Brown and White Vol. 97 no. 25

              by jackie doherty brown and white news writer seniors will receive request forms for extra graduation tickets for the june 2 ceremony through campus mail early next week as part of the new senior class distribution system this is the first year the senior class officers will be responsible for ticket distribution the request form will be accompanied by a newsletter explain ing the process and must be returned by feb 23 additional request forms will also be available at the student activities council desk in the university center senior class president rich verma said we'll try to distribute them fairly and equally while seniors requesting 10 tickets will probably be disappointed verma system there were some ugly and offen sive scenes said bell about parents and students who could not get the number of tickets they desired some people literally demanded a dozen tickets and that's unreasona ble bell continued bell noted that many students locate additional tickets by simply asking around for seniors who will not use their four alloted tickets bell said everybody probably gets as many tickets as they really need verma said he does not foresee any problems with the new system i don't think people will complain if it's handled fairly he said there's noth ing you can do about the number of seats estimates that everyone who puts in a request form should be able to get at least one extra ticket like the four tickets each senior automatically receives any extra tick ets are also free of charge the exact number of surplus tickets is not known although verma said approximately 600 to 800 tickets will be available ticket distribution was previously handled by the community relations department until last september when the academic ceremonies com mittee gave the responsibility to the senior class according to professor raymond bell chairman of the academnic cer emonies committee the change occur red in part because both students and parents were unhappy with the old the brown and white lehigh university tuesday january 30 1990 vol 97 no 25 rush closes with panhel ceremony by beverly meindl brown and white news writer tuition to rise 7.75 percent a l 3 year low an increase of 7.75 percent in tui tion has been approved by the lehigh board of trustees for the 1990-91 academic year the increase compared with last year's 8.3 percent hike is the smallest in 13 years and will raise tuition from 13,330 to 14,600 per academic year total room board and tuition for a typical undergraduate will be 19,230 an average 7.3 percent increase according to lehigh president pet er likins the tuition increase was lower this year because improvement see tuition page 3 b&w photos by jason stanford sophomore bob krizansky goes up for a powerful two points against hofstra saturday see story page 12 bypiaclementte brown and white news writer 1990 sorority rush for freshman and sophomore women ended saturday with the bid day morning ceremony all pledges were pinned with ribbons of the panhellic council colors green and white lisa hanson assistant dean of greek affairs julie johnson panhel rush chairperson and dianna ben ner panhel president gave short speeches at the ceremony i think it went well said benner we were happy with the number of people who got spots into a sorority i hope in the future the system will expand by obtaining a larger pledge class and eventually adding more sor tem is run mechanically and systemati cally well one student who rushed and with drew from the process said it was fun but tiring for everybody the best part was that you got to become more familiarized with new people on cam pus she added the part that got tiring was the waiting and the redundant questions you're trying to sell your self and once you felt as if you were starting to know someone you were passed on rush counselors called rho chis were assigned to a specific hall in each living group with the purpose of being the liason between the greek system and the rushee hanson said the job of the counselor was to establish a relationship with the fresh men and sophomores and encourage an interest in sorority life counselors see rush page 2 system of everyone working together formal rush registration was held jan 17 each girl who registered was required to attend a party at each of the eight sororities after the second night each sorority began to narrow their list of preferred bids and issued invitations to the next party on saturday the girls were notified by their rush counselors about their bids the rush period was 10 days long due to national counselor's regula tions this year was not different than last year this system is used among most schools across the count ry hanson said hanson said she feels lehigh's sys orities she added alpha gamma delta sorority receiv ed the most pledges at 27 five of whom were sophomores twenty-six bids were accepted respectively from alpha chi omega alpha omicron pi alpha phi gamma phi beta delta gamma and kappa alpha theta sor orities the rush chairwoman of delta zeta sorority could not be reached for information about their pledge class the total number of girls who rush ed this year was not available at presstime according to benner the purpose of the ceremony was to establish unity among the sororities and to give the pledges a feeling of going into a extra graduation tickets to be issued inside news two members of the lehigh debate team travelled to glasgow scotland for their first international debate page 4 arts & leisure take 6 offered an inspirational concert to a standing-room-only crowd saturday at broughal middle school page 8 sports lehigh men's and women's swimmers win big against rut9efs - page 12