Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 12

              dean suggests questions on houseparty conduct for consideration ticket plan fixed school morale is odk topic mcclave says arcadia will consider fusion at next meeting proposes joining governing groups as student council price — five cents members of chi psi fraternity will move from their temporary quar ters in the hotel bethlehem to 915 west broad street sometime next week they will live here until work on their campus house is com pleted in the spring lehigh-lafayette representatives will agree to annual peace pact delt house to be scene of yearly signing friday riots have marked event in past years and according to wilkes mcclave president the following represen tatives will sign the pact for le high wilkes mcclave bus 42 robert c mcmichael met e 42 robert n simonsen ch e 42 and ralph f moss bus 42 lafayette's representatives will include edward johnson president of the student council and also the vice-president and secretary-treas urer of the council faculty will hold banquet nov 15 entertainment to feature mexico travel slides student-faculty relations extra-class activities sports to be studied the problem of bettering student morale was selected as the topic for the years discussion by omi cron delta kappa senior honorary leadership society at the initiation meeting wednesday night in the arcadia room in drown hall the report submitted by the top ic committee which selected the morale problem from a list of top ics suggested at the previous meet ing separated the main topic into three major sub-divisions these were 1 extra-curricular activi ties and their gradual absorption into the curriculum 2 sports ac tivities and 3 student-faculty relations discussion at the meeting brought about a realization of the major factors to be investigated these were a determination that a lack of student morale exists me thods of measuring student morale and ways of securing a better morale in addition to presenting the major topic the committee suggest ed alternate topics and listed top ics for progress reports during the year these latter were the health service playing fields for intra mural athletics and a review per iod before final examinations before the business meeting ini tiation ceremonies were held in drown hall at that time the four seniors pledged on nov 10 were initiated into the society after the initiation a dinner was held in lamberton hall the meeting was attended by eight faculty men one alumnus and 13 undergraduates the annual lehigh-lafayette peace pact will be signed at the delta tau delta fraternity nov 7 at 8:30 a m by representatives from both schools started in 26 this pact states that both schools will do all in their power to continue this tra dition on a friendly and sports manlike basis the pact was successful from 26 until 31 when a slight disturbance violated the agreement since the first outbreak however the pact has been broken nearly every year to some extent and in 33 rioting students from both colleges clash ed the pact is drawn up by arca dia the student governing body private colleges depend on grads a short circuit and blown fuse in christmas-saucon hall caused a fire scare wednesday night which interrupted brown and white ac tivity in the building's basement and disturbed an after-dinner meeting of odk in drown hall lights in an english instructor's office in room 317 dimmed out at 8:30 p m and a small blaze was seen at the ceiling near to the top of the fixture phone calls were immediately made from brown and white lab to the home of an drew w litzenberger superinten dent of buildings and grounds and to drown hall to obtain a campus policeman omicron delta kappa senior honorary society was meeting in the arcadia room when the call for a policeman came in at the words fire in christmas-saucon john m roach brown and white editor streaked from the room followed closely behind by dean wray h congdon albert thal hamer b and w newsmanager william meikle editorial manager and edwin h klein bachelor bus iness manager the blaze had disappeared in the meantime and an electrician sent by litzenberger removed the current source of danger superin tendent litzenberger stated today that the trouble was caused by a short circuit inside the light fix ture electricians who have been checking the christmas-saucon hall lighting system for three weeks have finally centralized the trouble sources within the building 70 consider plan for consolidation invitations have been sent to 136 colleges of the middle atlantic conference of the international re lations club to attend a convention to be held on nov 28 and 29 at lehigh according to welles r bliss arts 42 president of the lehigh chapter the colleges included are in the district of columbia delaware maryland pennsylvania new jer sey new york and ontario the delegates will live in the fraternity houses and the dormitories and will eat at lamberton hall round table conferences will be held at grace and coppee halls and the general