Brown and White Vol. 72 no. 11

              houses of learning — the old and the new — historic old coppee hall on the lehigh campus is contrasted with sparkling new bethlehem steel research facility atop south mountain in photo by b&w's pete rothenberg destine dances at 8:15 friday the vibrating rhythm of haitian drums will resound in grace hall at 8:15 friday evening when jean leon destine and his haitian dance company present a program laced with voodoo ritual dances and those of the beautifully cos tumed old french court destine is considered haiti's see destine page 5 ? 28 teams enroll for debate contest students will have a chance to express their choice for president in a mock election on campus to morrow all students are eligible to vote and can cast their ballots in boxes strategically placed around the campus the mock election is spon sored by the young republican and young democratic clubs who will campaign through use of post ers for their respective candi dates before the polling the results of the mock presi dential election held four years preliminary reports on the fac ulty presidential preference poll indicates a very slim margin be tween the top national party lead ers from the 216 ballots sent to the faculty by the brown and white 145 — 67 per cent — have been re turned to date leading to a stand off between the two candidates totals to date are nixon 70 kennedy 70 five ballots have offered no preference for the top national candidates those five ballots indicated votes for socialist van tassel—out er space party undecided none and thomas jefferson nixon's strongest faculty support comes from the college of engin eering leading with 33 votes to kennedy's 20 kennedy's strongest support comes from the arts and science faculty with 43 to nixon's 27 the business administration fac mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm by ralph mattioli the fourth group of 21 indian trainees arrived on campus saturday these graduate engineers form a group of approximately 115 stu dents studying at five colleges and universities and seven steel com panies the seven participating steel companies are bethlehem steel jones and laughlin inland national republic united states steel and - s3s youngstown sheet and tube the indian steel training and education program instep is sponsored jointly by the ford foundaiton and the indian gov ernment for the past three years the ford foundation has paid the cost of administration and instruction under the terms of a grant the indian government pays the cost of international transporta tion while the international co operation administration bears most of the trainee maintenance costs the indian students are pres ently housed in taylor hall these students were chosen to participate in the steel training and education on the merits of in terviews held in india they have signed contracts for five years all of them under the same steel company in india upon returning to india they will im mediately go to work at the steel plants all the plants are incorporated into one major firm the hindustan steel limited after the students have met their contract duties they will be free to work in any industrial firm of their choice see indians page 3 ? ago showed that students favored president eisenhower five to one of the 1,170 student ballots cast 963 were for the eisenhower-nix on ticket 201 for stevenson kefauver and six for other candi dates faculty members also support ed eisenhower but by a smaller margin the 90 faculty votes cast were eisenhower 49 stevenson 40 other 1 in 1952 as in 1956 lehigh was overwhelmingly in favor of eisen hower in the 52 preference pri mary eisenhower was swept into office on the first ballot with 822 of the 1,556 total votes followed by sen robert a taft r-ohio who wound up with 395 votes ? 5 to 7 for ike in 56 students to ballot wed in clubs mock u.s election high man in the democratic count was sen estes kefauver i)-tenn who polled 82 first place votes of the 143 faculty and adminis tration votes registered eisen hower again copped first place with 67 votes to place the faculty vote in the same trend as the stu dents however the results are not really comparable since the form er poll was held in advance of the 1952 nominating conventions when stevenson was a little known can didate in accordance with the upcom ing election the young demo cratic club plans to blanket the campus with campaign material this week 4 new speed inhibitors installed registration for the williams intramural debate contest was filled to completion shortly before noon friday when the last of 28 teams signed up numbers assigned to each of the two-man teams run from one through 29 everyone will have a fair chance at the 200 cash first prize which also brings a revere bowl silver cup trophy to the team's living group second place receives 100 cash preliminary rounds began at 7:30 p.m yesterday at christmas-sau con hall succeeding rounds are scheduled at ghristmas-saucon 4:10 p.m tomorrow and 4:10 p.m fri day as in the previous four years the contest will highlight actual court cases from which contest ants will choose shortly before each round begins adjudged by faculty members on delivery knowledge of case ability to refute and ability to ex temporaneously establish a case from data given each team will pass a verdict of guilty or not guilty teams will be scored on a win loss basis with a point system de termined by the judges the latter method designed to select the two top teams for finalist competition the concluding round deter mining prizes will be held at 7:30 p.m next monday in the davis room of the university center more tank traps — automobile carefully makes way over one of four new concrete road barriers this one of a total of five at strategic locations on campus roads is before entrance to chemistry building at foot of library stairs see new page 4 as of last week the chances of campus drivers getting their cars hung up on concrete road barriers are now five times better than be fore the university traffic com mittee this week installed perma nent road barriers at four new lo cations on lower campus the roads past the alumni building below the library in front of taylor gym and behind the university center are the new locations for the so-called tank traps previously the barriers were only found directly in front of drown hall where they were in stalled over a year ago as an ex periment in traffic safety apparently the traffic committee thought experiment was success ful for the new barriers are lo by jeff stives faculty votes a standoff in preliminary staff poll and the name of the faculty mem ber not revealed on the ballot form in the presidential preference primary during the spring of 1952 eisenhower received the over whelming support of both faculty and students on the first ballot eisenhower had collected 1,061 votes to more than double his see bus eng page 7 indian students arrive for instep training ulty support nixon with 10 votes to kennedy's 7 balloting will close tomorrow afternoon the brown and white poll in cludes all ballots sent to the pro fessors associate professors as sistant professors and instructors of each university college the ballots were so designed that the voting would be secret tuesday nov 1 1960 no 11 bethlehem pa vol 72 lehigh university brown and white give once for all ? 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