Brown and White Vol. 50 no. 44

              the army and navy have ap proved of fraternities drawing pledges and initiates from the en listed soldiers and sailors sent to colleges and universities for spe cialized training work by this approval all men in the army specialists training program are eligible for membership in lehigh fraternities according to the na tional interfraternity conference washington d c national fraternity leaders be lieve that the problem of frater nity real-estate holdings will be solved in most instances by the leasing of the houses by the arm ed forces through colleges and universities but look on pledging enlisted men i n specialized training work on college campuses as the only way to prevent the annihilation of chapters through loss of manpower fraternity losses high the ranks of undergraduate greek-letter societies have al ready been cut into sufficiently to leave over 2500 fraternity houses valued at 80,000,000 vacant on 125 campuses according to the national interfraternity war com mittee this emergency committee is developing ways and means to in sure the continuity of the func tioning of the fraternities so long as any men are available for un dergraduate membership during world war 1 an order was issued by a subordinate in the war department declaring fraternity life and military disci pline not compatible in those col leges where the student army training corps operated however secretary of war newton d bak er a former president of his own college fraternity countermanded the original edict and made it pos sible for fraternity life to con tinue of the approximately 900,000 living college fraternity men it is estimated that more than 135,000 are in the armed forces and that over 500 have been killed in ac tion 244 v-l v-7 navy students get letters will be activated after this semester the navy sent 244 letters through dean congdon's office to members of the v-l and v-7 class ification of the naval reserve on saturday sunday and monday these letters contained official in formation from the office of na val officer procurement in phila delphia as to the time when the naval reservists would be acti vated two letters and four envelopes were enclosed in the portfolio which was received by the navy men on the campus the letters explained that all v-l and v-7 men would be put into active duty on july 1 1943 just where the men would be stationed was not announced there was a single ex ception to the rule seniors in v-7 with one semester to complete by july 1 have the right to request that they be left on inactive duty until they graduate may live in fraternities men who are taken from lehigh on july 1 will be kept in training at some college for the amount of time that is necessary for the com pletion of their college studies they will be on active service as apprentice seamen and will re ceive the regular base pay un like the army program the navy men if they like may choose to live at a fraternity house instead of at the place designated to them by the navy officials however this change must be made at the expense of the individual three small envelopes were to be placed in the fourth envelope and sent to philadelphia imme diately on the envelopes the re servist is required to put two ad dresses two envelopes must pos sess his college address until the end the semester and the third small envelope must be held-ad dressed to the place where the re servist will be between the end of the semester and th time of ac tivation these envelopes will probably be used to keep the re servists constantly informed of their status fraternities get 188 valentines the dean's office has released the final statistics on valentines which were sent out last sunday the percentage of students re ceiving valentines this semester fell off considerably but it must be remembered that no valentines were issued to freshmen taking courses on the eight week basis and that the enrollment figure shown in the listing does not take into account the fact that a num ber of students left the university before valentines were issued fraternity men received 188 of the total number of valentines while the dorm men had a total of 100 warnings issued to them leonard hall as usual had no valentines and theta xi led the list with twelve living groups fraternity men 188 dormitory men 100 alpha town house 1 cosmopolitan club 6 continued on page 2 newtonian honorary elects new officers the newtonian society honor ary freshmen mathematics society elected the following officers at its meeting in room 416 packard lab last wednesday night frank h march jr m e 46 president edwin t pieski chem 46 vice president and treasurer and wil liam p colman ch £. 46 sec retary prof c a shook associate pro fessor of mathematics was the speaker at the meeting he gave the members a formula by which they could determine when easter would come during any desired year there were about 35 mem bers present epitome editor announces publication for early june when the epitome is coming out still seems to be a question every one on the campus is wondering about according to robert w pugh chem 43 senior editor the yearbook will appear about the second week in june he said things are moving slowly and roughly accord ing to plan the junior editors have been doing a good job in spite of the fact that there isn't much incentive for the iob of senior editor there has been a definite decrease in the number of competitors due to the lack of a future position of higher rank on the staff should they be called out of school suddenly however the few men who are on the various staffs have been doing pretty well according to the junior editors some of the departments are progressing rapidly because the work is of a fairly easy nature but others were held