Brown and White Vol. 98 no. 44

              operation desert storm not only wrenched kuwait from iraqi control but also left saddam hussein with many domestic problems but rebellions and a war torn infrastructure have not yet led to hussein's downfall as far as one can tell from the outside saddam hussein is fully in charge said oles smolansky professor of inter national relations the military is obeying hus sein's orders but it is impossi ble to measure how much a bethlehem fireman extinguishes the burning papers from the packard lab elevator fire in front of packer chapel fire safety in lehigh's academic buildings although the fire started on the first floor it was not reported until mechanical engineer ing professor david walker noticed smoke coming from the elevator door on the fifth floor near his office walker said he called campus police who immediately arrived at the scene the police set off the fire alarm and called the bethlehem fire department he said while waiting for the fire department to arrive the police tried to get the emergency fire hose to operate in the east stairwell but could not get the valve to open walker said behler said he searched the building for students and actually had to force some people see fire page 7 b h a rosemary scalon 94 raises her arms in victory as she is hugged by bari barwis 94 susan zweig 93 left was a judge in the pie eating contest see greek week photo spread on page 8 fire in packard lab raises concern over student safety by erica crespi brown and white managing editor a small fire was reported thursday in the east elevator shaft on the first floor of packard laboratory at 8:28 p.m the fire began when paper caught fire in a metal receptacle in the elevator but the cause and exact time of the fire is undetermined at this time said lt richard behler of the bethlehem fire department an investigation is being conducted by campus police fire teams arrived at packard lab three minutes after the call the fire was contained by the firefighters within an hour and no one was injured but students who were studying in packard at the time say the fire raises questions about the brown and white lehigh university tuesday april 23 1991 vol 98 no 44 sammy's charter suspended for hazing mark erickson dean of students explained that a police investigation led to the discovery of allegations of hazing regarding sigma alpha mu erickson said the university began a normal investigation informed the national fraternity and alumni who are the leasors of the house the release said that although the chapter has not been found guilty of violations the national fraternity has reason to believe inappropriate activity occurred a temporary suspension is in effect pending further investigation executive director of sigma alpha by mitchell drake brown and white asst news editor sigma alpha mu's charter has been temporarily suspended due to allega tions of hazing activity the executive offices of sigma alpha mv said in a press release the chapter has been invited by the nat ional officers to show cause why it should not be disciplined for violating the fraternity's proscriptions against hazing the charges stem from an investiga tion which started approximately two weeks ago in a week or two there will be some sort of adjudication you can run the gamut from zero to suspension of charter william schwartz executive director sigma alpha mv mv william schwartz said in a week or two there will be some sort of adjudication schwartz said in terms of punishment you can run the gamut from zero to suspension of charter sigma alpha mu's planned greek week social functions were cancelled due to their suspension to suspend pending further inves tigation is not uncommon to avoid any further incident during the suspen sion they are forbidden to function as a chapter schwartz said erickson said the university usually works hand in hand with national fraternities see sammy page 7 see iraq page 7 citizen support he has judg ing by the size of the opposi tion from the shi'ites in the south and the kurds in the north more than half of the citizens of iraq do not support hussein smolansky said hussein's power in iraq rests on two elements the military which has the power to overthrow him but whose top 300 to 400 people were carefully chosen by hussein and the ba'ath party which controls the secret police and the media iraqi military will topple saddam hussein's reign forecasts lu professor by joan reed brown and white news writer page 1 2 science facts about money