Brown and White Vol. 71 no. 50

              see senior page 4 iuer awards in history and biog raphy is a native of the middle west he received his a.b and a.m degrees from the university of illinois in 1912-13 he was successively a member of ihe editorial staff of the new york evening post the nation the sun and the new york world in 1927 he joined the history staff of cornell university and after one year came to co lumbia where since 1931 he has been a professor of history during leaves of absence he has held the sir george watson chair of american history literature and institutions in great britain and has been visiting professor at the california institute of technology during ww ii he was harms worth professor at oxford univer sity and visiting professor of his tory to australia professor nevins has more than 20 volumes to his credit and has edited a dozer more his articles and book reviews are numbered in the hundreds dean coburn was born in dan bury conn and is a graduate of princeton university he was or dained in 1943 after receiving his b.d degree from the union theo logical seminary graduating cum laude he became a fellow of the college of preachers washington d c during the winter term of 1952 he was granted a doctor of divinity degree by amherst in 1955 and doc tor of sacred theology degree by berkeley divinity school in 1958 he taught in istanbul tur key and during the war was chaplain on the uss sheridan in the pacific theater from 1953-57 he was dean of trin ity cathedral in newark n j and is currently dean of the episcopal if any student acted suspici ously during the parade were circulated throughout the city at the start of the parade eight state troopers six city policemen and five patrol cars met the cadets at taylor stadium seen viewing the parade from several vantage points at various times was dean leith at the close of the parade one military head was heard to com ment to a civil defense official thank goodness takes over from livdahl cochnar named b&w editor arcadia voted unanimously to endorse the submission of the petitions by the freshman class as an expression of a substantial opinion on campus and urge that the admin istration consider it wednesday night the petition circulated by the freshmen had 379 names and called for the disband ment of compulsory rotc and its reorganization on a volun tary basis another petition with 83 names mostly of upperclassmen was also brought to arcadia's attention this petition was circulated several months ago and asks arcadia to recommend to the faculty that compulsory rotc be abolished freshman class president gordon hoare was named co-chairman of the student council's existing rotc committee alfred johanson 61 is the other co-chairman in this motion the rotc committee was asked to meet with university officials and submit a full report on com pulsory vs voluntary rotc next fall for transmission to the faculty and administration the first motion presented asked that arcadia endorse the peti see associates page 6 chamber group plays tonight a woodwind chamber concert with repertoire ranging from the modern to the baroque is scheduled lor 8:15 tonight in the osbourne loom of the university center the quintet will play selec tions from mozart handel and ibert handel's short fugue in d will start the program members of the group will be john heiss 60 flute sterling levie 63 oboe jonathan elkus associate professor of music bas see woodwind page 4 b&w editors new heads of the brown and white for the fall semester named this week are jack harkaday 61 business manager robert cochnar 61 editor-in-chief and george keiser 62 editorial director robert j cochnar 61 has been named editor of the brown and white for next semester succeed ing orlin l livdahl 61 former news editor george reiser 62 will be editorial director jack harkaday 61 has been appointed business man ager jonathan bassett 63 will be news editor assisted by calvin man kowski 63 and paul bartsch 62 continuing as sports editor will be johann bierbauer 63 while har vey honig 63 is desk editor peter rothenbcrg 62 will again be photography editor william evoy 61 will continue as financial manager with elliot a russoff 61 as comptroller named acting local ad man ager was charles sincer 62 na tional ad manager will be robert steckler 62 david l eisner 61 has been named credit manager heading the circulation staff will be peter lafonataine 61 protected by the tightest precau tions possible the annual armed forces day parade proceeded through the city without any major incident 1 students bearing placards which protested compulsory rotc were the only forms of objection evident during the march tuesday evening following in the wake of three anti-compulsory rotc demonstra tions on campus both the univer sity and city safeguarded the pro cession from any disruption at a special session of the fresh man class cabinet called by dean of students j d leith tuesday afternoon frosh were ordered to restrain from all planned parade interruptions an official letter from vice president e kenneth smiley threatened severe disciplinary action for participation in any action leading to the disrup tion of the orderly progress of this parade was read by military officials to all rotc cadets immediately before the parade authorities also warned that regular military officers would observe the parade and any cadet officer failing to take measure to prevent a disruption was assured of losing his forthcoming commis sion a 190-man law enforcement con tingent consisting of all available bethlehem police forces including the green-clad auxiliary forces along with 20 state policemen and five state cars — reportedly the largest ever assembled for any such event — was summoned by mayor earl e schaeffer reports that service veterans among the bethlehem police force would spare no discipline bethlehem pa friday may 20 1960 prof nevins to deliver commencement talk vol 71 — no 50 prof allan nevins dewitt clin ton professor emeritus of american history at columbia university will speak at the commencement exer cises at 10:30 a.m june 13 in grace hall dean john bovven coburn of thp episcopal theological school cambridge mass will deliver the baccalaureate ad dress the previous afternoon at 2:40 p.m in packer memorial church nevins the recipient of two pul seidle reports on new frosh professor allan nevins solons endorse submission of frosh petitions rotc parade well protected student demonstration saiute of advanced cadet coincides with student demonstration against compulsory rotc bearing placards scoring the present status of military education here this group was the only incident evident during the armed forces day parade thurs day by jon bassett the admissions office extending offers of admission to 1460 high school and preparatory seniors has received 720 acceptances significant changes in curri culum distribution show an in crease in the number of arts and arts-engineer students in the class of 1964 dr charles a seidle director of admis sions noted this week the class which will be on cam pus early in september for fresh man week activities represents a high acceptance rate in past years 40 per cent of those offered admis sion have accepted forty-eight per cent was expected to accept the new class but 50 per cent is now ex see 1964 page 3 b&w ceases publication with this issue the brown fie white ceases publication for the academic year 1959-60 the next regular issue will be in september the editorial board and staff of the b&w extend best wishes for a pleas ant summer lehigh university brown and white