Brown and White Vol. 50 no. 40

              houseparty ticket sale is announced i-f ball returns profit of 908 almost 1000 profit was made by the interfraternity ball at its march 6 dance according to a fi nancial statement turned in to dean wray h congdon eight hundred and three tickets were sold for a total of 2,636.70 and 64.27 was taken in on con cessions largest expense items were 1200 for the two orchestras tax on tickets and 125 for the dance committee the report follows recepits 597 assigned tickets at 3.30 1,970.10 194 tickets sold at box office at 3.30 640.20 12 tickets at box office at 2.20 26.40 2,636.70 concessions : checking concession 24.00 refreshment concession 40.27 64.27 bids are 3.30 until april 9 band unsigned tickets have gone on sale for junior prom which will be held on saturday april 17 in grace hall announced bernard j egan met e chairman of the prom commit tee the tickets will be sold by liv ing group representatives and in the arcadia office and supply bu reau before any bands will be signed the committee must have a cer tain amount of advanced ticket sale this is to assure dean cong don that the prom will be a finan cial success and to enable the com mittee to place a deposit with the orchestra of their choice the price of the tickets will be 3.30 per couple until april 9 and will then jump to 4.40 per couple after that date all tickets for service men will remain at the fixed price of 2.20 per couple dance to be informal the dance this year will defin itely be informal for the first time in the history of the prom among the bands discussed at a meeting of the committee on monday after noon in drown hall are charlie spivak jerry wald bob allen les brown ina ray hutton and johnny warrington warrington is the surprise wcau studio orches tra who created such a sensation at the recent interfraternity ball assurance has been given by the interfraternity council that there will be room for all men to house their dates that is any dormitory men who move into fraternities af ter april 5 can be certain that their dates in addition to the dates of the present fraternity residents will be cared for by the fraternity houses it is expected that a large num ber of the army men present on the campus will attend the prom colonel fay w brabson in charge of the men has already announced that attendance for the army men will definitely be sanctioned by the authorities members of the committee in addition to egan are glenn a murray m e danal p epstein bus kenneth g swayne m e and theodore peters jr ch e fraternities attempt to fill gaps left by rotc men with the army planning to move into lehigh's dorms within a few weeks fraternities are attempting to replace the men they will lose with dorm men who will be evacuated one hundred forty-one men will leave their fraternity homes for the dormitories while the entire student population of drinker richards and taylor dormitories will be forced to find new lodgings the two fraternities which will be hardest hit by the activation of the advanced r o t c men are phi delta theta and phi gamma delta both these houses will lose 11 men while delta upsilon sig ma nu and beta theta pi will lose nine men apiece the only frater nity that is not directly affected by the new orders is kappa alpha which has no men in advanced r o t c until now there has been no or ganized method of attempting to find places for the dorm men but several fraternities are anxious to find men to refill their houses and the interfraternity council and the interdormitory council may act as clearing houses when moving day comes to lehigh the number of men lost by houses not mentioned above is as follows alpha chi rho 4 alpha kappa pi 4 alpha tau omega 1 chi phi 7 chi psi 6 delta phi 2 delta sigma phi 4 delta tau delta 7 kappa sigma 3 lambda chi alpha 5 phi sigma kappa 7 pi kappa alpha 8 pi lambda phi 1 psi upsilon 7 sigma alpha mv 3 sigma chi 8 sigma phi 1 sigma phi epsilon 5 tau delta phi 2 theta delta chi 2 theta kappa phi 1 theta xi 6 o carnegie exams may replacecomps departments in the college of arts and science have been offered the option of giving carnegie grad uate record examinations in place of senior comprehensives accord ing to dean philip m palmer two departments philosophy and chemistry have already decided to have their seniors take the carne gie examinations which is open to all students tests set for april although only a tentative april date has been set for the examina tions a definite time will be made continued on page 2 v-12 tests on april 2 a qualifying test for acceptance into the navy's v-12 program will be given on the campus at 9 a m april 2 applications for these tests are available in dean cong don's office enlistment in the v-12 classifi cation is open to college students between the ages of 17 and 19 years as of july 1 1943 men acr cepted under this program will be absorbed into the college program july 1 along with the present v-l v-7 v-5 and marine corps re serve men according to the best informa tion available v-l v-7 v-5 and marine reservists will not take these april 2 tests it is believed by dean wray h congdon that the qualifying examinations for these men will come april 20 naval reservists activated under the navy college training pro gram will be ranked as apprentice seamen with a pay of 50 a month chaplain medical and dental officers will receive 12 such terms engineer specialists will get eight 16-week terms engineer general duty men will get six and avia tors but two a recent bulletin from the am erican council on education stated that the majority of present v-7 students with more than one term to complete for a degree will be placed on active duty july 1 1943 under the v-12 program the ma jority of students who have one term or less to complete for a