Brown and White Vol. 76 no. 14

              aspects of rushing discussed by ifc lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa — tuesday november 10 1964 no 76 — vol 14 866-0331 parents weekend draws 3,000 author laments lack of privacy in u.s society vance packard gave an elemen tary course in snooping to an overflow crowd in packard labor atory friday night packard author and social critic lamented the steady erosion of americans right to be let alone brought about by well-developed techniques of mass surveillance society packard said is beins stripped naked by electronic espionage and recording devices the storage end exchange of pri vate information and by personal ity and inventory tests given by schools and by employers packard gave these examples — hidden cameras survey women's dressing rooms in some department stores to stop monk ey business with merchandise — ten thousand americans are overheard daily by hidden micro phones — closed circuit television cam eras are installed in more than see author page 5 180 attend program tax problems discussed vance packard noted author and social critic warned a standing-room-only crowd at upperclassmen parents week end of the invasion of privacy created by new spying and snooping tools in business and government packard's lecture reiterated the ideas put forth on his latest book the naked society calling for increased public alertness to our loss of privacy which might otherwise lead to totalitarianism by brad gris singer aspects of rushing dirty and otherwise were discussed at the regular meeting of the inter-fraternity council last week the judiciary committee reported that one house incurred a 200 fine for dirty rushing the open house to give freshmen a chance to see the fraternity houses and meet the members will be held in the houses located in sayre park on december 6 in view of the past parking problem in the freshman quadrangle during the rushing period a meeting of dr chales a seidle vice president of administration william l quay dean of fraternity life r geoffrey stiles 65 president of the gryphons and d albert loranger jr 65 secretary of ifc is scheduled to iron out the difficulties the rushing committee announced the passage of a measure to lift the restrictions on pledges during the spring semester under this provision initiations would be conducted during the spring ligthening the load of the first semester sophomore this measure must be passed by the student life committee before it becomes effective the possibility of a debate between two national political figures to be held during ifc weekend was discussed and march 20 was approved as the date for ifc weekend the tickets for the saturday afternoon concert and saturday eve ning play will be 2.50 per person one ticket will be good for both functions there will be four groups and two bands performing at the concert the scholarship committee presented a proposal to have houses placed on probation at 2.0 instead of the present 1.8 haskins and sells philadelphia an innovation this year was presentation of simultaneous roundtable discussions topics were estates and trusts cor porate taxes and individual taxes dr l reed tripp dean of the college of business administra tion welcomed the guests to the forum problems of deferred compensa tion by bernard v lentz a part ner in the philadelphia law firm of williams and white — section 1245 depreciation re capture by donald j kester certified public accountant with main lafrentz and co philadel phia — sales versus liquidations of partnership interests by donald mcdonald attorney with montgo mery mccracken walter and rhoads philadelphia — recent tax developments in washington by sherman t mc dowell attorney with ballard spahr andrews and ingerssoll philadelphia — year-in and year-out tax planning by milton t kupfer certified public accountant with more than 180 persons attended the sixth annual federal tax forum in the university center last week the forum sponsored by the de partment of accounting and the lehigh valley chapter of the penn sylvania institute of certified public accountants was under the direction of dr alfred koch pro fessor of accounting the program included discus sions question periods and pre sentations of papers concerned with tax problems about 40 senior business majors attended other participants came from pennsylvania new jersey and new york papers presented were — stock options and related teachers to attend metallurgy forum seventy teachers from 45 high schools in pennsylvania new jersey and maryland will gather at lehigh friday for a daylong symposium on metallurgy dr r w kraft associate professor of metallurgical engineerlnp said that the purpose of the program is to give high school science teachers a basic knowledge of the nature of metallurgy too few freshmen know anything about metallurgy perhaps if the high school teachers know something about metallurgy they'll pass the information on to their students kraft added the morning program will consist of lectures by kraft on metal lurgical engineering dr george conard professor of metallurgical engineering on material science and dr joseph libsch head of the department of metallurgical engineering on the work of metallurg ists the combined efforts of the university concert band and glee club pleased a crowd estimated at more than 2500 people saturday night in grace hall encores were demanded of both groups the audience sang with the glee club accompanied by the band in the alma mater story on page two hostesses the guests watched the lehigh football team score its first victory of the year by defeat ing davidson 13-10 classes campus buildings sau con valley facilities and two art shows at the alumni memorial building galleries were open to visitors the band and glee club present ed their combined autumn concert in grace hall saturday evening parents and guests were invited to attend sunday morning services in packard memorial church parents at saturday's convoca tion in packard lab were shown the lehigh film frontier for the future see 3,000 page 4 more than 3,000 persons in cluding university upperclassmen their parents and faculty mem bers took part in parents week end activities got under way friday night by the rhc lecture by vance packard noted author and critic in packard lab auditorium packard dealt with the theme of his latest book the naked so ciety 1 before an overflow crowd at a saturday morning convo cation university president w deming lewis reviewed the re quirements of modern education and lehigh's goals in preparing its students for the future after a luncheon in grace hall at which faculty wives served as