Brown and White Vol. 62 no. 2

              ed cards see page seven the majority coming from the facul ty working with harleman is john maxwell bursar who is in charge of making final arrange ments for receiving the mobile unit such arrangements not only include situating the unit but also setting up the necessary equipment for pre-donating ex aminations and the feeding of do nors ho one will be asked to give blood explained max well without a thorough physical examination before hand if the attending physi cians discover thai an indivi dual is not capable of giving blood he will be discharged immediately harleman pointed out that if more than 250 applicants are re ceived a second visit of the mo bile unit may be necessary operaton plasma is officially underway in an effort to meet an im mediate demand for blood for our armed forces in korea a campus-wide blood donating campaign sponsored by the university began at noon to day according to sam harle man director of the program all members of the lehigh fam ily between 18 and 60 are urged to pledge a pint of blood stu dents and faculty 21 and over who intend to give blood need only sign an application card in dicating the time they will be available however students and departmental staff workers under 21 must have parental consent as well as their own signatures scheduled for friday mar 16 a bloodmobile will visit the campus and probably be situated in the viniciry of the health center exact location will be announced later m&c to present 3 one-act plays mustard and cheese has an nounced plans to produce three one-act plays in march this production will follow a custom established last year when bound east for cardiff was given and is designed to give new men an opportunity to develop their acting talents plays are to be student-di rected and try-outs will be held on monday tuesday and wednesday feb 19 so and 21 at 4 p.m in room 309 c christmas-saucon hall all men on campus interested in acting are urged to attend these try-outs priority will be given to men who have less than five points for mem bership and for those who thus far have not participat ed in any m&c performances approximately 30 actors will be needed for the casting of these three plays law test set for feb 24 see test page 1 lehigh university has been designated as a testing center for the nationwide administration of the law school admission test to 36 dropped from lu roll see dropped page 7 three seniors were among 36 students dropped from the uni versity for failure to meet aca demic requirements according io religious convo program issued in the first large-scale publi city for the conference on reli gion the university presented each student with a 14-page print ed program of the conference during registration president whitaker in an opening message commended the various meetings of the conference to the students in the belief that participation in them will bring a deepening of the meaning of faith brief biographical sketches of the conference leaders an ex planation of the purpose and his tory of the conference and a lei ter from interfaith council as well as the actual program of meetings are contained in they booklet the conference is to be held from mar 5 to 7 fbi called to investigate theft of film projector arcadia drops proposal to adopt needy child investiation of the theft of a motion picture projector from grace hall has been turned over io the federal bureau of investi gation children the difficulty according to the arcadians is thai at pres ent it is impossible to esti mate what arcadia's allot ment from the student activi ties fund will be next somss tor since it depends on stu dent enrollment estimates of drop in enrollment next sem ester range from so io 60 per see arcadia page 1 draft policy described see hershey page 7 students scheduled to be in ducted into the armed forces at the end of the school year will have a chance to enlist in their chosen branch of service or ob tain employment in essential in dustry according to announce ments by gen george c marsh all secretary of defense and ma gen lewis b hershey director of selective service gen marshall has issued orders officially rescinding — for college students — the inter-service agreement of 1948 in which the services agreed not to accept en listments from those who had re ceived notices to report for a pre induction physical examination at the same time gen her shey announced that he would reopen in the last month of the college year the classifications of all students who were to be inducted at the end of the school year this would automatically re new the right of the student to enlist in the service of his choice however it was em uncertainty about the univer sity's finances for the fall semes ter caused arcadia to defeat a motion to adopt a needy child in europe at the group's meeting feb 7 other business included brown and white's editorial cri ticism of the intramural program a report of the university disci plinary committee's activities re sponse to the campaign for in oculation against flu and the sale of discount cards adoption of a child would have involved a contribution of 180 to support him for one year several members expressed sym pathy for the proposal it was mentioned that at least two other university groups have adopted a memorandum released by the department of military sci ence and tactics stated that the projector valued at 417.30 is the property oi the united states signal corps it was removed from room 422 at some lime be tween 11 a.m on feb lfi and 7 a.m on feb 13 no locks were found to have been tampered with and it is be lieved that the projector was taken out through a window a film reel found in the park ing lot at the rear of grace hall is the only clue reported to have been found campus police are assisting the fbi in the investiga tion of the case bethlehem pa friday february 16 1951 spring enrollment down 8 46 new freshmen admitted volume 62 — number 2 51 music festival set for april 13 14 graduate roster by classes shows 620 seniors 574 juniors 703 soph omores 656 freshmen and 16 gen eral college division students there are 330 graduate students and 135 are enrolled in the adult education courses by curricula there are 1417 engineers 626 busines ad ministration students 483 stu see enrollment page 3 lehigh's 1951 music festival emerged from the planning stage this wek at a coordination meet ing held in drown hall with folk music as its theme and a broad way production written by kurt weill entitled down in the val ley as the featured number this year's festival has been planned with popular music in view herb hoover student coordinat operation plasma opens 250 lu donors sought ing director told student director and faculty advisers performances of the fourth ann ual festival are scheduled tor april 15 and 14 on the lower floor of grace hall the lehigh and beaver college for women glee clubs the cliff clefs and cliff clef combo the lehigh band and orchestra and several soloists will participate in the show following the theme of the soe festival page i registration for the spring sem ester was conducted according to plan as 46 new freshmen and a number of transfer students pro oeeded through the network of department and checkers for the first time j h wagner acting university registrar released fig ures showing a total undergrad uate enrollment of 2569 students enrollment this year is 5 per cent off from last year's on the average wagner reported the enrollment drop be tween the fall and spring se mesters was 9 per cent last year and will be 8 per cent this semester enrollment for the school year of 1949-50 was 2952 in the fall and 8662 in the spring this year the fall count was 2800 as compared with 2569 for this semester a breakdown of the under lehigh university brown and white in its request the red cross has set a quota of 150 pints for the first visit of the mobile unit this means that we must have about 250 applicants harleman said since we suspect thai a goodly portion will be rejected pre-campaign posters furnished by the bethlehem red cross have already been posted in nearly all the buildings on campus and three distribution centers for pledge cards the gym the brown and white and the alumni of fice have been set up students may sign up at any one of these centers while members oi the facility and staff may do so at their department office in opening the campaign har leman said judging by the pre campaign response i feel sure that we will get the necessary 250 applicants for the march visit of the bloodmobile i have al ready received a number of sign inside • • • little man •> jobs m i discounts 2 draft v , wins ski event lewis tuttle 54 lehigh's ski club entrant in the pennsylvania eastern council ski meet at big pocono in tannersville recently took first place in the downhill event the one-half mile course was covered with ice tuttle funther distinguished himself by placing second in the slalom event which was also treacherous due to icy conditions approval formal approval of the ann ual spring music festival was unanimously voted by a jeint meeting of the student activi ties club and the student club finance committee wednes u t . any student interested la working on the 1951 music fes tival production staff should contact carl gordon in the mu sic festival office in drown hall tuesday at 4 pan or call 6-3692 publicity and construc tion workers and students to u*iat with choreography sales promotion and photography are needed no experience is necessary