Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 7

              interfraternity body aids proposal for joint food purchases tryouts for tentative pro duction to be held during week general election for the mem bers of the executive council of the freshman union will be held at 7:30 p m wednesday in the faculty dining room in drown hall all living groups on and off the campus are to send their representatives the represen tatives of each of the off campus non-fraternity groups are also expected to be present the ex ecutive committee of seven members will be elected from the delegates present the members of the committee will elect the union officers from among themselves to feature houseparties ; stoumen writes co-eds at lehigh the lehigh review appearing thursday will feature two articles on houseparties one is written by a chaperon at a houseparty and the other by a girl who has at tended many of lehigh's house parties shang-shoa young graduate student from china has written an article concerning the present chinese situation coeds at le high is the title of an article by louis c stoumen arts 39 there will also be a short story by eric weiss e e 39 and an article on outboard motorboat racing be the cover is a photomontage by stoumen dealing with housepar ties the frontispiece which was made by stanford guggenheim ch e 39 also deals with house parties heads requested to enforce rules shows picture of huge span joseph a hopkins eta sigma phi taps 6 men wait for board action mustard and cheese has tenta tively set frank wead's play ceiling zero for its first produc tion announced a a rights coach of dramatics yesterday the play will be presented sometime during the early part of december since drown hall is no longer available for stage productions when produced for the general public another site must be se cured for the presentation of mus tard and cheese's plays pending the decision of the bethlehem school board tomorrow night the place is undetermined but the club has made efforts to secure the auditorium of either broughal or liberty high school tryouts conducted tryouts for the play are being conducted by mr rights during this week and he will select the cast by the end of the week ceiling zero is an aviation play which takes place in the newark airport in the office of an aviation company the play was presented in new york and starred osgood perkins later it was made into a movie with james cagney and pat o'brien in the leading roles drama club plans to give high tor senior ball site repainted and ventilating system recently installed ceiling is decorated the coliseum has been com pletely rennished and decorated for the annual senior ball which will be held on friday among the more prominent features are a new ventilating system and a complete retlooring to improve the appearance of the ceiling the decorations will be placed higher arrangements have also been made for a larger seating capacity the coliseum was recently repainted and cleaned six 30-inch fans have been purchased along with two public address systems to have booths fraternity booths will be placed around the dance floor each booth is to be decorated with fur niture from the fraternity it rep resents and the fraternity banner will be hung over the booth a soft drink stand and a water cooler will be placed at a convenient place on the dance floor the floor committe consists of dick bishop arts 38 robert h clark arts 38 matthew r col lins jr m e 38 lyman j craig jr bus 38 joseph a hop kins jr bus 38 herbert imb t ch e 38 franklin a lucard ch e 38 robert h moore bus 38 walter c west 11 arts 38 david g williams jr bus 38 randolph s young arts 38 the chaperons are dean and mrs c m mcconn dean and mrs g b curtis and dr and mrs c g beardslee tickets are now on sale at the lehigh union observatory open every wednesday dean lauds past house party conduct at arcadia meeting dean c m mcconn addressed a special meeting of arcadia stud ent government body last night on the subject of house parties the dean requested that heads of living groups make every ef fort to keep drinking over the weekend down to a minimum and emphasized the punishments that would result from infractions of the house party rules by the liv ing groups lehigh's house parties in the past have been of a high stan dard the dean stated and it is the responsibility of the heads of the living groups to maintain that standard the dean also urged all houses to make the weekend an enjoy able one for the chaperons point ing out the problems which chap eroning entails first review held honorary classical society hears talk by dean p m palmer six men were pledged at a meeting of the eta sigma phi national honorary classical society which was held friday evening at the home of dr horace w wright head of the latin department the initiates were frederick d pierce bus 40 robert b palmer arts 40 carl h richardson arts 40 edwin h miller arts 40 herbert p aldrich arts 39 and quontin keith arts 40 dean palmer speaks prof p m palmer dean of the college of arts and science spoke on the growing antipathy between classical and scientific education in ancient times cultural and scientific students were at peace and it was only in the latter part of the 19th century