Brown and White Vol. 59 no. 9

              lopez has been known as the name changer and the star maker among music circles for he has discovered such artists as deanna durbin betty hutton sunny skylar and others of equal rank one of the stcries wfafeh is often connected with the bandleader is that of an unknown musician who wanted to play with the lopez or chestra lopez paid no attention to these letters until one day he re ceived an unflattering caricature in one of the letters scholastic ranking of living groups for the fall semester re leased by james h wagner assistant registrar disclosed that alpha tcwn house far outdistanced all competitors in clinching top honors with an average of 3.015 made up of 12 students living together in west bethlehem the group's triumph was the second in as many semesters last spring the victors chalked up a winning mark of 2.949 among the 29 social fraternities tau delta phi perennial scholastic champ among fraternities headed the list again with a percentage of 2.743 ranking second to alpha town house in the combined liv ing group standing top dorm section was drink eager beavers arrive early uninvited spring houseparty guests arrived early at delta tau delta third oldest fraternity house here when thousands of termites nibbling through the floor of the chapter room reared their omni vorous heads in the midst of the sacrosanct relics there they're literally eating us out of house and home a brother told a host of b&w reporters nearly as numerous as the pests they were investigating house mana ger wilmer wilbern however stated calmly that little damage has been done thoughts of pledging the little mites are out of the question because wilbern announced he has solicited bids to have the things exterminated hurried phone calls to delta upsilon and psi upsilon first and second oldest houses respectively revealed no termites as yet martin d whitaker charles j moravec university news editor h b davis associate professor of english george howatt instructor in government alfred b koch assistant profes sor of accounting 95 reply to poll students were requested to ex press their opinions on th subject of world peace only 85 ballots were turned in by students in a poll sponsored by the united world federalists ac cording to the student committee the ballot blank was published in a recent issue of brown and white brawn and white olume 59 — number 9 well done . . . lehigh university tuesday march 14 1950 bethlehem pa b&w photo by toven coach billy sheridan congratulates george feuerbacb lehigh's lone champion at the eastern fctefcollegia<te wrestling champion ships last weekend feuerbach defeated ex-champion stan mcuse tis of f&m 7-2 in the semi-finals and went on t stop defending champ dave poor of princeton 6-1 in the finals to gain the laurels in the 128-lb claes syracuse to?>k the team trophy however edg ing lehigh by three points wl n ojily one cf the five engineer finalists won a p'ctorial review of the meet appears on page 5 forum group ' be boosters ' participation in extra-cur ricular activities helps develop leadership qualities important to success in later life president whitaker told students attending the arcadia forum thursday march 10 in packard auditorium spaking on campus leader ship dr whitaker declared you are determining now whether you will be a leader or a follower will you be industrious or lazy honest a booster or a knocker both in your job and in later life students are determining now during their college days he con tinued whether they will be men with sound spiritual values dr whitaker pointed out that there are four requirements for good leadership which the student must realize ability training reliabili ty and application participating were charles a seidle associate dean of students following his address six panel discussions were held on the following subjects parlimentary procedures election systems du ties of a treasurer the secretary and his work programming pub licity and promotion bureau places 118 of latest grad class recently released statistics concerned with the placement of the february graduating class as of february 15 shows a total of 118 men holding jobs according tc e a teal director of counselling and placement of a graduation class of 227 there were 204 who registered with the placement bureau classified as active 158 graduates participated in 772 interviews offered by 58 firms which had sent representa tives to the campus these interviews ranged any where from 1 to 19 per student teal said that there is no limit to the number of interviews a stu dent may have as long as he is sincerely seeking an offer of the 204 registered 46 not having requested interviews 103 were placed either directly or in directly by the placement bureau besides actually being placed by the placement bureau students may obtain other services from teal and his staff a list of five were mentioned by teal 1 finding out where to apply for jobs 2 learning how to present oneself for interviews 3 learn ing how to make written applica tion for interviews 4 how to evaluate one's interests and abili ties in selecting a field of endeav or 5 results