Brown and White Vol. 72 no. 12

              three convocations frosh parents guests on campus tomorrow parents of freshmen will be university guests here tomorrow on the second parents day this year the biggest departure from past practice aside from the two sep arate weekends is the fact that the university is holding three separ ate convocations one for each college thus for the first time parents will be given an opportunity to learn more about lehigh and oppor tunities it offers the student the convocations are also de signed to give parents a little more insight into the curriculum their son has chosen as well a3 what he can expect during his stay at lehigh said charles c till ioghast assistant director of de velopment today's program is officially launched at a student concert lecture series program at 8:15 p.m in grace hall the attrac tion coming to lehigh for the second time will be the destine haitian dance troupe the troupe has just returned from a tri umphal tour of europe tomorrow's highlights include the bucknell - lehigh freshman football game the buffet luncheon and several art exhibits in addition the various cam pus buildings will be open for in spection of particular interest will be the lgp-30 computer lab oratory in packard lab fritz en gineering laboratory which houses the world's largest univer sal testing machine odk taps seven four seniors and three juniors were initiated into omicron delta kappa the senior honorary at the beta theta pi fraternity house last evening the new odk's morris kelsey paul miller fred mummert and joseph pittenger class of 61 and russ borner carl greer ant james rice class of 62 — were tapped yesterday at noon dr hagen staack pastoral and instructional areas of the ministry from 1950 to 54 he served the bi-lingual german and english parish of st peter's evan gelical lutheran church in allen town following his tenure at st peter's dr staack joined the muh lenberg faculty previous teaching experience includes positions as assistant professor of church his tory at both the university of hamburg and the theological sem inary at hamburg dr staack holds a master of science degree from rostock uni versity berlin theological sem inary awarded him a master of sacred theology degree and the university of hamburg added to see and the page 10 the rev dr hagen staack head of the department of religion at muhlenberg college will speak on and the saints are marching in at 11 a.m sunday in packer church when world war ii broke out in 1939 dr staack was drafted in to the german army despite his ordination he served from 1939 to 1945 seeing action on the east ern front and being taken prisoner of war in russia dr staack was ordained into the ministry in the underground confessing church of germany in 1939 after the war he emigrated from germany to the united states continuing his work in this dountry since his arrival in the u.s dr staack has been active in both the two unmarked for nixon an eligibility actual voting age breakdown indicated students eligible to vote — 210 for nixon 62 for kennedy ineligible students — 733 for nixon 299 for kennedy and unmarked ballots 24 for nix on 15 for kennedy previous student elections for national candidates have disclosed a predominantly republican at mosphere on campus for example in the 1956 simulated balloting on nine for kennedy and engin eering college — 34 for nixon 21 for kennedy mock election statistics showed that in the arts school 224 students wanted nixon and 123 kennedy in the business school 205 were for nixon and 59 kennedy in the engineering school 516 for nixon and 168 for kennedy 11 arts-engineers favored nixon and nine kennedy two graduates for kennedy and one for nixon and 15 unmarked ballots for kennedy ? by les stein surpassing the 1956 mock elec tion by 180 ballots lehigh stu dents votes favored a nixon-lodge ticket by a three to one landslide in wednesday's balloting of the 1,350 voters 967 were for nixon-lodge 376 were for ken nedy-johnson and seven for write-ins — two for goldwater mundt one for goldwater one for rockefeller-lodge one for alfred e newman-melvin cowznofski one fcr the socialist labor party's ? eric haas and one for the socialist worker party the final faculty poll revealed a kennedy-johnson victory 73 voted for the two democrats 71 for nixon-lodge and one for a minority party candidate one for the socialist party one for van tassel-outer space party one un decided and one for thomas jeff erson in the arts college 43 faculty were for kennedy and 27 for nix on business college — ten for nix ? with students it's nixon 3-1 the student body desired an eisen hower-nixon administration five to one faculty members also favored eisenhower but by a much closer margin in the first presidential prefer ence primary here in the spring of 1952 president elsenhower out ranked his closest competitor two to one the faculty voted for eisen hower by a large majority the primary drew 62 per cent of the student body to the polls whereas wednesday's election attracted but 50 per cent of the student voters only 43 per cent turned up at the 56 poll partly because id cards hadn't been returned to their own ers after being turned in for pro curement of houseparty game tickets governor dewey in 44 defeated president roosevelt by a close see faculty page 3 smiley labels prr provisions for appealing ambiguous bethlehem pa friday nov 4 1960 no 12 vol 72 vice-president e kenneth smiley has labeled the provisions for student appeal of disciplinary action by the dean of students obviously ambiguous and incomplete in a letter to arcadia this week the letter was sent in answer to arcadia's appeal to the vice-presi dent on oct 7 regarding the reprimand of students involved in last may's rotc demonstrations smiley said that he appreciated the opportunity of conferring with your arcadia's executive committee in accordance with the desire expressed in your letter but he also pointed out that the dean acted within his right and under his responsibility and that this action is not open to question that his judgment does not concur with that of the students concerned or of their associates or of other persons may well be true and might even be anticipated i think it becomes evident however the vice-president said that such discretion must be exercised by the responsible official of the university and that such discretion or judgment must not be overturned by popular vote or by the judgment of affected individuals thus arcadians got their answer to the appeal made several weeks ago on behalf of the reprimanded students the reply of the vice-presi dent was considered by several at wednesday night's meeting to be as philip mezey arcadia president put it only a slight concession to us see solons page 4 scl will present destine tonight show and also appeared on cbs adventure series from the mu seum of natural history in new york the scope show emanat ing from toronto revealed the group to canadian audiences considered as haiti's greatest dancer destine upperclass con ventionally educated and urban penetrated inland to rural and superstition-fraught areas of his country not as the sensation-seek ing journalist but as a sympathetic explorer and interpreter of his people in recognition of his achieve ments in promoting an apprecia tion of the native folk arts of hiq country throughout the world the see haitian page 9 who won — bipartisan group tabulates results of mock election balloting reveas increased demo cratic support with three to one gop victory — previous election was five to one republican win counters facial expressions vary — smiles oooooo indifference — in above photo snapped in arcadia room of uni versity jean-leon destines haitian dance company will present a fusion of the two cultural tradi tions of haiti — the african and the french — tonight at 8:15 in grace hall sponsored by the student con cents-lectures series the presen tation will include both dances of the old french court and those of primitive native ritual traveling under the auspices of the republic of haiti the company is recently back from tours of europe and the orient it has spanned america on concert hall tour and has starred in major tele vision programs destines group twice appeared on the ford omnibus television dr staak to speak at chapel sunday leigh university brown and white give once i r for all 1 ? 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