Brown and White Vol. 51 no. 1

              brown & white lehigh university price — 5 cents bethlehem pa wednesday june 30 1943 — vol li no 1 army men begin classes on july 12 506 students enroll for new term howdy cadets welcome to the campus from all reports you like lehigh its campus its faculty and its students and from similar reports lehigh likes you we hope you enter into the life of the campus as fully as time allows shown here are two typical cadets characteristic of the several hundred collegians from other schools now entraining in lehigh's astp sgt c e rowley of rochester n v and cpl a r parks elsie michigan taylor men yield rooms frosh lead with 179 chems top departments a total of 506 students have so far enrolled for the summer sem ester according to the latest fig ures issued yesterday afternoon by registrar george curtis the greatest proportion of civilian stu dents now on the campus are freshmen who number 138 new men and 41 second semester men this number of 506 compares with a total of 693 students who voluntarily accelerated last sum mer last summer the college of business administration had the most students with 134 other than the regular students there are seven women taking courses as well as two men in each of the general college divi sion and in special student branch thirty-two graduate students and 20 undergraduates are also taking the regular six week sum mer session this session has al ways been run before so that men who need a few hours credit to graduate may finish as quickly as possible only 33 in business school after following the department of mechanical and industrial engi neering for several years the chemical engineering and chemis try majors emerge as the largest single group on campus these men total 133 while the m e.s have 122 students enrolled num bers of students in the various curricula are as follows arts 68 e e 63 met e 34 bus 33 c e 23 phys 12 e m and engr 8 and g c d 2 following the freshmen in num bers are the seniors with 118 oct 43 and feb 44 men the sopho mores who number 105 feb and june 45 men and the 90 juniors who will graduate in either june or oct of 1944 fourteen graduate students taking the regular 16 week semester bring the total summer semester enrollment up to 520 lehigh students are walking around in a dilemna these days due to a university ruling it seems that there is a univer sity ruling that students may not walk on the grass and any viola tions of this ruling are reported to dean congdon however there is ruling against sitting on the grass and although andrew w litzen berger superintendent of build ings and grounds has said that he doesn't mind if students sit on the grass a few students have been chased for doing just that it looks as though the only way to overcome this situation is to wait until the campus cop turns his back walk to a cool spot on the lawn and by the time the law has looked again be sit ting nonchalantly on the grass life is like that due to the unexpected arrival of the army trainees about 125 fresh men and upperclassmen were forced to find new places to live when they arrived on the campus for registration of this number 75 were freshmen and about 50 were upperclassmen these men had taylor hall leases to ease the housing problem e kenneth smiley director of ad missions opened price hall for ci vilian use delta sigma phi which is university-owned will also be used as a university dormitory philip j berg president of the in terfraternity council made a sur vey of the various fraternity houses and attempted to find places for both freshmen and up perclassmen with taylor hall leases to stay until they could find permanent residences a t o becomes dorm several fraternities took men in for a while and in some cases these men were pledged in addition the alpha tau omega house opened as a dormitory and at present it is filled with freshmen in addition to the several a t o.s that re turned to school other houses that have places for men looking for accommodations are sigma phi kappa sigma lambda chi al pha and pi lambda phi in an emergency theta chi and delta phi can house a few more men 9 fraternities closed for duration others fight on of the 29 fraternities at lehigh only two-thirds are in operation for the summer session according to philip j berg m e 44 president of the interfraternity council at the present time 8 fraternities are either permanently or tem porarily closed 19 houses"'are in operation 10 serving meals in and 9 either eating out or at one of the houses alpha chi rho closed one man has returned and is staying at the s p e house alpha kappa pi only 1 or 2 men are back and the house is temporarily closed alpha tau omega operating on a rooming house basis they have about 11 men of these 4 are mem bers of the fraternity and 7 are outsiders they are serving meals bachelor dropped epitome due aug.1 a discussion of the present and future status of all of the lehigh publications was held yesterday afternoon by the publications board the meeting was held in dean congdon's office dean congdon prof wallace biggs and kenneth kost represent ed the faculty while david cox and jack doxsey were the under graduates present ted peters is the other student representative the board approved the budget and the cntract for the summer semester and discussed plans for obtaining circulation among the army trainees the board also de cided to suspend publication on the bachelor for the duration professor biggs was then elected faculty adviser for the next issue of the epitome robert smith reported that the iachelor will realize a profit of about 260 for the past year it was decided to leave 100 in a fund to be used when a student magazine is reorganized and to split the rest among the various members of the staff continued on page 4 new library hours announced for summer howard leach librarian of the lehigh university library has an nounced that the library has adopted a new schedule mr leach said that the limited sched ule is due to a small financial ap propriation the hot weather and the lack of student use of the li brary during the late evenings the library is now open on mon days from 8 a m to 10 p m on tuesdays through fridays from 8 a m to 9 p