Brown and White Vol. 69 no. 23

              vol 69 — no 23 un 6-0331 dean parr and festival officials prof albert a rights faculty adviser and technical director of the 10 previous music festivals called the decision accumulative rights statement was empha sized by dean parr who cited the sequence of events leading to the cancellation these are 1 modification of rushing and pledging dates music festival work ers need spring vacation in order to prepare adequately for the festival which is held usually the first or second weekend after the vacation this year however rushing falls during those two weeks and music festival had to be moved up to march 15 a date that precluded adequate preparation 2 prof william h schempf one of the faculty advisers of festival resigned his position at lehigh to take a similar post at the u s mili tary academy this left a gap in the organization 3 prof rights who said that see prof page 3 york paramount his music is an experience and is usually played to ! fit the occasion his fans include the young and old highbrow and lowbrow in the united states can ada and europe for more than two decades he has headed the list of american jazz composers and has stayed there by duke ellington america's fore most modern jazz composer will be the featured band for spring house party the duke and his orchestra will hold court on the lower floor of grace hall friday night april 25 paul prestia 59 houseparty chairman stated that ellington is the first really big name band at lehigh since the dorsey brothers played for fall house party 1954 and anticipates a heavy ticket sale ellington is as much at home in carnegie hall where he is an an nual performer as he is the new town eateries hurt by center by richard siegel restaurant owners and other lo cal merchants are feeling the bite of the new eating plan very pain fully estimates of losses ranging as high as 3,000 per month were reported by the owners of the swan and royal while the new merchants college michael's brown and white gus's plaza pure food and walp's are also being hurt financially laying off help was an imme diate reaction serving hours were reduced in a few places in the case of the swan the cooking facil ities were sharply reduced as there ' remained no necessity for retaining the kitchen that had been needed see eating page 4 demonstrations by the air force crack drill team and the pershing rifle trick drill team will be one of the highlights of the military ball on saturday feb 22 music will be provided by chuck laskin and his orchestra a group which has been rapidly gaining popularity at the uni versities of pennsylvania and delaware the selection and crowning of the queen will be a second highlight of the evening each of the sponsor ing societies arnold air scabbard and blade sabre and pershing ryfles will pick two candidates from the dance floor an air force officer and an army officer and their wives will then choose the queen and her attendants special feature of the evening will be a model rocket tower ing to within a few yards of the highest part of grace hall's peaked ceiling about 300 couples are expected to attend the formal tickets for which may be purchased from members of the sponsoring organizations at 2.50 each turning out works like sophisti cated lady mood indigo car avan and don't get around much anymore in europe critics have said that his music and walt disney's cartoons are the only two orig inal art forms america has pro duced in the u s many con cert hall critics rank his inno vations in modern music with the art of stravinsky ravel and delius before ellington was finally signed at a cost of 2,000 by the junior class sponsors of spring hp his agent gave the men a few anx ious moments the negotiations went on for several months before they finally got a signed contract termed rat race greeks hove member drive juniors urged to sign all lehigh students expecting to receive their first degree in june 59 or february 60 who haven't yet registered for an epitome picture do so as soon as possible in mrs m's office the puke prof myers appointed to aec argonne lab putting on pressure three unidentified members of delta phi fraternity attempt to convince a member of the class of 1961 on the advantages of fraternities at lehigh the scene was typical of those be ing enacted in practically every room of the three frosh dorms on wednes day evening the greeks will continue their membership drive on tues day night rector of the argonne national lab oratory announced last monday the appointment will necessitate a two-year leave of absence for the dean although the laboratory functions as an operation of the university of chicago it is under contract with the atomic energy commission announcing myers appointment were dr norman hilberry ar gonne's director and dr martin d whitaker president of the univer sity a member of the science fac ulty since 1946 myers will leave his post in july he has been granted a two-year leave of absence to serve according to hilberry in a new and i important position at argonne hilberry announced that myers see myers page 6 dr frank myers fraternities took over freshmen dormitories for the fourth time this semester on wednesday night as rushers outnumbering the fresh men tried to add to the ranks of their houses most fraternity leaders main tained that they did not like the new dates set for rushing be cause of the fact that we were un able to rush during the first se mester said one fraternity pres ident cpntactinfi has developed into a rat race that rivals even the two weeks of actual rushing in many instances seven or eight fraternity men can be seen waiting their turn to see a freshman most freshmen have already filled all their dates and are presently en gaged in getting second and third dates for the same nights many fraternity officers also ex pressed the hope that the newly created fraternity alumni advisory council would be able to aid the fraternities in finding an answer to the problem dr frank e myers dean of le high's graduate school and head of the department of physics has been appointed associate laboratory di big festivals appear doomed 58 cancellation 2nd in 3 years festival commitment no longer there 1 — parr gone with the wind — with cancellation of the music festival preparation scenes like these will soon be just memories slouch-hatted prof albert rights a festival founder has resigned as technical director and faculty adviser to the group gone are the late hour dress rehearsals and the last minute rush to complete the ftage by joe varilla the second cancellation of music festival in three years seems to signal the doom of lehigh's only extravaganza-type musical weekend although no official would comment definitely on the future of festival dean preston parr noted that the commimtent to muse festival is no longer there the final official decision to can cel this year's festival came about a week ago t a conference between brown and white 2 drill teams to demonstrate at military ball juniors get ellington for houseparty dance friday feb 7 1958