Brown and White Vol. 70 no. 30

              expressing concern over the fail ure of at least four fraternities to respect interfraternity council recommendations concerning pledge practices dean j d leith has noti fied ifc president carl schier that he will consider releasing for pub lication the names of fraternity of fenders in the future a useful four-letter summary symbol is employed by the dean in describing his program — berp it stands for broth ers end residual primitivism referring in particular to the ifc executive committee's recommenda tions to lehigh's 30 fraternities re garding off-campus pledge practices and lack-of-slecp practices leith warned that he may abandon his current practice of protecting the identities of chapter violators ifc president carl schier told the brown and white wednesday that he would read the notifying letter from the dean at monday's ifc meeting and comment on the proposal at that time he noted count would increase drastically in the future bethlehem city physician dr wilfred m vogler jr reported on wednesday that there certainly is an epidemic city authorities have received reports of 240 cases since the beginning of the year although most of the cases are not serious three years ago in march of 1956 a measles outbreak which threat ened to develop into a campus epi demic forced cancellation of classes a week prior to the scheduled spring vacation it was the first mid-semes ter closing of school in the univer sity's history despite a mounting number of measles cases described as at epi demic stage in the bethlehem area the university is currently exper iencing only a normal number of cases dr george mccoy director of the university health service told the brown and white on wedensday that he has treated one case of ordinary measles and several cases of the ger man variety he pointed out that although the possibility of an increase was unpredict able he saw no indication that the university's measles gifts and giving pros procure lehigh funds editor's note this is the last in a series on gifts and giving at lehigh brubaker by henry b&w asst news editor financial support and the obtaining of financial support is a big business this is the only opinion you can get after examining the survey of annual giving and al umni support published by the american al umni council according to last year's survey alumni of 478 colleges and universities gave a'total of 129,442,980 to their alma maters 35,882,517 was given to annual funds the voluntary support for the year at these institutions totaled 529,125,989 in the report lehigh was placed on the men's col leges category according to paul franz assistant to the president and director of the development office the statistics given in the report are misleading be cause there are many differences and discrepancies in the manner different schools prepare their reports williams finals in uc today finalists in the annual williams extempore speech contest will vie for the first prize of 75 today at 4 p.m in the university center stu dent card room upperclass contestants in the final round are arthur snyder wilbert j richardson george k davenport roy e cravzow george s kane and denis v brenan participating in the freshman finals are michael c gennet doug see 12 page 3 nsa rep here fred werner student govern ment vice-president of the na tional students association will speak and answer questions at an informal arcadia meeting to night on the advantages of nsa to lehigh members of the arcadia ex ecutive committee will attend a saturday morning meeting of the proposed lehigh valley student government association at cedar crest although franz described himself as a pur ist in his preparation of the report lehigh still does well in the comparison of the statistics in the total number of alumni fund contributors among men's colleges lehigh with 5,138 donors ranked third behind amherst 5,875 and colgate 5,668 wofford college ranks first in percentage of al umni solicited who contributed with 65.4 per cent while lehigh is unranked however lehigh's figure of 34.3 per cent is well above the national average of 22.5 per cent franz said the schools who lead in this category often hold campaigns asking each alumnus to give just a dollar this type of cam paign often results in campaigns which bring in great response but little money it takes 20,000 gifts of 2 to make one gift of 40,000 franz added in our case this is entirely ridiculous and out of the question in alumni gifts to the annual fund lehigh's 221,457 ranks third trailing colgate's 834,059 and see lehigh page 5 dr horton davies princeton prof speaks sunday rev horton davies professor of religion at princeton will speak on christian realism in packer mem orial church sunday at 4:30 p.m dr davies will discuss educa tion politics and the grace of god in his sermon from 1946 to 1953 he was profes sor of divinity at rhodes university grahamstown south africa serv ing his last five years there as dean of the theological faculty prior to his appointment to the princeton faculty dr davies was head of the department of church see princeton page 3 vol 70 — no 30 lehigh university brown and white all-u average 2.027 2 fraternities on pro un 6-0331 bethlehem pa friday february 27 1959 pro musica ensemble — the new york chamber music group will present a concert of ancient music tuesday in packard auditorium pro musica to give pre-bach concert lehigh's all-university average reached the 2.027 mark during the fall semester — the highest fall aver age in four years two fraternities lambda chi alpha and delta upsilon failed to make the 1.8 scholarship mark will thus be placed on probation according to figures released by the registrar's office the gryphon society for the third time in as many semesters led the scholarship race attaining a 2.994 tau delta phi attained top aver age among the fraternities with a 2.664 edging out theta chi which placed second among the greeks with a 2.421 leonard hall traditionally high on the average lists scored third in the all-u list with a 2.593 fourth from the top freshman section dravo a-2 made a 2.569 leading all residence halls groups at the bottom of the academic list are nine living groups who failed to make the minimum scholastic aver age of 1.8 seven of the nine groups are freshman sections dravo c-3 placed last on the 72-group list with a 1.253 delta upsilon missed attain ing the 1.8 mark by 004 scoring a 1.796 lambda chi alpha was third from the bottom with a 1.695 neither of the two houses has been on probation during the past seven semesters — dean j d leith's nor mal span period lambda chi alpha has remained consistently high during that period — attaining a cumulative ranking of eighth among fraternities during that time see gryphons page 3 dean warns frats regulate pledging the new york pro musica a chamber ensemble specializing in the music of the five centuries before bach will present a concert of the 15th and 16th century music of flanders and spain in packard auditorium at 8:15 p.m tuesday the concert is sponsored by the a n cleaver fund and the de partment of music founded by its musical director noah greenberg in 1952 the pro musica is an ensemble which reportedly brings back to life the ro mantic and spiritual music of the renaissance and pre-renaissance en compassing the music performed during the baroque period at the courts of france spain and germany and the lusty songs and madrigals of elizabethan days composed of 11 members the chamber group includes in its vocal group two sopranos a countertenor male alto two tenors and a bass also in the ensemble are a one keyed flute the viola da gamba the family of five recorders the rebec medieval fiddle the harpsicord and small pipe organ for the benefit of students and faculty who are not familiar with the instruments the group will explain and demonstrate see counter tenor page 4 winter concert tonight at 8:15 the lehigh concert band under the direction of prof jonathan elkus assistant professor of music will present its winter concert to night at 8:15 p.m in grace hall the program will include bruckner's apollo march music from the movie things to come by sir arthur bliss elegie fanfare and march by roger nixon and the march the battle of shiloh by c l barnhouse highlights from the evening's presentation will be kalinnikov's finale from symphony no 1 and schoenberg's theme and variations mr felix geissle director of the b marx music co n v will speak briefly on his relationship to schoenberg and on the part he played in the writing of theme and variations there is no admission charge for the concert town measles mount no lu epidemic seen that ifc would be asked to con sider a new executive committee proposal at that time leith notes that the positive action taken by ... council's responsible officers was wholly in line with the position taken by lehigh university with re gard to hazing . . ." executive committee action con sisted of the following two recom see leith's page 4