Brown and White Vol. 95 no. 14

              lehigh university brown and white vol 95 — no 14 bethlehem pa friday october 28 1983 215 861-4184 just dropping in b&w pholo by brett lowy the university campus was buzzed wednesday afternoon by this helicopter belonging to lee butz president of the alvin h butz corporation which is the company acting as construction manager for the library and computer cen ter butz was flown in from allentown and was dropped off on the lawn in front of maginnes hall to make a routine check new option made available to fill smags apartments by rhonda stone a new option for those interested in living in the saucon married and gradu ate students smags units next fall will become effective today students will be able to sign up in groups of four to live in the 10 four-person apartments accord ing to bonnie solt 85 residence halls council rhc president today was the deadline for groups of 40 interested in living in smags to turn in their application solt explained origi nally it was in the students best interest to sign up as a group of 40 students because the idea is to set up cohesive self-sustaining groups solt said if the groups of 40 do not work out the next option was the groups of four she said concerning the hope for groups of 40 solt said we have a group from stoughton and dravo who are both inter ested she added that they are close to achieving a membership of 40 the main condition for groups of four moving over to smags is that there be 10 groups enough to fill one entire smags unit nevertheless moving to smags is best because you can organize a group around a common interest solt said she added that in this way students can live with people they choose without get ting involved in the lottery some of the advantages of living in smags according to solt are thatthere is better security the apartments are much nicer transportation is provided the university takes care of all upkeep and students do not have to participate in the university meal plan panhellenic panhel president susan eckert 84 said that the sororities like the smags units that they are living in but want to move over to campus in order to expand panhel by increasing the number of sororities and allowing them to live together an option that only the move to campus would allow interfraternity council president john compton 84 said that two reasons why the smags units are better living facilities for upperclassmam residence halls and off-campus students are that the surroundings are much nicer than south bethlehem and the accommoda tions are much better than dormitories ' ' ifc begins planning stages of university conduct code by teresa kilcullen the interfraternity council ifc has started work on the university code of conduct which will implement social programming next semester and may lead to the replacement of the current social regulations next year ifc presi dent john compton 84 said compton explained that the imme diate goal of the ifc is to establish com mittees to work on various portions of the code and to set these committees in motion by doing that hopefully we can get some programming at the university that will start to affect small but tangible changes in the university social atmosphere long-term goals compton said include the production of a document called a social code a standard of con duct which may possibly replace the current social regulations ' and the crea tion of mechanisms which will affect the desired changes in the university social scene compton stressed however that the replacement of the current regulations must be preceded by changes in the social environment saying that we cannot just come up with a document a document will not produce a change in the atmosphere ideas for mechanisms to affect the necessary changes include alcohol awareness programs which will urge students to take more responsibility for the behavior of their friends and teach bartenders when not to serve those who have reached their limit as well as how to mix drinks properly compton explained the programming and development of a social code are hand-in-hand pro cesses compton said through the programming and development pro cesses we want to look into what worked with the current social regulations and committee on discipline to ease probation penalties by george mckulla disciplinary probation will be administered less frequently than in the past because of the resulting man datory loss of university-awarded aid according to robert cohen asso ciate dean of students this decision results from agree ments between the university com mittee on discipline and the office of financial aid in response to increas ing complaints that the sanction was costing minor offenders their financial aid according to cohen disciplinary probation has always been viewed by the financial aid office as a serious sanction and not just a slap on the wrist said william stanford director of financial aid we feel that if a student is receiv ing assistance and shows an inability to control his or herself in a given situation the student should forfeit his aid to someone more conscious of his position at lehigh stanford said he added that while some offenses were far too minor to warrant proba tion some actions could not be con doned from any viewpoint and the probation sanction was therefore appropriate using this rationale the discipline committee decided to limit the use of disciplinary probation deciding instead to impose other sanctions more suited to the violation the reha bilitative and restitutional aspects of disciplinary probation can still be imposed but financial aid will not necessarily be lost as the student will not be on probation per se cohen said cohen agreed that severity was an important factor in determining whether or not probation should be issued and further stated that of six cases presented to the committee this semester only one received discipli nary probation as part of the ruling that case involved physically harm ing another individual even though disciplinary probation might occur less frequently lighter sanctions should not be anticipated if a situation does occur cohen said funeral services held this morning for trustee curtis funeral services were held this morn ing for edward curtis 25 corporate trustee emeritus of the university who died wednesday in doylestown hospital curtis was 80 years old curtis who had been a retired vice president of new jersey bell telephone co , became a university corporate trus tee in 1968 after a six-year term as an alumnus trustee he was named corpo rate trustee emeritus in 1978 and chaired the board's planning committee in addition to his board service curtis was past national president of the alumni association had been a national chairman of the university's annual giving fund for several years and served as national vice chairman of the university's successful 22-million cen tennial campaign which concluded in the 19605 several of the annual giving cam paigns headed by curtis earned national recognition from the united states steel foundation and the american alumni council a native of lambertville n.j curtis earned a bachelor's in business adminis tration and later received the ll.b from south jersey law school now part of rutgers university . he received an honorary doctor of laws degree from the university in 1962 and in 1965 he received the prestigious l-in-life-award from the new york lehigh club edward curtis see conduct page 6 see smags page 5