sessions and the dance will be held in grace hall malcolm w davis associate di rector of the division of intercourse and education of the carnegie en dowment will speak on friday evening and miss vera dean re search director of the foreign pol icy association will discuss build ing a new world on saturday evening the lehigh delegation includes walter singlevich ch e 43 clyde ruffle i e 42 henry otto arts 43 robert jensen arts 43 and john saylor ch e 42 the officers of the convention will be president welles r bliss secre tary wallace wirths bus 42 and treasurer wilbur henry arts 44 the following committees have been appointed accommodations wilbur e henry arts 44 wallace r wirths abram samuels bus 42 and clyde ruffle registration wallace wirths ernest gsell arts 44 abram samuels entertain ment abram samuels george wolfsten arts 43 charles freed arts 42 buildings and guides charles freed lawrence larkin m e 45 publicity and programs raymond czapko arts spl and george wolfsten food welles r bliss philip miller bus 43 law rence larkin and philip whiting bus 43 herrick emphasizes need of alumni donations dr wendt speaks on uranium atom parking prohibited next to barriers members of chi psi fraternity evicted last monday by a fire that gutted their campus house will move to 915 w broad street the end of next week a four-month lease was signed yesterday and members will begin to get the new house in order this weekend meanwhile the fraternity's board of directors will consider the renovation of the old house they hope to have the reconstruc tion completed early next spring they will discuss methods of re building at a meeting saturday night residing temporarily in 16 rooms of the hotel bethlehem the chi psi's are gradually replacing their personal effects most of their clothing was lost in the fire and all that was saved is badly scorch ed some of the men took their one day respite from classes to go home for new clothes but the majority have bought from bethlehem mer chants about ten men are wearing blue jeans to save their depleted wardrobes the house records and trophies were saved and about 30 towels escaped the fire but nearly all of the house property was lost in cluding blankets sheets and large stores of food according to ar thur l fischer arts 43 president of the fraternity the members salvaged very little of their personal property wallets containing about 200 sports equipment and all but a few ar ticles of clothing were burned only small articles left in desks such as pens and pencils were sa ved some of the losses were attribu ted by fischer to students who were present at the fire he said he believed that several overcoats and pieces of sports equipment were carried off by spectators the new house a 16-room dwell ing will accommodate the 32 mem bers comfortably the fraternity will maintain its catering service and members will room and board at their new location beds have been ordered and work will be begun this weekend the members expect to be estab lished by the end of next week fire department loses equipment plans for a faculty banquet to be held saturday nov 15 in drown hall have been partially completed announced mrs robert m smith chairman of the banquet committee the theme of the affair will be pan american latin american culture particularly its art and dances will play a prominent part in the decorations and entertain ment at the banquet another feature of the affair will be a series of slides to be present ed by benjamin l miller profes sor of geology the subject is travels in mexico nicaragua and yucatan the banquet is being organized by the faculty women's club an nouncements will be sent to mem bers of the faculty tomorrow congdon asks for return of all lost articles jensen will train scouts the economic future of the pri vately endowed college lies al most entirely in the hands of its graduates robert f herrick ex ecutive secretary of the lehigh alumni association stated before members of the bethlehem rotary club he emphasized the fact if the privately endowed university with its advantages of independence specialization and selectivity was to be maintained it must be sup ported in part by gifts from its alumni herrick also announced that le high graduates have provided more than half of lehigh's endow ment of 8,100,000 the work of dr henry sturgis drinker and others whose work led to the formation of the alum ni association was reviewed football game traffic is warned again to be careful in parking the lower campus with the exception of the drive from new street to sayre park is closed off with bar riers after 12:30 p m on satur days beginning nov 1 no cars are to be parked in front of or by these barriers a few persons have been guilty of this offense and acccord ing to andrew w litzenberger superintendent of buildings and grounds if the practice continues the cars will be towed from the campus at the expense of the indi vidual concerned this regulation is made to comply with insurance regulations covering the physical plant no parking