Brown and White Vol. 63 no. 20

              see psa page 8 taylor men quench trash can blaze a fire of undeteimined origin broke out late tuesday evening in a trash receptacle in section a of taylor hall the blaze was quickly extinguished by students see blaze page 3 arcadia ok's larocci plan associates out arcadia approved the 16-man committee plan intended to re place the ineffective arcadia as sociates at its meeting wednes day the plan was introduced by tony larocci arts 52 at the pre vious meeting members of the committee will be selected from appli cants by arcadia's executive committee on the basis of "... interest in student gov ernment service or potential service to lehigh and gen eral ability selection will be made by each incoming arcadia and thereafter during the year whenever need ed see associate page 8 fraternities toss parties for kids christmas festivities already two christmas parties have been given for 24 young sters in bethlehem and allen town last wednesday evening see christmas parties page 8 part of a tradition establish ed over the years by several houses the parties feature presents ice cream and can dy for children who might otherwise miss much of the santa claus will skid down three fraternity house chimneys to entertain children from bethle hem and vicinity at parties being held for them on and off the le high campus this weekend chaiges of malfeasance of of fice and habitual absence from meetings of town council brought against treas richard parker bus 52 by pres richard kradjel arts 53 last week were dropped wednesday the decision to drop the charges followed a meeting of kradjel parker and facul ty adviser preston parr assis tant director of the research institute none of the three who reached the decision would comment upon the ac tion at a meeting of the board of section representatives held wednesday afternoon the motion to dismiss charges was passed by a vote of 13-0 action began to submit proposed amendments to the constitution to a vote of the membership a mail ballot pro posing amendments regarding re moval of officers and section rep resentatives will be sent to the members see council page 8 by carl zimmerman the political science assembly failed to win an allocation from the student activities fund wed nesday when arcadia approved the allocations proposed by the student club finance committee on a 6-5 vote the assembly received 251 from the fund last year and was the only group the funds of which were cut off com pletely jim land bus 52 chairman of the committee stated in his re port that each group other than the classes which got something gave something to the school and said the committee did not feel that psa contributed to the welfare of the school a number of psa members at tended the meeting to persuade arcadia to restore a psa appro priation to the allocation leo rooney arts 53 presi dent bruce solomon arts 53 see politics page 7 poll collapses response poor if the meagre results of the b&w poll on cheating can be trusted purity in the examination rooms at lehigh is better than the average revealed by cornell and u.c.l.a polls of 2660 students registered for the fall term of 1951 55 completed the blanks printed in the nov 28 and dec 5 issues of the paper from this number 11 indicated they had either given received or used illegal aid no conclusion is drawn from these results other than the fact that the poll was not successful knauf 1st lu korean victim a marine corps captain and a veteran of the last war william g knauf met.e 51 was killed nov 30 in korea while piloting a night fighter plane according to word received by his parents mr and mrs emil w knauf of la motte pa knauf was the first le high graduate to die in the ko rean war a member of lambda chi al pha fraternity and former vice president of the house knauf was recalled to active duty on march 1 1951 while working for the reading railroad after being stationed at willow grove pa and santa see knave page 8 children from bethlehem and vicinity are entertained by stan gedney arts 52 santa claus for a day at the phi gamma delta christmas party last wednesday one other party has already been held and three others are planned for tomorrow and the early part of next week lehigh university brown and white volume 63 — number 20 friday december 14 1951 bethlehem pennsylvania cut privileges extended to freshmen sophs morris nelson priscilla gerlach allan koppes and elizabeth mackeeby as they appeared in wednesday night's chess re hearsal of the rival to be presented tonight and tomorrow night by mustard and cheese in packard lab auditorium m & c double-header set for debut tonight frosh cars to remain on campus attendance regulations for le high undergraduates have been modified to include freshmen and sophomores in the so-called un limited cut system the modified regulations which come into effect feb 7 1952 leave attendance enforcement for all students up to the discretion of the individual instructor who is to determine if a student ap pears to be neglecting his work through poor attendance or other grace the production of the rivals and lighting effects created by thomas walker and austin murphy and their crews will add to the play see rivals page 6 wise or interferes with the disci pline of any course in cases where action is to be taken the department head notifies the dean of stu dents who warns the student further negligence on the student's part will result in his being thrown out oi the course expulsion from two or more courses make said student eligi ble for action by the committee on educational policy as under the previous system regular attendance is expected of all students but the instructors must submit daily attendance re ports to the registrar to deter mine whether students come up to expectations also as before the student must take the initiative to catch see cuts page 3 curtain time is 8 p.m for the rivals and the game of chess the first mustard and cheese club piesentation of its 67ih season at lehigh the two plays will be presented both tonight and tomor row night in packard auditorium the rivals is a popular farce comedy that involves the compli cations of a many-sided love af fair in which no one knows who is wooing who the game of chess is a one-act opener to be presented by four freshmen authentic 18th century cos tumes and furniture will town council drops charges against parker aicadia decided not to recom mend prohibition of freshmen cars at its meeting wednesday instead it will study a suggestion that upperclassmen be allotted preferred parking spaces in the dormitory parking lots the report of a committee on the parking problem made by tom maccabe arts 53 chairman showed that almost half of the 357 registered cars owned by dormi tory men belong to freshmen and that there are parking spaces in the lots for 267 cars maccabe said that 1,200 student cars are registered with the university of which 164 belong to frosh he esti mated the total number of see freshman page 8 psa denied support from activities fund psa to air series on u s election lehigh university's political science assembly announced wednesday that it will begin a radio serial concerning the forth coming national elections over wlrn monday and will conduct a presidential preference poll on campus in the near future the plans announced by chairman leo j rooney arts 53 call for a weekly panel to discuss pertinent issues of the 1952 election the first discussion will be on the top ic corruption as an elec tion issue in 1952 panel members will be rooney bruce solomon michael arra all