de gree may remain on inactive duty in the college they have been at tending and finish their courses or they may request active duty and assignment at a navy college to complete their studies the combined town groups will hold a record dance tomorrow night march 20 on the upper floor of drown hall all town men with cards will be admit ted free and admission for all others will be 50c per couple or for stags dancing will be from nine until one dr and mrs beardslee will chaperone the af fair the town council announced that if the dance is a success others of the the same type will be held throughout the remainder of the semester town groups hold joint record dance army men to handle special details expect 20,000 pay monthly for 400 men several military staff-members will be appointed to handle such important details as payrolls publicity discipline and dress of the army specialized corps ac cording to col pay w brabson in charge of military science and tactics and commandant to be when the military groups arrive at lehigh the monthly payroll for an even 400 men amounts to 20,000 — and for 1200 men 60,0000 col onel brabson indicated this item alone will require a staff member in charge a special army staff member will also be placed in charge of publicity and public relations colonel brabson said this staff member will be responsible for giving out all publicity releases to the college paper and to local publications will take part in activities erc men living in the dormi tories along with men in the spe cialized army training group will fit into the army discipline just as the newcomers to the campus however allowances will be made for such items as labora tories publications work scheduled as regular class assignment and such types of activities the col onel indicated all men erc included will be expected to keep the routine morning hours and will be held to army discipline on cleanliness in their rooms neatness of uni form and such items the incoming army men will want to participate in the social life of the campus as much as pos sible on week-ends colonel brab son said in pointing out that weekends will be free from early saturday afternoons until sunday evenings when men will probably have to report for a study-period b & w to cover army news colonel brabson approved of the suggestion that considerable space in the brown and white be de voted to army activities but warned against complete segrega tion of army news since the in coming group will prefer to be ac cepted as a regular part of the campus instead of being set apart as a special group every man in the army pro gram will have to prove his worth or be sent into the ranks col onel brabson said if within a week or so a man doesnt prove his ability to do the assigned work he will not be kept until the end of any 12-week period the pro gram must move like a convoy and not be held back because of a crippled ship 28 faculty men have joined forces one-half of the 56 lehigh fac ulty members who have left the campus during the past two years are now in the armed forces and 15 others are doing war work in a civilian capacity the army claimed 20 of the fighting pedagogues while the navy claimed the remaining eight eight men now hold positions with other schools the physics and economics de partments were hit hardest each losing six men mathematics and athletics were next with five losses a piece a list of the men together with their departments at lehigh and their present positions follows william a aiken history army intelligence joel f bailey m e teaching at valpariso william m barrows military army john f beck military army charles e continued on page 2 the departmental colleague in the above picture is not wearing that gas mask for fun he is wearing it because he's about ta enter a room filled with deadly war gases wear ing the new civilian type gas masks under conditions approximating those of an actual gas attack is part of the training course for gas reconnaisance agents being taught in the chem building after class hours by dr harvey a neville and prof charles w simmons chief gas officers for northampton county and bethlehem respectively prof earl j serfass of the chem department is shown placing the gas-mask on dr r h lafferty women will again be admitted to all classes during the summer according to kenneth smiley di rector of the summer session in cluding classes at both graduate and undergraduate level in both i the regular summer session and i the accelerated summer-semester plans for summer session announced brown & white lehigh university vol l — no 40 bethlehem pa friday march 19 1943 price — 5 cents otal receipts 2,700.97 expenditures bands 1,200.00 janitor and maid service 11.50 ticket takers 35.00 dance committee .... 125.00 grace hall rental . . . 75.00 advertising 26.50 amplification 20.00 lighting 10.00 miscellaneous decorations etc .. 19.00 tickets 4.50 dance programs . . . 15.00 telephone 10.00 tax on tickets 240.30 otal expenditures 1,792.80 rofit $ 908.17 more talent needed for bottoms up directors of the forthcoming mustard and cheese production bottoms up are making a final plea for more talent of any type to complete the cast for the coming musical although thus far the turnout has been good and enthusiasm has run high there are still many parts open students with singing dancing acting or other abilities are urged to report to drown hall next tuesday and wednesday at 4 p m for tryouts although the date of the musical is still indef inite there is a possibility that the show will be given the friday night of houseparty and may be given again after that if the show is a success here is an excellent chance to put your acting abilities to good use mustard and cheese is working hard to create a successful production but more manpower is needed