Brown and White Vol. 69 no. 12

              friday november 8 1957 un 6-0331 followup on hp has incidents practically nil little okies set for biggest test against hot vmi by d l word rain fails to deter h p fun n frolic fall houseparty queen miss marilyn rockafeller a fresh man from douglass college was selected from a group of five finalists as the fall houseparty queen she is pictured above as she was paraded by car between halves at the ball game and what did you think of houseparty weekened — question directed to proper looking gentleman with beard bowler and black umbrella wet wasn't it both the weatherman and most social chairmen would agree houseparty weekend was marred by showers but spirits were not dampened to any noticeable degree arriving females were greeted by umbrella-bearing dates who silently cursed the weather there was no moonlight or even sputlight the whole weekend by formal time 9 on friday however the rain had stopped to the delight of arriving dates who had spent much time primping highlight of the evening for the more than 700 formally attired couples was the crowning of miss marilyn rockafeller from douglass her escort was pat patton chi psi dressed to the teeth couples waltzed rocked and cha-qhaed in an atmosphere designed to create an illusion of manhattan's twinkling tow ers providing the music in grace hall's lower floor was richard maltby and his orchestra hardy souls who braved the climb to the upper floor were greeted by music from the bob harry group decorations which followed the manhattan theme focused on a huge painting of the new yorker magazine's caricature of a new yorker of last century's select 400 saturday afternoon spectators who had been warned to bring knitting saw lehigh mash buck nell during half-time activities railroaders of the lehigh valley presented the university with a loco motive bell at the same time the this fall's houseparty was in my estimation a most successful one the dance and all other events of the weekend went very well despite the weather and the two-week class recess associate dean of students preston parr told the brown and white this week in general i believe that we received the cooperation we asked for in regard to the prompt and proper filling of the necessary forms parr said re ferring to the petitions and date lists processed by mrs moravec the houseparty judiciary com mittee which has held two meetings since the weekend has not pre pared a final report as yet com mittee chairman walter grabowsky announced in general the living groups were very cooperative with the members of the judiciary committee we found that the picture as a whole was very good grabowski added another committee meeting will be held next week meanwhile several unconfirmed reports of poor conduct have reached the brown and white an mg be longing to nurse benson at the health center was damaged by van dals a member of the freshman counseling system reported that his group was investigating several cases of poor behavior id card infractions bring 112 demerits captain's pick members for class gift plan solicitation team members for the senior class gift fund drive were selected wednesday night when team captains met with co-chairmen pete biehl and joe gratto to formu late plans for the drive which will begin with a kickoff dinner dec 3 in the hotel bethlehem each of 12 team captains will ask during the next two weeks eight members of the class of 58 to serve as team members captains and members will at tend the kickoff dinner each of the 100 or more team members will be responsible for contacting and soliciting five mqm bers of the class for a subscription to the gift plan at the wednesday meeting the captains turned down a proposal for an increase in the amount of the gift from 300 per subscribed to 350 or 400 the captains felt that a see kickoff page 3 lehigh's big bad brown team will face its last serious test of the grid campaign tomorrow when it takes on vmfs unbeaten keydets at taylor stadium the kickoff is slated for 1:30 little oklahoma is averaging 394 yards per game only arizona state and army of the major elevens exceed that figure big okla homa is about 50 yards short of our total in spite of these impressive statistics lehigh may have bitten off a little more than it can comfortably chew only a tie with holy cross early in the season mars the keydets record in addition our opponents have been improving every week capped by last saturday's surprising 20-7 upset victory over rugged virginia however the enginers are not overawed by the high esteem in which vmi is held by the nation's sportswriters rated 20th in the country by the ap but they do respect them in fact coach leckonby said we are no more afraid of this team than we were of delaware he con tinued we have at least a 50-50 chance of winning and they will have to beat us on the field leck onby believes this and he has his men believing this also lehigh will continue to play its flashy brand of ball hoping to continue rushing and passing at its 394-yards-a-game average leckonby is very happy about the status of his reserves with easy vic tories over columbia and bucknell the second team gained needed game experience this is very important since vmi with two platoons of nearly equal strength has been win ning games in the last quarter with rested ball players as far as first teams go lehigh has more weight up front while con ceding a slight edge in speed in the backfield nevertheless lehigh has nolan and danny may nullify what ever advantage the keydets may have nolan this week received the . maxwell trophy which is awarded for the best perform ance by an eastern player for see vmi page 7 a 49,000 memory computer laboratory installed see patton's page 6 annual dance dropped by af one hundred and twelve university demerits — three times as many as were handed out during last year's entire spring semester — were assessed by the university discipline committee last week the committee composed of three faculty members and two students gave two demerits each to fifty-six students who falsi fied their birth date on iden tification card information forms used by the school in com piling information for id cards there is a strong persumption that most if not all of you did this purposely since the falsified birth dates in all cases purport to show the students to be 21 years of age or older there is a strong basis for assumption that in many cases the deception was for the purpose of qualifying for the purchase of beer and other alcoholic beverages chairman of the committee wray h congdon told the assembled group the university will not tolerate any such action since the false in formation was for use on the offi cial lehigh university identification card issued over the signature of an official of the university this action compromises not only the student but also the university see deception page 3 dr harvey a neville vice presi dent and provost has announced the establishment here of a computer laboratory the new laboratory is equipped with a royal precision electronic computer known as lgp-30 the cost of the equip ment was 49,000 the funds for the facilities have been made available through the 1957-1958 annual-giving campaign among the uses of the machine are the training of individuals in computer operation research proj ects and industrial computation work the laboratory has been set up in packard laboratory under the supervision of the department of industrial engineering prof wil liam a smith jr has been named administrative director designed to store 4096 words the computer has a memory suit able for the majority of com plex scientific problems that might be assigned to an auto matic computer it is about the see brain page 3 another of the many functions disrupted by the flu vacation the air prom originally scheduled for oct 19 has been cancelled reasons for the cancellation according to fred o'such di rector of operations are the in creased study load unavail ) ability of a good band and the heavy financial burden caused by the heavy social schedule for this month according to o'such the decision was reached with regret but due\to the " circumstances prevailing after the two week vacation it was felt the wisest move full refunds will be given on tickets purchased the arnold air society initiation scheduled in conjunction with the dance will be held saturday nov 16 cyanide petitions due applications for cyanide junior honorary are now avail able in mrs moravec's office in the alumni building deadline for submission of applications is noon tomorrow capable computer professors rayna gould and smith appear to be examining a new 49,000 electronic computer machine the com puter will be used to help train individuals in computer operation and research projects vol 69 — no 12 brown and white