Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 8

              the present brown and white laboratory in the basement of christmas-saucon hall will be turned into a class-room the journalism office on the third floor of christmas-saucon will be given to dr w leon godshall asso ciate professor of diplomatic his tory whose present office is in grace hall the old faculty dining room is to be partitioned into brown and white rooms and journalism de partment offices and rooms two dark rooms are to be constructed in the area formerly occupied by the old cafeteria soda fountain and part of the basement will be left for ping-pong and billiard tables the rest of the old cafe teria room will be left open and may be divided by office-railings the president declared construction of the lehigh pub lications and journalism center in the little-used basement of drown hall has been given the go ahead signal by pres clement c wil liams the center — containing rooms and offices for the depart ment of journalism and for the brown and white — will probably be completed by the end of august according to president williams faculty dining room to be made over cyanide devoted one of its meetings to the investigation of mass calisthenics but came to the continued on page 4 the willingness of students liv ing on campus and on delaware avenue to make the five-mile trip to saucon park conclusively proves their interest in the intramural program and also discredits the statement that students will be unwilling to walk 450 yards up south mountain to play softball the immediate need for a new playing field was further evi denced this spring when it became necessary for mr bartlett to sche dule intramural softball games at saucon municipal park in order to complete the regular intra mural program by the end of the school term the lower field and steel field remain as the only suitable play ing spaces the former is over crowded when varsity teams are practicing simultaneously with intramural contests and the latter is unsatisfactory as far as intra mural work is concerned due to transportation problems involved due to the present shortage of gasoline and tires and due to the fact that the university bus is not available to students it is al most impossible for the students to get to steel field gas shortage trouble fitness in many ways yet as the general program of athletic fitness has received a na tionwide impetus from most col leges which have increased their past facilities lehigh university lags behind — hampered by intra mural facilities and equipment which has long since been insuf ficient to satisfy the needs of the student body to complicate the problem further lehigh's present facilities are decreasing since the location of the new track on the upper field excludes the use of that field for intramural sports mr gordon has stated that that field is available only to the track team significant parts of the report follow at a time when national defense and the general war effort demand that the nation heed the important problem of physical fitness in order to prepare its manpower for the physical strains of total war american universities have in general met this urgency by increasing intramural facili ties making physical educa tion an active integral part of present day college life and further emphasizing physical cyanide considered eight cam pus or near-campus sites includ ing several areas suitable for ten nis courts and arrived at a de cision to propose that the univer sity construct a playing field in the area to the northwest of the present top o the mountain theatre and five asphalt base courts usable for winter ice-skat ing in locations back of the sigma nu fraternity a mid-campus spot a cyanide two-year investiga tion into the general problem of athletics at lehigh has resulted in the preparation of a report dealing with the need for additional intra mural playing fields the report edited by q john schwartz sum mer president of the society has been presented to pres clement c williams and to the board of trustees report to president stresses additions cyanide sees need for fields there is a total of 39 grad uate students in the second session 14 others are enrolled in the pre-session for grad uates said mr curtis there are 765 undergrad uates registered for the second eight weeks of the summer session according to figures recently released by registrar george b curtis of these 537 are registered for the full 16 weeks and 228 registered just for the second eight weeks 765 undergraduates register for 2nd term russian professor retells tale of his 45-day crossing for more than a week prof evand kogetliantz newest recruit to the university's mathematics department has been rehabilitating himself in bethlehem he and his wife have only recently arrived in this country after a hazardous 45-day crossing from embattled europe at present profes sor kogetliantz is established on the top floor of packer hall where he is acquainting himself with the american textbooks in preparation for assuming his duties this fall in an interview with dr koget liantz recently he retold some of the experiences which he and his wife encountered on the voyage from marseilles the boat on which they secured passage was a portuguese liner and was the last to be given clearance papers by the german occupation gov ernment from the french port the ship went to northern africa where professor kogetliantz and his wife spent 20 days and nights in the city of morocco where the heat was oppressive and the flies were terrible from morocco the crossing was made to new york via bermuda without events as no submarines were sighted however a few days out of morocco sections of both allied and enemy fleets were sighted but the steamer proceeded under o x.'d shipping papers from portugal and the nazi gov ernment professor kogetliantz is of small stature and in his improvised office he is more than ready to make the acquaintance of stu dents who have mathematical problems although it is not definite as to just what math courses professor kogetliantz will teach beginning with the fall sem ester he expects to teach interme diate courses in calculus and al gebra with the united states badly in need of mathematicians for train ing with the armed forces and es pecially in the navy and artillery lehigh is fortunate in having pro fessor kogetliantz an expert in this field teaching the engineers this subject the government has noticed such a deficiency in basic mathe matics that attention to this shor tage of technical training was written in an article of a recent issue of time magazine possibly a refresher course in elementary trigonometry and other mathemat ical courses would better equip lehigh men who are entering the armed forces as officers spe's to hold dance saturday evening sigma phi epsilon fraternity will hold an informal dance sat urday night at the chapter house 61 east market street chaperones will be thomas e jackson in structor in mechanical