Brown and White Vol. 64 no. 27

              new method of registration held a success the new registration system which was tried for the first time this semester is considered an over all success according to registrar james h wagner the fellows are all in class so i guess the new system works mr wagner said he added however that the trouble involved in making it work de termines the system's ultimate success the registration count at noon tuesday stood at 2861 included in this number were 2472 undergradu see registration page 4 arcadia voting is postponed to feb 25 26 the arcadia election was post poned to feb 25 and 26 from feb 1181 18 and 19 at the student govern ment's first meeting of the semester michael arra chairman of the elections committee reported that only 21 petitions had been submitted by candidates and asked that the deadline be push ed back to today to permit ad ditional applications when op position was met a compromise on the petition deadline was reached on a 6-5 vote last tues day at a special meeting held during last semester's exam period arca dia decided that the proposed granting of speaking privileges and seats at the table at arcadia meet ings to the presidents of ifc idc and town council would be a con stitutional change not an amend ment to the by-laws the decision means that a two thirds majority would be needed on the referendum to be held on the question as part of the election in order to put the proposal into effect arcadia president john arne sen told b&w he interprets the two-thirds requirement on the referendum as meaning two thirds of the ballots on which an opinion on the question is indi cated arnesen announced at the last meeting that dr herbert diamond head of the department of econom ics and sociology and arcadia advis er for seven years will retire as ad viser when the next group takes of fice . j dr diamond has donated a key which will be presented to each president when he takes office brown & white band concert draws record audience of 1100 by wes willoughby listen lehigh do you know that you owe the red cross 15 pints of blood it's in payment for one of your bud dies jim snyder 57 he's only been able to repay one of them and he won't be able to pay anymore of the bill for two more years jim's only been with us for a few days he's a first semester frosh but if it hadn't been for blood which he regards as important as ammuni tion needed to fight with he might never have come here at all so listen to his story you'll prob ably see you owe it to yourself to pick up his tab the story goes back to june flu vaccinations will be offered by health service lehigh appears to be withstand ing the influenza epidemic which is running rampant throughout the world according to ralph miller of the university health service no cases of the disease have been re ported applications for vaccinations against the flu are being accepted until monday they will cost 1 and will be given between 2 and 4:30 p.m next thursday and friday sup ply is limited and the first ones re gistered will be the first ones vac cinated miller said richard goldman 1950 when jim was fresh out of nearby allentown high school the korean war had just begun jim immediately enlisted in the marine corps after a year of boot camp and special training at parris island and quantico he found him self above the 38th parallel in the punchbowl area on the east central front at the time of the last un push shortly after in september 1951 the 6 foot rifleman got it — a 76 mm shell in both legs — while on patrol they amputated one leg in the field where he was given plasma as soon as possible he was flown by helicopter from an aid station to a field hospital and then to a hospital ship on the ship the doctors took off the second leg again below the knee for all these operations and suc cessive ones i had i received plas ma jim said he figured he receiv ed a total of 16 pints about the blood the laconic 20 year-old student said it was vital that's for sure jim spent 10 months altogether in oakland cal in a naval hospital during that time he was fitted with artificial limbs and learned to walk all over again with the aid of para llel bars and later without help he was released from service last september — two years short of his original hitch i was then ready to continue my edu see don't be page 3 mg casualty to recuperate on trip south after lying in a week-long coma malachy murray 56 theta kappa phi pledge seriously injured in an early morning automobile accident three weeks ago has left st luke's hospital and is planning to recuper ate in florida murray had undergone a four hour operation immediately af ter being admitted to the hospi tal with a fractured skull he did not regain consciousness for a week he is now able to walk around for short periods of time and plans to return to school next fall richard dißlasi driver of the car was not seriously hurt he returned to school to take exams after three days under observation in the hos pital dean wray h congdon told the brown and white that any disciplinary action as a result of the accident is being held in abeyance the two men were injured while on a fraternity pledge trip at 4 a.m jan 15 on their way back from quakertown the borrowed mg in which they were riding skidded and overturned i under the batons of richard franko goldman of julliard insti tute and princeton university and robert boudreau director the brown and white band played to an audience of 1100 last sunday in the broughal high school auditorium the crowd was the largest ever to attend a brown and white band concert the program of original band mu sic was divided into three sections the first under the