Brown and White Vol. 56 no. 42

              president charles boig reported that the faculty evaluation pro gram would be in essence the same as last year this will enable the instructor to compare his scores and to check his improve ment boig pointed out this time however each instructor has the right to add any questions of his own the evaluation will take place in the last two weeks of school representatives of the flying club were present to request funds to enable them to attend the coming national meet and arcadia granted the request among the parties put on by fraternities last weekend was sigma phi's hobo party which furnished many hilarious costumes and skits among members and their dates above is one of the get-ups it would take a skilled eye to recognize lloyd antonides and his pretty wife june in this photo b&w foto by antat lehigh again resumes normal life after spring houseparty by tim dennis hangovers have been quelled a few straggling dates sent home and once again lehigh is enjoying normal attendance at eight o'clocks the reason is that house party is again a mere memory for a few the week-end lasted close to seven days but to most it was a three day affair starting friday night at the senior ball this dance presented by lehigh'g graduating fortunates was a high ly successful affair and featured the music of sam donahue and claude thornhill highlight of the affair was when pat lockwood beaver college student sang don't take your love from me with donahue's orchestra she was well received for her rendition of the tune and both bands showed interest in her many remembered her from the spring music festival the following day which was saturday to all but a few was the scene for many smaller and varied affairs living groups so journed to many sections of the ajoining countryside to enjoy fresh air hot dogs beer games beer and more beer saturday night the safaris headed back to home ground and began the events of the evening these in mustard & cheese presents gilbert and sullivan operetta jane edgar stars in feminine lead cast of fifty includes choral groups from lu local women's college the mikado gilbert and sul livan's satire on japanese court life was presented by the mustard and cheese club last night to an appreciative audience in broughal junior high school auditorium star of the operetta was jane edgar a student at moravian col lege for women who carried the difficult role of yum-yum with a virtuosity unusual in so young an actress the talented soprano is now one of the leading contenders for the women's prize in the voice of tomorrow contest being held in philadelphia she was entered in the contest by judges who combed pennsylvania colleges in an effort to find the most promis ing young singers in their fields supporting miss edgar was a cast of fifty including choral groups from lehigh and from moravian college for women the male lead of nanki-poo was por trayed by robert taylor a le high student who acquitted him self particularly well in the male trio during the first act riley as mikado mikado himself was played by francis riley while the support ing roles of poo-bah the pedantic holder of all offices was portrayed by charles ernest ko-ko the lord high executioner who loved yum-yum more than anything but his head by howard kucher president of mustard and cheese and pish-tush the sycophantic imperial stooge by robert stahl katisha aging ex-lover of the scapegoat nanki-poo was played by lois brunner professor william h shempf led the lehigh symphony orchestra in the accompaniment of the score with his usual excellence the co ordination of the musical score with the choral group was out standing throughout the perform ance an ellemosinary dress rehearsal was offered wednesday night for the wiley house and the boys club of bethlehem and the stu dents of the broughal junior high school the youngsters flocked to the stage between acts and after the final curtain for a chance to get the autographs of the actors and actresses gosh what a break said al yost cast as nanki-poo in the play this is the first time i ever worte my name on anything but a check or an hour quiz cast listed wednesday night's cast will take the stage again tonight at 8:15 margaret castle will play the feminine lead as yum-yum with a.l yost as nanki-poo charles ernest as poo-bah edward heller as ko-ko robert stahl as pish tush francis riley as the mikado and marguerite unks as katisha high points in the production are the first act love scene between nanki-poo and yum-yum in which the male lead pursues the oung princess adagio fashion for a full 64 bars and the jazzed-up trio of pooh-bah pish-tush and o-ko who indubitably must have liven the sainted spirits of mssrs gilbert and sullivan quite a snick er the finale of the last act with ihe entire cast singing to the ac ompaniment of the orchestra 3nds the opera with a superb ef fect seniors to meet file for degrees the senior class will meet for a very important session in pack ard auditorium wednesday may 5 promptly at 7:30 pan it was announced by president gene sowers at that time all seniors expect ing to graduate in june will file their applications for degrees the baccalaureate and commencement invitation tickets will be dis tributed unless otherwise notified the graduation committee will as sume that all men not