Brown and White Vol. 71 no. 18

              riot brings major crackdown leittis action follows wildest fight in years mixing it up — lehigh and lafayette fans with wild tempers and fists gather around taylor stadium's goalposts following the football game goalposts stood — a number of participants weren't as lucky end result of the half-hour free-for-all students hospitalized band instruments broken spectators horrified and both schools with damaged reputations bethlehem pa vol 71 — no 18 cls presents dr fleming for darwin celebration tuesday nov 24 1959 harvard in 1944 and 1947 respec tively fleming's speech is being held in conjunction with lehigh's observ ance of the 100 th anniversary of the publication of charles darwin's origin of the species other events in the centennial celebration include a speech by joseph clark s.j on darwin and theology last night and a current exhibit of darwin items in the university library's rare book room much of the exhibit material comes from the collection of robert honeyman 20 see fewer page 9 15 seek 7 seats on 14th arcadia in dec election fifteen students — only half as many as ran list year — are vying for positions on the 14th arcadia the fifteen-man group com posed of six juniors and nine sophomores will seek seven seats on the student council when the student body votes on dec 7-9 eight members of the new coun cil have already been appointed by various extra-curricular groups in attempting to explain the severe drop in the number of men interested in the student council arcadia elections committee chair man john roglieri noted that many students who were planning to run for council psots had received appointments from the activity groups further many men who at tempted to gain seats as sopho mores were discouraged last year roglieri added and thus did not bother to run this year of all of last year's soph can didates only one is currently running as a junior arcadia president jack bran from bonfire to parties homecoming successful dr donald fleming dr arthur fleming of harvard university's history department will highlight another in the univer sity's series of events celebrating the darwinian centenial tonight when he speaks on charles dar win the anesthetic man sponsored by the university library in conjunction with the cooperative lecture series the lecture will be held in the university centers osbourne room at 8 p.m a leading authority on the im pact of science on american thought dr fleming joined the harvard faculty in 1958 he re ceived the appointment to profes sor of history last year a member of the brown univer sity faculty from 1942 to 1958 he became a professor in 1955 during his stay at brown fleming was chairman of the history depart ment and of the committee on american civilization the beveridige prize of the american historical association was given to dr fleming in 1954 he is the author of wil liam h welch and the rise of modern medicine and john william draper and the re ligion of science the later book was awarded the bever idge prize a native of hagerstown md dr fleming was graduated from the johns hopkins university in 1943 he received his master of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees from library plans days of grace the university library has an nounced a free week to run for five days immediately after thanks giving vacation during these days of grace students will be able to return all overdue books with no fines to be charged james d mack university librarian will introduce the plan in an attempt to retrieve many missing books approx imately 2,000 volumes cannot be located and additional hun dreds are long-overdue the free week to run from mon day nov 30 to friday dec 4 was prompted by an editorial in the brown and white last month the problem mack said was to find a suitable plan for students to return books freely one factor is the burden that will be placed on our staff another is the up coming freshman research themes see return page 6 vaccine available salk polio vaccine is now avail able at the health center at fifty cents per shot the health service will offer the entire series or any number of shots payment for the shots should be made at the bur sar's office prior to reporting to the center from the freshman bonfire to the post-game parties the tradi tional lafayette weekend proved a success for the alumni homecom ing leading the pep rally was dr dudley w johnson assist ant professor of economics who served as master of ceremonies the lehigh band and cheer leaders led the noisy throng of pajama-clad frosh students and dates through bethlehem in the annual parade winner of the frosh singing con test was dravo a 2 rendering two lehigh traditionals semi-finalists dravo a 4 and d 4 and richards a3 presented their skits d 4 was the winner with a clever satire on le high-lafayette relations john talucci president of cya nide turned a round of hissing into a roar of approval as he suggested frosh feed their dinks to the bon fire in good spirit talucci donned a mutilated dink which was thrown to the floor as he left the stage head coach william leek see m-m page 6 onby expressed victory hopes his five-year-old daughter piped into the microphone for her third consecutive year beat lafayette frosh scream it from grace hall stands on friday night but the footbal team couldn't do it in taylor stadium on saturday afternoon following the rally the freshmen marched through bethlehem's streets in their pajamas following saturday afternoon's bloody free-for-all university authorities have announced a proposed thorough reexamination of all lehigh-lafayette week activities first step in the crackdown on the rowdy and damaging mis behavior was announced yesterday afternoon by dean of students j d leith — discontinuance of the traditional tug-of-war the end of the rope pull is termed the first step in reasserting the primary purpose of lehigh and lafayette as educational institutions by the dean complete text of his statement appears on page nine aftermath of the violent taylor stadium riot showed more than two dozen students from both schools requiring hospital treatment for concussions fractures and lacerations between 700 and 1000 in lafay ette band instruments destroyed and dozens of other students and spectators recovering from cuts end bruises inflicted by flying fists and bottles the fight which broke out early in the lehigh-lafayette football game in taylor stadium but did not reach its peak until late in the game drew a barrage of criticism from all who witnessed the melee in addition to issuing a state ment promising a complete ex amination of the weekend activities leith indicated that disciplinary action against le high students involved in the brawl was possible but would not be forthcoming until all facts in the affair had been gathered bethlehem and cam pus police assigned to the game disclosed that they had lifted several university id cards which would be turned over to the dean twenty-one lafayette students received treatment for injuries fol lowing the game easton physicians reported four broken noses and numerous black eyes cuts and sprains one lafayette student robert lewis 60 was treated for a concussion after being hit over the head by a bottle he was not held at the hospital lehigh's health center head dr george mccoy reported treating four or five students for injuries incurred during the half-hour long fracas most serious cases were a broken knuckle and a cut requiring four stitches one student frank kear 63 was taken to st lukes hospital where he received eleven stitches for a deep gash on his upper lip he told authorities he was hit with a full beer can dozens of additional lehigh and lafayette students received cuts and bruises from the blood-letting free-for-all but did not appear on hospital reports many students had severe cuts on their legs allegedly inflicted by police clubs used in breaking up the riot although describing the injuries as mainly assorted black eyes . . ." mccoy admitted that students were still coming to the health center brown and white see violence page 9