that this hat red really arose initiations will take place nov 5-12 and will end with a banquet at shankweiler's hotel jones talks to engineers on construction of gold en gate bridge the golden gate bridge is over twenty per cent longer than any other suspension bridge in exis tence today stated jonathan jones chief engineer of the fab ricating division of the bethlehem steel when he spoke before the first paper meeting of the en gineers club of the lehigh valley in packard auditorium last night he presented his picture on the building of the golden gate bridge in the form of a motion picture made during the various stages of construction the larg est audience that has attended any of these meetings was present in cluding the chairmen of the affili ated engineering societies of the lehigh valley according to the president of the engineers club is great engineering feat jones said the san francisco tower of the bridge is 1,225 feet from shore and rises 746 feet above the bay it is undoubtedly the greatest engineering feat ever con ceived and successfully concluded during the history of man to the present time after the motion picture he an swered the questions asked by members of the audience about its construction will hold smoker to rent paintings faculty will present play by maxwell anderson a reading of high tor by maxwell anderson will be pre sented by the faculty dramatics club at 7:45 tomorrow evening in the lounge of packard laboratory the reading of this 1936 pulit zer prize drama will be in the charge of mrs n s hibshman those who will take part in the reading are j c mertz instruc tor in chemistry and his wife r d billinger assistant professor in chemical engineering and his wife e h riley assistant professor of english j l graham assistant professor of psychology a w klein professor of mechanical en gineering and h n alexander associate professor of chemistry preceding the reading g a howland head of the department of fine arts will tell of his as sociations with mr anderson pro fessor howland was a boyhood friend and a college roommate of maxwell anderson o talk on placement given to fraternity by morgan e r morgan director of the placement bureau spoke to the members of alpha kappa psi hon orary business fraternity thurs day evening after a supper at the alpha tau omega fraternity house mr morgan spoke about the functions of the placement bureau particularly those relative to place ment of seniors who will be grad uated next june 75 witness r.o.t.c drill on monday afternoon seventy-five persons witnessed the first regimental formation of the lehigh r o t c yesterday afternoon on the upper field as temporary appointments capt russel r winters bus 38 was acting colonel of the regi ment capt melvin s lord ch e 38 served as lieutenant colonel capt allan c crane bus 38 was regimental adjutant battalion commanders were capt walter j schmidt ch e 38 william h roadstrum e e 38 and william a sheppard e m 38 student lieutenants luke o travis bus 38 evans h stone bus 38 and frederick c tompkins ch e 38 acted as bat talion adjutants o williams to address club pres c c williams will address the bethlehem monarch's club at a meeting in the sun inn this even ing his subject will be what lehigh university means to this community £. w brown society plans to explain operations sayre observatory will be open to the public on clear wednesday nights until nov 17 between 7:30 and 9:30 it was announced at the meeting thursday evening of the e w brown astronomical society plans were also made to have members present to explain the operation of the instruments and to point out interesting objects with the six inch refracting tele scope allyn c vine graduate assist ant in physics replaced the clock on the telescope with a syncron ous motor drive during the sum mer vine has obtained other new and improved parts for the in struments in the past year r n van arnam instructor in mathematics and faculty adviser of the society spoke on the his tory and service of the club in past years willard lectures suggests that lehigh un ion take duties of ar cadia broaden scope latter group will vote constitutional revisions drawn up to include transferred powers a merger of arcadia and the lehigh union student governing bodies was proposed last night at a meeting of the former body by its committee on merger and con stitutional revision the plan provides for the virt ual abolishment of arcadia as it now exists transfers its duties to the lehigh union and broadens the scope and representation of the union this proposal would take effect through amendments to the pres ent lehigh union constitution and would not be put into practice un til may 1938 arcadia's final vote on the matter will be taken ar the december meeting committee gives report the committee submitting the report consisted of j palmer mur phy arts 38 chairman archi bald jamieson met e 38 james bergen ch e 38 president of arcadia was an ex-officio mem ber and karl schantz m e 38 this committee has been working with melvin s lord ch e 38 president of the union joseph hopkins bus 38 president of the interfraternity council dr claude g beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy and fac ulty adviser to the union and dean c m mcconn