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              edge moffatt said and it is pretty obvious that they have the cases there many other presidents agreed that enforce ment of the policy is nearly nonexistent allow ing fraternities to continue to purchase and provide alcohol at parties justin barone 94 president of delta phi fraternity said for now the school is being lenient with us and they know we are working around it so they are letting us and they're not cracking down on us barone said but sooner or later they will start cracking down on us but who knows when that will be however some presidents like john bown 94 president of sigma nu fraternity dis agreed that byob is not working bown esti christkindlmarkt captures spirit by lara beckler news writer opportunity to buy some of these works of art there is also a section called dream land which consists of a life size gingerbread house people just become amazed when they see this authentic gingerbread display barchine said children also have a place of their own in christkindlmarkt kids can shop at an area called kindermart the door to this area is tall enough for only a child to walk through the please see christmas page 8 adults have to duck down to enter kindermart kindermart is a fun place for children it lets the kids feel like the adults they have the opportunity to buy gifts for their family and their friends barchine said incorporated into kindermart is a petting zoo and a puppet stage which puts on shows every hour on the half hour baw photo by george saghiyyah christkindlmarkt offers exhibits sights and festive events bethlehem which has made it a ritual to provide its townspeople and tourists with extensive displays and activities every christmas is adding anew eventto its christmas list called christkindlmarkt christkindlmarktisa 16-day event that provides art exhibits a life-size gingerbread house and other attrac tions it began nov 27 and runs until dec 12 and is located under the hill-to-hill bridge according to margret barchine communication coordinator for musikfest office of bethlehem christkindlmarkt offers something for everyone christkindlmarkt is another pro gram created to add more diversity for individuals and tourists barchine said it is something other than the usual tours museums and shopping that is done every year one of the big attractions is an art show that encompasses many artists and different time periods there are 35 different artists and who are broken up into three differ ent historical time periods shoppers can watch them create their objects and they also have the vol 101 no 22 tuesday december 7 1993 lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 the brown and white m>ri ras sity libraries a/hir£i ii ■ linderman library n0 030 f w fr all the lehigh news first the failure of lehigh's byob policy by marc j goldstein editor in chief and michael ziegler managing editor mates 60 to 70 percent of the houses are trying to enforce byob although he acknowledged it is a difficult transition process i think it is going good bown said i'd say it's taking hold a lot better this year i'd say than last year people are actually trying to do it and actually doing it in some cases others those students ration cards which are punched each time a student is given one of his beers michel moffatt 94 president of lambda chi alpha fraternity said some houses are in blatantly violate the rules but nothing is done there arc many houses that just have cases sitting out in public view for public knowl without byob education and setting goals it is going to take a fatal or tragic accident for this campus to realize the consequences " garry foltz 94 intertratemity council president the interfraternity council's bring your own beer policy exists only on paper the policy in which students bring their own beer to fraternity parties and do not drink alcohol purchased by the fraternity was de signed to curtail drinking and protect fraterni ties from catastrophic lawsuits its failure - undisputed by ifc president garry foltz 94 various fraternity presidents and members of the lehigh administration - has far-reaching implications it has endan gered fraternities in terms of liability insurance and it exacerbated tension between the admin istration and the ifc the byob policy among other changes on the lehigh campus is a result of pressure from insurance companies national fraternity orga nizations and the lehigh administration caught in a turbulent time of change for fraternities the transition from open keg par ties to closed byob parties at lehigh has placed fraternities in a dangerous situation because • by not enforcing the byob policy frater nities are potentially nullifying their liability insurance the reason they have the byob policy in the first place • fraternities are blamed by the administra tion for the lack of enforcement of the byob policy even though the administration initially plea.se see without page 3 never will pressure of fraternity liability fraternities nationwide have been under increasing pressure to change their animal house image over the past 10 years the lehigh ifc byob policy is the result of a number of these forces the most powerful of which is the issue of liability overthepast 15 years greek organizations have become a liability nightmare conserva tive estimates blame fraternities for at least 36 alcohol-related deaths nationwide while multi million-dollar lawsuits make insurance com pushed the policy through • fraternity members believe students con tinue to expect fraternities to provide them with alcohol at parties this is not a story about the failure of fraternities the administration or students it is a story about the failure of a required policy , the non-enforcement of which could have serious consequences for the university and the greek system a non-existent policy the growing pains of the lehigh social system began long before byob with the institution of pennsylvania's act 31 which required stricter enforcement of alcohol laws the ifc banned kegs a fraternity-party staple for decades in the fall 1991 allowing open parties for which fraternities could purchase cans of beer one academic year later the ifc desig nated four weekends as trial byob weekends with each house having to participate in at least two of the four weekends the entire campus was given a chance to experience byob in spring 1993 the ifc moved to a full byob policy which requires closed byob parties and prohibits kegs and the use of house funds to purchase alcohol according to the policy students of legal drinking age may bring up to 12 beers to the fraternity house during the afternoon before a party or up to six beers during the party frater nities are required to check that students who bring beer are 21 years old houses then issue ■ news 1-8 world news briefs 2 !!"* r 4 1 student senate 4 fsffsr l^m 1 huld brunch 6 jfcjgjk jl sciencepages 9-14 py d deep-sea exploration 9 slj hubble telescope 10 kr|b sports 18-20 men's basketball 19 swimming and diving 20 wrestling - 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