Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 47

              faculty drops all e grades for duration time between semesters is not long enough for holding re-exams campaigns to be every 2 semesters will hold old re-exams information of great value to lehigh men who plan to offer their services for war duty is presented on page four of this issue of the brown and white the material was provided by dean wray h congdon in the articles are given the latest information available concerning the selective ser vice act as it governs college men and complete details of opportunities in the army and navy for men of college train ing club founds new fraternity juniors must get their placement photos taken granted charter last wed alpha lambda omega to be new name professor beal directs the breadline for the squirrel families on th iehigh campus get varied reactions gift committee to complete canvassing of seniors by end of week senior class begins drive on insurance vol xlix — no 47 math prof feeds squirrels when not teaching classes all juniors must have their placement photographs taken as soon as possible announced e robbins morgan director of placement due to the speed-up pro gram the time for interviews will be considerably shorten ed and it is important that the present juniors should not be without photographs at the last minute mr morgan announced that all but about eight senior en gineering students are placed or accounted for and that he expected to have these few placed shortly song contest has 11 entries 40 hour week hurts defense living groups to compete for cup offered by n.y alumni club ' carothers claims wages farm prices hinder speedy war effort nominations for class officers must be filed in arcadia office by 1 o'clock tuesday election day will be held april 27 monday april 20 1 p.m is the deadline for filing all petitions for class officer nominations wilkes mcclave 42 president of arcadia warned last night that petitions for arcadia member-at-large must be in at the same deadline but that april 22 is the final day for town council officer petitions to be turned in at the arcadia office in drown hall the arcadia nominations committee composed of nine senior mem bers of the student governing body will meet monday and will release names of candidates for class of fices and the names of candidates for the arcadia member-at-large for publication in the brown and white on tuesday election day is april 27 election day for the above two groups and for the town council will be monday april 27 all pe titions should be returned to the arcadia office only when the prop er number of signatures is obtain ed for the senior class presiden tial candidacy 35 signatures are necessary 25 for the junior pe titions and 20 for the freshman in accordance with the revised election system of the town coun cil each petition for town group president must contain 15 signa tures not more than three from one section the preferential bal lot system will be used and sen iors will not be eligible to vote elect once a year further sections in the revised system of the town council provide that elections be held every two semesters any man who is not on probation being eligible to run for office if a man not on the accel erated program is elected presi dent the candidate receiving the next largest number of votes will serve as president during the summer until the return of the regular elected president town section presidents will be elected on the same basis as the council officers their petitions re quiring five signatures of the men living in their section however chartered sections including the alpha town house leonard hall cosmopolitan club and alpha lambda omega will hold their own elections the election committee for the town council includes william b logan i.e 42 edward j coffey m.e 42 l robert white eng phys 42 and frederick t till berg mete 42 fpa hears talk on the americas new york society elects 3 lehigh faculty lehigh has a new social frater nity — alpha lambda omega after weeks spent on working out details henry a seebald arts 42 president of the former le high-allentown club announced that the old club has been reorgan ized petition approved the formal petition was approv ed last week by the students ac tivities committee and the new organization will get under way as soon as possible seebald said that the purpose of the new fraternity is to unite its members in extra curricular activities and the so cial life of the university to enable allentown students to join a local social fraternity without having the expense as high as that of a national social fraternity and to enable the group itself to obtain freshman members in a much more organized way has 50 charter members the plan of the group is to con tinue the activities of the old le high-allentown club but to as sume the name of alpha lambda omega in the future the original club was organized in 1934 and today the fraternity has 50 char ter members officially all stu dents who live west of fountain hill and are in good standing with the university are eligible for membership a plan for the pin to represent the organization has been made from ideas contributed by the members and it will not be long before it will take its place beside those of the other 29 fraternities at lehigh seebald said that he hopes the new