at the meet ing do not intend to claim their invitation tickets and they will be distributed to those who desire them four tickets reserving lower stand seats will be allocated to each man and additional invita tion notes carrying no guarantee of seating will be granted in un limited quantities two tickets per man will be granted for the baccalaureate ser vice on sunday since this will fill the seating capacity of the chapel at the meeting the financial outcome of the senior ball will be announced and tentative plans for the class farewell party on june 11 will be disclosed it is of utmost import ance that each and every senior attend this meet ing honorary seeks men anyone who has had an average of 3.5 or better for the first semester of his freshman year or a cumulative average of 3.5 for the entire freshman year is eligible for membership in phi eta sigma national fresh man honorary society if your scholastic average meets with these requirements and you have not yet been ask ed to join please contact bob courtney bethlehem 6-4702 at once even though you may not be a freshman at the present time phonograph ready for library use mr william schempf lehigh's director of music has announced that the official university record collection has at last been incor porated into the library the rec ords are now being catalogued and will be available to the gen eral student body for playing a headset will allow students to listen to the classics during the regular day hours the console however is only to be used on weekday nights from 7 p.m to 10 p.m and on sundays from 2 p.m to 5 p.m during these hours the use of the headsets will not be required there will be a student on duty who will handle the records and the console mr schempf has ask ed that students respect the wishes of this person and refrain from abuse of the equipment the carnegie collection which was removed from its former home in drown hall is now complete but records are continuously being released for circulation a student may use the university collection or he may bring his own records to the browsing room and present them to the person in charge for playing a student who wants to play a university record will first con sult the card file and then request the record form the desk clerk in the same manner that he re serves a book he is responsible for the record and he will have to present it to the student in charge during regular day hours stu dents will be permited to use the ear phones which can be plugged into a special victrola this piece of equipment has a four earphone outlets each with a separate vol ume control the earphones will have to be picked up at the desk with the records packer aye lot restricted parking on the packer avenue parking lot will be re stricted starting may 1 it was announced by paul franz as sistant treasurer this lot which will be restricted to fac ulty members only is located across packer avenue from packard laboratory this move is designed to al leviate some of the pressure on the lot behind the alumni building formerly faculty members had crowded the alumni building lot so that vis itors were forced to park out side the campus on may 1 students will be prohibited the use of the packer avenue lot faculty members however will not be permitted to use the lot until the new sur face dries about may 4 tickets will be given to students park ing on the lot after the new ruling goes into effect the brodhead lot will still be open to students phi bets hear ir head talk public opinion must determine democracy's stand dr w leon godshall head of the department of international relations told members of the lehigh chapter of phi beta kappa at its initiation banquet held sunday afternoon in lamberton hall twenty-two new members were accepted into the national honorary scholarship so ciety only two great powers dec orate the international landscape at the present time he said one is a dictatorship of the proletariat by its own definition the other is a slow-moving but virile dem ocracy highly industralized and ingenious the democracy is the only one of the two wherein pub lic opinion effects policy speaking on the diplomatic techniques of the soviet union dr godshall reviewed soviet ob jectives strategy and tactics public opinion he said must determine democracy's stand and let that stand be known unmis takably to the kremlin in no un certain terms our opportunity and duty is to contribute effectively to the understanding of the american people so that they may make the right decisions in this vital day errors may be costly the twenty-two seniors initiated were nathan cohen john j en right allen r sterner david h morris robert w parkinson stanley e eisenhard jr quen tin c jurgenson bernard kurtin irwin scollar thomas c lee les ter g matthews robert e mertz joseph r sterne marvin s wein reb burton n coffman alfred kucher elmer e mcclow war ren l ruff david h evans rich ard p bodine robert a heiser and ethan a smith senior society to give awards two 300 scholarship awards are being made available by omicron delta kappa national senior hon orary for the ensuing academic year it has been announced by the national secretary of odk in order to be eligible for one of the scholarships an applicant must be an active member of odk must be a senior regularly enrolled for a bachelor's degree