Brown and White Vol. 58 no. 1

              student government at le high can only make suggestions to the university heads that is the limit of its power it seeks out the problems of the student body attempts solutions and presents student wishes in an orderly manner to the univer sity it is hoped that the power of arcadia will grow as the university recognizes that the student government can find intelligent and adequate solu tions to its own problems ar cadia will be given more respon sibility as it shows that it is able to handle more responsi bility continued on page 8 col 3 twenty cents please the trip to case university scheduled for this friday night was called off by the brown key society due to insufficient interest on the part of the stu dent body due to the cancellation the society is 130 in the red since they had purchased feathers and felt dodads to be worn at the game they hope to dispose of these during houseparty weekend the brown key society is hoping to run a similar trip when lehigh wrestles navy or syracuse before definite ar rangements are made a poll will be taken on the campus the fare for the trip if made will be approximately 8.00 by geri sideris today's edition of fortune magazine features an article on the scientists of america en titled the scientists having the same press time in common the brown and white initiated a quest of its own into the world of science hoping to sub stantiate the views expressed in fortune after presenting the usual background material relative to the growth of science fortune attacks governmental handling of inquiries of personalities in research the loss of high cali bre personnel is too costly a price to pay for a nation en trusted with the future of sci ence . fortune sent questionnaires to 4,000 scientists the results of which are published today in an effort to give meaning to these tabulations as they relate themselves to the campus scene and as they give an approxima tion of the typical scientist a member of the physics depart ment was chosen as the unsus pecting prospect john a karas 26 instructor in physics was graduated from lehigh in 1943 with a b.s in engineering physics and received his master's degree from lehigh in 1947 during the war he worked on the manhattan pro ject at oak ridge term continued on page 2 col 1 inside today's b&w page two — notices and an nouncements dramatic news page three — talks of pres whitaker and bishop sterrett pages four and five — sports pages six and seven editorials and features page eight — news second section page nine — summer summary play review page 11 — crossword puzzle queen to reign at if ball as thornhill eberle swing no famine in britain geology prof asserts the british are better off than is generally supposed ac cording to prof bradford wil lard head of the department of geology who recently returned from a two-months stay in the british isles dr willard representing le high university and the penn sylvania topographic and geo logic survey was one of 1700 persons attending the 18th in ternational geological congress held in london in august and september reported to be the largest geological meeting in history food is plentiful and good though not fancy prof wil lard reports chief shortages are meat eggs and fats he did not find the people shabby looking with prices higher for clothing than in the united states prof willard found the gen eral attitude one of genial cor diality — the proverbial british reserve appears to have van ished ireland prof willard found a land of plenty with easy-going people bad railways and excellent food after the congress closed prof willard visited eire north ireland and north wales bring ing home from his trip maps publications and specimens of rocks minerals and fossils for the department of geology advance ticket sale for concert series the interfraternity council announced today that a house party queen contest will again be a feature of the i f ball to be held friday night october 29 the council has signed claude thornhill and ray eber students say thumbs down on new name b&w foto by chisholm warren h philipp ch e 50 digs in to pay for his breakfast while h a stubbs new director of lamberton hall waits at the cash register „ ■ _ . lamb chops ' is revamped charles jensen 49 chairman of student concert lecture ser ies has announced that tickets for the series will go on sale friday october 8 in the regis trar's office the series of 8 events will all take place in grace hall in the coming sea son the admission fees are as follows 4.00 faculty student guests and wives 8.40 general public the 4.00 group is limited to 500 tickets and the general pub lic group is limited to 200 tickets if all tickets are sold in advance the only possibility to attend a concert or lecture will be if there is a vacant space in grace hall whitney hotel in savannah an authority on food prepara tion mr stubbs has served as chief steward on a passenger liner and as steward for the atlantic coast line through the university place ment bureau the cafeteria has given employment to more than twenty lehigh men almost all cooking and baking is done on the premises in assuming management of lamberton hall mr stubbs re ports we aim to improve serv ice and maintain high quality at lowest possible cost to our patrons lamberton hall opened this semester under the direction of crotty brothers pennsylvania corporation second largest res tauranteurs in the country crotty brothers with headquar ters in boston has over eighty divisions and runs cafeterias in seven colleges the lehigh branch is man aged by hal stubbs long ex perienced in the restaurant field mr stubbs comes to lam berton from south carolina where he managed a chain of crotty cafeterias in the spring cotton mills previous to that he worked at the book-cadillac hotel in detroit and at the seidle rights preside at ifc meeting the inter-fraternity council met in drown hall september 17 with dean seidle and faculty advisor albert a rights of the english department to discuss the rules for the fall rush week rushing occupied the greater part of the meeting a house narty dance committee headed by jack mellinger was organ ized the subject of houseparty will be discussed in greater de tail at the next meeting which will be held on monday evening october 4 the chap who asked you are you in favor of the name pack ers during registration was douglas whittaker bus 50 dissatisfied with the manner in which the name packers had been chosen whittaker began a survey of the campus late in the summer semester at the close of the semester he had approached 492 students 420 of whom expressed disapproval although unable to give the impromptu poll the desired time whittaker nevertheless managed to contact an additional 200 students at registration this semester of this number 169 answered negatively a ratio of approximately s*/2 to 1 whittaker plans to continue the survey during his free mo ments until a representative number of the student body is reached this done he intends to submit his results to arcadia le to musically fete the queen this year's queen who will be chosen from six finalists during the intermission of the dance will be crowned by miss nancy fitch last year's house party queen she will be crowned with a garland that will be en graved with her name the crown will then be perpetuated she will also receive a cup which she may keep any student can enter his house party date in this con test to do so he should ad dress a picture of the girl to his particular living group town fraternity or dorm and then leave it in the arcadia office in drown hall committees from the three living groups will then pick up the pictures on october 20 which is the deadline for entries the living group judges will pick from these pictures two finalists to represent their re spective groups in the finals the six finalists will be judged at the ball by a committee of impartial judges as yet unan nounced the pictures which will be returned after the preliminary judging is completed should contain on the back the girl's name the stu^bgk ime his class and b dress dates of all j|j||j||h eligible s i the lehigh university bro w n an d w hite lehigh scientist five cents vol lviii — no 1 houseparty bids open bethlehem pa friday october 1 1948 don't withhold science secrets says karas a-bomb scientist case trip cancelled all men interested in run ning the concession for house - party dance should submit sealed bids addressed to if dance committee before fri day october 15 bids should be left in the arcadia office and must contain the name address class and amount of bid the concessionaire will be responsible for photog raphy coat checking refrsh ments ticket takers and help for concessions b&w foto by toven john a karas prof of physics behind the minutes by john head richard mould robert swanson in order that the lehigh stu dent may become better ac quainted with his student gov ernment in order that he may better understand its operation so that he can become a par ticipator rather than an observ er of the student government this column will be presented weekly in the brown and white in this first article we would like to tell you just how far you can participate in the ac tivities of arcadia greet the frosh each freshman shall greet everyone he meets on the cam pus and about the university upper classmen are therefore requested to do their part a friendly hello is easy and will help cyanide help the class of 1952 al beardslee president cyanide