Brown and White Vol. 63 no. 51

              52s hear plans for june 16th see seniors page 7 at a mass meeting yesterday in packard auditorium webb dann president of the class of 1952 gave the senior class its final rundown on graduation weekend exercises and post-com mencement plans dann announced the appoint ments of richard w giles as alumni bulletin secretary robert f scarr class agent and robert p heim reunion chairman clearing up confusion over the proper attire for the senior ball on june 14 dance chairman har ry stowers explained that it is intended that dates wear formal dress while formal clothes for men are optional this plan was adopted so that men without for mal dress would not be discour aged from attending ken kircher idc announced that weekend dates may be hous ed in dravo al for 1.25 a night chaperone service will be pro vided dravo cl will be open to parents and married relatives without charge bed linen and blankets must be supplied by the students kircher said that the sections will be opened at 4 p.m saturday june 14 and will be closed at 10 a.m monday june 16 he asked that all seniors in teresled contact him by may 26 by david b hill five lehigh undergraduates last week confessed to ripping down over 800 class office campaign posters they are maurice j piergrossi 53 thomas h butt ling 54 donald m scherer 53 joseph p zangara 54 and richard l o'neil/53 according lo michael p arra 53 chairman of the class elections committee and head of a special arcadia committee which conducted an investigation into the prank ihe five said they felt their action had the moral back ing of a large segment of the stu dent body on tuesday the university discipline committee found the five guilty of disregard of pri vate rights . . . mutilation of pub lic property and . . . offense against established authority of student government accordingly they will be re quired to make pro rata restitu tion of total bills for damages as approved by the chairman of the committee on discipline and placed on disciplinary probation for next semester of registration also on wednesday it was re ported that a gioup of students was passing the hat to help the five repay damages as told to the brown and white by arra this is the nine-day chronology of the story may 12 feeling their action more serious than they had first imagined the five students ap pioached arra with their story may 13 a meeting of arcadi ans interested in meeting with the five was called by arra six arca dians responded — john arneson arcadia president thomas mc cabe vice president mai gross treasurer art goldenberg and al lewis this group decided to reconvene on — may 14 the students who had confessed were questioned singly by the arcadia committee they told this story early on the morning of may 8 without premeditation the five students collected under 1000 posters and dumped them into the incinerator adjacent to taylor wesley f willoughby 255 undergrads placed by bureau wesley f willoughby 53 will be editor-in-chief of the brown and white for the fall semester of 1952-53 carl zimmerman 53 was nam ed edi:orial director malvern j gross 55 was named business manager and william a lat shaw 53 was appointed manag ing editor robert ameling 54 is the new financial manager while daniel s klein 54 has been named news editor and william a haase 54 has been named sports editor for next semester new make-up editor is paul e sinner 55 john dean 53 is the new circulation manager john e rothenberger 53 has been named desk editor and robert mackenzie 54 has been named photo editor there are eight staff positions which have not been filled yet these include national local and general ad managers morgue edi tor and assistant news sports desk and make-up editors arcadia votes against banning freshmen cars by carl zimmerman arcadia narrowly defeated the molion to ban freshman cars wednesday by a vote of seven to six instead it recommended that the university immediately undertake to enlarge the present parking facilities and that the executive com mittee of arcadia immediately go through the proper channels to the administra tion to emphasize the importance of the above decision treasurer malvern gross 54 made the substitute moiion amended by vice-president thom as maccabe 53 which the body voted in place of secretary george hopkins original car-ban motion in the final vote when gross motion was considered as the main one it passed nine to nothing with four abstentions in the course of the extensive debate retiring acting director of admissions c b campbell told arcadia that the privilege of own ing a car is an important selling point for the admissions office and that competition for students among the colleges is keen he also said he took pride in the principle that no distinction is made at lehigh between fresh men and upperclassmen and that owning a car is one of the responsibilities of manhood which freshmen should enjoy commenting on prospects for next year's freshman class camp bell said it looks terrific he noted that there has been al ready a 50 per cent inrease in applications this year over last year a large portion of the meeting was broadcast over wlrn six teen persons other than arcadia members attended the meeting in the debate preceding the parking voting each member of arcadia was allotted five min utes for speaking hopkins began by repeating his motion to ban freshman cars which had been tabled from the previous meeting he pointed out the traffic hazard of cars parked illegally because of no space in the dormitory parking lots the dozen accidents on campus this year and the estimate of 5,000 to 8,000 of the cost of paving taylor parking lot he said that the 2.0 minimum scholastic average which would be required for freshmen to own cars in the second semester would prove an incentive for study maccabe said that the fresh men he had talked to had not complained of the parking prob see arcadia page 6 109 is your ticket back students who want their rank in class to be certified and for warded to their draft boards at the end of the school year must not fail to fill out sss form 109 before they leave campus for the summer registrar james h wag ner told the brown and white to day he stated that the university will not send the forms auto matically but will do so only after the student has indicated in the prescribed manner that he wishes the information sent to his draft board see draft page 7 band pops tomorrow the brown and white band will sponsor its annual pops con ce i tomorrow at 8 p.m in grace hall the program will include fin alists from the intramural singing contest numbers by the cliff clefs and the hungry five plus piano soloist with the band will be dave ryerson featured will be favorites from victor her bert and selections from the musi cal roberta there will be no charge for the evening's entertainment roving waiters will serve barbecues so da pop and ice cream at a low cost to the guests seated at check ered-cloth-covered tables after the concert music for dancing will be provided by the colleg ians tables may be reserved by call ing the music department before noon saturday seniors whose post-graduation plans are known by the bureau it was revealed that the median monthly salary for all employed graduating seniors is 325 top salaries are 400 bus and met.e low 250 bus palevicz emphasized that the report is still incomplete a total of 181 students have not report ed their post-june 16 plans in the business college 75 have not re ported in the engineering col lege 56 in the arts college 50 engineering students in which category most complete statistics are available have re ceived the highest staring sala ries with a range of 275 to 400 electrical engineers of which there are 42 are the most placed in the college with 36 in jobs they will receive salaries rang ing from 285 to 380 lehigh's hustling placement bureau rolled out its red carpet to 252 college graduate-hungry companies during 1951-52 and as a result have taken 255 expensive young men off the hands of 560 parents mammoth general eelectric got the lion's share hiring 20 stu dents to get a quick look at each other 454 undergraduates had 4054 interviews with the 252 com panies to a business student goes an award for most inter views 37 this same student will move into the highest paying job of any undergraduate accepting employment through placement bureau facilities in a report prepared for the brown and white by frank v palevicz assistant to placement director teal encompassing 314 5 confess poster theft fined put on probation lehigh university brown and white volume 63 — number 51 friday may 23 1952 bethlehem penna willoughby , gross latshaw named b&w staff heads see discipline page 3