Brown and White Vol. 92 no. 35

              lehigh university brown and white 215 861-4184 vol 92 - no 35 bethlehem pa tuesday february 24 1981 district attorney may file charges against bradshaw by michele gerencher the northampton county district attorney's office will decide in the near future whether to file escape charges against lawrence bradshaw bradshaw fled from the allentown state hospital feb 9 assistant district attorney domenic sbrocchi will meet with officials and lehigh county authorities before deter mining if escape charges should be filed against bradshaw the request tora rein dot bradshaw s original case was denied feb 11 two days following his escape according to chester reybitz bradshaw's attorney evidently after bradshaw absconded from our jurisdiction the wheels ol jus lice stalled turning faster reybitz said about eight months lias elapsed since bradshaw's june 12 conviction and the request for retrial but reybitz said such a wait is not unusual bradshaw in the custody of the new york police department since he was apprehended feb 10 was extradited back lo the area last wednesday night and committed to northampton county prison the next day according to the northampton county district attorney s office reybitz said he still does not know the details of bradshaw's escape i don't know what happened he said i'm waiting until he returns to get the story first-hand bradshaw's motion for retrial eon tended that reybitz did not have suffi cient time to prepare the defense after die lirsl attorney handling the case was called away on military duty reybitz had only two days in prepare and was able to call only one witness bradshaw had ihe right to postpone the trial alter goodwill tb&w photo by kfinci delta phi vice president pete bracken x2 talks with two of 22 senior citizen women from the fred b rooney building in bethle hem the fraternity invited the women for a valentine's day chicken dinner last week as part of its community relations efforts rhc committee reviews proposed government by andy lehren the voting privileges of campus mot ivaling groups in the concerned stu dents coalition's proposed student government association constitution were questioned yesterday by residence ll ills council representatives in a meet ing with the coalition ',:!' m tup a three member committee i review the first draft of the proposed constitution aside from asking for clari fication on many issues the committee questioned the reasoning for allowing motivating groups such as ihe student activities council interfraternity coun cil and rhc to each have a voteequalto those groups represented hy a person elected by residence to create an effective student government the motivating groups can nul be included in the constitution because the power struggle between these groups would be brought within the government said rich schlauch 82 a member of the rhc committee however pete fioretti 82 an origi nator of the csc proposal said the groups should be given a vote without the motivating groups the student government will lose power prestige and the ability for quick action he said schlauch also noted the difficulty of defining what constitutes a motivating group we could define who they were he said but we could not define what constitutes a motivating group fioretti said that such a problem will be worked on before the next draft is presented and that the ultimate defini tion of an organization as a motivating group would rest on the approval of the student government as a whole the other organizations that will be given voting privileges under the pro posed constitution include the gryphon society the panhellenic council the black students union and representa tive groups for graduate and off-campus students according to the current proposal the heads of those groups would receive an automatic seat on the government along with 34 other representatives elected by residence the proposal currently fixes roughly one representative for every 150 students john maloney 82 chairman of the rhc committee pointed out the rare possibility of a conflict of interest if the off-campus representative is also a fra ternity member and an issue arises which separates ihe two groups he idded mi ! r preventatives can p recalled by their constituents if prob lems result maloney also said too much authority was given to the president since he or she could make appointments and form committees without sga approval the coalition and the rhc committee agreed to change those points and gave the sga president the power only to recom mend to ihe student government those issues wording problems along with the rest of the rhc committee's suggestions will be considered according to chip delaney 81 coordinator of the coali tion poetree iß&w i • we thought that we could never see saucon valley through a tree hut this steel tree offers a unique view number of interviews up 1 5 percent by karen koch according to eugene seeloff director of placement services al the university the number of job interviews for seniors is running about 15 percent above what it was last year which should yield a total of approximately 9.400 student/em ployer interviews for the year this is phenomenal tor i school our size he said lynn novick assistant director stated there are approximately 800 stu dents registered with the placmeenl ser vices as of the 58th day of interviews over 8.000 interviews have been given she said as of the 58th day last year we only had 6.976 interviews she added job offers according to novick there have been 236 actual job offers given to seniors and 21 offers to graduate students she added that there could be more not yet known and that a final tally is not possible until the end of the year seeloff attributes the placement servi ces success to student interest employer interest and our ability to manage the two seeloff said for two-thirds of the senior class demands are high with engineers accountants and computer oriehted jobs being the top three interviews abby schultz 81 an accounting major has had seven interviews received two offers and has accepted a job with price waterhouse and co the service was very efficient and helpful she said electrical engineering major chris jones 81 who had 25 interviews in five weeks said it takes up a tremendous amount of time but it's worth it you put your suit on walk down to christmas saucon spend about a half-hour reading up on the company take the interview and leave jones said he has been recommended for plant trips about 15 times and before he makes decisions about any offers he considers growth possibilities with the company chip delaney 81 an accounting and english double major has had seven interviews and is also looking for jobs on his own he called the service well organized the only possible flaw in the system he said is that we're one of few schools which hands over a full transcript at the first interview he explained that the transcript lists all grades so if you have a few had grades companies can see it immediately . " accounting major mike gordon 81 said placement is a good service and very convenient it's easier than looking through want 1 ads of the new york times placement services have had a suc cessful year but seeloff reminded just because someone has an accounting degree or an engineering degree doesn't mean they have a job employers don't hire degrees they hire people seeloff concluded tau epsilon phi fraternity was incorrectly identified in two stories in friday's brown and white in a news story on page 1 and an editor ial on page 2 tep was incorrectly identified as tau epsilon pi the b&w regrets the errors see court page k