Brown and White Vol. 70 no. 28

              pitt wrestlers invade grace hall tomorrow night at 8:30 to put their 7-0 record on the mat against gerry leeman's 6-1 engineer grapplers in what may be one of the closest matches ever seen in grace hall leeman has termed tomorrow's match a tossup and added that it could be a very close match even though final team scores may be lopsided the 157 and 167 weights will be the key matches of the evening the lehigh coach noted greg ruth sensational and unbeaten 157-pound sophomore will face his toughest opponent of the season in also unbeaten alex skirpan the pitt grappler competed at 177 and at heavyweight last year another sophomore once beaten and possibly less sensational also faces a formidable opponent thad turner who has lost only to cornell's steve friedman takes on tom alberts at 167 pounds alberts was na tional champion at 167 pounds two years ago last year he was sidelined due to a shoulder injury skirpan and alberts aren't pitt's only undefeated men they have three more paul powell 1958 national champ at 115 will most cer tainly assume the favorites role in the 123 pound match when he wrestles jim schmoyer larry lauchle a sophomore is also undefeated in eight outings this season he has defeated navy's paul ilg and army's gerry weis senseel among others ed slater who has split four decisions will be lauchle's rival at 130 bob bubb the panthers fifth and final unbeaten wrestler takes on captain dick santoro at 147 pounds santoro has never been defeated in a dual meet and although bubb is a formidable opponent lehigh's ex marine should continue his streak leon harbold unbeaten al though twice tied by perm state's guy guiccionne and by see panthers page 10 four signatures will set record criticism of the interfraternity council's near-unanimous rejection of the student life committees rushing proposal was voiced by ifc president carl schier wednesday at the same time an optimis tic outlook for ifc's new rush ing committee was foreseen by its chairman bill horton ifc made a mistake in turning down the slc proposal without giv ing it further consideration schier told the brown and white there was a motion on the floor which would have prolonged consideration of the proposal he said but that was defeated slc chairman dr joseph libsch declined further comment when contacted by the b&w wednesday but at monday's ifc session he told the legislators it doesn't make any difference to me what you do but i sincerely believe the proposal is definitely superior to the present rushing system the ifc prexy believes if ifc had initiated discussion with the gryphon society they undoubtedly would have come up with a concrete proposal for carrying the controversial part c into effect ifc could have probably gotten a major por tion of what it wanted he stated part c concerns post-rushing ac tivities of fraternity pledges pledge activities which would interfere in see horton page 6 ing and sprightly but somehow the end result was not at all gratifying imaginative yes but interesting unfortunately not blues lointain the evening's sec ond work was both interesting and imaginative the piece itself started with a melancholy theme and as composer quincy portre writes it is easy to see that it borrows char acteristics from blues and jazz and also that there is a touch of nostal gia added flutist john heiss and pianist barry berman did an excep tional job professional in stature roger goeb's second clarinet quartet was truly excellent at times the work was deep and mys tical and at other times peter-and the-wolfish clarinetists kenneth davidson harry staas maurice see elkus page 8 arcadia ok's helpers plans whoer checkup by bob cochnar b&w news editor music nut-zik n i the science or art of pleasing expressive or in telligible combinations of tones espec ially into compositions of definite structure and significance according to the laws of melody harmony and rhythm . . • webster defines the word mu sic as such jonathan elkus presented music of a contemporary nature to an osbourne-roomful of the curious tuesday night and contrary to popular opinion elkus group played music instrumental ensembles selected from the university band rendered live selections of modern ameri can chamber music it was modern and distinctly american henry brant's thrilling and shock ing millenium ii rounded out a pro gram that was lyrical exciting beautiful and at times ear-shatter ing and yes even horrible laurence clark's sextet for brass opened the concert on a sad note and even director elkus recognized that fact for he had to stop shortly after the sonata and begin again we've gotten off to a bad start he said the composition was handled adequately by lehigh's brass sextet the music was free flow juniors sign up for 6o epitome members of the classes of june 60 and february 61 must arrange to have their senior por traits taken as soon as possible m edward dehart editor-elect of the 1960 epitome announced members must sign up on the schedule at the student activi ties office if any senior fails to do so his picture will be omitted from the yearbook dehart added the senior class wednesday kicked off a special two-week cam paign designed to break the percent age record for class gifts so far 74 per cent of the class has signed — only one per cent less than the record set last year only four more signatures are needed for a new mark the 408 signatures up until wed nesday represent a gift of 122,400 to the university in 1979 last year a grand total of 412 signed for the class gift plan chairman gene mercy expects that by the end of this campaign his initial goal of 80 per cent will have