Brown and White Vol. 95 no. 35

              by jennifer kay students who commit felonies or mis demeanors which are punishable by incarceration may find themselves spending the night in the university holding room according to eugene dax chief of campus police the holding room located at 203 e packer aye in the basement of the office of research was established 10 months ago according to dax the 8 by 10 room includes a bench and a light persons in the room remain under con stant surveillance by campus police because of the difficulty in finding a magistrate between the hours of 1 a.m and 6 a.m the holding cell is needed day said the maximum time a person can be held before having bail set by a magistrate is six hours in pennsylvania if six hours pass without a magistrate setting bail the person is released uncharged according to dax mudd chemical wastes feared toxic erickson seeks faculty support of taylor concept by rob wengert mark erickson assistant dean of students for residence life attended last week's faculty com mittee on educational policy edpol meeting to provide an update of taylor college's pro gress and to seek support for the residential college concept and specifically the faculty-in residence program taylor's faculty master as see taylor page 5 the waste is probably not high the uni versity does not have a permit for toxic storage toxic is a rough term nunzio explained what the material really is is organic waste it may however contain chlorines and benzines that if left in their current state could be poten tially dangerous if the material con tains these types of chemicals they would only occur in small percen tages nunzio said the first step in michelotti's new plan to dispose of the waste is to analyze it in the lab he explained that there are two possible types of danger involved long term leakage and contamination or immediate danger which might result if the chemical is corrosive flammable or explosive must now analyze the chemicals to determine how they should be disposed he said dennis orenshaw regional waste engineer for the department of environ mental resources explained that there are stringent storage regulations for toxic materials without a permit toxic waste cannot legally be stored more than 90 days orenshaw noted that these regu lations are mainly designed for indus trial waste but they are enforced in any situation where there are hazardous materials stored if the chemicals are not considered acutely dangerous there is not as much need for quick dispo sal orenshaw said nunzio said that mudd has been used to store laboratory waste for years nunzio added that because the toxicity level of by lori soderlind francis michelotti lab safety direc tor has warned that chemical waste stored in the seeley g mudd building for more than six months may contain some toxic material michelotti who said the waste has been stored since he started working at the university in august noted that he has been developing a program to test the materials which he said may con tain anything from distilled water to dan gerous chemicals according to joseph nunzio purchas ing agent for the university the chemi cals are waste products of laboratory research because they have been kept in the building in unmarked containers the types of chemicals being stored in mudd are not known the university revised academic calendar up for forum approval today lehigh university brown and white 215 861-4184 bethlehem pa tuesday february 21 1984 vol 95 — no 35 fewer concerts at stabler blamed on overpriced acts tion costs tfie one i feel has gone up the most is the costs of the acts he said my guess is that it costs as much in radio and in newspaper promotions as it costs to rent a building in 1979-1980 there were only two shows , jefferson starship and frank zappa in 1981 there were 16 shows and in 1982 there were 17 shows fritz explained most of the schools in the area average two to three shows a year he added raise price to public one solution is to change ticket prices and charge a lower price for students and a higher price for the public to make up the deficit gordon said the argu ment against this is that stabler isn't a public facility he explained we had six shows planned for this february that should have been ours but another promoter paid more for the act and went to philadelphia gordon said our biggest concern now is that if we see fewer page 4 by suzette stoddard the reason there have been so few con certs at stabler center recently is that the acts are outpricing themselves according to steve gordon 84 student activities council sac concert chairman stabler seats 6,000 but if an act costs 60,000 and tickets are 10 there isn't any money left for production and other costs gordon said it is unfortunate and it's happening to a lot of arenas this size concert acts are costing more money today richard metz director of auxil iary services said acts that played at stabler before now want more money to appear everything has gone up he said there is more than one reason why the concert idustry has diminished in the area according to richard fritz direc tor of events at stabler all of the costs across the board have increased stag ing catering building costs and produc eight days are allotted in the pre ferred calendar link said that the committee wanted to shorten the number of days allotted for finals to less than 10 a period they consider to be sufficient for the tests in both calendars no finals will be scheduled for sunday mornings beginning after labor day would also simplify things for the students participating in the summer session at the university in the past link said students have had to register for summer classes before they knew what they had to take with the earlier starting date students will have ample time to find out what courses they must take based on their grades for the previous semester also cited were complaints regard ing the preferred calendar scheduling of the reading consultation and study rcs period on a weekend see revised page 5 by pete trumbore two proposed calendars for the 1985-86 and 1986-87 academic years will be presented to forum xiv today for discussion and final approval at the meeting of the full forum the preferred calendar which was presented to the forum at its last meeting has classes for the fall semester beginning on sept 4 after labor day the alternate calendar developed after complaints arose over the preferred calendar has classes for the fall scheduled to begin on aug 28 people complained that starting after labor day would make the finals period too tight steve link 85 forum representative to the calendar committee said that was the main consideration in making the alternate calendar nine days are scheduled for final exams in the alternate calendar while get down on it university owns holding cell for students awaiting bail students can not stay in the lock-up owned by bethlehem police for insu rance reasons dax said prior to the establishment of the holding room stu dents were kept in one of the campus police cars until a magistrate could be found the holding room has been used twice since it has been in operation in one case the person had threatened to harm someone with a knife dax said we obviously didn't want to let this person go just because there was no magistrate available at the time the basement in which the holding room now exists has always been used by the campus police department it is an extension of our offices in the university center dax said the room already existed we just needed the permission of the administration to use it in this capacity there were no extra costs incurred in establishing the room rathbone hall was shaking on south moun tain saturday during m&m a-2's hall dance