Brown and White Vol. 53 no. 38

              since that time lempert and the other members of the informal committee have been trying to keep the matter of proportional representation before the student body last week a letter was writ ten to the brown and white pre senting the views of the commit tee petitions asking for a refer endum by which the student body could decide what type of govern ment is desired were sent to all the dorms and fraternities and were posted on bulletin boards for town men a clarification of the stand of the committee is presented in a letter to the editor on the edi torial page in today's paper elections coming for student heads anyone in his sth 6th or 7th semester who submits his point list to the arcadia office by thursday evening will be eligible to compete in the ap proaching election of the five man committee according to harry kohl who heads arca dia's election committee lehigh will go to the polls on september 26th and 27th next thursday and friday to choose its student government quintet for next semester plans are being completed for balloting places to be set up in the alumni memorial building and at the arcadia office in drown hall the polls will be open from 9 00 a m until 5 00 p m on each of the two elec tion days — support the pep rally — t c to sponsor town cafe dance by el rotolo so favorable has been the reac tion to town council's new dance idea the town cafe that a sim ilar affair has been scheduled for 8:30 p m saturday sept 21 in drown hall in all probability this will be t c.'s last open-to-the-public so cial event of the semester admis sion will be free to members and non-members may purchase social membership which will be valid for the remainder of the term for 75 cents drown hall will again be decor ated to resemble a night club and tables accommodating up to four couples will be arranged around the dance floor gene sowers who will be master of ceremonies an nounces that there will be plenty of games and that choice enter tainment will be provided by the guests it is pointed out that the last sentence is not an error for more information says gene come to town cafe and see for yourself — support the pep rally — eb caraway on 48 olympic game staff elbert f caraway assistant di rector of intercollegiate athletics has been named a member of the united states 1948 olympic wrestl ing committee by asa bushnell secretary of the eastern intercol legiate athletic associations caraway will attend a meeting of the committee on sept 23 and 24 at the headquarters of the uni ted states olympic association in the new york athletic club he has been invited to attend the olympic semicentennial dinner on sept 23 at the hotel pennsylvania housing for married students bethlehem pa wednesday september 18 1946 5 centt ist football rally friday afternoon vol liii no 38 lu has good cut record class cutting by lehigh stud dents has not marred the all-uni versity records for attendance john d leith assistant dean of undergraduates in an interview last friday expressed satisfaction with class attendance for this and last semester although there has been more cutting this semester than there was last spring such a condition was anticipated dean leith stated that roughly 50 of the cuts are charged to 5 of the student body the other 50 are distributed very thinly over the remaining 95 as of august first three fourths of the men either had no cuts or only one that number has gone down since the figures were com piled but they show an important trend at the beginning of last semes ter the faculty adopted the rule continued on page 6 — support the pep rally — more lehigh vets apply for fall term dean john d leith disclosed that 537 former lehigh students who left to enter the armed forces have already signified their inten tion to return for the fall semester some of these men in the dean's opinion will not appear for regis tration for one of two reasons either they have not definitely de cided to complete their education at lehigh and are merely protect ing their right to re-admission or they will not be discharged as soon as they expect an average of nine applications for re-admission have been made each week and there is reason to believe that applications will con tinue to come in at this rate until the october registration some persons are expected to appear without previous warning at that time lu praised by war dept for its part in the recent war effort lehigh university has re ceived commendation from lieu tenant general leßoy lutes of army service forces headquar ters washington d c announ ced e kenneth smiley university vice-president in his letter to mr smiley gen eral lutes says the war depart ment wishes to extend to you as the representative of the staff and faculty of your school the thanks of a grateful government for the unstinted and wholehearted coop eration given to the war depart ment in the preparation conduct and successful completion of pro grams of instruction for army per sonnel the training so provided was a vital part of the national effort ex pended in the triumphant prosecu tion of world war 11 and the sec retary of war will dispatch to you a suitably engraved certificate as soon as it can be completed — support the pep rally — dormitory pilferer caught red-handed a youthful sneak thief was caught red-handed at 6:30 tues day morning by don wythe and bob oyler of price hall he had been stealing money from the eats concession in price hall operated by don wythe the boy had been suspected for a number of days and don and bob set a trap for him monday night they coated five dollars and twenty-five cents in change and bills with anthracene which glows a bright yellow under ultra violet light in addition four quar ters were marked with the initials d w at five-thirty don and bob started a vigil in a room across the hall from the concession and took turns peering through the slightly open dt)or at six thirty-five the continued on page 6 lehigh u gets town dorms steel field units to take 28 families this fall approximately 85 un married lehigh students will live in quarters to be made available in bethlehem in an effort to ac commodate the influx of students which will increase the enrollment from 1838 to an expected 2700 stu dents the student housing com mittee made a survey of proper ties in the business area having unused space suitable for conver sion into student living quarters negotiations for use of the third floor of the first national bank and trust company of bethlehem 535 main st the second floor of the building located on the north west corner of 3rd and new sts and vacant space in the huff building 525 main st have been completed at the expense of lehigh uni versity the conversion of these spaces into dormitory-type quar ters has already begun under the supervision of andrew w litz enberger superintendent of build — support the pep rally — continued on page 6 irc hears chem talk russian scientists and engin eers are anxious to cooperate with allied representatives in the field of scientific research declared dr albert c zettlemoyer assist ant profesor of chemistry and re search coordinator for the national printing ink research institute at lehigh before a meeting of the international relations club held last friday at 7:30 p m in drown hall revelation of russian plans for the utilization of liquid oygxen for expediting the blast furnace pro cess in the manufacture of steel was cited by dr zettlemoyer as positive proof of russian coopera tion citing the accomplishments of the national printing ink re search institute dr zettlemoyer stated that the promotion of inter national cooperation in science and engineering can be obtained through the exchange of research reports with the various nations having witnessed the sessions of the annual convention of the american chemical society held last week in chicago dr zettle moyer was able to report that one of the convention's highlights was the approval of an appropriation of 25,000 for the support of the united nations educational sci entific and cultural organization in sponsoring the exchange of sci entists and students among the several nations unesco was ori ginally begun at the invitation of great britain and france for the continued on page 6 come out and give your team a real sendoff ! this friday afternoon sept 20 at 4:30 the lower field at taylor stadium will be the scene of the send-off that will be given to le high's 1946 pigskin squad prior to its departure for the united states merchant marine academy at king's point long island arcadia will sponsor this first pep rally of the current football season ben hoffacker president of the interfraternity council and if delegate to the arcadia cabinet is in charge of the arrangements for the rally the rally will begin ex actly at 4:30 so as to give every body with afternoon labs plenty of time to get to the scene of action on time — support the pep rally — the team itself will be the big attraction of the season's first rally head coach leckonby intends to run his varsity squad through a light signal drill while the large continued on page 7 arcadia to be petitioned a committee to promote pro portional representation in le high's student government has re cently been organized brown and white this committee called the bet terment of student government is an informal committee of men from price hall organized by leon ard lempert president of id council other members of the committee are frank mcgrath hal schwartzberg ed tattershall and don wythe the members of this committee according to len lempert have been working for the past few weeks to make known to the stu dent body the inadequacy of the present student government when the new arcadia constitu tion was presented to its members for discussion and ratification lempert suggested that a system of proportional representation be in stituted he was voted down by the other members of arcadia last call point lists of second semester juniors and first semester seniors who would like to be considered for election to odk honorary senior leadership society must be submitted by friday septem ber 19th four o'clock in the arcadia office