Brown and White Vol. 94 no. 21

              lehigh university brown and white vol 94 — no 21 215)861-4184 bethlehem pa tuesday november 16 1982 likins rejects ifc social-regulation changes by jim creedon university president peter likins has rejected the interfraternity council's ifc petition for changes m the social reg ulations according to neal colligan 83 president of the ifc colligan said likins expressed his opposition to the ifc attempting to over step the forum's jurisdiction with its petition according to colligan likins felt that the forum is the proper vehicle for implementing and approving changes m the social regulations the ifc m a letter to likins dated oct 25 requested three changes m the regu lations these included the extension of weekend parties until 3 a.m the exten sion of pub nights to a three-hour limit with a closing time of 2 a.m and the elimination of the food requirement at parties likins expressed his desire that there be no written formal social regulations rather there should exist an unwritten code of conduct for fraternities colli gan said according to colligan likins sees no changes m the regulation's for at least the next two years likins added that the regulations will be m effect until they are no longer needed colligan said colligan admitted disappointment at the decision and remarked we think the year-and-a-half of good behavior was long enough to prove that we are respon sible he criticized likins idea of a code of conduct noting that it is good m theory but tough m practice the next step according to colligan will be to go to the house presidents at the next ifc meeting and see what they want to do we can obey the regulations or we can continue to try to reform them colligan added donald ryan professor of geology and co-chairman of forum xiii said that he would hope that the ifc and the forum can sit down together and see what we can iron out he added that he hoped that better communication could be developed between the ifc and the forum so that no one would attempt to bypass the forum m the future ryan said that the ifc would be mak ing a dreadful mistake if it would try to implement any of the changes on its own in its letter the ifc said we feel that the fraternities have demonstrated their responsibility to adhere to social regula tions and good behavior fewer than five percent of all registered parties have resulted m violations the letter was signed by the ifc executive council likins could not be reached for comment b&w photo by bret t lazari neal colligan hand signal outside linebacker doug pearson 84 signs his auto graph on the hand of a young fan during saturday's 25-7 win over east stroudsburg state college see story page 16 b&w photo by hob wosstuchi pell grant recipients to receive more money by gregg merksamer although fewer university students were awarded pell grants this year com pared to last those that have received them will soon see their awards increased according to wayne smeigh associate director of financial aid the pell grant named after the rhode island senator that first sponsored the program is the basic grant of a univer sity financial aid package derived from a number of different sources such as endowed or state scholarships and uni versity or government loans smeigh stated that the reason for the increase is president reagan's oct 12 signing of the student assistance techni cal amendments of 1982 which enabled the department of education to finalize the pell payments schedule prior to that smeigh added we had been using a schedule that had been authorized by congress based on less money being allocated due to cuts m fed eral funding for student programs the schedule which congress formu lates annually is based on two factors the cost of education at the institution and an index number based on the ability of the student's family to contribute to that cost " smeigh said with this increase to the program he added the yearly pell grants increased by 126 from 1,674 to 1,800 for the maxi mum award and 9 from 126 t0 135 for the smallest because of the lateness m imple menting this increse m these awards we have taken the increase and added it to the spring semester smeigh said for example instead of splitting the 9 increase for the smallest award evenly between semesters the student will receive 63 m the fall and 72 m the spring a total of 135 he explained smeigh added that students eligible for the pell grant will be receiving a revised award letter from the financial aid office and this will reflect the increase m their pell award for the year undergraduate financial aid direc tor william stanford confirmed only about 340 students are eligible for pell grants this year compared to 580 last year and stated the number of recip ients could decrease further stanford explained that when the pell grant pro gram first started m 1973 it was targeted for the lowest income students students from middle-income families became eligible for pell grants m 1978 with the passage of the middle income student sac concert duties split work becomes too much by andy lehren the responsibilities of student activi ties council sac concert chairman have been split on an experimental basis according to roger watkins assistant dean of students steve gordon 85 assistant concert chairman is now m charge of relations with area promoters and bringing smaller concerts to the university he added jon lewis 84 concert chairman is handling security and production " watkins stated he said that the move was made because the role of the concert chairman has grown so large m recent years jon was having problems . . . things were happening around him and he was not having total control . . . jon was getting overwhelmed with concerts and school work ... he was getting swamped and things slipped through watkins said the decision was reached two-and-a half weeks ago at a meeting between sac president david dender lewis and watkins dender could not be reached for comment watkins added that the move was made partly because of recent prob lems with the production end he cited two instances where there was confu sion . . . with makoul productions which sponsored the recent aerosmith concert at stabler arena and with mr charlie security survey reveals age split in female attitudes concerning safety by darren maloney the freshman class has the lowest per centage of females who feel unsafe on campus according to results of a women's security survey conducted recently by the forum xiii administra tion committee's subcomittee on secur ity and lighting i'm no psych major or anything but the results of the survey do show that the longer you've been at lehigh the more scared you are and the more precautions you take according to subcommittee member dave bailin 84 subcommittee co-chairman sarita singh 86 echoed this statement the survey results showed that more upper classmen are scared than lower class men she said out of the 1,200 surveys distributed 352 seniors answered yes compared with 47 percent of the freshmen 84 percent of the juniors and 56 percent of the sophomores some of the safety problems cited by the women were poor lighting the steps by the newman center drunken frater nity brothers townies hidden paths were answered and submitted to the question how safe do you feel on campus especially after dark 2b percent of the seniors said they felt unsafe or scared whereas only 18 percent of the freshmen answered the same of the juniors 35 percent answered this way as did 23 percent of the sophomores to are you aware of any safety prob lems on campus b4 percent of the seniors answered yes compared with 47 percent of freshmen 84 percent of jun iors and 56 percent of sophomores see concert page 9 see fewer page 7 see security page 6