Brown and White Vol. 96 no. 35

              th e brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pennsylvania 215 861-4181 vol 96 — no 35 tuesday february 26 1985 weathermen b&w photo by sue knippenberq even if winter has only taken a little break lehigh students met the spring like conditions with open arms not to mention open shirts and bare feet but don't worry this balmy weather will be gone soon paving the way for a few more weeks of marvelous if frigid conditions ijc finds beta guilty bymarkheinze at a closed meeting of the interfraternity judicial committee uc yesterday beta theta pi fraternity was found guilty of violating the university social policy and recklessly endangering one of their pledges on bid day jan 26 the decision was the last of four cases decided by the uc this month concerning bid day incidents which sent four pledges to st luke's hospital for excessive alcohol consumption last week sigma alpha mu sigma phi epsilon and lambda chi alpha fraternities were brought before the committee and found guilty of the same charges in the decisions sammy was placed on disciplinary probation lambda chi was ordered to make a presentation to the in terfraternity council ifc on greek week and bid day accident prevention and sig ep must draft an alcohol awareness letter for distribution throughout the greek system as part of yesterday's decision the uc decided that beta must sponsor three non-alcohol related social functions with their pledges once this semester and twice next fall the events will be organized with coordinator of greek affairs mike boyd our objective said uc chairman gary pan is to use this situation positively in order to make the entire campus aware of the potential problems that lehigh's social atmosphere can have and how the fraternities plan to prevent them in the future women speak about experience in el salvador by janis barney if united states citizens in el salvador are harrassed at gunpoint right in front of the u.s embassy what can be happening to salvadorans elsewhere 0 so wondered donna cooper part of a delegation of 34 women who traveled to el salvador in december to com memorate the fourth anniversary of the murders of four u.s chur ch women the ml 6 rifles aimed at the delegation were held by u.s embassy security guards who demanded that they turn over film of a demonstration which they had participated in earlier that day cooper said cooper and angela berryman were at sinclair aud thurs night to speak about their trip which they took to be in solidarity with the mothers of the missing and disappeared in el salvador madres members of the madres traveled at night on the very road which the churchwomen had been killed to meet the u.s delegation at the airport that took courage cooper told the audience of about 45 it opened our eyes to what we were coming into the madres have come together to demand that their disappeared family members be returned to them explained cooper the staff organizer for the central american organizing project their main agenda is the location of the disappeared they demand that political prisoners be released and the killings be stopped cooper said they support peace with justice all members had tragic stories to tell and seemed to have the attitude that if i tell you what's going on here you can tell the world cooper said she recalled one woman who described how she was pulled by the hair out to the fields to watch her brother be killed his crime was that he was a catechism teacher they made her watch them cut off her brother's fingers toes genitals and nose and then hung him in a tree to bleed to death other women told stories of how their husbands or sons were killed they can't do much but they can tell their stories cooper said berryman director of the human rights desk for american friends service committee observed that it was good experience to be in the country with women who have to stand up to persecution daily members of the madres tried to go to the u.s to receive the robert f kennedy human rights award but were denied visas by the u.s embassy who called them subversives berryman noted denying visas made them more of a target to the death squads she said cooper found it particularly ironic that the head of the death squads was given a visa the very same week the delegation brought the matter to the u.s embassy so you're sub versive if you demonstrate they said the response from the women at the human rights desk was you know you're not in peoria the delegation took that as a yes berry man said everywhere they traveled in el salvador the women said they saw beige chevy vans carrying men with m 16 rifles the death squads they're very obvious — people know where they are and who they are cooper said cooper and berryman were con cerned about the air bombings that they say occur an average of one and a half times per day in el salvador if people are living in conflictive areas they are subversives not unarmed civilians and are targets for the bombs berryman said calling themselves the voice of the voiceless they argue that only one quarter of the u.s aid to el salvador goes for humanitarian purpose and that all military aid should be cut off the nature of the war has changed as more sophisticated military equipment is being sent berryman said she explained that the delegation tried to communicate to the embassy that they were aware of these changes and they did not approve nader to discuss consumer issues consumer activist ralph nader will speak on consumer issues of the 1980s wed march 6 at 8 p.m in packard lab auditorium his appearance is sponsored by lehigh's visiting lecturers committee free tickets for his talk will be available today and tomorrow by calling the dean of students office at 861-4158 reserved tickets will be held at the door march 6 until 7:45 p.m after that time anyone even those without tickets will be allowed to enter the auditorium nader first made headlines in 1965 with his book unsafe at any speed which attacked the automobile industry for producing unsafe vehicles he has since been responsible for at least six major federal consumer protection laws for the recall of defective motor vehicles and other advances in the areas of safety sanitation pollution control advertising credibility and political-economic power nader has built a national network of citizen action groups that work on issues ranging from tax reform to nuclear energy he argues that it is time for the consumer movement to advance from ad hoc reforms to structural economic change and new forms of consumer organizations ralph nader . . . coming march 6