Brown and White Vol. 72 no. 21

              matmen twist cyclone 22-8 lehigh wheels slowed but not stopped in snow lehigh university brown and w hite — b&w photo by rothenberg memories of a snowfall — the first massive snowfall this year saw the campus along with the entire east coast cloaked in a white blanket which roused early desires for the much needed christmas vacation the spirit of the yule will be most evident when the glee club presents the first of a series of christmas carol programs in the university center girdler gallery tomorrow evening soviet student seen by cohn the air began to clear and me temperature dove all sunday af ternoon then at about 12:15 p.m the first flurries of what promised to be the first significant snowfall in the lehigh valley this year ap peared first predictions were that the local area would get from three to four inches but later reports that a storm moving up from the south and one coming in from the north west would bring extensive snow throughout the evening and up un til noon on monday when the b&w went to press sunday night nearly four inches had already fallen and the weather bureau was predicting it to con tinue up until noon or later mon day for most people here on cam pus snow particularly the first big one of the year holds a cer tain amount of fascination for others it means only inconven ience those who drive to campus start digging through their car trunks for chains call the weather bureau and leave home an hour early for the old-timers those who see first page 6 by roy cravzow soviet students are basically convinced it is the desire of the united states to bomb and destroy the ussr because we have used the bomb twice before and our conscience will permit us to do it again this is what they are taught stated dr judah cahn last evening before a captivated audience in the university center rabbi cahn leader of the 19th conference on religion recently spent two summers in the soviet union touring their universities as an american educator rather than as a clergyman based on his position as a faculty member of springfield univer sity those who visit the soviet union visit their occupational counterpart he stated but by travel ing as an educator dr cahn was allowed ample op portunity to visit and observe soviet educational in stitutions and the students there are two ways that a student may be ac cepted into a university in the soviet union the ? ? christmas vespers sunday afternoon at 4 rabbi explained the top students in the secondary schools in each of the soviet republics are awarded gold medals for excellence in scholastic achievement and are automatically enrolled as undergraduates this makes up roughly 85 per cent of the student body others are awarded silver medals and are in vited to take a qualifying test to fill the remaining 15 per cent a jew is never granted a gold medal but only a silver one thus eliminating many of the bright jewish students from ever studying at the universities he added our undergraduate curricula is child's play compared to that of the soviet union said dr cahn work is extremely intense and their students come to the universities better prepared than ours it is the graduate division where american universities are far superior the relationship between professor and student is quite different in the soviet union an extreme formality typical of european universities generally see soviet page 7 ? approximately 280 seniors have given to the memorial gift program for a net total so far of 88,000 reports richard e shulman chairman shulman made his report at the captain's meet ing yesterday when he stated that 60 per cent of the class has contributed to the program this is the first year that the mutual shares pro gram has been used as a method of increasing the amount of money contributed to the memorial gift the chief advantage of the mutual fund shul man said is the financial return on approximately 300 invested in annual installments of around 15 over a period of 20 years using the mutual fund said shulman it may be possible to double or triple the amount contrib uted by an individual the mutual shares plan would use the principle shulman added of self-insurance that is in rela tion to the statistically large number of risks the cost of insuring each individual is greater than the see si page 7 rabbi judah cahn 61 memorial gift plan now at 88,000 mark by 808 voccola the engineer matmen proved friday night before over 3,000 spectators at grace hall that mid western wrestling will have to reckon with the east this year in national rankings the biggest thrill came when bob gunst beat twice ncaa 147 pound champ larry hayes lowa state which finished sec ond in ncaa wrestling for the past three years was solidly de feated the leemen piled up a 22-8 margin to add surprise and shock to a team who only once previously had been beaten by eastern grapplers also shocking was the defeat of larry hayes lowa state's two time ncaa champ lehigh's bob gunst wrestling at 147 decisioned hayes and almost pinned the mid westerner hayes now a senior was last defeated in his sophomore year by les austin of syracuse last year's eastern champ at 137 gunst commenting on his tre mendous upset said hayes had a hard time making his weight and that might have hurt him i ju3t happened to get the guy with the biggest name ron meleney lowa state big eight champ at 167 also went down to defeat at the hands of thad turner turner was in con see gunst page 8 woodwind concert pp the second annual woodwind concert scheduled for tonight in several university calendars has been postponed to friday jan 6 at 8 p.m in the university center osbourne room the postponement is due to a convention trip to chicago by one of the participants jonathan b elkus assistant professor of music ? of jesus the men will sing the motet a sacrum convivium by lodovicio viadana marvel not joseph a medieval carol featuring tenor soloists s james lewis 61 and bruce leinster 64 follows the second lesson as joseph is told of mary's con ception the third lesson the annunciation will be followed by the agnus dei from the mass regina coeli by jacob dekerle sung by the glee club highlighting the service both choirs will then combine to sing the magnificat in c by johann pachelbel professor cutler will conduct the 140 member group which will be ac companied by an orchestra of strings from hunter and brass and percussion from lehigh mrs martha north organist at cedar crest college will be the organist for the magnificat and will also perform the prelude and postlude see vespers page s the women of hunter college choir will join voices with the glee club in packer memorial church at 4 p.m sunday to present the 20th annual christmas verseprs service the program of christmas worship through music will feature the reading of seven lessons from the bible each re lated to the music following the readings will be done by members of the glee club and choir robert cutler associate professor of music dorothy r holcomb associate conductor of the hunter choir s james lewis john w gamble and dean charles w brennan opening the service with the traditional moravian candle light procession into the chapel from each of the four entrances the choirs will sing antiphonally the medieval carol nova nova chaplain raymond fuessle will then give the invo cation after the reading of the first lesson prophesying the birth vol 72 — no 21 bot gunst wins over 147 chomp un 6-0331 mnmtammmi bethlehem pa tuesday dec 13 1960