Brown and White Vol. 68 no. 45

              hix nix sex but ok hex the success of quintain has prompted a group of thoughtful undergraduates to establish an even newer literary magazine sextain at least that is what it was called until yesterday when the board of publications objected to the suggestiveness of the title at an emergency meeting last night the editors after agreeing with the department of public re lations that all poetry is suggestive anyhow suggested hextain as a compromise that would demonstrate our solidarity with the natives of this region no action has yet been taken but already contributions are flooding in the first issue will consist of a poem by professor bewley entitled general patton among the night ingales see dean page 6 see praises page 6 civic authority and responsibility by an imaginative extension of this practice and the principles which underlie it the editors of the brown and white have invited members of the uni versity faculty to edit and publish this issue of the paper houseparty is a time when good feelings a bound when burning student-administration or student-faculty issues are put aside and so the newspaper's responsibilities to the university com munity are somewhat less than usual thus the necessary sacrifice in editorial standards may be made most safely at this time university professors are notoriously a secluded lot they spend most of their time in libraries and laboratories with occasional intermissions in the class room they write and speak more than most people see profs page 3 for some time it has been the custom in a num ber of communities to turn over the operation of local governments to young people for a day boys and girls from the scouts 4-h clubs hi-y and sim ilar organizations are appointed to the city council and key municipal posts and under the supervision of their elders discharge the duties of these civic offices no one argues that local government is ad ministered with greater skill or efficiency on these days in fact it is only at times when these two qualities can be temporarily sacrificed that the young people take office the justification for the practice is to be found rather in modern educational theory which holds that learning is best advanced in real-life situations the argument runs that civic virtue for example can best be inculcated through the direct exercise of parr seizes houseparty issue of b&w dean preston parr macabre tour planned for h party goers un 6-0331 friday april 26 1957 faculty offered 3-meal dining plan in center vol 68 — no 45 cook anymore the exercise should do the wives good however neville continued dean leith will be in charge of leading the charge down the hill after meals so that there won't be any congestion dr lloyd taylor who returned from texas to be next to dr w appleton aiken argued that coats and ties should not be compul sory at meals just bermuda shorts and roller skates prof john steckbeck warn ed that with all the children present meals may develop in see dunlap page 3 all lehigh faculty members and their families if any will eat three meals a day at the university cen ter it was decreed yesterday by vice-president and provost h a neville neville offered instructors their choice of four food plans for the coming year all on a withholding basis 1 lone faculty member — 1,400 for 21 meals per week during the entire school year 2 faculty member and wife — 1,425 3 faculty member wife and one or two children — 1,450 by amo isaac encouraged by the success of last year's quilting bee and play party the department of english is planning again to offer a program of re creational and cultural activities saturday afternoon april 27 between 1 and 5 p.m designed to appeal to the more serious-minded undergraduates and their guests a house-and-garden tour will throw open a series of little-known beauty spots in the area and illustrate various aspects of modern home-making the tour has been designed to conform with the statutes of the commonwealth of pennsylvania we planned the program with several objectives said prof j b severs head of the department of english for one thing we wished to make available as fully as possible the cultural and aesthetic amenities of the lehigh valley features often overlooked by houseparty merry makers in the past we wished also to provide wholesome entertainment that would not merely make saturday afternoon memorable but would prove practically useful to these young people who will be severs winced slightly the parents and homemakers of the next generation and we were anxious to respond to persist ent undergraduate demand for closer student-faculty relationships the co-operation within the department has been wonder ful continued prof severs who is planning to be away from bethlehem between april 25 and 30 everybody was eager to pitch in and help contracts for next year have not yet been sent out he added the program includes visits to the following houses wuthering flats home of prof and mrs r l armstrong just west of the perm-dixie cement com pany's plant in lower nazareth township a formal dutch garden and parterre with small ornamental water is backed by a spacious care fully preserved naturalistic area with a splendid stand of virgin 4 faculty member wife and three or more children — 1,475 as you can see dr neville noted we are trying to pro mote a family style faculty after he set forth the basic pro gram neville opened the meeting to questions prof joseph b mcfadden cor rupt local politician who dislikes evening football wanted to know if any kickback would be made to take family members to and from meals dr neville replied that there would not and added since they won't be compelled to hook plan excises all but dean lot the complicated and unwieldly to the simple and obvious our age is an age of stream lining of reduction to essentials — in short a functional age my proposal will reduce the univer sity of the future to its essen tials — a parking lot and a dean's office for the heart of my revolutionary proposal is the drive-in classroom surely an inevitable development in an age which has already created the drive-in theatre the drive-in see core page 5 congd'n hits parr profs dean preston parr editor houseparty issue dear friend please accept this letter in the spirit in which it is written do you realize that you may be about to find yourself clear out on the end of a very shaky limb you are cur rently engaged in soliciting from faculty members their uninhibited contributions to the houseparty issue of brown and white what unwarranted fortitude what simplicity of mind don't you realize what a floodgate of undiscriminating literary efforts you are opening up in the sacred name of academic freedom there is no telling what dangerous and even subversive ex halations of long-repressed and dis see dilworth page 7 potential queens — another invitation means another chance at becoming houseparty queen for these two lovelies one on left says she'll be sure to make dance this year since she has gotten keys to every closet on campus by frank hook for several years now administra tive officers of lehigh university have talked a great deal about the hundred year plan which has been offered as a far-sighted approach to our future as an institution of higher learning unfortunately our adminis trators like their counterparts in colleges all over the country have not been able to divorce themselves from thinking in a traditional pattern no longer acceptable in the era of radia tion i wish to offer a simple plan which i am sure will strike all thoughtful people as a sound prac ticable solution to all our prob lems it is modern revolutionary and simple even obvious if one wonders why no one has proposed it before i can suggest only that people are prone to the fallacy that a complex problem must perforce have a complex solution and that university officials prefer ed pol proposes shaft for dean the committee to undermine south mountain for the beneficia tion education training and en lightenment of the gneiss students of the lehigh family is a sub-com mittee of the coordinating com mittee on student-faculty intra departmental extra-curricular man ifestations of underworked lehigh students the committee represents lehigh university brown and white harriet pheeze a lesson in both moderation and cheerfulness in adversity a young lady named harriet pheeze once danced her feet off if you please but when down in the dumps she danced on her stumps till she wore down her legs to the knees e.d