Brown and White Vol. 64 no. 41

              45 awards to be given symphony in carnegie hall on may 4 by invitation excerpts from the work will be included in the festival lehigh's collegians popular dance orchestra will appear in the show for the first time as well as a dixie combo and all of the major music groups on campus twenty girls from the bethlehem area are taking part in the five complete dances in cluded in the show their partners will be lehigh students john begg a professional dancer who has appeared in many broad way productions was engaged as the choreographer for the dance se quences which include a bolero an irish reel and the ballet of the fly ing saucers a 20,000 electron microscope ca pable of magnification up to 100,000 diameters has been received by the chemistry department the micro scope according to a statement by department head e j serfass is the most powerful of its type in the country and is expected to be oper ating with 10 days powerful enough to make a bb shot appear as high as the chrysler building the micro scope which consists of 26 crates of equipment will be assembled by an rca electronics expert the complexity of operation will necessitate the addition of an electro-microscopist to the chemistry staff the new facilities will also be at see microscope page 4 hayes locks doors student calls fire dept bolted doors were torn open and the bethlehem fire department call ed to drinker and richards houses in protest of the locking of doors leading from center lounges to liv ing quarters in those dormitories during the dorm drag saturday night make-shift bars had been at tached to the doors by the buildings and grounds depart ment which acted under orders from dean byron c hayes hayes said he issued the order to prevent access from the party area to living quarters during the dance protesting students ripped off the locks and forceably opened many of the doors one student whose identity could not be learned called the fi,re de partment to report a fire hazard allegedly created by the locked doors he claimed that the locks were illegal under a state fire law which makes it illegal to have exits marked by a lighted exit sign locked the signs above the bolted doors were lighted assistant fire chief ray harding who came up to campus to investi gate found that a hazard apparently existed campus police insisted that since there were exits at each end of the hall and the arrangement was temporary there was no hazard they were supported by the fire chief who contacted superintendent of buildings and grounds andrew w litzenberger no fire hazard ex isted since it was only a temporary measure and a man was stationed there in case of fire he told the brown and white at the suggestion of hayes idc had engaged two men one for drinker and one for rich ards to remain on duty during the parties which were held from 10 p.m to 1 a.m it was learned from dance officials that hayes wanted the men hired not to conform to fire regulations but to prevent students from taking dates to their rooms no men were see haves page 3 eichelberger places second in 136 ib national aau meet full rehearsals for the 1953 music festival will begin tonight on the lower floor of grace hall music from earth part i of the show will be run through tonight and part 11 music from space is scheduled for rehearsal tomorrow night full dress rehearsal will be held thursday evening at 7 p.m good seats for the friday per formance are available at the festival office in drown hall al though saturday's performance is sold out this year's show includes many different types of music supplement ed by dancing slide and motion pic ture projections new sound effects and colored lighting the setting for the production is complete and only a few technical problems remain to be solved before opening night many guest artists will appear in the festival this year pat lockwood and lin rinehart are the featured girl vocalists for the popular section of the show and tom waring one of the founders of fred warings pennsylvanians will also appear the festival orchestra will include students from juillard school of music in new york city marc blitzstein's airborne symphony will be the featured number in part 11 the glee club will present the entire a total of 45 graduate scholarships and fellowships worth 51,9000 will be offered this september to ad vanced students working for mas ter's and doctorate degrees dr har vey a neville dean of the gradu ate school has announced the awards which range from free-tuition to 3400 each do not include teaching and re search assistantships which are additional appointments open to graduate students included among the grants will be 12 free-tuition scholarships author ized by the university's board of trustees to college graduates on the basis of superior qualifications six others will be provided from the income of a bequest by the late william c gotshall appointment for these is for one year with an annual stipend of 1,000 and in volve no duties other than graduate study in addition five industrial fellowships are available in chemistry two each in chemical engineering mechanical engi neering and metallurgy recipi ents of these fellowships will re ceive stipends ranging from 1200 to 2400 plus freedom from tuition fees applications for