Brown and White Vol. 62 no. 12

              arcadians act for improved registration students dissatisfied with the program of registration currently in operation ai lehigh may now express their criticisms a new arcadia committee has been set up to discuss this question with the registrar in an attempt to improve current registration methods the new committee head ed by art goldenberg ie 53 will meet thursday at 4 p.m in arcadia office to start work on an investigation of student suggestion and com plaint regarding the process of registration other mem bers of the committee are al koppes ae 52 and nels hansen bus 52 any complaints and sugges tions from students may be left in arcadia office the brown and white office or submitted to committee members red china should have a seat in the u.n was the opinion of the speakers at a panel discussion held by phi gamma mv last week u.s foreign policy as others see it was the topic of the meet ing the chairman was john haight instructor in history he stated that the four major policies of the u.s are supporting the un building up areas of strength dravo c-l deluged by bursting boiler weekend guts count double students are again reminded of the penalty incurred for taking unexcused absences im mediately preceeding or fol lowing a holiday recess i.c double deduction the plan of counting each such absence twice has been used by the university to aid in the computation of total absences and the penalty will be invoked unless the absence is officially excused dravo c-l was submerged under two inches of water early thurs day morning as a hot water boiler on the second floor burst and poured forth a deluge of hot water i the water gushing from a two inch hole resulted in a scene of damp chaos when the flood was discovered about 6:15 a.m by pershing rifleman jim morrison who was getting up for drill students started sweeping the waier towards the exits by 7:30 however most of it had seeped ihiough to the floor below at 8 a.m a plumber arrived and turn ed off the water to bring the situation under control it's too bad there wasn't an m.e student in the section with his entropy diagram handy to de termine the quality of steam he could have saved the plumber odk cited for excellence in service to lu omicron delta kappa chapter here will receive an award for excellent service to the univer sity and local chapter at the na tional odk semi-annual conven tion to be held in st louis friday and saturday according to john mac lean chapter president one delegate not yet announ ced will represent the campus chapter of the leadership society at the convention he will bring up the problem of the university meeting for suggestions and criti cism mac lean said odk was primarily responsible for estab lishment of university meetings at lehigh economic aid to backward coun tries and spreading of u.s ideals hartwell bowsfield cana dian gradaute student in his tory and the first speaker of the night claimed that can ada is beginning to doubt u.s leadership he added that because of its policies the u.s is becoming the sec ond most unpopular nation in the world speaking next was henry batt a graduate student in metallurgy from india he explained that u.s democracy has little to offer to far eastern countries also he continued u.s policy seeks short cuts to world peace terence thomas english grad uate student of mining engineer ing proclaimed that secretary of state ranks as one of the best in u.s history he criticized the eco nomic ideals of the u.s by em phasizing that u.s tariffs are so high that britain cannot pay back what she owes the u.s he add ed is undoing the good it did with lend-lease by cutting it off so suddenly how can a country have a stable government when its main source of aid is cut off almost without notice he asked last on the agenda of lehigh see china page 7 only three weeks remain for prospective law school applicants who plan to take the law school admission test here on april 28 to file their completed applica tions with the educational testing service p.o box 592 princeton new jersey fred armstrong counselor announced today ap plications for the test must be for warded so they will reach the princeton office not later than april 18 armstrong advised many law schools give firsl consideration to applicants who desire entrance in the fall of 1951 and have taken the law school admission test in november february or april since each individ ual law school has its own preferences in these matters each prospective applicant should first find out from the law schools in which he is interested whether or not he should take the test applications for the test on april 28 1951 and a bulletin of information which describes the procedure for making application and shows sample test questions may be obtained from armstrong in the placement counseling & testsing services here or directly from the law school admission lest educational testing service p.o box 592 princeton new jer sey play maestro volume 62 — number 13 c.c.cv 9 ' 3 bethlehem pa tuesday march 27 1951 the rochester civic orchestra under the direction of guy fraser harrison will give a performance in grace hall friday at 3:45 p.m as a part of the stuient concert lecture series students will be admit ted without charge upon presentation of their identification cards mil ball date now may 19 permission to change the date of the military ball from may 12 to may 19 has been granted to scabbard and blade dean charles a seidle chairman of the committee on student activities in an nouncing approval of scab bard and blade's petition cited the cancellation of the projected mustard & cheese production of may 18 and 19 as the factor which made ap proval possible may 12 was originally set as the date for the ball in order to avoid conflict with m&c how ever success of the event would have been doubtful dean seidle said since it would have occur red only a week after houseparty law school tests given april 28 friday's concert free s c l avers the student-concert lecture series committee has announced that all lehigh students and season ticket holders will be admitted free to the rochester civic orchestra program friday at 3:45 p.m the committee's announcement came this week when they be lieved some people might have the idea that an admission fee would be charged selections chosen for this spe cial event are of a wide variety the program will open at 3:45 p.m with yon weber's overture der freischutz this number will be followed by humper dinck's dream pantomime and debussy's en bateau minuet and ballet a modern work by kent kennan entitled night so liquoy will be offered as a special feature by the full orchestra and flute soloist other numbers will include wagner's traeume web er's perpetuum mobile beethoven's allegretto from the seventh symphony and berlioz rakoczy march kennan's compositions were written in rome while he was holder of the prix de rome which he won when he was completing graduate study in the eastman school of music they include a number of short pieces for or chestra which won immediate at tention when performed in rome this second concert in three years by the rochester orchestra has created much interesi throughout the high schools and colleges so the lehigh valley area a heavy demand for tickets was reported over the weekend by local and out-of-town music stores panel speakers contend un seat due red china tickets still available men needed for lu music festival april 13-14 set construction in grace hall for'the 1951 lehigh music festival begins monday and is scheduled to continue throughout the spring vacation down in the valley by kurt weill has inspired the stage design the broadway pro duction will be part 111 of the show covering over half of the lower floor of grace hall the set will be 44 feet wide and 52 feet deep in cluding he orchestra pit and the fiberglass ramparts which will project from the stage modernis tic scenery will also be erected for down in the valley koroseal mountain peaks will form the background for the set behind the translu cent plastic material vari able-color lights will be in stalled and green-sprayed muslin will cover the stage to give the effect of grassy lehigh university brown and white mountain slopes over 7,200 feet of wiring 15 floodlights and 34 spotlights will be required for the lighting a student crew of electricians will install the lights during the vaca tion approximately 2,500 man-hours ot work must be done on the set and any students who are plan see festival page 8 inside • . • little man 6 t editorials & sports 4 5 first staff 3 letters 6