Brown and White Vol. 71 no. 37

              contacting ends all frats quiet until rushing students faculty would decide young solons — arcadians discuss modification of the univer sity's guest speaker regulation at their regular meeting wednesday night in their two-hour meeting the solons also considered a parking code revision and revised constitution formal contacting ended yester day at 8 p.m the last fraternity man retired from the freshman residence halls leaving behind a relative quiet that will reign until the eight days of rushing immedi ately following spring vacation now both groups cluster in various nooks and crannies to discuss the relative merit of a certain frosh or a particular cool house propaganda from each house is being re examined and filing cards on each frosh under consideration are reviewed for last-impres sion comments freshmen must decide by mid night march 21 on the farterinties they desire to be rushed by on the first three days of rushing april 4th through 6th freshmen are reminded that they may become ineligible for rushing if no list is submitted with rush ing dates with a different house listed for each of the first three days if a date is broken during see rushing page 9 delightful taming ' produced by m&c arcadia wednesday night ap proved a proposal to change section 36.3 of the university's regulations reconsidered a parking code re vision and constitution originated by the 13th arcadia and considered several changes in student repre sentation to the student council in major business in a two hour meeting dom inated by committee reports the new group of solons sought to clear up several items of business left pending by the last council and moved into a number of new areas despite the variety of topics cov ered the meeting generated little excitement with only two votes out of the evening's fifteen ballots showin gsplit opinion in the group all other votes were unanimous the evening's only controversy centered about the possible changes in student representation on the council although no formal motion was presented several solons took the opportunity presented by the constitutional revision question to present off-the-cuff views on arca dia composition paul miller 60 kicked off the discussion by proposing a con solidation of the music and drama - debate representative myron olstein 60 differed no ting that the groups repre sented distinctly separate in terests robert paternoster proposed a substitution of a class government representative for the music repre sentative because of the greater see constitution page 7 such as a midsummer night's dream and perhaps the tempest directors and dra matists realize this and often do a bit of precise cutting here and there this should not be begrudged the shrew abounds in loose ends and sentences which assume the audience is acquainted with information not previously im see casting page 9 by robert j cochnar shakespears plays have been adapted abridged altered modern ized and condensed often the end result is 1 " a grotesque of the orig inal last night h barrett davis took some license with the taming of the shrew but he produced a delightful quick-paced farce the shrew as it was written does not contain the poetic ele ments and intrigue so prevalent in other shakespeare comedies poetry today at 4 dr ralph van arnam profes sor of astronomy will read from the poems of samuel taylor coler idege and robert hopkins english instrutcor will read from the poems of william blake in the university center faculty lounge at 4:10 p.m today scholar active ' greene insists comparing the literary scholar with the engineer the business tycoon the athlete and other men of action dr david greene as sistant professor of english dis cussed the question does the lit erary scholar live in an ivory tower before a group of approx imately 25 residence halls resi dents wednesday night he con sidered the traditional definition of ivory tower — a place of withdrawal from action and re ality — and how the literary scholar fits into this aspect see scholars page 9 all thirteen of the solons present voted to recommend a modification of the university's guest speaker regulation to the president and board of trustees the recommended change in the controversial section 36.3 follows along the lines of a suggestion made by eight fac ulty members last december at the height of the controversy over the banning of norman thomas from the campus a faculty - student committee would have final responsibility for approving guest speakers on the campus if the arcadia suggestion is adopted v in effect the arcadia stand wednesday night re-affirmed and strengthened a similar position tak en by the student council last se mester hoped-for administration or trustee action on the matter may never materialize representation on the com mittee would be open to both faculty and students four faculty members — a presidential appointee a cooperative lec ture series representative a student concerts-lecture series representative a member elect ed by the faculty as a whole and three students appointed by arcadia subject to approval of the president would form the seven-man group livdahl told the group some members of the dean's office are reportedly in favor of arcadian ac tion on this matter but did not elaborate watters intimated that the matter has been broached to the president snow blankets celebrants ifc weekend boasts wine women song by 808 teufel you don't have to be the ruler of a postage stamp kingdom or your date the daughter of a main line bricklayer to enjoy a night at monte carlo ifc offers the advantages of the lavish gaming tables and even tosses in the exciting sounds of maynard ferguson as part of its monte carlo dance tomorrow from 9 p.m to 1 a.m in grace hall of course the gentleman across the roulette table would more likely be a member of tappa kegg than a titled nobleman and his lady luck more at home on centenary's campus than the riv eara but the spirit will be the same interfraternity council weekend the first event on the spring semester social schedule gets underway tonight when the mustard and cheese players present taming of the shrew in broughal auditorium at 7:30 tomorrow's action gets off with a fast start with the cool noise of jimmy j and the j's at the frolics ballroom from 2:30 to 4:30 the musicians the word is used loosely are noted for their ability to adjust their music to the mood of the audience ifc president bill horton 60 told fraternity men that drink ing will be strictly forbidden at the concert and ifc officers were told to enforce the ban the dry gatherings is a far cry from bygone days when the dixie n beer concert of ifc weekend was one of the features of the spring semester drinking was banned by the frolics proprietors due to conduct of lehigh men at a concert in 1956 stan rubin and wilbur deparis both swore they would never return to south mountain see jazz page 8 jimmy j & the j's maynard ferguson vol 71 — no 37 brown and white frosh plan debated un 6-0331 bethlehem pa friday march 18 1960 solons suggest 36.3 change consider possible frosh reps