Hbe Gomentan MORAVIAN COLLEGE STUDENT WEEKLY Volume LXIV Bethlehem, Pa., Friday, October 27, 1961 Number 6 Alumni To Return For Annual Homecoming; USG President Leaves To Serve Country Set Goals That Are Meaningful Festive Events De Paolo States In Resignation Include To The Moravian College Student Body, Dance, Effective October 3 1 st I must resign my position as president of the United Student Government, due to my recall to active Parade, Game duty in the U.S. Army for a period of one year. by Barbara Yoder Peter Gill, vice-president of USG, will temporarily assume the Homecoming Weekend will leadership of the organization until such time as an election can begin tonight with the pajama be to held permanently place someone in the position. I strongly parade and will continue urge that Mr. Gill be named as this permanent party. His experi¬ through Saturday with the foot¬ ence, ability, and intelligence ball game, dance and crowning of insure that the presidency will the Homecoming Queen. The finalists for be in capable hands; his inter¬ Homecoming queen are Genie Billiard, Pati est in USG is unquestionable Long, Mary Pfriemer, Sharon and vital. He can do the job, Yaeck and Gerri Zilko. They were he can build a Seated left to elected USG in manner right are the five fiinalists for this years Homecoming early this week from a Queen: group that promises a new, dynamic Mary Pfriemer, Genie Billiard, Sharon Yaeck, Patti Long, and of twelve students repre¬ Gerri Zilko. organization. Photo by Stoddard senting the four classes. The crowning of the Homecom¬ My own situation is one that ing Queen will take place during can be a powerful influence on Wearing Of Dinks and Ties intermission of the Homecoming this campus. The reaction Dance, Saturday night. She will receive a gift from the Social Ac¬ which 1 first had upon receiv¬ Under Discussion At USG tivities Committee in the name of ing my activation was one of by John Schegel the entire student body. disbelief, followed by depres¬ the The resignation of Ronald dePaolo from the office of president of Tonight parade will begin sion, then by a great sense of the United Student Government (USG) was read by Richmond John¬ promptly at 7:30. The entries are given their injustice that my life should be son, dean of men, at the meeting of USG on Tuesday evening. DePaolo places in the line of march so completely disrupted by the was forced to resign by being recalled into the service of the United according to the sequence in which whims of the Federal Govern¬ States Army. they registered. next meeting for the office of The route of PETER the parade will be¬ ment. But as I think more ob- GILlL, ACTING PRES- Ronald F. dePaolo president as well as the office of gin at Locust and ident of USG, announced that peti¬ Monocacy (Cont. on p. col. 1) 2, vice-president, since Gill is re¬ streets going east to New tions would be accepted at the street, signing in order to run for the south on New street to Broad office of president of USG. Nomina¬ and west on Broad street to Main tions from the floor will also be street. The parade will then con¬ Candidates accepted at that time. tinue on For Bethleh south Main street to the In other business a motion was Hill-to-Hill Bridge. made to abolish the wearing of Present (Cont. on p. 4, col. 3) Party Views dinks, ties and knee socks by freshmen. This motion was called An array of candidates running out of order, however, in light of for offices in the Bethlehem City the fact that Gill felt an impor¬ Government discussed and de¬ Balloting tant issue such as this should be bated issues vital to govern¬ brought before the entire student ing of the city Tuesday evening body. This also falls under the "Ugliest in Johnston Hall in a program jurisdiction of the Regulations sponsored by the Political Activ¬ Committee, and Gill added that Starts M ities Club and community groups. recommendations might be given GORDON by Nancy Olenwine and PAYROW, REPUBLI- to this committee before any ac¬ can candidate for mayor, stated tion should be taken. Sharon Yaeck in his ten-minute opening address, A motion was then made to the Attention all male Moravian that though the platforms of both effect that the representatives students. You may be singled out parties appeared similar, it will should go to their respective for the honor of being selected be "the teamwork and unity of groups and discuss this issue in the "Ugliest Man" on campus. The the Republican candidates that order to get suggestions as what contestants are being given two will be able to deliver the plat¬ might be done with this problem. weeks, beginning Monday, Octo¬ form." The