Brown and White Vol. 72 no. 8

              senators clark scott debate thursday corporate trustee andrew e buchanan jr has been named chairman of a board of trustees committee to consider fully and carefully the question of dr whit aker's replacement the announcement was made to day by monroe j rathbone presi dent of the board of trustees in addition dr harvey a nev ille provost and vice-president has been named administrative head of the university he will continue in this capacity until a permanent successor for president whitaker is found rathbone said in a letter to members of the uni versity family in making the announcement rathbone said the trustees ap pointed two committees a com mittee of trustees and a faculty advisory committee following several informal dis cussions the rathbone letter states the full board of trustees met in bethlehem on oct 7 and appointed two committees to con sider fully and carefully the ques tion of dr whitaker's replacement while no time limit has been set for the committee's report the letter continues it is hoped that it will be able to report in a few months rathbone said that he wanted the university community to know that this important matter of a successor for dr whitaker is un der active and careful considera tion during the past several months rathbone said dr neville has see buchanan page 9 search for president begins trustees name 2 committees vol 72 bethlehem pa tuesday oct 18 1960 no 8 williams prizes hiked in value monroe j rathbone clark a democrat will speak after dinner to the young demo crats of cedar crest lehigh mo ravian lafayette and muhlenberg at 8:30 p.m the debate will be gin in grace hall ten minute opening addresses a 625 increase in regular awards and three additional 100 prizes in the williams essay and debate contests were announced this week by dr j burke severs williams senior prize committee chairman the first new prize will be awarded for meritorious reporting pub lished or unpublished intended to interpret the meaning of events or developments which are significant in the life of the university judges this year are joseph b mcfadden journalism division head theodore hailperin associate professor of mathematics and james d mack librarian another new award will be given to the author of a meritorious short story play or poem adjudged by cloyd criswell assistant pro fessor of english ralph van arnam assistant professor of mathe amtics and finn b jensen professor of economics the student presenting the most outstanding interpretation of a role in a mustard and cheese production will receive the new dra matics prize h barrett davis director of dramatics robert b cutler associate professor of music and lawrence whitcomb associate profes sor of geology will serve as judges this year first prizes of the senior compositions in economics english phil osophy psychology and history and government have been upped 50 from the preceding 150 awards second and third prizes will remain at their 100 and 50 marks ? all awards in the freshman sophomore and junior composition competitions are increased 25 bringing first prize to 100 second to 75 and third to 50 in the freshman and upperclass extemporaneous speaking trials first prizes have been increased 25 to a new high 100 level a 25 increase in the second and third prizes in the upperclass contests have brought these to 75 and 50 respectively top prize in the intramural de bate contest for which registration begins next week in christmas saucon 313 has will be 200 a 50 increase and the traditional paul revere silver bowl for the living group represented second prize will be the standard 100 an address by dr alan a foust head of the department of chem ical engineering closed the con vention celebrating the 75th an niversary of tau beta pi nan tional honor engineering society at hotel bethlehem saturday morning during the three-day convention tau beta pi members had dedi cated a bent attended a banquet initiated members and heard speakers the design and creation of something new and useful is the trademark of the professional en gineer dr foust told the dele gates from 103 colleges and univer sities our work of the future see tau page 6 rutgers pep rally thurs a pep rally for the rutgers football game will be held on thursday at 7:15 p.m in the fresh men quadrangle the cheerleaders urge all upperclassmen and frosh to turn out see political page 3 y-gops plan motorcade rallies the future plans of the young republicans club were announced last week at a joint organizational meeting with the y-gop's of ce dar crest college the club was overwhelmingly surprised at the enthusiasm and interest shown by the students as exemplified by a turnout of close to 100 persons the young republicans dis cussed plans for a motorcade and rally heralding the arrival of sen hugh scott before his debate with sen joseph clark thursday night plans were also discussed con cerning the coordination of activ ities with the young republican clubs of bethlehem and moravian college these plans include the manning of the nixon-lodge head quarters on main st in bethlehem several committees were also formed to look into the possibility see nixon page 3 nixonites meet — lehigh y-gop president f arthur rog ers 61 conducts organization meeting in university center present were about 100 persons from cedar crest college and the university arcadia's appeal of a disciplinary action by dean of students j d leith will be discussed again this afternoon at a meeting of the arcadia executive committee and vice president e kenneth smiley arcadia at its meeting two weeks ago voted to appeal to dr smiley official reprimands given to several students for participation in a n^ac ard demonstration protesting compulsory rotc last may during the bethlehem armed forces day parade today's meeting follows one held last friday afternoon which was suspended at what arcadia president philip mezey 61 called an in complete stage mezey had no comment on the meeting with dr smiley since no federal state or local laws nor any specific lehigh regu lation have been violated charged secretary orlin livdahl 61 in introducing the appeal motion i question the dean's propriety in meet ing out these reprimands the next meeting of arcadia is tomorrow at 7:30 in the university center davis room arcadia continues discussion of disciplinary action today scott will arrive here at 6:15 p.m to dine with the joint debate com mittee in the rathbone room of the university center after dinner scott a republi can will drive with the young re publicans in a motorcade through sayre park he will stop for a few minutes in the freshman quadrangle tickets for the clark-scott po litical debate in grace hall thurs day are still available free upon presentation of i.d cards at the student activities office tickets are going fast said william l quay chairman of the joint committee sponsoring the debate sens joseph s clark and hugh who has the ball — ed winohester 19 and ed murphy 58 battle ron deveaux 30 for the ball the pass thrown by tufts was incomplete see story page 10 lehigh university brown and white neville heads administration rathbone states engineer role design creation of new useful