Brown and White Vol. 59 no. 22

              those chosen from students ma joring in engineering physics are james s fulleylove julius s ko vacs claude w nash and carlyle j roberts jr charles m close and lawrence e mulock were se lected from the electrical engi neering curriculum and frederick c langenburg was chosen from the students enrolled in metallur gical engineering audience smith in addition t other activities played varsity football he is a member of var sity l club continued on page 7 col 3 in addition paul lowenwar ter bus 50 will enter the dis cussions on the position that le high should play bigger teams even at the risk of losing games in order to attract athletes who wish to play against better com petition he is a former arcadia member and was wlrn station manager ro band to parade in city on may 20 approximately 1100 lehigh men will march in bethlehem may 20 as this cit3 r celebrates armed forces day led by the lehigh band and cadet corps of the rotc the parade will include all veterans pests the fire department the police department several other bands and the naval reserve in addition to the street parade there will be a dinner given by the first defender's organization of bethlehem in hotel bethlehem in the evening after the parade in the aftrnoon a band concert and fireworks exhibition will take place in liberty high school sta dium rep francis walters will speak starting at taylor and fourth sts at 2:15 p.m the parade will cross the river at the hill to-hill bridge on which it will pass in review after crossing the river the route will follow main st to broad alno elected were vice president kenneth j kircher bus j'sl from dravo house secretary frank m cummins ce j'sl from taylor hall and treasurer john c pflueger e.p j'sl from drinker house john d leith associate dean of students was unanimously re-elect george alteneder met j'sl was elected president of inter dormitory council tuesday night may 9 prior to his election he was president of richards house he is also a member of arcadia tau beta pi initiates 16 top engineers tau beta pi the foremost undergraduate engineering society in the country founded at lehigh by prof edward h williams jr in 1885 held its annual spring banquet may 8 at howard john son's sixteen members were ini tiated into the society they were donald k barnes ee 52 charles a barth chem 51 william d breingan ee 51 kenneth j busch ee 51 frank m cummins ce 51 richard w fehnel me 51 herbert c hoov er ie 51 dickinson r kearney che 51 thomas h keel me 51 george d lon ep 51 david c lyman me 51 william r mann che 58 john e offerdahl che 52 donald m phair me 51 richard a ssraydar ee 51 and peter s villa me 51 prof gilbert e doan was also initiated as an alumnus member his is the first such initiation since president whitaker's in 1938 faculty members present were h a neville r d billinger r h shaw t t holme and e r morgan principal talk was given by prof elmer c bratt who spoke on efficiency profits and the business cycle ed idc faculty adviser committes appointed or vol unteered for include disciplinary one man from each dorm pledge one man from each dorm lam berton hall three men athletic awards concessions appeals five men and interdormitory competi tion two men disciplinary committee hears cases of violation of idc regula tions pledge committee arbitrates conflicts between dorm and pledge duties lamberton hall committee works in conjunction with mem bers of other governing bodies to recommend cafeteria imprbve ments athletic awards committee su pervises presentation and inscrip tion of cups for interdormitory athletic competition concessions committee part of arcadia's con cessions committee supervises dormitory franchises for food vending machines etc appeals committee hears cases involving housing first award will be made at flagpole day ceremonies may 17 competition committee di rects the newly-created interdor mitory competition a 50-year award for scholastic extra-curric ular and athletic proficiency seven groups enter campus song contest seven fraternity and dor mitory living groups have been entered in the preliminary round of the annual intramural singing contest sponsored by the new york lehigh club scheduled for may 22 in drown hall finals will be held at 8:15 p.m saturday may 27 in grace hall scheduled to sing in the pre liminaries at which time three finalists will be picked are beta theta pi delta tau delta phi delta theta phi gamma delta sigma chi richards one and theta delta chi txie winning group will re ceive a trophy contestants will be judged on enunciation blend pitch rhythm and spirit a pop concert will be pre sented in conjunction with the finals in grace hall with the le high band and the cliff-clefs and hungry five participating brown and white lehigh university friday may 12 1950 volume 59 — number 22 bethlehem pa monday night um to feature student appraisal of athletics most dorm phones out june 3 idc asks prompt toll payment to eliminate the problem of uncollected telephone bills in the dormitories most dorm sections are expected to disconnect their phones sunday june 3 the cut-off date was agreed upon by idc members at their tuesday night meeting the new action is in accordance with a plan proposed by retiring idc treasurer william c murphy bus j'so from taylor hall price hall has made arrangements already for disconnecting its phone all other dorm sections probably will d'sconnect june 3 pay phones are not affected by the idc decision in effect since yesterday the plan asks all dorm men making toll caßs to determine toll charges at once and pay section treasurers rather than merely sign up and wait for the monthly bill all bills for the