Brown and White Vol. 97 no. 14

              forum rates social policy nose for art b4w photo by susan hiestano an unknown connoisseur inspects a display at the international arts festival bazaar the bazaar which took place sunday in the uc featured a multitude of ethnic and international art and culture displays day something awful will happen writing it was the easy step the hard step is proving it intrafraternity council president howard goldstein pointed out that since the social policy is something brand new at lehigh we can't expect a change overnight goldstein said the social policy is not something that can be rated on quantity such as the number of houses serving an alter native beverage the social policy is better measured by the quality of its effect on students focusing on those students who are adhering to the standards and guidelines established in the code in other business thursday the athletic policy ad hoc subcommittee distributed a fact sheet on the present financial aid policies for both athletes and non-athletes according to sub see forum page 8 by alicia orr lehigh s social policy is not particularly satisfactory at the present time tim mayer co-chairman of the forum campus life committee said at last thursday's meeting of the full forum when students go on the hill he said they are risking life and limb the social policy passed last year is based on individual and group responsibility for social behavior according to reports made at thursday's meeting of the 214 parties so far this semester 157 served an alternative beverage although it was usually water and 139 served food mayer said that while this is a positive sign and shows much improvement over last year it doesn't say an awful lot when you see reports of fights and injuries if we don't uphold the social policy mayer continued some by lori soderli n i managing editor editor's note this is the first of a three part series on sdi research research funds made available to universities by the strategic defense initiative a government program better known as star wars has become a controversial issue across the nation with several pre-proposals currently in negotiation the con troversy has struck home at lehigh department of defense dod funded research is certainly nothing new to lehigh where in fiscal 1984 approximately 1.9 million dollars was spent on defense-related research the star wars program is expected to spend 600 million in university research nationwide over the next five years representing the largest increase in dod sponsored university lesearch in more than 20 years more than 1 lehigh faculty members have balanced attack baw pholo fry bill wilson senior roger faison run through the tin during saturday's 16-14 upset win over delaware falcon lad the engineer runners with 65 yards on 12 carries see back page for details scientists must-develop a computer one million times as powerful as the largest now in existence while opponents to the program have called the project ill conceived and impossible kirn said these claims are somewhat silly explaining that science physics in particular is by nature dedicated to exploring the unknown to say that new discoveries that are required for this will not work is to say that you know all about it and i just don't have the pretention to say that kirn said citing nasa's apollo project kirn continued i'm sure there was a lot of opposition to the concept but landing on the moon wasn't really the goal it was a way of rallying the nation into a new frontier a lot of wonderful things happened i have that same kind of view on sdi kirn said it opens new doors for a lot of new inquiries see lu page 9 star wars contracts causing controversy at lu submitted letters o interest or pre-proposals for the available funds according to physics department chairman yong kirn who is among the faculty who have submitted pre-proposals for sdi money the bulk of the research to be done involves detectors which means the work will emphasize optical solid state devices more specifically kirn explained among the star wars project's objectives is to develop a system to track an intercontinental ballistic missile as it approaches a target that means a lot of research is going to be done in many different areas the project also involves tracking devices kirn explained which is essentially fast computers you want to track a moving object which is hundreds of miles away and analyze the orbit through com puters in order for the star wars system to function lehigh social policy subjected to scrutiny see social page 5 by car a tl i rkowsky one year since the new social policy went into effect isn't enough time to tell whether it will succeed according to howard goldstein president of the intrafraternity council there is not a marked change in the atmosphere goldstein commented if there is any change it's in the awareness one you can't see he said he is confident that changes will occur if the student body is given more time to adjust to the new policy the question is goldstein added whether the change will be in favor of the social policy as it stands or a change to stricter regulations we have made progress but theie are still problems with it goldstein said the main problem with the policy is that most people don't understand what the social policy is goldstein pointed out that the students are not sufficiently aware of toe policy for it to be effective for instance jon harvey 88 when asked about the effects of the new social policy said what social policy the brown and white bethlehem pennsylvania tuesday october 29 1985 lehigh university 215 861-4181 vol 97 - no