Brown and White Vol. 96 no. 32

              t he brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pennsylvania vol 96 — no 32 tuesday february 12 1985 215 861-4181 tissue typhoon b&w photo by rob sternlieb lehigh's first basket against lafayette see story back page resulted in a torrent of toilet paper tossed to the court by the largest crowd ever to attend a home basketball game the crowd participation created a real basketball atmosphere according to head coach tom schneider marijuana by mail results in arrest of lehigh student by karen schoonover news editor a lehigh student was arrested last week on two drug charges and then released after posting 10 percent of a 2,500 bail fee according to district magistrate john gombosi junior brian gara was arrested on charges of possession and possession with intent to deliver marijuana accord ing to police after obtaining a search warrant the intelligence unit of the bethlehem city police department with the aid of the u.s postal inspector disco vered and confiscated a recently post marked package containing one pound of marijuana m gara's off-campus apartment a tentative hearing for the case has been set for feb 15 at 1:30 p.m how ever a delay m results from the police's chemistry lab may render a postpone ment according to gombosi gara refused to comment on the incident astronaut describes space shuttle experiences by martine costello assignments editor before neil armstrong landed on the moon m 1969 nasa was already making decisions on the future of its space programs according to astronaut and lehigh alumnus terry hart who addressed a crowded packard lab auditorium wednesday night hart 68 was a member of the team of astronauts on board the space shuttle challenger who successfully retrieved the damaged solar maximum satellite solar max last april hart operated the shuttle's robot arm to recover solar max which was damaged when its guidance mechanism failed m 1981 according to hart the mission was the first time that nasa demonstrated that repair work was possible on satellites solar max which cost 80 million to build m 1980 would have cost 230 to replace today the cost to repair the satellite was 50 million hart discussed the early origins of the space pro gram m president kennedy's project apollo which began m 1962 the project's goal was to land a man on the moon by the end of the 19605 hart added that 12 men landed on the moon before the program was completed he said that the space program is not without critics who oppose the huge 25 billion expense nasa justifies the program with intangible benefits such as benef its to the economy and advancement m technology he also said increased national pride was important espe cially during the 1960s when the government faced many problems today the shuttle program and the development of a space station program demonstrates tangible benef its such as the vantage point of satellites weightless ness m space and the natural magnetic field around the earth which are important for certain types of experi mentation further he added that the shuttle can carry four satellites and is reusable he noted that debate still continues over the space station program as part of the lecture hart narrated a film of the shuttle's mission m april which shows the five crew members at work or experimenting with weightless ness the film illustrates hart directing the shuttle within 20 feet of the satellites as another crew member used a rocket propelled backpack manned maneuver ing unit mmu to stop solar max's spin then hart placed the satellite m the payload bay by using the robot arm the film also depicts crew members spinning upside down trying to eat a floating banana and experiment ing with the mmus m the payload bay hart also pres ented a series of slides taken from orbit which illustrates certain topographies of the earth such as the sierra madres mountains and the nile river accord ing to hart these photos can be very helpful to meteo rologists geologists and oceanographers another slide depicted the five crewmembers clad m forum picks new ifc rep sophomore marc falato was elected an inter fraternity council representative to forum xv at last week's replacement elections junior diane paton was chosen as an alternate m case any forum member should drop out during the semester according to forum co-chairman jeff brotman candidates for the position gave brief presentations at last week's meeting after which the forum members caucused and then voted duncan sickened by bid day debacle by stuart m silberman i think it's sick said marsha duncan vice president of student affairs comment ing on the four freshmen who required med ical treatment as a result of excessive drinking after pledging fraternities two weekends ago it's a real disappointment to see four freshmen our most vulnerable population be put m a set of circumstances which made it difficult for them not to abuse alcohol she said hazing or not the environment m those houses made it difficult for them not to participate the point is that a lot of people didn't care enough everybody on the hill knows the issues and the problems but it's not enough to know if any fraternity or sorority allows one student to be put m circustances which could be harmful they are neglecting their responsibility regarding the social policy duncan explained that since the gist of the social policy is for students to accept the responsibility of protecting the well-being of their peers it's a real dilemma for all of us not just the administration that stu dents go to the hill and are not taken care of by other students duncan said she had no solution to the problem only the students who live m those houses can make the difference she said that's why the way we're doing it is the best way when you try something new and it's m a dangerous area it's very scary the social policy may not work dun can said but it's not going to be bacause we didn't try everything m our power we'll be as patient as we can be but that probably won't be too patient i don't know how patient i can be if students continue to be hurt according to greek life coordinator mike boyd a lot depends on how the fra ternities respond and how we respond to the social policy . the easiest way is to say it's a complete failure and write it off ' ' the incidents which occurred during pledge weekend he continued demonstrated what happens when students ' decided to become responsible a little too late associate dean of students for residence life mark erickson explained that he has been meeting with the presidents and social chairmen of fraternities gryphons and presidents of residence halls these meet ings are intended to help the students feel comfortable about what social policy is all about the way people respond to various incidents determines where social policy is all about the way people respond to various incidents determines where social policy is going we want people to think about recent incidents if enough failures occur that will indicate that social policy is not working we want to work with the students we want to see this succeed duncan said see hart page 4