Brown and White Vol. 90 no. 14

              lehigh university brown and white yol m — ne 14 bethlehem pa thursday october ». iwi snoozing master and fido curled up to read and sleep on the lawn this week taking advantage of the indian summer weather soon the snow will fly 84.w f^cto by heh*y four erac slots filled by gag price elections four slots on the employee relations advisory committee erac were filled with an election oct 20 chosen for the secretarial-clerical representatives were debbie sacarakis chaplain's office marie young school of education betty miller college of arts and science and debbie petruno office of admissions each of the four winners had presented her views on what she would do if elected prior to the election sacarakis stressed that she would like to encourage people to make support of the elected candidates an on-going process for any person elected to be a repre sentative the support staff will have to share the charge by snowing continued interest m the work of the committee she said young concentrated on what she con sidered the three major concerns needing attention she listed these as a salary closer m comparison to other institutions m the area the need for more promotion opportunities for secretaries and a better system of faculty-staff communication miller said the first thing to do is to make communication between supervisor and support staff better and more open better wages compensation and a better working atmosphere are petruno's main concerns she said m her position paper closed fraternity parties return by ebkshbkknson women guests may be present m residence halls and fraternity houses only at group social affairs when chaperones are present and petitions have been of ficially approved according to the university handbook hours set for visitation are monday friday noon to midnight saturday 10 a.m to midnight and sunday 11 a.m to midnight pf i mlhim is for commons rooms oniy the handbook siaies roruinaieiy for most students ihe '— ifcnnfr is dated 1966-c7 prior to the university's move to co-education m 1971 strict regulations governed the residence halls and fraternities since m 1966 fraternities were as they are now the mainstay of campus social hie the university regulations put a damper on what would now be considered a good party weekend despite the lack of strict regulations now a move toward the closed parties of past years may be starting a larger number of closed parties those open only to brothers and friends were evident prior to 1970 according to william quay dean of students when the majority of social regulations were eliminated m 1970 ihe number of open parties grew he said in a recent lehigh horizons in terview quay indicated that the closed party mi pit be renewing its popularity within the fraternity system some fraternities are saying why should we provide a free b*er tap for the whole campus every saturday night " quay said in the late 60s freshmen were allowed to make a trip onto ihe hiii to parry oniy by official university permission upper ciassmen were permitted to avail them selves of all weekend festivities without special request __ petitions for social events were leusiied of undergraduate groups for all events to be held on or off campus the petitions were to be submitted one week m advance of the event for approval by the office of the dean of studeat life parties approves by the university were to terminate no later than 2 a.m at which time the serving of refreshments would end and guests were required to leave most students have experienced the open parties which occur every weekend during the school year all that is required is a nod from the brothers of a house the tap of a keg and a party is underway until 1970 however unless petitions were filed by fraternities only four parties during the year were officially sanctioned by the university lafay tte weekend fal snd spri houseparties and greek week were the four major party activities quay ex plained most of the restrictive regulations governing fraternities were aboiished by arcauift the porutt's pmdemmqr dttrisg its 1970 sessions m anticipation of the coed switch the following year hershel doney nasi stint to the dean of students said he has noticed that some houses are moving toward closed parties when it comes to rush id order to get to know the freshmen better cocktail parties and parties with other fraternities or sororities seem to have increased also he noted sororities have less roam for large parties and have necessarily had to limit themselves to smaller ones dorney said while dorney said he feds a change residence head lee quits accepts position at usc by jerry miller david lee director of the university's residence operations office will resign effective tuesday lee tola the brown and white last week that he has accepted an offer to become director of residence halls at the university of southern california usc m los angeles i'm going home to my roots lee explained a native of san diego lee stressed that he is leaving the university primarily because 1 want to live and work m southern california he said he has no quarrels with the university the job offer lee said came after an interview with usc administrators m los angeles two weeks ago an advertisement for the position ran m the chronicle of higher education during the summer he explained i've been looking for something like this for a while now he said lee will leave bethlehem this weekend his duties at usc begin next week he noted his wife and he have placed their bethlehem home up for sale and are looking for a house m california i'm scared to death frightened and elated all at the same time lee said noting that usc currently houses nearly 5,000 students m its residence halls system a job notice for the position of director of residence operations will be circulating soon lee said noting that robert reeves assistant dean of students has known for a long time that lee was considering the california job reeves and barbara kreppel assistant director of residence operations will handle the day-to-day affairs of the office until a new dintetor is named he added lee said ms successor should have a good understanding of student affairs and possess knowledge of the business operations of the residence operations office lee became director of the reaktant operations office at the university ia october 1975 prior to working at the university he served as housing coor dinator for brandeis university he also worked m student affairs and housing at michigan state university and the university of california david lee lee expresses mixed feelings about move west by peg pfenninger for perhaps the first time m his career at the university david lee was stapling flyers and liking it the residence operations director spent more than an hour last tuesday preparing flyers that said gigantic yard sale we are moving everything must go on oct 31 the day his resignation takes effect lee will begin packing whatever he dzd not seii and set off for his new job as head of the university of sf wrt hn n california's 5,000-bed residence system while outwardly gleeful with the prospects of moving out west wfeere sty roots are lee said there are several reoauns why hfc » aiixiooi warfy te leave the university lou of thing tore suliextit ■*."■» said the university g only r igisirg to use a new -««— g system tiaat wtm have a great impart on reatonsoe hub also i just got me ball roiling oa ces puteiiiation of the residence s el ■■ i isert of hate to leave those prijicei usdes see fraternities page 11 bse lee page 12 inside future enrollment p 4 vlc budget p 5 stargazing p 10 double feature p 15