Brown and White Vol. 51 no. 31

              faculty comments on coeducational question vol li no 31 bethlehem pa wednesday march 8 1944 price 5 cents friendship ball to be held by g.l's march 18 b & w photo by kane . . . wallace r biggs . . . everett l jones filling in the shoes which prof wallace r biggs recently va cated mr everett l jones instructor in english has been ap pointed the brown and white's new faculty adviser prior to his coming to lehigh in 1939 mr jones was active in journalism having worked for the cleveland plain dealer the steel magazine published in cleveland and for time incorporated mr jones was graduated from antioch college where he was editor of his college paper antiochian 2 bands to play at dance in a farewell to lehigh continued on page 4 the final social function of the army specialized training pro gram at lehigh university to be held in honor of the members of this regimental unit who will leave this month or early in april for new posts will be the friend ship ball to be held march 18 in grace hall it was announced by corp francis patrick carr of company c newly-elected chair man of the event the friendship ball which will exceed in size and entertainment even the regimental ball which drew more than a thousand couples will utilize two dance floors — the drill hall and the bas ketball court in grace hall with two excellent orchestras providing the music the names of the selected orchestras will be an nounced next week the dance to be a formal is expected to draw nearly every g i on the post and his date cyanide elects ressler president the returns on the brown and white poll on co-education sent to approximately 120 faculty members are still too incomplete for pub lication to be fair we must wait until at least one hundred replies come in the b&w expects to have most of the remaining returns by the time this paper is in your hands and a complete analyzed sum mary will appear next week on the whole the faculty has been most co-operative and has sent in some very interesting comment in approximately the correct present ratio of pro's and con's and doubts here are some of the quotes which expressed ideas all the way from no co-eds ever to we should have had them 20 years ago pro i favor no restriction upon the opportunity of women to obtain any kind of education they desire at lehigh or anywhere else r m smith * * * i feel that to maintain any re striction on the admittance of women to lehigh is unwarranted in the face of the growing im portance of women in all branches of professional activity lehigh's continued existence in the years to come may well depend on the speedy and ungrudging admission of women to all curricula offered uy the university p g bergemann * * • i do not wish to have women admitted to lehigh until and un less adequate provisions are made and full responsibilities funda mental to that choice are accepted norms established by the amer ican association of university women for accrediting graduates should be immediately and fully met if and when a choice is made to admit women this includes for example a dean of women and certain standards for living quarters if a merger similar to the fed eration or confederation of certain colleges such as the columbia university group or the canadian or british university pattern were promoted with our neighbor just across the bridge most if not all of these standards could be easily met with very little or no finan cial outlay it would seem to me to be of mutual advantage to both schools and the community to set any co-educational program here in cooperation rather than in competition with our very close neighbor j l graham * * * i went to a college where some classes were co-ed and some were not morale in the co-ed classes always seemed higher than in the others a little healthy competi tion between the sexes in the class continued on page 6 con the only reason this question wins attention at this time is that co-education offers a facile expe dient — and that's my best argu ment against it the price of sur vival is not co-education lehigh has more important problems to face — problems which co-educa tion would tend to complicate exponents of co-education have not considered the effects upon neighboring institutions yet alone the significant changes that would take place here at lehigh in my opinion lehigh simply is not ready for co-education and cannot be made ready for the ex periment over night a j barthold * * * i feel that women should not be admitted i would make an ex ception in case of a request from a government agency large com pany etc for special training of a group of women — allison butts * * * here's one comment that cannot be classified into either camp i could not reach a decision on the question until a study of the changes required in physical plant and the expenses entailed have been made i seriously doubt that enough women would be at tracted to lehigh to justify tha changes in the physical plant and added costs such as a dean of women's office etc i have no objections to having lehigh coed providing 1 enough women at tend so males would not be con cerned with the females during class and 2 the expense would be justified with enrollment limited to 1700 students the university can op erate better with all males than with 90 males and 10 females as an emergency measure the fe males might constitute a greater percentage but when pace comes the number of women registering would be small i do not think i am qualified to express an opinion about the arts and business colleges donald ressler e.p j'4s