Brown and White Vol. 51 no. 2

              price — 5 cents bethlehem pa wednesday july 7 1943 vol li — no 2 want your b & w here's how to get it all living groups and town students may secure copies of the brown and white wed nesday afternoons at 2 o'clock according to the following schedule groups which will pick up brown and whites at the le high printing company tau delta phi theta chi lambda chi alpha phi sigma kappa sigma phi alpha kappa pi theta kappa phi leonard hau groups which will secure packaged copies from drown hall alpha tau omega alpha town house beta theta pi chi phi chi psi cosmopoli tan club delta phi delta sig ma phi delta tau delta kappa alpha kappa sigma phi delta theta pi lambda phi sigma chi sigma phi epsilon theta delta chi errors in number of copies alloted to groups should be reported to the brown and white town-men and commuters will secure copies from the supply bureau the library desk or drown hall lounge army participation invited by arcadia town dorm men make summer plans army men face tough class work engineers to spend 33-37 hours in class most of the astp men who have come to lehigh have come from colleges in the south al though 145 of them have been sent here from michigan state college michigan had been the western most source for these men until 31 were told to report here from the far west when classes start on july 12 basic engineers will be taking 3 hours of chemistry 6 hours of al gebra and trigonometry 3 hours of english 1 hour of economic geography 1 hour of map geog raphy 3 hours of history 1 hour of physics lecture 3 hours of physics recitations 1 three-hour physics laboratory 2 hours of military theory 1 hour of military drill 1 hour of rifle marksmanship and 6 hours of physical education no c e.s here yet advanced mechanical civil and electrical engineers entered in re fresher class 4a-1 will take 10 hours of mathematics 1 hour of physics lecture 7 hours of physics recitation 1 three hour physics lab 3 hours of engineering draw ing the regular four hours of mil itary theory drill and marksman ship and the 6 hours of physical drill advanced chemical engineers entered in refresher course 4a-2 will take 9 hours of mathematics 1 hour of physics lecture 6 hours of physics recitation 1 three-hour physics laboratory 3i hours of chemisetry recitation 2 hours of chemistry laboratory and the reg ular 4 hours of military and 6 hours of physical drill bona fide mechanical engineers registered in course m e 4 will take 5 hours of mathematics 6 hours of mechanics 5 hours of thermodynamics 4 hours of en gineering drawing 6 hours of shop practice and the regular 10 hours of military and physical training electrical engineers entered in course e.e.-4 will take 5 hours of mathematics 6 hours of mechan ics 7 hours of electrical measure ment recitation 4 hours of elect meas lab 3 hours of electrical and magnetic phenomena labora tory 3 hours of shop practice and the prescribed 10 hours of military and physical training there are no a s t civil engineers here as yet y is city's uso center most of the men now stationed at lehigh have no inkling of any functions of the uso in bethle hem it is true that the uso it self has no regular center for the servicemen but that ymca main tains a lounge at its headquarters on main street just opposite the hotel bethlehem this lounge is equipped with music and games and affords a quiet place for the men to engage in letter-writing uso had planned a dance at the community center on the corner of brodhead avenue and packer avenue for saturday night but cancelled the affair because of the furloughs given the men they will probably make the saturday night dance a weekly feature the nativity church holds open house at the parish house at third street and wyandotte street on sunday afternoons from 3 to 6 there are group singing games refreshments and hostesses if any of the men now on the campus have any ideas for enter tainment which the uso could ar range i'or them please bring your ideas to the brown and white of fice or the publicity department off campus men hold organization drive the 43rd meeting of town council was held last friday night in drown hall at 7:30 as a special session called by town president ralph a evans eng phys 45x to discuss summer plans new officers have been tempor arily appointed by evans these are robert c ramsdell arts 44 secretary and lewis w hill m.e 44x treasurer as yet the vice presidency is a vacant position a membership drive is being held by the council for the new men who are living in town or for those men who have been in town and have not yet joined the coun cil the sections have all been or ganized and leaders have already been chosen for some of the groups those active representa tives are stephen s kutosh ch.e 44x sections a and m united evans section b ramsdell sec tion c edwin t pieskie chem 46 section d hill section k sec tions e f g h and j have not yet chosen representatives all the above named section chiefs are temporary appointees named by evans since none of the old officers returned for the sum mer semester dance planned plans are being made to hold a record dance in the near future there will be a slight charge for outsiders and members of the town council will be admitted free there is a possibility of a joint dance with the interfrater nity council later in the year a meeting of the interdormitory council will be held next monday night all non-fraternity men on the campus including the fresh men at price hall are eligible