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              rush comprised of mostly sopho mores as a way to boost smaller pledge classes robeson said this year's rush was significantly affected by fraternities allowing sopho "*" mores to rush in the fall of first semester he estimated that one third of fraternities will have sophomores in the future delta tau delta fraternity the most successful this year with 21 pledges and a 100 per cent acceptance rate seemed indicative of the changing cli mate in the greek system malcolm gould 94 presi dent of debs said we have a diverse class we didn't have many problems with academic ineligibil ity because our house is fairly well balanced especially in academics lambda chi alpha fraternity re ceived a total of 16 associate mem bers this year making it second in fraternity rush statistics though we didn't have many problems with academic ineiigibiiity because our house is fairly well bal anced malcolm gould 94 president of delta tau delta corbett dabbs 95 rush chairman was pleased overall with lambda chi's rush this year he noted the fraternity lost two serious associate members and a number of possible freshmen from their house due to the academic restrictions robeson declined to comment when asked what fraternities had the lowest pledge classes sorority rush seemingly did not face similar problems seven of eight sororities filled their quotas of 24 people according to most sorority spokeswomen there were very few problems with freshmen and sopho more women reaching the 2.0 gpa requirement sororities deal mainly with fill ing up the quotas in their respective houses all sororities must have 72 people living in the house not in cluding pledges if this total is not filled sororities then begin continu ous open bidding or a process in which houses extend bids past bid day because of the relative success of this year s sorority rush few houses are participating in continuous open bidding because most have reached their totals this year's rush in fact dropped only slightly in overall numbers the amount of men rushing last year was 306 while this year it was 298 de spite the delays weather and com plaints sorority rush was also fairly consistent with 262 rushees danielle jenko 95 president of kappa alpha thcta sorority said we thinkthe 2.0 gpa is pretty fair jenko said they filled their quota and that the educational requirements did not hurt rush stephanie sajda ' 9s , president of alpha chi omega sorority said her house received 24 pledges she said they also had no problems with aca demic requirements students approach weekend with the possibility of classes removal costs exceed budget it is not known where the extra money for removal will come from by mark filipps news writer partment and common walkways like those around the university center and rathbone hall . but benner explains that if the crews were to shovel all areas dur ing the snowfalls they would be too tired to complete the job once the snow stopped when the snow does please see snow page 8 baw photo by david baker marianne zellner cleans off her car during wednesday's snow cleaning up after the winter storms that recently wreaked havoc on the campus has cost lehigh more money than was allotted in the origi nal budget according to richard benner the assistant director of facilities ser vices 112,370 was assigned to ward the snow removal budget this amount had already been exceeded before the latest storm hit lehigh has not yet received all the bills from previous snow re moval but benner estimates that the final tally will be well in excess of the original budget where the money to make up the difference will come from is not yet known gary falasca facilities services director estimated that the snow re moval project was probably in ex cess of the budget by 100,000 until the total bill for snow re moval is known the administration cannot begin to search the budget for extra money benner said it will not be known until the budget is com pleted in june where the funds will be taken from the snow on campus is removed by two private contractors allen kunsman roofing and siding inc and valley excavating and paving inc although facilities services has received complaints about snow ac cumulations on walkways benner believes that the snow is being re moved as fast as possible a small work crew stays during snowfalls to keep particular areas on campus clear including the walk ways around johnson hall because of the health center and police de the brown and white vol 101 no 28 marie c bgltz university libraries rn • 300 linderman library no o 30 low gpas contribute to decline in pledges 4 all the lehigh news first by hannah lee news writer please see professors page 8 the memo frompense said even if the professor usually takes atten dance they are urged to be more understanding of absences the pos sibility that students have conflicts is high some professors believe that there was not enough material missed to make students come to class on the weekend they feel the class time that was missed can sim ply be made up throughout the re maining weeks of the semester edward evenson professor of earth and environmental science can remember how one retired lehigh professor put it so simply when you come to the end of the i don't do saturdays was the attitude of a majority of lehigh students and faculty after the uni versity scheduled two makeup days when classes were missed because of snowfall the first makeup on saturday feb 12 and the second on sunday march 6 professors were given the op tion of whether or not they would teach on the weekend a memo ftomprovost alpense said profes sors should not hold class unless they really felt it was necessary it also stated that professors should not schedule quizzes or exams on these makeup days by michelle de mooy news writer almost 20 percent of freshmen men who rushed this spring were ineligible due to academic restric tions according to bob robeson assistant dean of students for greek affairs the requirement for fraternity rush is a 1.9 gpa robeson said because 152 freshmen were unable to rush this semester some fraterni ties lost almost a third of their viable pledges james versocki 95 , president of alpha chi rho fraternity said our pledge class is not as high as we might have liked eight pledges but we lost three guys due to grades he continued to say that more and more fraternities are looking toward fall news 1-8 men's basketball lehigh loses in overtime 107-104 see sports page 24