Brown and White Vol. 70 no. 26

              see old page 5 arcadia okays budget recommends committees by joe varilla ll&w editorial director dean j d leith this week revealed that he will assess demerits to fraternities guilty of quantitatively minor rule infractions a tofal of five lchigh university group demerits lugdems in a normal span of seven semesters could subject a group to dis ciplinary action the dean of students explained that he could refer a five-lugdem group's case history to either the university discipline committee or to the ifc judiciary committee for action he told the brown and white that whenever possible he would like to refer the matter to the ifc committee — in line with a position of giv ing student government more responsibility first notice of lugdem came in a letter from dean leith to ifc president carl schier who read it to representatives at mon day's ifc meeting ifc members blasted the lugdem plan one representative asserted that there are a lot of things done in a weekend which could probably get five demerits — in one weekend — not seven semesters another member pointed out that leith assesses them arbitrarily still another added that the letter followed the assessment of the first lugdem no mention of the fraternity that received the deremit was revealed in leith's letter he said later that just as in the case of individual demerits names of the fraternities given the lugd ems will not be publicly an nounced a number of fraternity members wanted to know dean leith's defi nition of a minor infraction in answering the same question posed by a brown and white re porter dean leith noted that the following actions all of which have occurred at one time or another would subject a group to a lugd em one fraternity left for the summer while owing a local see lugdem page 7 x-s 375 registration opens for williams contest residence halls reported this to the dean's office and in conjunction placed the house on indefinite pro bation at the end of three weeks on march 2 an appeal can be made to the dean's office to remove the house from probationary status president topping announced that he had visited dean leith and discussed the problems of pilfered signs and other objects being kept in rooms by upper classmen and freshmen alike he proposed that rhc the in terfraternity council and the freshmen take a stand against such pilferage a proposal was discussed where by future incoming freshmen be in doctrinated against such stealing rhc endorsed a letter from dean leith concerning the stealing prob lem and proposed a discipline method involving the handing out of university demerits to offenders discipline in this matter would be handled by the student discipline committee's channels with subse quent reports to be sent to the dean's office dravo house representative jim rice told the group that the rhc constitution committee had met and voted that only minor constitutional changes be made these changes involve the po see rhc page 3 william a smith in a long discussion on the approval of the budget presented to arcadia by its executive committee solon robert walters noted i expected to come here and approve with perhaps some minor modifications a budget set up by the executive com mittee not to make one up here several members of the group ex pressed concern about the accuracy of the budget and treasurer otis johnson stated i think this is a haphazard sort of deal bill horton moved to have discus see spending page 6 williams extempore speech con test registration will begin monday contestants can win up to 75 for three rounds of competition dr eugene vasilew assistant professor of speech announced wednesday all undergraduates except pre vious winners of the upperclass contest are eligible to win up to unanimous decision aaup blasts loyalty oath in a special two-hour meeting wednesday evening arcadia made recommendations for student mem bers of student-faculty committees for the coming year and approved its proposed budget for submission to the student activities committee student life committee re commendations were thomas k gilhool 60 lawrence c rus sell 60 william t clarke 61 and john f talucci 61 selec tions for the student activities committee were otis h johnson 60 samuel r matthews 60 and thomas d swartz 61 approved board of publications candidates were robert m walters 60 clarence e wright 59 m ed ward dehart 60 and alan s segal 60 recommended for the student appraisal of the faculty were bruce m snyder 60 pearn p niller 60 and john e mcgarry 61 recommended as faculty adviser to the spring houseparty judiciary committee were professors james v d eppes herbert h johnson and 75 for three rounds of competi tion neither specific training nor experience is required contestants are divided into fresh man and upperclass contests with each contest offering 75 first and 50 second prizes in addition the upperclass contest offers a third prize of 25 registration will end friday feb 20 applicants should contact dr vasilew in room 315 christmas-saucon hall speech topics will be selected from current