for membership in the dorm council a president of the council will be chosen at the coming meeting and will be given a position on arca dia the interdormitory council will hold its meetings on the first tues day of each month and the town council will meet on the second tuesday a change has been made in the meeting time of the interfrater nity council the council will meet on the second monday of each month and arcadia student gov erning body will hold its meet ings on the first monday cyanide o d k schedule meetings plans to extend full use of university facilities to army men move for summer dance is begun representatives from each company of army trainees at lehigh are to be asked to serve on arcadia student governing body at future meetings with full power to vote arcadia at its first meeting of the term monday night in drown hall also started arrangements to extend full use to army men of such university facilities as the swimming pool drown hall recreation center and the university library possibility of holding a dance this summer to be open to army men b w.wins press prize the lehigh brown and white ] was one of two papers in its class ] to receive a first class honor rating ] out of 18 college publications sub : mitted to the all-american criti ' cal service of associated collegi ' ate press only two other publi < cations of the group received the i higher classification all-american ; honor rating 1 the issues of the brown and ' white for the first semester of the ( 1942-43 college year the ones sub i mitted to the critical service , showed special merit in interviews i and speech reports and general i excellence in the fields of news • writing and editing while the chief weakness of the paper as revealed by the service was the editorial page the print : ing and typography were judged to : be excellent in the coverage of i the war effort at lehigh a new : department in the critical service the brown and white was rated i very good , was also discussed and it was de cided that several members of ar cadia should cooperate with army representatives in making plans the meeting was presided over by charles c hilton met e 44x president members of arcadia at present are student elected com mittee kenneth g swayne m e 44x hilton philip j berg m e 44x bernard j egan met e 44x e lyster frost met e 44x omicron delta kappa representa tive q john schwartz m e 44x interfraternity council representa tive ralph a evans e phys 45x president of the town coun cil fritz yon bergen ch e 45x cyanide representative lowell h judis bus 46 mustard and cheese and theodore peters jr ch e 44x publications represen tative dr claude g beardslee is faculty adviser of the student elected commit tee only the four men listed are in school from the entire list of 15 men elected in april it was de cided to reduce the number of students in this committee from the original five to four since an election at the present time was considered impractical the interdormitory council has not met as yet to elect a president who will become a member of arcadia it was decided that this council should consist of non-fra ternity students living anywhere on campus or at delta sigma phi no representative was present from the combined musical clubs but one will probably be chosen at an early meeting the only organ ization at present functioning un der this council is the glee club magazines will be solicited from various living groups for service men following a request by cap tain james d campbell phil berg was placed in charge of this drive ken swayne was placed in charge of securing student partici pation in the local blood drive a request for funds submitted by the lehigh university ski club continued on page 2 four members of cyanide jun ior honorary society have returned for the summer semester it was discovered at a meeting held on monday night in drown hall those men back are fritz yon bergen ch e 45 paul j franz bus 45 ralph a evans eng phys 45x and leslie r little ch e 45 a formal meeting of the society will be held tonight to discuss the future plans o d k to meet wednesday omicron delta kappa senior honorary will hold a meeting on wednesday evening in drown hall continued on page 2 sick call . . . doe keck gives pfc e w tomgkins albany n v the once-over at the dispensary careful control of health is an important feature in army life company c . . . some of its men go through a close order drill under the morning sun drilling is oc cupying much of the cadets time in the days before classes begin books . . . students buy theirs the army gives them out free to its men here pvt joe fucci of new york city receives his weapons for coming months b & w photos by bardagjy brown & white lehigh university your blood can save a life . . . register today plasma has already saved the lives of many american soldiers and will doubtless save the lives of many more when invasion comes the red cross mobile units complete with pretty nurses will be in bethlehem for five days starting next monday july 12 registrations from town have been falling short of the quota needed and student aid is needed last convenient chance for registration for lehigh men is today at the south side post office — tomorrow it takes place at the west end post office register today to do your share and help the war effort lehigh and pos sibly save the life of one of your friends a pint of blood is a small contribution but one which can do a great deal of 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