Brown and White Vol. 98 no. 47

              delta phi fraternity has been placed on disciplinary probation due to a march 26 incident at their house ac cording to bob cole vice president of delta phi a guest of a brother threw a firecracker which hit the roof of the house and then landed on a pizza house delivery man said delta phi president mike polito the delivery man was reportedly burned on the face but has not pressed charges according to dean of students john smeaton the pizza delivery man who has only been identified ah craig refused to comment saying that campus police instructed him to stay quiet until all the information had been gathered impressive place for salesmen to take customers said strohmeyer however the full potential of the labs never really materialized because bethlehem steel spent more time refining existing products rather than pursuing new technological break throughs in his book strohmeyer states the new labs did improve the product mix but did not produce the spec tacular results such a massive investment of money should have provided by alicia orr brown and white news writer think globally arts dean says when the bethlehem steel corporation dedicated homer research labs in october 1961 the company planned to use the facility to make the processes more efficient and improve the steel products said henry von spreckelsen spokesman for bethlehem steel more than 25 years later the company was still using homer labs for the original purpose however while there were once 800 employees bethlehem steel never used homer labs the way they should have john strohmeyer author crisis in bethlehem working at the facility by the time the facility was sold to lehigh there were less than 250 employees in selling homer labs our aim was to improve liquidity by selling off assets which were underutilized explains von spreckelsen our business development people felt the 18,75 million was a reasonable price considering who we were selling it to and for what purpose while bethlehem steel retained three of the eight buildings at homer research labs von spreckelsen says the company no longer needed the entire facility a number of our research people were transferred from the homer facility to the actual plants in an effort to improve processes he explains built in the early 60s homer labs was to be used for the purpose of improving existing products and processes and the development of new products and processes according to a 1961 press release from bethlehem steel at the dedication on october 9 1961 the cost of building the facility was quoted at approximately 25 million twenty-five years later lehigh purchased five of the eight buildings for a mere 18.75 million lehigh got a good deal considering what the replacement costs would be to build a similar facility asserts john strohmeyer joseph b mcfadden professor of journalism for the 1986-87 academic year and author of crisis in bethlehem big steel's struggle to survive which describes the rise and fall of bethehem steel according to strohmeyer bethlehem steel never used homer labs the way they should have it was a great see conference page 7 by eoin callan brown unit while new writer about 325 faculty members and business men and women and 150 undergraduate and graduate students attended the all-day con ference on international competitiveness at lehigh last friday according to lehigh's office of public information nineteen government and industry leaders discussed problems faced by u.s businesses in the international marketplace and the key role higher education can play in u.s global competitiveness by developing curricula em phasizing foreign languages and cultures manufacturing productivity technology transfer entrpreneurial skills business ethics and communications competitiveness is a vague term president peter likins said which i define as anthony h wallace of the department of state b*w photo by jim kolberg henry convicted of clery murder faces life term or electric chair t he brown and white by brian cooke brown and white news editor former lehigh student josoph henry was convicted saturday night of first-degree murder and other charges related to the death of freshman jeanne clery on april 5 1986 after seven days of testimony the seven-man five woman jury from lancaster county deliberated for two hours and 15 minutes before reaching a decision at 7:40 henry faces either death by electric chair or life imprisonment the only penalties allowed for the crime in pennsylvania the jury began proceedings to decide the penalty yesterday morning this phase of his trial is expected to end tomorrow the prosecution seeks the death penalty saying that clery was tortured and killed by henry in conjunction with other felonies to prevent her from identifying him as the man who burglarized her room clery 19 was bitten raped sodomized and beaten by henry in her stoughton house room before she was killed by manual strangulation in addition to first-degree murder the 21 year-old from newark n.j was convicted of rape involuntary deviate sexual intercourse indecent assault aggravated assault burglary robbery theft and receiving stolen property northampton county judge michael franciosa rejected the defense's insanity plea friday on grounds that they had not provided sufficient evidence henry's attorney j michael farrell asked the jury in his closing arguments saturday for a verdict of murder in the second degree — which will send mr henry to jail for the rest of his life a verdict of second-degree murder is given for killing incidental to a felony when the intent to kill does not exist farrell explained that a verdict of murder in the first degree is given for the highest level of criminal intent known to the law therefore farrell said the defense does not depend on the act it depends on the state of mind of the defendant farrell said henry did not have the intent to kill because he was victimized by intoxication which triggered an inherent pathological condition farrell said the rare disorder idiosyncratic alcohol intoxication behavior was also possessed by henry's father and other relatives according to farrell during high school henry was a young black man who had a dream to go to lehigh overweight studious a plugger he brought his pathological condition with him to lehigh to an atmosphere where an integral part of the social life is the use of alcohol " farrell maintained that henry's drinking before the incident changed him from mild-mannered to aggressive and and homicidal and resulted in gaps in his memory during see verdict page 4 josoph henry is escorted from northampton county prison by sheriff's deputy fred reinhardt bethlehem pennsylvania tuesday april 28 1987 lehigh university lu gets bargain in homer deal v 01.98 n0.47 215)758-4181 delta phi on probation for firecracker incident byamyhocart brown and while news writer