and must have received a bachelor's degree and be prepared to enter upon a definite course of graduate study at an accredited institution of ad vanced education beginning with the fall semester of the year of his graduation each scholarship applicant is re quired to file a formal application on an official odk scholarship blank at lehigh these may be secured from associate dean j d leith secretary of xi circle local chapter of odk all applications must be in the hands of the national secretary of odk not later than may 25 ap plications and supporting data will be assembled checked and refer red to the national committee on scholarship awards consisting of five educators not officers of odk which will make and an nounce the awards poll positions open positons are still open for poll clerks and ballot counters for the arcadia elections to be held wed nesday and thursday may 5 and 6 the rate of pay will be 50 cents per hour interested students should leave their names with the arcadia sec retary by monday may 3 appli cants will receive further informa tion at that time annual arts parley slated for may 1 the annual lehigh valley con ference of the association of lib eral arts colleges for the ad vancement of teaching will be held in drown hall saturday may 1 many educators prominent in their fields will be present following registration at 10:30 dr charles c peters professor emeritus of education at pennsyl vania state college will speak on the miami experiment in dem ocratic action-centered educa tion a luncheon will follow at 12:15 at lamberton hall the afternoon program will con sist of a panel discussion on the subject planning for curriculum revision in pennsylvania mem bers of the panel will include thomas w watkins supervising principal of schools coopersburg who will serve as chairman dr peters dr leversia l powers chief of elementary education pennsylvania state department of public instruction dr joseph s butterweck department of educa tion temple university dr james richardson director of curriculum research allentown school dis trict dr robert a bream a mem ber of the education faculty at lehigh and dr george tyson ursinus college president of the association of liberal arts col leges of pennsylvania for the ad vancement of teaching brown and white bethlehem pa friday april 30 1948 houseparty shenanigans price — 5 cents arcadia elections set for may 5 6 vol lvi no-hj 42 name team win cash the brown and white an nounces the launching of le high's team naming contest with its next issue can you think of a name more inclusive of the university as a whole than engineers can you make it more colorful and conducive to school spirit would it involve a mascot or other symbol if so you may win a grand cash prize and the honor of con tributing the name watch our next issue for details eluded individual house dances banquets an interdorm dance and intergroup visiting the look-out was also well populated sunday in the tradition of houseparty was left open for nursing hangovers pressing mus sed cloths and trying to remember the events of last evening some spent the day trying to get out of jail — a few girls were seen fran tically trying to close suitcases containing plaques cups and some slightly ripped dresses petitions filed by 30 candidates campaign rules set aspirants may display placards tomorrow the coming arcadia elections have finally been set for wednes day and thursday may 5 and 6 the polling places will be pack ard lab christmas-saucon hall library lamberton hall and drown hall the polls will be open from 9 a.m to 4:30 p.m the lam berton hall poll will be closed at 2 p.m candidates are free to display campaign posters after today each candidate will be held responsible for the removal of all his posters after the election is over the ballot will resemble last year's a referendum however will be attached concerning the affiliation of the student body of lehigh university with the na tional student association the question will be understanding the obligations do you favor the affiliation of the lehigh university student body with the nsa petitions for class officers are available at arcadia office dead line for returning petitions is may 10 the following men have sub mitted petitions as candidates for arcadia edward s adams june 50 wiliam brennan june 49 douglas l carlton june 50 george w downs june 50 david l edelman june 49 eric r erikson 50 james fulleylove june 50 john j head feb 50 guy o heck june 50 william j hunt 49 bruce r keene june 49 richard w kelsey feb 50 george a lasasso feb 50 robert m lewison feb 50 donald love june 49 john c morgan june 49 walter b morton feb 50 richard a mould june 51 warren v musser 49 d navarro jr june 50 charles w nicholls june 49 john w segraves june 49 robert m stockman june 49 norman l stone june 50 lee m stritzinger june 50 robert n swanson june 50 robert a vannerson june 50 j f watter 50 harry h williams june 50 ray a zack june 49 scl concert rescheduled for may 19 20 postponement arranged after orchestra prexy requested cancellation three concerts by the detroit symphony orchestra orginally scheduled for friday and satur day may 7 and 8 have been post poned to wednesday and thurs day may 19 and 20 the decision was reached late wednesday after noon by the student concerts lectures series committee at a