Brown and White Vol. 76 no. 39

              a controversial wit and a witty musician will headline the even ing houseparty concert on april 30 dick gregory a young ccmedian who mixes his show business with civil rights and george shearing a blind musician and composer with a unique style of delivery will combine for the entertain ment of the big party weekend gregory started as a comic in 1961 and his shows are in his words 20 per cent black 80 per cent white it took me until 1960 to realize 1 needed 80 per cent white material — you know mother-in law jokes and khrushchev greg ory said in a 1964 interview with holiday magazine his biggest contribution to the open section data sought dick gregory world of comedy has been the healthy race joke when i hit in 1961 there wasn't a healthy race joke in america they were all deroga tory to one race or another it was in 1961 that a little old nigger born in 1932 gave the country a new way out — healthy racial jokes gregory said in the same interview augmenting his tour of night clubs and colleges gregory does many benefit programs for civil rights organizations in 1962 for example he did 120 shows for core naacp and other groups in contrast to gregory george shearing has been in the spotlight of american show business for al most 20 years shearing's appeal lies not only in his compositions and arrange ments but also in his witty style of performance which makes his arcadia ponders letter from king show more than just a sit-back and-listen concert shearing took the big step to fame with the organization of his quintet in 1949 after releasing its first set of discs that year in cluding september in the rain the quintet toured the country soaking up tremendous receptions when he first came to this coun try in 1947 he was billed as a brit ish recording star after he be came a u.s citizen in 1956 the marquees read george shearing american jazz pianist on his concert tour of england in 1962 probably his most widely known composition is lullaby of bird land other successes include his albums burnished brass and nat king cole sings george shearing plays the latter won the national record award for the best light vocal record in 1962 editor will explain life under castro by brian kanes new rules proposed for upperclass residence halls have not yet been found acceptable clarence b campbell associate dean of stu dents said he is in favor of the proposal in prin ciple but the details remain to be worked out originally the residence halls council proposal was to permit female guests between the hours of 1 and 6 p.m every saturday and sunday afternoon during the academic year either the section presidents ar their appointees would have seen that all university regulations were obeyed peter t meszoly residence halls president said a letter containing these proposals was sent to campbell march 9 on march 16 campbell acknowledged receipt of the proposal arid made the following eight sug gestions 1 it seems to me that the submission of any proposal ought to be prefaced with a statement of need or desired objectives while these may appear to be self-evident to the council i should like to see them in writing — assuming of course that such a need or basic objectives do exist 2 since no limiting dates or locations are spe cified one might assume that the proposal extends to the new houses since the new houses have facil ities which differ considerably from the present up perclass houses i am unready to grant this proposal until limiting houses or dates have been specified 3 during the academic year should be further defined to exclude all vacation periods and exam ination periods see campbell page 8 by 808 bachman the civil rights movement found its way into the fifth meeting of arcadia xix wednesday evening in the form of a letter from dr martin luther king the letter urged support of king's protests in selma alabama after much discussion on whether arcadia should be involved the council decided to refer the letter to the civil rights club and to send a letter to king asking what positive action arcadia could take other topics discussed included road conditions on campus the possibility of a referendum on an honor system and a report on an inter-collegiate conference to be held here next month attendance at the meeting was not at all improved the audience was composed of past arcadia president v odger digilio pres ident of arcadia associates don ald i cuneo 66 and a photog rapher who wanted to take pic tures of the arcadia members robert s young 66 vice-presi dent of arcadia said the meetings were generally boring adding i would not go to an arcadia meet ing if i were not a member of arcadia after the meeting digilio stat ed it's good to get back to an arcadia meeting i had forgotten what true boredom is like harvey l york 67 reported that holes in the roads in sayre park will be repaired as soon as the weather improves he also reported that buildings and grounds has agreed to measure ihe height of the tank traps on campus to make sure they do nol damage automobiles which go over them at the next arcardia meeting a motion will be voted upon to have a referendum on an honor systerr included in the university elec tions in may to be included or the ballot the motion will have tc see arcadia page 6 lyle stuart editor-publisher lyle stuart feature speaker at tomorrow's international affairs institute prefers to be controversial true to his preference he will speak on life in castro's cuba at the luncheon of the foreign policy association of the lchigh seniors all seniors who are candi \ | dates for degrees to be con j | ferred in june must file a i written notice to that effect | i by april 15 or face assess i | ment of a 10 fee if their i 1 late application is accepted i | seniors who have not yet j 1 received application forms j • should consult the registrar's \ office valley's annual conference stuart has been to cuba four times since 1960 because of his objective reportage while there the cubans have learned to trust him he is the only american reporter who has been allowed to visit political prisoners he is presently editor of the national newspaper the inde pendent also he heads lyle stuart inc a publishing company specializing in controversial works the institute will open at 9:30 am with the arnual general meet ing of the association dr w deming lewis university presi dent will welcome the group dr john h cary associate pro fessor and head of the department of history will deliver the key note address his topic will be understanding american foreign policy two simultaneous panel discus sions will begin at 10:30 a.m see foreign page 5 vol 76 — no 39 lehigh university brown and white 866-0331 gregory and shearing will perform for hp bethlehem pa — friday april 9 1965 by chuck tschampion