Brown and White Vol. 69 no. 32

              ton will be featured for the hp dance the junior class predicts a record-breaking crowd of party goers predicted montville the committee montville pointed out hopes to correct past mistakes in procedure and foster an atmosphere for the maximum of hp enjoyment with compliance to the minimum rules of conduct as set down in the regulations judiciary committee members are from ifc larry trerotols william ross edward dehart and montville from rhc richard topping george russell jack branning and from tc allen schneck deputies have not yet been picked a dry dixie concert in grace hall will be one of the features of this year's ifc weekend the con cert which will be held on saturday afternoon march 22 will feature lehigh's own christmas city six on saturday evening weekend goers will dance to the music of versatile claude thornhill patti ryan thornhill's thrush will add a touch of brightness to the bandstand another weekend feature will be the mustard and cheese player's presentation of teahouse of the august moon the recent broadway hit will be shown thursday friday and saturday nights in broughal auditorium ifc ticket sellers report a lack of response on the part of freshmen to buying tickets in previous years fraternity ranks were swelled with over 300 freshmen eager to partici pate in their first big fraternity weekend due to the delayed rushing system this year freshmen are not allowed to enter houses for the saturday night parties two major changes in houseparty rules will be in effect this spring announced joe montville newly elected judiciary committee chair man men will be allowed to change clothes in approved ground floor or basement rooms in the female-occupied dormi tories and no time limits will be set on picnics or meals a time limit will however be en forced on drinking saturday tap ping will be allowed between 1 and 5 p.m only montville said that the committee expects the job of covering the parties will be a greater one in vol ume this spring since duke elling snack happy campus students and lunch hungry town students will benefit from the extended serv ice added this week to the univer sity center's eating services snack bar facilities used for the first time last week are now open until midnight the change in time is an extension of eight hours per day for the pennsyl vania dutch dining room man ager wilber blew also expects the room to be open on sundays in the future town students who recently waged a campaign to have a regular lunch area are now able to eat their mid-day meal in the student contract dining area of the center five-day lunch tickets are being sold at the bursar's office com muters will pay 90 cents per meal or 4.50 per week for their ticket they will not however be able to see meal page 6 by roger zerweck gerry leeman's varsity wrestlers completed their first undefeated sea son in 15 years saturday night as they overwhelmed a weak hofstra team 27-3 the last undefeated season occurred in 1943 when billy sheridan's grapplers went through the season unbeaten and untied in eight games oddly enough the 1943 wrestlers placed only fourth in the easterns be hind victorious navy this year's team won nine and tied one in their 10 outings pitts burgh having a poor season for them tied the engineers 14-14 two weeks ago other than the pitt tie leeman's men breezed through the season easily winning all their matches except the one with navy when they were extended to a 14-11 count immediately after the mid semester examinations minus ed hamer who went on pro yale became the fifth straight victim and then navy and army fell the next two weekends after the pitt tie the engineers de feated rutgers and wound up the season last night routing hofstra captain joe gratto culminated his varsity career brilliantly saturday as he pinned jim heller in four minutes with a cradle gratto thus finished his three-year dual-meet record with only one defeat and a tie marring an otherwise perfect slate joe undoubtedly will be an odds on choice to take the 137-pound title in the easterns next weekend pete davidson also finished his dual-meet career saturday night as he easily decisioned jim hipper 5 0 the senior from princeton n j completed the season with an 8-2 record davidson came down to the 177-pound class and experienced no trouble with hipper the hofstra sophomore in fact was soundly booed by the 2,800 grace hall fans see gratto page 8 steckbeck to sing solos at lu - bearer concert 57 attend meeting hear ideas for 59 festival in chapel he was featured soloist during sunday services of 56 fall houseparty as soloist saturday he will sing old man river and ain't it a shame the beaver chorus will pre sent a group of shubert songs and several show tunes both see song page 5 festival mass meeting prof albert rights addresses men interested in reviving music festival next year prof john steckback director of physical education will be featured soloist saturday evening at 8:15 when the lehigh and beaver glee clubs present a combined concert the performance will be the inaugural show in the univer sity center's multi-purpose room largest meeting room in the newly renovated building twice during the program results of the eiwa wrestling tournament will be announced steck known to most men for his now famous lehigh condition er will show off his baritone voice by singing a group of temperance and drinking songs prof robert cutler glee club director admits that most people when told steckbeck sings gasp our track coach he sings but versatile steckbeck is a member of the bach choir be fore coming to lehigh he held a position in the athletic depart ment of dickinson and was also director of the college choir last september during freshman glee club tryouts steckbeck walked in for an audition cutler says this caused quite a stir but his singing quite impressed everyone from time to time steckbeck sings see fest page 5 plained that festival was so large in the past mainly because anything small would look out of place in large grace hall cutler would remedy this by greeks to chew on difficulties ifc will sponsor a series of ex change dinners on friday march 21 for discussion of current problems facing houses the presidents of the houses will be guests at delta up silon treasurers at delta tau delta rushing chairmen at pi kappa al pha and stewards at sigma phi the agenda at delta upsilon will be a cocktail party from 5:15 to 6 dinner from 6 to 7 and an informal discussion led by dean wray cong don and his associates preston parr and j d leith some of the topics scheduled to be discussed will be the term of office see deans page 5 with 57 persons attending fri day's mass music festival meeting was described as very successful by bill murray 57 one of last year's festival coordinators prof albert rights retiring faculty adviser to music fes tival told the gathering that festival presonnel have three duties if they want to keep the tradition alive without hurting the university or themselves these he cited as 1 festival must remain financi ally solvent as it is at present prof rights told of the catastrophic finan cial situation of the 1949 festival 2 the students must main tain good scholarship he said that the student must realize his double responsibility he maintained that the two can go together and we've proved it 3 music festival must be devel oped so as to make it a good student activity as it has been in the past rights noted that prof robert a cutler who will be heading festival activities in the future has new ideas about it i think this is healthy since music festival was not meant to be a stagnant thing he said cutler he said was thinking about producing music festival on a smaller scale bights ex top hofstra for 15 year mat record lee-men end year undefeated next week lehigh will travel to pittsburgh as favorites in the east ern intercollegiate wrestling association matches the engineers have already copped the association championship un 6-0331 snack facilities opentomidnight tuesday march 11 1958 vol 69 — no 32 dry dixie notes of six highlight ifc weekend the last pin — joe gratto captain of lehigh's varsity wrestling team completes his last dual meet of his collegiate wrestling career as he pins his opponent gratto led the squad to a 27-3 rout over hofstra mon tville announces 2 hp rule changes lehigh university brown and white