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              please don't call us past ten o'clock that was the appeal made to living groups by a faculty member at the wednesday meeting of arcadia prof lawrence whitcomb an ad visor to arcadia represented sev eral faculty members in requesting that living groups not phone past 10 p.m asking for faculty services as party chaperones with house party approaching he said re quests are heavy many of us are asleep by then he declared and it seems the chances of instructors accepting the requests are better if the calls are made earlier he claimed many calls have been received as late as mid night but the majority are between the hours of 10 and 11 p.m arcadia subsequently asked rep resentatives of the interfraternity council residence halls council and town council to urge house and section presidents to comply with the faculty request to put it another way the fac ulty plea might be phrased don't call us or we won't call on you or perhaps please fellas we need the sleep how else can we face you at 8 in the morning funds to the organization will be handled by the treasurer of ar cadia and the solons will also ap point its chairman brian bauknight 61 reported that petitions recently posted in living groups urging support of the point four youth corps yielded 45 petitions with 685 signatures the youth corps a substitute for the draft in which students would be allowed to serve two years overseas in technical as sistance projects is currently being discussed in congress the petitions predominantly signed by freshmen will be sent this week to the committee of foreign affairs in washington bauknight reported receipt of a letter from tom matthews a stu dent at american university mat thews said he spoke to rep heciry reuss d-wis who expressed doubt that the point four program will be passed this year solon al johanson 61 re ported as part of his arcadia study of rotc at lehigh that he is sending questionnaires to advanced cadets asking if they see scram page 7 anthropologist talks to classes dr alfred kidder 11 associate director of the university museum university of pennsylvania spoke to history 366 students about the pre-columbian history of latin america today at 8 a.m dr kidder also lectured to fine arts 16 students about pre-columbian influence at 11 a.m today he spoke last evening in the osbourne room of the university center on tikal an ancient maya city following the public lecture the see kidder page 3 63 on bass and bill schoolman 62 on drums in addition to flute the versatile heiss also tried his hand on alto sax most creditable performance of the evening was turned in by bass player jenkins a highly-touted freshman who lived up to all of his advance billing in a few months jen kins has achieved the respect reserved for those in the best to come along in many years category — and his performaance this week indicated he deserves all of the kudoes which have been given him his fingers nimbly raced over the instrument his time was perfect and he seemed interested in his work for most of the concert it seemed that his work would go un noticed but on the last scheduled tune of the concert walkin jen kins turned in the solo perform ance accorded the loudest audience applause of the evening heiss was also in top form a condition to which lehigh listeners nave become conditioned the sen ior whose ambitious scheduling of informal uc concerts has aided so considerably in upgrading lehigh musical tastes again proved his don eliot-like versatility playing equally well on both instruments although somewhat below his amazing performances as a member of the jazz moderns last year meloney held up his end of the two-man wind sec tion his work on clarinet not see drummer page 7 shulman named to d.c meeting arcadia vice president richard shulman 60 was named last night to join 1500 u.s student leaders at the national student conference on the sit-in movement april 22 and 23 in washington d.c the conference sponsored by the u.s national student as sociation is designed to bring together student body presi dents from every major college and university in the country to discuss the recent sit-in movement in the south according to donald a hoffman usnsa president and curtis b gans national affairs vice-presi dent the purpose of the conference is to present participants with a coherent picture of the nature and goals of the southern movement and to discuss the responsibilities of all students with regard to this movement we hope also to create a nation wide awareness that a considerable body of students is concerned with what is happening in the south said gans hoffman commented that the sit-in movement dramatizes the single most important develop see sit-in page 3 more than 300 pledges will at tend a banquet in their honor at 6:30 p.m tuesday at the masonic temple in bethlehem edward a curtis member of the board of trustees will address the group the 30 fraternities enter tained their respective pledges last night as nearly two months of formal contacting and rushing came to a halt at 5 p.m the deadline for bid acceptances the new fraternity pledges dined at their respective houses last evening after the close of bid-col lecting this climaxed several weeks of fraternity contacting and rushing the period of silence began tues see 300 page 4 time to take a breath — three fraternity men take a moment for relaxation as the seemingly endless period of contacting and rush ing came to an end on tuesday bids were picked up last night and some 300 freshmen pledges the campus's 30 fraternities arcadia seeks dean s meeting on appointments bethlehem pa friday april 15 1960 premiere tomorrow of elkus-bander opera vol 71 — no 41 arcadia after considerable deliberation wednesday night voted to ask dean of students j d leith for a special meeting to consider differences over student appointments to student-faculty committees purpose of the meeting will be to establish a criteria for the student appointments attempts by arcadia to settle this issue per manently comes after two years of conflict with the dean appointments involved are those to the board of publications and the student activities committee in a letter sent to leith wednesday after arcadia adjourned the earliest-possible meeting time was requested it was hoped that the conference would be held early next week arcadia also voted to recognize scram — the student civil rights action movement an all-lehigh organization it is being estab lished to provoke northern interest in southern school integration solons informed faculty members asleep at 10 pm technical conference prof jonathon elkus confers with jay haines and john cunitz on plans for the stage setting for tomor row night's performance of elkus's opera outcasts of poker flat bass piano great in exciting concert expectation is the watchword around the music department prof elkus frantically polish ing up the last few details of he score and rehearsal robert bander fidgeting and awaiting tomorrow night all this for the largest musical venture sponsored by the depart ment of music since the grandiose 1957 music festival finally after years of preparation the out casts of poker flat is about to be staged tomorrow night at 8:40 p.m sharp the curtain will rise on the efforts of two talented men robert gene bander librettist and jonathan elkus composer the opera in one act concerns it self with california of the gold rush period when the drinking gambling and living was danger ous and excessive the opera has been assisted in its presentation by the help and talents of many lehigh people the cast from this campus are the fol lowing all of whom are soloists with the glee club tom simpson the innocent of sandy bar is portrayed by s james lekis 61 the dealer by richard d ones 62 mr john oakhurst gambler by robert b cutler head of the department of music uncle billy drunkard by waldon m holl 61 three deputies by gerald a hedges 61 william f moyer jr 62 and neal k see opera page 4 class officers lists due in uc 4 today class office candidate's petitions must be submitted to the student activities office before 4 p.m to day the petition must bear the signatures of no less than one per cent of the candidate's class members a meeting of all candidates with the arcadia elections committee will be held at 4 pm april 20 by robert walters jazz returned to the university center wednesday night after an absence of almost a year an appreciative audience of 100 heard a pro gressive quintet fronted by john heiss 60 present a fast-paced 13 number 80-minute concert in addition to heiss the group was composed of jim meloney 61 on baritone sax and clarinet maurie kelsey 61 on piano dave jenkins tops two months work pledge fete features trustee lehigh university brown and white