Brown and White Vol. 61 no. 15

              completion ol the 54 project — a 116-foot bonfire tonight bevier proposed dormitory sundays in packer chapel and student-faculty discussion per iods sponsored by dorm sections dec 3 will be dravo sunday in chapel dec 10 will be set aside for richards house dec 17 for drinker dorm men will serve as ushers on their respective sun days and pew sections will be re served for men from the dorm to be recognized see idc page 3 council cup and a permanent plaque judging for the awards began last night and are continuing to day between 4 and 7 p.m there ar three separate judgings to de termine the winners of first prize second prize of a plaque and third and fourth place honorable mention at alpha chi rho house a steamroller has been constructed to roll over the mascots of le high's previous victims and to fin ish its jaunt by crushing the la fayette leopard's tail alpha sig ma phi has placed the lafayette football playe on a medieval tor ture rack as he is pulled apart his uniform comes off and he is exposed as a scrawny boy blimp is shown alpha tau omega's lehigh player uses his fist to knock out see displays page 2 nazi flag flies at d phi for gridcers delta phi is not a gestapo head quarters the nazi banner which flies from the flag pole at the house is symbolic of the prediction of spence foote owner of the au thentic war souvenir and his fra ternity brothers that the big brown will steamroll over the leopards in a fashion reminiscent of the dreaded nazi blitzkrieg bethlehem residents up in aims over the flag's appearance may stand at ease one-man act by laughton here nov 20 actor charles laughton will appear in a one-man show at 8 p.m monday nov 20 in grace hall having appeared in uumer ous movies stage plays televis ion shows and on the radio laughton is expected to perform many scenes from the more fam ous of his roles students will be admitted with thei id cards guest tickets can be purchased at the registrar's of fice for 1 to promote liaison between the residence halls and the buildings and grounds department idc es tablished a five-man house com mittee on dorm improvements at its tuesday night meeting speakers at the meeting in cluded speech prof h barrett davis cyanide head bob banta odk member lou be vier and rod crislip of phi eta sigma richards house president george blount proposed the house committee to aid organ ized action on needed dorm im provements prof davis outlined methods of parliamentary procedure banta urged support and publicity for tonight's pep rally bonfire and pajama pa rade and reminded idc members that dinks still are to be worn pending successful volume 61 — number 15 friday november 17 1950 lehigh meets lafayette in search of number 9 bethlehem penna engineers big favorites in longest u s rivalry lehigh's own four horsemen dick doyne bob borofski dick gabriel and herb weiss are putting the finishing touches on a play for the lafayette game doyne and gabriel will be playing their last college football game kets of the 18,000 placed on sale early arrivals wednesday after noon received four tickets for each urtpunched id card if re quested three for each punched card short said the 200 seals placed on sale were disposed of before 2 p.m lehigh's 10,000 tickets were ob tained piecemeal and only af ter many phone calls and trips to see game tix page 3 arcadia seeks class holiday wednesday arcadia voted unanimously wednesday night to petition president whitaker for a cancel lation of classes wednesday nov 22 in the event of a victory over lafayette in tomorrow's game the step was taken with the specification that arcadia it ** . . . reflecting to the best of our abil ity the thoughts and sentiments of the student body ..." arcadia noted that the peti tion depended on student ob servance of the peace pact with lafayette before and af ter the game if violations oc cur the petition will be re tracted it was emphasized john mac donald bus 51 re ported that an alumni-student dinner is planned for dec 1 the alumni contact committee of which mcdonald is chairman has invited 15 alumni and 15 student leaders including presidents of student groups director of wlrn and b&w's editor purpose of the meeting will be the discussion of mutual problems of alumni and students such as maintenance of traditions inter class competition to stimulate spiit and alumni grants for ath letics formal investiture of charles schaeffler as an ar see holiday page 3 lehigh's 10,000 tix sold out find scalping tickets for tomorrow's lehigh lafayette football game were sold out shortly after being put on sale at 1 p.m wednesday for those id card holders wanting more than one seat meanwhile b&w learned of at least one instance of mass scalping by a lehigh student some 200 tickets remained un sold when the more-than-one-seat sale started wednesday accord ing to athletic business manager paul short he said the sale start ed in advance of the announced time of 2:10 p.m because of the long line at the ticket window it would have taken us more than an hour to serve that many men anyway he pointed out those men who arrived at the ticket window at the ap pointed time found there were no tickets left announ cements made by arcadia's seating committee concern the wednesday afternoon sale apparently neglected to mention that the seats placed on sale at that time would be only those remaining after one ticket had been sold to each student there was a ticket for every student short declared lehigh received an estimated 10,000 tic by john crane for the first time in more than three decades the lehigh univer sity football team will be an overwhelming favorite when it meets lafayette college tomorrow at fisher field in the 86th game of the longest unbroken grid rivalry in the united states however no matter by how much lehigh is favored the engineers are not selling their rivals short since many an underdog has pulled an upset in the traditional series not since 1917 when lehigh romped to a 78-0 victory have the engineers been such heavy favor ites as they are this year the ex perts have good reason to pick lehigh by a good score for the first time in 66 years of football history lehigh is on the verge of an undefeated record having sent eight teams down to defeat in cluding major elevens like dart mouth rutgers and bucknell the engineers have already scored moe points than any previous le high team having rolled up 263 points — one more than the form er mark kset in 1903 lafayette on the other hand has been experiencing its worst season in 20 years and has notched only one victory in eight games — a 9-7 victory over delaware the leopards have lost to see favorites page 5 idc establishes group on dorm improvements houses vie for honors in display competition brown and white this year with student senti ment so strongly behind the un beaten football team lehigh's fraternity houses have reached new heights with their traditional lafayette displays the houses where displays range from pin ball machines to torture racks are competing for the interfraternity inside • . • editorials 6 little man 6 lu's longest run 7 on other campuses 7 personals and comments 6 sports 4 5 8 ce seniors to visit new york projects members of the senior class in civil engineering will leave the campus early monday morning for a three-day inspection trip in the new york city area among the projects to be visited are the neversink dam the bronx throughway a draw bridge a power plant and a long island housing project accompanying the class on the trip will be prof a c west and prof r e crispen