Brown and White Vol. 52 no. 35

              in response to suggestions made by the george oliver ellstrom veterans society a program of tutoring for veterans deficient in certain subjects and a program of aptitude tests to be used as a basis for vocational guidance have been instituted by the fac ulty and the admissions office in a letter to albert e vetrosky president of the society and dr claude g beardslee faculty ad visor paul j franz assistant di rector of admissions stated that until a complete testing program can be formulated by the admin istrative committee the following temporary plan would be put into action effective immediately two tests are available to the veterans at lehigh the strong test to de termine vocational interest and the sv test to determine whether the individual's capabilities are sufficient for him to adequately pursue his interests the strong test has no time limit and can be taken at the in dividual's leisure in his own liv ing quarters the sv test will be given at the admissions office by appointment the test is of an hour's duration charge for pro fessional marking interpretation of the two tests will be taken care of by the admission's office as an added recommendation mr franz suggested that when ever possible veterans make use of the vocational guidance testing program provided by the veter ans administration in philadel phia in courses in which several vet erans are having difficulty at tempts have been made by in structors to bring these men to gether at a suitable hour to give them additional instruction in courses where extra help is de sired by only one or two veterans arrangements are being made to give individual attention during regular office hours or during spe cially appointed hours in his letter dean congdon cautioned that the students them selves should be ready to respond to any such invitation to go to their instructor's offices for such lelp if decides on rushing rules at an if meeting held on mon day evening the interfraternity council approved a revision for the rushing rules as used in 1942 mimeographed copies of the revisions will be mailed to the fraternities on wednesday for house discussion the presidents of the fraternities will report back to the council on saturday and if necessary a special meeting will be held on the following monday at the meeting al vetrosky presented preliminary scholastic reports elucidating the situation of fraternity scholastic standings he included a set of recommenda tions concerning scholastic stand ards for the post-war period the first recommendation was that all pledges be required to attain a 1.00 average and stay off pro for one semester before be ing initiated this would necessi tate a pledge being at the uni versity for at least one semester before being initiated secondly he suggested that there should be two scholastic cups awarded that is the custo mary one for the fraternity hav ing the highest house average and besides that one should be awarded to the house showing the greatest improvement over the last semester it was suggested that the fra ternity presidents be advised of the national clothing collection to take place during the month of april the council suggested that the presidents bring the subject up in house discussion and have all old clothing collected by the houses for proper disposal asia's libraries to receive l.u aid recently dean congdon began a campaign to collect books on the campus to be sent overseas to china and the philippines to date thirteen hundred volumes have been gathered and these will be shipped across to replen ish libraries destroyed during the war the books are being classified according to subject matter and will be sent through the china in stitute of new york city the first shipment will consist of tech nological and mathematical books book plates will be mounted in the books to indicate that they are donated by lehigh faculty and students books on social studies and the humanities will be withheld during the emer gency dean congdon indicated that student contributions have been very poor to date tommy dorsey . . . playing at new armory friday april 13 bethlehem pa wednesday april 11 1945 price 5 cents pictured above from left to right are dick huyett mcl ram berg and dick mcadams who were recently tapped for election to pi tau sigma the honorary mechanical engineering fraternity vol lii — no 35 three me's tapped by pi tau sigma banquet will follow formal initiation richard macadams me june 46 richard huyett me june 46 and melvin ramberg me oct 45 were tapped by pi tau sigma wednesday april 4 the ceremony which took place under the flagpole was preceded by a smoker held in the packard lounge tuesday evening joseph rengert treasurer pinned the ribbons on the new members other standing mem bers are lido lacooca president and professor fred v larkin faculty member the formal initiation will be held tuesday april 17 and will be followed by a banquet held in conjunction with eta kappa nu and tau beta pi in lamberton hall april 19 professor ernst b schulz of the department of history and government will be the main speaker pi tau sigma is the honorary mechanical engineering fraternity it was founded at the university of illinois in 1915 with the pur pose to foster the high ideals of the engineering profession to stimulate interest in co-ordinated departmental activities and to promote the welfare of its mem bers election to the theta chapter here at lehigh is based on a scholastic attainment of 2.5 or higher in the junior year on fac ulty rating and on the opinions of the members each year the highest ranking freshman in the mechanical and industrial engineering curricula are awarded handbooks by pi tau sigma debators hold trial series in a series of debates designed primarily to pick out likely mate rial for delta omicron tneta national debating honorary bob ochs ee feb 47 took the nega tive side of the question re solved that the voting age in the united states should be lowered to eighteen years against jimmy downs arts feb 46 and then debated charlie hafner arts feb 46 on the same question there were no decisions rendered on the debates which took place in room 260 packard laboratory on friday bill petit bus june 45 and malcolm schvey arts june 47 upheld the negative side of the question resolved that we should have compulsory mili tary education after the war against adrian shellhase and ar lene schlesser of ursinus college the debate took place in room 260 packard laboratory and there was no decision engineers trounce villanova wildcats wilson's pitching and mearn's batting spark lehigh to a first game victory brown and white lehigh university continued on page 4 in their opening contest with villavona on the mainlmer's diamond last saturday afternoon the lehigh baseballers took a seven to three decision sparked by the brilliant four hit pitching of southpaw san ford wilson and the big bat of firstbaseman jim mearns the engineers had an easy job subduing a villavona team composed of navy and marine trainees the fireworks started for lehigh in the top half of the first inning when wilson was given a free pass to first base mearns came through with the first of his three hits a single back through the middle into center field stan wagner the first of the pitchers put on the mound by the wild cats then helped lehigh's cause by heaving a wild pitch and al lowing wilson to score from third base villanova was held scoreless in the first inning but after lehigh failed to score in the second the wildcats threatened to score but wilson ended their attempt with a strikeout lehigh once again hit the jackpot in the third when the wildcat pitcher wagner walked lindholm and wilson to set the stage for more scoring mearns stepped to the plate and after swinging at and missing the first pitch slammed the next into deep left-center field and went the circuit no more scoring was done by either side until the fifth inning when the carawaymen collected three more tallies lindholm reached first base on an error wilson was walked and mearns hit a ground ball in the infield which was thrown away lindholm scored and everyone was safe potowski stepped up to the plate and proceeded to tee off on a two run double to right center field lehigh threatened in every other inning but was not able to push across any more runs wilson looked better than he did last season he fanned 13 and walked five it was his wildness that gave the wildcats their scores in the sixth an infield out stolen base and an outfield fly gave villanova their first score a walk another stolen base and another outfield fly brought the mainliners their second tally in the seventh in the ninth villa nova scored for the last time on a walk a stolen base and a wild throw villanova substituted freely and in all used 16 men it made no difference to wilson who faced him and he held them to only four hits if the team can con tinue the season as well as they started the record will be one of the best in many years the first home game will be played at steel field with drew on wednes day april 11 vets to take aptitude tests have any old clothes . • • thousands of war-torn people will be naked this winter if you do not contribute to the clothing drive being held in bethlehem this month the need is urgent and the cause is just so gather your old clothes this minute and have them ready to give to your section head town men leave them in the box at drown hall they will be greatly appreciated by those over there and you will have done your part to relieve some of the suffering that is world wide act at once for the drive lasts but a month but the need goes on forever