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              its reached a certain number the student would be liable to specified penalties regardless of the gravity of the most recent offense gross said the new system will be more flexible demerits and penalties will be gradually worked out by the committee he added the university committee on dis cipline has adopted a new system of penalties for violators of univer sity regualtions mai gross stu dent representative on the commit tee announced at wednesday's arcadia meeting a system of cumulative de merits has been intorduced to over come what the committee report described as two difficulties in the penalties exacted disciplinary probation is un even and unfair in its effects on students for a student prominent in campus activities it is a penalty of varying severity depending upon his interest in and degree of participation in activities the re port read for the student with no interest in activities disciplinary probation is meaningless it continued the other difficulty cit ed is the need for an intermediate type of penalty present ones are either drastic such as expulsion and disciplianry probation or mild such as reprimands and warnings the need for something in be tween led to the demerit system under the new system every vio lation would result in demerits on the student's record when demer the epitome photographer called for only coats and ties when he took the price hall group shot the other night this is what greeted him as some of the group took him at his word rogues are top row klein cupschalk gallaher and sapner seated boyd neiderer allen ram lozano and silver on floor decunto and laun epitome fotog did make the boys cover up for the final take however idc deans approve dorm movies-again motion picture entertainment on campus for students is not far off idc has unanimously voted to carry through the recent proposal by bruce steinhoff 54 to provide movies to help increase dormitory social events idc has organized a committee to get projection equipment set up and make other arrangements for see movies page 6 mahmood rahim has no desire to follow in dad's footsteps as he puts it there's too much strain and besides you have to work for the government rahim's father is egypt's ambassador to the u.s and rahim is a junior transfer student at le high majoring in e.e the tall dark and handsome j student — he actually fits the cliche — would rather return to egypt to aid in the industrializa tion of his country as egypt is so | over-populated he feels that the i only method of correction is by mechanization and development of industry another reason for rahim's de sire to return home after complet ing his studies at lehigh is because ! egypt is sitting on the fence be ; wteen western capitalism and eastern communism i would like to help them i down on this side of the fence be j fore it is too late it is too easy for desolate people to slip into com i munism he explained but his eagerness to return to his homeland is not prompted by a j dislike for this country having been here since late 1949 rahim i maintains there is nothing like the u.s.a it's like entering an other world when compared with europe and asia rahim possesses another distinc tion for a lehigh junior he has al ready attended three other schools george washington princeton and keystone junior college he trans ferred here from the latter school j this semester throughout his collegiate lives however rahim has stuck to one major — e.e his interest in an e.e career was fostered by two uncles who are professors of e.e at fuad university in cairo rahim also believes that by study ing this subject he can best aid his country which gets us back to father though you might believe that the job of ambassador for the egyptian government wouldn't have the best job security the elder rahim doesn't have too much to worry about along this line when king farouk was expelled from egypt rahim's father kept his job unlike in the u.5.a his son explained the job of an am bassador is not a political one and lis not subject to changes because i of a new government what language does rah im speak well he doesn't speak ! egyptian for one things egyp j tians speak arabic just like amer icans speak english he pointed out rahim also lists french and a little english among his lan guage accomplishments actually for a foreign student in this country for just three years rahim speask english very well volume 64 — number 7 friday october 17 1952 blehigh university ¦ %?/¦ mm rown ana w kite gov'fi hilling says hp will be taxed bethlehem pa caged lions tigers present at hp dance arcadia president john arnesen adjusts the picture on drown hall's new television set after presenting the set to the presidents of the fraternity dorm and town groups admiring the 21-inch screen are left to right sam johnson president of idc dave leith president of town council bill davis president of ifc arnesen and arcadia members ed dussinger mai gross prof herbert diamond faculty adviser dick sowerbutt ernie sponzilli chuck adams george hopkins warren stevens tom maccabe al lewis art goldenberg and mike arra demerit discipline system adopted lehigh's own greatest show on earth will be held in grace hall next friday night from 10 p.m to 121 2 a.m those who go to the house party dance will find themselves in a big top complete with vaughn monroe bob harry and the houseparty queen who will be crowned at the dance more than 750 an all-time le high high has been spent on dec orations by the houseparty dance committee according to publicity chairman al harper 54 streamers pennants murals and three-dimensional models of animal cages will be used to change grace hall into a circus arena in the midst of this circus this fall's houseparty queen will be chosen roving judges will pick nine girls as finalists at 12:30 a.m mahmood prefers ee to ambassadorship this year's jtiouseparty dance may bring the senior class a net loss 01 over duu due to a reversal in government taxation policies plans for the dance including financial estimate had been made without consideration of the possi bility of government taxation on the recommendatio i of university officials no dance had been taxed previously as far as anyone could remember last friday word came that the internal revenue bureau had reversed a previous ruling that univer sity classes could make money free of taxation this time they intended to impose a 20 per cent enter tainment tax on income from the dance at this the city of bethlehem gleefully hopped onto the band wagon and slapped a 10 per cent tax of its own on dance receipts university lawyers appealed the decision unsuccessfully to the scranton court and intend to car ry their appeal to washington al though they do not hold too high hopes of reversing the taxation ruling announcement of the new ruling came after the dance committee had announced that tickets for houseparty would cost 5 if 1,000 tickets are sold as is anticipated the dance would net about 3,850 after city and federal governments had taken their shares on top of this is the fact that 4,000 have al ready been spent on the dance and the class of 53's finances begin to look rather sick al harper 54 houseparty publicity chairman said we've been told that the tax is being le vied because of the appreciable amount of money we're paying vaughn monroe to play for the dance he conntiued the agent from scranton told us that the uni versity has a right to operate its functions at a profit but since we're paying monroe so much he's going to tax us see ruling page 5 pre-register 27th-bth spring semester pre-registration for all men except june 56 engi neers will be held from oct 27 to nov 8 june 56 engineers will meet with dean john d leith in pack ard auditorium at one of the fol lowing times oct 22 - 12 noon oct 22-4 p.m oct 23 - 12 noon oct 23-4 p.m those chosen will assemble in front of vaughn monroe's bandstand f downstairs where monroe bob \ harry and another judge yet to be named will pick the queen the other eight finalists will serve as her court decorations on the bottom floor will include a giant mural depict ing a circus midway which will be placed on the wal lopposite mon roe's bandstand at the top of the bleachers will be three-dimension al models of lions tigers and other circus animals in cages