Brown and White Vol. 98 no. 8

              apartment at 7 w north st bethlehem baker team investigator frederick mills said that bethlehem police have not finished cataloging all the items they and campus police found in the sept 16 search of the former english department adjunct lecturer's apartment any price estimate at this time would only be speculative mills said but added that a conservative estimate would be 250,000 according to police 12 men took two days to carry all the items out of dawson's apartment nearly 200 cartons of books remain at the apartment and the storage room in the bethlehem police underground garage is almost filled it's just so much that we haven't been able to catalog all of it mills said however he expects police to finish by next week at which time they will release a final estimate of recovered material among the goods found in the apartment still to be cataloged are three suitcases full of jewelry with cameos bracelets a diamond ring and 100-year-old pocket watches sets of tables and chairs lamps a brass coatrack an air conditioner stacks of stereo receivers televisions copying machines and typewriters have also been found mills said police are unsure whether dawson could have carried all the items to the apartment himself although mills said radon testing reveals hazard for 9 students by john fleming the university statement concerning excessive radon levels was released yesterday two weeks overdue and without disclosure of the two campus areas affected names of involved students and locations were withheld to avoid bringing attention to the students according to dean of students john smeaton the delay he explained was the result of the university's efforts to make the nine students living in af fected areas fully apprised of the situation so they could make an in formed decision whether or not to relocate the areas in question were declared in need of remedial action in the form of tempered fresh air exchanges according to the statement released by vice president of academic services ericottervik see radon page 5 todd young 89 lifts jamie sorcher 88 in a cheer during the home football game against colgate b * w photo by heather dunn the brown and white 215)758-4181 bethlehem pennsylvania tuesday september 30 1986 lehigh university checking ids at alpha sig provokes assault arrest stadium site may house arts center v01.98 no.b other suspects are currently being sought in connection with the incident according to the campus police report the incident occurred just after 2 a.m saturday when herwig attempted to ask three people to leave the party because they did not have lehigh identification they returned several minutes later and allegedly assaulted the three brothers with brass knuckles heft was arrested following a foot chase with campus police sergeant rafael perez a date for his hearing has not been set herwig said alpha sigma phi handled saturday's incident the way the university wanted it to because the house checked for identification and called campus police soon after the fighting began dean of students john smeaton commented that fraternities should contact campus police as soon as there is any problem whatsoever bymarygreczyn desk editor three lehigh students were injured early saturday morning during a party at alpha sigma phi fraternity the injured students richard farrell 87 terrence hahn 88 and christopher clark 88 are all brothers at alpha sigma phi the three were treated for head injuries saturday at st luke's hospital and released later that day according to house president richard her wig 87 they had some blows to the head that turned out to be from brass knuckles eugene heft 20 of 5 meixel ave bethlehem is being held on 10,000 cash bail for three counts each of aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person and one count each of possession of a prohibited of fensive weapon and disorderly conduct two estimate of dawson haul rises bydaveleight managing editor police have increased their estimate of the stolen goods in the apartment of thomas todd dawson iv to at least 250,000 in computer equipment alone but the estimate is definitely going to go up also police say some items have been discovered to date back as far as a 1980 robbery within a mile from dawson s by rich rosier the tract of land where taylor stadium now rests may one day house a college of business building and an arts center president peter likins told forum xvii thursday that such a change as well as a dramatic increase in the size of the graduate program — is a possibility with the acquisition of homer laboratories from bethlehem steel corp likins said plans for a business college building and a performing arts center did not fit into possible uses for homer he instead cited dreams that included building a new stadium in the soccer bowl in saucon valley and using current stadium land to construct academic builings two of which could include a business college building and an arts center whatever uses are found for the homer labs complex project costs will not result in tuition hikes likins told students and faculty in his report at the first forum xvii meeting instead lehigh alumni state funds corporate gifts and other funds will help pay for the incurred costs likins said likins described intense speculation across campus recently regarding possible uses of the land he explained that the university knew of bethlehem steel's intent to sell the land in august 1985 with plans to construct interstate 78 through saucon valley lehigh felt it was vital to the school's future to purchase the land and protect the university from possible detrimental development along 1-78 likins said the proposed sale also offered opportunities to double lehigh's size and connect the main and murray h goodman campuses he said likins described the homer complex buildings as grand imposing structures and said they will be used primarily for science and engineering laboratories the college of education may also be moved to the homer complex likins said improved transportation from the main see forum page 3 thomas dawson dawson claims to have carried the items single-handedly it would be amazing if he could do it himself mills said he added that dawson said he would carry items to his apartment in broad daylight acting natural so as not to attract attention dawson has also claimed he did not get rid of any stolen merchandise after he brought it back to his apartment mills said dawson 35 was arraigned friday before district justice james stocklas on eight counts of burglary according to mills dawson was returned to northampton county prison with bail raised to 50,000 according to mills dawson is very smart and has been cooperative with police to the extent of pointing out stolen items in his apartment he's quite a nice fellow caught up in a bad business mills said