Brown and White Vol. 102 no. 11

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 102 no 11 friday october 21 1994 all the lehigh news first trustees approve three new merit scholarships by garth poorman associate editor the board of trustees recently approved a proposal to create three non-need based scholarship programs that will be awarded to students on the basis of academic merit the president's scholarship pro gram is the only one that will benefit current students both the dean's and baker scholarships will target incoming freshmen starting with the class of 1999 the president s scholarships will grant a full year of free tuition to any student graduating with high honors after january of 1995 the free-tu ition offer only applies to classes in the 12-month period immediately fol lowing graduation students will be able to use the tuition to enroll in either graduate or undergraduate courses high honors are awarded by the faculty to students who graduate with a gpa of 3.5 or above with a mini mum of 90 credit hours at lehigh it will still be necessary to be admitted to graduate school in order to receive the president's scholarship the dean's scholarship will be awarded to seven incoming fresh men in each of lehigh's three col leges starting next year the scholar ships will be either 5,000 or 7,000 awards in addition to receiving scholar ships dean's scholars will partici pate in special programs designed by each individual college the college ofengineering and applied sciences has already started a dean's scholar program that is similar to what will be instituted in each college next year the program gives students an opportunity to learn more than what is available in classes through a series of field trips and lectures involving ex perts in different fields of engineering the dean s scholars are not connected with any financial aid programs with 21 dean's scholarships available this upcoming year the program is not intended to replace need-based giving as the cornerstone of lehigh's financial aid policy lehigh president peter likins said we do not intend to commit more than a few percent of our financial aid dollars to this purpose but we will establish the principle so that excellent students will recognize that they have at least the possibility of winning a dean's scholarship at lehigh even if they do not qualify as needy " marsha duncan vice president for student affairs said the heart and soul of our financial assistance will still be need-based merit schol arships are important because of all the students that don't apply when we don't have them the proposal also included the baker scholarship for the perform ing arts which will give awards of 2,500 per year to students of high academic quality who display a su perior talent in music or theater director of admissions patricia boig said the dean's and baker scholarships will be used to benefit students from a variety of financial backgrounds we will be looking to take these scholarships and use them to go after students that we think will add to our overall mix of students boig said because there is going to be only 20 there is a lot of ground to cover so we can t really just target one group such as our geographical outreach pro gram or our african american popu lation and if there are alumni kids who fall in the quality ranges they will be a high priority too eighty-six percent of the nation's universities grant merit scholarships an exclusively need-based giving institution lehigh was losing stu dents to schools whose financial aid policies were not bound by the fed eral government's calculation of a gay jeans day co-sponsored by ipc and panhellenic council by garth poorman associate editor the lesßigay alliance will co sponsor the third-annual gay jeans day on oct 28 with the interfrater nity and panhellenhic councils this is the first year either ifc or panhel had been asked to take part in the event their sponsorship does not include any financial support panhelpresidentshoshanaschiff 95 said it's important that groups especiallygreekorganizations dem onstrate they support diversity on campus by co-sponsoring this event we want to allow people to feel like they can come out and not be stigma tized schiff said frank wojcik 97 president of lesßigay said gay jeans day is meant to demonstrate that gay issues affect everyone this is meant to show that people do support gay issues both in the greek system and in the population in general wojcik said students are encouraged to wear jeans as a sign of their support fac ulty and staff many of whom are prohibited from wearing jeans to work will be given denim patches to pin to their lapel wojcik said the idea for the deni m patch came up after faculty had asked to be given an alternative to wearing jeans lesßigay plans to distribute these patches to the individual departments so they will be readily available to interested faculty jim truver 95 treasurer of lesßigay said he was skeptical at first about holding a third gay jeans day i recommended against it at first truver said too many people thought it was coercive in nature in the past people thought they were being duped into wearing jeans be cause there was a lack of media infor mation about what was taking place even though ifc is a co-sponsor * haw photo by da vid york from left to right chapin flynn 96 jim mcmenamin 96 ryan linthicum 97 doug borkowski 96 and jason lew 95 sit amid the spoils of the pantry raid greeks raid pantries for food drive by giselle gutierrez news writer lambda chi alpha fraternity and alpha omicron pi sorority held their third-annual pantry raid to benefit the southeast neighborhood center last week lehigh's goal was to surpass the 3,256 pounds collected last year by collecting 3,500 pounds but the total amount of food collected was 3,3 1 2 pounds although this amount was short of the goal the overall food drive was successful fraternity brothers and sorority sisters distributed bags with flyers to residential and business areas in north bethlehem the bags were then col lected a week later leo pires 96 house steward for lambda chi sent out flyers to all the fraternity houses in order to get many people involved pires said it is easy to do something helpful for the less fortunate in the community and i feel that taking part in the pantry raid was one way of doing so melissa d'amico 96 philan thropy chairwoman of aopi said it is really exciting to see the many people that are willing to give to the people who are less fortunate than they are the canned food was collected throughout town and from lehigh's fraternities and sororities last satur day it is amazing to see the amount of food mat can be collected with only a little effort d'amico said jason lew 95 vice president of lambda chi and chairman of the canned food drive said despite the short amount of time due to pacing break the collection of food was very successful once the food was collected and placed in trucks to be taken to the neighborhood center the best feeling was to fill the bare pantry with food and to see appreciative faces of the people in the center d'amico said angelica baez a family worker at the southeast neighborhood cen ter said the center is a member of southside ministries and throughout the year receives donations of food and money from various groups in the area the food collected by the pantry raid will last for a few months since on the average 2,400 pounds of food bought at the lehigh valley food bank lasts one month please see merit page 6 please see jeans page 6 please see pantry page 6 ebeed9i is^^m news 1 ~ 8 fl w : s;p world news briefs 2 * * tei alcohol awareness week 4 p|_f ' j police work with ifc 5 lifestyle 9-16 f j eating disorders 9 % * kevin higgins 15 ifsst sports 20-24 _______ j field hockey 24 women's soccer 24 women's soccer lehigh scores over lasalle 2-0 see sports 24