of interviews are interpreted and shortcomings of the student are pointed out these can then be corrected for future interviews teal said that approximately 20 company representatives 1 have been here this semester inter viewing june and october grad uates an expected 55 representa tives will have been on the cam pus by spring vacation feuerbach eiwa champion lehigh trails syracuse 32-29 amassing 32 points and three individual champions syracuse university took home the hardware fcr the second succe:sive year at the eastern intercollegiate wrestling tournament held at princeton last friday and saturday lehigh was second with 29 pom s fc hewed by perm state with 28 lehigh placed five men in the finals but only george feuerbach was crowned a winner george deci sxned defending champ dave poor of princeton 6-1 after a caut ; ous start feuerbach notched a second period takedown after poor had escaped and remained in front feuerbach's toughest test came in the semi final round when he bested ex-champ stan mousetis of f&m 7-2 george kept the vaunted mousetis legs in 1 check for all but fifteen seconds of the bout lehigh's defending champions both fell prey to syracuse opponents 121 pounder mike filipos dropped a 7-2 decision to gerbino in the opening match of the finals takedowns told the story here as gerbino nailed fihpos in the opening and closing periods for two-pointers mike flashed some real form on an elbow roll reversal in the second stanza 1 but there was no stopping ger bino captain dick kelsey went down before joe settanni via the fall route in the afternoon's 136 pound semi-final hampered by injured ribs kelsey was unable to bridge when the time came and settanni put him away with a bar and chancery settanni bowed in the final that evening 6-2 to wayne smith of the navy john mahoney wrestled to a 0-0 draw with jim maurey of perm state the nod going to mau rey on a decision by refree di batista following a scoreless first period each man rode the other for an entire period maurey the more aggressive took the 145 honors outstanding wrestler ken hunte added another first place to the syracuse total with a 6-0 vic tory over eric erikson at 155 pounds hunte the stronger of the two followed a first-period take down with a second-period rever sal and a three-minute ride in the final stanza for the decision the tournament upset went to the sophomore 165-pound sensation from yale george grav eson as he defeated defending titlist pascal perri of syracuse in the semi-final round on a referee's decision this bout evidently took much out of graveson he went down before mike perona of rut gers in the final 8-7 orangeman george gebhardt kept his 175 pound crown in a 3-2 decision over perm stater mike rubino the margin of victory was awarded to gebhardt when ru bino was put down by referee johnny engle for stalling in the heavyweight tussle gus lasasso bowed to homer barr of perm state 8-4 barr was content to trade points with lasasso tak two for one bar would grab the continued on page 4 col 2 professor ernst b scliulz head of the political science dept here was a guest speaker over radio station wgpa friday prof schulz discussed the hoover re port juniors round up gimmicks for monte carlo march 25 night at monte carle the informal junicr prom featuring vin cent lopez will be presented saturday march 25 in grace hal tick ets are now en sale and can be bought from any junicr class cabinet member they will also be sold at the supply bureau and at a booth in front of the library after searching everywhere from new hampton to philadelphia lopez sent for the artist to de mand an apology and ended up by hiring him as third violinist the player's name is xavier cugat lopez is popular in television and is known as a numerologist and astrologist an astrology mag azine one paid him 1 a word to expound his findings as a name changer lopez boasts of having changed the name of betty darling to betty hutton edna mac durbin to deanna dur bin and sonny schyler to sunny skylar scholastic averages published alpha town house takes first william kannenson chairman of the gaming committee and mort lapides reported to the last meet ing of the junior cabinet that they have successfully obtained the gambling equiprnment neces sary for the casino on the first floor of grace hall in their report the two student said that the roulette wheels blackjack tables dice cages and the other gaming equipment will turn the first floor of grace hall into a real casino edwaed becker arid crew told the committee that decora tions for both floors should be ready fcr monte carlo nieht dec orations on the second floor will depict a rivera scene featured with vincent lopez will be his new singer ann war ren she has been with lopez since she recently rose to stardom er house 111-b with an average of 2.530 which was good for seventh place in the combined standing a climb of 42 places from spring 1949 in that semester the same section ranked 49th with 2.052 composite averaging of the liv ing groups showed that town men emerged on top for the first time in the last five semesters with a mark of 2.2744 usually the local continued on page 8 col 3