these grants are handled through the office of ad missions each application must be accompanied by an offcial transcript of the candidate's college work a statement concerning his practical experience and any other evidences of his qualification he may choose to submit srs average 9 job interviews not enough seniors will be on hand to fill the positions open in in dustry this year according to the placement office according to director everett a teal 285 companies have held 4.439 interviews with 489 seniors here since november two companies of every five predicts teal will land a man at the present time it ap pears that for every four offers made a firm will get one accept ance he also pointed out that an other 165 companies were inter ested in interviewing men but lack of response made it im practical to make the trip to the campus each man who has used the serv ices of the placement office could have had from 19 to 92 interviews depending upon the student's curri culum he said seniors have ayerag see srs average page 3 petitions now available for class elections petitions for the class elections to be held may 7 and 8 are now avail able in the arcadia office according to thomas nitsche chairman of the arcadia student elections commit tee deadline for filing all petitions has been set for 4 p.m friday april 24 the committee also announced that no official ads for the election will be permitted before april 27th ed eichelberger trip to the aau's over 100 were entered in the tournament which was wrestled olympic style most of the partici pants were of post-college age new ton copple a 32-year-old used car dealer was successful in his defense of the 147-pound title ed eichelberger freshman wres tler lost in the finals in his quest for the 136-pound national aau wrestling title saturday at the uni versity of toledo fieldhouse it was eichelberger's first loss of the year eichelberger is the second le higli wrestler in the past three years to take a second werner seel heavyweight was runner up for the 191-title in 1951 in his quest for the championship eichelberger pinned wilbur bauer of pittsburgh in the quarter finals and decisioned ed staniford of san francisco in the semi-finals jim si nadnios freshman from michigan state defeated the talented frosh in the finals eichelberger who pinned all of his opponents in frosh meets enter ed the tournament at toledo at the insistence of his hometown of nor folk va the sportsmen's club of norfolk financed the star matman's tuesday april 14 1953 arcadians to publish newsletter arcadia ran head-on into an interpretation sunday afternoon at a spe cial meeting to consider parking it concluded that freshman cars have not been banned for the first se mester next year after examining the statement which appears in the new college catalogue this says a student may bring a car after his first semester of residence provided certain provisions are met it says nothing about the first semester claims arcadia , dean of students wray cong don told the brown and white that arcadia had misinterpreted the statement which was in tended to mean that freshmen would not be permitted to bring cars the first semester dean oongdon explained that the statement probably got into the catalogue before it was voted upon by the faculty committee on edu cational policy because of publica tion deadlines working on the no-ban basis ar cadia drew up a proposal which it will submit to the faculty committee at its wednesday evening meeting if approved the recommendations will be passed on to an idc com mittee which will handle their ad ministration arcadia's suggestions are freshman cars should be al lowed the first semester with banning beginning with the issu ance of valentines any fresh man receiving valentines for seven or more hours will not be allowed to have a car at the end of the first semester any freshmen failing seven or more hours will not be allowed to have a car for the second semester a 1.5 or less average will also be basis for suspending auto privileges students of any class may have their privileges to possess an auto here suspended for a given number of violations of the university motor regulations the proposed suspen sion is 15 school weeks in addition provision has see no first page 4 chem.dept.gets electron scope arcadia has decided to produce a newsletter to report its meetings and activities elliott barnett 54 chair man of the publicity committee said the newsletter will probably appear monthly a directory of arcadia mem bers committees and members of the 16-man committee will also be printed and circulated the directory will serve to show students whom to contact to present complaints and sugges tions each arcadia member barnett announced will be assigned to meetings of dormitory sections to increase arcadia contact with the students fraternities may be includ ed in the plan later barnett said seats still available for festival on friday no 1st term ban arcadia proposes bethlehem pa brown and white vol 64 no 41 festival electricians are busy making last-minute preparations in grcce hall for the music festival arthur dym 54 left and richard schechtman 54 are shown install ing a switchboard stanley c starr jr 55 insert is testing a new elec tronic musical instrument to be in the festival see story page 4