Brown and White Vol. 74 No. 19

              lehigh university brown and white vol 74 — no 19 bethlehem pa friday nov 30 1962 rush commission established dr charles a seidle vice president for administration has named a nine-man special com mission on rflshing the com mittee includes the presidents of arcadia ifc and the gryphon so ciety and seidle as chairman seidle named r steven schiavo 63 president of arcadia and har old arbo 63 president of resi dence halls council to the com mission he invited g raymond hodil 63 and john e rollo 63 presi dents of the inter-fraternity council and the gryphon society to name representatives from their groups hodil and anthony m arcesi 63 are representing ifc and rollo and richard a rabinow 64 are representing the gryphon so ciety also named to the commit tee were dean charles w bren nan associate dean of the college of engineering and advisor to the gryphon society and prof james v eppes acting head of the de partment of mechanical en gineering and ifc advisor the commission had its first meeting monday appointments to the commis sion are effective only for this year seidle said tuesday he said it has no been determined if new members will be named at the end of the year he called the com mission experimental when seidle accepted the new condensed rushing-contacting plan proposed by the student life com mittee last may he said a student dr charles a seidle trustee donates 125,000 for phys ed building allen c dußois 25 a partner in the firm of wertheim and co new york city has given 125,000 toward construction of the physi cal education office and locker room building on the new saucon valley athletic complex named a university trustee last summer dußois was an outstand ing baseball pitcher while an un dergraduate the gift was made to the centennial development program in memory of his parents peter k and maria c dußois scheduled for completion in the spring of 1963 the two stohy building will house offices con ference rooms an official's lounge two visiting locker rooms an equipment storage and drying room a training room and train new locker building construction is on schedule for new locker-office building in saucon val ley completion date for the two-story building which includes an elevator is set for march engineering school enrollment rising despite nat'l trend the annual university report for 1961-62 includes a statement by president harvey a neville on engineering enrollment at lehigh as compared with a national decline in engineering enrollment the report will be released sometime in december excerpts re leased for advance distribution say that the university is attracting more than enough engineering candidates and is increasing engineering enrollment despite a natioal decrease for the fifth cosecutive year neville says in the report lehigh is the only college among the ten institutions in pennsylvania offering engineering curricula and is one of a few universities in the nation that showed an increase in freshmen enrolling in engineering in 1961 lehigh's experience for 1962 shows a further increase from 433 freshman engineers in 1961 to 454 this year in addition to the 454 freshmen enrolled in the college of engi neering 62 men were admitted to the five-year arts-engineering pro gram 66 enrolled in the college of business administration and 164 enrolled in the college of arts and science the undergraduate body is deliberately maintained a total of 746 freshmen were admitted to the class of 1966 the university will gradually increase its undergrad uate enrollment from 2,800 to 3,200 students over a seven-year period samuel h missimer director of admission lists four reasons for the university's attracting enough engineering candidates in the an nual report 1 lehigh's approach to educa tion is distinctive and unique from the very beginning lehigh combined in a unique fashion not erned after any existing insti on the traditional american ege of liberal arts the contin ental university and the technical institute of university rank le high has pioneered this educational philosophy for 97 years and has s^d it only to meet the needs c times and the university nues to base its educational programs on the principle of com bining the exact sciences with the humanities an idea modern and remarkable at the time of its orig ination in 1865 and widely adopt ed elsewhere today 2 lehigh's curricula are bal anced and flexible the freshman year in engineering is uniform for all students and the sophomore year is nearly identical for all en gineering majors in the various vandals enter damage new fraternity house 2-10,000 damage vandals struck at the newly-duilt tf.appa sigma iraxernuy nouse during a heavy fog on thanksgiving eve joseph fornasiero 64 president estimated the damage at between 2,000 and 10,000 most of the cost he said will be labor to repair the destruction kappa sigma located on the highest elevation on campus and secluded from the other houses received heavy damage to two of its three floors the fraternity had been scheruled for an official inspection wednes day and for occupancy friday the ground floor of the unoc cupied three-story building re ceived the most damage discov ered at 7:30 wednesday morning by the contractor on the first floor a ladder was thrown through a bathroom win dow a 4 by 4-inch beam was tossed through a main entrance window and several study room and recreation room windows vandals also splattered three quart jugs of muriatic acid on the recreation room tile floor and elections begin monday balloting begins monday for the election of seven students to arcadia polls will be open monday through wednesday at locations in the university center christmas saucon and drown halls and packard laboratory eighteen students are seeking election to the seven arcadia posts three candidates — two of whom were appointed to arcadia — have withdrawn from the race all candidates will participate in a meeting mon day to introduce candidates to the freshman class the meeting will begin at 7 p.m in packard lab oratory auditorium charles c zall president of the freshman class said all other students are wel come to attend the meeting zall told the brown and white the purpose behind the meeting is to show arcadia that the freshmen want to take an active part in student government and change the situation that exists today whereby freshmen have no representation freshmen cannot run for arcadia the three candidates who have withdrawn from the race are h bruce mcclaren 64 walter pfau 64 and james lucas 65 lucas has been named music groups representative to arcadia and mc 2 courses to be added for education doctorate the university will add two new courses to its doctoral program in education begin ning with the spring semester the two ma jors are in reading specialization and curricu lum development dr glenn j christensen provost and vice president of the university announced the in troduction of the two courses today the present program offers courses only for per sons interested in becoming chief school administrators according to dr john a stops professor and head of the department of education the reading sequence is a logical extension of the present reading program clinical experience such as can be obtained here is one of the most important requirements for the reading specialist stoops said the new program is designed for the cur riculum specialist who will be trained to di rect development of total instructional pro grams the training will require more courses in other departments of the university than now used they include social studies eng lish philosophy psychology and the natural sciences than previously used for the educa tion doctorate stoops added lehigh university's read ing and study clinic has provided consider able leadership in the reading field not only through its direct services but with its annual reading conference and reading forums as well as the contributions of its staff members as officers of the international reading asso ciation and as lecturers and authors and edi tors of publications on this subject see special page 9 see 5-year page 3 see three page 9 see vandals naze 9 see spring page 9 meet arcadia candidates — see centerfold