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              by lindsey ellison news editor the only memorial for the child as of now is a sign posted on austin s door that reads god bless you little one baw photo file james austin 91 charged with homicide of his infant son james alan austin ' 9 1 , of 49 1 7 cheryl drive m hanover township northampton county has been charged with homicide for beating his 5-week-old child to death on jan 8 austin brought his un conscious child jonathan to muhlenburg hospital center m be thlehem police then arrested austin and charged him with aggravated assault and related offenses after he confessed to beating bis child after which he was charged with homi cide last april austin paid 30,000 to the infertility centerof america m indianapolis ind to have phyllis ann huddleston of indiana artificially m it's a terrible tragedy morganelli said a baby lost its life and it's our job to find the proper evidence austin was a finance major and was m the investment club at le high he lived at home throughout his college career many business professors at le high say that austin's name sounds familiar but he is not rer..embered antonio chang 91 investment club member remembers austin m the same way the name sounds familiar but i don't even remember seeing him m the investment club he said according to defense attorney jonathan deisher austin has no criminal record nor any drug and alcohol abuse history tal m philadelphia where huddleston met her child the infant remained m a coma until huddleston decided to take the child off life support systems on jan 17 the child died at 6:35 p.m bethlehem judge robert a freedburg set austin's bail at 500,000 he may ask the court to reduce bail after the second preliminary hear ing on monday at district justice barbara schlegel's office on linden st m bethlehem additional evidence will deter mine what degree homicide austin will be charged with john morganelli northampton county district attorney said the death pen alty will only be considered under first degree murder seminated with his sperm on dec 8 jonathan was bom and austin took the child home the next day according to the affidavit arrest warrant by state police the beatings started just three weeks after the in fant was born police said austin confessed that he shook the child hard while hold ing him by the shoulders on jan 2 because jonathan would not stop cry ing austin slapped the child m the face hard with his left hand several times on jan 5 and then struck the child on the back of his head with a plastic clothes hanger on jan 7 ac cording to police with a broken skull the infant was transferred to children's hospi clinton outlines financial aid plan by james truver assistant lifestyle editor please see clinton page all system would allow americans to take vouchers up to 2,600 per year for up to two years to the higher learning institution of their choice we are trying to change the fo cus of national government to the grass roots of america clinton said nothing nothing can make a big ger difference trying to get more education to more people m more ways clinton chose kutztown for his speech because of itscommitment to small business a carryover from the the growth of america secondly clinton wants tax cred its up to 500 per child for families with children under 13 years old the president would also like to expand individual retirement ac counts for families making up to 100,000 per year two-thousand dollars per year will be eligible for tax-free savings and investment m such areas as buy ing a home or building new skills finally clinton would like to reform the nations employment and training system now consisting of 70 individual programs the new president bill clinton urged an audience of over 5,000 to support his middle class bill of rights wednesday at kutztown uni versity , kutztown pa clinton'splan has four maincom ponents the first one would allow families making up to 120,000 per year a tax deduction of up to $ 1 0,000 to be applied to costs of higher learn ing he said making a short term investment today m education would result m a long-term investment m the brown and white friday january 27 1995 vol 102 no 24 lehigh university's student newspaper founded m 1894 four-alarm blaze guts pike house all the lehigh news first by lori montemurro contributing editor please see fire page a3 the fire started at 6:30 a.m ac cording to police a clip-on lamp m the closet of a third floor room came loose and fell into a pile of laundry the heat from the lamp ignited the clothes and started the fire the room belonged to jon shesler 96 i woke up and my whole room was m smoke he said flames were reaching to the ceiling and i ran out of the room shesler said he and colin booth 97 alerted the members of the house and then shesler returned to his room the whole half of the room was m flames schelser said i went back to put on jeans and left he said christian corwin 95 said booth woke him up m his room on the second floor and told him there was a fire my first reaction was to run up stairs and make sure everyone was all right corwin said it was all very confusing people were shout ing alumnus charged with death of infant son photo courtesy of express times fire fighters attempt to extinguish the dec 13 fire at pi kappa alpha fraternity after a devastating early morn ing fire that destroyed the interior of pi kappa alpha's fraternity house on dec 1 3 the 22 brothers were left uninjured but homeless the fire leveled the roof and the second and third floors of the house at 515 delaware aye but left the stone front m tact damage to the house totaled 770,000 and personal losses ranged from 7,000 to 22,000 said pike president michael heagele 95 he said most parents home owners in surance covered the student's per sonal losses over the winter break the fraternity's alumni and residential services renovated the former tau epsilon pi fraternity house m war ren square for pike brothers to oc cupy during the spring semester no serious injuries resulted from the four-alarm fire and only two students were treated for smoke in halation men's wrestling lehigh prevails over rider 23-13 see sports page a24