Brown and White Vol. 66 no. 53

              try are providing more financial help to those who need it the high school teachers can do most to aid the motivation mrs corrine snow supervisor of music for the public schools of east orange n.j concluded a week's workshop in music last friday with a class demonstra tion of hand-made instruments and choral singing over radio station wgpa she pointed out in an interview with arthur mccracken station manager that parents and teachers need not have elaborate budgets to present an effective school and home musical program miss mary mahan art demonstra see teachers page 2 freshman enrollment for the 1955-56 school year shows a substantial increase for the college of arts and science figures reveal that 30 more students than last year at this time are enrolled for the bachelor of arts degree according to statistics released by director of admissions dr charles a seidle this week the arts college which has always been the smallest of the three undergraduate divisions had a total freshman enrollment of 63 last year this year there are 93 acceptances so far for the college at he same time last year there were 64 as is to be expected the other two undergraduate branches of the university have suffered a small drop in enrollment the figure for the college of business administra tion shows a decrease of 24 accept ances while the college of engineer ing's total for the coming fall se mester is down by 15 the fourth division of under graduates the field of arts and engineering has seven more ac ceptances than last year total enrollment figures show that the class of 1959 is ahead in accept ances by two as of this week there were 691 acceptances for the fall last year at this time there were 689 the final enrollment total for the class of 1958 was 702 applications for the class of 1959 set a new high the total 2,682 was ahead of last year's total by 46 and it exceeds all previously recorded totals according to dr seidle asked about the substantial increase in the number of arts students for the coming year seidle attributed much of the success to the new streamlined undergraduate announcement which has made its appearance only within the last year to a large extent it the rise is attributed to the new undergradu ate announcement the announce ment gave more emphasis to the arts and engineering program and it put arts and sciences in a different light dr seidle said then he add see new page 4 high school teachers should not abdicate their right and duty to aid students in making a happy and ap i propriate choice of a profession dr harvey a neville dean of the grad uate school said last friday he : spoke at the first summer session convocation in packard auditorium dean neville discussed the shortage of technically trained students everyone is concerned he said j by the fact that about half of the , top quarter of high school graduates do not finish college we are failing to develop our most important nat ural resources — our potential fu ture leaders the reasons are usually lack of finances or lack of motiva tion i colleges with the help of indus dr robert b norris associate professor of education and assistant to the director of summer sessions and adult education has resigned to become director of secondary educa tion for the central bucks high school at doylestown he resigned his lehigh post last friday after being appoint ed to the doylestown position last thursday night at a special meeting of the executive com mittee of the central bucks joint school board the post pays 7,800 during his five years here dr norris has served in his duo capa city as associate professor and sum mer school assistant in his spare time he is a free lance writer hav ing had articles published by good housekeeping and better homes and gardens norris hold a bachelor's degree from mansfield state teachers col lege a master's degree from har vard and a doctorate at columbia he has done graduate work at duke massachusetts institute of technol ogy and the university of north carolina 500 frosh enroll in ufy will have no desire to change their original ideas concerning their choice of a curriculum but that there will also be a large number of students who will base their deci sions on the lectures and discussions university officials feel that the program is a success if only a few students find their correct places at lehigh before the end of their fresh man year very often a student continues through one or two years of schooling only to find that he is not suited for the demands of the particular field the result is a loss in time and money the program was devised by vari ous engineering professors and the admissions office who considered the needs and problems of incoming freshmen the result of their work and efforts was the ufy program which proved very helpful to both the student and the university down she goes — workmen have knocked down the rocf and southwest wall of this packer hall wing as the renovations for the new lehigh center get underway this section once housed the psychology offices and a lecture hall outside workmen have been blasting the rock ledge that has been holding up excavation for the new wing's foundations the ledge should be knocked out within the week photo by sienkiewicz question and answer session will follow each lecture the ufy program was very suc cessful last fall when 100 undesig nated freshman engineers partici pated and attended the lectures in lehigh's first effort since the pre war era to devise a program in which a student would be able to select the curriculum best suited for his individual tastes and abilities because the professors and students agreed that the pro gram was very beneficial the university decided to enlarge the program and include all freshman engineers next fall due to the larger number of students in next year's sessions the number of periods each week in which the lectures are given will be increased also it is expected there will be many students in next year's program who approximately 500 prospective freshman engineers will be enrolled next fall in the uniform freshman year program which was instituted here last fall it was designed to aid freshmen with undesignated curri culums the ufy program consists of a series of lectures presented by the head of each engineering department in an attempt to ex plain to the confused freshmen the structure of each particular curriculum the professors will explain the nature of the academic work and all required subjects possibilities of work and types of work received by other students who have completed their college education in the par ticular field they also will discuss wages advantages and disadvan tages of the curriculum and all as pects of the course in general a brown and white bethlehem pa thursday july 14 1955 un 6-0331 tuition rate increased for 56 vol 66 — no 53 summer frosh arts enrollees for 55 increased 30 engineering up 200 arts business by 175 an increase in undergraduate tuition at lehigh of 175 for arts and business students and 200 for engineering students per year effective in september 1956 was announced this morning by president martin d whitaker the new rate of 900 per year will cover tuition in each of the three colleges but those enrolled in the college of engineering will pay an additional fee of 100 annually in recognition of the greater costs of the instructional program and laboratory facilities required for the engineering curricula current rates of tuition are 725 annually for the college of arts and science and the college of business administration while engineering students pay 800 the present rate of 725 and 800 was established in 1952 when the board of trustees increasd tuition by 100 effective in september 1952 in announcing the 1956-57 tuition dr whitaker said the increase is necessitated by generally higher costs of equipment supplies op eration of physical plant and salaries for teaching personnel immediate application of the new rates would be justified in terms of present demands he added in consideration of our students and their parents however we have chosen to postpone this action for more than a year as a further aid in the problem of meeting the new college costs a program permitting the spread of tuition and other charges over several periodic payments will be made available additional scholarship allocations also will be granted in a move described by president whitaker as avoiding discrimination against well qualified students who might not be able to afford the higher tuition emphasizing that even the newly announced rates fall far short of meeting the actual costs of providing undergraduate instruction he added the university as in the past will rely largely on income from endow ment and on voluntary contributions to meet the cost of annual opera tions additional educational costs are being felt by lehigh students in the dormitories this summer due to an increase of rents established in april this permanent increase raised the average rental 38.50 per room per semester the rents were increased as follows taylor and price 75 to 110 richards and drinker 110 to 135 and dravo 110 to 160 the few rooms in dravo cost ing 1.60 will be used by proctors by bur sienkiewicz dr charles a seidle . . . . . . the new announcement norris resigns accepts post in bucks area teacher's duty to aid in career choice -— dean see tuition page 3