Brown and White Vol. 70 no. 33

              with the self-assurance of a plague of locusts an estimated 500 freshmen will dine at the 30 fra ternities tonight opening a one-week period of formal rushing the freshmen contacted by fraternity men early last semes ter will dine or party at the houses tonight tomorrow and all next week excluding this sunday ifc officials are confident the rushing period will be successful even though it opens on the ifc sponsored monte carlo weekend steve halperin ifc rushing chair man told the brown and white a special police committee has been drafted to guard against any abuses of rushing rules which specifically see bids page 10 will receive a 60-cent rebate from the university for each freshman guest the practice was introduced last year when the compulsory eat ing plan for freshmen was intro duced before the eating plan fresh men ate at the fraternity houses list hours frosh can be at the houses the deadline tomorrow is 5 p.m the committee will spot-check fraternities two or three times dur ing the week halperin predicts the unprecedented action will cut down on illegal rushing we think goes on ifc president carl schier also expressed hope this would be a problem-less rush period rush ing may cause some difficulties but at this time i don't know what they exactly might be he asserted and walter ernst president of the freshman class cabinet refused to comment on any problems he foresaw for the period pleading an insufficient knowledge of rushing prevented him from giving an in telligent answer again this year the fraternities heigh-ho silver — mustard and cheese performers play piggy-back in the elizabethan farce the knights of the burning pestle now showing at broughal jr high school for review see page 11 wilson grants for 2 students two lehigh students have been named among 1200 recipients of woodrow wilson fellowships for superior american and canadian students planning to go into the teaching profession john a dussinger 58 and richard chichester 59 are the two lehigh recipients among the 1200 students selected both will study at prince ton university dussinger's field of study will be english literature while chichester will study pure mathematics un 6-0331 bethlehem pa friday march 13 1959 knight launches ifc festival leith rejects solons 2nd slate vol 70 — no 33 and where she stops — nobody knows who'll take tomorrow night's prize as the top money winner at ifc monte carlo fest but here are last year's greedy couples risking their fortunes in play money rushing opens tonight police ' committee set up turns down publications committee dean j d leith has rejected for the second time arcadia's revised slate of nominations to the board of publications but approved their student life committee nomina tions in a four-page communication to arcadia secretary bill mountain 60 monday leith again refused to accept the name of alan segal 60 as an arcadia nomination to the board of publications segal is finan cial manager of the brown and white with 3.01 cumulative aver age in his objection to the inclusion of segal's name on the board's slate leith said a democratic basis for the conduct of our campus affairs is better than an aristocratic class basis even when the presence of interlocking directorates is as sociated with a high general level of competent performance in the classroom and in the extra curri culum i'd really like to know what he has against me segal told the brown and white as far as i'm concerned it's all a little fiasco on his part it seems to me he is dis criminating either against me per sonally or the brown and white he said a resolution drafted by solon myron olstein 60 at last week's special session called for the dean to consider a slate of stu dent-faculty committee select see arcadians page 4 slc study ended leith report soon student life committee has concluded its five-month study of fra ternity rushing and pledging practices a final slc report is scheduled to be submitted to dean j d leith for his consideration some time today or tomorrow accord ing to committee members in disclosing that the committee has completed its lengthy study slc members noted that the group serves the university in a purely ad visory and independent capacity and that the final decision on the fra ternity problem must come from the dean of students and faculty slc held its final meeting on the hotly-debated topic on wednesday night following receipt of interfraternity council's suggested alternate proposal committee members remained secret on their final recommenda tion to the dean's office but reliable sources disclosed that the slc report would be a cempromise between the many points of view which have been presented on the problem committee members promised a complete report to the student body after the dean has considered the problem and made his decision contacted yesterday afternoon leith told the brown and white that he had only received a preliminary verbal report from committee chairman joseph libsch but expected the full report within a day or so libsch confirmed that the final report would soon be in the dean's hands leith's decision is expected within the very near future since student activities committee has already granted several extensions on its original submission deadline and is reported anxious to have the final recommendations from the dean before the middle of the month comment from committee members and others connected with the investigation was withheld pending leith's final report to sac lehigh university brown and white grace sports monaco decor by andy svenson b&iv staff writer tonight's mustard and cheese production of the knight of the burning pestle officially launches ifc weekend which will feature a saturday night session of dancing and gambling monte carlo style billy may's orchestra featur ing frankie lester will be the highlight tomorrow evening on the upper floor of grace hall in an atmosphere not unlike thai of the famous monaco gambling resort the lower floor of grace hall wili witness a new mood as dates cir culate from one game of chance to another in their effort to capture the top money winnings of the night and the first prize a bottle of spirits fraternity parties will hold the saturday post-dance spotlight as couples fresh from an intoxicating evening of dancing and gambling head toward the houses for fun and refreshments freshmen will not be allowed to attend these parties since fraternities halt all rushing ac tivities at 5 p.m saturday the semi-formal dance will be held from 9 to 1 the curtain rises at 7:30 both friday and saturday evenings for the m&c production of the elizabethan farce at broughal jr high school at tonight's presentation of the knight dateless students will be admitted to the play on their id cards tickets for the m&c offering and the dance can be purchased for 5 at the student activities office in the university center or at the door