Brown and White Vol. 63 no. 3

              see scouts page 3 area scouts to witness bucknell tilt i i taylor stadium will be nearly bursting at the seams tomorrow when 750 boy scouts file in to witness the lehigh-bucknell game as part of annual scout visitation day sponsored by alpha psi chapter of alpha phi omega national service scouting fraternity the day's program will include a tour of the campus laboratory demon strations lunch at lamberton hall and a round of movies preceding objet d'ar t ? ifc will attempt to organize a program of community service for fraternity pledge classes a com mittee was organized for this pur pose at the council's meeting mon day evening in packard lab wilh bob canfield ch.e 52 named chairman the program will be ready in time to be used by next semester's pledge classes canfield said its purposes will be the improve ment of relations between frater nities and the university on the one hand and the townspeople on the other and the assignment of constructive work to pledge class es the idea for the committee came from a discussion held last semester at the phi gam ma delta birthday dinner according to canfield other committee chairmen named by president peterson nes bit c.e 52 at the meeting were scholarship phil rudolph bus 52 faculty advisers charles zug arts 52 and lafayette displays bob fountain bus 52 the committee on faculty ad visers will seek two faculty mem bers as new advisers to the coun cil robert taylor of bethlehem is one new adviser but the new ifc constitution requires three two must be members of the faculty one a full profes sor for three years and the other a member of the teach ing faculty for three years and a member of a national see ifc page 6 tiger gets bird so does statue interpretation shakes dean's office it's undermining our morale comments dean john d leith but prof francis quirk asserts deans are too sensitive as the pair debate the value of a contro versial work of art see story ad jacent forty-two year-old tradition bows out messrs farrell and litz enberger watch the old flagpole at the head of the main driveway being removed last tuesday to make room for a steel replace ment see story page 8 an objet dart became an objet de controversy this week as members of the dean's office and the depart ment of fine arts collided in a dispute over ars gratia ar tis in november 1941 mrs anna hyatt huntington internationally renowned american sculptress presented a small bronze statue to the university until this sem ester the piece has been used by the fine arts department as an il lustration of one of the finer works in its field prof francis quirk head of the university art department de cided that the office of the deans of students would be the ideal place for the statue to reside since this locale is frequently crowded with visitors to the uni versity prof quirk describes the statue as an exquisitely wrought bronze tiger turning from a bird he has just caught his tail whipping arcadia to push poster regulations arcadia poster regulations free ly violated in the past three years will be strongly enforced this year this action becomes ne cessary because illegally-placed posters have made parts of the campus unsightly enforcement of the regula tions is under the direction of the arcadia campus commit tee and members of arcadia are authorized to execute the following rules 1 no posters except those for campus elections may be placed on trees sides of buildings tele phone poles etc the only au thorized spots for most posters are on campus bulletin boards 2 posters inside of buildings come under the jurisdiction of the see posters page 6 see objet page 6 with relish at the thought of the feast he is about to en joy the masterpiece held its own for just two days the question now in prof quirk's mind is — how sensitive can a dean get after such a brief period the fine arts head reports that he was accosted by dean town men idc plan hp dance town council and inter dormi tory council will co-sponsor a square dance on saturday night of houseparty weekend richard kradjel president of town coun cil announced wednesday to formulate plans for the affair a joint committee con sisting of burk mcnamara george kinsey and john diaz from idc and elmer see dance page 7 prize racer to speak to autoists a grand prix racing driver david ash will speak at the le high auto club organizational meeting on wednesday oct 10 at 7:30 p.m room 466 packard lab anyone interested in joining the club should attend this meeting ash a racing driver with a wide background of exper ience is racing chairman of the m g car club the most active sports car group in the east scheduled among the lehigh auto club's activities for this fall are airport-type trials with accele ration runs obstacle events and possibly a timed lap and a possi ble speaker late this fall is ted tappett famous for his develop ment of the fordillac a ford see prix page 7 lehigh convenes in london street see london page 7 the sun may be setting on the british empire but it will never set on lehigh men if reports we have received about a london street scene are true scene opens with hal schwartz berg former wlrn manager lounging on a corner in fleet street plot thickens to the tune of loud and raucous greetings when upon the scene enters les junior honorary deadline monday applications for cyanide mem bership are now being accepted and must be in at the arcadia of fice in drown hall by monday oct 8 only juniors with at least a 2.5 average are eligible to apply lehigh university brown and white friday october 5 1951 8 colleges attend talks on charity volume 63 — number 3 lehigh university bethlehem pa ifc designs community service plan mobilization draft cut student body duo pianists singer lead of for s c l a drop in the university enroll ment of 148 students was reported by james h wagner registrar at a recent faculty meeting in pack ard lab registered students num ber 2651 this semester compared with 2799 last year the decrease in undergrad uate enrollment is attributed to the current period of in dustrial mobilization selec tive service and the effects of the post-depression birth rate drop which is now being felt through a decrease in the nation's total number of col lege-age youths in the graduate school wagner reported an increase in enroll ment a total of 423 advanced stu dents have enrolled compared to 403 in the fall semester in 1950 at the same time dr mar see drop page 6 alfred and herbert teltschik duo-pianists will add a touch of texas to the varied program which they will present with pol yna sioska metropolitan soprano at 8 tonight in grace hall under the sponsorship of the uni versity concerts-lectures series committee the two brothers are said to reveal in their playing and interpretations the rich quali ty vision and unlimited wealth of expression thai is see pianists page 7 representatives from eight pennsylvania colleges and uni versities convened at lehigh this afternoon for the lehigh valley conference on charity initiated and sponsored by the lehigh campus chest the one-day con ference first of its kind in this area was held in the arcadia room of drown hall mrs elizabeth b emlen region al secretary of the world student service fund spoke on charity in general jerold b muskin arts 52 chairman of the 1951 campus chest opened the con ference chaplain george m bean also spoke to the group lehigh is looked upon as the leader among the schools of this area for the organiza tion of campus charity drives according to mrs emlen the see charity page 3 timber . . .