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              similar success for the spring houseparty dance because of the type of entertainment in popular demand with the theme of misty the main color scheme in grace hall will be blue and white a white backdrop sequined with blue lights will hang behind the bandstand on the lower floor the opposite end of the floor will be decorated with white curtains and blue curtains will be hung around the balcony evenly-spaced col umns lit from the inside and draped with white cloth will sur round the dance floor the ceiling will be hung with chandeliers and blue tapestries the top floor of grace will be decorated with blue cur tains evenly-spaced lattice work and will be set with semi-circular arrangements of tables and chairs tickets for the dance at six dol lars per couple will be available tomorrow contemporary jazz featured the works of miles davis george gershwin gerry mulligan and paul desmond will be among those featured in a jazz concert to morrow evening at 8:15 in the os bourne room of the university center the lehigh modern jazz quintet will perform in the hour-long concert sponsored by the university center there's a boat that i leaving for new york from porgy and bess and it's almost like being in love are two of the songs to be played members of the quintet are john heiss 60 jim meloney 61 morris kelsey 61 dave jenkins 63 and bill schoolman 62 only five nomination petitions for office in the class elections had been turned in as of yesterday afternoon the deadline for filing the nomination petitions is 4 p.m friday afternoon offices to be filled are the president vice president secretary and treas urer of next years sophomore junior and senior classes of the five petitions turned in so far only one is by a member of the class of 61 and there are none for the class of 62 the only contested race which has devel oped so fair is the class of 63 where there are two candidates for treasurer two other petitions have been filed by members of the class of 63 arcadia elections committee chair man neal duffy termed the turn out so far as very disappointing and urged interested students to get their petitions in by the friday deadline he stated that rushing which ends tonight may be one of the causes for the apparent lack of student interest in the elections nominations are filed for the president secretary and treasurer's positions the second place candi date in the presidential race in each class becomes the vice presi dent campaigning begins april 20 success in college comes to stu dents who respond by responsible self-discipline and intelligent ini tiative suggested dr howard j b ziegler head of the philosophy de partment to 345 prospective fresh men in packard auditorium satur day afternoon in discussing the flexibility of lehigh's academic offerings he said many highly competent elkus opera saturday grace to become poker flat students are not prepared in their freshman year to decide upon a major area of concen trated study to these students the liberal arts college offers a flexible program to help them explore several possibilities be fore making a decision saturday's program was the first of two planned to acquaint high school and preparatory school sen iors who have been offered admis sio nto lehigh with the opportuni ties of a variety of programs in the three undergraduate colleges of the university the second program is scheduled for saturday april 30 the flexibility of the lie high curriculum in engineering was outlined by dean loyal v bewley he said the ten dif ferent departments with 24 different options offer a con siderable choice " in discussing the opportunities for training in engineering he de scribed the freshman year as iden meal for all departments in the col lege of engineering so that the fi nal decision for a curriculum need not be made until the beginning of the second year for many the engineering cur ricula of the sophomore year are either identical or near enough so that a transfer between such de partments may be made at the end of the sophomore year without the necessity of making up any work these are called tradeable sopho see prospective page 5 census count still incomplete enumeration of university stu dents continues this week as part of a country-wide population head count of college students in the 18th national census although counting of resi dence hall students ended last week a check of the number of students living in fraternity houses remains to be com pleted paul helms director of the cen sus crew covering the south side of bethlehem including the uni versity praised the remarkable co-operation of students in promptly filling out and returning the distributed questionaires stu dent leaders responsible should be commended declared helms the area headcount supervisor stated that lehigh's population enumeration went very smoothly helms revealed that one of every four students will re see census page 7 by jeff cox ln poker l : l.il faun seemed rare — r(tre as silk and more expensive . . ." so sang the duchess pessimisti cally around lehigh however faith in the outcasts of poker k!at has risen as has faith in the ; biluy of jonathan elkus and rob ert gene bander to produce a com pelling opera composed by elkus with lib retto by bander the opera of bret hartc's western folk tale is scheduled for april 16 at 8:40 p.m in grace hall elkus talent as a composer has been seen here previously last year's presentation of m&c's mur der in the cathedral was backed by a phantasmagorical score by el kus bander is after having complet ed two years of teaching under a fulbright teaching fellowship in italy presently instructing in cali fornia the opera in one act is be ing presented by the a n see bret page 3 sideburned slngeßs jonathan elkus prof of music rehearses four students for saturday's gold-rush opera the outcasts of poker flat two rotc men received special permission to grow beards and sideburns to portray deputies in the grace hall production tuesday april 12 1960 mayan scholar to visit campus for talks classes vol 71 — no 40 rushing ends frosh await greek bids dr alfred vincent kidder 11 noted american archaeologist will lecture on tikal — an ancient mayan city in the university center osbourne room thursday at 8 p.m a visiting lecturer of the american anthropological association dr kidder will appear here under the sponsorship of the co operative lecture series and the departments of economics and so ciology history classical languages and fine arts during his two-day visit here he will address sociology 42 stu dents with a speech on culture at 9 a.m thursday and latin 22 stu dents on methods of archaeology at 10 history 366 students will hear dr kidder speak on pre-columbian class elections off to bad start only 5 petitions speaks in university center dr michael scriven right prof of philosophy at swarthmore spoke saturday night in the os bourne room on psychonalysis and parapsychology with him above are lehigh professors dr carey b joynt and dr adolf grunbaum music for everyone planned for h party history of latin-america at 8 a.m friday while fine arts 16 stu dents will hear pre-columbia in fluence at 11 son of another famous ar chaeologist dr kidder received his ph.d from harvard having completed field work in vene zuela honduras peru and bo livia he is now associate di rector of the university of pennsylvania museum dr kidder appears as a panel member each week on the phila delphia-originated television pro gram what in the world spon sored by the perm museum with carlos samayea chincilla dr kidder is co-author of art in anvient maya he is a member of the institute of andean research and the executive board of the society for american archaeology music for everyone is the idea behind the class of 61 s triple houseparty bill of lester lanin the four freshmen and ray mc kinley conducting the former glenn miller band according to publicity chair man jim williams the junior class will sponsor the biggest combination of names ever to play at a lehigh houseparty williams stated recalling the success of the kingston trio appearance i can forecast a rushing ends tonight at 10 p.m fraternities must submit their bids by noon tomorrow to the freshman committee of the interfraternity council herbert w mylks 60 chairman at the student activities desk in the university center a period of silence between frosh and fraternities will be in effect until thursday at 10 a.m when bids may be picked up in room 303 c&d of the university center until 5 p.m freshmen must present their id cards to the ifc committee in order to receive their bids each man is handed an envelope containing his bids should he receive any should a man receivet a bid or bids he is directed to a room set aside for decision-making the recipient must sign bids he decides not to accept and return these rejections to the ifc committee if he decides to accept a bid he then visits the fraternity of his choice thursday evening with that particular bid in hand if a man who receives a bid or bids is on academic probation he must sign and return all bids to the ifc committee he will be permit ted to make contact with his choice as the dean of students shall direct candidates hear deans tour campus view film brown and white bethlehem pa