Brown and White Vol. 91 no. 24

              lehigh university brown and white vol 91 — no 24 bethlehem pa tuesday december 4 1979 brodhead house parking situation solutions limited the 80 students at brodhead house with cars have already paid more than 650 in parking fines to the city of bethlehem and the university this semester according to a recent survey brodhead students are very unhappy with their present parking situation the survey revealed residents are restricted to parking only in the graham place lot which is two blocks down on the south side by the city garage according to eric ottervik vice president for administration and planning there are no other alter natives in the short-run increases in energy prices creating budget problems by kathy mangan rising energy costs have already forced the university above this year's budgeted energy increase of 12 percent and they are creating quite a problem for the budget according to john woltjen vice president and treasurer the cost of both natural gas and oil has rigone up about 40 percent since last year according to erik ottervik vice president for administration and planning funds from other areas will be needed to cover the soaring energy costs woltjen said but ottervik says the budget will still be alright and that other funds will not be needed ottervik explained that 260,000 was borrowed in 1978 from the board of trustees for capital improvements to save energy the loan was to be paid back with the money saved on energy over the next three to five years the board will now be i paid back at a slower rate he added weather determines cost it all depends on the weather ot tervik said if it gets cold we could be in big trouble since the end of the fiscal year in july energy costs have gone haywire ottervik said to help overcome this budgeted energy costs will go up,b^y 20 percent next year a total of 1.2 million was spent last year for the university's energy don bergeron assistant director of buildings and grounds said about half of that was spent for electricity and half for oil and natural gas the power house has been using natural 8 v ' mmmmmmzm of oil to since april bergeron said natural gas is about 20 percent cheaper than oil we were told by the government then would be a lot of gas this year he said adding that the gas company approached the university about switching over but energy magazine said the gas company's bubble of gas is beginning to fade oil costlier than gat the first people to be cut off will be the large users bergeron said the switch from gas to oil just entails an adjustment in the boilers but oil's purchase and operation costs are higher because of the soot and the maintenance problems ot tervik said underground tanks hold about 40,000 to 45,000 gallons of oil in reserve in the winter the university burns about 5,000 gallons a day bergeron explained an eight-day reserve of oil is adequate and there are no plans to install any new tanks he added dormitories conserve energy last year 8,400 was saved from november to march in residence halls in the kill-a-watt contest half of the money was given to the residence halls saving the highest percentage of electricity and the program has already begun for this year phyllis errico 80 said the big savings is coming from capital improvements errico said things such as a new heating system in packer chapel light switch timers in classrooms and heat b&w photo by fauntleroy breaking the ice — deming lewis officially opened the new 6,000-seat stabler athletic and convocation center in saucon valley on saturday to his left is donald stabler for whom the center is named dealing's speech must have inspired university teams both the men's varsity basketball and wrestling teams won their home openers of the season .— _.. - • r ~" — mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm fire protection relations strained the following is the third installment of a series of articles dealing with fire safety at the university these stories and the concluding installments in this friday's paper are the result of a three-month investigation by gay elwell jill paul jerry miller and jim morrison . by gay elwell bethlehem firefighters received two fire calls late on the night of april 27 1975 — both from an alarm box in say re park near the phi gamma delta fiji house a masquerade party was in progress at fiji and the natives all over the hill were restless both calls were false alarms t -'.. : -^"\ responding after the first call at 1:36 a.m sunday firefighters were pelted with rocks a ladder truck was damaged in the incident jwffi^sebbb when the second alarm sounded at 2:24 a.m university police were requested to scout the area before firefighters responded despite this precaution assistant chief william story's car was stoned as he entered the area later to reset the alarm box since the 1975 incident it has become standard operating procedure for city fire police and emergency units called to an on-campus emergency to respond to the flagpole in front of the university center from there university police escort them to the scene of the emergency the april 1975 affair may have been the proverbial last straw in already strained relations between the city and the university relations strained by an expanding campus hostile actions of students and a growing belief that the university was not paying for its share of city services - in a may meeting of bethlehem's public safety committee chairman paul calvo served notice that the city would not tolerate anymore incidents of the kind calvo now city council president instructed james harper the university's director of community relations to look into programs designed to prevent further incidents volunteer fire brigade then-fire commissioner joseph trilli asked harper to consider setting up a volunteer fire brigade at use university to a brigade would be used trilli envisioned to determine potential fire hazards on campus and even extinguish minor fires trilli repeated the suggestion before he retired hi 1978 he noted that with increasing university development in saucon valley response time for city fire units — stationed at mcllvaine fire station on lynn avenue was increased in early january of 1978 calvo said he thought the idea of a volunteer fire company made an awful lot of sense " told the brown and white last week that no one ill his office ever considered the plan seriously city solicitor joseph leesoo also told the b&w that he couldn't believe the university would institute such a company noting that firefighters put their life on the line every time they respond to a fire call leeson said legal costs incurred by the university in case of an injury would be enormous city firefighters might earn their whole year's pay fat one night at just one fire leeson said if you asked university solicitor jake kolb he'd probably say no pilot payments as an educational institution the university is exempt from city taxes despite this status city council in uts voted 44 to request the school to make a payment in lieu of taxes called a pilot contribution we're providing this fire protection and lehigh doesn't pay taxes ttpisined city councuwoman dolores caskey she noted that the city never received a nannani from the see students page 7 see tax page t see improvements page 12 ■-■;;:'■ '.- ■■■■■' 1 1f cm £\£^ m nell young review p ♦ new vehicles p.m stickers tourney p»io