Brown and White Vol. 72 no. 13

              dancers are unsuccessful in capturing audience whoop — jean leon destine and friend perrform before 1,000 spectators in grace hall dr j burke severs head of english department dr howard j b ziegler head of philosophy department and dr frederick a bradford head of the finance de partment sat in the judges gallery juniors jonathan greene and joseph levine last night captured first prize — 200 and a loving cup for their living group sigma alpha mu — in the final round of the williams debate contest representing mcclintic-marshall 83 runners up lawrence sepenek and alan winters 61 debated the affirmative side of the case sepenek and winters divided the second prize of 100 of the 28 teams who debated in the first round last monday 18 competed friday greene-levine and sepenek-winters were the only teams to debate last night in the morris v watkins case debated by the quartet in the davis room of the university center eleanor watkins announced her engage ment to marry george morris a former air corps pilot at a small party given by eleanor's father at which the engagement was an nounced eleanor's brother john told her she was making a mistake in marrying morris watkins stated that morris was a coward and had deserted in the face of the enemy during the war he also claimed morris had be trayed a projected escape plan to the germans as a result of this in formation eleanor broke her engagement to morris the first speaker sepenek pre sented the affirmative side wat kins is guilty of slander because o his accusations that morris is coward and traitor sepenek wa then cross-examined by levine levine showed the negative side watkins is not guilty of slander he was cross-examined by sep enek presentations of each sid lasted for seven minutes cross examinations were three minute the newly authorized williams prize in interpretive reporting oi 100 will be awarded to an under graduate next may any undergraduate student may enter the contest he need not be on the staff of the brown and white or enrolled in a course in journalism three kinds of entrants are en visaged by the williams senior prize committee 1 all those who have published pieces of interpre tive reporting in the brown and white — such students become auto matic contestants for the prize 2 those who have written un published pieces of interpretive writing in courses in journalism and 3 any other undergraduate who chooses to submit a piece of see any page 4 aroused the greatest interest in the audience was limbo this trick of balancing on one's insteps and attempting to lower oneself to the earth as far as possible has achieved popularity among college students costume a european influence fans minuets ballroom dress carrying over from colonizations of the island by spain and france fast tempos instead of slow and sharpness in place of grace of movement with most of the bodily action being carried on by the shoulders arms and abdomen destine himself headlined the program appearing in nine of the 14 numbers performed he was however unconvincing throughout and after his first appearances seemingly repetitious in action shirley spicer george mills and jerome jeffrey first broke the ice with baptism of the drum a powerful and sensual religious rite making use of colored lights the later numbers in which mills and jerrey appeared like the grotesque les cavaliers were among the best on the program both men had the bodily height and drama of movement destine himself lacked without a doubt the dance that by william brainerd the second of four diverse enter tainments scl has scheduled for lehigh this year appeared friday night in grace hall it was the haitian dance company of jean leon destine three men and two women dancing almost exclusively to the accompaniment of drums enjoyment of the performance was inversely proportional to the distance one sat from the dancers themselves statuesque dance like ballet or that of the orient may be as meaningfully viewed from afar as viewed closely but in order to enjoy that of latin america one must feel the personal con tact given only by proximity seldom was any part of friday night's audience captured by the dance however nor did the dancers work to provide more than their audience seemed ready to re ceive j i ¦ : i - the dance of haiti as done by the destine troupe in general shows little emphasis on color in physics prof to speak on relativity causality relativity and causality will be the subject of the lecture by dr peter havas physics professor in the second of the senior lecture series in the university center osbourne room at 8 p.m friday prof havas will discuss the concept of causality of science in gen eral and physics in particular he will relate modifications of causality due to einstein's theory of relativity and some misinterpretations and misunderstandings of these modifications due to some of these misinterpretations declares hayas it was widely thought that relativity led to strong restrictions on the possible types of physical theories he will attempt to clarify the consequences of relativity in its relation to causality and some recent work in rela see physics page 7 levine green take top prize in williams final brown and white vol 72 bethlehem pa tuesday nov 8 1960 no 1 wlrn to stage huge electionthon tonight with nationwide reports pause — workers in barren wlrn studio one prepare for tonight's national and local election coverage by art dipietro a network of college and com mercial radio stations ranging from harvard to san francisco will pro vide up-to-the-minute election cov erage tonight for wlrn listeners in the most extensive election thon in the station's history to provide better coverage for the lehigh listeners says special events director john cunitz wlrn has arranged for direct telephone lines which will reach election centers from massachusetts to california twelve special tabulation wires 392,000 miles of wire and the serv ices of 7,500 newsmen from united press international will be em ployed to provide wlrn with the latest and most accurate election coverage station wfmz in allentown 100.7 megacycles will broadcast the second half of each hours re sults directly from lehigh's stu dios via special telephone lines be tween the stations expected to present analyses of see experts page 5 williams prize for reporting to total 100 give once for all ♦ ♦ ♦ campus chest ? ? ? ? polls open tonite til 8 — remember to vote