Brown and White Vol. 69 no. 26

              where did we come from will be the subject of the featured lecture when dr arnold s nash comes to lehigh for the second of three conferences on religion set for this year dr nash will open this 13th conference as the guest speaker at packer memorial chapel on sunday at 11 a.m this is the third visit to le high for dr nash head of the department of religion and pro fessor of sociology in the grad uate school of the university of north carolina he led a pre see conference page 4 pierre luboshutz of luboshutz and nemenoff duo-piano fame he went on to study at moscow conservatory in berlin with schnabel and kreutz er at budapest conservatory with dohnanyi and at the sorbonne in paris since touring europe extensively from 1926 to 1930 he has been tour ing the united states he has ap peared as guest soloist with such leading orchestras as the philadel phia symphony orchestra and the boston symphony goldovsky be came an american citizen in 1937 and lives in brookline mass with his wife the former margaret codd and two children in august 1947 he produced and directed the first amer ican performance of the mozart opera idomeneo at the berk shire festival in lenox mass he is artistic director of the new england opera theater and has in troduced several practically for gotten as well as several new op eras these include rossini's turk in italy gluck's iphigenia in tauris monteverdi's cordonation of poppea britten's albert her see scl page 10 the big snowstorm of 1958 — one that will probably be remembered for many years to come — occurred almost a full week ago but most of the powdery white stuff is still on the ground and the weather bureau predicts more of it for the weekend dozens of professors and administration officials living in out lying areas found themselves snowbound and were unable to reach lehigh as late as wednesday instructor absenteeism forced can cellation of some classes despite an accelerated road clearing program throughout the area auto travel was possible only with chains during the week many cars mil ball features high altitude setting by robert j cochnar moon shot in 58 -- ley barring unforseen developments man will reach the moon in 15 years beginning with explorer rocket eer willy ley predicted wednesday evening at his lehigh cls debut ley's lecture was sponsored by the dept of mechanical en gineering american society of mechanical engineers pi tau sigma the society of sigma xi and the cls committee the german born rocket pioneer traced the history of rocket and missile development since its unpre tentious beginning in germany in 1920 when the first liquid fuel rocket was successfully tested it is true ley pointed out that an even earlier treatise in rocketry was published in russia in 1903 and a society for space travel was estab lished in russia in 1927 he said that the united states first recognized the importance of guided missies when the first see scientist page 10 are still snowbound estimated to have reached the 18 inch mark by officials at the a-b-e airport weather station the snow started to fall late saturday after noon by wrestling match time sev eral inches had blanketed the campus ¦ ¦ ¦¦>¦ ¦ after the wrestling victory most students found it virtually impos sible to drive their dates back home or to college although taxis had been running earlier in the evening with chains on all four wheels the the heavy drifts soon shut down see bethlehem page 5 dr arnold nash physical hazing charge denied by fraternities an expected three to six inch snowfall may dampen festive spirits and a tactical problem may be en countered as to how the fair damsels will arrive at the lavish affair - one thought is to transport the dates to grace hall in army snow cats or air force egg-beaters if such a snowfall does occur it is reported that major mortimer mimnaugh will be put in charge of operation femme-lift there is little or no physical hazing on the lehigh campus a brown and white poll of the university's 30 fraternities revealed however one house president said he knew for a fact that at least half the houses engage in it four of the houses refused to answer while 26 denied the physical hazing charge the four which refused said it was against national policy to reveal any of the fraternity's practices all of the houses admitted having help weeks which they said had a good purpose they pointed out that they not only help to bring the pledge class together but;they also get the house into good physical shape . one house pledgemaster maintained that help week mentally pre pares the pledges for initiation into the house another pledgemaster called help week activities traditions which should be maintained most of the fraternities said that the activities are constructive rather than destructive like training for the service is how one house described it only three of the houses had anything laudatory to say about the brown and white editorial concerning hazing even these termed it sar castic and a bit one-sided a vice-president of one of the hill fraternities said the writer of the see greek page 10 untimely blizzard forces b&w to cancel issue the issue of the brown and white scheduled for tuesday publication was cancelled this week due to transportation and communications difficulties caused by the heavy snowstorm last weekend today's expanded brown and white contains all of this week's news frosh discuss hell and help the freshman class cabinet has refused to take a position on an edi torial published in the brown and white denouncing hazing of frater nity pledges during hell week the subject was put before the freshmen by cabinet president ; art rogers the object of the : discussion ? was to find out whether the freshmen approved of hazing and whether they felt that the freshmen class could take an action to eliminate the illegal acts one of the first questions asked was whether or not there had ever been any dire consequence from the hazing although none of the mem bers knew of any serious incidents happening at lehigh several per see frosh page 4 this year's mil ball decorations will be the most elaborate and un usual that lehigh has ever seen promised gene cohen decoration chairman the 48th annual dance spon sored by the combined army and air force contingents on the campus will take place satur day in grace hall a voluminous parachute canopy is expected to roof the sophisticated strings of chuck laskin and his or chestra giving the decorations a lofty touch focal point of the stellar evening will be a model 30 foot rocket de signed by the department's rocket experts the rocket will dominate the ballroom criss-crossing the ceiling will be the insignia and colors of air force and army divisions and organiza tions as a special attraction the per shing rifle trick drill team and the air force crack drill team will each put on a demonstration brown and wh ite vol 69 — no 26 phone un 6-0331 goldovsky to perform in packard hall at 8 bethlehem pa friday february 21 1958 boris goldovsky master of ceremonies on the metropolitan opera news of the air broadcasts will present piano portraits at 8 p.m to night in packard auditorium the program is an scl presentation a native of moscow goldovsky made his professional debut with the berlin philharmonic in 1921 at the age of 13 his mother was lea luboshutz concert violinist he had his first piano lessons at the age of eight from his uncle dr nash leads religious convo for 2nd time stranded — two lost souls valiantly attempt communication with the outside world if he lets go she'll probably fall in with the letter question when will the mailman arrive to pick up the letter boris goldovsky campus snowed —-- sno joke lehigh outscores mantz by five fcfff