Brown and White Vol. 102 no. 2

              contrary to popular belief the prohibition of freshmen to attend fra ternities during their first weekend at lehigh is not a new policy what was new this year was the strict enforce ment of those policies mark erickson dean of student life enforced the policy deterring freshmen from attending fraternity parties during orientation because of his concern about the well-being of freshmen students during freshmen orientation they should get to know each other rather than being exposed to alco hol erickson said overall orien tation went pretty well there were really no problems jennifer volchko associate dean of student life said there is no new policy and there is no ban for quite some time now it has been written in the student handbook that fraterni ties are not to throw parties during physics building renamed for lewis please see drinking on page 8 couldn't go up the hill so they par tied off campus but they went on the hill tuesday night because they were kept from going on the weekend we tried to encourage them to go to casino night or to go to the hypnotist stabinsky said but never have i seen so many people hanging out in the dorm at night chris holler 98 said it didn't really bother me that much a lot of people went anyway i just hung out and met people in my dorm and walked around campus freshmen orientation wasn't bad because there were a lot of activities where you could meet people the gryphons and the hall direc tors informed the freshmen of their restriction from the hill to protect themselves and to protect the frater nities from getting into trouble if freshmen or anyone under 21 is found intoxicated the gryphon's first duty is to make sure that person is okay depending on the extent of harm or damage done by the inebri ated person they must go through different levels of disciplinary pro by beth mann news writer plea.se see building page 8 a vision of lehigh as a total univer sity rich in diversity across the disci plines and across the spectrum from freshmen to doctoral students the dedication ceremony was led by edward uhl former chairman of the lehigh board of trustees and re tired chairman of fairchild indus tries other speakers at the ceremony included william hittinger current chairman of the board of trustees likins interim dean of the college of arts and sciences w beall fowler and physics professor yong kirn both kirn and fowler were past chair men of the physics department and worked closely with lewis michael bolton lehigh s vice lewis widow said his heart was in the physics department during lewis presidency he helped lehigh become a university of national distinction overseeing the admission of women in 1971 lewis term saw amazing enroll ment growth undergraduate enroll ment growing from 3,000 to 4,300 graduate enrollment growing from 1,300 to 2,000 under lewis term the forum the student-faculty campus govern ing body was created the pass/fail grading system was introduced and many new academic and construc tion programs were started lehigh president peter likins said deming lewis helped shape lehigh as we know it today he had the board of trustees dedicated and renamed the physics building as the deming lewis laboratory of the sherman fairchild center for the physical sciences on june 2 in memory of lehigh s 10th president w deming lewis lewis was a physicist a math ematician and a research administra tor he spent 23 years at bell labora tory participating in the development of the nation's radar system lewis was also extremely influential as an administrator with the apollo space program that put the first american on the moon emmeline lewis-dimmick the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 tuesday september 13 1994 vol 102 no 2 lehigh alum dies in pittsburgh plane crash 4 all the lehigh news first by sarah zabrenski news editor a former lehigh graduate stu dent and bethlehem steel corp en gineer was among the 132 passen gers killed in the us air boeing 737 jetliner crash near pittsburgh thurs day night daniel kwasnoski 59 and his wife carolyn of lower saucon township were returning from a three-day u.s department of en ergy conference in chicago on us air flight 427 when the plane nose-dived into a wooded ravine near pittsburgh photo courtesy of the morning call daniel kwasnoski who received his doctorate at lehigh and his wife carolyn died in the plane crash outside pittsburgh administration curbs drinking during freshmen orientation please see crash page 8 who enjoyed his work he was an extremely gentle per son and very caring erdogan said he was a very loyal employee of the company he always gave 100 per cent in whatever he did it's hard to find people like that kwasnoski was at the conference in chicago to give a paper on a new coal-injection facility that bethle hem steel is installing at its plant in indiana he was stopping in pitts burgh to attend a meeting after the conference international airport there were no survivors the crash is currently be ing investigated kwasnoski attended pennsylva nia state university and received his master's degree in 1966 and his doc torate in 1974 in chemical engineer ing from lehigh he joined bethle hem steel in 1961 in the research department as part of the manage ment training program he worked with the company for 33 years fazil erdogan professor of me chanical engineering and mechan ics was a neighbor of kwasnoski and remembers him as a kind man by abbasia kahn news writer freshmen orientation this year the interfratemity council took much more interest in enforcing the policy most fraternities did not host par ties during freshmen orientation due to severe consequences like having to face prohibition and allegations of dirty rush andrew levenson president of delta phi fraternity said freshmen were not allowed on the hill unless they were blood relatives of frater nity brothers if we violated the given terms then we would not be allowed to come back until after orientation next year and we would receive an automatic six weeks social proba tion pending more he said instead of the hill freshmen re mained in their dorms to get better acquainted with each other attend ing school sponsored events and went to off-campus parties jason styer 98 said i really didn't care i'm not here to drink anyway we just stayed in our dorm and hung out i enjoyed my first weekend anyway bernie stabinsky a gryphon in mcclintic and marshall house said it was like an exchange they bjtwphoio by steve lampe freshmen found other entertainment after being warned off the hill by the administration during orientation men's football lehigh beats fordham 38-7 in opener see sports page 20