organization will be an impetus to commuters to ward greater participation in ex tra-curricular activities in the past the members of the lehigh allentown club have taken little part in school life to hold banquet a banquet will be held next month and a program is being planned for sub-freshmen since there will not be any official uni versity sub-freshman week-end elections for next year's officers will be held in the near future the present officers are seebald president w conner brower eng phys 43 vice-president g har vey brower eng phys 44 treas urer john c black i.e 44 sec retary the memorial gift committee of the senior class is at the height of its drive to sign up seniors for the 250 twenty year endowment policies the committee working through nearly 50 living groups re presentatives will contact every senior by the end of the week according to john e lane gener al committee chairman while no tabulation of signers for the gift plan can yet be made results appear encouraging reports from the living group committee chairman indicate varied reac tions to the plan are being re ported by the representatives who say they have approached seniors who are strongly behind the plan some who are totally opposed and some who are mildly indifferent to have statistics soon statistics on men who have sign ed for policies will be made as soon as definite reports are made to the committee heads the endowment insurance plan was adopted at the senior banquet as the 1942 class memorial gift to the university the plan had similarly been adopted by four previous graduating classes payment of the initial premium may be made by assigning the 12.50 cap and gown deposit to the class treasury the policies will be dated may 18 1942 and annual premiums will be due in succeeding years by that date to the prudential insurance company to yield 300 per man the endowment insurance may be described as a combination of regular life insurance and a sav ings bank account each year a fixed premium is paid to the in surance company by the man in sured and at the maturity of the policy in 1962 the unitersity will receive the face value of the pol icy plus accrued dividends total of which will be approximately 300 per man the memorial gift committee in cludes john e lane chairman john d van blarcom dormitory chairman joseph m sexton fra ternity chairman and albert g tromer town chairman living group representatives of the com mittee include john m adams robert m baker wil liam h barnard jesse f beers edward f bodine william f boore jr william t bostock james h boucher elchard r bright allison w clokey edward j cof fey oakley w cooke jr ward a det wiler 11 howard v donahoe paul b fit zell harold e foster russell c gebert robert e gengenbach james a gordon walter o graham jr robert n gusdorff howard a hoch harry w jones jr jos eph p larkin 111 monroe levy basil w logan sandor k mark donald m middleton james w needles john j nitti henry j olson george e parsons jr j ormsby phillips john t ransom 11 sumner w reid frank h rich clyde c ruffle charles h schu macher forrest v schumacher henry a seebald frank e smith william m spears frank r thaeder lindsley d van der veer william p varner lee r white wal lace r wirths allen h zane sigma chi holds elections freshman class to hold banquet traveler author to speak to group thursday dr frank s beale assistant professor of mathematics knows plenty about mathematics squirrels and nuts he knows about the first subject because it has been his business for about 20 years he's been feeding the lehigh campus squirrels for about a year and a half and has been teaching lehigh students for 11 years — which certainly makes him an authority on the other two subjects feeding nuts to squirrels is not a classroom course but professor beale who can be seen almost any clear afternoon down campus tempting one or two of the furry animals with a small paper bag has some interesting impromptu notes about his activity campus squirrels can recognize any nut that comes along he says they eat all varieties but many are quite choosey easily tamed through his generosity profes sor beale has been able to tame a number of them but some are harder to tame than others fe males are the easiest a few of the squirrels go as far as to climb onto professor beale's knee in their quest for food in fact one of them often jumps on the professor's knee and chases the others away dr beale has learned a lot of their habits through his observa tions usually they bury nuts for future use sometimes stealing them from other squirrels a few squirrels have been seen digging up nuts to eat professor beale can recognize quite a few of the animals by peculiar marks and colorings they can also be recognized by their actions many of them having little eccentricities one of them lets dr beale pet him it is believed that four or five litters have been lured to the cam pus by the promise of free food and more are expected this spring the first squirrel that dr beale ever fed is still very much alive some of the squirrels live in packer hall and others live in various buildings on the campus those which live in the buildings usually live under the roofs when ever possible others live in the hollows of the many oak trees on the campus , during the winter a few of the older squirrels hibernate but the younger ones are apparently