Brown and White Vol. 59 no. 13

              new mailboxes will be in stalled in drinker and richards houses president dave kladivko announced at the i.d.c meeting nov 8 revise mail setup for two dorms to alter fire law sophs to be backstage chiefs in m&c dictator production william r wallace jr and thomas walker sophomore competitors for mustard and cheese wim test their mettle as chiefs of stage and lighting crews respectively in the club's production of the dictator a three-act farce by former lehigh man richard harding davis dec 2-3 in broughal high school allen quick technical director of the club announced yesterday the choices for the top backstage jobs as the production schedule went into high to complete mounting of the show before thanksgiving vaca tion kenneth e miller of allentown a senior advertising major at le high has designed in the style of the nineties two sets a shipboard exterior and the interior of a u.s consulate in latin america herbert trumboldt and alan w koopes m&c members who have been cast for the show will also share duties as assistant directors and a property managers mustard and cheese members constructing and painting the sets include john kelsey club treasur er david s garthwaite and david caulkins who will be assisted by alvord beardslee a senior com petitor as well as the freshmen freshmen competing in stage crew for the dictator are rudy . kuser frank adams cullen bartley charles reuter thomas h hey henry d rents chler paul miller richard charles brown james skerritt christo pher sholes 1 , and ray weisbod thomas walker who designed the lighting for the play and is now to act as chief electrician served his apprenticeship last year on the light crews of spring festi val and faculty flame satirical revue staged last spring by mus tard and cheese his freshman assistants will in clude peter wolle david f hait and warren stevens the latter two having been assigned to create special effects for the show uprooting of goalposts burning of seats vile language and a 16-15 victory for the frosh football team marked the 1953 freshman tug-of-war friday at lafayette see editorial page six lehigh freshmen lost the tug-of-war according to edwin hallberg vice-president of cyanide and chairman of the tug-of-war program because they were outnumbered some 75 to 53 in consequence hall berg declared for cyanide that it would now be permissable for the class of 53 to remove their dinks a consensus of faculty members and wives announced the chairman after witnessing the tug-of-war from the stands assures us that the pull per man by lehigh was superior and that you jost only because of numerical inferiority therefore cyanide considers the freshman project satisfactorily completed dinks are off difficulty began when mark stern president of lafayette's maroon key failed to have his frosh ready for the tug-of-war he had thought that the contest was to take place after the game he was combing the stands for volunteers when the lehigh frosh walked on the field with the rope approximately 100 lafayette men formed on one end of the rope to commence the contest seeing the inequality the men from le high poured on the field to aid the freshmen then lafayette rushed out to make the confusion com plete after sorting and weeding cya nide members brought the number of lehigh men on the rope to about 53 and asked stern if lafayette had the same number on their side he was assured that such was the case and the contest began lafayette however had about 75 men still on the rope lehigh was speedily beaten but after being declared the vic tors 1 , the lafayette men began to leave the rope not knowing of the decision the lehigh men con tinued to pull and made off with the rope during the second half the le high stands answered every lafay ette cheer with varied obscenities and finally began to rip up and burn the lafayette seats hallberg and william clayton cyanide member extinguished the fire towards the end of game the lehigh stands emptied onto the sidelines a group deployed to the goalposts at their left and the lafayette stands stampeded to de continued on page 8 col 3 many expressions are shown on the faces of these freshmen as they grunt and groan in a tug-o-war contest with lafayette freshmen all was in vain for a few seconds later the lehigh strongmen lost in the lower picture lehigh freshmen are shown as they tear down the opponents goal post in what may be termed an unsportsmanlike deed the incident climaxed a 16-15 victory for the little brown and white counseling service offers tests for objective self-evaluation our purpose says fred armstrong counselor is to give the indi vidual an objective basis for self-evalution we assist in all kinds of over 200 tests ranging from intelligent quotient to strength of hand muscles are available to any member of the lehigh family free of icharge as a little-publicized service of the university counseling center in christmas-saucon hall men from the classes of june 50 and february and june 51 will be elected into omicron delta kappa senior leadership honorary tuesday nov 22 by the lehigh student