Brown and White Vol. 101 no. 7

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 101 no 7 all the lehigh news first friday october 1 1993 off-campus students expected to follow rules administrators believe off-campus students play critical role in maintaining community relations bytadehrbar news writer there is a great concern among the lehigh administration regarding the actions of students living off campus within the bethlehem com munity the administration wants to com municate to the students that they play a critical role in the develop ment of a positive relationship be tween the university and the com munity around 34 percent of the lehigh population lives off-campus and 70 percent of these people are not greek mark erickson director of stu dent life said we want to make them aware that the university cares about them and what they are doing they reflect the lehigh community terrance curran associate dean of student life said we have an identifiable institutional interest in maintaining and cooperating with our neighbors we have consulted and informed the student senate that off-campus students will face the same sanctioning guidelines curran also stated that there is a misconception concerning the makeup of these students the vast majority of these students are not greek related in anyway in recent years there have been many disturbances reported by the bethlehem police regarding resident's complaints this has brought great concern to the univer sity james harper director of com munity relations said we have to take a charge in this we want the students to be a part of the solution and not a part of the problem we are out there to help we just don't want themto walk into a big seaof trouble the university has created a new manual for off-campus students called linking you to lehigh it is available to all off-campus stu baw photo hy steve lampe birkel avenue is one of many popular off-campus streets on which students live lehigh pays big price for thefts by paul hare news editor since july campus buildings have experienced a rash of burglaries which have been both expensive for the university and frustrating for lehigh police since students returned from summer recess over 2,000 worth of equipment has been heisted from three different campus locations police reports have placed university losses at over 3,600 since july the thefts include major pieces of electronic equip ment ranging from compact disc players to computer hard drives which are usually assumed to be secure according to eugene dax chief of lehigh police there is a growing problem of deficient security within some department buildings in most of the campus buildings there is no equip ment check-out system and no secure storage area dax said this leaves the equipment out in the open for anyone to walk by and take responsibility for inventoried equipment like elec tronics and computers lies with the department heads and building supervisors nearly all of the theft reports filed with lehigh police involved an unforced entry type of robbery where items were left in the open and people would just walk away with the materials ninety-eight percent of the problem is carelessness dax said if people protect their things nobody will bother them but if you leave things unattended then sooner or later they will be stolen although campus buildings are locked in the evening dax said there is a problem of items being exposed from early morning hours until the security locks the buildings at night in places like whitaker laboratory which has lost $ 1 200 in computer and electronics there is the problem of constant exposure of equipment to the general public this is a lab and people need to get in to do their work it can't be locked up all the time said one materials science professor who works in whitaker but asked to remain anonymous the professor said there is a great deal of extremely expensive equipment that is exposed to theft every day there is a 3,000 drill in this lab the professor said as he opened the door to an empty laboratory and the baw photo hy steve lampe more than 2,000 worth of electronic equipment has been stolen from locations around the lehigh campus vcrs compact disc players and hard drives were taken in september slaves found freedom through cuisine by stephanie pillersdorf news writer the few feelings of freedom that slaves experienced can be attributed to cooking for themselves and develop ing their own cuisines said sidney w mintz professor of anthropology at johns hopkins university at sinclair auditorium wednesday the lecture was entitled tasting food tasting free dom slave cooks and masters foods in the 1 8th century caribbean throughout the lecture mintz drewparallels between the taste of food and the taste of freedom they are intimately connected in the same way that the stomach and brain work together mintz said according to mintz slaveholders permitted slaves to cook for themselves and also plant some of their own crops he said this was their one outlet of freedom pvease see off c a.mpv3s page 1 please see theft page 7 please see slavery page 7 news 1-8 h world news briefs 2 crew gets additional funds 3 field hockey 24 unusual pets volleyball 22 students keep snakes fish and iguanas see story page 10