at all is permitted on the campus during game time effect of released energy discussed by scientist the smashing of an atom of ura nium was probably the most im portant scientific work of the twen tieth century according to gerald l wendt who spoke tuesday night to the lehigh valley engin eers club in packard auditorium presenting the idea that the la boratory is the birthplace of the future dr wendt scientist and lecturer discussed the utilization of energy obtained in atom-smash ing experiments he also discussed the use of three-dimensional lan tern slides wendt predicted greater unem ployment as a result of technolog ical developments but he added the real profits of technological advancement are in terms of time not in terms of money dr wendt's talk looking into science considered the practical application of energy harnessed in the laboratory he indicated that the energy released in the smash ing of a pound of uranium would equal the energy liberated in the combustion of a 10,000 tons of coal to prepare plan of senior banquet arcadia will investigate councils proposal arcadia will discuss organiza tional plans for the student coun cil at its meeting at 7:30 p m monday night in drown hall arcadia will also consider spe cial appeals for emergency grants from the unbudgeted funds of the student activities fees the plan to combine arcadia and the combined councils was sug gested at the latter body's meeting last night and the details of organ ization will be taken up at the ar cadia meeting the agenda for the meeting in cludes a discussion on a topical file for the combined councils so that there will be a suitable means of filing and keeping records of the work of the combined councils the questions posed by dean wray h congdon at the combined councils meeting in reference to houseparty conduct problems will be brought up for discussion plans to incorporate dad's day arrangements into arcadia's con stitution will be made cyril d jensen associate pro fessor of civil engineering will teach a selected group of bethle hem boy scouts to become troop instructors in mapping he will hold his first meeting nov 8 the students will map an area around center street and elizabeth ave nue at their first class the object of the course is to qualify scouts as mapping experts siegele is badly burned in chem lab yesterday failure to meet current fire laws is serious threat to fraternities continued on page four by j h brindle further combination of lehigh's student governing bodies into an omnipotent student council was suggested last night at the first meeting of the combined councils fusing of arcadia and the three living group councils into a single organization with arcadia as the cabinet of the group will be a top ic of consideration at the next meeting ol arcadia wilkes mc clave 11 bus 42 president of ar adia and leader of last night's meeting promised mcclave's action followed a query by dean wray h congdon who attended the meeting in drown hall last night in which the dean of undergraduates ques tioed the apparent dual authority of the current combined councils and arcadia present chief student governing body dean congdon stated that he now is not certain of the status of these two govern ing bodies arcadia is legally the chief gov erning organization although the combined councils formed at the suggestion of arcadia itself last year has assumed discussion of important student issues among other actions taken at the combined councils meeting last night were 1 discussion of conduct dur ing houseparty weekend 2 combined councils ac ceptance of arcadia's recom mendation to gain greater stu dent representation on stu dent-faculty governing bodies as the problem of the year 3 definite system for allo cation of fall houseparty football game tickets was agreed upon 4 the decision to follow up last year's attempt to install pre-examination preparation periods in his discussion of houseparty conduct at lehigh dean congdon brought up the following list of points which have been issued to the three councils for study 1 what are the responsibili ties of chaperons at house parties 2 what are the responsibili ties of students towards chap erons 3 what justification is there for dates not being in their dormitory quarters within 30 minutes after the official clos ing time of the dance 4 what justification is there for dates being housed at a hotel 5 how can we eliminate even such amount of student drinking as now occurs dur ing house party weekends 6 what suggestions do you offer for improving each of the difficulties or unsatisfactory conditions recognized by you in the above questions to appoint 4 groups four committees will be ap pointed to carry on the years pro gram for strengthening student representation on administrative committees a committee compos ed of interfraternity council mem bers will study the housing prob lem in hopes of bringing deferred rushing to lehigh the inter-dor mitory council will appoint a group to study means of increasing student representation on the