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              be based on the record of activity for the spring 1950 semseter mem bers of the competition committee are bob perry chem e 50 vie daub arts 50 and ken kircher bus 52 formal complaints submitted by at least three citizens of a dor mitory against another citizen will be handled by the discipline com mittee this committee was formed under the constitution to hear minor dormitory complaints thus eliminating the necessity of send them to the dean's office comprising this committee are gordon rubel met e 50 art grundman chem e 50 joe deal i.e 50 harry rush m.e 50 bill breingan e.e 51 and a faculty member to be named conflicts of the duties of fratern ity pledges to the fraternity and the dormitory are referred to the com mittee on pledge disputes commit tee members are council president dave kladivko i.e 50 jules ko vacs e.p 50 vie daub arts 50 harold wells chem e 50 and ed mierzwinski e.e 50 unknown to asce job hale sutherland professor of civil engineering has been ap pointed chairman on engineering education of the american society of civil engineers prof sutherland has been influ ential in establishing humanistic social courses in the engineering programs of the universities of the nation and has served on the en gineering education and member - ship committees of the national association of professional engi neers a quaker active in the phila delphia meeting house and a stu den of religion and philosophy he came to lehigh in 1930 after 17 years on the staff of massachu setts institutes of technology he continued on page 7 col 1 of the committee reported the action besides those suspended 165 were placed on scholastic proba tion because of not fulfilling their required number of credit hours forty-four of these were first sem ester freshmen first semester freshmen are required under university aca demic regulations to pass satisfac torily 11 semester hours of work all other students taking more than 12 semester hours of work must pass at least 12 hours in any given semester members of the committee on the standing of students are deans congdon palmer and allen pro fessors bewley callen doan eney myers neville stuart holme and thomas and registrar curtis persons placed on probation are barred from representing the university in intercollegiate com petition of any kind and are for bidden to take part in any other activities requiring more time than a student in scholastic diffi culties should spend on outside in terests restoration to good standing fol lows the satisfactory passing of 12 semester hours in most cases per sons on probation who fail in more than four semester hours will be dropped from the university for unsatisfactory scholarship lehigh to join both moravians in sunday morning of prayer faculty nixes appeal motion by suspendees upholding the decision monday of the discipline commit tee the lehigh university faculty voted against the return to lehigh of two juniors for their participa tion in setting afire the 52-foot christmas tree on the hill-to-hill bridge the blaze took place on the morning of jan 15 in ruling on an appeal by the two students paul desnoyers chem e 51 and henry gersten berger i.e 51 the faculty sus tained th c action of the committee in suspending the students for one semester a freshman john hadley arts 53 was placed on disciplinary pro bation for his part in the affair dean congdon said that both upperclassmen will be eligbile to return to school this september on jan 16 the students were found guilty by alderman wallace worth of malicious mischief and firing personal property they are at liberty under 1,500 bail pending the signing of papers to pay ap proximately 2,500 damages incur red in the burning of the tree ipos following an early first period ke was in desperate trouble at least i three times before the fall occured the next match was a thriller with only ten seconds remaining george feuerbach reversed and slapped on a reverse grapevine to do away with former eastern champ bobby schell previous to the fall feuerbach had demon strated some of his best holds in cluding a few not in the book in running up a 11-3 edge on his op ponent heavily taped dick kelsey went nine furious minutes with captain stan mousetis of the diplomats only to have time run out and lose by the narrowest of margins 5-4 the famous mousetis leks did not come into play until midway in the second stanza when they were used to effect a reversal kelsey was leading 4-1 at this point but leg riding gave mousetis the necessary time advantage for the decision wrestling a carefuljy planned bout john mahoney added three more points to the fast growing lehigh total as he shutout bob wendell 3-0 following an action less first period in which wendell refused to lockup with mahoney the diplomat was completely bot tled up by a cross body ride with modifications the finish saw both men on their feet after mahoney came neutral early in the last peri od eric erikson went into the last period losing 1-0 one minute later he upset charlie cope's pain staking strategy by reversing and piling on another takedown for a 4-2 victory cope acted as if erik son were poison and wouldn't go near him for the initial three min utes he followed the same course of action in the next stanza after switching neutral however erik son's turn came and when it did lehigh had another winner at 155 pounds bob snider put the loudly parti san diplomat crowd back in a cheering mood when he pinned pete murphy with a half nelson and crotch in the second period bout score was 2-0 for snider when murphy succumbed after a hard fight continued on page 7 col 1 the election results were an nounced