events and current problems during the period from jan 2 to feb 20 generally the topics will come from the fol lowing areas congressional in vestigations u s defense education candidates 60 inte gration problems european allies germany u s vs rus sia maintaining the peace visit - ing dignitaries national econ omy art and entertainment and the space age the contest itself will be divided into two preliminary rounds and a final round in each of the freshman and upperclass divisions the first two rounds are eliminations in which contestants advance on the basis of rankings decided by the faculty jtstiges see lehigh page 4 5,170 although the money has not yet been received moravec noted that the university has not yet seen any form which the applying student will be required to sign although lehigh applied for 56,000 and re ceived less than 10 per cent of the request moravec pointed out that other area schools as well as institutions throughout the country have had their requests similarly cut the local aaup chapter has objected to the dis tribution of any title ii funds of the ndea appro priation so long as the act provides that no funds shall be used to make payments or loans to any in dividual unless such individual 1 has executed and filed with the commissioner of education an affi davit that he does not believe in and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the united states gov cutler recital tonight at 8:15 robert b cutler head^f the music department will fc resen t an hour of organ music his first recital since 1955 in packer memorial church at 8:15 tonight bach's fantasia and fugue in g minor and ralph vaughn williams rarely heard prelude in c minor will be featured items by robert walters b&w editor-in-chief the lehigh chapter of the american associa tion of university professors has joined the nation wide fight for repeal of the disclaimer provision of the national defense education act of 1958 dr a roy eckardt president of lehigh's aaup chapter told the brown and white that his group has recently voted unanimously to sup port the stand of the aaup national office in con demning the loyalty oath attached to the new federal student loan program at the same time university officials have dis closed plans to go ahead with distribution of the loan money to students as soon as the funds become avail able director of public information charles j moravec announced that the university has been allocated brown and white bethlehem pa leith discloses lugdem plan hit by greeks friday feb 13 1959 vol 70 — no 26 stand by for blast off a wary member of the rotc looks on as a member of the army's exhibition team explains the workings of the army's hawk missile the hawk was on display on the top floor of grace hall this week delts move into sayre mansion m-m house placed on indefinite pro dates of rotc cadets will vie for mil ball queen honors tomorrow night as the highlight of the annual military dance held in grace hall from 9 p.m to 1 a.m les ivlichener a favorite at perm state and bucknell dances w'h provide music dress is military formal for cadets and semi-formal for others grace hall will sport decorations of parachutes flight suits and other hying equipment the queen and her court will be chosen by the chaperones and the band ieader from dates represent ing the various groups participating in the dance after the crowning the arnold air society and the pershing rise drill teams will give pre cision drill exhibitions the arnold air society as well as other organizations will hold cocktail parties previous to the dance col and mrs kenneth strauss will host advanced afrotc cadets and their elates at a tea in their home before the rounds of cocktail parties the military formal dress re quhed of cadets consists of dress uniform with substitution of white shirt and black bow tie for all af cadets and advanced army cadets basic army cadets will wear regu lar uniforms queen selection to be feature of mil ball sat mcclintic-marshall house has been put on indefinite social probation by the director of residence halls resi dence halls council president dick topping announced at monday night's rhc meeting probation has been in effect since last monday reasons given by m-m house president anthony garro were considerable drinking had been going on with beer cans and bottles left around the halls and lounges clarence campbell director of members of delta tau delta moved into their new 230,000 chapter house this week becoming the fourth lehigh fraternity in eight years to move to sayre park the house located just north of phi sigma kappa is designed to house 36 to 38 men with pro visions for future expansion we are in the process of moving in president logan blank said and expect to have all of the furni ture in by monday at present only the kitchen din ing sleeping and student areas are furnished and in use but the rest of the house is rapidly nearing com pletion university treasurer elmer w glick said the actual cost of the house will be within 3,000 of the estimated figure of 230,000 a sub stantial portion of the cost was do