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              nity versus sorority softball game we're going to make the events more strict no cheating or anything like that—it won't be officiated as loosely as it was in the past added ifc president john compton 84 new trophies have also been added to the greek week festivities this year the top four houses at the end of the week will get trophies there are five trophies total may said he added that two trophies will be awarded to the winner one that is per manent and one that will rotate year by year he added that the second third and fourth-place participants will receive one trophy each we're going to provide large trophies whe reas in the past winners received plaques compton said may abrams and compton agreed that there are differences between greek week and spring festival at the university greek week is a competition between fraternities and sororities it includes athletic and skill events in which no one else can compete whereas spring festival is not competitive and involves the whole university may said the purpose of greek week is to recognize the greek way of life the fraternal way of life compton added be stressed more than ever the new structure should work because members by the manner of election will be more accountable to their groups and will be more representative of these groups he said both schulze and mahoney are optim istic about the future of the forum people are interested enough to want to be a part of the forum they seem to be willing to discuss issues and bring them out in the open mahoney said the foundation has been set down this year it is up to us to build on it i think we can do it she added student forum representatives were elected last week by living area indy glick 84 dan levin 84 martha maho ney 84 claudia pacicco 85 patty plympton 85 neil singer 85 and ker ry switzer 85 were elected at large off-campus representatives are molly brown 84 steve link 85 and nina rariden 84 cheryl kuchler 84 will represent the sororities fraternities will be represented by dave bailin 84 brian enslow 84 gary johnson 84 camilo pedraza 84 bob raffo 84 tom wheeler 85 and joe yammarino 85 dallas bradel 85 cheryl relies 84 jeff brotman 85 cynthia craig 84 see mahoney page 7 by kathy goldstein martha mahoney 84 and greg schulze director of intramural athlet ics were named co-chairmen of forum xiv in elections held wednesday at the last forum xiii meeting they will be assisted by secretary treasurer amy hohman 84 and trus tee representatives dave bailin 84 bob raffo 84 donald ryan professor of geology and john wood professor of metallurgy who were also elected on wednesday mahoney listed increasing non-forum member participation closer communi cations with student leaders and mak ing the forum a strong voice representing all campus concerns as her goals as co-chairman both mahoney and schulze said they will try to make sure that the smaller forum with its representative structure is working productively the reduced size will have to be more efficient each person will have to work harder and make more productive use of their time mahoney said it's no secret that with 30 students we'll need a lot more helping hands she added ref erring to the need for outside help from the student body schulze agreed the fact that anyone can work on forum business will have to lehigh university brown and white 215 861-4184 bethlehem pa friday april 22 1983 faculty committee denies tobak tenure appeal vol 94 — no 46 went wrong he said exactly why it went wrong i guess i'm unclear on tobak also said he was not satisfied with the appeal procedures and the actions of the personnel committee i think the appeal committee missed the mark tobak said they allowed the administration to substitute its judg ment for that of the faculty philosophy professor norman mel chert chairman of the faculty person nel committee said that in our judgment there was compelling see appeal page 4 ria used to evaluate faculty effective teaching sound research and scholar ship and services to the university prr states although the administration accepted his qualifications in two of the areas tobak said the department vote was overturned because the administration perceived a deficiency of productivity of scholarship a reason tobak said he does not accept there is no doubt in my mind that there was no compelling rea sons tobak said in my mind it's clear that something by tom dipiazza the faculty appeal committee has supported the administration's decision to overturn a favorable departmental vote and deny tenure to james tobak associate professor of accounting and law i i'm dismayed by the decision tobak said it came as no surprise but it was still a shock tobak had appealed the administra tion's decision to deny him tenure on two grounds first he charged the adminis tration did not properly follow the proce dures in procedures rules and regulations pr&r , which outlines the tenure process second tobak claimed the administration had no compelling reason to overturn the departmental vote the committee failed to sustain the charges according to pr&r the faculty have the major responsibility in determin ing an individual's membership in the faculty and that the administration shall concur with the faculty decision except for compelling reasons these reasons must fall within the three crite edpol recommends plans for decision-making course the education policy committee edpol voted wednesday to require all freshmen in the college of arts and science to take arts and science i the 18 advisers assigned to freshmen will serve as instructors for the course see edpol page 8 fail basis the course will be worth one credit hour and will be required for all freshman arts and science college stu dents instructors for the course which will meet once a week for two hours will be the 18 advisers assigned to freshman frankel said department of psychology chairman william newman who also presented the issue to edpol explained that arts and science 1 would be an important part of the freshman experience because it would primarily serve to make schedul ing and career choices easier newman emphasized that the purpose of the course is to confront the issue of what by lori soderlind the education policy committee edpol has approved of the recommen dation to require all freshman arts and science college students to take a gen eral decision-making course arts and science 1 the plan was presented wednesday to the committee by associate dean of the college of arts and sciences barbara frankel who requested immediate con sideration for the course frankel would like the course to be scheduled for all students enrolled in the college of arts and science entering the university in the fall of 83 according to the course outline arts and science 1 will be offered on a pass ifc plans greek week with several alterations mahoney schulze named as forum xiv co-chairman by beau stacom this year the university's greek week tradition has been altered slightly according to interfraternity council ifc social chairman steve may 84 may said that the alterations will enhance the competition in the events held during greek week he said that the ifc expanded the number of placed positions from five to six and changed the point system so that people who are consistently coming in sixth place during the week still have a chance to win — sixth place still receives a lot of points we're decreasing the point spread between the top teams because in the past it seemed like a couple of houses were always winning shawn abrams 84 said may also said that additional points can be gained by helping cook or clean up at the soror ity dinner and the band party held during the week in addition to altering the point sys tem may said that three new events have been added to greek week activ ities in an effort to further enhance the competitive spirit of the week abrams said that these new events include the greased-pig chase the obstacle course and a frater