hard ier venturing outdoors in the cold est weather however the summer heat bothers all of them sigma chi has elected the fol lowing officers for the summer se mester president john e dox sey i.e 44 vice-president char les m norlin met.e 43 secretary john m skilling jr arts 44 treasurer alan d hinrichs i.e 43 interfraternity council repre sentatives hinrichs and robert l smith c.e 44 a new song night featuring the largest intramural group sing ing conest yet held on the campus has been scheduled for 8 o'clock monday evening april 27 in front of packard laboratory with 11 living groups already entered in competition for the new york club's cup presented annu ally to the best campus singers arcadia has announced that both contestants and audience will join in combined singing during the program the competing groups will sing from the steps of the packard building the contest has been in exist ence for three years and each year has been won by the pi kappa alpha fraternity graduation has taken many of that fraternity's veteran singers however and com petition is expected to be keen from the remaining 10 entries must sing one lehigh song according to rules issued for the contest each group must sing three numbers a cappella one of these being chosen from the 1937 lehigh university song book no more than 16 nor less than 12 men may compete unison singing ex cept where it is part of an ar rangement is ruled out these limits have been set in fairness to the smaller living groups com peting judges for the contest will be chosen from faculty members and will base their decision on enun ciation blend pitch rhythm and spirit 11 groups entered the list of living groups enter ed in this year's contest includes beta theta pi sigma phi epsilon sigma nu psi upsilon section b of taylor hall richards house iv-b delta tau delta alpha chi rho leonard hall pi kappa al pha and theta xi additional entries by any le high living group may be made in writing up to april 25 if addressed to the alumni office by wallace r wirths the grade of e was eliminated in all courses for the duration of the emergency at a special faculty meeting this week this action does away with the long establish ed procedure which permits a fail ing student to take a re-exam and earn a passing grade the faculty took this action be cause the intensified work of the accelerated program will not al low time for re-examinations be tween semesters in considering the matter the faculty did not vote upon the merits or de-merits of the e grade but merely upon the necessity of discontinuing it for the duration of the accelerated program to give more f grades the effect of the new step will mean that since more e grades are given than f grades that those students who could ordinar ily get high e's would be given a d and those students who re ceive an e bordering on f would be given an f grade the net effect will be a lessening in the number of red-ink grades the effect of this system on the academic status of the university can hardly be predicted obvious ly under the present probation rules fewer men will be placed on probation on the other hand there will be an increase in the total number of f grades and an increased percentage of students who must repeat courses this will tend to make graduation more dif ficult for the poorer student students gain from the students standpoint the new system has some marked advantages he will not have to wait from january to september to know whether he has passed his course he will know imme diately what he owes for gradua tion and what he must take in sep tember this new ruling goes into effect immediately but those students who have re-exams to take from last semester must take them this may as soon as the present semes ter ends or next sept 10,11 or 12 the rules governing placement on probation removal from pro bation or the dropping of students on probation will operate the same for the 16-week summer semester as for any other regular semester will not give valentines students taking only one 8-week term of work will not be placed on probation nor will a probation ary student be dropped because of the scholastic results of his b weeks work a student by clear ing all of his last semester's de ficiencies may remove himself from probation under the accelerated program there will be no valentines issued during the summer semester how ever instructors and department heads may report at any time stu dents who are failing or who are seriously neglecting their work approval was also given by the faculty to a revised schedule which will shorten freshmen week in september from the usual five days to three days freshmen week will start thursday september 10 a feature that has been added to the fall term is a convocation for freshmen and other students on sunday morning september 13 the program for this assembly will be drawn up by pres clement c williams and claude g beard slee professor of moral and re ligious philosophy french prof to discuss status of france today sportsman club will hold barn dance on saturday 13 fraternities will stay open for summer session defense of the americas was the topic of an address given by david popper research associate of the foreign policy association of new york at a banquet of the lehigh valley foreign policy as sociation tuesday evening at ho tel bethlehem at the