and norman sidebotham ch.e j'4s were elected to the positions o president and secretary-treasurer respectively at the first meeting for the new semester of the jun ior activities honorary society cy anide speaking for the organization sidebotham said that the main objective of cyanide for the com ing semester would be a contin uation of a study of student par ticipation on student-faculty com mittees recommendations may be submitted to the faculty at the close of the semester the retiring officers of the or ganization are fritz yon bergen ch.e 044 president and paul franz secretary - treasurer bus 044 arcadia picks new committee members david l keese ch.e 45x presided at a meeting of the town council during which an election of officers was held ernest r gerlach ch.e 045 was elected vice-president wil liam d pettit bus 45x secre tary and william poland j'46 treasurer a bowling singles tournament will be held on march 18 for town council men the council decided to publish a student directory with ralph a evans engr phys 45x in charge this directory will replace the one published in normal times by the registrar's office and will be free to members of the town council townmen elect council officers proofs due march 15 for men of 45 46 in order to meet existing dead lines the epitome staff is request ing all men of the classes of 1945 and 1946 to have their pictures taken for the 1944 epitome by march 15 all photos will be taken at the mccaa studios on fourth street the epitome is making no extra charge this year for giving space to the 45 and 4 classes the only charge is a small studio charge for taking four proofs from which the student has a choice of the picture to be used in the yearbook men of 45 and 46 who fail to have their pictures taken by march 15 will be omitted from the yearbook since it is manda tory that the annual be on the campus for early june distribu tion students should also make their choice from proofs at the studio i f ball postponed according to bob moore presi dent of the i f council the in terfratemity ball tenta tively scheduled for march 11 will be postponed until sometime in may last october dean congdon ap pointed a committee consisting of lieut grimm blame ferrell and bob moore to draw up a tentative schedule for dances to be held during the year the i f ball was scheduled for march with an army dance to be held in may since a large part of the astp is expected to leave on april 1 there is a possibility that an army dance will be held for them later in march therefore the i f council has relinquished its date in march to the army and will hold the interfraternity ball in may schick leaves for the army the popular young managing editor of the alumni bulletin mr leonard h schick recently passed his army physical and leaves for the service about march 20 he had tried for a commission in the navy but an old football knee in jury caused his rejection his duty of writing the alumni letters will not be discontinued with his departure the task will probably be assumed by mr rob ert f herrick the executive sec retary mr schick or len as he is known to his many friends has been a member of the alumni office since september 1941 his position will not be filled by any one individual he is a graduate of franklin and marshall academy and le high 37 as an undergraduate he was a member of the lacrosse and tennis teams as well as brown and white sports editor alumnus contributes 500 to university recent contributions to the uni versity by alumni included a 500 bequest by percy l grubb 95 late harrisburg realtor grubb was a member of phi beta kappa while at lehigh and upon his graduation in 1905 he en tered the teaching profession ac cepting the post at harrisburg technical high school he served as the high school's first faculty manager of athletics during the period when harrisburg tech was producing championship football teams in 1924 grubb became inter ested in florida real estate and after that venture had passed its peak he returned to harrisburg and later became a partner in the real estate and insurance firm of grubb and armstrong legiate who's who and to dis cover whether or not lehigh would be included in the publica tion it was pointed out that this matter would not normally corns up for discussion until october but with the acceleration of all colleges it was believed that the publication would also be com pleted earlier president moore was given th 2 power to meet with colonel eas terday with regards to ast rep resentation on arcadia under discussion at the meeting were plans for an all-university banquet in may and a junior prom to be given sometime in the middle of april it was also de cided that president moore be given the power to select the date for arcadia's request of the facul ty for the annual flagpole day to be held sometime in may the first meeting of the new semester's arcadia was held mon day night in drown hall with president robert w moore pre siding the new cabinet met last month in conjunction with the re tiring members with the activation of the rotc men stationed on the campus quite a large part of arcadia was re moved and elections were held to fill all vacancies bill bloecher ralph evans david kirk fritz vonßergen and robert moore were on the new five man com mittee david kirk was elected secretary of the group with bill bloecher elected vice-president and fritz vonßergen elected treas urer dr beardslee was appointed in his capacity as faculty advisor to inquire as to the possibilities of the publishing of the annual col brown and white lehigh university