Brown and White Vol. 68 no. 32

              mob helps warm phi sig's house m&c gives oliver film dr ralph e lapp by al enoch come september 1957 old drown hall won't be the same at that time with the com pletion of packer hall as the new student center drown and lamberton will lose their pres ent indentities and become seats of higher learning the college of business adminis tration will set up headquarters in drown hall and the process will re quire the old building to have its face lifted first on the list of changes will be the addition of two fire towers extending from the basement to the top floor the basement proper will house improved men's rooms storage and utility rooms and several class rooms the same entrances will be used to gain access to the ground floor but the width of the corridors will be narrowed considerably a new and larger ladies room will replace see fire page 7 dr lapp is uniquely qualified by experience to discuss the effects of fallout he served during world war ii as division director of the famous manhattan project code name for the first atomic bomb and as assistant director of the argonne national laboratory r ,™ i at p resent dr - la pp is director of nuclear science service an or ganization set up in 1949 to serve as fiultant to industry on uses of ear energy cls brings dr lapp to the campus as one of the outstand ing experts in the field of atomic and nuclear power and in view of his wide experience in lectur ing on the subject dr lapp began his scientific work with the late dr a j dempster discoverer of u-235 and was later associated with dr vannevar bush and dr j robert oppenheimer in 1947 dr lapp was made dircteor of dr bush's research and development board he has collaborated with stewart alsop in a number of saturday eve ning post articles covering civil de fense the hydrogen bomb tactical uses of atomic bombs and highlights of our atomic project following the nationwide a tomic attack alert in the summer of 1955 he wrote a feature article in life on the effective ness of our civil defense pro gram life also condensed a por tion of his latest book atoms and people published in 1956 dr lapp is also a special editor of the bulletin of the atomic sci entists—the most reliable periodical on atomic affairs his lectures destroy the idea that the basic principles of atomic fission are a secret to be shared only among see dr lapp page 7 sir laurence olivier will star in the movie henry v to be presented tomorrow at 7:30 p.m in packard laboratory auditorium by mustard and cheese robert newton leslie banks and renee ashenson will be cast in the main supporting roles the film played for many years as a high-priced attraction in theaters throughout the country and follows a run for your money on the mustard and cheese film series pre sentations class of 58 week a of senior pictures for the 58 eptiome has been delayed from this week to next week march 4—b.4 — 8 appointment reminder cards had already been sent out for monday tuesday and wednesday before the can cellation call was received new cards for those three days will be made up and sent out to the men involved dates on the cards for thursday and friday will be changed before mailing plenty of noise and organized con fusion marked the official opening of the new phi sigma kappa house saturday departmental heads adminis tration officials parents faculty members and alumni were in vited to a cocktail party in the afternoon the affair was catered by the hotel bethlehem uniformed waiters roamed throughout the first floor with trays of drinks and a general atmosphere of informality prevailed one annoying feature of the cock tail party lay in parking always a problem in sayre park brothers in the house moved their cars up the hill toward the lookout which left some space in the general vicinity of the house however this was soon filled and by four'o'clock automo biles were parked as far as the eye could sec on the road to the look out deans preston parr and j d leith were present dean wray congdcn was ill and could not attend however many other university officials attended in cluding treasurer elmer w glick and everett a teal place ment director following the afternoon festivities see phi sig page 6 beginnings of festival smokey auditions held frosh injured in head-on crash two lehigh freshmen were slightly injured friday night in a head-on collision at broadway and fiot sts thomas f taylor richards 3 b and john masi richards 3-a both received abrasions of the right eye they were riding in a car operated by richard a thunberg 58 of lambda chi alpha police said thunberg driving east on broadway was attempting a left turn onto fiot st a car operated by an 18-year-old bethlehem youth collided with the thunberg vehicle the two injured students and the driver of the second car who re ceived an abrasion of the nose were treated at st luke's hospital police estimated damage at 400 to thun berg's car and 200 to the youth's machine spring music festival 1957 is in the throes of conception with the first organizational smoker for pro duction and technical personel last thursday and the first talent audi tions held sunday afternoon and evening more auditions for both sing ing and dancing parts will be held according to prof william schempf musical director and prof albert rights technical director of the show thursday's smoker was disap pointing to festival coordinators bill murray 57 and bob croneberger 58 in that fewer than 30 men showed up to fill out personnel sheets for production and technical positions hundreds of workers are needed according to croneberger we're up against some stiff ob stacles however murray added with no festival last year the en see more page 5 she's lost her harry by joe varilla everyone calls the brown and white — deans who allegedly have been misquoted fraternity initiates who haven't seen their names in print multitudes of people just wanting to find out the time of a game and girls who don't know their boyfriends phone numbers one of the latest and probably one of the most unusual calls the b&w has received this year came thursday about 11 p.m an elderly woman she sounded elderly with a pronounced foreign accent wanted to know ver is mem harry the b&w staffer who answered the phone naturally answered who the devil is harry but then the thought occurred to him that this might be the mother of one of the hungarian refugees and that she was calling from budapest the woman had the wrong number and was told of this by the staffer who saw his big story going out the window despite the wrong number she insisted on telling her story any way as the harried reported listened see b&w page 6 festival 57 some of the 30 interested men who attended thurs day night's first music festival smoker in drown hall production and technical men are still needed according to prof rights faculty advisor hamer hangs on in his 4-3 time advantage win over pete friedman navy wrestler in the 167 pound division hamer's win was the last engineer victory in the 22-6 win over the highly touted grapplers from the naval academy vol 68 — no 32 brown and white tuesday february 26 1957 un 6-0331 atomic expert speaks on fallout friday drown lamb'n to hold classes by september by bill leclere the man who led the scientific group at the 1946 bikini atomic bomb tests will speak here friday in packard lab auditorium under the auspices of the cooperative lecture series dr ralph e lapp internationally known physicist will lecture on radiation fallout and man beginning at 8 p.m mod bomber clears education building a mad bomber prankster who threatened to blow up the education building last evening is being sought today by bethlehem police dr george c ackerlund associate professor of education re ceived a phone call at 8:15 p.m yesterday from a person who said i'm the mad bomber and i'm going to blow up that little white building at 8:45 both bethlehem and campus police were immediately called to the small white structure behind packer hall as soon as they arrived the building was vacated by the two classes which were in progress at the time police then began a thorough search of the building no bomb was discovered at 8:55 10 minutes after the explosive was supposed to go off classes were resumed dr ackerlund said the voice sounded like that of an old man whose age he estimated at be tween 60 and 65 the university operator who took the phone call told the brown and white that the person was probably someone who is familiar with the campus he didn't ask for the educa tion department but for extension 386 extension phone numbers are not listed in the city directory dr ackerlund confirmed the op erator's supposition he pointed out that during the brief conversation the man referred to the education building as the one right in back of packer hall his wife's desire to do some study ing in the library was the only rea son dr ackerlund was in the build ing he usually isn't here on mon day nights no one else was in the education department office at the time