Brown and White Vol. 51 no. 7

              the meeting was actually one of the combined councils at which dean congdon spoke to the group regarding the entertainment of continued on page 4 post war credit for astp soldiers awaiting answer by pfc perry c wolff co a the war department has chosen to be somewhat vague concerning the exact circumstances of its specialized training program but there is one phase of the program which should be cleared up immediately as yet the soldiers in training have not been informed of the exact work towards an accredited diploma of the courses they are now tak ing information of this sort can hardly be of use to the enemy and as a matter of fact is of no concern to the war department which is interested in trained specialists rather than diplomas the soldiers surmise that credits will be determined by the regis trar and in view of president roosevelt's recent statements con cerning post-war allotments for service men's education the ques tion of credits has become more poignant since many of the men are planning to finish an engineer ing course after the war the problem is complex for it must be admitted that a college diploma should reflect a maturity of opin ion which comes with four years study rather than with fifteen months of facts courses not normal also there would have to be standardization throughout all the colleges offering the astp pro gram since any deviation would be unfair not only to the soldiers but to the engineering profession then too the rapidity and sketch iness of some of the courses makes it impossible to equate them to a normal curriculum as soldiers we are here under orders and we do not expect grat uities while our brothers are fight ing our war lehigh university has entered in a contract with the government to provide technicians and from what we understand any normal credit is outside the terms of this contract but we are ac cumulating a body of knowledge which would have to be uselessly repeated after the war if no credit is given many of the men sta tioned at lehigh plan to return if the fortunes of war permit and if they would not have to go to excess expense to complete their education while the problem is difficult it is nevertheless solvable we un derstand that in the formative period of astp the registrars cannot make a definite statement but it would clear up a good deal of confusion if a partial estimate or a denial of credits were to be made o post session opens runs until aug 25 a group of 33 graduate students registered last thursday for the post session course which runs from aug 5 until aug 25 all classes meet from 9 to 10:30 a m monday through saturday all of the post session classes deal in branches of education teaching instead of courses in english history and philosophy which were offered in the reg ular summer session visual in struction a class in visual-sensory aids and psychology public school finance seminar dealing with taxes revenue government and post-war education and a class in field work and research are the available courses tuition for any of the classes is 10 per credit hour european students aid in astp instruction astp students are now learning their conversational french from two new student assistants guy jacques dußois ch e feb 46 and michael john gluck ch e oct 44 from 7 to 9 o'clock every weekday evening guy and michael drill their classes in simple french phrases and go over the vocabulary and grammar which the students have been taught earlier in the day nine months of classes three hours a day are supposed to give the army men a basic knowledge of french | a freshman student instructor is a rarity but guy a native bel gian is well qualified for the job when the germans invaded bel gium he drove to paris with his mother after aiding the british in rounding up german paratroopers parents still in europe guy went from paris to bor deaux to spain to portugal to south america and finally in the fall of 1940 he arrived in the u s at the time he arrived guy could not speak english but three years in the haverford school have given him command of the lan guage his family is still in bel gium including his mother who returned after coming to the unit arcadia dance ticket sales lag behind plan to raise price next week egan says by bud morrison tickets sales for the arcadia dance saturday aug 21 are not up to expectations according to bernard j egan met e 44x chairman of the dance committee harry romig the band selected for this occasion is apparently un derrated by quite a few lehigh students romig a local band has played at lehigh on sev eral occasions he was the second band for the junior prom and was very well liked other past visits include a dorm dance which was a huge success and he has played for many of the larger fraternity house dances during va rious houseparties the band con sisting of 13 men and a girl vo calist plays very danceable music the purpose of this summer dance is two-fold firstly lehigh students have been calling for a social affair during the summer and this is an excellent opportunty to start the ball rolling secondly arcadia wished to have a univer sity function that both civilian and army students might attend to boost price as has been the policy in the past it will be necessary to raise the costs of tickets from 2.00 to 3.00 this saturday noon aug 14 in order to insure a satisfactory crowd there will be no reduc tion in price for men without dates the charge is 2.00 stag or drag due to the small student body it was not deemed advisable to spend the money for a large name band besides the procurement of such a band would be extremely difficult on such short notice it has been found on several occa sions in the past that the small really danceable band is the favor ite in the end arrangements for army men have been made they will have one hour to escort their dates home and return to barracks bed check will be at 3 a m dates for soldiers are being arranged by the uso and other bethlehem organ izations name petition deadline the deadline for the submission of petitions is on or before mon day aug 16 these should in clude the name of the person as suming responsibility the names