Brown and White Vol. 71 no. 11

              citizen kane is m&c film wed citizen kane one of orson welles most celebrated films will be shown by mustard and cheese tomorrow at 7:30 in packard audi torium welles agnes moorehead joseph cotten and everett sloan star in the film which in 1958 was selected as one of the best films of all time by the brussels exposition the story rumored to be a biog raphy of publisher william ran dolph hearst depicts the life of a yellow journalist admission is 70 cents george a dinsmore assistant professor of civil engineering is campaigning for a seat on the beth lehem school board three of nine seats on the board will be filled at the nov 3 election democrats presently holti all nine posts dinsmore is a republican the control of the board by the democrats is a condition which dinsmore says has led to an atti tude of politics and patronage first education second the school board situation has been a mess for the last two years under the democratic majority the importance of this election is such that it seems to dominate not only the city elections but the county as well he commented dinsmore and his republican running mates proposed a 15 point plan that would restrict the board to its proper sphere it is imperative dinsmore stated that a program be insti tuted to meet the special needs of the gifted and talented at all grade levels overall quality of instruction can be improved greatly by using teach see prof page 7 scl's camera concerti generally successful by eckehart koehler the camera concerti offering last friday night was generally suc cessful especially insofar as it presented well-chosen samples of concerti which illustrate the musical temperaments of their composers and which reflect the musical environments surrounding their composers although none of the concerti were masterpieces they were good to excellent showcases for the craftsmanship and talent of their com posers on friday night two good examples of the concerto grossi the name under which most of the pre-classical orchestral music was writen were presented the program opened with a noble little work by handel the concerto no 2 in f major the strings of the camera concerti plodded through this piece virtually sapping the real vigor of it and exagger ating somewhat the stateliness of it though the performers were stiff two french horn players joseph eger and george nadash stood out above the rest however pierc ing the fog of string music handel himself did not make the situation much better as he never approached the greatness in his orchestral mu sic so handel and the camera concerti group combined to give us see mozart page 4 richards drinker cleared richards and drinker houses will be cleared out for use in accommo dating dates of residence halls men during houseparty rhc offiicals announced today freshmen living in the two houses will be required to temporary vacate their rooms by 1 p.m friday and will not be al lowed to move back until sunday evening raise your glasses hlgh peter bayer of phi kappa theta raises more than a glass at last friday afternoon's rally for ugly man dean leith the half was empty however the truck bearing band girls and phi kaps rolled into the freshman quad about 5:30 p.m people along the truck's route from delaware aye along fourth st to campus were entertained by the band playing the saints other houses had rallies for their candidates but the take consisted more of water balloons than money what's it like to be a student in a country labeled the most isolated the most forgotten the most tragic country of the american continent in guiding 12 bolivian students through the campus last week lehigh men met the future leaders of the country referred to as the most turbulent in south america reactions to the united states varied among the visitors but to a man they were vociferous about their dislike of their country's present government there is currently only one political party in bolivia — the mnr or movimiento nacional revolucinario — and if there is t6 be any opposition to it in the future we will have to be the opposition they told the brown and white •¦¦¦¦• : - the students are well aware of bolivia's problems it is one of only two landlocked countries in south america until just recently it was totally dependent upon one industry its history is riddled with political unrest and it is unsure of whether to welcome or discourage american capital yet despite the odds they know they must face at home they were unusually high-spirited while on their lehigh tour scheduled to arrive early in the afternoon on thursday oct 15 they did not reach the campus until almost 8:00 that evening they had little to eat during the day and had spent most of their waking hours traveling by bus despite the apparent excuse for weari ness they exhibited a degree of enthusiasm through a confused hour of attempts to set up dinner arrangements brown and white pledges pirate mugs trophies un 6-0331 bethlehem pa tuesday october 27 1959 vol 71 — no 11 dowling takes ugly man title miner second information please — an ibm representative demonstrates to interested by-standers a card-sort machine the sorter was part of an exhibition of electronic processing equipment at the american docu mentation institute convention held on campus friday and saturday dinsmore seeks seat on city's school board bmocs unsettled on frosh elections dr joseph a dowling assistant prcfessor of history candidate of the gryphon society has been pro claimed ugly man of 1959 prof dowling received 11,761 votes pur chased at a penny apiece grubby george miner spon scred by delta sigma phi took second place with a total of 10,813 votes bought at the go . ing rate representing the faculty and ad ministrative officers dean of en gineering loyal v bewley spon sored by delta upsilon and dean of students j d leith the choice of phi kappa theta accrued de posits of 102.02 and 94.78 respec tively for third and fourth place the only other faculty member who agreed to be commercialized was henry red campbell assist ant professor of physical education backed were the brothers of beta theta pi carl mr clean easier 62 received 54.57 to take fifth place for phi sigma kappa by the slim margin of 8.33 over campbell's 49.21 the vote count dropped markedly after campbell dave weiss 60 see ugly page 3 buck-passing is back in style three groups charged with responsibility for freshman class leadership — cyanide residence halls council and the gryphon so ciety — have each denied any knowledge of who will conduct fresh man elections or when they will be held queried by telephone sunday night representatives of each group admitted no plans have been made for either class or house elections among the first-classmen charles hodge 61 vice-president of cyanide in charge of freshman cabinet acknowledged that he was responsible for class officer elections but could give only an indefinite date of sometime in november or de cember for the event hodge added that the resident officers had submitted a proposal on elections to cyanide for its approval but that no action hadi yet been taken and none was expected hodge noted that cyanide guided the freshmen until lafayette game which falls on nov 17 and the elections might be sometime after that date he claimed i'm head of freshman cabinet not rhc taking hodge's comment as cue he brown and white queried wil liam eberhart 60 president of residence halls council hodge had suggested the b&w call eber hart but only after he had spoken to the rhc officer having given hodge and eber see cyanide page 6 interfraternity council learned last night that three pledges of a le high fraternity lifted a dozen trophies and beer mugs from sigma alpha mu's perm state chapter over the past weekend the fraternity council was told however that all of the mugs and trophies had been returned and that the lehigh chapter involved had apologized to the sigma alpha mv chapters at lehigh and perm state as well as to the sam national ifc president william horton 60 noted that the members of the fraternity involved had taken immediate action to return the stolen articles and told the assembled grcup that because everything has been straightened out no disciplinary action was to be forthcoming from ifg at the present time it's extremely bad publicity for the lehigh fraternity system hor ton noted you should advise your pledges that they act as representa tives of your house and of lehigh when they go on pledge trips make sure everything is done in good taste ifc was also told that 18 tro phies and mugs had been removed from perm state's tau kappa epsi lon chapter and another 10 were missing from lambda chi alpha at state all lehigh fraternities how ever denied any knowledge of the two thefts in other action ifc voted 15-14 not to allow fraternity men to sleep in the freshman residence halls during house party weekend reasons for the decision were to avoid to un necessary pre-contacting frater nitization with freshmen and to allow displaced freshmen to find rooms in dravo house horton expressed hope that fresh men would not seek rooms in up perclass residence halls allowing displaced fraternity men to obtain beds over the weekend s a visitors describe conditions in bolivia see enjoy page 5 |