by donald f miller chairman of the arcadia elections committee who conducted the counting with john jordan and george howatt instructor in gov ernment ence on the first count in re-ex amining these ballots bridman led with 37 votes to 21 votes for wil liam f fox jr after the last transfer bridgman won with 69 votes while doyne who started with 11 votes and built up to 57 placed second arcadia chooses jim bridgman as replacement for ricapito james m bmdgman bus 50 has been elected to arcadia win ing by 12 votes over richard f doyne bridgeman w!ill replace joseph d ricapito jr who left lehigh at the end of the semester bridgman is a member of theta kappa phi fraternity and belongs to phi sigma kappa in the original council election bridgman ranked 19th of the 37 candidates seeking office on arca dia which is composed of 15 mem bers the procedure for filling a vacancy calls for a re-examination of the preference-marked ballots which elected the vacating member together witn tne ballots that were ineffective in electing a candidate ricapito's name was there fore disregarded and the ballots were then credited to the candi date marked as the next prefer under the guidance of the uni versity chapel committee the al location of the chapel offering by the christian council is expected to support the federation through its affiliation with the student christian movement the christian council of lehigh has become a member of the w.s.c.f the organization is worldwide including members not only of every great western branch of christianity but also of orthodox churches of greece turkey asia minor bulgaria serbia rumania russia and of the gregorian nes torian coptic maronite and ja cobite syrian churches their lives to the extention of the kingdom of god in mutual under standing and sympathy is doing graduate work in greek until his entry into yale university ty's divinity school next fall will be the speaker he will discuss the organization and meaning of the wscf and stress the job of each individual student in christian iove since 1895 the wscf has work ed with a missionary purpose en couraging brotherhood and service and l e ading students to devote beardslee has had wide experi ence in the army air force in the occupation in japan with a work camp project in mexico under the american friends service com mittee in the summer of 1948 and as a member of the american dele gation to the 22nd annual inter national student service confer ence last summer joining students from more than 40 countries undergrad uate students at moravian college for women moravian college for men and lehigh university will observe the world student chris tian federation day of prayer in packer memorial church sunday feb 19 at 11 a.m sponsored jointly by the three schools the service will be con ducted entirely by students beardslee who was grad uated from lehigh in february and dee ashcroft president of ywca of the moravian college for women and herbert hark of moravian college for men have accepted the invitation of alvord beardslee former president of the christian council to join him in leading the service new presi dent of the council is ray hart man chem e 50 brown and white lehigh university friday february 17 1950 volume 59 — number 2 bethlehem pa lehigh matmen thump f & m filipos feuerbach lasasso pin for lehigh the five pointers came from lightweights filipos and feuerbach and anchor man gus la sasso the diplomats countered with a pin by bob snider wrestling at 165 lbs little can be said about the opening bout inasmuch as it was aid fili takedown mike was in complete command until the fall at 7:25 clar the lehigh university grapplers turned back a cagy franklin and marshall squad 21-11 before a capacity house in lancaster wednesday night the match was punctuated by four falls three by lehigh id council forms committee to handle dorm problems interdormitory council meeting tuesday night feb.l4 appointed three committees to forumlate plans for interdormitory com petition handle disciplinary cases and settle pledge disputes formulating workable plans for dean leith's proposal to have dor mitories complete in internal relaticns ; schlarship extra curricular activities other than athletics and intramural sports and intercol legiate athletics was the task placed before the compeition commitee according to the proposal each competition period will cover one academic year and appropriate awards will be provided by inter dormitory council in recognition of first second and third place sec tions in the over-all competition with subsidiary recognition which may be in first or second place in any of the four division competi tions 165 on pro dean reveals 44 are frosh 14 rusticated unsatisfactory scholarship necessitated dropping 14 lehigh students from the university this semester following action taken by the committee on the standing of students dean congdon chairman don't forget the sequence sponsored by wlrn following the navy wrestling meet tomor row night the dance will be held in the upper floor of grace hall and tickets sell for 1.00 plus tax one exception to this state men is that the first awards shal john lee 53 hangs self john d lee 18 who had en roled at lehigh as a freshman last falli hanged himself in his apart ment home 242 bronxville road bronxville n v jan 31 police believe that lee had been despondent over the fact that he could not r e turn to lehigh because of financial difficulties while at lehigh lee lived in dravo house his mother leona lee said that she had left the house around 10:30 a.m and upon returning at 5:30 p.m found her son hanging from a closet door the rope was tied to the knob on the other side of the door he left no note