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              the attacker then pushed the victim and fled toward morton street she did not re quire medical attention in the previous incident on march 14 an unidentified male approached her from be hind placed a sharp object in her ribs and forced her to walk up the steps leading to the sculpture garden behind e.w fairchild martindale library police said police said the ass ailant told her to take off her coat and shirt and lie face down the victim saw what appeared to be headlights from a car and began to scream for help police said the attacker then fled police describe the attacker as a black male 20 to 30 years of age muscular build approximately 6-foot-l-inch to 6-foot-3 inches tall with black hair and dark eyes police said the individual was wearing a dark baseball type cap and appeared to have close cropped curly hair under his cap he this is a police composite the police description is a black male 20-30 years of age muscular build approximately 6-foot-1 inches to 6 f oot-3-lnches tall with black hair and dark eyes ever happens this year we'll have to refine we'll see where the glitches appear no matter what you do you're going to have pluses and minuses there is no total solution to this so you do the best you can he said since the university is planning the ceremonies at such a late date harper admitted that there will undoubtedly be problems securing hotel rooms for guests travelling greater distances hotel problems are always there he said you would have trouble booking a room for next year now harper also stressed that it is not the job of his office to make such decisions regarding graduation activities but to simply carry out decisions m ade by likins and other administrators the rush to pull together the additional ceremo nies is overloading harper's office with a great deal of additional work and he said his staff doesn't have time to be concerned with negative reactions to the proposal such as family travel arrangements or poor faculty response the extra work gives me tremendous problems over here he said we really truly don't have time we don't get into that negative reactions if it's faculty worry it's on the shoulders of the pro vost a department chairperson who preferred to re main anonymous expressed his dissatisfaction with the administration's decision i'm disappointed that the action was taken without consulting the faculty he said and it seems to be hasty and last minute the burden is going to fall on the department chairpeople who will be asked to show up twice which is unfair he said in response to a student petition signed by 500 seniors calling for an outdoor graduation this year the administration developed individual recogni tion ceremonies for the three academic colleges on the saturday before sunday's commencement ac tivities according to a faculty memo from lehigh president peter likins james harper director of community relations said the administration was brainstorming ways to handle the graduation conflict for the class of 1 993 when the petition was presented to likins the administration was discussing the idea for separate ceremonies for future graduations but decided to implement the individual ceremonies this year to appease the disgruntled seniors the actual format for the ceremonies is still being decided and the deans of each of the academic colleges are expected to plan the events harper said senior class secretary alayna kassan said the pre-graduation ceremonies will enable the gradu ates to participate in a more personal ceremony in which their names will be read and all family and friends can attend while the actual commencement exercises will remain the same everything that's been done on sunday in the past will still be done she said we re not taking anything away from sunday just adding to it harper said he feels that there will be problems with the new ceremonies in light of the haste with which they were planned but that they will provide a means for dealing with the difficulties associated with the spring commencement in the future things will happen when you plan things in a hurry he said we can't be perfect now what by jennifer montemurro lifestyle editor new twist on graduation separate college ceremonies planned for saturday before sunday's graduation very badly about cancelling . i like tfte band i coming toclass and it's always been a fun time scotttisdale 92 manager of the marching 97 attrib uted aronson's cancellation to the amount of the alcohol consump tidn at the lecture before lehighi lafayette weekend one student brought two beers down to the front of thi class and gave one to the teacherv and then hechugged hls w tisdal said and i heard that some people were drinking in themt^c of fiie auditorium ttedale said that he is sorry to see the eoo i flame tradition die out especially since this was to be the final one anyway aronson said he was not try ing to destroy tradition but that he slrnply wanted to prevent potential problems fearing he would need to call in the police to remove people from class aronson said he chose to end things on a more positive note i love the tradition he said but it was just getting put pfi control it was a tradition that was going on without me it was the best tnng i could do to avoid an unpleasant scene rattier than make a bad ending to the ir^dpon fiie best way i could think of was to avoid it by jennifer montemurro lifestyle editor it has gone the way of open parties and wooden goalposts the economics t greek week tradition of packing packard uab auditorium with huge numbers of crashing students and the unof ficial flame band ended friday when economics professor ri chard aronson decided to cancel class this year was to be the last eco 1 3reek week flame be cause the course will be split next semester aronson said his decision to cancej was prompted by the chaos during last semester's co t class on fiie friday before the lehi^h-ilafayette football game it was out of control arbnson said the place was loaded be yond capacity there were too many people in the class .>. and they fust made it very unpleas ant "'■ ■■.■:■ ■• •■ . on the friday before lehigh lafayette weekend eoo 1 sfu dertt were joined by other stu dents coming from sunrise cock tails ornedrossed ki shests and bathrobes some were smoking drfnwng and even vomitirig two students ateo ran through the class rtaiked totell the truth he said i felt eco 1 flame ends with a whimper lehigh university tuesday april 14 1992 vol 99 no 43 by mitchell drake associate editor a female lehigh student previously the victim of an attempted sexual assault on march 14 was assaulted again on thursday as she walked to her off-campus apartment said bethlehem police according to police the victim said she believes the man is the same person which attacked her march 1 4 because she recognized the man's voice at 9:20 p.m in the area of the 400 blk of adam s st , police report an unidentified black male pushed the victim causing her to strike her head against the vinyl siding of her build ing police said the victim was near her apartment when she noticed a man standing on the sidewalk she said hi to the assailant thinking he was a friend but his response was you lied according to police was wearing a black fabric type coat with elastic sleeves and waistband as well as faded baggy blue jeans with white sneakers according to police the victim reported she smelled alcohol on the assailant s breath bethlehem police detective alex harvey said there is an ongoing investigation into the incident harvey warned don't go out on your own and stay in lighted areas he said that goes for males and females harvey asks anyone who has seen this person to call the bethlehem police investi gation unit at 865-7162 or to call lehigh police at 758-4200 eugene dax chief of lehigh police ex plained since the attack occurred off-campus the bethlehem police are conducting the investigation we're assisting the bethlehem police in their investigation dax said m m mi % a browii mm ?? me attacker returns assaults student again gloria m bower # * ya i^i ity libraries fairchilo/martinoale libr nc.ooba it's earthweek learn how to save your earth page b1