Brown and White Vol. 59 no. 22

              concert stars brass winds music for brass and wind instruments was featured at a pro gram given by the lehigh brass and wind ensembles sunday jan 8 in the library works of outstanding classical composers were heard as played on various combinations of brass and wind instruments purcell's fanfare and march for three trumpets and side drum opened the program conducted by wil liam h schempf head of the music department the complete program fanfare and march purcell three trumpets and slide drum can zone septimi toni no 1 g gab radio workshop producing enlightenment for community under the direction of frank e funk instructor in speech the lehigh university radio workshop is making its contribution to ward a more enlightened community and student body by sponsoring the current series entitled many faces has the globe since the program's inception 10 months ago students from 17 na tions have taken their place at radio station wgpa's microphone with workshop interviewer harry b ramsey 50 representatives from nearly every corner of the earth have given glimpses of their native countries to the bethlehem student and citizen audience several years ago mrs elizabeth davis instructor in journalism gave her feature writ ers an assignment to interview foreign students and follow-up with feature stories of their sub jects the idea caught on and soon the radio workshop had arranged to institute a series of programs utilizing the experiences of the 45 foreign students studying here among the foreign students interviewed have been a czecho — slovakian who witnessed the com munist coup in that country in 1948 a youthful german student who was formerly an unwilling members of the nazi youth organi zation and whose father had re fused to join the dominant party as well as a japanese student of cedar crest college who served as a nurse in tokyo during allied bombing raids fulfilling the purpose of giving rieli double quartet of brasses sextet for brass schubert-leid zen at the sea spring song to kay toast woodwind quintet op 71 beethoven flute oboes clari net horn bassoon serenade no 12 in c minor k-388 mozart two horns two oboes two clari nets two bassoons teenagers outnumber ex-gis martin d whitaker free in the sense that no indi vidual or group can say bach was an american and the air plane was 1 developed in russia — and it is so taught this freedom of thought and freedom to pursue truth is basic to american education and to real progress let us resolve a we enter 1950 and the second half of the century to do what we can as individuals and as groups to pre serve and properly develop our educational system of the total undergraduate en rollment of 2952 62 per cent of the students 1845 will not be eligible to vote during the next two years of this group 119 hope to have their lehigh diplomas be fore they can cast their first ballot the report states that the aver age freshman this year is eighteen years and five months old he was for the first time since the end of world war 11 the le high campus is brimming with 17 and 18-year-olds according to a report from registrar george b curtis office they are not being overshadowed by the older vet erans whose education was in terrupted by the war successful over three other candi dates for a place in the class of 1953 of the class of 759 selected from more than 3,000 applicants only 11 per cent saw war service the freshman class in eludes 33 sons 28 brothers two grandsons 26 cousins and nine brothers-in-law of former lehigh calaureate degrees at mid-year commencement exercises to be held february 5 in grace hall four years ago there were 532 married students here and in 1947 this number rose to 577 a year ago 504 married students were studying on the south mountain campus 1 men the class consists of 151 alumni of 53 private preparatory schools while the other 608 attend ed public schools the registrar's report also points out that the married student is vanishing from the lehigh cam students with families are not as numerous as in the past two years only 118 veteran fathers are counted on lehigh's rolls today a decrease of 52 from last year children of lehigh fathers number 162 compared to pus only 369 married students are enrolled this semester and 75 of these are candidates for their bac 206 in 1948 veteran enrollment has dropped continued on page 7 col 2 ' eb elected to ncaa post e f eb caraway assistant director of intercollegiate athletics at lehigh has been named na tional collegiate athletic associa tion representative on the wrest ling committee for the pan-amer ican and 1952 olympic games caraway will also serve as chairman of the middle atlantic collegiate baseball conference committee on the championship playoffs refunds start monday va lehigh's 1139 ex-servicemen who have long awaited arrival of their gi insurance refunds will soon have their hopes fulfilled veteans administration recently announced that the government will begin pouring out the 2,800 000,000 rebate into the hands of 16,000,000 veterans january 16 most of the policy holders should receive their checks before june 30 the agency stated checks will range from 90 cents to 528 with an average of about 175 va said it will attempt to mail 20,000 checks daily or 1,000,000 a week in performing the mammoth operation 14,225,000 applications have been received and most of them have been acknowledged government economists expect a stimulating effect on business it is the number 1 factor experts have cited in predicting good con ditions throughout the first half of 1950 some effect of the insurance refund already has been felt in spending by way of credit brown and white lehigh