direction of bou dreau included prokofieff's opus cheerio a march by edmund franko goldman and the apollo march by bruckner conducting the second part of the concert was guest conductor richard franko goldman son of composer director edmund franko goldman see band page 4 steel grandstands planned for taylor lehigh university brown and white bethlehem penna friday february 13 1953 restrictions on frosh cars to settle aged problem vol 64 no 27 an all-steel grandstand capable of seating 4000 persons will be added to the south side of taylor stadium according to plans released today by president martin d whitaker the project will mark the first major reno vation of the stadium since its construction 39 years ago commenting on the change general percy l sadler director of the intercollegiate athletics said definitely we are not going in for big time football that is not the purpose of the new stadium he added that the purpose was to provide reasonable seating facilities for lehigh games also he noted increasing the capacity of the stadium will enable us to schedule the lehigh-lafayette football game on campus rumors passing around the south mountain campus since the stadium news broke include reports that the engineers are scheduled to play army virgi nia or brown within the next few years sadler squelched rumors of games with army virginia and brown by saying it is not contemplated we will be playing army or navy in the near future he added that details of the 1954 schedule are not ready to be announced the stadium project in addition to the new seats includes plans for new press-radio-television booths modernized men's and women's la vatories repair of present concrete stands and addition of temporary bleachers on the east side of the stadium the main stands will be erect ed on the south side of the field seats and will extend over the roadway and a small portion of upper field work is expected to begin this summer and will probably be completed for the fall season money for the project has been supplied by gifts especially tabbed for stadium improvement 3rd blood drive falling short of 1952 goal by 325 pints lehigh's third all-campus blood drive is falling 325 pints short of its 1953 goal of 1000 pints according to totals compiled thursday morning 676 pints had been pledged students and faculty have until monday to sign pledge cards and deliver them to the arcadia office two bloodmobiles will be in grace hall feb 26 and 27 faculty and fraternity support are the most discouraging in comparison to last year's figures when the goal ~~ -~~ "~~~~ ~~~ ~~~~~ was only half this year's with all but three fraternities reporting this group has pledged 334 pints almost 100 under last year's total of 430 when they led all groups faculty's 24 pledges are way under the 64 pledged last year only town men have increased their pledges from 16 to 28 pints chi psi with 27 pints pledged pi kappa alpha with 24 and pi lamb da phi and chi phi with 23 each lead all fraternities five pledges from two fraternities are low marks for that group dorm pledges are led by dravo b-2 and taylor d with 26 drinker 3-b and richards 1 with 21 four dorm sections failed to report present dorm total is 288 pints two taylor hall living groups have pledged only one pint each although at this time last year they had pledged 33 pints though not too optimistic over the current totals the blood com mittee hoped pledges coming in this week would meet the goal if we can do it we should hit 1000 pints 14 new b&w editors installed first semester freshmen will not be allowed to have cars on campus beginning next fall the dean's office has announced some freshmen may have cars the second semester according to the new rules requirements for this privilege will be an nounced soon dean wray h congdon stated it has been speculated that a minimum scholastic average will be re quired three factors were decisive in causing the administration to act dean congdon said the lack of a definite solution by arcadia and idc was one of them second too often freshmen with access to cars have scholastic difficulty the third reason given by dean congdon was having a car on campus is a privilege and not a right the action met with immediate approval by idc president sam johnson 53 the arcadia reaction was lukewarm johnson saw the ban as en dorsement of the idc recommen dation of last year the dormi tory group at that time urged that freshman cars be banned because of the congested condi tion of dormitory parking lots in particular george hopkins 54 chairman of the arcadia parking committee was not as enthusiastic while saying that it was a step in the right direc tion he added personally i would like to see a modified ban from the admissions office point of see average page 4 will lehigh take step for vet's blood debt see editors page 4 carl h zimmerman 53 will be editor-in-chief of the brown and white for the ensuing semester the board of publications announced last week a former reporter for the newark news paterson evening news and the allentown morning call zimmerman has served the past two terms as editorial director of b&w william a latshaw manag ing editor last semester was ap pointed editorial director while malvern j gross 54 was given the post of business manager for a second semester the new managing editor will be ronald van horn 53 and he will have daniel s klein 54 as his assist ant sports editor of last term william haase 54 was named news editor his assistant will be robert jen ins 55 sports staff will be headed by wesley willoughby 53 last se mester's editor-in-chief his assist ant has not yet been appointed make up editor will again be paul sinner 55 while gordon holt 53