Brown and White Vol. 68 no. 10

              her royal highness will be pre sented a 14-inch trophy inscribed with fall houseparty 1957 — queen she will also receive a royal headdress on the following day her majesty will be chaufferred about taylor stadium at the half of the football game she will ride in a royal white convertible to facilitate the selection of the queen and her court each living group has been contacted and asked to provide one contestant as its choice of regal beauty sixty-nine living sections including town council will be represented preliminary judging will slice this number to seven these semi-finalists will be selected in room 167 of grace hall at 11:15 p.m friday the seven ravishing beauties will then promenade to the bandstand with their escorts the couples will be singularly announced for the purpose of parading this pulchritude ribbons will split the lower floor of grace hall and form a path six feet wide when the seven couples reach the bandstand they will begin dancing from these whirling pairs the judges will choose three finalists william w stainer chairman of the queen committee billy butter field orchestra leader clare nel son vocalist for tommy tucker's outfit and joseph a sroka fashion coordinator for hess bros allen town will select the queen and her court george m lincoln jr president of the senior class will present a trophy to the queen the sovereign will also receive a headress attendants of the court will be given smaller trophies and the le hgih crest will be inscribed on each one then they will be presented headresses of different colors adlai e stevenson democratic candidate for president has desig nated prof j b mcfadden head of the division of journalism as a democratic presidential elector for pennsylvania in 1956 one of 32 so designated mc fadden would cast his electoral college vote for the democratic contender if stevenson wins a majority of pennsylvania's pop ular vote on nov 6 mcfadden who directed the vol unteers for stevensons campaign in northampton county in 1952 and for governor leader in 1954 has been a close observer of the county po litical scene under the constitution demo cratic voters will actually be casting their ballots for mcfadden and only indirectly for stevenson the names of the presidential candidates are listed at the polls only as a con venience for the voters in some see j.b page 5 arcadia rally slated for 7:15 lehigh cheerleaders and arcadia associates tonight will head what the two groups hope will be the most successful pep rally of the season in an effort to get players and fans alike up for the tough virginia game tomorrow afternoon because of the lack of park ing space near the drinker bal cony the site of the rally has been switched to the upper field cheerleaders will conduct the program from the reviewing see upper page 3 over 1,700 explorer scouts from 25 pennsylvania and new jersey councils will be guests of alpha phi omega honorary service fraternity at scout visitation day tomorrow registration begins at 9 a.m in packard lab the first campus tour is scheduled to leave the lab at 9:10 a.m and the last at 10:10 a.m both the me and ee labs will be open for general in spection by the visitors dr raymond b sawyer asso ciate professor of physics will give a lecture - demonstration to the group while an alternate will view fritz lab testing machine last year's group also viewed the fritz lab facilities however the alternates heard dr robert stub bing assistant research professor in chemistry speak on what is color from 12:10 to 12:50 lunch the only cost of the day will be served in grace hall as the last event of the day the scouts will attend the lehigh-virginia foot ball game in taylor stadium last year on scout visitations day lehigh trounced v.m.i robert domingue is in charge of arrangements for apo 42 editors fire questions at nixon ban unpopular officers favor change how are fraternities being affect ed by the off-limits ban on con tacting in the freshmen residence halls this question was the theme of a consensus recently taken of fraternity officers the poll in dicated the majority of officers were in favor of lifting this ban for it has resulted in slowing down the contacting rate almost all the officers contacted stated they were definitely for the new interfraternity council proposal up for approval by philip b wood roofe director of residence halls this plan originated by jim tay lor president of chi psi called for limited contacting of freshmen dur ing the hours 7:30 to 10 p.m mon days wednesdays and fridays it was revealed that many fraternity officers wished not see consensus page 5 by stroud connor questions were specific in nature ranging from senator joseph mc carthy to nixons own presidential aspirations questions pertaining to the sen ator from wisconsin were put to the candidate four times on the first three occasions nixon answered without mentioning mccarthy's