university tuesday january 10 1950 volume 58 — number 22 university disciplines offenders for cheating irresponsibility bethlehem pa over 23,000 forms for student appraisal of instructors and courses were distributed yesterday to the department offices of the university for use in 880 classes faculty members who were interviewed during the past semester jordan calh student comment feature of faculty evaluation original comment on the reverse side of the faculty evalua tion form is the most valuable part of the plan stressed arcadia president john jordan to the best interests of the stu dents to do the job well stated jordan the program is the result of the combined work of phi eta sigma freshman honorary society arcadia and arcadia's faculty evaluation committee this last committee consists of jordan tom gabuzda fred langenberg har old paulus walter updegrave alan koppes and bruce bennett any questions concerning dis tribution and disposition of the forms should be directed to the arcadia office said they found little help in the check marks on the printed form unless full explanations were giv en on the reverse side arcadia urges all students to make the most of this appraisal system by filling out the forms with thoughfulness and sincerity jokes and insults cannot expect consideration by faculty members when reviewing the forms after the semester is over such comments only make the faculty question the worth of the whole system and since resump tion of the plan each semester is voted upon by the faculty it is gift plan signers total 30 pct seven groups partcipate in full seniors of three fraternities and four dormitory sections have al ready expressed their enthusiasm for the senior class gift plan by 100 per cent participation according to arcadia member ed rider these seniors are setting up a challenge to their classmates who as a body have just passed the 30 per cent mark graduating members of beta theta pi kappa sigma drinker 3-b , and dravo d-l have all pledged freedom base of education americans today can look back to the schooling typical of the early 1900's and realize what truly tremendous gains have been made in education during the past fifty years this remarkable prog ress has been made under a sys tem of education that is free — its listeners a better knowledge of world problems many faces has the globe also presented inter views with foreign students from peru argentina arabia canada india sweden norway china korea switzerland turkey italy and java ranging from dismissal from the concerned course to suspension from the university disciplin ary action was imposed upon 15 lehigh students according to the following letter received from wray h congdon dean of students i regret to have so many cases of disciplinary actions to report to you for publication in brown and white part of the traditional procedure is to make these reports periodically for the information of the student body and as part of our precautionary program to deter and prevent other students from getting into trouble names of the students are always withheld some of the cases go back to last spring since there was no publication of brown and white then to carry this information a freshman — for dishonesty in a laboratory exercise dropped from course without credit and placed on disciplinary probation until he has registered for and satisfactorily completed a course in ethics two freshmen — for inebria tion disorderly conduct and mis representation to a university of ficer suspension from the univer sity for the fall semester of 1949 a junior — for illegal posses sion of contraband material in a final examination although no evidence of actual use repri manded dropped from course without credit and placed on dis ciplinary probation for one semes ter two sophomores — for falsifi cation of authorship of their term reports reprimanded and given grades of incomplete in the courise removable at the discre tion of instructor and placed on disciplinary probation for one semester a senior — for premeditated intent to cheat suspended from the university for the summer and fall terms of 1949 a freshman — for dishonesty in an hour quiz immediate sus pension from the university be cause this student was young and in his first semester at college the sentence was suspended during good behavior and the student paroled to his residence house counsel for counsel and guidance three freshmen — for break ing into and stealing full finan cial reparation immedate suspen sion from the university for the balance of the semester and parol ed to a facutly member on their return to college for counseling and guidance continued on page 7 col 4 leonard hall tempo 1 dravo b their unqualified support to the plan in addition the seniors in drinker 2-a kappa alpha lamb da chi alpha phi delta theta phi gamma delta richards 4-b theta chi dravo c-2 and heller town have all passed the halfway mark and well on their way toward the 100 per cent goal of the 794 seniors expecting to graduate in february june and october 235 have already signed the insurance applications the february and june graduates are tied in their race each with 30 per cent participation by living groups the fraternities have surged ahead of the field with 39 per cent participation the dormitories run a close second with 33 per cent ronald young bus 50 chair man of the gift committee has an nounced that the committee to gether with its living group sales man is going to make a concen trated drive this month to get those february graduates who have not yet indicated their inter est to complete their applications all seniors who have not yet mail ed in their signed applications are urged to do so immediately