Brown and White Vol. 71 no. 13

              phi beta kappa national scholastic honorary initiated four stu dents to junior membership and an english professor to honorary mem bership yesterday in the university center they are seniors william r brainerd gordon w brown and robert g wagner william m fleischman a founder's day grad uate and prof carl f strauch of the english department the junior membership differs from regular membership in that it is extended to those men in the top 10 per cent of their class who have done exceptional work in their first six semesters see simmons page 7 on the panel show face the campus dr simmons re viewed the current condition of literature in the soviet union russian writers take two steps forward and then are forced to take one step back progress is therefore hindered due to con tinued regimentation simmons said music and art also suffer from the extremely difficult problem of regimentation added simmons composing of soviet music has suffered by not being able to ac cept western influences every age must be able to develop its own art forms answering a question con cerning modern art in russia from dr joseph a dowling assistant professor of history simmons stated russia has never developed a great age of painting although a movement in modern art was started by kandinsky be fore the bolshevik revolution len two freshmen sections dravo a-2 and dravo b-4 captured the top two spots on the first lafayette game ticket distribution list by contrib uting the most money per man to the campus chest on the first priority list each student is allowed one free ticket per id card except campus chest winners who may purchase one additional ticket per id card at this time for 4 under the second priority list additional tickets up to a maximum of 3 per id card are available at 4 each tickets go on sale according to priority listings starting monday nov 16 further information on ticket sales will be available on no tices soon to be distributed by the athletic department the athletic department has ex pressed a philosophy of one good ticket per student student seat ing starts on one side of the 50-yard marker while alumni supporters and others seat on the other side of the midfield stripe distributions are according to the following priority list 1 dravo a 2 2 dravo b4 3 gryphon society 4 m-m 2a 5 pi kappa alpha 6 town council 7 dravo cl & 2 8 richards 1 9 m-m ib 10 drinker 2b see students page 7 queen and her court miss gail gerhart of centenary in the center was judged the prettiest girl at the houseparty formal her court consists of judy kenney of westchester n.y susan hill of hood college peggy hoffman of newark del and jerri piller of scotch plains n.j regular membership which is extended in the spring is based on seven semesters of work the majority of the men selected for phi beta kappa are inducted in the spring professor strauch joined the faculty in 1938 left shortly afterwards and rejoined the faculty in 1953 he received his a.b at ivluhlenberg in 1930 his m.a at lehigh in 1938 and his ph.d at yale in 1946 phi beta kappa was founded in 1776 at william and mary and is the original greek-letter fraternity the lehigh chapter was founded in 1887 with the purpose of in spring and honoring high scholas tic achievement in arts pi delts here november 13-15 lehigh's chapter of pi delta ep sdlon national journalism honorary will play host to 200 college journal isis at its fiftieth anniversary con vention nov 13-15 among the professional journal ists who will act as publication judges workshop moderators and speakers will be editor of nbc news samuel sharkey kenneth kost 31 business week magazine associate editor john strohmeyer editor of the bethlehem globe times william d reimert man aging editor call-chronicle news papers and donald keith editorial page editor easton express vol 71 — no 13 brown and white seniors expect 100-plus loss on hp dance bethlehem pa friday november 6 1959 arcadia revamps constitution students to vote in december un 6-0331 climaxing four hours of heated and frantic discussion arcadia yes terday approved the first new student body constitution in twelve years unanimous approval for the new student code came shortly before six p.m yesterday at that time the executive group re cessed until four p.m today when it will meet with associate dean preston parr to further discuss the document working against a tight deadline now only hours away the solons plan to have the constitution in its final form available to members of the student body by tomorrow forced to meet three times in as many days since the present con stitution provides that any constitutional change be presented to the student body at least 30 days before a student election on the change the legislators hope to wind up the constitutional issue this afternoon the meeting with parr designed to satisfy the university re quirement that constitutions of all student organizations be ap proved by the student activi ties committee is scheduled for the arcadia room and is open to the public parr will act for the sac group in deciding upon the constitution should it be accepted by him this afternoon constitutional revision committee chairman alfred moore 60 plans to have copies of the code available for all interested students at the student activties office by tomorrow in doing so arcadia will be able to beat the 30-day requirement a popular vote on acceptance of the constitution is scheduled for de cember 7 exactly 30 days from to morrow the voting will continue through december 9 major change in the consti tution involves a shift in the power to amend the by-laws the previous code allowed a majority of the student body the right while the new one grants the power to amend to visitation day held for scouts see dates page 9 the senior class may have lost more than 100 on the houseparty formal dance class officers esti mate class president tom gilhool told the brown and white wednesday the loss is possibly close to 100 although house party chairman otis johnson stated that it may be even greater when final figures have been computed the prettiest girl at the house party formal according to the judges was miss gail gerhart of centenary who was crowned queen harold s haller of chi psi was her escort the queen's court consisted of miss judy kennet of west chester n v miss susan hill of hood college miss peggy of newark del and miss jerri piller of scotch plains n j their escorts were edward hamer of beta theta pi george hagstoz of richards 3a peter morozy of richards 3a and john roglieri of delta tau delta i espectively rain failed to dampen the spirits of the lehigh rooters as the engineers scored a decisive upset on the bucknell bisons the afternoon was marred by the death of a lehigh alumnus gerald overfield 14 overfield a vice president of bethlehem fabricators collapsed in the stands and died al most immediately near the end of the game he was a resident of bethlehem and attended most of the the thinker — dr ernest j simmons professor of russian lit erature at columbia pictured during a quieter moment in his visit to the campus he spoke at a cls-phi beta kappa sponsored lecture as well as to several classes soviet art culture politico -- simmons see constitution page 11 art culture and reading are all part of the political doctrine of the soviet all intellectual endeavor is political dr ernest j simmons pro fessor of russian literature at columbia university made these statements at an interview con ducted by wlrn appearing scouting the campus tomorrow will be more than 1,100 boy scouts participating in the annual visita tion day activities of the service or ganization alpha phi omega a guided tour of the campus in the morning will include special demonstartions by per shing rifles and the chemistry department following a lunch eon at grace hall the scouts will head for taylor stadium for the vmi game the scouts are invited here to acquaint them with the campus as an aid in making future decisions concerning college the 1,100 total of visitors repre sents a large area of eastern penn sylvania and new jersey frosh sections capture desired lafayette seats phi beta kappa initiates prof strauch 4 seniors