Brown and White Vol. 52 no. 16

              fraternities dormitories open to house weekend guests rutgers is football foe centenary sends for soldiers and civilians the senior class of centenary junior college hackettstown n j is giving a dance on november 11 and would like civilians and servicemen of lehigh university to attend dates will be provided and also sleeping accomodations will be taken care of for those who plan to stay overnight the dance starts at 8:30 and the school will have a committee to meet the men when they arrive any men wish ing to go to the dance will leave their names at the arcadia office in drown hall before noon mon day november &. l u grants 41 degrees on october 15 at 3:30 in the afternoon lehigh university held its third graduation of 1944 as 41 degrees were awarded in packer chapel following the prayer led by dr beardslee and an organ interlude played by dr shields dr fraser metzger dean of men at rutgers university delivered the com mencement address to the gath ered audience and graduates the degrees were conferred by the respective heads of the various schools dean tomlinson fort conferred doctor of philosophy degrees upon four candidates — clifton neumoyer in chemistry bela erdoss in me robert stout and yu-lin yao in metallurgy master of art degrees were con ferred upon paul fink paul nagle zena platoff and herbert schlenker in education and christian miesse in mathematics master of science degrees were confrered upon edward fehnel and helen zable in chemistry and joaquin isaza in met e professor robert p more pre sented the bachelor of arts degree to robert gili and joseph myers dean neil carothers presented the bachelor of science degree in business administration to an thony fortosis paul franz and donald schmoyer dean alfred c callen presented the bachelor of science degree to the following men fred attaway francis carr michael gluck clar ence harriger david kirk luther continued on page 6 edwin pieski new tau bete edwin t pieski chem june 45 was initiated into tau beta pi yesterday oct 31 1944 at 4:00 p m the formal initiation took place in the packard auditorium under the chairmanship of robert mayer chem.e june 45 tau beta pi is a national col legiate honorary engineering so ciety which was founded in 1885 by dr edward williams jr at lehigh university tau beta pi proposes to mark in a fitting manner those who have conferred honor upon their alma mater by distinguished scholarship and ex emplary character as under grad uates or by the attainments as alumni and to foster a spirit of liberal culture in the engineering schools of america tau beta pi continued on page 6 plans are complete for the big arcadia dance to be held this saturday night on the upper floor of grace hall dick smith and his orchestra will be on hand to pro vide sweet and danceable music the dance will start at ten o'clock and last until one the dance will be semi-formal and corsages will be optional dean and mrs congdon and dr and mrs beardslee will chaper one at least 120 couples are ex pected to be present at lehigh's last dance before christmas the dormitory and a large num ber of fraternity houses will be opened for the guests of lehigh students on saturday night and many fraternities will have week end guests another feature of the day will be a football game between le high and rutgers university the game promises to be an exciting one with many changes in the le high line-up the committee for the arcadia dance consists of w j day bus feb 1945 chairman v warren fox ch e f.'45 robert mayer ch e j.'45 robert treser ch e j.'45 willard boothby i e f.'46 fox will be in charge of conces sions and tickets and the other members of the committee will work together on the other dance problems tickets for the dance are now 3.60 and may be obtained at the door and from living group heads tickets for servicemen are priced at the special rate of 1.80 per couple since the men of the astrp are now on vacation be tween semesters few of them are expected however lehigh alumni now serving in the armed forces will provide a military atmos phere as many usually attend dances at their alma mater b&w sponsors political poll with the presidential campaign now moving into its last week the brown and white has suddenly discovered that lehigh too is greatly interested in the national issue since the b and w rep resents student opinion we are greatly interested in how lehigh voters stand in the present cam paign therefore we are conduct ing a poll to discover what man lehigh feels will be best fitted for the job the ballots are included in the present issue of the paper and must be submitted to the arcadia office by noon on friday nov 3 there has been exceptionally great interest in the coming elec tion among lehigh faculty and students proof of this fact has been the massive but effective ad vertisements on behalf of their candidates paid for and written by the students themselves l it a organizes it all started when the lehigh republican association under the careful supervision of bob mertz affixed photographs of dewey and bricker on the hallowed walls of drinker house the pic tures had previously been ob tained from the republican nat ional headquarters an opposing force immediately sprung up led by sherman sass and allen goodman who of course took the side of our commander in-chief the campaign has since become more vigorous with both sides avidly interested in the success of their candidates arcadia expects an honest close count of all votes and results of the election will be printed in the next issue of brown and white cops probe l u thefts 500 missing six fraternities robbed last week a series of robberies on thurs day night october 26 in six le high fraternity houses in bethle hem and fountain hill where about 500 in cash was stolen is being investigated by the authori ties of the two municipalities it is probable that the four men who escaped from the northampton county prison at easton on oct 19 may be involved in the thefts five of the houses are located