name on the fourth attempt he was asked to give a specific yes or no reply although he did not do this nixon did mention the sen ator in question the elusive mr mccarthy the event itself — 42 editors gath ering on one campus for a day of lecture discussion and press confer ences — was the first of its kind to be attempted sponsored by the cornell daily sun the conference began against a background of see mccarthy page 7 by ray farkas vice-president richard m nixon furnished 42 college newspaper editors assembled at cornell uni versity wednesday the brown and white included with a comprehen sive look at one of the pillrrs of any campaign republican or demo cratic evasiveness in answering questions . " v the 42 editors who came from as far west as whittier college in cali fornia and as far south as the uni versity of north carolina were forewarned by the members of the working press who travel with nix on that the vice-president would be tough if not impossible to pin down for 90 minutes 30 of which were nationally televised over cbs from 9 to 9:30 p.m the vice-president was questioned by the 42 most of the contacting — this fraternity man left contacts 2 freshmen in dor mitory room to describe life in fraternity under the present system contacting is permitted only in the afternoons and some evenings the b&w survey reveals that most fraternity officers would welcome a re turn to the old system un 6-0331 student ok sought for change of arcadia vol 63 — no 10 bethlehem pa friday oct 19 1956 hp cinderella to be selected at friday dance by wayne grainger the search for a cinderella will highlight the friday night dance at houseparty unlike her fairytale sister this ravishing beauty will be sought in the wilds of bali approximately 69 contestants will vie for the chance of ruling over lesser balinesians at midnight the bewitching hour houseparty's 1 ¦ i empress will be revealed froelich rainey anthropologist is cls speaker prof j b mcfadden prof chosen demo elector apo to host 1,700 area boy scouts see arcadia page 6 leaders and men who command the respect of the student body in gen eral unfortunately over the last few years the students have become lethargic and many men with high leadership ability have not run for office as a result the reputation has degenerated to a point where top men are not willing to be a part of it he said by getting men into arcadia who have proved that they are lead ers through other activities the quality of arcadia and its mem bership would reach a point where other top men would be willing and anxious to run for the student government of le high university rosenberg proposes to attain this end by incorporating the following main points in the referendum of the 15 men on arcadia seven would by al enoch a sweeping reorganization of arcadia which would seat vice-presidents of three classes and four organizations and the secretary-elect of resi dence halls council on the student governing body with seven students elected at large is proposed in a petition for a referendum which is being circulated for signatures arnold j rosenberg 57 is sparking the movement in an attempt to raise the stature of arcadia and to interest more campus leaders in membership in arcadia if rosenberg and others interested in the action are successful in get ting the signatures of 25 per cent of the student body on the petitions the proposal will be incorporated in a referendum which will be voted on by the student body at the december elections rosenberg said he thinks arcadia should be an organization of campus dr froelich rainey of the uni versity of pennsylvania will speak in the second of the 1956-57 coop erative lecture series to be held next tuesday in packard laboratory auditorium beginning at 8 p.m dr rainey who is director of the university museum will speak on speculations on the history of man the speaker is professor of anthropology and chairman of the department of archaeology at perm sponsoring dr rainey's visit are the honors council department of biology department of economics and sociology department of geol ogy and eta sigma phi the national honor society in classics all co operating with the cls committee in addition eight student organ izations are working in conjunciton with cls in presenting dr rainey's lecture these groups include sigma xi scientific research society omi cron delta theta senior honor so see rainey page 5 only two sign for salk shots only two students iiave signed up for the salk anti-polio vaccine as of wednesday noon according to dr george w mccoy health center director dr mccoy said the shots slated to begin nov 5 will still be given the program calls for two shots — an initial injection and a booster shot to be given two to four weeks later a charge of 3 for two doses has been established dr mccoy said the 3 charge is substantially less than rates of pri vate physicians since it goes not in see signup page 7 brown and white