special meeting the postponement was decided upon after dr martin d whita ker president of the university received a letter from henry h reichhold president of the detroit symphony orchestra association which stated that a cancellation was being requested because of a sudden levy by the musicians union for this special trip the extra mileage charges quoted would amount to between 20 and 25 per musician in the 98-piece orchestra replacement unavailable after checking on other avail able talent the committe learned that its attempt for an adequate replacement was unsuccessful a two-hour conference saturday afternoon by president witaker charles j moravec university news editor and faculty chairman of the committee and john i kirkpatrick university treasurer resulted in an airplane trip to de troit by mr kirkpatrick on mon day use same tickets during the monday conferences in detroit it was learned that the cancellation may develop into a postponement telephone calls on tuesday and wednesday cleared dates programming and travel and the new dates were set students holding pink tickets for the friday evening may 7 concerts will be admitted on the same tickets on wednesday even ing may 19 university guest tickets for that evening will be honored on may 19 refunds will be issued only for white tickets for that evening the school children's concert will be given late thursday after noon may 20 in grace hall the public concert will be held that evening tickets for the may 20 concert are on sale at the leading music stores of bethlehem at the colleges of the lehigh valley and at the supply bureau the prices are 1.20 1.80 and 2.40 details for the concerts will be concluded by the end of this week announcements will be made as programs are selected arcadia votes against plan of honoraria straw ballot taken to determine status of excess profit system arcadia voted against honoraria by a 5-4 straw vote at the open hearing held last wednesday the straw vote was taken after a long discussion of the issue in which both sides were adequately pre sented honoraria is the division of ex cess profits of an organization among its members particularly concerned are the brown and white and the epitome the argu ment against led by al macauley stated that the principle of hon oraria was not right other oppon ents pointed out thaht material istc rewards should not be hand ed out to men as an incentive for participation in activities stan lawler of brown and white argued strongly for the division of the excehs profits he defined honoraria as a partial re ward given to men who had work ed far harder than thhe corres ponding value of the money given he added that the students were not paying for it through the stu dent activities fund because they received far in excess of their moneys worth in the services rendered by the brown and white dean charles a seidle and charles j moravec were present representing the board of control al cacauley and peter sngleson were present from the board of publications stan lawler and jim gentles of the brown and white staff and gil jefferis of the ept tome staff also attended juniors set for social the 49er suds social second beer party of the year sponsored by the junior class will be held at the colonnade wednesday may 5 expenses for the party will be covered by the profits from the junior prom faculty sponsors for the function are paul franz assistant treasur er and charles moravec univer sity news editor garfield thomas howard applegate william diehl and fred raif all of the class of 49 head the refreshment pub licity entertainment and housing committees respectively the suds social will last from 7:30 to 11 v.m free beer and en tertainment will be availale for all members of the class of 49 arcadia meets to review cut suggestions sophomores to remain on the present system seniors would change arcadia last wednesday arriv sd at the following suggestions for changing the cut system 1 the present system would remain as the basis 2 freshmen would be limited to a total number of 25 cuts 3 juniors with an average of 2.75 or better and seniors with an average of 2.5 or better would be allowed unlimited cuts on the basis of the previous semester's average 4 sophomores would remain entirely on the present system 5 university sponsored functions would not be considered standard cuts and 6 absolutely no cuts would be allowed directly before or after vacations of a week or more in the last case a penalty of the loss of all subsequent cuts would be imposed ed hamilton representing the brown key society reported on a plan he had in mind to secure a special train to transport students at a greatly reduced rate to one of the football games next season the case institute game at cleve land was suggested hamilton pointed out the success that this plan has met with in stimulating spirit in many other schools he added that both dean congdon and dean seidle aproved of it to make the trip possible however a minimum of 300 passengers must be secured to make the trip arca dia unanimously voted for ap proval of the plan juniors interested in serving on the class refreshment com mittee call gar thomas 7-9047 all seniors wednesday may 5 is the ab solute deadline for ordering your graduation announcements place orders at either the ar cadia office or the supply bur eau immediately