Brown and White Vol. 103 no. 15

              by toby bonagura news writer sions regarding residential living options and insisting students are treated with respect m their living environment dean of students mark erickson said the focus of social activity like it or not is alcohol and unfortunately the abuse of alcohol terrence curran associate dean of students said the number of students who leave lehigh before graduating and attribute it to the lack of social options has grown over the past five years suzanne kilgannon student activities coordi nator said students are not recognizing the al ready existing programs she said it is important to make people aware that it is all right to not want to go to the hill as their only social activity panhel president kirn miller 96 responded by asking the students at the meeting if the reason why students do not attend these other activities is because they either do not like them or just don't know about them robin weiner 98 said it is a publicity issue and that she would go to other events if she knew please see meeting page 5 students had their final chance on tuesday to speak directly to panel members who will aid m the drafting of the new residential environment report the final report will be submitted to the board of trustees m november , the fourth and final town meeting discussion held m the ulrich student center dealt with the issues of creating a more diverse social environ ment ensuring that freshmen make sound deci students create personal profiles using lucie computer program career services assists with job search by dianne shelton news writer please see career page 5 est m that field it's important for students to realize that if they put their profile into the database mackes said we can send it to companies who request someone with their qualifications she said for in stance cbs just requested the pro files of students with a certain back ground and i'm sure there are a lot of students who would be interested m working for them but don't have their profile on the database mackes said the job market is improving for students what we are seeing is that things are looking better this year and last year m comparison to previous years she said but it's moving at a conservative pace the end of the semester may seem a long way off for most stu dents but it is fast approaching for seniors graduating m june career services is trying to make the transi tion easier many students utilize career ser vices to assist themin their job search it offers a career library staff mem bers to counsel students lehigh list ings bi-monthly publication with job postings on-campus interview ing and the lucie program the lucie program lehigh university career information ex change is a computer database where students can create a profile of themselves to both present them selves to potential employers and on-campus recruiting is only one of the ways to look for a job marilyn mackes career services director for employers to look at students lehigh listings has job postings for on-campus interviews as well as for companies that are notcoming to campus to * , recruit if a student wants to interview with one of the compa nies com ing to campus the stu - dent must upload his or her profile to the com pany who then pre-selects the stu dents it will interview before they come to campus career services director marilyn mackes said we made a decision five years ago to begin using lucie when the market began restructur ing whether through mergers or downsizing we realizec we had to make our stu dents more noticeable to potential em ployers many stu dents believe lucie can ' only benefit those who want to interview on campus how ever mackes said employers will contact lehigh with a specific need and will ask for the profiles of stu dents who have expressed an inter the brown and white all the lehigh news first lehigh university's student newspaper founded m 1894 friday november 3 1995 new simpler alcohol policy is implemented vol 103 no 15 by jonathan rosenfeld news writer the interfratemity council en acted a new alcohol policy at the beginning of the semester the new policy is a modification of the existing alcohol policy cre ated two years ago after pressure from the adminis tration the ifc formed a committee to address the task of reformulating lehigh's alcohol policy the administration realized that the existing plan was difficult to follow said tony franchina 96 ifc vice president and member of the committee that developed the new alcohol policy we realized the alcohol plan was m need of some modifications so we made some there are three main changes to the existing alcohol policy instead of fraternities registering parties m four separate categories depending on what specific type of event they are having and the type of guests invited fraternities now register events as either parties or cocktails the new policy is much sim pler ben malekzadeh 96 ifc president said there is less confu sion among fraternities aoout the type of party which needs to be registered while the old byob policy is still m full effect the use of bever age cards is becoming more com mon now 21 year-old guests can bring a six or 12-pack of beer to a party m the afternoon and be given a beverage card when the card is presented the guest will be given back the beer one can at a time the beverage cards are intended to eliminate any confusion among people who bring beer before a party starts vaughn bigelow 96 said i am assured that i will get the beer back that i brought up before the please see alcohol page 5 party started the most noticeable part of the new alcohol plan is the implementa tion of a new guest list system in tended to keep down the large num ber of guests at popular parties under the new system fraterni ties must have a guest list containing every brother every sorority mem ber with whom the fraternity is par tying a list of 1 00 invited guests and room for 100 uninvited guests fra ternities party lists are checked ev ery time to ensure that the new rule is not being broken by handing m copies of lists from past events final residence report discussed bawpholo by mark rubins zeta psi fraternity displays a sense of humor after being put on probation a total of eight fraternities are on probation hi yim yfl i fltra hwb iff jb volleyball closed its season with three victories see page 20 sports 18-20 football 18 women's soccer 1 9 field hockey 20 sections of bethlehem steel corp are closing putting many people out of work see page 3 news 1-6 news briefs 2 senate 4 reese lawsuit 6 legacy at lehigh continues to thrive see page 7 lifestyle 7-14 music taste 9 peruvian art 11 rotc 13 events guide 14 more than 80 percent of the lehigh student homepages belong to men source student center homepage