Brown and White Vol. 74 No. 44

              lehioh university brown and white vo 74 — no 44 bethlehem a _ tuesday april 23 1963 866-033 debaters weigh fraternity life piedne duties cited we are attacking fraternities in general stated robert krotzer 64 s the first affirmative speaker in the debate relsolved that fra ternities should be abolished delta omicron theta debate honorary sponsored he oxford union audience-style debate held in packard auditorium thursday night krotzer felt that in the fraternities there was an intellectual con finement of education caused by the pledge duties and fraternity files the pledges are expected to do anything a brother commands even if the brother's order should interfere with academic duties the files meanwhile cause a high degree of conformism — students attempt to get a c and no better the emphasis is also shifted from learning to merely knowing enough answers to pass the test the brotherhood goal of friendship is accomplished he said by forcing the students to live together artificial friendships are also formed as a result private life is denied by the forced social gather ings bertram w gross jr 64 was the first to answer for the negative stand he stated that there was no proof of krotzer's first point and advanced the tutoring theory to prove the opposite according to this the fraternity provides students to —— ~~~ help other students with their studies hazing has been abolished gross pointed out in order to refute the second point he also felt that it is the dormitories and not the fra ternities that cause the formation of artificial friendships since the fraternities are able to select stu bertram w cross jr 64 and dr david m greene assistant professor of english at oxford debate last week peterson wins album contest moonshine and marches from ol south mountain will be tho title of the university band's new album to be recorded live at smith college on mr..y 4 john petersen 66 who thought up the title will receive a gift rec ord the album will include lchigh foo'ball songs marches and drink ing songs the cover is made up of info mal pictures of various university sports arid parties it should be available at the supply bureau t:t a cost of 5 by the end of may mary lou — our eleventh sheltermate is 21 and is a senior at bennington college in vermont peace corps tale told by leon haller 58 pditor's xolc : the folloidmj letter written by a lehigh grad uate now working with the peace corps in peru was re ceived by l thomas herbert assistant to the dean of stu dents it has been quite a while since i received j^our letter and although i had intended io write a long little ago it is better that i had not much has occurred since i received your letter i have been in the peace corps more than a year we were orig inalfy scheduled to arrive last august but the military coup ex tended our training period another five weeks this being under the auspices of the experiment for in ternational living there fifty of us continued our studies of span ish economics american institu tions and watched the daily papers for news about peru finally we packed our things and were off to peru we landed in lima very early in the morning and stayed in that city for a week there were essentially two groups one which would work in the national school feeding program which re ceives food for peace aid and the ether group which would go to arequipa the second largest city in peru and concentrate its efforts in community development i was in the latter arequipa is about 8,000 feet above sea level it is very dry and warm in 1958 and 1960 earth quakes rocked the city bringing great damage and misery droughts in the sierra created con siderable migration to the city and large patches of land suddenly were invaded and makeshift houses erected these were the barria das in which we were to live and work for the first few months all the men worked in construc tion we worked with peruvians building water tanks allegedly provisional and helping in the construction of school houses not the pleasant district-type school houses at home but flatroofed three-room buildings during the cuban crisis i was passing through a dysentery crisis putting me out parties to follow themes announcec following duke ellington's stomp friday night the spring parties will swing into action as the greeks open their doors to a weekend of fun and merrymaking chi psi phi delta theta and pi kappa alpha have chosen days cf wine and roses as their themes the music will be provided by the castiles the jaguars and ed wiley's band respectively phi gamma delta will have its traditional fiji island party to the music of andu.llu.cci and the end-els • •-- . ■ all housepartiers will be piped aboard mchale's navy by phi sigma kappa to the music of the renegades pi lambda phi's hawaiian luau will sway to the drums of the rat men alpha lambda omega has the —— theme of 88 with music being furnished by the ramrods the two giant telephones on tau delta phi's roof symbolize their i hem cf ring-a-ding-ding the music of bobby martin's band will provide the music above the sound of more than 100 ringing tele phones-borrowed from the tele phone company ; . .. ' theta chi's theme for house pr'y is a sleeping sickness with music being supplied by the royal dukes tho-e who like the big city will certainty er«joy theta xis rum b?e party and the music of ernie williams sigma alpha mv will have the music of the black spades to fur nish part of the entertainment at their arabian nights party pspe honors george costello for top grades george w costello 63 a civil engineering student was awarded a membership in the pennsylva nia society of professional en gineers pspe by the ladies auxiliary of that organization on april 19 the award is presented annually to the senior engineering students at lehigh arid lafayette who have the highest grade average after the midyear costello holds both a philadel phia board of education scholar george w costello dance ducats required to vote for hp queen only those students presenting houseparty dance tickets will be permitted to vote for the houseparty queen candidates pictured on page 3 . . ■ . ; . . ; .-;.;.■ ; . j : -. the 10 candidates were chosen from 32 entries received-from fra ternities and living groups voting will take place from 9:30 a.m to 5:30 p.m tomorrow in front cf the mail boxes in the university center members of alpha phi omega national service fraternity will run the elections students are to vote for their four favorite contestants on the ballot printed on page 3 the four girls receiving the highest number of votes will become finalists on friday night duke ellington and the chaperones in grace hall will choose the queen from these four the coronation of the win ner will take place at 11 p.m houseparty dance tickets are still available at student activities desk they also will be on sale at the queen ballot box tomorrow and at the door friday night see food page 2 see pspe page 7 see fraternity page 7