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              registrar and notified the students when one of them still had a final left anybody can add numbers . there was nothing chancey about it the lot tery ," said mark molnar 86 one of the students forced to move it being a lot tery isn't exactly truthful a lottery denotes chance the intent of it was obvious to get rid of the sophomores and those four in particular according to nick kachur 86 one of the students originally designated to leave the lottery as it was established at an open hall meeting was biased against him and his roommates he attributes this to personality conflict since the beginning of the year we didn't get along with the other people on the hall we to medical considerations according to university officials one of the students could not be moved or separated from his roommates because the stress could aggravate his medical condition as a result the other five sophomores had to vacate their room kachur said that they found out they would not be leaving two days after the hall meeting when mark erikson assist ant dean of residence life told them about the medical consideration according to erikson the five students were not notified till several days later when they would be finished with finals however erikson said he apparently received wrong information from the by peter trumbore bob guth 85 brodhead 2 hall presi dent has denied claims that the lottery to determine who would leave brodhead house in order to make room for return ing handicapped student ken barner 86 was biased he said the original selection of four sophomores was the logical choice rather than a conspiracy the lottery was based on a point sys tem with four points for seniors three points for juniors and two points for sophomores at the time of the lottery there were only nine sophomores on the second floor in two different rooms the four students originally selected to leave ended up staying in their room due pledging allegiance ib&w photo by john treichler b&w photo by john treichler saturday was the big day for university men and left celebrating their acceptance at a pledge party women as fraternities and sororities posted pledge saturday night nearly 360 men and 105 women bids at right fraternity pledges are shown picking up pledged see story page 3 bids in rathbone hall sorority pledges are pictured at bethlehem pa tuesday january 31 1984 lehigh university brown and white vol 95 — no 29 215 861-4184 salary boosts new expenses raise tuition by gene marks increases in faculty salaries will play a part in the tuition increase for the coming 84-'b5 school year according to university president peter likins salaries are the biggest part of the budget likins explained we have a higher paid faculty than most the university spends approxi mately 54.1 percent of its unres tricted educational general budget on academics and aca demic support which includes salaries paid to faculty and staff as well as other expenses for fringe benefits and supplies tuition is the primary source of this budget according to john woltjen univer sity vice president and treasurer see rising page 7 1 00,000 damage caused by fire by darren maloney a fire causing an estimated 100,000 in damages and the evacuation of the approximate 300 students of mcclintic marshall house m&m broke out early monday morning according to bethle hem fire marshal william reinhard no one was injured in the 4:34 a.m one-alarm fire which broke out in the lounge in the northeast corner on the a section of the 27-year-old building and probably was started by a cigarette in a piece of furniture he said reinhard said the fire was brought under control well within an hour he added that university officials were given a stern warning fora chained shut emergency exit door on the north side of the building this morning he said that the explana tion of the cause would probably warrant no further investigation however uni versity officials are checking on the alarm system which was reported by students to quit after a few minutes barbara kreppel director of resi dence operations resops . said the fire charred the lounge area furniture walls and ceiling and caused smoke damage to rooms down an adjacent hallway and up the stairwell she added that the flames were mainly confined to the front of the lounge and that the heavy black soot stopped at the fire door at the end of the hallway near the main entrance physical plant director paul miller said the lounge will be closed from a month to six weeks for repairs while the clean-up of the stairwell was scheduled to start today miller added that the stu dents rooms were only affected by light smoke several gryphons account of the inci dent reveal that the alarm sounded for only about three minutes despite the short alarm all were evacuated from the building until about 7 a.m according to tom grycan 85 gryphon of hall a-l students spent those couple of hours in fraternities other residence halls and the health center he said grycan said he was awakened by the alarm to see a light film of smoke in his room he went out in the hall and saw that the smoke was thicker by the cracks in the stairwell door then see fire page 3 worked his way down the hall to make sure at least one person was awake in each room when i was a third of the way down the hall the alarm stopped he said other gryphons throughout the build ing followed suit and some reported that when the alarm stopped some of the stu dents paused thinking that it was only a drill or a false alarm william cook 86 gryphon of b-l said he was awake studying and saw flames through the lounge windows i had enough time to throw on pants and coat and step out in the hall then the alarm stopped he said kreppel said the possibility of mechan ical failure is being investigated according to kreppel the pull alarms were tested later monday morning and worked perfectly she added that all pull stations of every alarm in the resi dence halls are checked at the beginning of each month there is a boiler room where the alarm can be turned off but that door was found locked when the police arrived kreppel said brodhead residents deny bias lottery conspiracy were like newcomers outsiders the sophomores at the meeting pro tested later but to no avail john schneider 86 another student forced to leave said if everyone is against you protests aren't going to work he added kachur said that he would not call what took place a conspiracy but did say that there was a definite opposition to his room everyone knew who was leaving before the meeting began according to andrew fish 86 one of kachur's roommates the lottery was unfair it was obvious which room would get kicked out they definitely wanted us to leave they were the logical choice simply see hall page 7