this committee continued the work started by an arcadia com mittee headed by charles f mc coy arts 37 appointed to con sider the matter last march the report of the committee is as follows after eight months of investigation this committee working with the presidents of the other bodies involved with the faculty adviser of the lehigh union and with dean mcconn submits the following report and urges its adoption the work done by lehigh's three student governing bodies arcadia the lehigh union and the interfraternity council is of such a varying nature that a merger of these three bodies cannot be consummated this has been conclusively proved to the com mittee there is nothing however to prevent two of these bodies arcadia and the lehigh union from combining in order to promote better more efficient more centralized and more representative student government at lehigh the interfraternity council must remain a separate entity to deal with fra ternity problems the union is now a working organization with a definite program efficiently managed and controlled arcadia is a rapidly slipping body with no work of major importance accomplished during the last four years the union the council odk and other groups have usurped arcadia's once wide powers the chief duties which now remain to this once powerful group are the supervision of the class elections the management of the founder's day sports the conducting of the annual college flagpole meeting and the appointing of student committees these could all be strengthened by a combination with the union and other problems of a minor nature which arcadia has dealt with could be more efficiently handled the union would be broadened in scope to give more complete representation than it now contains and yet would be smaller in size than the now un wieldly arcadia the union could be given broader powers undertaking the management of all student government save that pertaining to frater nities the proposed amendments would strengthen rather than weaken the position of the lntenraternity council your committee has deemed it more feas ible to use the present lehigh union con stitution as the basis tor the merger than the arcadia constitution as it can be more . u.s iv and reatlny amended the proposals or the merger urn iiicoipoialed in trie form vi amendments to tne i num constitution none of tiie powers of either arcadia or the union have oecn dropped by the change but new oiits have been aoued and oid ones ievi»ed imor changes not by nature con stitutional can be more successfully worked out by the resultant body at a later date ihese changes on the whole should tend to enrich ralner than einpoverish the point svsu-.ii now being used by odk and cy anide amendments to the lehigh union constitution amendment 1 article 11 section 1 shall be amended to read the purpose of this organization shall be to promote the inter est of the undergraduates in all matters continued on page four swing and sway artists honorary debate society to form teams delta omicron theta honorary debating society will hold a smok er at 7:30 p m on wed oct 27 in the arcadia room drown hall those interested in intra-mural debating will attend debating teams representing all the colleges of the university and every branch of the engineering school will be formed a series of debates between the teams will start in december the teams will compete for the prizes established by the williams foundation the members of the winning team will receive 60 apiece and the second place team will receive 40 apiece o ettinger scores archives amos a ettinger associate pro fessor of history read a historical paper at the annual meeting of the pennsylvania historical associa tion friday evening at lancaster in which he questioned the trust worthiness of information con tained in state archives art gallery offers collec tion for student use a newly acquired collection of paintings and prints that students may rent from the art gallery has been announced by garth a howland head of the department of fine arts any student may ob tain a painting at 25 cents per semster by applying to the at tendent in the gallery or to pro fessor howland the collection a gift from the carnegie foundation contains 50 colored reproductions and 25 or iginal prints most of the original paintings are in colors and differ from the more expensive variety only in that they are unsigned several woodcuts and etchings are included in the present collection with many reproductions of mod ern work the practice of loaning paint ings to students was instituted last year and the success of the program has warranted continuing it this year says dr howland o science group will be addressed by billinger dr robert d billinger assistant professor of chemistry will ad dress the science group of the pennsylvania state teachers as sociation at 10:30 saturday morn ing in liberty high school the talk chemistry on dis play will be illustrated with lan tern slides it deals with the more spectacular side of modern chem istry prof roy d hassler of moravian college will also speak at the meeting addresses mining society on geological notes dr bradford willard 21 acting professor of geology in place of dr b l miller addressed the members of the