Brown and White Vol. 50 no. 3

              the books represent every type of literature especially books of current interest these include psychological effects of war on citizen and soldier by gillespie the commandos by arnold and the song of bernadette by wer fel which is a book of - the - month club selection squad drills for eli game the yale game trip petition by the time this editorial is published the petition asking that oc tober 3 classes be called off will already be in the hands of those who can make that decision therefore we can only suggest that the peti tion be given the consideration it deserves the yale game trip must have official sanction for two reasons first practicability second spirit at least 500 students will absent themselves from saturday's classes despite cut regulations work to be made up or work missed is it fair to penalize these students for their spirit their willingness to cooper ate with the football team which appears to need but one thing — spirit — to make the 1942 season one of the best the administration has given two reasons for not already tak ing action on the yale game trip it has said that transportation must be obtained before the trip can be sanctioned it has said that the students must take the initiative a new angle on objecting to the trip comes in the shape of a form letter from the government urging that students use transportation facilities as little as possible although this letter was in the hands of the administration while students were already making plans for the trip it was not released until the petition for the trip had been made this late publication does not justify the trip because the student knows as does any citizen the burdens of war-time transportation but the late issuance is certainly a left-handed and back-handed reason for not eliminating classes this new reason furthermore is inconsistent with the univer sity's original stand that the primary requirement for the trip be adequate transportation obviously lehigh university students cannot go to new haven as a body transportation difficulties prevent such a plan from mater ializing perhaps this reasoning will be applied if the university offi cials do not wish to make the trip official they might say that calling classes off would make the trip official and if the trip were official they might reason the university would have to take each and every student under its wing the first of the two reasons that the university has given therefore is based on what it believes is a need for mass transportation of stu dents because obviously they think the students cannot take care of themselves the university is obviously unwilling to allow the student body any special privileges the university is obviously oblivious to the need for a lehigh spirit the university has been obviously reticent to sanction a yale game trip although arrangements have been made for a special car for the members of the band nothing has been done to arrange a similar trip for the rest of the student body weeks ago the university knew that hundreds of lehigh students were planning to attend the game weeks ago it knew that saturday's classrooms would be emptied why was not something done in the last faculty meeting why was not the trip even mentioned the answer is the second reason given for inaction — student initiative is needed perhaps the university has placed emphasis on transportation be cause it does not want to have a reputation hurt by students on an official trip if the students are not under the care of the univer sity but the trip will be made anyway and the university will spread more good will and increase its reputation by recognizing this fact the second reason for inaction was stated by the administration continued on page 2 with less than a week remain ing before the opening game with yale coach hoban is putting the squad through its final drills sat urday a scrimmage was held with the red team defeating the white team eight touchdowns to none with the squad cut to forty men seven of them freshmen it will be easier for the coach to form a def inite team with alternates al though no team has been officially picked yet it is expected that the line will be composed of semmel hal shoener clarke johnson kurtz shaffer and cavanaugh and that deehan szymakowski herb shoener and arant will form the backfield saturday's practice scrimmage brought out several points the team's running attack and passing attack looked promising but the blocking and pass defense showed a need for improvement special drills in these phases with regular practice should put the team in good shape for the opener the yale squad has had no practice for the past two weeks due to ex aminations but will have all of this week to prepare for the game pvt quintus p witte 42 is taking a course in basic finance at fort benjamin harrison ind upon its completion he will study army pay methods he graduated with an a b degree in economics lehigh university brown & white price — 5 cents bethlehem pa tuesday september 29 1942 vol l — no 3 this is the 30 foot 940 name petition that was handed to dean congdon yesterday afternoon with the students hope of having classes called off saturday so that students could see the lehigh-yale football game may eliminate class officers sign mcgee band for ball informal dance will open social season johnny mcgee nationally fa mous cornetist and his orchestra have been selected to play for the engineers ball it has been an nounced by arthur white i.e 43 committee member the dance lehigh's first big social affair of the fall will be held from 10 to 2 on saturday oct 10 in grace hall and will be an informal af fair the ball which will be held the evening after the perm state foot ball game is