Brown and White Vol. 70 no. 32

              see 6 page 3 from the lower half of the list to the top 15 fraternities — a rare oc currence according to leith never any higher than 16 in recent years — and as low as 28 chi psi moved from 16 to our world situation for ours is the longest enduring govern ment on the earth said seaton before 265 freshmen and guests no one has a greater stake in the government of our country then the young men and women said seaton in ten years you will be as old as james madison was when he played such an important part in the continental congresses and in 20 years you will be as old as thomas jefferson was when he wrote the declaration of in dependence ¦ today we face the greatest crisis in history that of the cold war with russia it is one of our greatest tasks to maintain peace there is hope however in the fact that russia backed out in the see be page 6 greek grades influenced by house attitudes leith dean j d leith has charged that fraternity attitudes toward aca demic achievement — rather than the academic capacity of its individual members — are primarily responsible for the academic standing of le high fraternities in a statement on fraternity scholarship accompanying his normal span report leith told the greeks last week that evidence exists of persistence of chapter culture patterns " which indicates that group attitudes are a primary factor in determining where a house will stand on the academic ladder whatever heredity factors may be involved leith elaborated dowling to address young demos club dr joseph a dowling assistant professor of history will speak at the organizational meeting of the young democrats club at 8:30 to night in the davis room of the university center liberalism and the democratic party will be his topic president pro tempore robert cochner 61 said he plans for the club to attend mock politi cal conventions at harvard university and hood college this spring brisn skyrms 60 and duncan payne 63 are the first prize win ners in the williams extempore speech contest each received 75 for their efforts starting with 17 entrants in the upperclass division skyrms was selected through an elim ination process in the final round his topic was what the fcc gives away is worth more than 64,000 other winners in the upperclass division were henry exiberg 62 in second place and third michael gennet 62 second in the fresh man division was donald mesibov eugene vasilew assistant pro fisrci of speech expressed disap pointment in that the contest was les-s representative than in pre vious years but he added on the whole it was favorable fiy club plane down in storm a forced landing in inclement weather at rutland vt caused the flying club's taylorcraft airplane to flip over and break a propellor last friday neither pilot john huotchkin 62 nor his passenger douglas pleasanton 60 was injured in the landing on a snow-covered golf course near their destina tion — pleasanton's home in manchester vt damage originally estimated at 150 is approximately 100 soon after the landing a replace ment propellor was borrowed and skis were mounted in place of tires with the aid of a tow the plane was able to take off and land at a near by airport six fraternities registered signi ficant increases while two others suffered sharp declines last semes ter according to dean j d leith's fourth normal span report issued late last week chi psi kappa sigma lambda chi alpha phi delta theta phi gamma delta and sigma alpha mv all exper ienced extraordinary gains in the dean's ratings while alpha sigma phi and delta sigma phi dropped considerably the normal span reports issued after each semester by leith mea sure the cumulative scholastic rat ing of each of lehigh's 30 frater nities over the past seven semesters the normal span and compare the houses on a quantitative basis the latest report covers the period from fall 1956 through fall 1959 chi psi and sigma alpha mv were the only two houses to move music skillful sensitive facade reading convincing skill and sensitivity poetry with music facade presented last friday at 4:10 p.m in u.c by bill brainard one of the most fortunate coincidences of the years 1920-21 in england was the young william walton's sharing of a house with that famous liter ary triumvirate the sitwells from this accidental fusion of the arts came the 21 musical settings of edith sitwell's poetry called facade the work was heard in one of its rare performances friday with dr david greene reader and six musicians under jonathan elkus the castancted rhythms and imagery of miss sitwell's verses automatically suggest music to the listener she can make long words rhyme like her compatriot w s gilbert whose poetry also went well with music oddly enough when walton at age 19 he has since been knighted for his musical achievement became the first composer to actually write a score for her poems the london audience was so stony that dame edith she was reader at the premiere was advised to remain in her dressing room unti 1 har victims had gone home to avoid harm noel see facade page 4 each chapter creates and mam tains its own internal climate or local environment for its mem bers to supplement his conclusions leith also presented fraternity of ficers with a report from the per sonnel and guidance journal en titled factors associated with j scholastic achievement in high and j low achieving fraternities the re j port indicates that chapter atti i tudes especially on the brother pledge level have a definite influence on individual scholastic achievement leith also observes evidence of a four-level stratification ! within the 30 lehigh chapters he points out that the top fifth — six houses — is relatively table while the same holds true for lack of movement at the bottom end of the list in the intermediate group leith finds the characteristic cycling con tinuing in two ranks — upper and lower levels separated at the mid point of the 30 chapter ranking j only infrequently does a chapter j see leitii page 6 vol 70 — no 32 tuesday march 1 1960 students voice protest against segregation riot bethlehem pa speaks to freshmen secretary of interior fred a seaton prepares to address 265 freshmen and guests in the osbourne room of the university center friday to his right are gordon hoare freshman class president and dr harvey a neville individual initiative important seaton by george grant the importance of individual in itiative for the functioning of a democratic government was empha sized by fred a seaton u.s sec retary of interior guest speaker for the first class of 63 banquet in the osbourne room of the uni versity center friday i am neither a polyanna nor a pessimist with regard to may i have your attention tom gilhool and robert wal ters 60 during yesterday's rally to protest racial discrimination against negro college students the rally netted sufficient funds for telegrams of protest to the governors of six states 6 houses up 2 down in 4th normal span list skyrms payne win 75 prize segregation protests were raised yesterday by more than 300 stu dents rallying on the library steps the students sympathized with non-violent demonstrations of fel low students in the south the civil rights rally ended with the sending of telegrams protesting integration violence to governors of six southern states — alabama florida ten nessee south carolina north carolina and virginia the lehigh protest was preci pitated by a violent four hour outbreak in nashville term last saturday the fist swinging out burst led to the arrest of 81 per sons 76 of them negro starting as sit-ins the negroes occupied chairs at a lunch counter where they were refused service in a passive resistance move violence ensued as whites jeered the colored students getting no response they kicked and beat the negroes until police arrived and made arrests pleading for fair treatment of the demonstrators the tele grams called for immediate progress toward racial equality students were asked to individ ually sign the petitions for tele grams with each student contribut ing 10 cents to pay for the mes sages 130 signed contributing 33 in the telegrams they declared we note the statement of the southern regional council that the deeper meaning of the sit-in demonstration is to show that seg regation cannot be maintained in see demonstrators page 7 lehigh university brown and white