Brown and White Vol. 97 no. 44

              lehigh university's stabler athletic and convocation center was honored in january by performance magazine as one of the top concert facilities in the country the weekly magazine covers everything from a to z in en tertainment industry news and is considered the foremost reference for the concert touring industry the magazine annually sponsors a convention in january of arena managers promoters agents and talent acts and according to director of events at stabler richard fritz the honors are comparable to the emmys for the touring industry this year's convention announced stabler as the third best concert facility in the 7,000 and under seating category in addition to the honor stabler was featured as the cover story of the jan 31 issue of performance and fritz noted it is not without reason because stabler was the only returning top three see stabler page 8 ■• w photo fey rob stern i ie b students faculty and alumni swarmed on the hill friday afternoon to watch the bed races the event viewed by many as the ultimate in greek week competition was won this year by pi kappa alpha fraternity t he brown and white v01.97 n0.44 ' lehigh university tuesday april 22 1986 bethlehem pennsylvania 215)861-4181 weekend behavior calls into question future greek weeks by elizabeth varga news editor there were too many incidents of inappropriate behavior during greek week in the opinion of dean of students john smeaton such in cidents call into question if this is an event that we want to continue according to campus police reports these occurrences included bottles thrown at passing vehicles vandalism to cars and residence halls noise complaints from bethlehem residents disorderly conduct criminal mischief and assault there were also several altercations between fraternity houses such as broken windows in addition phi gamma delta was offered a citation through the district magistrate's office for open burning in the city of bethlehem according to the report fiji brothers refused to end their traditional bed burning after the races just because something is see smeaton page 8 southern rock artist dicky betts opened for the gregg allman band saturday afternoon on the murray goodman campus of gallagher associate history professor michael baylor senior james bonsell an electrical engineering major industrial engineering department chairman george kane assistant classics professor amy richlin physics professor jeffrey sands economics department chairman robert thornton and associate civil engineering professor richard weisman further details of the proposal will be discussed at the april 30 edpol meeting '• , - of a semester and then brought together for the last one-fourth in a town meeting type forum gallagher commented on the need for the program to reduce student apathy as students we sometimes seem more like tourists than searchers of truth he said as a blueprint of what edpol might do next gallagher recommended the creation of eight new subcommittees on the core program and the eventual implementation of one course on a trial basis the current subcommittee consists edpol considering university common core program perspectives on self nature and society and one town meeting course emphasizing the responsibilities of , citizenship comprise the plan the network courses arc designed to aid students in forming world views gallagher noted that students would be taught not what to think but what to think about we want dialogue and conflict which also serve to develop communications skills he said the town meeting course is designed to create campus involvement students would be divided into small think-tank situations for three-fourths by glenn dolan a core program for the entire university designating common courses for all students is now under consideration after being introduced as part of an april 16 proposal to the educational policy committee ed pol english professor edward gallagher chairman of the eight member subcommittee on the core program is recommending the enactment of a plan which integrates professional and liberal education three network courses emphasizing stabler arena ranks third among concert facilities by jim burke b w photo by rob stern lieb the band performed for the annual greek week picnic where students could relax and recuperate from friday night's parties correction in the april 18 issue vice president for student affairs marsha duncan was quoted out of context regarding her willingness to provide information to josoph henry's attorneys she was actually referring to a reporter(s from the morning call