engineering and mrs jackson dr stanley j thomas head of the department of biology and chief of the emergency medical services of bethlehem has ap pointed a subcommittee on first aid practices to be headed by james p sell instructor in biol ogy due to the many differences in the standard first-aid practices and some advanced methods in team work which are particularly adapt ed to casualty station practice ne cessity has arisen for better co ordination among the volunteers the new sell committee will study differences in practice and decide upon the best methods for instruc tion in the casualty stations men who for any reason are unable to enter the military branches can serve their country by joining this noncombatant branch of our war effort said dr thomas in commenting on the in creasing importance of the role of the emergency medical services those who expect to be called are not barred from entering this volunteer medical work the training they will receive will un doubtedly help them to save a buddy's life under actual combat conditions sell recently demonstrated the approved method of the u s army for stretcher carrying be fore the members of the casualty station at moravian college this method has already been given to several of the casualty stations in the surrounding district sell will lead medical group irc will hear zettlemoyer speak science and the war will be the theme of the august meeting of the international relations club to be held aug 5 dr albert c zettlemoyer in structor in chemistry will discuss both the beneficial and detrimental effects of the present war on sci ence many students have been wondering what lehigh is really doing to help the war effort in the field of science dr zettlemoyer will deal with special aspects of this question in an effort to ac quaint lehigh students with the efforts of the engineering college in aiding those who are in the fighting forces due to the absence of william g wolfsten bus 43 president of the club walter singlevich ch.e 43 has taken over as acting pres ident originally a meeting had been planned for tonight but it was postponed because of the city wide blackout to be held this eve ning lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa wednesday july 22 1942 vol xlix-a — no 8 price — 5 cents the military department's obstacle course recently built in the wooded ravine above the drinker house parking lot as a way of toughening lehigrh's future soldiers has been destroyed by a person or persons unknown all of the obstacles were torn down and the rope on which the rotc boys used to swing in tarzan style was stolen obstacles which the military course students used to traverse included an eight-foot wall a pond a tunnel and a two-cross piece fence lt james d campbell had been in charge of the construction of the course obstacle course destroyed this appeal was made yesterday by arthur b parsons business manager of the 1943 epitome less than 50 students have paid depos its and have failed to pay the bal ance and claim their epitomes students who have paid deposits on their 1942 epitomes have been asked to go to the arcadia office in drown hall next monday and claim their books 50 students fail to pay balance on 1942 epitomes approximately 200 couples lis tened to the music of harry romig and his orchestra the councils hope that their example will be followed and that other groups will have similar affairs the dance given by the inter dormitory and inter-town coun cils on saturday night july 18 was pronounced a very definite success the main purpose of the dance was to unite all living group men in one social affair that would be well attended there were men at the dance from all three types of living groups 400 enjoy dance at grace hall since he has lived and taught in china japan and the philip pines professor godshall is well qualified to know what he is talk ing about in the far eastern sphere his lecture was the ninth in a series of orientation lectures to soldier-trainees at camp lee's quartermaster replacement train ing center supplementing their studies in background and de velopments of the war tracing the events of the past few years that have led up to the attack at pearl harbor professor godshall stated that japan has be gun every war she ever engaged in with a treacherous attack on a country with which she was sup posedly at peace plagued like the nazis with an illusion that she is destined to rule the world japan felt herself blocked on every side by american opposition to her domination of china her conquest of lands in the southwest pacific and the new order in asia camp lee va july 15—ad dressing a theatre-packed session of camp lee trainees last night prof wilson l godshall on leave from lehigh university delivered a lecture on why japan attacked the united states the japanese version of the golden rule said professor godshall is to do unto others as you'd expect them to do unto you godshall speaks at army camp it is to be noted however that a registrant ... in training . . . for one of these scientific and special ized fields may not be considered for occupational classification until the close or approximately the close of his second or sophomore year in a recognized college or university and provided that he gives promise of the successful completion of such course of study and the acquiring of the necessary degree of training qualification or skill the dean pointed out that the new rulings would make many business administration students and some arts students eligible for deferments previous campus elig ibles have been engineers or stu dents chiefly majoring in the sci ences additions to draft deferments of scientific and specialized per sonnel that will affect many le high students not previously elig ible for deferments have been announced by selective service authorities according to dean wray h congdon the new classes for deferment are accountants economists industrial managers mathematicians personal adminis trators psychologists and statis ticians deferment list is increased drown to house journalism hq the office of the bachelor will remain where it is now in a small room off the main lounge in drown hall the offices of the epitome will be in the southwest corner of drown hall the brown and white in mov ing into drown hall will be re turning to a former home for un til 1928 the semi-weekly student paper had its office in that build ing wallace biggs associate pro fessor of journalism and kenneth k kost instructor in journalism will occupy the new offices a new director of publicity to be ranked as an instructor in jour nalism will be hired in the near future the president stated the publicity man will have a desk in the alumni memorial building and files in the new publications cen ter to hire new publicity man any freshman who entered the university last week or in may and who has not yet received a copy of the freshman handbook may get one by calling at the office of admissions alumni memorial build ing