Democratic party has ber LENGTHY DISCUSSION FOL- 23, to display their meaness, been in office for forty years and lowed and various views came to unattractiveness, and any other the "community has become com¬ "nesses" to the student light. Some of the representatives body. placent and careless," he said. THE were disgusted with the way the CONTEST, SPONSORED Replying to Payrow in his own freshmen have been wearing and by Alpha Phi Omega has candi¬ address, Democratic candidate for not wearing their dinks and ties. dates from the Veterans' Associ¬ mayor Paul Jani, rebutted "There Many felt, however, that abolish¬ ation, Pi Mu, Tau Kappa Epsilon, have been accomplishments under ment of dinks is not the answer Sigma Phi Omega, Kappa Phi the past forty years of adminis¬ and that USG would be backing Kappa, Phi Mu Epsilon, Omicron tration of which the city can be down in certain respects to the Gamma Omega, Rau Science Soci¬ proud. Bethlehem is a great city, whims of the freshmen class. ety, and Political Activities Club. but it can be greater." If the city Gill summed up the discussion Voting will take place in Com- is to grow, he continued, the best by saying that the organizations enius Hall from Monday, October talents of the community must should look into this problem 30, through Friday, November 3 be and This fugitive from the Bronz Zoo was seen tramping in front of utilized its leadership must thoroughly, taking into considera¬ in the form of monetary contribu¬ Johnston Hall, Tuesday night. The beast was be progressive. urging everyone to stop tion the purpose of the dink and tions. These will be counted at inside and see the debate between Bethlehem's mayorality candidates, name button, and various techni¬ 3 p.m. November A series of questions, some pre¬ 3, by Charles Democrat Paul Jani, and Republican H. Gordon Payrow, Jr. A crowd ques of control in the wearing of pared by a committee headed by Canning, APO president, Robert of about 1500 heeded the elephant's advice and attended the event. this garb. Garcia, USG treasurer, and the (Cont. on p. 4, col. 3) Photo by Stoddard (Cont. on p. 4, col. 4) advisors of APO. Page 2 THE COMENIAN October 27, 1961 For The Good of The Whole The Mail Box Periodicals, Journ The United Student Body has lost its president and soon will In be faced with the responsibility of selecting a new one. Though Valley Cultured Unexplored Yorker," "Saturday Review," To the editor: by Jonathan Marks it may not appear so on a the surface, this election will be crucial For all but the few who have "Harper's," and "The Atlantic one reasons. Having successfully completed for several annexed the building as their do¬ Monthly" are some of our best twenty-five years in the Lehigh general publications to which the The growth of USG as an effective instrument of government main, much of the library annex Valley, and while enjoying a twen¬ is unchartered territory. The library subscribes. has over the past several years been both erratic and unstable. ty-sixth, and anxiously awaiting a treasurers here are so numerous In addition, the annex receives It is now on an adolescent stage, vacillating somewhere between twenty-seventh I have been in a and various that a student could some lesser known publications of the desired position to make a few observa¬ goal of adulthood and the too frequent hangovers of spend a week sailing among the exceptional interest. The most tions. childhood. Governments like individuals are influenced strongly stacks' without getting a bit of general include "The Mississippi I HAVE ENJOYED LIVING IN studying done. by personalities. Thus in the hands of the new president of USG River Historical Review," "The this area without being culturally will be the THE ANNEX IS DIVIDED INTO Proceedings of the American Phil¬ power to mold and define the character of our student starved. I have enjoyed the many three sections: periodicals, refer¬ osophical S o c i e t y," and "The government. The individual elected to this office must be dynamic, cultural, historical, and natural ence books, and "the 200's, theo- Times (of London) Literary Sup¬ in aspects of this section. I have en¬ flexible thinking, and above all free from the mill-stone of logical literature. The titles plement." The library also in¬ joyed the Great Allentown Fair. tradition which so often hampers the thinking of this campus. among the periodicals number cludes skads of magazines and I was not the only one who four-hundred. quarterlies devoted to specialized The election is crucial for another reason, perhaps a less obvi¬ took personal affront at the rather The topics covered are diverse, topics.