banquet which conform ed with the celebration of pan american day dr wilson l god shall associate professor of dip lomatic history and international relations was elected secretary treasurer of the organization harmon elected george d harmon associate professor of american history was elected to the executive board while professor hale sutherland head of the department of civil engineering was appointed a di rector popper emphasized the strategy vulnerability and the successful efforts of the americas he also pointed out that the geographic outlines of the coastal countries in both hemispheres could not be de fended at every point he there fore deemed it vitally necessary to get control of any jumping off place like dakar before the axis powers took over continuance of the 40 hour week is a serious injury to our war effort said dr neil caroth ers dean of the college of busi ness administration carothers gave his views together with dr henry pratt fairchild head of the department of sociology of n.y.u on the subject how can the war effort be improved during the wake-up america radio pro gram sunday . dr carothers pointed to four examples of america's refusal to face the issue 1 congress has declined to consider any restric tion on the rise of wages and farm prices the two most important ele ments of the inflation danger 2 congress has also refused to per mit the sale of essential supplies taken by the government in its subsidization of the farmer program is impeded the government has declined to stop interruption of the war pro gram through strikes or to amend the 40 hour week 4 we are still paying cash subsidies to farm ers buying useless silver and paying for projects employing men needed by industry stupid reactionary members jf congress refusing to face the is sues cause a serious obstruction to the war effort stated fairchild he also charged that several dol lar-a-year men are working for the interests of their companies only however dr fairchild added that an enormous amount of powder must be given to the chief executive and that good progress has been made under his program speaker questioned following these statements questions from the radio audience were addressed to the speakers regarding price-fixing carothers stated that freezing prices wages and profits at the december level of 1941 would be impossible carothers urged that capital and labor make a universal agreement that strikes will not hinder indus try until we have defeated our enemies in reply to the question of the 40-hour week fairchild argued that it in no way inter feres with the war effort and that its removal would cut the worker's wage ( prof andre mesnard of colum bia university and barnard college will speak at the annual dinner meeting of the lehigh valley chap ter of the american association of teachers of french friday in lamberton hall this is the first meeting of the association to be held on the campus speaking in french mesnard will discuss the status of france today president of the local chap ter is dr allen j barthold head of the department of romance languages old-fashioned and modern danc ing will be featured at the sports man's club barn dance saturday night at flickinger's barn near saucon park music will be furnished by ja mann's orchestra with dancing from 8 p.m to 1 a.m the dance is open to all lehigh students chaperons will be prof and mrs fay c bartlett and captain and mrs samuel pierce the club will elect officers next thursday the class of 45 will get together for the first time at 6:30 p m thursday april 23 at hotel beth lehem earl hanson traveler and author will speak at this fresh man banquet hanson who has spent several years traveling throughout south america intends to speak on the amazon basin among his many occupations at present is publish ing south american travelogues pierce to lead singing captain samuel pierce assist ant professor of military science and tactics has been invited to lead the freshmen in group sing ing after hanson's talk walter r okeson vice-president of the university will act as toastmaster tickets selling for 1.50 may be bought at the supply bureau from committee members or from dormitory section representatives thirteen fraternities expressed their intention to remain open for the summer session last night at a meeting of the inter-fraternity council several houses were still undecided concerning their sum mer plans the council reelected dr claude g beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy as its faculty adviser an appropriation of 250 was made for the freshman handbook lt edwin p werley 30 of allentown who received his com mission in the navy on wednesday is now stationed at the u s naval air station at quonset point r 1 where he is engaged in aviation administration and ordnance work brown and white bethlehem pa friday april 17 1942 for your benefit april 20 deadline for class petitions price — five cents brown and white — first with all the lehigh news z612 coming up . . . today 3 p m — varsity tennis perm state home 8:30 p m — trapp family sing ers broughal high school auditorium saturday 8 p m — combined glee club concert moravian college for women and lehigh chapel and drown hall 8 p m — lehigh sportsmen's club dance flickinger's barn sunday 7:30 p m — tone concert chapel read page 4 find what you can do in the army or navy