Brown and White Vol. 62 no. 3

              brains aren't everything — either for success in college or for success in life dr wray h congdon dean of students told members of the palmerton board of trade at a recent dinner meet ing pointing out that no matter how brilliant a student may be he won'i get far if he doesn't have perseverance the speaker said i am perturbed at the ease with which some students give up the struggle and they are often stu dents with much more than aver age capacity i believe the reason is that they have had life too easy they have seldom been forced to exert themselves it is not necessarily sheer laziness — it is the lack of a well-established work habits declaring thai many of these students have had it too easy in high school or at home the lehigh dean em phasized that perserverance can win many a success that brains alone would never win other qualities listed by the speaker as important for success in college and success in life were emotional stability clean living honesty and character telling his audience that anxi eties and worries can cause emo tional disturbances which render the brightest student incapable of see congdon page 2 drinker stops double parking drinker house car owners have abolished double parking in their parking lot at the request of house presi dent don powell 21 car owners — a little more than half of all the car owners in drinker ac cording to powell — met tuesday night in the drinker house lounge to discuss the parking problem and propose a solution the problem how to pre vent crowding in the drinker parking lot smallest of the four big-dorm parking areas the crowding resulted in damage and loss of time to students trying to extricate their cars from the tangle the solution as adopted by ma jority vote at tuesday night's meeting and made effective im imediately prohibit double park ing except for short stops with the engine left running the short stops not to exceed 15 minutes enforce registration on the dorm parking roster of every car on the lot penalty for first violation will be serving of a parking ticket through campus police penalty for second violation will be ban ishment from the lot cooperation of section presidents was sought to aid enforcement of the new re gulations qualified rotc basic students get deferments deferments have been granted qualified army rotc basic stu dents whose performances have afrotc drops summer camps according to a communication received by the air science and tactics depi there will be no summer camps in 1951 for ad vanced rotc students e a portion of the message re ceived is air force rotc sum mer camps will not be held dur ing the summer of 1951 because of non-availability of suitable campsites and physical facilities the afrotc will be advised of procedure for commissioning stu dents who have completed all re quirements for commission other ttian afrotc camp wlrn conducts coverage survey on upper campus to improve wlrn's upper-cam pus reception the radio station's engineering department is urging all upper-campus residents to tune their radios to 640 kc at least once a week and supply the department with the following in formation : can you receive wlrn at 640 kc how does the signal strength compare with local commercial stations ? what general type of receiver do you have portable ac-dc communications etc how many tubes where do you live on campus to furnish wlrn with the re sults of iheir surveys campus residents are asked to send a pos tal card to engineering depart ment wlrn lehigh campus t call 8-4121 between 7 and 11 p.m or leave a note at the drown hall studios this is the only way chief engineer dick perry said that we can include the entire upper campus in our coverage he sug gested reception might be im proved by rotating the antenna or the radio itself or by revers ing the ac power plug tice is harmful in two ways it creates bad public relations be tween the university and indus try and it damages other students chances for employment he again asked those who have tak en job offers not to register for further interviews however he advises stu dents to register lor as many interviews as possible in line with the bureau policy set last week regarding acceptance of offers palevicz said that a majority of the companies do not place a time limit on the students for their an swer however some do set a li mit and failure to reply to an of fer is considered a rejection even though some compan ies do not require replies in a specified rime there is a dan ger of losing offers by an un due delay palevicz said this occurs when a company in terviewer goes to another school to interview after fin ishing at lehigh this inter viewer may have offered say four jobs at lehigh then at the other school he may of fer the same number in the event that the four candi dates from the other school accept before the lehigh men the lehigh men may be told that there is no place for them the trend continues in favor of engineers at the placement bur eau m ost in demand are the me chanical engineers summing up palevicz implied that there will be no decrease in the immediate future for engineers he expressed confidence that all engineers from the class of 51 will be placed in jobs whitaker accepts civil defense post ' by accepting the post of chair man of the advisory council for civilian defense president whita r her has become the second mem ber of the faculty to figure in de fense department plans his ap is pointmerit was announced mon day by mayor earl schaffer president whitaker's primary job at present is that of organ izing a workable system for cd units in the bethlehem area such plans when complete will include fclehigh indicated a potential for the ad vanced course of army rotc it was announced today by colonel m iller head of the military sci ence and tactics dept these deferments are effective as long as the student continues to meet the minimum academic and military requirements lor the advanced course a freshman who has been granted deferment and continues to meet the re quirements for continuation and is selected for the advanced course is assured of four years of college on completion of his four college years he must serve for two years on active duty as an officer if called by the secretary of the army candidates for deferment were screened by a selection board consisting of dean sei dle major harkins and ma jor sovems the board select see rotc page 7 chest pledges 61 unfilled more than a month has passed since the deadline for paying campus chest pledges jerry muskin of the campus chest com mittee reports the receipt of only 39 per cent of the pledges as a result of the lack of co operation on the part of those who have pledged their support to the campus chest says muskin benefits for which it is intended are being held up m uskin adds the overwhelm ing success of the new pledge system which has aided in sur passing other years results has been largely discounted as a re sult of the failure of pledged amounts to materialize volume 62 — number 3 lu students hurt in auto accident friday february 23 1951 rutgers routed 17-9 platt scores sole pin bethlehem pa dean speaks to board in palmerton a rutgers squad that had dumped its five previous foes this year was steam-rollered by lehigh's varsity wrestlers to the tune of 17-9 wednesday night in grace hall win number five this season re venged the lehigh setback to the scarlet 16-11 last winter jack platt's spedy fall over don drier in the 157-pound match shot lehigh into a bulging 14-3 lead that never was headed until tvian thraa nt th fmir koiits w«re down to the wire affairs thai left the crowd anxious for a suc cessful lehigh climax in the first bout mike filipos was taken to the mat to start the third period behind 4-3 mike fought his heart out to hold dom inick procopio down the three minutes and he won 5-4 on time advantage in a great crowd pleaser lehigh's 130 pounder ted broth ers strove to duplicate mike's tri umph but let lou bowers tie the score in the last period and go ahead with a subsequent lake down bowers earned two points on time advantage to win 5-1 three lehigh students were in jured monday night when the car in which they were riding skidded into a tractor-trailer on > route 22 the car was badly smashed and the truck's tires and spring were damaged ira peek arts 51 one of the passengers in the car was taken to st luke's hospital where he was reported to be , in a serious condition from multiple head injuries he is a member of tau delta phi fraternity the driver of the car jay landa bus 53 and the other passenger richard h brown arts 53 also a tau delta phi member were treated for minor injuries landa a member of sigma al pha mv fraternity was taken to police headquarters and charged with reckless driving he was re leased on 500 bond pending a hearing see wrestling page 5 interdormitory council voted tuesday night to adopt a war child for one year through the foster parents plan inc also approved were a mo tion to request construction by buildings and grounds of a guard rail along the road to the dravo house parking lot and a motion to collect news items for a proposed dorm ac tivities column in the brown and white cost of adopiing a war child for one year will be 180 a simi lar motion in arcadia was defeat ed last week because of predicted financial uncertainties but idc members expressed the opinion that their group's finances would not suffer from the adoption idc to adopt war orphan lehigh university brown and white applicants cautioned by placement bureau despite repeated warnings stu dents are still signing up for in terviews with the placement bur eau after having accepted offers from industry frank v palevicz assistant director of the place ment bureau revealed palevicz warned that this prac inside • • • sports 4 5 little man 6 contemporary thought 6 blood count s