of students and their guests and the names of chaperones for each living group the chaperones for the dance are col and mrs fay w brab son lt and mrs j foster dr and mrs claude g beardslee and mr and mrs f c bartlett mets schedule picnic plan to reorganize with several reorganizing meet ings scheduled in the near future the met society has definitely set aug 28 as the date for its season picnic the metallurgical society offers to all new met students a chance to acquaint themselves with other mets september 11 is date set for if ball this game will be played on taylor field and is the first game to be played on this side of town this season other games have been played on steel field the baseball game to be played with princeton on thursday af ternoon will start at 5 instead of 5:30 as was originally scheduled the reason for this change is that the princeton team has only three hours in between trains they will arrive on the 4:03 train and must leave on the 7:33 train princeton game to start early cancel order johnson stays an order cancelling his transfer to the army specialized training program headquarters was receiv ed last week by major russell h johnson accordingly maj john son will stay at lehigh in his ca pacity of battalion commander of the astp group he was sched continued on page 4 will be on small scale orchestra to be chosen september 11th was chosen as the date for the interfraternity ball at the interfraternity coun cil meeting monday night in drown hall although the affair will be on a much smaller scale this year than in the past the size of the band and the price of the tickets was not definitely decided upon as in the past the tickets will be sold to the fraternity houses ac cording to the number of men in each house and a system for re selling the tickets will be arranged through the arcadia office for those fraternity men who do not plan to attend 9hb sr sr jh b k i hb sh 9 b i be mi hi jß vol li — no 7 - bethlehem pa wednesday august 11 1943 price — 5 cento ed states with him belgium cit izenship is not an exemption from selective service and guy expects to go into the army in august michael gluck who is a ru manian citizen also meets the re quirements of a french instructor before he left france in 41 he spent four years studying in paris michael left france through spain and went to brazil where he stu died chemistry at the university of brazil about eleven months ago he came to the united states and entered lehigh in time to have completed three semesters up to now in addition to school work and his teaching michael is a for eign correspondent for a brazilian newspaper b & w photo by bell guy dußois ch e 46x freshman instructor in conversational french is pictured here drilling left to right , pfc arthur s gould and pfc francis e davenport of the french language-area groups in simple french phrases in one of their two hour classes on weekday evenings michael gluck ch e oct 44 not shown above is also a stu dent instructor in this subject coming to lehigh after studying four years in paris and also at the university of brazil michael is also a foreign correspondent for a brazilian newspaper new calendar is released the university calendar year of 1943-1944 will long be remem bered by students as a year of short vacations especially over the christmas holidays due to the accelerated program many holidays have been short ened and others have been cut out entirely the christmas vaca tion has been cut to one week and again students will have only one day on which to celebrate thanks giving there will again be no easter vacation next spring the time interval granted to students between semesters is only one week the complete calendar for the coming year is as follows 1943 aug 19 thurs — mid semester reports aug 25 wed — post session ends sept 25 sat — last day for filing appli cations for degrees to be conferred on founder's day oct 6 wed — instruction ends oct 7 thurs — exams begin oct 13 wed — exams end oct 18 mon — founder's day oct 19-20 tues.-wed — registration for fall semester oct 21 thurs — fall semester begins nov 25 thurs — thanksgiving day dec 16 thurs — mid-semester reports dec 22 wed — christmas holidays begin dec 30 thurs — christmas holidays end 1944 feb 9 wed — instruction ends feb 10 thurs — exams begin feb 16 wed — exams end feb 21 mon — midyear commencement feb 22-23 tues.-wed — undergraduate registration feb 24 thurs — spring semester begins feb 24-25-26 thurs.-sat — graduate reg istration april 80 thurs — last day for filing ap plications for degrees to be conferred on founder's day may 31 wed — instructions for arts sen iors ends june 3-7 sat wed — senior arts compre hensive exams june 7 wed — instruction ends june 8 thurs — exams begin june 14 wed — exams end june 18 sun — baccalaureate sunday june 19 mon — university day o megas heads new interdorm council last year's dorm council voted on may 4 1943 to instruct the fac ulty adviser to reconvene the coun cil as soon as possible charles c hilton met e 44x of arcadia called a meeting of the presidents of price hall and delta sigma phi to reorganize those groups the non-fraternity men living at phi delta theta and a t o had organized and had elect ed officers this group petitioned admission to the council they were admitted to the council at the meeting held on aug 2 1943 the council elected the following as officers president theodore g megas met e 44 vice president l stanford wiuis met e 45x secretary thomas s stevens ch e 46 treasurer alfred a ad ler wanted • . • grid material the first call for gridiron material has been issued coach leo prendergast is on the look-out for men of all sizes weights and de scriptions no previous gridiron experience is required in order to weed out the best available football material coach prendergast plans to organize a program similar to the intra mural football set-up the men who prove their worth in this program may get a crack at rutgers or lafayette on the big brown and white machine the first search for material begins on monday august 16 all men interested are asked to sign up with the head coach at taylor gym he will be in his office from 9 a m to 3 p m each day next week