Brown and White Vol. 67 No. 20

              lehigh university brown and white volume 67 — number 20 friday december 9 1955 lehigh university bethlehem pa lotke booted out of arcadia by 10-1 vote because of failure to maintain and fulfill arcadia attendance regula tions philip m lotke 58 was auto matically ousted from the student organization last wednesday eve ning by a vote of 10 to 1 arcadia recognized the fact that lotke accumulated more than the one unexcused cut allowed by membership regulations and was therefore dropped from arcadia and his place vacated according to the by-laws of the constitution any duly filled office may be declared vacant upon failure to maintain membership standing with a total of three unexcused ab sences arcadia felt that lotke ful filled the requirement and thus took proper action arcadians were reminded of the policy set forth earlier in the year by f bruce waechter president which asserted that requests for excused absences were to be submit ted in writing prior to the meeting vice-president william zeiter 56 presented a draft of the general finance act which con tains a codified motion intended to govern all arcadia funds the plan was tabled until the next meeting robert haltenhoff secretary is presently preparing a letter of invi tation to various lehigh alumni or ganizations with the intention of having as many alumni as possible visit the campus on a designated date to particpiate in a discussion between student leaders and uni versity officials the plan calls for the discussion and stating of student problems with the intention of obtaining various views and solutions medieval gals anything but pedestaiized by our women's editor the 20th century american atti tude toward womankind — that of pedestalization — was injured some say critically in a collision monday night with the realization that in medieval times women although in some ways a necessary wickedness were nevertheless wikked scene of the collision was the browsing room some 70 witnesses male and female observed dr robert pratt of the institute for ad vanced study emerge uninjur ed from the wreck of certain notions of long-standing his vehicle was jankyn's book of wikked wives medieval anti feminist propaganda the eminent chaucer scholar as signed himself the task of recon structing jankyn's book with all its wisdom its wickedness its fas cination and horror and it might be added in all its misogynistic de tail reconstruction is necessary be cause jankyn's volume was burned through the wiles of a woman jankyn was a clerk lately come down from oxford he was the fifth fire-proofing begun in packer center construction continues on the campus at a rapid pace though win ter chills the lehigh hill andrew litzenberger super intendent of buildings and grounds revealed that work on the interior of packer hall has commenced and will be contin ued throughout the cold months although frost is halting outside construction the first job to be tackled he said will be the fire-proofing of the en tire interior of the hall when com pleted the center section will con tain three floors of modern design the east wing four and the addition now being raised will have four floors packer hall construction is slightly behind schedule but now that the digging out of the rock which ham pered it previously is completed litzenberger expects that the build ing will be completed on schedule present estimates cite this date as dec 1 1956 the road to the south of the hall now closed to traffic will be reopened at the completion of work at the completion of an other construction job on cam pus the new residence hall the tempos will be razed the new residence hall is on schedule said litzenberger and should be completed by aug 1 1956 workers are getting ready to pour the cement slab for the third floor major event for phi sigma kappa was the breaking of ground for their new chapter house on the upper campus on nov 18 footings are now being laid 16 tons — the power shovel in back of packer hall takes a bite out of old south mountain as it completes digging out the rock which had ham pered construction the road directly above the excavation will remain closed until the work is completed going up proceeding along on schedule is the construction of the new residence hall which should be completed by august 1956 workers are shown getting ready to pour the cement slab for the third floor cutler to direct scheidt work under the direction of robert cutler professor of music the glee club will unite with the hunter college choir to sing samuel scheldt's mag nificat at the annual christmas vesper service sunday at 4 p.m in packer church marking the second time that the work has been performed in the united states the scheidt magnificat will also feature a brass choir from lehigh and a string orchestra from hunter which is located in ' new york city last saturday the work was sung at hunter precednig the magnificat the string orchestra will play a sonata by pezel and the brass choir will end the work with the sonata from the vespers of 1610 by monteverdi at the conclusion of each part of the magnificat the combined choruses will intone six lutheran hymns of scheldt's period during festive occasions such as christmas hymns were usually sung in this manner dr joseph a maurer of the classical languages department will accompany the singers on the chapel organ for the mag nificat the service will open with an or gan voluntary yon himmel hoch da omm ich her by pachelbel and in dulci jubilo by j s bach played by cutler o come all ye faithful will commence the pro cessional chaplain raymond e fuessle will deliver the opening sentences and prayer handl's o magnum myste rium sung by the lehigh men will follow the hunter girls will then present jubilate amen by bruch with barbara krusynski as soprano soloist at the conclusion of these se lections dr martin d whita ker president will deliver greetings to the guests and stu dents the lesson st john 1 1-14 will follow the welcoming address after the magnificat the glee club will offer o regem coeli by victoria and luther's carol for his son by cowell hunter under the baton of anders emile will sing the carols of the angels and the carol of the birds by niles ros ellen weisman and selma kern will be the soloists shepherds awake a bensacon dean tells ifc to keep in line or face aridity by dick kunin brief talks by dean wray h congdon and dr adolf grunbaum highlighted monday's ifc meeting a report on the recent convention of the national interfraternity coun cil was given by president george mac lean 56 dean congdon told the group the more drinking privileges given the more you should try to keep in line or there will be an unpleasant upheaval and a ban on drinking will result i am against a drinking ban be cause students don't get a chance to handle their own affairs and it makes cheats out of the men who re port on their parties we at lehigh should appreciate our drinking laws which are very liberal as compared to most schools dr grunbaum spoke on the new cooperative plan to bring lecturers to the university this plan would unite the funds of many organiza tions to bring outstanding speakers to lehigh at present no one group has the resources to bring the de sired speakers here he stated in requesting ifc support for the plan dr grunbaum said no one organization has the money to bring these lecturers organizations should pool re sources to invite well known lecturers this new plan will not compete with scl because it sponsors mostly entertainment programs the new group could guarantee each organization at candidates dicuss issues to give the student body a chance to judge the qualifications of candi dates in next week's arcadia elec tions the brown and white ques tioned them as to their stand on campus issues responses to two of the ques tions are printed in this issue others will appear in tuesday's issue with platforms activities and other information about the candidates one of the major problems is stu dent parking most of the candidates took the stand that new parking lots should be constructed and existing ones reorganized in order to take advantage of all available space following are the answers of the 22 candidates on the parking prob lem ed bartlett 58 advocate im provement — would look into possi bility of using university property for parking nelson l bond jr pete 57—1 see no solution to this problem as long as the campus is crowded with vehicles of various construction companies william a collins 57—1 fully concur with the recommendations of the campus committee which have been presented to the administration concerning parking on lower cam pus if any further cut is needed in dormitory parking i advocate that it be on a scholastic average basis in general parking regulations should be more strictly enforced paul j flynn 58 taylor hall presents the biggest parking prob lem the space opposite the tempos might be filled in to provide this parking space ray farkas 57—an immediate solution is to permit some student parking on what are now faculty parking lots on the lower campus since the lots are rarely if ever filled for the future the tempos are soon to be torn down — this spot should be made into a student park ing lot peter frank 57 during the last session of arcadia a survey was made to see if there were any feasi ble plans to increase the parking fa cilities for students the results of this survey showed that by making packer aye one-way with diagonal parking the amount of usable space for parking cars could be doubled i see christmas page 7 see ifc page 6 see gals page 3 see request page 4