Brown and White Vol. 97 no. 18

              see bid day page 7 15 bid acceptances out of 17 bids given this year mike ritze 91 pike rush chairm an said we had a good acceptance ratio this year because since we are off-cam pus you know that the rushees really wanted to be here he said delta chi fraternity had 19 bid acceptances as compar ed to the 10 they had last year delta chi rush chairman dave kennedy 92 credits the increase to the better attit ude and morale of the house this year according to wittman an informal post-rush began yesterday for any freshmen who would still like to rush a fraternity steve derreh 91 lambda freshmen were allowed up earlier when classes started instead of waiting a couple of weeks sigma nu will not post rush since they received 19 acceptances the hill fraternities had a higher average bid accept ance than the off-campus houses had this year averag ing about 13 and 11 respec tively delta sigma phi which was recolonized last year had six bids accept during rush jason greenblatt 91 delta sig rush chairman explain ed the attraction of the hill was just too great this year he said they are happy with the guys who accepted and they are depending on post rush for more bids pi kappa alpha another off campus fraternity received adapted to the new rules kappa alpha society rush chairman v.j geronimo 91 said the attitude of the brothers was better this year because it wasn't the first year of dry rush geronimo added rush was more structured and org anized than last year making it a more social atmosphere kappa alpha had 18 bids accept doug myers 91 sigma nu rush chairman described 1989 rush as very successful for all the fraternities i think it went well for everyone because this year's freshman class has an endless list of good names i don't see how any house didn't come out well myers also said this year was better than last because this year's freshman rush was more successful than last year with 383 bids accepted to 31 fraternities according to the interfraternity council ifc rush chairman howie butterman 90 and alan wit tman 91 contrary to the myth that the popularity of the greek system may be decreasing butterman said there were 12 more bids accepted this year during rush than last year's rush and post-rush combined which involved 33 fraternities butterman said the improv ed success of this year's rush may be due to the fact that this is the second year in the transition from a totally wet rush to a toally dry rush and the fraternities are more bylaracohn brown and white news writer the brown and white lehigh university tuesday november 14 1989 vol 97 no 18 lu pro-choice advocates march in d.c by christine simone brown and white news writer on sunday more than 80 students gathered at e.w fairchild-martind ale library to board buses bound for the pro-choice rally in washington d.c grumbling in the early morning cold members of the lehigh commun ity climbed aboard the bus leaving for the nation's capital at 5:30 a.m as the buses pulled out a few people tried to get some sleep however most were too excited and talked about the issues the buses clattered on toward their destination as the sun rose a bright and mild day dawned on washington as they pulled into the parking lot a steady stream of students flowed out the door and into the tunnel see speakers page 2 b&w photo by jason stanford the lehigh university jazz ensemble performed in concert friday see story page 11 salaries of professors president compared presidents of yale harvard and cor nell universities likins salary more closely resem bles that of stanford university presi dent donald kennedy who was paid 182,917 likins said he is not embarrassed about his salary and doesn't spend 30 seconds a day worrying about getting rich he said he knows he could make a see salaries page 5 180,000 professor of computer integrated manufacturing and mod ern manufacturing systems emory zimmers 127,400 vice president of development paul franz jr retired sl23,7oo provost david sanchez 123,000 and vice president admin istration and treasurer john woltjen 120,000 most notable of the above salaries belongs to likins who according to the tax forms was paid more than the aside from lehigh's expanding cam pus including the multi-million dol lar rauch business center now under construction a recent article in the morning call brought to attention the salaries paid to lehigh faculty and administration the top five employees of lehigh university along with their annual salaries based on information from federal tax form 9905 list as follows university president peter likins byjohnmasonis brown and white news writer with lehigh's ever-increasing tui tion many students are asking the question where does all of the money go lehigh university possessed a 1987 88 operating budget of approximately 159 million a considerable sum as compared to lafayette college's 39,396,000 and muhlenberg college's 24,380,000 fraternities get 383 new pledges inside news three fraternities are put on social probation page 3 arts & leisure alumnae reflect on 19 years of coeducation page 1 1 sports wrestlers begin season at jersey touney page 20