Brown and White Vol. 99 no. 20

              the brown and white rsity bethlehem pennsylvania v 01.98 n0.20 215)758-4181 friday november 20 1987 forces readied for crowds by nick chini brown and white news writer lehigh security and administration are gearing up for the sell-out crowd to converge on taylor stadium tomorrow by increasing security and using additional screening inside taylor stadium for alcohol consumption as well as outside the gates for intoxicated students assistant dean of students michael boyd said lehigh has become a well-oiled mach ine and can handle the weekend with some regularity there will be few differences this year compared to previous years we'll have a sell-out crowd with more police than a regular game seventy city police and 11 campus police will be m and outside of the stadium boyd said bethlehem police will respond to tailgating on city streets but will not otherwise regulate alcohol other restrictions will also be m effect including the prohibition of alcohol consump tion m the stadium ushers staff and police will be screening heavily m the stadium associate dean of students mark erickson said no one will be permitted to re-enter the stadium after leaving there will be heavy screening at the gates of the stadium this year to prevent anyone who appears intoxicated from entering boyd said the more sober the students are the smaller the chance is of anyone getting hurt the most important concern arc fights breaking out during the game and once the game is over boyd said police will do what they can to prevent even the smallest skirmish from arising we are concerned about fights breaking out between the stadium and buses once the game is over boyd said lafayette buses will be well out of the path of lehigh students once out of the stadium lafayette students will go one way to their buses and lehigh students will go the other way hill access is limited brothers were asked to park their cars on lower campus to allow parking for alumni special passes will allow alumni access onto the hill erickson said the lehigh-lafayette student committee is asking students to play it smart in the past lehigh students have shown a cooperative nature m preventing situations from getting out of hand boyd said students have always been smart m keeping things m order and watching out for their safety b&w photo by gil mancuso trump donald j trump president of the trump organization new york city will deliver the principal address at lehigh's 120 th commencement exercises june 5 trump well-known for his grand-scale buildings m new york city and atlantic city also will receive the honorary degree of doctor of laws at graduation ceremonies an audience of about 7,000 is expected to attend the june ceremonies m stabler arena the announcement of the speaker was made by president peter likins and senior class president jeffrey enslin lehigh is extremely pleased to have donald trump as its commencement speaker said likins he is a man of great imagination daring and vision and i'm sure his message will be received eagerly by our graduates trump accepted early this month likins invitation to speak at commencement he said his brother the late frederick c trump jr a 1960 lehigh graduate always spoke highly of lehigh trump a graduate of the university of pennsylvania wharton school of finance is a major participant m the linderman locked until further notice by teresa kent brown and white news editor linderman library was closed wednesday at 4 p.m for ventilation of fumes and will remain closed until further notice according to berry richards director of libraries the closing was necessitated by the need to ventilate the building more intensively m an effort to rid the building of fumes caused by the application of a sealant to the rotunda more than a week ago the library has been closed m the evenings but according to richards the cool temperature of the building has impeded ventilation richards said linderman will be heated to temperatures exceeding 100 degrees to be sure the substance is removed apparently the sealant does not evaporate as quickly m cool air richards said all the staff will be working m e.w fairchild martindale library for the time being she declined to offer any reason for the more intense treatment besides the fact that the ventilation of the library needs to be continued social policy changes proposed by eric rothenberg brown and white news editor and brian cooke brown and white editorial page editor lehigh-lafayette weekend pub night and party restrictions dry rush and other proposed social policy chan ges were explained to fraternity and sorority representatives at wednes day's interfraternity council meeting because it will the last game m taylor stadium and social behavior expectations rise each year this is by far the most worrisome lafayette weekend for me lehigh president peter likins said to begin the meeting how this weekend goes matters to what follows he warned the ifc representatives behave m a way that keeps people safe i think we're going to lose a few blades of grass at the end of the game he admitted but said to let the athletes finish before going for the goalposts no souvenirs until the game is over stay sober do not be m the stadium drunk use your head the fear that haunts us all is that someone will get hurt badly then the ballgame is over m more ways than one he said life gets tougher every year m terms of the external perception of lehigh and expectation of lehigh likins said he gets more letters from parents every year about intoxicated students not just because they're more drunk but also because society's expectations are changing ifc president scan kelly 88 echo ed likins concern we could face serious consequences if anything goes wrong this weekend the social policy proposals which were the focus of the meeting were the result of several months of delibera ii i ' i dry rmhmnon-hego^bfe ■ ■ • marsha duncan vice present for student affairs tions and negotiations between admin istrators the ifc the council of stu dent presidents and forum the proposal will be reviewed by the board of trustees at their meeting on jan 15 one proposal put limitations on mid week parties according to the propos al the times hours and size of many social events have become completely unacceptable to many people such groups include trustees faculty administration national fraternities parents and society m general the proposal eliminates all but thursday pubnights it also requires that thursday functions be closed and by personal invitation only not to exceed the number of hosts plus two guests each distribution of alcohol must end at 1:30 a.m duncan said she had been determin ed to eliminate weeknight pubnight parties and she was still uncomfort able with the allowance for thurday night pubnights m the ifc draft the only reason thursday night pubnights have a fighting chance kelly said is because they're a trad see trump page 16 see page 4