Brown and White Vol. 98 no. 38

              the brown and white lemigh university bethlehem pennsylvania v01.98 n0.38 friday march 20 1987 215 758-41 81 attack by masked man occurs near lafayette by rich kleban hi owl and whil tuitoi m hwl an attempted sexual assault of an easton woman v . man wearing a black ski mask occurred adjacent to i;iv lafayette college campus late friday night match 6 a .: cording to dean of students john smeaton a memorandum from associate dean of students mark erickson to house presidents and gryphons said the suspect was carrying a knife terrence curran assistant dean of students said the attack was of a similar variety to those on the lehigh campus last fall an unidentified man with the same reported physical characteristics as in previous reports including the black ski mask is sought for 14 recent bethlehem-area incidents ranging from indecent exposure to attempted rape the victim a non-lafayette student was not injured according to smeaton another attack had occurred feb 22 north of the lafayette campus when a suspect with the same description assaulted a female student an investigation of the feb 22 incident is currently under way according to lt carl beers of the easton police beers however would not confirm the march 6 attack saying he wanted to protect the situation and the victim beers said any information in the middle of an in vestigation would be counterproductive he cited articles of clothing specifically ski masks as possible evidence in the case lafayette had no comment on the incident junior stable after car crash by craiq hofsess brown and while ntm wriltr two lehigh students were involved in an automobile and bicycle collision on packer avenue tuesday afternoon leaving one student seriously injured according to bethlehem police junior patrick kelsey was riding his bicycle when he was struck by the automobile thrown onto the hood and hit the windshield and was thrown over the left side of the roof to finally land on the street the car a 1978 saab was being driven by sophomore allison camp 20 of oipson residential college kelsey of 429 montclair avenue was reported to be in critical but stable condition and was still in the intensive care unit at st luke's hospital as of wednesday he is being treated for head in juries a fractured left elbow and a cut on the left side of the neck according to hospital reports according to police reports ( imp was traveling west on packer and intended to turn left into the lehigh entrance at about 3:50 p.m she reported that she did not see the bicycle or rider until her passengei screamed the bicyclist hit the right front of her car witnesses reported the vehicle was moving at a safe speed but could not tell whether the bike was on the street or the sidewalk police said investigations are not yet complete b*w photo by mary ralsf on a student's car sustained a smashed windshield and bent fender after an accident on packer avenue tuesday survey shows women feel unsafe after dark byjoedevito hifwnunti h'hne trm h'mri a recent brown and white poll showed 72 percent of lehigh women only feel safe on campus at night when they are in a group the survey asked 100 male and 100 female students randomly chosen whether or not they feel safe walking on campus at night the poll revealed that students consider the steps behind richards house the road in front of taylor gym and the area between packer memorial chapel and christmas-saucon hall to be areas too dark to walk through at night the survey indicated that almost 17 percent of lehigh women feel they are either adequately trained in self defense or take other precautions to ward off an attack only 11 percent said they never feel completely safe anywhere on campus one student who asked to remain anonymous said although she feels lehigh is not particularly unsafe she admitted to being wary of areas where attacks have already occurred she also said she is scared when she has no one to walk her home the survey also revealed that only 54 percent of the female student body uses the lehigh shuttle despite their fears a complaint by most of those in terviewed found fault in the shuttle's time schedule junior valerie vandigriffi said she uses the shuttle when it shows up but they don't stick to the route they're supposed to follow many of those polled asked about the sophomore escort service which was to be started this year junior jamie sorcher said i'd like to see the service go through — it would be nice o know there's a service on campus you can count on of the man polled only eight percent said they only felt sale in groups and none said they felt unsafe all the time as for the shuttle service only 4.5 percent said they have used it author discusses women's lib by kathy queen brown und while news writer sylvia hewlett author of a lesser life the myth of women's liberation in america lectured wednesday night in neville hall on the problems of parents who try to keep a job while raising children the pulitzer prize nominee said her economic policy council a think tank of which she is the director found that lack of maternity leave meant big financial losses for corporate employers many of the council members found that largely due to family stress their businesses were suffering from low employee morale a high rate of absences and lower productivity we have two-week-olds in day-care and women who have had caesarean sections going back to work in 10 days hewlett said women are afraid of losing their jobs adequate maternity leave provisions and day care would mean savings to employers and society lt costs 3,000 a year to put a child in day care but it costs 35,000 a year to put a teenager in a detention home hewlett said in 1930 women's average salaries were 63 percent that of men's she continued today they are 64 percent we have only come up one percent in 47 years and it may take a thousand years for our salaries to become equal she said women start out as disad vantaged and only become more so when they b&w photo by jim kolberg darren piatt and terri lynn towers chat in the sunshine on a ledge outside linderman library forum xviii announced the following students havt been eiecied forum will representatives fraternity representatives junion sean kelh neal quimer and brian jalazo sophomore jasoi goisis and david rose sorority representatives juniors rachcfa bahu and linda bellanioni residence hall representatives junion kam zilhpen janei pickens ken d andrea david adinan and bruce alpenn sophomores jorge segch ia . n kern henry cheng and sut coven off-campus representatives i union lisa am palazzi elizabeth bnnknuii tennifei levii ant 1 danforih elected on the open seat ballot junioi howard and john utrich sophoma c debbu mauncio camargo jill hoextei allison mack g reich kristin hanssel and marshal . see hewlett page 3