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              n building through campus roads s time-consuming see kirkpatrick page 3 horning land to travel to i f c parley robert horning and james land president and treasurer re spectively of ifc will represent that group at the annual interfra lernity weekend to be held at gettysburg college maich 9 10 arid 11 horning expressed hope that the lehigh ifc might benefit from discussions with nationally prom inent fraternity men who will be present he is particularly inter ested in obtaining views of ex perienced fraternity officers on rushing and fraternity adminis tration kirkpatrick outlines fire measures requests co-operation of all students calling student cooperation the key to fire safety on the lehigh campus john i kirkpatrick treas urer outlined the progress of the university r i fire prevention mea sures saturday and asked practi cal assistance in letters to living group presidents with the installation of alarm systems in price and taylor halls and the library the university will have completed a major phase of its work to protect stu dents from fire in classrooms and dormitories kirkpatrick said but no system can be effective without the serious cooperation of those it is designed to protect the treasurer responsible also for safety supervision on campus pointed out that access to a burn three religions hold initial meetings radio club to teach code lehigh's amateur radio club will begin radio code classes starting tomorrow in the basement of drown hall purpose of these classes is to aid students in ob taining amateur radio licenses plans are being made by the club to enlist the aid of the arotc here in firming a station new equipment wilt be supplied by the air force for amateur use as well as training in message handling according to joe paquin club president the fcc requires a sending and receiving minimum of 13 words per minute after two weeks the class wilf be discontinued and practice will include half-hour transmissions ot code over the radio this code will be transmitted by one of the licensed amateurs on oampus debaters to vieior state title lehigh's debating society delta pmicron theta will send an af firmative and negative team to the 4th annual pennsylvania in tercollegiate forensic tournament this friday and saturday at tem ple university the winner of the tourna ment will be recognized as the state debate champion and will be invited to parti cipate in the national tourna ment at west point the tournament will consist of six rounds of debating with each team debating six times over 50 colleges are sending teams charles e saylor arts 54 and lawrence e collins arts 52 will take the affirmative side of the question resolved that the non communist nations should form a new international organization the negative side will be taken by i paul handwerk i.e 52 and robert k meyer arts 53 data for eclipse shown in library data on the partial solar eclipse that occurs before sunset tomor row is now on exhibit in the dis play cases of the library sponsored jointly by library officials and members of e w brown astronomical society the display is one in a number of as tronomical topics of current inter est slated for display for the past week photographs magazines and books dealing with heavenly bodies have been on exhibit editor cites rebirth of israelites importance to future of judaism the rebirth of the jewish peo ple as a nation in israel will pro foundly affect the future course of the religion of judaism dr ab raham a neuman president of dropsie college of hebrew and cognate learning declared at the hillel meeting in the brith sho morning dr neuman editor of the jewish quarterly review told the gathering that the lorn community center sunday jewish religion is intimately bound up with the history of the jewish people its reli gious ideals grew out of his toric experiences he emphasized that judaism was not given full-grown to the jewish people as was christianity to the pagan nations the divine revelations of the bible are well related to the life of the people of see israelites page 3 chorale here tomorrow performanes of the ballad of judas iscariot will be given by the university chorale for its lenten cantata tomorrow and sunday at 7:30 p.m in packer church the ballad of judas iscariot was written by richard purvis acclaimed by many as one of the outstanding composers in the uni ted states today the work is scored for mixed voices soprano alto tenor and baritone solos harp violin organ and piano christian faith insists on radical discipline protestant group told christianty provides a radical fellowship cutting across lines of both race and nationality dr john oliver nelson director of field work at yale divinity school said sunday morning at the opening protestant service of the first conference on religion speaking on deep root chris tianity dr nelson former head of the federal council of church es commission on the ministry told the conregation that chris tian faith insists upon a radical discipline inwardly and spiritual ly which goes to the root of hu man motivation with an absolute obedience pointing out that the term radical must be restored to its original meaning dr nel son explained that radicals of our day do not really go down to the root of things see christian page 3 catholic club fills void of secular system nugent must christ walk the campus alone was the topic discussed by rev vincent j nugent at the catholic program in holy infancy church saturday the newman club which adopted responsible catholic as ilts theme was told the very heart of the problem of the cath olic on a secular campus is to ac quire a clear grasp of the under lying philosophy and approach of the education he is receiving in the light of his dynamic spirit ual and intellectual heritage rev nugent added we must recognize that the newman club reason than to fill a definite void created by our secular education system john bigatel president of the newman club has expressed the hope that as many of lehigh's 500 catholic students as possible will participate in the retreat deadline for blood pledge tomorrow volume 62 — number 7 v . © • c "^ £ * congratulations . . . tuesday march 6 1951 bethlehem pa tankmen retain title set 3 out of 7 records tomorrow is the deadline for pledging of blood donors although the campus quota has been lowered to 210 pledges rather than the original 250 cam paign officials reported that ap proximately 30 additional signa tures are needed officials also announced that students and staff work ers under 21 are to sign their regular appointment cards and turn them in they must have their parent's release card with them on the day of blood donations in order to qualify the appointment card calls for the student's signature and when he will be available to give blood the parent's release card gives him permission to do so this changes the previous an nouncement by the red cross that students under 21 had until march 16 to pledge coach bill christian center and captain walt mackinnon right of lehigh's swimming team are presented with the trophy awarded to the winner of the middle atlantic swimming asso ciation tournament lehigh won the meet handily scoring 84 points 37 more than second-place franklin and marshall dividual medley and dela ware's arthur mayer charles lloyd and ester who set a new mark in the 300 yard medley relay the final round began auspi ciously as the blue heirs defeated the lehigh 300-medley relay team in the record time of 3:07 dela ware moved out in front in the backstroke and was never headed by the lehigh trio of bill seip pete haupt and bob hartenstine no records were broken in the 220 freestyle which followed but george ester of delaware bob high of f&m and tom schaefer of lehigh were locked in a close race before the blue hens star came out on top high and schae fer touched the side of the pool right behind ester to take second and third see records page 5 lehigh's swimmers coached by bill christian annexed their sec ond consecutive middle atlantic swimming championship in the myrl a jacobs pool saturday night as they racked up 84 points and finished far in front of f & m with 47 and delaware with 45 points seven mat records were set in the final events three of them by the engineers lehigh's lee peachy and pete haupt each established new marks in the backstroke and breaststroke events re spectively while the 400 yard freestyle relay team of bill henderson bob harten stine walt mackinnon and ken flynn lowered the mat record in their specialty other record-breakers were ivan high of f&m in the 50 and 100 yard freestyles george ester of delaware in the 440 yard freestyle dave fe merman in the 150 yard in lehigh university brown and white in case of fire students and faculty should do the follow ing 1 sound the alarm in the building 2 call the victory fire sta tion 7-7211 or sound the alarm at one of the following city fire alarm boxes located at coxe laboratory phi gamma 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