circle applications must be submitted on the prepared forms in the arcadia office by 5 p.m friday to be eligible for active mem bership a student must have been in residence at lehigh university at least one year and rank in the highest 35 per cent in scholarship in his class election shall be on the point sys tem subject to the choice of the circle brief outlines of projects for o.d.k must be submitted with the lists of activities and applications but will not be rated for consider ation for membership attainments are weighed in five groups groups i — scholarship 3.5 to 4.0 average in all pervious semesters 15 graded down to 2.5 average all previous semesters 5 e p wilbur scholar 3 scho lastic prize i group n — publications brown and white editor 6 business 1 mana ger 5 managing editor 5 other editorial po sition 4 assistant editorial position 3 town crier editor 3 assistant editor art editor sports editor publisher 2 freshman handbook 2 interfraternity hand epitome editor-in-chief 7 business mana ger 5 art editor 5 senior section editor fi nance manager assistant editor 5 junior edi torial position 4 business staff position i pi tau to select pledges tonight tapping on friday petitions for membership into pi tau sigma honorary fraternity in mechanical engineering will be voted upon by fraternity members at 7:30 p.m tonight in packard lounge andrew auld president of the fraternity at lehigh announced thursday preceding the meeting a smoker will be held in the lounge starting at 7:00 p.m and at noon friday in front of packard lab new mem bers will be pledged to the fra ternity last thursday afternoon a meeting was held in packard audi torium for the purpose of acquaint ing interested students with mem bership in the fraternity steam for power a movie produced by babcock and wilcox co was shown during the meeting at which auld presided to be eligible for membership in the national fraternity students must be majoring in mechanical or industrial engineering have at least junior standing and possess the following qualifying scholastic averages seniors 2.5 second sem ester juniors 2.75 and first sem ester juniors 3.0 odk determines point values stresses leadership qualities book fraternity publication editor i group in — leadership arcadia president 8 treasurer 6 vice presi dent secretary 4 committee chairman i member ; membership on committee if not an arcadia member i 1.f.c 1.d.c town council president 5 treasurer 2 vice president secretary repre sentative i class officer president of the senior class 6 of the junior or sophomore class 4 secre tary or treasurer of the senior ciass 5 of the junior or sophomore class 3 vice president of any class i fraternity officer head 6 if one election per year 3 if two elections per year treasurer 4 and 2 house secretary vice president house manager steward i dormitory president 5 dormitory section president 3 secretary or treasurer i societies member of tau beta pi 2 presi dent of an honorary or of a course society i christian council preident 3 committeec chairman 2 officer or representative or member i group iv — music dramatic art mustard and cheese president 4 business manager 4 member 3 technical director 2 stage manager property manager program manager i band student director 4 manager 2 as sistant student director i cheerleader senior 3 junior 2 sophomore combined musical clubs president 2 man ager of glee club 2 leader of tymphony or chestra leader of dance orchestra member of glee club member of chapel choir i music festival 1-4 scabbard and blade president i member i delta omicron theta president i mem continued on page 8 col 2 problems which involve orienta tion of the individual qualities probed by the tests are vocational interests scholastic ap titude aptitude for specific occupa tions such as law retail sales or engineering intelligence achieve ment or knowledge in a specific field reading ability musical tal ent art judgement personality mechanical ability and hearing and vision continued on page 4 col 2 scores become the property of the individual states arm brown and white lehigh university's fall tuesday november 15 1949 volume 58 — number 13 near-riot mars 53 tug-of-war frosh undinked despite loss bethlehem pa before and after . . . final report on houseparty in dicated that this fall's houseparty was from a dorm viewpoint the most successful one since its in ception 380 girls were housed in the dorms an all-time high and 576 people attended the idc breakfast saturday morning an other record for attendance fur ther more there was hardly any damage in the dorms the entire weekend proposed regulations con cerning fire equipment were dis tributed to all the section presi dents 1 at the meeting the new reg ulations drawn up by bob perry of drinker house provides for much quicker punishment for vio lators of the existing fire regula tions the proposed regulations will be voted on at the next meet ing in the future incoming mail for these two houses will be put in these special boxes the post office will sort the mail by dorm sections instead of leaving all the mail for one dormitory in one spot