see harvard page 6 see leith page 4 defined as follows 1 living group government 2 class government 3 academic hon oraries 4 limited interest organiza tions 5 intra and extra collegiate activities and 6 student-faculty committees according to the recommendation its purpose is to improve com munication to and from arcadia and to enlarge arcadia's interests to en compass all areas of interest to the lehigh student in a previous meeting's dis cussion on the matter of com mittees in general jim weisberg noted that university com mittees are all too often an out let for the dean's office after fully clarifying the fact that this recommendation is in no way binding upon the coming arcadia the solons unanimously passed the see who's page 6 u.s get tourists students out junior evacuated from cuba by charles miller i feel that we have accomplished more than we were given credit for arcadia president larry wright told the solons at the final meeting of the 12th arcadia wednesday wri-ht continued enumerat ing the lehigh valley student government association the re vised concessions system and rule - three - explanations among significant accomplishments of the group dr lawrence whitcomb arca dia's faculty adviser agreed with wright's observations noting lne prestige of arcadia is coming up and you as a group have helped it up along the plane the 12th arcadia will bequeath to their successors a variety of sugges tions ranging from a complete com mittee reorganization plan to words of caution on attendance who's who choices and poor publicity all dis cussed in their concluding meet ing work done by a special com mittee headed by solon paul prestia recommended to the coming 13th arcadia a plan to organize arcadia into six stand ing committees dealing with the six areas of common interests 32 seniors in who's who thirty-two seniors have been selected to represent lehigh in who s who among students in american universities and col leges for the 1958-59 academic year those named were richard k bernard william g beattie denis v brenan charles s burger jack w fisch wayne d freese william gamble jr stephen k gartside john j see 32 page 6 castro in junior douglass wood one of 1,500 students and tourists evacuated from cuba glances at paper proclaiming castro victory not even a full-scale revolution could keep one lehigh junior from returning promptly after the holi days the man is douglass wood a resident of havana cuba the revolution is obviously the overthrow of the batista regime by fidel castro wood whose family lives in one of the city's suburbs woke up to the sound of bombs shots and riots new year's day from the city everybody anticipated trouble he says before the holidays the city was tense and waiting you could see it a lot . . . there were few shoppers on the streets . . . just a few were buying presents the people were in mourning after a quick breakfast wood who as an added twist is an international relations major was able to get into the city with his brownie he spent most of the day snapping shots of the rioting and looting which he sold to new york newspaper men the riots were just as destructive and bloody as the accounts over the u.s wire services he says crowds were looting the hotels they were tear see havana page 9 dot vs clods debate in uc tonight at 7:30 this house regards the lehigh engineer as a clod is the resolution for the second delta omicron theta sponsored oxford union style debate at 7:30 this evening in the hutchin son room of the university center speaking for the affirmative and attempting to prove that en gineers are clods will be f brian skyrms j'6o and otmar c miller j'6o both members of the honorary debate society art eogers j'6l and chuck long j59 will defend the downtrodden engineers ; the oxford union style debate will give ample chance for audience par ticipation and heckling opening statements will be made by each side followed by a period for short speeches from any audience mem ber wishing to express his opinion as usual heckling will be per mitted throughout the entire de bate procedure heckling con sists of cheers for or against remarks of the speaker humor ous remarks challenges of speakers statements or other brief interruptions according to thomas gilhool dot president dr eugene vasilew debate coach assistant profesor of speech said he hoped the clod topic would attract a greater audience because of its controversial aspects leith releases ist span list tau delt on top bethlehem pa friday jan 9 1959 vol 70 no 22 post pledging worries student life committee 12th arcadia goes cites achievements the student life committee wed nesday night expressed concern and worry about the total pledge relationship of a freshman to a fra ternity ' chairman joseph f libsch professor of metallurgical en gineering said the committee is particularly concerned with the character of post-pledging activities the objectionable activities are the mickey mouse-type duties which pledges must perform prof libsch did not define mickey mouse another member of the committee prof joseph b mcfad den described the duties as katzen jammer kids activities but prof libsch did note that if such activities did not exist rushing and contacting by themselves would present no problem it is through their discussion of rushing and con tacting that the committee has be come cognizant of the other problem the committee chairman said that his committee is not opposed to those fraternity activities which contribute to the total educational experience of the student the committee feels that post pledging activities could take on more of an educational character the pledge libsch pointed out could be made more aware of na tional affairs of classroom and ex tra-classroom affairs of the univer sity this could be done he said through the fraternity bull session which most committee members held in high regard moreover the committee felt that a fraternity could best initiate a freshman into the brotherhood of the house by giving him the feeling of being a part of a house accom plishment — the accomplishment of placing high in academic rank or the accomplishment of winning a sports trophy the committee also approved the initiation of a freshman into the fraternity's social life on the other hand it opposed ac tivities which oppose the basic edu cational objectives of the univer sity in its concern with post-pledging by joe varilla in an attempt to place fraternity scholarship in better perspective dean leith this week released his first normal span report the report assigns each fraternity a rank based on seven semes ters or a normal span tau delta phi topped the initial list with theta chi second and delta sigma phi third in the number 30 spot is sigma phi chi psi is 29 and theta delta chi 28 dean leith categorically denied that this report has any con nection with his proposal earlier this semester of three different pro bations the only similarity between the two he said is that they both use seven semesters as the normal span the student-life committee which is still debating the rushing prob lem has not yet even discussed dean leith's probation suggestion the dean determined the report's cumulative ranks by totaling the individual fraternity's standings for each of the past seven semesters the house with the least number of total points ranked first tau delta phi had 13 points as compared with sigma phis 191 the report also listed the semes ters a fraternity had been placed on social probation during the nor mal span sigma phi topped this list with three psi u which ranked 27 had two while theta delta chi sigma nu sigma chi and alpha chi rho each had one ironically chi psi was not placed on academic probation during this period dean leith said he compiled the report to get everybody around here looking at academics in more perspective he described the old system of using only one semester to rank fra ternities as being concerned with the ripples and not taking into con sideration the tide that system he said never brings to the fore those fraternities that are off again on again off again finnegan although he did not release them for publication dean leith also compiled the normal span report for the seven semesters preceding this one from these the former mathe matics instructor compiled a num ber of graphs and charts he admits that some of the results he arrived at are amazing he discovered that the top fra ternities and the bottom fraternities are relatively stable in rank this was one of the few results that did activities the committee discussed the gradual integration of fresh men into fraternity life it is con sidering the arrangement of discus sions between ifc and the gryphons on this subject prof libsch reported that after wednesday's meeting the committee had agreed on a phil osophy cf contacting and rush ing the problem now he said is to translate this philosophy into the proper mechanics the committee's next session is scheduled for monday afternoon dr i b cohen cls lecturer to speak at 8 the standings i tau delta phi 2 theta chi 3 delta sigma phi 4 phi lambda phi 5 alpha sigma phi 6 delta chi 7 kappa alpha 8 lambda chi alpha 9 theta xi 10 alpha tau omega 11 beta theta pi 12 phi gamma delta 13 chi phi 14 phi sigma kappa 15 sigma alpha mv 16 sigma chi 17 sigma phi epsilon tie 17 pi kappa alpha tie 19 theta kappa phi 20 phi delta theta 21 sigma nu 22 delta tau delta 23 alpha chi rho 24 kappa sigma 25 delta upsilon tie 25 delta phi tie 27 psi upsilon 28 theta delta chi 29 chi psi 30 sigma phi lehigh university brown and white