Brown and White Vol. 71 no. 10

              arcadia made no progress on a year-old program to revise its con stitution wednesday night as its faculty advisor president and mem bers criticized the group's failure to complete the project facing a deadline only weeks away members of the group were pessimistic about pros pects that the student council will be able to have a final draft of the proposed revision by the november 7 deadline initiated early in the spring se mester under the chairmanship of alfred moore 60 the revision pro posal has been bogged down for most of the current semestetr ac cording to members of the group advisor to arcadia dr lawrence whitcomb noted that he was rath er disappointed that arcadia is not starting work sooner on constitu tional revision the group's constitution calls for presentation of any new constitution to the student body one month before an all-uni versity election where it must be approved by a student vote elections are scheduled for de cember 7-9 thus the new constitu tion must be ready by november 7 arcadia has only one meeting — on november 4 — scheduled before that time in other business president jack branning 60 asked for money to cover costs incurred in entertain ing 12 bolivian students who toured the university last week appro priation was delayed until the next meeting when a detailed breakdown of the expenses will be presented to the group elections chairman john see arcadia page 5 ford foundation grants 19 million to 10 schools sedgwick hopes to reach goal three candidates for ugly man have been dropped from the con test for the failure of their spon soring living groups to turn in cartoon posters according to mich ael jarvis 62 contest chairman the former candidates and their sponsors are evan hagen buck sigma chi james coffas richards 3-b and william c bradbury drinker 1 jarvis said he had extended the deadline for turning in posters for four candidates who had submitted applications but failed to meet the former saturday noon poster dead line only one of the four had sub mitted posters by the newly ap pointed sunday evening deadline and the remaining three were sub sequently disqualified this brings the total number of ugly man can didates to 11 other sponsors are continuing with their campaign plans which include the use of cedar crest girls and a dixieland band in ad dition station wlrn is offering free spot advertising to all spon sors who desire it camera concerti a chamber or chestra to appear in grace hall to night at 8 is unique for its in strumentation of 14 winds and strings the orchestra features the french horn and viola d'amore as solo instruments the found er and director of the group is joseph eger who plays the french horn eger will be a soloist along with voilinist walter trampler who per forms regularly at the casals fes tival and is a frequent guest artist with the budapest string quartet the group is composed of nine strings two french horns two oboes and keyboard their reper toire is varied ranging from bar oque to classical to contemporary each camera concerti per formance offers one of the four mozart horn concerti and a vivaldi concerto for either viola or viola d'amore also offered in the program are works such as handel concerti crossi haydn concerti the tele campus chest chairman henry sedgwick 60 told the brown and white last night that he is still optimistic about the possibility of reaching the fund's 5,000 goal sedgwick reported that early re turns showed only 175 contributed to the charity drive but noted that the low total included only first receipts as of last night much of the money was still in the hands of solicitors the drive will officially close to morrow according to sedgwick out of the trenches by christmas miiitary enthusiasts will be dismayed to learn that trenches crisscrossing the green around the flagpole are not for defense purposes a local utility firm is install ing gas lines to provide gas heat for president whitaker's house and has found it necessary to dig up lehigh greenery to accomplish the purpose emphasizing that engineering education must be revised to im part a thorough understanding of science and mathematics their fron tiers and how they may be applied to the needs of mankind the ford foundation this week announced grants totaling 19,050,000 designed to strengthen engineering education in 10 colleges and universities announced in washington — — wednesday night the program has the goal of providing a sharp boost for pace setting engineering schools and thus for all other schools teaching engineering first major awards in the foun dation's new program for science and engineering the grants will be used for five purposes : fifteen new full scholarships salaries or postdoctoral fellow ships for new faculty at the inter mediate or junior level visiting professorships summei fellowships and promotions of ke professors to senior rank predoctoral fellowships and loai-s for potential engineering facultj members funds for short term residence by outstanding engineers facultj exchanges and released time 01 postdoctoral fellowships for young teachers to do research or experi mentation the ten recipients of the grants are mit cal tech car negie case ucla michigan see 9 page 5 b&w awarded all american for the third consecutive semes ter the brown and white has re ceived the highest possible rating in a nationwide newspaper contest the all-american rating conferred by the associated collegiate press was an nounced to the brown and white this week the current award is the third in a row for the paper and marks the only time lehigh has received the honor for three consecutive semesters only four papers out of 27 in the brown and white's two to three times weekly category made all-american the award was based upon ex amination of issues from the past spring semester cited for excel lence in the papers were news cov erage and content sports writing editorial writing makeup and pho tography vol 71 — no 10 friday october 23 1959 solons face deadline for new constitution bethlehem pa debaters initiate clinament with 20 teams sat a clinament — a 20-college debate tournament and clinic will be initiated here tomorrow by the division of speech and delta omicron theta honorary debate society the only tournament of its type held on the east coast the clinament is designed to stress development of debating abilities rather than competition for a trophy or prizes all the participants will be novice debaters or students with no previous debating ex perience the morning session of the clmament will consist of three work shop — clinics conducted by coaches from visiting schools prof w e beattie of rutgers will discuss the problem of definition prof m i kuhr of temple will talk about presumption and the burden of proof in debate dr a n kruger of wilkes college will cover an alysis and arguments in debating after lunch the novice teams will engage in two rounds of de bate on the national topic re solved that congress should be given the power to reverse deci sions of the supreme court in line with the instructional pur poses of the elinament judges will give critiques instead of the usual decisions the last part of the tourna ment will be a demonstration debate on the national topic between members of the kings college and lehigh varsity de bate teams tom gilhool 60 and robert jablon 61 will represent lehigh defending the negative tournament director is dr eugene vasilew assistant professor of speech and director of debating at lehigh student chairman is henry enberg 62 all events in the tournament will be held in the davis room of the university center except the two rounds of debate which will be in class rooms in drown hall and christmas-saucon any interested student may attend the debates rescher speaks on space age ethical problems eger to trampler joseph eger 1 director of the camera ccncerti to be seen in grace hall at 8 tonight and walter trampler soloist stand gazing haughtily as camera snaps camera group com prised of 14 strings winds and keyboard hear mozart vivaldi tonite in grace at 8 by jonathan bassett some of the most important problems of the space age today are not involved with the other side of the moon but with our own world dr nicholas rescher told a group of 40 upperclassmen wednesday night in his talk ethics in the space age there are five characteris tics that make our world today different from the past dr rescher assistant professor of philosophy said he noted them as population political organ ization development of modern industrial technology the in stitution of economy and the complexities of knowledge half of mankind that ever lived is alive today dr rescher noted consequently bringing up our mil see strive page 9 3 poster less candidates dropped from contest man double oboe concerto the hindemith trauermusik for viola and string orchestra and the bach suite for winds strings and cem balo violinists in the group include charles treger alan grishman gino samburo dixie blackstone wife of director eger guy lumia and kent rose on oboe is henry schuman on violas are julius schaier tramp ler and charles wendt on french horns are daniel cowan and eger on piano or cembalo is lawrence smith and on double bass is wil liam alan rhein lehigh university brown and white