Brown and White Vol. 71 no. 49

              contacting rules for the spring of 1961 with six weeks of contacting rather than four was passed at last night's interfraternity councicl meeting in the davis room of the university center the regulations are not the most ideal said paul miller 60 chairman of the ifc rush ing and contacting committee but under the prevailing con ditions are the best we devise ' contacting will begin on the sec ond regular day of classes in the spring semester the new regula tions permit contacting every day of the first week except sunday during the next five weeks con tacting is permitted monday wed nesday and friday of the second fourth and sixth weeks and tues day and thursday and saturday of the third and fifth weeks hours of contacting on all days are limited to 3 and 8 p.m mon day through friday and 1 and 4 p.m saturdays the 10 minute rule used this year will also be in effect total contacting hours despite increase of two week increase re sult in only five or six additional see 10 page 9 saucon park athletic fields the clambake had to be broken up an hour and a half early be cause of misconduct upon the part of some participants physical damages to the grove done by the students included the breaking of 18 windows and the ripping of one toilet bowl from the plumbing fixtures in the ladies bathroom the clambake sponsored by the junior class cabinet and open to all members of the junior class was a stag affair it featured free beer to all those eligible as well as either a chicken or lobster dinner although the affair started at 4:30 that afternoon observers reported no trouble until about 7 p.m shortly after the dinner had been served some of the students attending the clam bake began throwing beer at one another leon flickinger owner of the barn where the clambake was held reported that beer was carried around in potato chip and pretzel cans with students throwing it at one another at one point said flickinger the beer on the floor of the up stairs dance floor was about an inch deep other students eating on the porch upstairs began to pelt those eating on the lawn below with clams when the students below retaliated a small-scale battle de veloped between the two sides this was reportedly the cause of many of the broken windows when the clambake was over flickinger told the brown and white the drive way and lawn outside were completely covered with clam shells before and after — removed from its usual abode in a women's lavatory on the second floor of flickinger's barn where the junior class held its clambake friday a commode was tossed from a nearby window this was only a portion of the damage inflicted by the wild gathering of 475 students in the near by grove the owners later called police and have refused permission for groups exceeding 75 rain dance turns into anti-rotc hike by gteorge keiser for the second consecutive night rnoqe than 400 students predominantly freslnneii — protested com pulsory rotc before the campus homes of the dean of students and the university president the original march sunday night began in the freshman quadrangle as a seemingly spon taneous rain dance to drown out the military drill and ceremonies later that day from this small beginning the movement snow balled in the quad and gained momentum as it headed toward mcclintie-marshall house marching at midnight to the area between the home of the dean and delta upsilon fraternity the crowd had its greatest support as partici pants screamed down with rotc and performed a circling rain dance on the campus road at 12:15 monday morning dean of students j d leith summoned the bethlehem city police receiving no response from the dean the marchers abandoned the area entering sayre park on their trek to their turning point at delta tau delta the students were viewed by fraternity men who had left their houses to observe the protest next stop on the route of the marchers was the residence of president martin d whitaker where they were again greeted with silence the crowd diminished to less than half its original number veered toward the fork in new st below the flagpole they sat on the road at that point for several minutes on their feet once more the protesting students turned to the new st gates where they en countered two city police cars blocking any proposed exodus from campus after a speech by freshman class president gordon hoare informing them that the demonstration was effective enough the marchers — now dwindled to about 150 men still chanting — disbanded and re turned to their residence halls talks of boycotting the com ing military ceremonies filtered throughout the group constantly signs appeared in residence halls seeking freshman support see frosh page 9 reactions mixed to frosh rotc demonstrations anyone home — one of the stops along the route of the freshman march was the home of president martin d whitaker on the lower campus from this stop they continued toward the university gates where they staged a sit-down strike upon encountering two city police patrol cars a speech from the freshman class president caused the angry young men to disband and head homeward bethlehem pa vol 71 — no 49 18 halves 475 students 1 clambake equal trouble ' tuesday may 17 1960 eighteen half kegs of beer and 475 lehigh students mostly from the junior class combined friday night to turn the junior class clam bake into what one student called a tragic exhibition on the part of lehigh students held at flickingers grove a picnic area located near the six weeks for contacting in 61 there was no riot outside my home this evening this was the only comment dean of students j d leith would make concerning the three recent freshman demon strations against compulsory rotc the reaction among other indi viduals was mixed william brad bury 60 cadet battle group commander in the army rotc unit and object of much of the protest shouting by freshman dem onstrators declined to make any comment to the brown and white arcadia president phil mezey 61 stated that he condoned the right of the freshman to demon strate so long as they do nothing violent before they do anything that is adverse to university pol icy he added i suggest that they make sure they have exhausted all legal means neither the army or the air force rotc departments main targets of the fresh protests have made any official state ments freshman consulors also were noncommital however those in drinker house indicated that they had received instructions to keep the drinker freshmen from par ticipating in any further demon strations the source of these in structions was not revealed what appeared to be the strangest incident of the evening came when some student ripped the toilet out of the upstairs ladies room and threw it out the win dow the broken plumbing forced flickinger to cut off the water in the barn shortly thereafter flickinger reported somebody set fire to a table cloth on one of the tables upstairs with the water cut off throughout the building no one knew what to do until someone poured a pitcher of beer on the see flickinger page 4 brown and white frosh protest compulsory mil