building and grounds committee the present shortage of rooms in town will be studied by the town council a presidential committee to investigate strength gligence that cannot be tolerated at the present time all but seven of the fraternities have complied with the state fire regulations al though some of the houses are in the process of getting fire escapes or fire walls those which have not complied at all are kappa alpha pi lambda phi pi kappa alpha alpha kappa pi and sigma chi because so much private prop erty was lost at the chi psi fire reveral of the houses are consider ing personal property insurance for their members four houses al ready have such insurance these are alpha kappa pi beta kappa delta upsilon and pi lambda phi the fact that some fraternity houses have not yet observed state fire laws concerning fire escape and fire walls is a serious threat to their members safety according to wray h congdon dean of under graduates in a letter to the var ious fraternities the results of the fire on mon day would have been much graver had it occurred during the night or during houseparty weekend dean congdon said contempla tion of the catastrophe so narrow ly averted last monday makes clear that any further delay to provide adequate fire prevention for your residence housing frater nity men is a matter of gross ne the senior class will hold its first general meeting at the annual class banquet it was announced today by archie d w tifft bus ! class president plans for the affair i are now being made by a banquet ! committee composed of james donahue bus chairman albert tromer bus john dudley m e and edward bodine m e tifft said that main topics of dis cussion at the meeting would be the general state of class finances and the annual class gift the ban quet committee will meet early next week to discuss time and place for holding the banquet and possible main speakers according to donahue an effort may be made to secure f alex ander magoun sociologist from m i t who addressed the class last year on problems of marriage at the junior banquet over three hundred and twenty dollars in equipment is still miss ing today from the bethlehem fire department as a result of student actions at the chi psi fire monday the equipment consisting of 21 rubber coats nine pairs of rubber boots eight helmets and one as sistant fire chief shield was an nounced as missing yesterday by george j ruyak bethlehem coun cilman who stated that a search was being conducted for the lost articles he expressed the belief that all the equipment would be returned within a few days the combined councils which met last night in drown hall re quests all students possessing these articles to return them as soon as possible to the office of andrew w litenberger director of build ings and grounds they will then be handed over to the city this action was supported by a letter of similar nature from dean wray h congdon to the editor of the brown and white both dean congdon and ruyak recognized that the articles were taken unknowingly in the heat of the event by students acting as volunteer firemen and stated that no action would be taken if they were returned within a reasonable time william a siegele 41 was burned around the eyes face arms and chest as a result of an explosition yesterday afternoon in the tnt 1 course which is being given to employees of the trojan powder company as part of the defense measure siegele who was making an acid analysis built up too much pressure in the apparatus the ex ploding acid sprayed him produc ing the bad burns he was taken to the dispensary where he was treated by dr carl o keck who reported that the wounds were more painful than serious siegele was sent home to recover from the burns lehigh university brown and white chi psi's new fraternity house bethlehem pa friday october 31 1941 expresses appreciation vol xlix no 12 chi psi men lease house on broad st lehigh invites 136 colleges to irc meet will move in next week home will be rebuilt by early spring delegates to conference will come from 7 coastal regions in behalf of the actives and pledges of the chi psi frater nity i want to express our sin cere appreciation for the whole hearted cooperation sympathy and hospitality extended to us by members of the lehigh fac ulty and student body during our recent misfortune arthur l fischer arts 42 president save records trophies 8 to represent lehigh fire in saucon causes scare crowd rushes to scene after blaze subsides in light fixture coming up . • . today 4 p m — orchestra practice grace hall 2:30 p m — varsity soccer hav erford away 7:30 p m — astronomical so ciety business meeting 208 packard laboratory saturday 2:15 p m — varsity football buffalo away 9 p m — sportsman's club barn dance flickinger's barn sunday 2 to 5 p m — annual fall ex hibition of the lehigh art alliance university gallery monday bp m a s c e e l dur kee erection engineer beth lehem steel company room 466 packard laboratory member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh news first