Brown and White Vol. 51 no. 29

              bethlehem pa wednesday feb 9 194 price 5 cents vol li no 29 cadets to turn out in force for regimental ball saturday romig rader bands to play in grace hall lehigh's 1,200 asters are ex pected to turn out in full force for the first formal regimental ball to be held in grace hall saturday night from 9 to 1 when two 12 piece orchestras those of bud rader and harry romig together with their popular singers will hold full sway the military ball will be climaxed by the announce ment of the winner of the queen of the ball contest which has drawn entries from members of each of the companies here grace hall is being decorated this week with the flags of all of the allied nations — and two dance floors will be put into use — the drill floor which will resound to the lilting music of bud rader and the basketball court where harry romig will reign the queen of the ball and her court of six beauties now being selected from photographs sub mitted by lehigh g i.'s will be crowned formally at 11 in the evening immediately after the in termission and just before the grand march gets under way each of the winners in the con test will be presented with a floral crown and will head up the grand march which is under the direc tion of lt donald e small the lieutenant incidentally is to be continued on page 4 examination schedule changes are announced the tentative examination sched ules which the civilian students received at the registrar's office are valid except for the following changes and additions geol 5 will be held on satur day feb 12 instead of thursday c e 13 hydraulics will take place at 315 packer hall on thurs day chem 1 elementary chem istry at room 221 in the chem building math 12a and math 125 classes take their exams in room 416 packard math 14 sec tion b has an exam on monday feb 14 math 11l in room 316 in packer these courses have no final ex aminations math 121 math 126 physics 16 physics 24 eco 134 eco 108 and chem 8 moore boyd seigle chosen by arcadia for community chest students give 16.22 w robert moore m e o-44 was elected president of arca dia student governing body at the cabinet's meeting monday night other men elected were hugh boyd vice-president hal seigle secretary ; and bill bloecher treasurer dick shafer was chosen new chairman of the arcadia five man committee in a final report on the campus community chest it was reported that a total of 1622.78 had been contributed by the ast men and officers and civilian students this total has been apportioned among the various relief organizations and will be given to each organization when drives are made checks to the tuberculosis and health so ciety and the march of dimes fund have already been made start drive for books john donahue chairman of the athletic committee reported that president c c williams had ap proved of the committee's reports on the football situation and that in the future any such inquiries will be made in the same general manner the interfraternity council with help from the town council will probably start a drive to aid the world book fund books collected will be sent to prisoners of war the books should be either light fiction or of a technical nature but must not deal with subjects such as politics or economics prexy knocks down rumors pres c c williams in faculty meeting monday afternoon moved to check rumors current on the campus as to what will happen to lehigh university after july the president pointed out that the university will close the pres ent year ending in july definitely in the black with ample reserves to begin the new year dr wil liams pointed out that both the ast and civilian enrollemt had exceeded the estimated 450 civil ians and 1000 ast cadets provid ed for in the 1943-44 budget un earmarked gifts from alumni have also helped make the university's financial position solid dr williams pointed out that although there are rumors in the air no definite word has been re ceived that ast will not continue beyond july 1 although the area and language group will be dis banded april 1 the ast unit will definitely continue until july 1 beyond that time the president had no predictions to make dr williams pointed out that continued on page 6 songstresses for g i.'s saturday ball . . . june andersen left popular songstress who has won fame with bud rader's band and dottie speck who is featured with harry ro mig's orchestra will help glamorize the regimental ball to be held saturday in grace hall congdon clarifies 2as 82 quota 90 eligibles to be here next semester quota is expected to cover majority requested by pres c c williams to make a statement to the brown and white clarifying the details of the new quota of 82 students to be deferred from draft-status dean wray congdon today indicated that the quota would just about absorb all students who could pos sibly qualify for the special deferment excluding ic 4f and those too young to be classified there are only about 90 students eligible for the 82 quota according to the dean dean congdon's complete state ment follows initial quota of 82 defer ments in class 2a granted lehigh university by the war manpower commission needs some explanation in the first place students graduating before july 1 1944 are continued in their present deferred status outside the 82 quota 82 ' quota covers all secondly students due to graduated after july 1 1914 who now have 2a deferments excluding all who are inelig ible for further deferment because c;f scholastic or other reason number only about 90 other students fall into buch classification as 1c hon orable discharge fircm military service 4f or are not yet classified duo to age of the ■ 00 students eligible for reccm mendation ior deferment un der the quota cl 82 a few are planning to enlist and not re turn to college consequently the quota of 82 will very nearly if not entirely cover all in the particular classifications who are at this time eligible for deferment finally as students origin ally assigned to the 82 quota continued on page 6 svd the revived problem of addi tional mpeyt fraternity houses on campus according to mr kenneth e smiley both lamberton and drown halls will be used to ac commodate the a s t trainees although neither of them will run at full capacity at the present time there are five empty fraternity houses on the campus these include theta delta chi chi phi phi delta theta psi upsilon and the cos v litan club more houses will be evacuated by the army when their new semester begins under present arrangements between the army and lhigh the houses are leased to the army and can be oc cupied by them at any time how ever mr smiley is attempting to modify the agreements and will be glad to confer with any living groups that wish to move back to their houses and are sure they can mage a go of it cutting down on eating facilities fronted with a new problem of since the number of a s t men will be cut to 825 at the be yinning of the new army semes ter the university will be con more houses to be emptied by ast newly elected arcadia officers are pictured above at the cabinet's meeting on monday night pictured from left to right are hugh boyd me-044 vice-president w robert moore me-044 president dick shafer me-044 chairman of five-man committee bill bloecher em-044 treasurer and hal seigle che 044 secretary faculty enlarge emergency group to deal with problems arising from a gradually decreasing civil ian enrollment and the possibility that ast might be discontinued the faculty voted monday after noon to enlarge the committee on educational policy by adding to its membership for the duration deans philip m palmer neil carothers a c callen and tcm linson fort the enlarged committee will deal among other difficulties with problems arising from a decreased enrollment and the subsequent question of what to do with a sur plus of faculty members some departments will obvious ly be overmanned unless a new source of students is available president williams pointed out that at least four bills are up now in congress for educational rehab ilitation of soldiers after and dur ing the present war but he made no comment on how soon colleges would feel the effects of legisla tion he did point out however that the educational-lobby is still active in washington political cir cles jockeying for some type of legislative fund-raising to stabil ize the university set-ups in case the ast and other college trained branches should be liquidated brown and white lehigh university coming up • . . wed feb 9 sat feb 19 12 m — instructions end 7 p m — wrestling muhlenberg thurs feb 12 away 9 a m — examinations start basketball gettysburg grace sun feb 13 grace hall 3 p m — art exhibition opens sun feb 20 thurs feb 16 commencement 4 p m — examinations end wed feb 23 8 p m — franklin and marshall undergraduate registration basketball grace hall