been reached this year's class needs 440 signatures to reach that goal mercy said that at this point such a goal is definitely real istic the special campaign is being headed by mercy and three captains frank yandrasits george karr and dave mitchell yandrasits karr and mitchell were chosen as the outstanding captains of the regular campaign which ended shortly after christ mas lu tuition once nil franz reaps gold for lehigh add 1,436,147.84 to the university's income franz who holds the title of assistant to the presi dent and his staff work all year to solicit gifts in six different areas bequests business and industry an nual giving alumni student grants class gift program and general gifts for scholarships faculty salaries general endowment etc the office of development works through various committees when it solicits gifts for ex ample a group of prominent lehigh friends and alumni in business form the committee which con tacts men in business and industry the various committees cooperate to a high de gree in order to avoid double solicitations and also to decide the proper method to be used in contacting various individuals bequests and income from trust funds added 146,829 to lehigh's worth last year funds of this type are likely to have stipulations attached to their use franz said the letter of the law must be fol lowed in all cases unless the terms of the will are no longer applicable in cases of this nature the will must be appealed in a court of law see development page 7 approval of executive committee nominations for arcadia associates and formation of a committee to investigate who's who highlighted wednesday evening's meeting of the 13th arcadia solon robert walters introduced a motion to have lehigh's name eliminated from those colleges listed in the publication known as who's who among students in american colleges and universities walters said that his motion was put forth because the choosing of who's who names does not take into consideration academic achieve ment and because being chosen means very little to lehigh students bill horton moved to refer the motion to a committee for investi gating the worth of who's who suggesting writing other colleges and examining the value of who's who to lehigh he noted that this should not take much time and a report should be ready for presentation at the next meeting arcadia adviser dr lawrence whitcomb said he felt the com mittee should investigate the number of who's who colleges who might be considered le high's equal and that he un derstood that most of the college represented were state teachers colleges and state uni versities under new business harry mc nally moved to accept the executive committee's nominations for arcadia associates mcnally vice-president of arcadia and a member of the executive committee explained that 22 names had been selected from the 120 applications that had been received he went on to say that the ex ecutive committee as a whole had performed the screening he had originally separated the applications as to his own thoughts on abilities and the committee had made several additions and changes richard schulman moved to open nominations on the grounds that he knew several of those see solons page 7 frost retards roads repairs lehigh's rut-ridden campus roads will not be repaired for at least another month andrew w litzeiv berger superintendent of buildings raid grounds has reported it is a waste of effort to attempt to repair them now he said litzenberger felt that the roads have not been too bad throughout the winter it is just that at this time of year the frost leaves the ground and breaks up the roads the super stated we will repair them as soon as possible he continued that will probably be the end of march when the frost leaves the ground litzenberger added that it is general practice not to attempt road repairs until the spring the sayre park road will also l)e closed until spring this road is being held up by the bethlehem steel corporation which has con trol of the mountain-top project a lot of fill has been added to where the lookout used to be said litzen berger so much in fact that it is see rail page 5 by henry brubaker b&iv assistant news editor editor's note : this is part one of a series of three on gifts and giving at lehigh due to the generous gift of the honorable asa packer the board of trustees is able to announce that there will be no tuition charge at lehigh this year fantastic impossible never happen in 100 years you're wrong in the period 1871-92 lehigh was able to boast that it was the only institution of its kind that charged no tuition asa packer had donated 500,000 as an endowment fund which would he was sure do away with tuition for all time unfortunately the depression of 1893 wiped out the investments of the endowment fund and lehigh found itself in dire straits financially every year since that time lehigh has been faced with the problem of raising money not only for current operating expenses but also for improvements and future developments for the last 10 years the responsibility of raising money for various expenses has laid with the office of development for the fiscal year 1958 lehigh's development office headed by paul j franz helped vol 70 — no 28 friday feb 20 1959 leemen face pitt in tossup match bethlehem pa schier hits ifc for rejecting slc rush plan one-and-two-and — majestically flailing his arms is band director jonathan elkus conductor of twr ensembles in tuesday's contemporary american chamber music concert this photo was snapped during a portion of brant's millenium review musical moderns cause cacophony lehigh university brown and white