Brown and White Vol. 68 no. 40

              cls mid-east expert to discuss suez crisis the power failure which plunged most of the lower campus into darkness was finally rectified saturday at 11:45 p.m according to an drew w litzenberger building and grounds superintendent cause of the failure was a break in a power cable which extends from the physics building to the alumni memorial building in a ceramic conduit the break occurred 20 feet east of the administrative center underneath a planting of boxwood litzenberger said that the cable was damaged when expensive box wood plants were planted four years ago he related that at the time the weather was rainy and the ground was muddy when the heavy trucks carrying the plants moved into the area the conduit and the cable were damaged but they caused no trouble until tuesday evening the difficulty in repairing the cable came in locating the break crews from the pennsylvania power and light company started work near packard laboratory and pro gressed from manhole to manhole however as litzenberger said we see boxwoods page 5 by william le clere and friends me name is finian macconergan late of glocca-morra county there's a plan in me mind which will certainly revolutionize the lives of others and eh benefit me own eh financially i'm accompanied by me daughter sharon a bit of luggage a wee pot of gold borrowed of course and a pestiferous little imp named og he's a leprechaun i realize that such a story doesn't sound too interesting to some but me daughter she meets a fine up standing lad named woody ma honey he's irish too and most of me story revolves around their courtship fred jillson 57 i'm sharon — i came from ire land with me father we come to missitiicky with me believing he wants to cure his arthritis i should have known me own father better than that when the foolish plan to plant gold near fort knox comes to me at tention i want to return the pot of gold to the poor little lepre chaun.s then i meet woody a fine missi tuckian of irish descent you know what happens then don't you doris adams my name is og i'm a leprechaun from glocca-morra ireland i re ceived word through the fairy as sociation that finian maclonergan had stolen our crock of gold that gives us all our power to make wishes in the hands of a mortal the gold is only good for three wishes then it turns to dross at that time also all the lepre chauns become mortal i followed finian to missitucky in order to take back the gold i fall in love with finian's daughter sharon it was all something sort of grandish i also manage to per form some magic on senator raw kins and being very fickle i fall in love with susan mahoney it's not really that i'm fickle it's just that when i'm not near the girl i love i love the girl i'm near " dick fastiggi 58 my name is woody mahoney the southerner's hero despite the name i have a southern drawl and an irish moll only trouble is i can't get into the musicians union i do get hooked into another type of union where the wages are low and the grievance procedure non-existent — a domestic union i marry sharon who is accused of witchcraft having turned a prejudiced southern senator black see finian's page 7 a discussion of perhaps the knottiest international problem of our age will be presented here thursday night april 11 by the cooperative lecture series at 8 p.m in packard lab auditorium dr smerman s hayden professor of international relations at clark university will speak on america and the suez crisis the last in this year's lecture series is sponsored by the departments of history and international rela tions the foreign policy association and pi gamma mv the social sci ence honor society in conjunction with cls in addition the following have joined with the sponsors as coop erating groups in presenting dr hayden's lecture the international relations club the league of women voters omicron delta kappa phi alpha theta and the politi cal science assembly these organizations have declared dr hayden's lecture one of their own formal functons for the year dr hayden comes here with a see cls page 4 must petition for degrees seniors expecting to graduate in june must apply for their degrees before april 15 in the office of the registrar it was announced yester day by james h wagner registrar all men who fail to do so will be ineligible for graduation postal cut may kill cash love by bob walters lehigh students who in the past have depended on the speed of the united states post office to provide inspiration in the form of letters from girlfriends and financial support from home in the form of postal money orders may have to change their ways soon — or else find themselves short on love letters and cash ¦ this drastic situation has been brought about by the possibility of a slash in postal appropria tions and service in a washington emergency news conference last thursday post master general arthur e summer field stated that he would need a congressional appropriation of 47 million to carry the post office department through june 30 of this year upon learning that only 17 mil lion of the requested amount would be forthcoming summerfield out lined a series of cuts which would be necessary to save the unappro priated thirty million dollars in cluded in these economy moves were the following 1 closing of all post offices see summerfield page 8 dorms open to parents main floor lounges and recreation areas of all dorms were open to parents and dates saturday and sunday a new policy announced re cently by philip b woodroofe director of residence halls will allow students to bring parents and dates into the dorms be tween 12 noon and 10 p.m satur days and between noon and 6 p.m sundays during those hours parents and those accompanying them are also permitted to visit the student's room visits at any other times though must be okayed in advance by mr woodroofe's office un 6-0331 tuesday april 9 1957 3 food plans open to upperclass diners vol 68 — no 40 dr s s hayden see center page 3 error will be required said parr before an exact breakfast schedule can be worked out the evening meal will also be staggered into two shifts the sched ule of who will eat when has not yet been determined when asked to define what will be meant by family style at the evening meals parr answered that arrive at all the figures of the var ious plans in order to accommodate all stu dents for luncheon about half of the freshmen will have to take noon classes the only upperclassmen who will possibly be affected by the noon classes said dean glenn j christensen will be those who flunked freshman courses a certain amount of trial and pot for all at end of finian's bow hands up — shouts prof albert rights in foreground as chorus and stars practice scene for finian's rainbow to be shown friday night in grace hall as the starter for spring music festival 1957 center conference dean parr explains one of the points out lined to student leaders and faculty members at conference on univer sity center held last friday in a meeting room of the health center bad cable blamed for power failure by joe varilla upperclassmen will be given a choice of three food plans next year it was announced friday at a meeting of student leaders and faculty members with dean preston parr sophomores juniors and sen iors may elect to eat 21 meals 17 meals or 15 meals per week at the university center prices will be 500 450 and 430 re spectively for the plans in offering the choice adminis tration officials met the greatest concession asked for by students at previous meetings concerning the dining plan dean parr explained that the much lesser degree of absenteeism which would prevail in the latter two plans was the governing factor of their higher per-meal cost those electing the 17-meal choice will be entitled to meals from monday breakfast through saturday lunch while the 15 meal plan will extend through friday dinner freshmen will be required to take the 21-meal plan the first meal at the university center which will be taken care of by the student's meal ticket will be served the evening before the first day of classes next fall meals during freshman week will cost 17 commuting students and other students not resident in one of the dormitories may arrange to pur chase five lunches per week for 4 elmer w glick university trea surer said that at the evening meal which will be served family style there will be a choice of at least two main courses and possibly more on the question of milk parr said the student will be allowed a glass for breakfast a glass for lunch and two glasses for din ner another glass he said w ou 1 d cost the university 10,000 the university glick said con sidered a two-week varied menu to class elections with the rosen berg proposal referendum as an added highlight will be over by 4:30 p.m tomorrow that is of course if 50 per cent of the student body have cast their ballot on the referendum if the referendum which was given arcadia's support last week does not have the neces sary 50 per cent vote recorded on it the polls will be held open until it is reached two thirds of the students voting on the referendum must approve it before the necessary changes in the constitution and by-laws of arcadia can go into effect the entire student body including seniors are eligible and are being encouraged to vote on the referen dum since the changes it embodies have been approved by the organ ization most concerned in the change — arcadia lehigh university brown and white polls open now for referendum class election