Brown and White Vol. 71 no. 19

              arcadia's approval of disciplinary probation covering the entire stu dent body and the new arcadia constitution promise to be the im portant issues in student council elections monday tuesday and wednesday fifteen men — only half the number that ran last year — are vying for the seven elected po sitions on arcadia the various extra-curricular activities ap pointed the other eight mem bers juniors who ran last year and were discouraged and the fact that many students who had planned to run this year were appointed by activity groups were given as reasons for the low number of candidates several candidates have indicated they wish the 14th arcadia to take action to prevent further destruc tive action by students at the lafayette football game others state they would like to see a stronger arcadia which can achieve a closer relationship with both students and faculty in a letter to the student body the 13th arcadia ex plained the changes in the new constitution stating the ma jority of the revisions are re wording and reorganization of the old constiution plus sev eral important changes a total of three unauthorized absences would cause the dismissal of any member of arcadia in the past the enforcement of such a rule was left to the discretion of each arcadia the members of eight student groups are given the right to elect one representative per group to the student council the incor poration of this section was done to insure democratic process of see constitution page 3 modern welfare state weakens race fleming by robert walters any attempt to apply darwin's concept of natural selection to civ ilized life always brings some dis tasteful conclusions dr donald fleming told the brown and white in an exclusive interview last week explaining that a number of respected biologists believe the modern welfare state is not compatable with natural selec tion the cls lecturer noted see fleming page 8 see whitaker page 5 physical improvements scheduled for the near future insisted the university is not primarily inter ested in physical facilities stress ing the continuing need for a bet ter faculty dr whitaker also commented the greatest guarantee of success for an independent school is an in formed alumni body and participa tion in a class gift program pro motes an informed alumni body class president thomas gil hool stated in his remarks the important thing to recog nize is that we as alumni possibility of a financial loss hoa r ers over sno-ball weekend due to poor response in ticket sales the deans new ruling of no liquor petitions for parties is going to hurt the sale of tickets because there will bet no place for couples to go afterward said russell borner 62 ticket chairman the proximity of this week end to both thanksgiving and christmas vacations is another rea son for the lack of enthusiasm on the part of the student body agatha christie's drama of courtroom suspense will be pre sented tomorrow at 7:30 p.m in eroughal junior high school auditor ium a white winter dance will be held in grace hall at 9 p.m dance music will be supplied by matt gil lespie his 14-piece band and a vo calist gillespie's band has appeared at several lehigh functions the most recent of which was the fresh man dink hop a huge snowball centerpiece will be suspended from the upper floor ceiling of grace hall a christmas tree set atop a sleigh will also be part of the winter motif snowf lakes and snowmen at tached to the walls may be used as party favors for the men and their dates said jim morgan 62 chair man of the decoration committee female lead saves play m&c's acting directing ' weak one hundred fifteen seniors kicked off the annual giving cam paign tuesday at a banquet held for he class gift committee in the asa packer room of the university center committee chairman richard sprenkle called on the group for interest and enthusiasm in hopes of topping the 75 per cent participation record set by the class of 59 following the formal program committee members signed up for the class insurance and chose the names of the classmates whom they will solicit to enroll also in the special 20-year college endowment plan president martin d whitaker principal speaker for the dinner as serted the program represents a very real part of the long-range development program of the univer sity he further told the assembled committee members that the university extends its appre ciation to you for your pres ence and your interest the president citing various ydems ygop's rally mon at 8 a political rally sponsored by the newly-organized young demo cratic and young republican clubs monday at 8 p.m in packard audi torium will kick off the club's drives for undergraduate mem bership guest speakers for the rally are the hon robert r barry r-n.y and roy m schafer president of the young demo cratic clubs of america they will deliver addresses on why i am a republican and why i am a democrat respec tively a question-and-answer ses sion will follow the speeches the political clubs were estab lished by arcadia and the student activties committee to promote partisan political interest on cam pus acording to richard shulman 61 chairman of the arcadia poli tical clubs committee students often express their political views in discussions see political page 3 see solons page 3 9 solons attend 5-region convo nine members of the 13th and 14th arcadias will join more than 300 students from throughout the northeast in a three day national student association conference in new york this weekend the so jons will hear several speakers participate in work shops on college problems and exchange information with other student leaders while at by george reiser although marred by inept direc tion the mustard and cheese pro duction of agathie christie's wit ness for the production is in part salvaged by the competent per formance of miss helen search lacking the sultry effect of christie's romaine because of poor costuming and make-up miss search dominates the suspense-drama is at times as sisted by the uneven perform ance of bruce snyder as sir wilfred robarts called in only one week before tonight's production to replace miss donna marie soloi miss search turns in a commendable perform ance as the common-law wife of the defendant more self-confident than his per formance warrants snyder is somewhat ineffective as the aged attorney snyder reaches the peak see good page 9 who are these others a dramatic confrontation climaxes witness for the prosecution agatha christie's courtroom melodrama the play opened last night and will be the featured attraction at the class of 1962s snoßall weekend future decisions hinge on students behavior dean suspends ban on alcohol bethlehem pa friday dec 4 1959 vol 71 — no 19 arcadia vote on dec 7-9 new constitution on ballot suspension of the three-day old campus alcohol ban was an nounced to a tense hushed group of arcadians and living group presi dents yesterday afternoon by dean's office officials disclosed by associate deans preston parr and c b campbell the repeal was made on behali of and with the endorsement of the dean of students the reversal of the earlier decision gives significance and sub stance to student participation in the government of the university parr told a hastily called meeting of more than 50 student leaders we have lifted application of the alcohol ban and will hold it in suspension were parr's words to the late-afternoon univer sity center audience he emphasized that there were two qualifications attached to the decision to repeal the no alcohol policy — —— i although the ban has been lift ed he noted it is still being held in suspension the university re serves the right to deny alcohol to my group at any time the repeal he stated is not retroactive alcohol permission denied for the coming week end's parties will not now be granted in practice the deci sion means that alcohol will first be allowed at parties on december 12 — following le high's first home wrestling match of the season lafayette weekend activities are till subject to further review and iction by the dean's office parr leclared the prohdbiton was removed with the provision that student government is willing to continue o work for greater student respon sibility in this area and prepared o give continued substance to vhat you have already said on the natter we have been concerned and impressed with student participation in his area parr see lafayette page 9 no liquor ban reduces sale of sno-ball tickets kick off — president martin d whitaker listens pensively to senior class president thomas k gflhocl as he stresses the responsi bility of alumni to the university at the kick off banquet for the class giving campaign banquet launches 60 gift campaign lehigh university brown and white