mining society at their first meeting thursday night dr willard is employed at the pennsylvania topographic and geo logical survey at harrisburg he received the degrees of m a and ph d from harvard university his address consisted of geological notes on pennsylvania followed by a discussion on fossils and form ations o 2 heads attend celebration pres c c williams and reg istrar g b curtis spent thurs day and friday at the sesqui-cen tenial of franklin and marshall college at lancaster pa president williams represented lehigh uni versity and dr curtis represented wesleyen university mcconn approves idea b j scarpulla new york will handle details of organization contracts and a detailed state ment of the plan of joint buying sponsored by interfraternity coun cil were issued to the heads of all living groups last evening at the special arcadia meeting this plan of cooperative buying of meat butter and eggs by all fraternity living groups is being handled by the wholesale organ ization of b j scarpulla a new york business man formerly em ployed by the commodities dis tribution division of the city of new york joseph a hopkins bus 38 president of intrerfraternity coun cil and william g dukek chem 38 member of the council have worked with dr claude g beard slee as adviser and mr scar pulla in working out the details of this plan house stewards meet several meetings of all house stewards were held at the begin ning of this year to consider the proposal and the interfraternity council in its meeting last thurs day heard the final report of the committee dean mcconn who examined the written document of the pro posal stated before arcadia meet ing i have examined the plan which these men have submitted in my opinion it is the most flex ible and most favorable plan for cooperative buying that has ever been presented the fraternities have nothing to lose by this plan and if it works it should result in a substantialsaving however there are two obstacles that stand in the way of its success first the lack of cooperative spirit among fra ternities that has been evidenced in the past and second the pos sibility of sabotaging of the plan by chefs and cooks employed by the fraternities is reason why wrecked this has been one of the rea sons why several plans proposed during the past six years for co operative buying have been wrecked the first obstacle has been met in this plan in a better way than any plan heretofor the second mr scarpulla will have to meet in his own way the plan in its written form fol lows an organization will be created with its headquarters in a suitable location in beth lehem pa it will include the services of a competent buyer a master butcher and a delivery man the business of the organiza tion will be supervised accounts kept and general policy determined by me this or ganization will buy the best quality gov ernment inspected meats it will prepare them in the standard accepted manner for delivery and deliver daily on order orders may be filled with the same variety of choice as at present but should be placed 24 to 48 hours in advance of time desired a reserve supply sufficiently large enough to fill any last minute emergency order will be carried the fraternities will pay only for the cuts ordered and delivered at fifteen per cent above wholesale cost to me the whole sale cost to me will be the lowest possible for quality meats by virtue of direct buy ing in quantity and taking advantage of best prices in either the local market or the new york or philadelphia markets this system of supply will affect a saving to the fraternities of from ten to fifteen per cent of present meat costs any cuts that are not sold will be dis tributed through other outlets and will in no way be a responsibility of the fraterni ties nor will it be a loss which in any way affects cost to the houses all meats sold will be of stamped grades prime al choice 1 good 2 graded as in standard uniform meat grading sys tem selection of grade to be made by the individual fraternity the organization will be prepared to fi nance the buying and handling of all food stuffs bought by the various houses for the usual 30 day period payment will be due at the end of any current month after statement is presented this plan will require your cooperation for a trial period of 90 days after that it will operate on the basis of a month-to-month agreement with the individual houses my experience in the problems of uni continued on page four the three barons featured by sammy kaye brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday october 19 1937 review appears thursday oct 21 living groups plan cooperative buying vol xlv — no 7 price — five cents coliseum has new flooring 2 amplifiers ceiling zero to be staged by dramatists co-op planner committee proposes merger of 2 bodies freshman union to hold elections for members guest list due tomorrow houseparty guest lists must be in the brown and white of fice in christmas-saucon hall by 7:30 tomorrow evening the names and hometowns of all guests including chaperones and the name of the orchestra that will play for the satur day night dance should be in cluded member intercollegiate newspaper association 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