Brown and White Vol. 63 no. 28

              the red cross blood program for defense will set up operations on the top floor of grace hall on feb 28 and 29 in order to accom modate the large number of stu dents who have pledged to do nate blood dean wray h congdon chair man of the bethlehem committee of the red cross blood program for defense was able to secure two bloodmobile units and two complete staffs for friday feb 29 making it possible to schedule 420 donors that day on thurs day feb 28 210 donors will be scheduled in order to accommo date all the blood donor pledges negotiations are being made for a date in march the cards giving the hours of appointments have been mailed all donors ate urged to return the confirmation section of the card promptly in order to facilitate the operation each person is ask ed to report promptly at the time of his appointment persons under 21 years of age must bring their parental consent cards with them to grace hall if they have not al ready sent them in dean congdon has an nounced that where it is neces sary for a student to miss a class or part of a class he will be giv en an excuse to cover that ab sence incurred while donating blood over one-third of the student body responded to the appeal made in january by the interfra ternity council the freshman cabinet and town council the largest number of pledges from any living group is 31 from dravo d 2 thirty members of chi psi signed pledge cards fraternity men pledged 430 pints dormitory men 292 and town men 16 for a total of 738 sixty-four faculty and staff members pledged breakdown by groups frrjeriufios : alpha chi rho no report alpha sigma phi 13 alpha tau omega 21 beta thcta pi 14 chi phi 26 chi psi 30 delta phi 5 delta sigma phi no report delta tau delta 15 delta upsilon 7 kappa alpha 18 kappa sigma 17 lambda chi alpha 27 phi delta theia 16 see blood units page 6 dancing and choral work featuring the cliff clefs the cliff clef trio and the mixed glee clubs will lend a popular touch to the 1952 musical festival april 18 and 19 the cliff clefs have made sev eral television appearances and have rapidly gained popularity throughout the valley talent from cedar crest and from bethlehem and neighboring towns will be included in the fes tival cast pantomime bit parts and speaking parts are still avail able anyone interested should contact prof al rights 310 christ mas-saucon hall in addition to performers per sonnel is needed in most other festival departments anyone willing to lend a hand should contact jack blake chi psi technical developments will again dazzle the festival audi ence special effects will be pro duced through use of a scrim a thin curtain which can bo made transparent translucent or opaque by varying the light conditions rear projection will provide a visual accompaniment to the mv see festival page 7 sailors drop bond requisite seeking to correct the false impression about membership in the sailing club frank mccon nell commodore of the lehigh re gatta has announced that a 25 bond formerly requested as a re quisite to membership is no long er required although the bonds never were mandatory their issuance was stopped last fall and no member is asked for more than the regu lar dues the club has resumed activities for the coming season and meets wednesday in drown hall at 7:30 p.m lu fencer stabbed in freak accident jim gottling 54 victim of a freak fencing accident thursday afternoon reports he is feeling much better gottling received a puncture wound when an epee snapped as he and his paitner lunged at the same time he was discharged saturday from st luke's hospital sub-rosa conflicts between members of piice hall and broth ers of rho eta over control of the dorm were resolved at 1 a.m this morning in an unusual mid-yea election of officers rho eta men gracefully declin ed to seek office resulting in a slate sweep for price members elected were andy de chene 53 president john diercks 53 vice-president and william allen 53 secretary treasurer previously at a special house meeting called wednesday night to discuss the government of the dormitory dick mcclure 52 re signed as president allen and don ledene 53 also resigned their posts of secretary-treasurer and social chairman respectively to facilitate election of a cotiv plete new slate of officers mcclure's resignation cartie when it became apparent that ap proximately 70 per cent of the 30 dormitory residents desired a new dorm administration this group claimed that mcclure as a mettt ber of rho eta local social frater nity whose members have be^n granted permission to remain in the dormitories at least until t)te end of the year was not doing the best possible job as president in a statement to the brown and white mcclure conceded only that he had lost the confi dence of the majority of the dor mitory residents he attributed 1 , this to the water fight which took place in december and the subse quent assessment of 7.68 to each resident of price hall he also de fended the action he took in that case mcclure said that harmony in the dormitory has been as good as could be expected he claimed that if the water fight had not oc curred the movement to remove him from office would never haye