Brown and White Vol. 86 no. 30

              lehigh university brown and white mm831 ev.v.ve»x*e4r?am.5 vol 86 — no 30 i:w bethlehem pa friday january 31 1975 saturday classes considered to ease conflicts in scheduling by jane marcin registrar james wagner said he has considered open scheduling and saturday classes as two possibilities that could be used to aid in the scheduling process open scheduling or registration in reverse as wagner termed it is the process of selecting subjects and then receiving a schedule instead of the present method of selecting classes from various times listed on a schedule it's all theoretical at this point we have to cross some bridges first wagner said i am interested in something that will give us more sequences to build schedules on he added wagner said that he could not use the four to six o'clock time period for scheduling because the trustees had vetoed the idea so that the time could be kept an extra-curricular period no one likes evening classes either he added wagner estimated that the proposed changes would reduce conflicts by 14-16 per cent he said that there have been 450 conflicts this year more than twice as many than in any year in the past ten years wagner said that four years ago schedules were drawn up inductively for one semester before it was dropped due to student protest saturday classes were also dropped in 71 the change in scheduling and saturday classes reduced conflicts quite a bit wagner said wagner referred to the growing number of interdisciplinary majors and arts engineers as a primary source of scheduling problems the students curriculum is not set the way it used to be he explained since most lab periods are scheduled from one to four o'clock conflicting arts courses must be scheduled before noon the five-day week of the university also poses scheduling conflicts because many professors do not like the 75-minute periods for tuesday and thursday classes wagner admitted that few schools have saturday classes since nearly all were abolished several years ago he noted that students coming from a five-day week in high school used to expect the six-day college week he referred to a poll of 400 students that curtis clump professor of chemical engineering took several years ago the majority of students polled were in favor of abolishing saturday classes wagner said however that when asked if they would still be in favor of abolishing saturday classes if course options were limited due to restricted scheduling about 80 per cent decided in favor of retaining them wagner said that even now you might find a majority which would support it wagner recalled the university average of the early 1950's which was ap james wagner drop period revisited an attempt to introduce a motion calling for a two-week extension of the course-drop period will be made at monday's faculty meeting it was decided at the tuesday meeting of the forum steering committee the reason for the motion ac cording to chaplain hugh flesher a member of the committee is to allow instructors a more reasonable amount of time before the first examination is given flesher said many courses have not reached a breaking point at the end of the seven-week drop limit the limit was reduced from 12 to seven weeks last may residence halls will consolidate with quay's office this summer by peter menard as of july 1 1975 the residence . halls office will consolidate with the office of the dean of students under william quay preston parr vice president and dean of student affairs said the consolidation will serve to coordinate student ser vices adding the way it is now some problems become unnecessarily jurisdictional quay who will remain dean of students said i think there will be greater coherence in student relations and student personnel after consolidation there will be no dean of residence office an office that was vacated jan 1 1975 when clarence campbell retired after 24 years with the university under the current organization the fraternity management association fma works with the dean of students office quay said the merger would provide a greater sharing of ideas less infighting and maybe some good healthy competition between the fraternities and residence halls quay added that it may help do away with the ideas of superiority or inferiority which the groups may have about each other parr said it's helpful to realize that we have one residence system with two parts fraternities and residence halls he added i hope the type of thing assistant director of residence james tiefenbrunn and director of residence r peter shurtleff have done with the residence halls can be done with fraternities it will be a learning experience for both groups said quay we would have a total residence system he added according to parr the virtue of the residence system has been its one-stop service we hope to retain that he said parr said the switch wui inevitably lead to a more effective use of the two offices lehigh has gone farther than most schools in harmonizing its residence system he added one of the programs which campbell started was the gryphon society parr said he sees retaining the gryphons in the new program and that he would like to give them better links with the counseling service and health service in particular i hope we can strengthen their contact with the academic deans he added parr said that overall i think the gryphons are doing a very good job quay said he feels the gryphons have provided a very valuable service to the university and he hopes the gryphon society will continue to develop new forum to hear report on buics by ed bogucz the legal action committee lac of the forum will report at tuesday's forum meeting on its study of the lehigh county district attorney's report concerning the death of randy bujcs according to gary whitehouse professor of industrial engineering and chairman of the lac in other business dean of students william quay will announce details of a new 24-hour legal counseling service for university students concerning the lac inquiry into the death of randy bujcs whitehouse said that the committee has accepted the district attorney's report and has decided that further investigation is not required a written account of the committee's findings will be available at a later date he said bujcs a university student committed suicide on nov 7 1972 while in lehigh county prison where he was being held on suspicion of being a dealer in dangerous drugs details of bujcs arrest im prisonment and subsequent suicide were presented in the report which the com mittee received in november the lac was originally charged by the forum with investigating allegations that bujcs civil rights were violated during his imprisonment the committee will have fulfilled its original charge with the sub mission of its final report whitehouse said harry dower adjunct professor of law who evaluated the report said i find nothing to criticize in this whole process as far as the law enforcement is concerned i do not think that we can achieve anything more by pursuing it requesting a further investigation he said the lac will also report that it was dissatisfied with the length of time taken by the district attorney's office to file its report whitehouse said however we are very happy with the interest that the university community displayed in the matter over the extended janet scagnelli alleged illegal entrance at fraternity investigated by peter hauser the university is currently in vestigating an alleged illegal entrance and confrontation at kappa sigma fraternity during winter vacation it involved two students and one or more persons dressed in clothing described as dark and uniform-like according to robert reeves assistant dean of students in charge of fraternity affairs the incident reportedly occured bet ween dec 23 and dec 28 at approximately 12:15 a.m during which time the en trances to sayre park had been chained off reeves said one student involved delivered a signed statement to reeves explaining the in cident reeves summarized the statement for the brown and white deleting those portions which he said might hamper the investigation according to reeves the statement said that the student went up to the kappa sigma house on a night shortly after final exams had ended to see two other students whom he believed were staying in the house the time was around 12 p.m reeves said when the student got to the house he found the front door unlocked there was a car sitting in front of the house the automobile didn't appear to belong to anyone who might be in the house the student did not know if anyone was in the house because all the lights were off he entered the house and shouted for his two friends he heard a door slam and the next see dean page 4 see forum page 8 see fraternity page f see wagner page 4