open to all students tickets are priced at 2.20 per couple john h mueller m e 43 is chairman of the joint ball com mittee pi tau sigma and eta kappa nu honorary mechanical and electrical engineering fraternities jointly sponsor the dance the pro ceeds of which go toward the up keep of the student lounge in packard laboratory cyanide announces frosh regulations cyanide junior honorary activi ties society this week announced the rules which will have to be observed by the class of 1946 these rules are similar to what the previous classes have coped with all freshmen must say hello when they see another lehigh man on the campus this is an old le high tradition that stimulates cam pus spirit there is also a special cheering section at the football games in which all freshmen must sit exceptions are made only in the case of reserved seats for houseparties freshmen must learn all songs and cheers of the uni versity these rules are to be observed by the freshmen until flag pole day the official day of transition from one class to another the class of 1946 like freshmen of past years must wear brown ties socks and hat at all times in the event of a freshman victory over the sophomores on founder's day the above rule will be sus pended for sundays the regula tion button of identification must be worn until founder's day an edi torial arcadia proposes plan for student elections class officers may be eliminated from the lehigh student govern ing scene if a recent arcadia pro posal for a student classification and election plan in accord with the war acceleration program is adopted a five man committee elected at large will handle all matters formerly handled by class officers in an effort to determine new and appropriate methods of class ification of students and to deter mine new methods of election of student representatives the arca dia committee drew up two pro posals both plans propose that students be classified according to the year four years after the year of their matriculation but accelerating students will have an x follow ing their class number this sys tem was followed at the recent fall registration the classification assumes that comparatively few men would en ter in february or may and that freshmen matricuating in july will have practically the same status as those entering in september the two proposals differ how ever in the methods of electing student government officers pro posal no 1 states that both the accelerated and the non-accelerat ed divisions will elect their own class officers men being elegible to vote or hold office in their re spective classifications only the present methods of nomination — by petition or by committee selec tion — and election will be observ ed all officers will be elected for two semesters an election will be held at the close of the term in which any officer's term expires and all presidents will have seats on arcadia proposal no 2 — the one prefer red by arcadia — plans to eliminate class officers entirely due to the fact that class spirit at lehigh is not an important factor instead of class officers five students will be elected to arcadia as members at large and will be delegated to handle matters formerly controlled by class officers elections will be held every year at the end of the spring sem ester and only men who have com pleted five semesters are eligible for office maximum term of of fice is two semesters present elec tion system will be employed the five men elected will elect a president and a secretary-treas urer the last-named officer to handle all class funds all dances formerly run by classes will be controlled by these five men who will distribute losses and profits equally among the classes in school at the time 940 sign petition for free saturday faculty committee to act on plea for yale - game class cancellation a petition containing names of 940 students requesting that classes be cancelled on saturday oct 3 for the lehigh-yale football game was handed to dean wray h congdon late yesterday afternoon the students signing the petitions were contacted late friday evening at the various fraternity houses and dormitory sections and the petitions were gathered mon day noon at the dispensary dean congdon stated that the matter would be brought up wednesday afternoon before a meeting of the deans and curriculum directors since the next faculty meeting would not be until monday after noon official action will probably de pend somewhat on articles and letters which have been filed in the dean's office this information deals with government sugges tions that universities do what they can to discourage student trips and gatherings which might interfere with the war program more than half of the entire stu dent body signed the petition even though it was in circulation only sunday and yesterday the peti tion was available to town students and allentown commuters in the dispensary but very few in this group saw the paper before the petition was handed to the dean it was pasted end to end forming a long scroll which was approximately 30 feet long 153 volumes are added to university's collection a total of 153 volumes has been added to the university li brary in august according to howard s leach librarian today's brown and white stories on the yale game petition il lustrate the confusion that is likely to arise when the student body in an attempt to obtain certain faculty action has to resort to such methods as a general solicitation of signatures the brown and white as well as the student governing groups of lehigh have long advocated more student representation on university com mittees representation which could greatly ease the friction that arises in the natural course of events between students and ad ministration and faculty