in bethlehem and the sixth theta chi 805 delaware aye is in fountain hill at theta chi about 140 was stolen with entrance be ing made through the unlocked front door sometime between 3 and 7 a m friday fountain hill police are conducting an investi gation the other fraternity houses rob bed were delta phi 229 warren square with 54 missing pi lambda phi 141 e market st 35 missing sigma chi 240 e broad st with 75 missing sig ma phi epsilon 61 w market st with 50 missing and beta theta pi on the university campus with 56 missing in all the houses except sigma phi epsilon police believe that the thieves gained entrance through front doors which were unlocked at the latter house a cellar win dow was forced open entered from front all the houses robbed but pi lambda phi use the system in which all members of the living group sleep in a dormitory room therefore the intruders could search the houses with little fear of discovery the thieves did not take draft cards jewelry or other valuables with the result that some students did not become aware of their loss till almost noon a bethlehem detective said fri day afternoon that at least one of the fugitives from the county prison is known to have commit ted similar robberies some years ago although the officer did not identify the convict by name tau delta phi pledges five elect new officers tau delta phi announces the pledging of five new men they are gerald wagman a junior transferred from newark college of engineering irving binger a veteran marvin reichman a sec ond semester freshman bernard friedman and roger tove both new students alumni scribe sylvain segal ed itor-historian house officers for the coming semester are arnold cohen con sul seymour schwartz vice consul richard norris questor ira birnbaum scribe david gerb hot campaign rocks campus as election if raws near group are robert w mayer and as governor dewey begins his final drive to capture the presidency and as president roosevelt goes on the stump in his effort to retain the white house everybody is talking politics lehigh has caught the campaign spirit every effort is being made by lehigh political factions to swing student opinion on the campus both republicans and democrats have strong organizations the leaders of the democratic homer gross the lehigh stu dent republican association is led by robert e mertz professor rights representing the democrats issued the follow ing statement at this critical stage roose velt has a better understanding of international situations than gov ernor dewey progressive legis lation collective bargaining and recognition of the little man's problem in relation to banking and security laws and social se curity have all been products of the roosevelt administration furthermore the only thing the republicans have to offer is an extension of the roosevelt leg islation whereas those people who are especially socially minded be lieve that our democratic system must continue to be socially grouped for such plans as roose velt has offered for rehabilitation of soldiers and rehabilitation of the country under government planning in reply to professor rights statement the republican associa continued on page 3 attention frosh while your observance of the freshmen regulations has been commendable thus far we wish to refresh your memory about these rules which you were sup posed to have followed since fri day 1 all new freshmen are required to wear dinks brown socks and ties everyhere in bethle hem except sundays thanksgiving holiday and this saturday af ternoon 2 all freshmen are re quired to say hello to all lehigh men whom they meet on the cam pus we urge any other lehigh man to report the names of violators of these regulations to members of cyanide or the vigilante commit tee but take no other action in this matter the veterans will be personally contacted about this matter later dennis to address lehigh photo club mr charles e dennis of den nis photography shop 49 west broad will address the lehigh photographic club at 7:30 tomor row evening thursday nov 2 in drown hall on the professional aspects of photography and the technique of printing and enlarg ing the talk will be in line with the club's policy of presenting a complete course in amateur pho tography for the novice with in structive discussion for the more advanced photographic worker photo club members will re member the interesting exhibition of color slides given last semester by mr dennis and mr arthur t arbogast of the bethlehem photo color club members are advised to come prepared with questions for the discussion which will be held after the lecture new mem bers are invited to attend town council prints student directory copies of the new edition of the town council student directory will be distributed to all town men on friday nov 10 copies will also be on sale at the supply bureau and at the arcadia office in drown hall at the usual price of fifteen cents the directory which was pub lished under the able supervision of bill pettit bus feb 45 sec tion representative of sections d e and f will contain the names curricula year of grad uation bethlehem address home address and telephone number of every student in the university in its last meeting which was held on oct 17 the council de cided to sponsor a seven man foot ball league the officers of the town coun cil for this semester will be presi dent dick huyett vice-president dick staley secretary-treasurer bill boothby sports manager bill reiterman brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa wednesday november 1 1944 price 5 cents vol lii no 16 arcadia dance set expect good crowd take your pick . . . to attempt to make an accurate survey of the political trend of the student body the brown and white is this week presenting a ballot on which you may present your vote for president this ballot must be signed and dropped into the ballot box at the arcadia office before noon on friday — the day l after tomorrow vote for one and one alone franklin d roosevelt thomas e dewey norman thomas signed