Brown and White Vol. 67 No. 27

              lehigh university brown and white volume 67—number 27 bethlehem pa tuesday february 14,1956 university 6-0331 4 faculty named to honors staff the appointment of four members of the faculty to the honors council which will direct the recently instituted college honors program was an nounced at a meeting of the faculty monday to go into operation next fall the honors program will provide for advanced study at the under graduate level through a series of limited-enrollment seminars and the writing of a thesis the council's first big job will be to translate the general theme of creative concepts into con crete seminar plans named to the council were dr francis j trembley professor of ecology dr j burke severs pro fessor and head of the department of english dr adolf grunbaum professor of philosophy and dr finn b jensen professor of eco nomics a total of 11 students approxi mately the number anticipated have already applied for admission to the program one of the problems facing the council will be that of teaching at a high intellectual level with due consideration for the widely varied backgrounds of the students in the lect being taught initiating the program will be c seminar in life sciences to ! directed by dr trembley trembley considers himself primarily a naturalist with spe cial interests in conservation philosophy of biology impact of evolutionary concepts on man and aquatic and fisheries biol dr francis j trembley dr j burke severs dr adolf grunbaum l>r finn b jensen ifc judiciary discusses dry rushing reports an ifc judiciary committee meet ing was held last night at which re ports on the weekend rushing part ies were presented by members of the committee which visited all fra ternity parties last saturday night the results of the reports are not known at this time but an official statement from ifc is expected this week on the activities of the dry rushing weekend norm gasswint 56 who has re sumed his post as president of ifc stated that the officers and mem bers of ifc who visited all frater nity parties including several off campus gatherings did not consider themselves security police checking up on anything but he noted that if any visiting ifc representatives found evidence of liquor at any of the parties it was reported last night at the judiciary meeting gasswint reported that visits of the ifc members were short and in 288 win places on initial pro list a tentative list released by the office of the dean of students reveals that 288 students will spend their spring semester on scholastic probation an additional 27 students have been readmitted to the university with a probationary status the freshman class leads the parade with 128 of its members on the list the sophomore class is in second place with 78 juniors 55 and seniors 27 thirty-two students in the college of arts and science are on probation and are accompanied by 58 from the business college a breakdown of the engineering college places 51 mechanical engi ners 23 chemical engineers 17 civil engineers 23 industrial engineers 24 electrical engineers and 15 combined arts-engineering men on probation of the 27 students who have returned on pro six are in the arts school six are in the busi ness college and 15 are engi neers the final probation figures should be completed sometime this week and the total of students on scholas tic probation is expected to be slightly less than the tentative count going up—a newly erected framework rises on the new addition to packer hall work on the building is reported behind schedule but an drew w litzenberger announced the building is expected to be completed on schedule in january 1957 arcadia urges defeat of 2.0 car proposal in a letter mailed to all faculty members last thursday arcadia stated its opposition the proposal for a 2.0 average as a requirement for operating a car on campus the letter stated that arcadia did not endorse the proposal as had been indicated by the dean's office and further that arcadia was unanimously against the proposal it urged the faculty to defeat the proposal at its meet ing yesterday it was the second letter forwarded to faculty members by a major cam pus group opposing the proposed ruling on feb 6 the interfraternity council cited six ways in which the regulation would be detrimental to the welfare of students in its letter arcadia questioned the logic of re quiring a 2.0 average to operate a car when only a 1.5 average is re quired for graduation it noted that the reason given for the change was to improve scholarship and suggest ed that if this is consistent reason ing then it might be broadened to remove students from all activities if averages are below 2.0 it contended that because of decentralized lehigh living working conditions student ex tracurricular activities would be hampered and the transporta tion problem increased consider ably arcadia also expressed concern that the proposal appeared to be another step in the apparent alarm ing trend toward repression of stu dent life and retrenchment in stu dent activities and pictured the move as only another link in the fast-growing chain which is strangl ing lehigh student life the arcadia letter includes and agrees with the ifc letter on all points involved but in addition to those reasons deemed most import ant by arcadia ifc emphasized how such restrictions would curtail the social and intramural programs at the university the distance of girl's schools from the campus and the dif ficulty of continuing intramural programs at playing fields a good distance from campus were cited by ifc in urging the faculty to vote against the measure the ifc letter also pointed up the fact that 11 of lehigh's fra ternities are off campus and such restrictions would serious ly hamper the activities of these houses an additional point of the letter from ifc was how departmental field trips would be limited and many of them possibly dropped due to the widespread use of student owned cars on such trips the text of the arcadia letter fol lows dear faculty member there has been considerable mis understanding as to arcadias posi tion regarding the administration's proposal of a 2.0 average require ment for permission to own and op erate a car at lehigh therefore we wish to define our stand and explain the supporting reasons arcadia is unanimously oppos frosh granted exclusive use of 3 houses action to segregate freshmen in residence halls was approved at a joint rhc-faculty meeting held fri day night effective sept 1956 dra vo drinker and richards houses will be for freshmen exclusively of the 60 men invited only ap proximately 30 attended due to the conflict with rushing dates attending were house and sec tion presidents councilors and members of the deans and ad missions offices the students attending were di vided in opinion and only after two hours of debate was the action put to a vote and subsequently approved vronsky babin delight crowd musical harmony by the worlcu acclaimed pianists vronsky and ba bin entertained an enthusiastic crowd in grace hall friday night so impressed was the audience by the offerings which varied from sensi tive dream-like movements to pieces of a more dramatic nature that it called the couple back for three encores the two pianists have long paced the two-piano field and their experience was recognized by the impressive ovation which they received from the specta tors the audience's acclaim var ied little from that which the pianists have received on their tours of three continents all of which were sellouts see life page 4 see ifc page 7 see scl page 7 see activity page 3