m on saturdays from 8 a m to 12 noon the library will not be open at all on sun days o b&w to be weekly until war ends the brown and white student newspaper will return to a week ly publication basis instead of its former semi-weekly appearance this time for the duration the paper will appear on wednesdays theodore peters jr will be editor-in-chief men tentatively chosen for other staff positions are as follows editorial manager danal p epstein news manager john e doxsey news editor lee greenbaum co-sports editors rob ert treser and seemcn pines copy desk robert mayer and edgar frankley co-business managers paul franz and robert smith circulation manager richard williams photography editor an drew bardagjy administration editor walter sail reporters will continued on page 2 1 army sends i language men 5 r a unit of about 125 army men r many of whom have already ar t rived will compose a group known b as the foreign area and language studies these men will study at lehigh under the supervision of j prof wilson l godshall associate t profesor of diplomatic history i the members of this group were selected by the army and most of . them can speak some language flu * ently nearly all of these men are ; college graduates and some have masters degrees during their stay e at lehigh these men will take £ 27 hours of classes per week along 1 with their military and physical programs ten of these hours each * week are set aside for a language a lab where the trainees are given a an intensified study in conversa ? tion in facts about the country and in the language itself sixty per cent of the group are taking german and forty per cent j french all of these men are stay j ing at taylor hall but plans are , being made to separate the ger ( man students from the french the trainees are non-commission 1 ed officers and will not necessar 1 ily change in rank at the end of the course } the teachers at the present time ■ prof philip m palmer prof al len j barthold prof ernst b schulz dean neil carothers and prof wilson l godshall so far only princeton univer sity university of pennsylvania john hopkins university and le high university have begun these army language courses but about ; 20 more colleges are expected to participate the course lasts nine months and by that time most of these men will be proficient in two or more languages their definite duties after graduation are not yet known but they will be used in special assignments 519 trainees already on campus expect 700 by july 12 engineers and language men included as of yesterday there were 519 men in the astp organization on the lehigh university campus of these men a few are advanced en gineers while the rest are basic engineers along with 125 aryan-lan guage trainees captain pierce is in charge of company a stationed in richards house captain campbell has company b in drinker house and lieutenant foster is in command of a new company being formed with taylor hall as their headquarters these trainees must adhere to fairly strict hours after july 12 hav ng reveille at 6:15 breakfast at 00 school call at 8:00 recall at 2 noon lunch call at 12:15 school all at 1:00 recall at 5:00 supper it 6:00 the men are off until r 30 when they must be in their ooms studying until 10:30 lights nust be out with the sounding of aps at 11:00 on weekdays and 12 nidnight on saturdays before july 12 the men will be aking part in close order drill and physical drill voluntarily partici dating in athletics and making a horough inspection of their clotti ng when classes start the men will 3e getting five hours of military nstruction a week including any ime spent in the preparation oi heir military assignments the emphasis will be put on academic studies since these men have al ready had their basic training when off duty the entire cam pus and city of bethlehem is within bounds however anyone wishing to leave the city limits must obtain a pass this rule is being strictly enforced visitors wishing to see a trainee must get a visitor's pass visiting for men in richards house anc drinker house will be carried oui in their respective lobbies while taylor hall men will greet friend on the second floor of drown hall absolute quiet must be main tained in the dormitories at al times with smoking and radios permitted in the rooms however no radios must be turned on dur ing study hours 1100 brown and whites distributed on campus approximately 1100 copies of the first issue of the new summer semester weekly brown and white were distributed on the campus today 320 copies going to frater nity houses 520 to army cadets and 60 copies to faculty and town students copies for town students will be left at the supply bureau and the library and faculty copies will be distributed to various campus buildings army cadets in taylor will receive 90 copies richards 225 and drinker 205 four hundred copies of the brown and white will be mailed out to subscribers with over 600 mail - subscribers expected by july 15 copies of the brown and white will be delivered to the campus each wednesday at 2 o'clock with delaware avenue living groups picking their papers up at the printer's the brown and white is one of the few newspapers in eastern universities that is carrying on in spite of the war beta theta pi have 3 or 4 men back with no outsiders they are serving meals for most of the cam pus fraternities chi phi about 4 men are back but expect to expand to 8 or 10 — continued on page 3 the brown and white extends an open invitation to army > cadets to join its editorial staff in writing news-items and feature \ stories about the 500 astp on the lehigh campus |\ the brown and white also urges army cadets to cooperate with if the campus newspaper in responding 100 per cent to the payment yf of a necessary 75-cent-per-student fee for the semester — june 30 r to october 6 copies of the paper will be delivered each wednes day afternoon to the company-headquarters of each dormitory unit to those cadets subscribing at roll-call this week cadets will have a chance to indicate their desire for a b&w subscription cadets interested in writing for the b&w are invited to drop down to drown hall basement monday night 7:30-11 to see the staff at work c^afeo