may 11 - june 3 peirod will be sent by the phone company direct to murphy who will pay them from collec tions turned in by each section to make it easier to determine toll charges it is suggested that phone users tell the operator be fore making the call that they wish to know the charges opera tors can then report charges as soon as the calls are completed three controversial viewpoints will be defended by three lehigh students monday at the university meeting opening in grace hall at 7:30 p.m after harry winner's talk on collegiate athletics questions from the audience falling into one of three viewpoints will be answered by the student according to their chosen position on lehigh athletics questions of a general nature will be answered by any one of the eight-man combined student-faculty panel maintaining that lehigh should go all out for athletics lee maines bus 50 takes the position that big time athletics will put lehigh on the map former r ports editor of the brown and white maines is a veteran of varsity soccer member of varsity l club brown key so ciety cyanide and omicron kap pa in addition to other activities he is also editor of the 1950 epi tome alvord beardslee grad uate student would play down athletics and get more students to benefit from athletic programs as participants rather than as spec tators he maintains a sound mind in a sound body for each student before big name athletic teams beardslee was president of omi cron delta kappa cyanide and christian council he also was co-chairman of campus chest and member of phi beta kappa satisfied with the present ath letic policy alex smith m.e 50 is prepared to defend it against any attack from members of the arcadia to stay in nsa faculty evaluation set arcadia will continue its membership and participation in the national student association during the coming school year it was decided by the newly elected arcadia in its first meeting may 10 three representatives will be sent to the coming nsa regional convention june 11 12 and 13 at camp hilltop downington pa 15 per man has been authorized for their expenses besides 10 for miscellaneous expenses similarly one or two represen tatives will attend the national convention in july at the univer sity of michigan 100 or 125 will be alloted according to the num ber of representatives a comprehensive universi ty social calendar including all athletic scl and other dates for the next schoool year is to be printed for distribution to the student body at registration it will be complete on one sheet of paper arcadia associates is beginning to take shape thirty-one signed petitions have been submitted al ready there is no deadline for petitions but an organizational continued on page 7 col 2 uwf to hear einstein aide on a energy lehigh university chapter of united world federalists will hear dr john b kemeny assistant to albert einstein in the institute for advanced study in princeton at the age of 22 and now professor of mathematics at princeton uni versity speak at lamberton hall before a supper meeting monday may 15 at 8 p.m in the upstairs dining room the subject will be implications of atomic energy in the world crisis born in budapest hungary john kemeny came to the united states in 1940 at the age of 14 he attended high school in new york city then entered princeton uni versity as a member of the class of 1946 continued on page 8 col 4 in 1943 the armed services call ed as a member of the united states army he was sent to los alamos n m where he was em ployed for 18 months on the now glee club ends season in its final appearance of semester the lehigh glee club persented a double program tues day may 9 the club traveled to catasauqua high school for a per formance at 1 p.m then to naz areth high school for another per formance at 3 p.m the trip was in keeping with a policy of the club to sing at high schools throughout this area to encourage student interest in mu sical organizations both in high school and college flagpole day flagpole ceremonies will be held wednesday may 17 at 11:40 a.m all classes will be shortened to allow time for the ceremony featuring the dis tribution of athletic trophies letters and other special awards idc elects alteneder prexy lists other chiefs committees phi beta kappa will initiate 31 honor men thirty-one lehigh seniors will be formally initiated into phi beta kappa highest national hon or society at 4:30 p.m sunday afternoon in drown hall follow ing the formal initiation cere monies a banquet will be ten dered the honor students at 6:30 p.m at sun inn speaker follow ing dinner will be dr j burke severs professor of english his subject will be the use of poetry seniors chosen from the college of arts and science are newton frishberg francis s riley rod ger l daniels arthur f dußois joseph r haftl edward b le vine richard r storrow harry j baker john w jordan allan b judson robert s nichols for rest g schaeffer anthony w schwab bruce y tapper eugene g williams and morris d ben son selected from students ma joring in business administration are robert w courtney robert e drake john j calvin rockwell h newman jr edward m pope and donald p schlegel majoring in chemistry are bruce b burnett and gorver schrayer st where it will turn right and continue on broad st falling out at the corner of center and broad following the lehigh band will be an army battalion whicht in turn will be followed by the colors escorted by the pershing rifles marching next in line will be an air group rounding out le high participation new white belts and gloves will be displayed by the pershing rifles motto for the celebration is team for defense emphasizing unification of the armed forces