Brown and White Vol. 75 no. 42

              lehigh university brown and white vol 75 — no 42 bethlehem pa — tuesday april 14 1964 866-0331 old armor made in 1900 handsome replica a statuesque coat of armor gleaming proudly and smacking of antiquity was delivered to the fine arts department last week as part of the estate of a late alumnus prof francis j quirk head of the department estimated the style of the armor as circa 1540 he admittedly was doubtful and hopeful that the piece was genuine he planned to give the tall relic sev eral coats of clear lacquer encase it in glass and dis play it in the alumni memorial building galleries quirk's precaution of holding publicity on the statue until its authenticity could be verified was well founded after the armor had been transport ed to the allentown museum the head of the arms and armor division of the metropolitan museum pronounced the steely exoskeleton a reproduction circa 1890-1910 rather than an original as quirk philosophically said he recognized it as a replica from twenty paces the armor had been given to the university by the late george alvin rupp 28 who said his sister mrs a charles kuss jr believed the replica to be an original rupp then a lawyer had been given the armor several years ago by a g.i in lieu of legal fees the anonymous g.i reportedly had gotten the piece in germany during world war 11 although disappointed that the armor was not as old as he had hoped prof quirk believes that the romantic armor can still be displayed as an interesting reproduction the armor he said un fortunately isn't a museum level piece but has been kept in impeccable condition and is worthy of dis play lamor dodd to discuss painting in talks here lamar dodd american artist critic and phi beta kappa visiting scholar will present a public lecture at 8:15 p.m apr 28 in the osbourne room of the university center dodd will discuss a painter and his attitudes in conjunction with the cooperative lecture series immediately following the speech the residence halls council will hold a reception for dodd in the faculty lounge the noted artist will arrive at lehigh apr 26 and will be guest of honor at a luncheon for the phi beta kappa council the following day after the luncheon he will speak to the fine arts 16 classes on i a look at american painting today he will conduct an informal dis cussion on russian art at 7:30 p.m that day in the mcclintic marshall lounge some observations of art and nature will be the topic of dodd's talk to the fine arts 2 classes at 11 a.m tuesday in room 403 of the university center dodd will participate in the phi betta kappa initiation on tuesday in room 403 of the university cen ter and will later attend the ini tiation banquet in room 303 of the university center the visiting scholar studied at the georgia institute of techno logy and the arts students league in new york he has won many awards and prizes for his painting guys exceed girls at mixed-up mixer the men outnumbered the girls by more than 100 arcadia presi dent v rodger digilio 64 said sunday night in assessing saturday's all-university mixer of the 300 girls expected 225 were present he said digilio roted that more than 300 lehigh students came to the mixer — some without tickets during the ensuing scramble some 75 students found them selves without dates the arcadia committee which organized the mixer said ticket sales prior to the dance totaled 267 two of the girls schools beaver and cedar crest were conduct ing big weekends on their own campuses and thus failed to send a significant number of girls invitations to the mixer were sent to 19 schools of which only six replied the 225 girls came from centenary cedar crest reading school of nursing easton hospital school of nursing st luke's hospital school of nursing and muhlenberg college they were supposed to arrive by 8 p.m but the girls from centenary who made up the majority arrived after 8:15 p.m because their bus got lost no student was admitted to grace hall until that time and then only because a group of 150 students rushed past the guard while the impatient bunch of students were milling around the upper floor of grace hall the girls were ushered up the front steps of the building after the arrival of the girls the mixer went smoothly but about 75 students who were left without dates waited in vain for the arrival of 50 additional girls as expected most of the couples left the mixer to attend outside parties and other activities the girls were required to return to their buses and cars by midnight digilio said that there were mistakes but that improvements would be made in future events he attributed most problems to loose security measures adjustments will be made in the future he added in addition digilio said that some students had arranged before hand to meet their dates at the dance this immediately took a certain number of girls out of circulation music for dancing was provided by the jazz moderns a group of 16 lehigh students who organized at the beginning of the semester parr switches position laub can speak freely by j j stives a controversy over visiting speaker levi laub threatened last week to take on proportions of the long-dead norman thomas incident of 1959 laub who is chairman of the student commit tee for travel to cuba was invited by alpha sigma phi fraternity to speak to a lehigh audience in the davis room of the university center thursday at 8 p.m controversy arose when it was learned from several sources that laub had been told that he could not speak on the topic of the state depart ment's ban on cuban travel the sources indicated that when the initial speaker petition had been completed between the university and alpha sigma phi it was specifically agreed that laub would not speak on any topic other than what i saw in castro's cuba preston parr associate dean of students told student representatives friday that there was ap parently some misunderstanding on whether laub would be able to speak on other topics particularly if he was actually under federal indictment for breaking the ban as was believed at the time the petition was signed the discussion with parr also revealed that there was considerable doubt on the part of the officers of alpha sigma phi regarding the accept ance of the petition by the university if laub was invited to come without certain specific restrictions the actual petition read in part mr laub has agreed to limit his talk to what i saw in castro's cuba but alpha sigma phi officers indicated that ihcy had requested laub to make this concession a number of faculty and students last week expressed concern over the apparent attempt by the university to place restrictions on speakers and their topics it was this concern that precipitated the meeting with parr on friday after that meeting it became clear that the single most influential factor in the controversy was i the uncertainty of university offi cials over whether or not laub was actually under indictment by fri day it was clear that he was not this fact according to students who met with parr was respon sible for the dean's modification of position regarding laub's visit it now appears that there will be no limitation placed upon an swers to questions which laub wishes to make thursday his speech however will remain on the topic noted earlier before the meeting with dean parr there were definite indica tions of possible student demon strations against the speaking ban v rodger digilio arcadia presi dent told the brown and white friday morning that he had reason for the entire university suffered noticeably from the 3-1 ratio the only consolation is that this very fact may bring more next time who shall we mix with — too many guys and not enough dolls was the problem at saturday night's spring casual the first informal mixer queen contest photo entries for the spring houseparty queen contest must be turned in to the student activities desk in the university center or to box 238 no later than 5 p.m friday april 17 eight semi-finalists will be chos en from these entries and appear in the brown and white on tues day april 21 voting for the finalists will be on wednesday april 22 and the pictures of the finalists will be published in the b&w on friday april 24 see parr page 4