Brown and White Vol. 63 no. 38

              an information booth for houseparly will operate in drown hall from april 15 until the thurs day before the spring event frank chesterman publicity chairman said the booth would be open on tuesdays and thurs days from 12:30 to 1 in the after noon and 7:30 to 9 in the evening information concerning picnic sites caterers chaperones dorm space tickets group functions program officials hp queen rules petitions concessions and a time table of events will be available the phone number is bethlehem 6-9193 plan cup for greeks with average boost the establishment of a cup to be awarded by ifc to the fra ternity with the largest improve ment of scholastic average over the preceding semester has been announced by pete nesbit presi dent only fraternities are eligible bethlehem residents who have been getting television in terference are blaming it on wlrn wlrn and w3aeq le high's official amateur station have denied causing it adding that they are not often even on the air when outraged citizens lodge their complaints richard perry chief engineer of wlrn said that trouble may be from one of the amateur transmit ters that some dormitory men are operating in violation of fcc reg ulations an investigation by the fcc may result festival makers ... president martin d whitaker told the board of trustees in his annual report that the immediate need for new building as we see it now centers around a new health service building and an addi tional dormitory dr whitaker's 28 page report released on march 18 covered the fiscal year ending june 30 1951 at lehigh dr whitaker estimated the cost of such a health center at some thing like 400,000 he also suggested to the trustees that they keep in mind as a long term project a substantial new classroom and office building for the college of arts and science to house its var ious departments in regard to past improvements the president listed figures show ing that 928,000 was spent from 1946 to 1951 raninging from 15,000 for williams hall to 235,000 for campus power telephone and light ing facilities included in the list were 170,000 for reconditioning taylor gym and 118,000 for renovations to packer chapel by means of a circle graph dr whitaker pointed ont that stu dent tuition and fees accounted for 46 per cent of the university's income for 1950-1951 in an accompanying graph it was shown that almost 33 per cent of the expenditures for the same year were for instructional purposes athletics accounted for 2.10 per cent of in come and 4.51 per cent of expenditures reporting on the intercollegiate sports program at lehigh the president stated that we have disavowed tradift&nally any interest in big time competition and that the program has changed little in policy or personnel since 1946 dr whitaker listed six points embodying the traditional admin istration of athletics the athletic department shall be operated in the same manner as any other department entrance and academic requirements shall be the same as for other students no student may participate in intercollegiate sports while on scholastic proba tion salaries of the athletic staff are in line with the established range of faculty members all financial aid is handled by the cp mittee on scholarship and loans and except for regional scholar ships awards are made on the basis of scholastic attainment winning 98 out of 137 athletic contests during 1951 is a grati fying record according to dr whitaker but he maintained that a record nearer 50 per cent must also be considered satisfactoy in view of the university policy giving athletics only its proportional place in the development of the well-rounded student in his report the president stressed the necessity and value of the counseling program and defended it against the brand of molly coddling pointing out that the depression and war years found sec ondary schools in a period of low effectiveness he noted the choice of either relaxing academic standards or increasing helpful coun seling dr whitaker expressed alarm over the decrease in engineering enrollment throughout the country despite a critical need for en gineering graduates at lehigh engineering enrollment dropped from 1,8116 in 1947 to 1,536 in 1950 while total enrollment dropped only from 2,961 to 2,799 he blamed this decrease upon the general misinterpretation of an engineering survey figure several years ago which resulted in a feeling that the field of engineering was about to become overcrowded 2500 plus or minus 100 was cited by dr whitaker as the ideal registration figure at lehigh lehigh's present enrollment is 2,496 discussing faculty wages the president said that in comparison to other schools lehigh considers itself among the top 10 per cent in terms of salaries paid to key people the university's policy of re placing faculty members he stated has been one of bringing in promising new men for the most part rather than trying to buy reputations already established i f c monte carlo tickets are going like hotcakes tickets were getting scarce this week for ifc's monte carlo dance coming up march 29 despite the news that bettie ann clooney would not be pres ent the demand for reservations held strong according to a mem ber of the dance committee he suggested the reason may be cir culation of the singing reputation of doris altier up-state new york stage beauty who will replace miss clooney assisting miss altier will be chuck gordon's orchestra miss altier gordon and the orchestra will be located on the top floor of grace hall the same member of the dance committee emphasized the ban on corsages for the dance entrance to grace hall will cost 2.50 and prizes comparable to the ransom of the nizam of hyderbad will be awarded to holders of the great est amount of fake cash when the dice stop rolling lehigh university brown and white tuesday march 25 1952 ifc weekend to be replete with banquet musif estival ducats going fast so far volume 63 — number 38 prexy suggests health building lehigh university bethlehem pa lehigh men are urged to get their tickets early for this year's music festival dill davis 53 ticket director says that unusual ifc's weekend will get off to a roaring start friday night with a vast schedule of meetings ban quets and dinners a pledge banquet wil be held at 6:30 in the hotel bethlehem to introduce the new fraternity men to the national fraternity world and to explain to them their du ties both at lehigh and in the so ciety in general all pledges pledge trainers ifc advisors ifc officers dean leith dean congdon dr smiley lloyd cochran and dr eckhardt will attend and hear three speak ers introduce the new men lloyd cochran national president of alpha sigma phi see ifc page 4 ly strong fraternity alumni and faculty interest has already been shown festival tickets went on sale yesterday and seats for saturday's performance were sold out by 5 p.m tickets are on sale in drown hall from 11:30 to 1 and 3:30 to 5:30 a ticket booth will also be set up in front of the library reserved seats for the friday night performance april 18 cost 1.80 for floor section and 1.45 for the lower tier of bleachers all unreserved seats are 1.45 for saturday night april 19 prices are 2.20 for reserved floor seats 1.95 for reserved low see festival page 4 l u students pre-register soon for fall pre-registration for the fall semester will take place march 31 through april 5 and april 14 through 19 in accordance with schedules set up by the various curriculum directors james wag ner registrar told the brown and white today all students who will be return ing in the fall shall pre-register at this time he said more detailed instructions and information will be sent to the students this week by the registrar's office seniors who plan to graduate and other students not planning to return must report to their cur riculum directors and so indicate their intentions wagner stated pre-registration for summer classes started yesterday and will continue for the remainder of the week tv interference blamed on illegal l u transmitters lehigh issues new forms for excuses excused absence forms are no longer valid unless they are im pressed with a seal either of the health service or of the office of the dean of students these forms signed by dr keck or by one of the three deans of students will be on 3va by 5 inch paper a third source of ex cuses will still be used in the form of trip lists for inspection athletic and other authorized trips each signed by the appro priate university authority arcadia elects arnesen as 1952 president john arnesen 53 was voted president of arcadia thursday others elected were tom mac cabe 53 vice-president george hopkins 54 secretary and mai gross 54 treasurer unanimously re-elected faculty advisor to arcadia was dr her bert m diamond head of the de partments of economics and so ciology committee readies information booth fer houseparty see fraternity page 4