Brown and White Vol. 61 no. 8

              new rules set for gym cuts with reference to rule 79 in the university regulations the physi cal education department has in troduced a new system of dealing with unexcused absences from scheduled gym classes seniors are allowed two cuts with the reporting of the student's name on the third unexcused absence juniors are permitted five and sopho mores and freshmen eight concerning the makeup of ab sence seniors and juniors are al lowed one day after the absence while sophs and frosh are granted two day leeway police continue search for missing baby boa pres whitaker voted head of school group education the american associa tion of university professors newcomen society of engineer ing sigma xi omicron delta kappa and pi tau sigma he has club membership in bethlehem saucon valley and the quadrangle of chicago bethlehem police are still searching for a 1 foot-long baby boa constrictor stolen from wil liam's hall biology laboratory last saturday detective ralph e flemming believes the reptile was taken by one of two boys who entered the laboratory after being told prof francis j trembley of the biology department was not in the snake was found missing after they had left police have stated that the identity of the boys will not be revealed nor will they be prosecuted if they return the snake the biology department ac quired the snake when d theodoredis a local whole sale banana dealer discover ed the reptile lurking in a shipment of fruit theodoredis turned the snake over to prof trembley who add ed it to the biology laboratory for exhibition purposes the snake is not poisonous prof trembley declared but its bite could cause a severe infec tion within 10 years the snake will attain a length of 16 feet some boas attaining a length of 40 feet are the largest known serpents in the world in their native envir onment of tropical countries boas suspend themselves from a tree and drop on victims passing beneath they then crush them in their coils and swallow them look out kids i dr whitaker was named presi dent of the pennsylvania associ ation of colleges and universities at a recent meeting in hershey dr whitaker succeeded r j fitzgerald university of pitts burgh who was named to the ex excutive committee the associa tion meets two or three times a year to discuss mutual problems in administration and to trace new trends in education president of lehigh since 1946 dr whitaker received his b.a from wake forest college in 1927 his m.a from the university of north carolina in 1930 and his ph.d from new york university in 1935 the newly named pesident joined the university of chicago atomic bomb project in 1942 la ter being director at clinton la boratories oak ridge term from 1943 to 1945 he is a member of the board of trustees at st luke's hospital a member of fellow american phy sics society a.a.a.s the society for the promotion of engineering chest drive ends totals hit 4,200 cash and pledges totaling ap proximately 4,200 have been re corded on the books for the 1950 campus chest campaign which ended saturday co-chairman robert n bond announced this week a complete report on the campaign returns will be made public next week pledges to pay at a future date represent less than one-fourth of the total the fraternities lead the living groups with approximately 1,968 in contributions about 1,571 has been contributed by the dormitories and the town group has received credit for 302 with final town returns incom plete sigma chi leads the frater nity group with 120 in con tributions while phi gamma delta's 119 runs a close sec ond top dorm group is dra vo cl with a total of 129 dravo bl came in second with 101 miscellaneous sources of campus chest funds which include parking fines col lected during the campaign week charity ball returns and money collected by the feather merchants total 362 fifteen per cent of the total fund will go to the bethlehem community chest other recipi ents of funds include world stu dent service fund 50 per cent see chest page 8 dr martin d whitaker volume 61 — number 8 wlrn airs tilt saturday at dartmouth friday october 20 1950 top hat root garden to be h'party setting forum talk to be given by stephens bethlehem penna council to give dance oct 28 arangements have been made by town council for its tradition al houseparty square dance on saturday oct 28 on the lower floor of grace hall music will be furnished by billy meyers and the caller will be warren serfass all town men will be admitted free but others will be charged 1 dancing will be from 8 30 to 1 1 30 those town men who desire tickets for houseparly must ob tain them on their own the to tal number of tickets which can be obtained by one man is eight if he has the required four iden tification cards while the lehigh football team puts its record of no defeats on the block at hanover tomorrow the lehigh family will be able to root for an upset through the facilities of wlrn starting at 1:45 p.m the cam pus radio station will broadcast the play by play invasion of the green from dartmouth accord ing to william noncarrow presi dent of wlrn to accommodate radioless students the upper floor of drown hall will be opened to listeners since a remote broadcast of this nature necessitates leas ing a telephone line at con siderable expense noncar row said we were at first pessimistic about bringing the game to lehigh students in fact it wasn't until the last minute that sponsors came through with the money sponsor for the first half will be the pure food restaurant with the brown & white and wlrn defraying the expenses of the sec ond half wlrn is 640 on the dial announcing the play by play description will be don stamm wlrn sportscaster and john crane sports editor brown & white jay johnson atmosphere created by a re production of a top hat on the main floor of grace hall and a roof garden effect complete with skyscrapers on the top floor will accentuate the theme of the houseparty formal midnight in manhattan on friday oct 27 stan kenton's orchestra will pro vide music for the occasion from a bandstand built into the lop hat aiding kenton in keeping the dancers swaying from 9:30 p.m to 2 a.m will be matt gillespie and his orchestra on the roof gar den stan kenton one of the fore most men in modern american music will be the featured per former of houseparty weekend due to the overwhelming success which he encountered this sum mer kenton will appear with his great new 20-piece dance orches tra during the last 10 years he has risen from an obscure piano player in los angeles to become the man to whom the entire business looks for leadership see h'party page 7 seniors requested to pay assessments seniors who have not yet paid their 14 assessment may do so at arcadia office drown hall or to the appointed collectors in their living groups thanksgiving is the dead line and those who fail to pay will not receive their epitomes or have their pic tures appear in it included in the deadline are those stu dents who expect to graduate in january june or october total assessments include epi tome 11 and class plaque grad uation ball and future reunion each 1 brown and white william j stephens manager of sales bethlehem steel com pany will deliver the keynote address when the third student leadership forum gets under way monday oct 23 at 7:30 p.m in packard auditorium with this forum arcadia is fur thering and continuing its pro gram of student leadership educa tion the purposes of this forum are 1 to provide for a meet ing ground on which student leaders can become acquain ted with one another as well as to provide for discussion of common problems 2 to bring the various stu dent leaders into closer con tact with the workings of their student government 3 to provide aid to each officer so that he may bet ter discharge his responsibili ties by a pogram of construc tive suggestions during the forum four panels will be presented these panels will provide sufficient opportuni ty for anyone to air his prob lems and to pick up information that may prove valuable in many of the student organizations arcadia has extended its invi tation to the presidents of the var ious organizations urging that each group be represented at each of the panels this invitation is also offered to any individual who is interested in better stu dent leadership epitome pix oct 31 is the deadline for se niors to have their epitome pictures taken for appoint ments contact mccaa studios 115 w 4th st 6-3742 inside • . • ifc 2 sports 4 5 on other campuses 6 leadership forum 6 penna week 6 little man 6 7 wlrn 7 beat dartmouth