Brown and White Vol. 70 no. 35

              jazz concert tonight at 8:15 jazz dominates the university's music scene during the next two weeks as no less than two concerts ; and jazz contest provide cool sounds j for lehigh listeners leading the parade of mod ern music will be a concert for jazz moderns tonight at 8:15 following in rapid succes sion will be a jazz contest in lamberton hall next tuesday and finally a progressive jazz concert in the university cen ter's osbourne room a week from monday tonight's concert will show off the kenton-esque sounds of a newly organized lehigh jazz ensemble which replaces the now-defunct col legians fronting the 20-man bras see modern page 3 prof alan downer cls sponsors princeton prof prof alan downer of princeton university's english department will speak on tragedy and the pursuit of happiness under the sponsor ship of the cooperative lecture series on monday at 8 p.m in the osbourne room of the university center the free lecture also spon sored by the english depart ment and the mustard and cheese society will be followed by a question and answer per iod prof downer recently returned from a lecture tour of 15 european countries where he presented his views and comments on modern see cls page 8 climaxing a month-long dispute with the deans office arcadia wed j nesday night elected four students to the board of publications follow ing receipt of dean j d leith's approval of its list of 2n names arcadia president jack branning presented the issue to the group for final consideration by reading a letter from the dean approving all eight names submitted by the solons including the controversial name of brown and white financial manager alan segal members approved by the solcns for service on the publications board are all affiliated with publications three of them in executive positions leith's letter requests that in order to provide a greater extra curricular experience for each man involved positions should be more widely distributed elected to serve for the com ing year are alan segal clar ence wright edward dchart and richard shulman partial cause of the controversy was the dean's insistance of 2n >: names or twice the number that are to serve on the board be sub mitted to him and arcadia's subse quent refusal to submit the eight requested names arcadians also objected to dis crimination and faulty reasoning on the part of the dean the situa tion cleared at the last arcadia meeting before the spring vacation when university president martin d whitaker personally urged the solons to cooperate with the dean's office in settling the matter ar cadia then reversed its former stand and added two names to its original see tc page 6 champiqn hamer ed hamer lehigh's only national wrestling champ receives trophy from miss lowa hamer weighed in at 167 for the meet for complete ncaa story see page 12 by robert j cochnar b&w news editor interfratemity council will appeal dean j d leith's rushing pro gram decision to president martin d whitaker or the university board of trustees ifc president carl schier told the brown and white tuesday schier termed the reasons leith gave in support of his rushing plan neither realistic nor convincing we're not going to let rushing stop here schier stated leith's program culminating months of independent research and discussion by the student life committee and ifc will go into effect next year and will place rushing in an eight-day period immediately fol lowing the middle of the spring semester leith refused comment on any aspects of the recent mass protest demonstration or his rushing edict the dean placed rushing in the middle of the spring semester ap parently overlooking ifc research which indicated all fraternities and a plurality of the polled faculty members were in favor of early spring — semester rushing the freshman class also felt rushing should be placed early in the spring semester and stated these sentiments in a re solution submitted to the dean's of fice the cabinet felt the present rush ing plan with late rushing made serious inroads on their study schedules for hour quizzes and spring vacation plans and resolved to recommend the adoption of a rushing plan which places rushing at the beginning of the spring semester in the letter announcing his decision to the student activi ties committee on march 19 leith notes of all three propo sals involved in the student life committee report no one plan appears to all concerned to be just right leith felt the first two plans in cluded in the report — labeled ap pendix i and ii — if approved would incur fundamental disagreements in see leith page 5 bethlehem pa ifc to appeal leith rush plan to prexy board vol 70 — no 35 beta jheta pi takes 2 frosh lowest number lshigh's 30 fraternities pledged 334 men en march 22 a 19-man drop from last year's total to cul minate an intensive eight-day drive for p edges the rushing season again brought a recurrence of the gentleman's bid " to rushees on scholastic probation who were unable to pledge the gentle man's bid was established three years ago steven halperin ifc rushing chairman told the brown and while that although the final statis tics have not been compiled he be lieved approximately 600 bids were offered to freshmen in the past five years the greatest number of bids was issued in 1953 when 603 invi tations were distributed although a large number of rushees accepted bids it was re ported that some houses — notably beta theta pi did not make their pledge quota which would mean rushing will continue throughout the remainder of the spring semes ter halperin said all but 16 men picked up their bids at the uni versity center sunday and that these 16 had previously informed the rushing committee some freshmen however who felt that they were to receive no bids did not bother to check and left for the spring recess with the rest of the non-fraternity univer sity halperin stated rushing went very smoothly this year and that the rushing committee intends to compile a complete report on the 1959 rushing season for ifc delta tau delta reportedly offered 30 bids for 14 accept ances high house on the frater fraternities pledge 334 ifc tabs rush success friday april 3 1959 bids time — prospective fraternity man picks up his envelope full of bids upper photo from the disinterested party another returns bid lower photo with selection noted the bids distribution was carried out in the university center's buck gallery swing and rock are hp feature a danceable mixture of continu ous musical sounds — ranging from society rhythms to rock n roll — will be presented for the first time to spring houseparty goers friday april 24 while the tommy dorsey or chestra fronted by warren covington provides sentimental melodies on grace hall's main floor the rocking kingsmen and the country club music of bob mcclister will alternate sounds on the top floor of grace hall every 35 minute session of the kingsmen will be immedi ately followed by 25 minutes of bob mcclister tom gilhool class of 60 presi dent hailed this innovation by the class of 60 as a great step forward in houseparty history decorations for the formal dance friday night will support the theme see kingsmen page 7 nity bid list and phi gamma delta offered 27 bids and re ceived 22 acceptances highest offer - acceptance percentage among the greeks fraternity cooks prepared an esti mated 3,400 extra meals during rushing dining service manager see rushing page 11 committee controversy concluded by arcadia lehigh university brown and white