Brown and White Vol. 73 no. 46

              final arrangements for arcadia's flight plan were announced wed nesday by duncan payne 63 chairman of the arcadia flight plan com mittee a jetliner will leave new york international airport june 12 for london and amsterdam and depart from the same cities sept 4 among the 25 passengers flying on the klm royal dutch airlines dc 8 jet are 11 students and two faculty members from the university while in europe each person will be on his own a majority will be working in germany and france and others will merely tour arcadia hopes to sponsor similar travel flights to europe next year available to all students faculty members and their wives and parents payne said participants are realizing a saving of about 200 under this flight plan payne stated 38 students vie for offices balloting to begin monday voting for class elections will begin monday morning at balloting booths placed at four locations throughout the campus and continue until 4:30 p.m wednesday thirty-eight students are in the race for the 12 class offices drown hall university center christmas-sau con hall and packard lab will be the balloting places i.d cards must be presented to obtani a ballot tabulation will be done by the election com mittee on thursday and results will be announced at the flagpole day ceremonies on friday william l quay assistant to the dean of studente will verify tabulation results the preferential ballot system will be used in the election all names are listed on each ballot and the voter indicates his first second and third choice for each office by placing numbers after the appro priate names to be elected a candidate must poll more than half the number of votes cast for a par ticular office in the event that no candidate meets this quali fication the number 1 votes of the candidate with the lowest number of votes will be distributed to the rest of the candidates according to the second choices i on each of his ballots if no candidate again gath ers the minimum number of votes the process is re peated a report of campaign expenses must be sub mitted by candidates to the student activities of fice by 4 p.m wed may 9 copies of campaign posters and other materials are to be submitted with the report candidates omitted from the initial list issued by siudent officials include william oettinger can didate for president of the class of 64 robert livezey and peter tedesko both aspirants for sec retary of the class of 65 the names were excluded from the publication due to an error in processing vol 73 — no 46 bethlehem pa friday may 4 1962 frat bias clauses threatened by interpretation of state law coronation — miss sandie jackson is crowned houseparty queen by his eminence gordon hoare junior class president with the traditional dozen long-stemmed roses in hand her majesty reigned over the three-day tension-relieving festival ? ? 866-0331 istration indicated for the pur poses of a preliminary review i would assume an initial survey might be made of social honorary and professional fraternities parr has requested every cam pus fraternity and their national office to state whether such a dis criminatory clause exists locally and/or nationally as of wednesday 12 social fra ternities have turned in written statements to the committee one lehigh fraternities face a pos sible requirement by pennsylvania state law to remove all clauses local or national limiting member ship because of race color relig ious creed ancestry or national origin a recent interpretation of the pennsylvania human relations act and the pennsylvania fair educational opportunities act by the pennsylvania human rela tions commission prohibited of three four-credit courses offered basic math courses altered ficial school sanction to any social honorary or professional frater nity sorority or other student or ganization if such student organ ization exclude or discriminate against any individual on account of race color religious creed an cestry or national origin 0 in a letter addressed to preston parr associate dean of students and chairman of the committee on student activities charles a seide vice-president for admin see set page 7 to meet the expected demand created by the new sequence four advanced mathematics courses not previously available to undergrad uates will be offered including axiomatic set theory general solons european trip scheduled for june 12 the standard mathematics courses now offered in four se mesters will be given in three se mesters in september dr glenn j christensen vice-president and dean of the college of arts and science announced recently thp rli.inp-p will pnnhlt students to complete two year's work in three semesters and thus have an opportunity to schedule more ad vanced mathematics courses dr a everett pitcher professor and head of the department of mathematics said the effect of the program will be that most science and engineering students will take at least one more mathe matics course than they did pre viously also since the advanced courses are not sequential stu dents majoring in mathematics will be able to take as many as three t additional courses in their fields in the semester they gain as a result of the program of which has indicated the pres ence of such a clause in the na tional constitution lehigh recognizes that this is the law seidle told the brown and white and i am sure that fraterinties will cooperate the matter he said has been turned over to the committee on student activities for investiga tion the commission wants to be as reasonable on this as possible seidle said we are not being presed by them no one is sure how strictly en forced this ruling wil be the vice president commented he added we are going to take it step by step and i am sure that the fra ternities wil cooperate . . . we have no timetable on this matter the initial survey of fraternities is being conducted so that the university can have a basic pool of information if needed after further clarification by the perm see sal page 5 a nuclear war is feasible dr davidon warns by david lewandowski we must have a knowledgeable and alert public they must re alize that nuclear war is feasible said dr william c davidon in ternationally known physicist in a lecture entitled do shelters provide security given wednes day night in the osbourne room davidon explained that only when the american people are properly oriented about nuclear war will fallout shelters be suc cessful because the public is still ignorant about nuclear weapons davidon stated that he prefers large scale shelters to home shel ters davidon discussed two reasons for the lack of home shelters at the present time he stated that the american people cannot com prehend a nuclear war and second that the people are far too confi see if page 5 lehigh university brown and white dr william s davidon almost an astronaut joseph a walker x-15 test pilot for nsa illustrates the function of the altitude control jets used to maintain the slender craft's stability as he set a new altitude record monday at more than 46 miles high dames sponsor drama the dames club will present a benefit performance of the deadly 1 game at the pennsylvania playhouse sunday curtain time for the play a physchological sus pense drama will be 8:30 p.m tickets are 1.75 uc superintendent dies henry g durner 59 years old superintendent of the university center died tuesday in st lukes hospital a native of philadelphia dur ner is survived by his wife helen e durner a son harry c durner and two grandchildren funeral services were held today at trin ity episcopal church and burial was in memorial park cemetery