back be cause not until wednesday of this week were the print size and line requirements placed in their hands the photography section with 1 mark schwarz as junior editor has ' completed all the work ordinar ily done by this department pic ! tures of the faculty have all been taken and organization of mater ial is very near completion the ' men aiding schwarz are fritz vonßergen ch e 45 andrew m bardagjy bus 44x richard i s mooney ch e 46 and how ! ard j jansen m e 45 , the classes section headed by donald m lorimer met e 44x i and assisted by wilbur r peters i jr e e 45 keith w amish • e e 45x and allan j ely jr ch e 46 has completed all of i continued on page 4 65 rotc men taken into army sixty-five lehigh seniors in ad vanced rotc were inducted tuesday into the u s army at the allentown induction center the men will all continue their studies however subject to call for active service when called for service each of the 65 men will receive his commission all of the men will probably complete their studies and receive their degrees before being called into service the possibility that arson might have figured in the fraternity house fires of the past two years has been definitely discarded ac cording to president c c wil liams insurance company officials be gan an investigation following the two serious fires at the chi psi and phi gamma delta houses which almost completely destroy ed both structures working on the theory that a fire-bug might be loose on the campus after con siderable investigation however the fires were chalked up to spontaneous combustion fraternities should be warned however to avoid the possibility of fires from similar origins pres ident williams says fraternities should be particularly careful about leaving high-wattage lights burning in small closests and rooms without ventilation a sin gle bulb might if left on for a long period of time generate enough heat to cause combustion no firebug on campus seniors hold top average the lehigh university scholas tic average for last semester rose slightly over the previous semes ter with the senior class as usual taking the honors according to the registrar's office leonard hall top-ranking liv ing group dropped to a 3.2 aver age from 4 point mark which they made during the summer semes ter alpha chi rho fell to the bot tom spot on the list replacing kappa alpha last summer's low group six houses fell below 1.6 kappa alpha will go on scholastic pro bation as they were below 1.6 last semester also the other five houses get one leg on probation the following is the final list of the university and class averages and an almost complete list of liv ing group averages the only av erages still missing are those of town groups a e f i j and k continued on page 2 vol l — no 44 bethlehem pa friday april 2 1943 price — 5 cents scl tonight . . . a metropolitan opera com pany baritone will sing for lehigh students at broughal junior high school auditorium tonight at 8:15 john brownlee noted aus tralian singer will be the fea tured artist the usual admis sion price scale will be in force with athletic cards as students tickets general ad mission 1.40 and date tick ets 50 cents jimmy lunceford leader of one of the truly outstanding negro dance bands in the country will bring his as sortment of sweet and hot to lehigh two weeks from tomorrow along with lunceford harry romig will play for the junior prom dancers will stage concert-dance the combined glee clubs of le high and moravian seminary for women will hold a concert and dance tomorrow night in drown hall according to william r wil liams arts 43 president of the lehigh club admission to the concert which will start at eight o'clock will be by athletic cards the dance will begin at 9:30 and glen gardner's orchestra a bethlehem organiza tion will play all students are welcome at the concert but no stags will be permitted at the dance the dance will continue till one o'clock the program for the concert will be moravian glee club walking song swiss folk song when day is done kat cher chorus from christofarus rheinberger aye maria bach gounod lehigh glee club stout hearted men romberg taps song of the volga boat men russian folk song this is my country al jacobs moravian triple trio giannina mia friml sweet hearts herbert corals trea hrne mountain rasbach concrete beam topples lab foreman injured kenneth harpel laboratory man at fritz laboratory is in st luke's hospital recovering from injuries received monday morn ing when a concrete beam which was being tested in the laboratory toppled over and pinned his leg he suffered severe lacerations and leg and knee injuries service men are eligible for pledging fraternities receive army & navy sanction brown & white lehigh university ate valentines ment larch 1932 743 1350 1933 700 1275 1934 541 1242 1935 580 1253 1936 620 1357 1937 728 1536 1938 698 1641 1939 798 1773 1940 741 1743 1941 680 1673 1942 764 1659 1943 351 1430 valentine distribution by coming up . . . friday april 2 — john brownlee baritone broughal high school auditorium 8:15 slc saturday april 3 — lacrosse drexel institute at home lie high-moravian glee club con cert and dance drown hall 8 sunday april 4 opening of ex hibit of prints and crafts from latin america university li brary art gallery 2 o'clock tone concert 5 o'clock buy your jr prom tickets students are reminded that junior prom tickets will rise in price from 3.30 to 4.40 next friday april 9 this step is neces sitated by the requirement that all expenses be met by cash sales by april 10th all unsold tickets will be called in next friday and reissued later at the higher price announced glenn a murray m e in charge of ticket sales tickets may be obtained from agents in each living group from the supply bureau or the arcadia office