begun however the fact that those who did not have any part in the water fight were asked to pay 7.68 hit w-here it hurt most in the wallet and prompted the 35 men to take the action they took they however contended that he could have consulted the dor mitory members on what to do about the forthcoming assessment they also thought he could haye seen to it that those not involved would not be assessed as much as ! the others he claims he toofe i whatever action possible to lower i the assessment and that the bills j were sent out during examina tions and that they had to be paid during registration which pre vented anything but equal distri | bution of the bill mcclure also blamed the movement on freshmen who did not appreciate me because pi necessary disciplinary action he had to take and others in the dox mitory who had a grudge against rho eta because they were not given bids furthermore mcclure stated h was a rho eta pledge when elect ed and everyone in the dormi tory was aware of that fact since only 13 in the dorm were rho eta members it could not be said that they ran the dorm mcclure add ed no complaints were made to me personally he said in de nouncing the way in which the j ouster movement was earned out see rho eta page 6 registration time in 52 at new low marked improvement in the registration process is shown by the preliminary results of a survey taken by the arcadia a.i.i.e committee to improve re gistration at the same time the committee is studying plans to re duce the time required to register still further according to the survey the average upperclassman registered in an hour and 20 minutes some finished in 50 minutes the fresh man average was about 20 min utes more lines were the excep tion to the rule and the majority of the time was spent filling out forms time required to sign up for physical education was also cut down goal of the committee is to see speed page 6 gallagher riots gone dixielanders by hal kelly this is scl . . . what a gone crew . . . they're mad . . . what a way to make a liv ing . . . were just a few of the many diversified reactions to bud freeman and his dixieland com bo which provided quite a change of pace from the usual scl functions in grace hall on friday night an evenly matched 5-man combo trumpet sax drums piano and trombone held forth for over 2 hours with many of the top standards of the jazz man's reper toire such as basin street blues jada sister kate muskrat ramble and others after a 10 minute break which enabled many of our misplaced faculty members to find their hur see dixie page 8 station wlrn will broadcast the second of its round-table dis cussions with candidates for ar cadia tonight at 9:30 the first of the round-table broadcasts was held last night with don shindel moderating to night's moderator who also will question candidates and encour age discussion between them will be elliott barnett barnett chief announcer and head of the wlrn news depart ment stated that the broadcasts are presented as a public ser vice and are in line with the sta tion's policy of keeping the le high student well-informed as to what is taking place on his cam pus also announced by bar nett was a series of news broad casts to be aired over wlrn dur ing the 52 spring semester a news digest will be broad cast sundays at 2 p.m and re ligion at the newsdesk moral views of the news will be on mondays at 9:45 p.m on tues days at 9:45 p.m wlrn views the press with news and com ments on items appearing in pub lications that circulate on campus force price election donors to bleed in grace brown and white volume 63 — number 28 tuesday feb 19 1952 lehigh u bethlehem pa see cafeteria betterment as scblh fades away the student committee for the betterment of lamberton hall faded from the picture at friday's combined meeting of scblh and the official lamberton hall com mittee af:er a period of general bick ering over price irregularities university treasurer glick put the final touch to price arguments with if scblh can show us where lamberton is out of line in prices as compared with other res taurants then we will take action and correct the matter otherwise we remain passive scblh had no answer to this when dick washer 52 sug gested that removal of the bars from the windows might improve the atmosphere of lamberton hall he received unanimous sup port the bars will be removed in the near future all agreed that atmosphere was definitely important to an eating establishment and discus sion turned to how it might be improved this left scblh out of things since it had not mentioned this aspect of lamberton in its of ficial report further suggestions as to how to eliminate that impression that town council representative wil liam thompson 53 likened to eating in a cathedral included brighter illumination a more cheeiy paint job light-topped tables and the construction of a false ceiling to all this glick added that while the need for such improve see lambchops page 7 cliff clefs and mixed glee clubs included in music festival cast warren stevens 53 left head carpenter for the spring music festival and stage manager robert h gill 53 look over their set model for the 1952 production arcadia candidates to broadcast tonight