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              seminar in the subject of com munity tension areas he is also a member of the board of trustees of that institution the new york times in a sept 9 1959 article referred to dr cahn as a worldly rabbit a man not only interested in the spiritual welfare of his congrega tion but who feels that world problems must occupy a high place in the minds of all people his wide knowledge enables him to relate with exactitude topics from portions of the old and new tes taments to the racial situation in the south dr cahn is a frequent visitor to the state of israel and has of ten lectured there oa american see cahn page 4 dr judah cahn rabbi of the metropolitan synagogue of new york will head the 19th confer ence on religion sunday through tuesday dec 11-13 highlighting the conference will be a public lecture concerning university life in the soviet union " on monday dec 12 at 8 p.m in the osbourne room of the university center dr cahn also will speak to faculty and members of the interfaith council on the memorial gift up to 65,900 progress hailed topic racial integration — where do we stand at an informal noon luncheon tuesday in univer sity center rabbi cahn will deliver a short address can a religious belief be rational at 8 o'clock sunday evening in the osbourne room an open discussion will follow and all interested students may attend dr cahn will also present a se ries of classroom lectures during his visit rabbi cahn is a national vics president of the national associa tion for the advaacement of col ored people and a member of the national administrative commit tee he is a visiting professor of humanities at springfield college where he conducts a graduate celebrates 80th gipson feted on birthday the mercury continued to rise in the 1961 memorial gift program thermometer with 40 per cent of the eligible seniors pledging a total of 6,900 as of last wednes day the 184 pledges average 18 each per year or 360 over the 20-year period the campaign will end dec 16 charles tillinghast assistant director of development said the campaign is far ahead of past years for the same period this is the most outstanding effort by any class in the history of le high we are impressed by the enthusiasm of this class the campaign was kicked off with a dinner for gift committee members nov 30 vice president harvey a neville spoke at the dinner on behalf of the admin istration and trustees ninety members of the gift com mittee pledged up to 50 a year the first day of the campaign — the see tillinghast page 5 prominent historians throughout the united states and england helped dr lawrence henry gipson research professor of history celebrate his 80th birthday wednesday the world-famous author of the british em pire before the american revolution was greeted with a stack of about 80 telegrams and letters when he sat down to a special birthday fete in the bishop steven's room of the university center it all came as a surprise the prolific author was caught speechless on presentation of the many good wishes greetings were received from such notables as biographer catherine drinker bowen denis w brogan herbert butterfield master of peterhouse college cambridge dr millard gladfelter president of temple university and alfred a knopf dr gipson's publisher also henry allen mol secretary-general of the guggenheim foundation allan nevins of columbia university wallace notestein of yale d c mearnes representing the librarian of congress the ameri can historical assn canadian historical assn and see stack page 5 dr lawrence henry gipson proposed amendments defeated rice tops all candidates in arcadia elections no 20 vol 72 bethlehem pa friday dec 9 1960 cahn to speak at religious parley see ritz page 3 james r rice 62 became the students number one choice for arcadia in the first counting of ballots at 9 p.m wednesday forty minutes and six ballot transefers later james a ritz 63 rice's closest competitor accumulated the necessary 159 votes which made him the second man elected at 10:25 after the fifteenth ballot transfer the third and only other candidate to reach the magic number of 159 michael vianello 62 was elected official results regarding the votes for the constitutional amend ments were still pending as of 11:30 p.m wednesday since the official number of students enrolled has not yet been computed it appears at present however that since less than half the student body voted the amendments were not passed because of insufficient support despite the two-thirds vote for the amendments which at present are the unofficial results according to paul miller chairman of the elections committee rice the first choice over the other twenty candidates was elected in a landslide of 251 votes eight votes more than the record 243 accu mulated last year by richard shulman in contrast to last year's election ritz the second man to make the droop quota was not elected until the seventh transfer whereas the second man last year was selected by the third transfer last year's quota was 139 by the end of the sixteenth transfer john w dickey 63 donald lookingbill 63 michael gennet 62 and r steven schiavo 63 followed with 141 137 122 and 113 votes respectively none of these candidates succeeded in getting the necessary vote quota and were thus elected by elimination of the other candidates who received less votes the following candidates were eliminated in ascending order from the first transfer according to the hare system of proportional represen tation number which follows names denotes number of votes held by candidate at time of elimination carl mcßae 1 samuel l tucker 12 eric giesa 20 jeffrey marshall 30 richard s rhone 37 h brown and white newly elected — seven newly elected arcadians are shown i to r james r rice james a ritz michael gennet donald lookingbill michael vianello r steven schiavo and john w dickey aroused student viewers hit operation abolition graduate students samuel toper off william cook and john si mon cook led off the discussion with the statement that the three while not in complete agreement on all points concerned did agree on four basic points he listed the four as distortion in the film itself an assertion that the committee itself caused the student actions a claim that the film charges guilt by association if you're not for the committee you're a communist and that the picture is being shown to school children without revealing the full implications of unamerican ism for all these reasons and pri marily the last cook said we see majority page 4 to a series of related though indi vidual dramatic moments rather than the one whole dramatic ex perience which it might be maybe this is a fault to which romeo and juliet is more suscep tible than most plays because its structure requires a balance of varying moods and diametrically opposed forces — youth and age rashness and caution coarseness and innocence mockery and sin cere feeling — which pivot around the unifying forces of the love re lationship between the two prin cipal characters in the m&c production this unifying element is for the most part lacking the reason for this lack is rooted i think in the mis interpretation of the character of romeo as drawn by shakespeare our respect for romeo at the end of the play should be considerably high er than it was at the beginning however the romeo in this pro duction played by edward guck er never gets far enough above the petrarchian level romeo in such a light cannot possibly con vince the audience that he really loves juliet as much as she loves him and certainly this romeo is not the person who would kill see gucker page 3 the house un-american activ ities committee's controversial film operation aboliton was condemned by an aroused audience in a stormy discussion session following its showing tuesday night an overflow crowd jammed the university center davis room to see the 45-minute picture dealing with last may's student demon strations in san francisco against the committee which is headed by congressman francis e walter dem.-pa . the showing was followed by pro and con statements from a five-man panel moderated by orlin livdahl corresponding secretary of arcadia sponsor of the pro gram opposing the film were three review romeo high quality but has critical flaw the mustard and cheese produc tion of shakespeare's romeo and juliet tends to be i think closer by gerald schwartz