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              concern is that if we're going to be setting a pattern of some days in and some days out it's potentially disruptive to more than 12,000 students for instruction to be effective it ought to be ongoing he added that's a con cern to me this concern is shared by parents of students on the bethlehem school dis trict including lehigh's journalism coordinator linda lipko whose daugh ter is a student at spring garden ele mentary school it's very hard if you're a parent lipko explained to listen every night to see if the school is open day care for children of working par ents is a concern as well the basd day care program is operating four day care centers as opposed to the usual 11 cen ters lipko said if parents were lucky enough to have a previous slot for it they could receive day care but unfortunately many children and their parents are now left without a solution children who receive day care are confused due to the strike she added lipko said that one child was seen crying and hyperventilating at the day care cen by vivian shpigler brown and white news writer the bethlehem area school district teachers strike continues to harrow the lives of area students and parents alike the strike has been in effect since the start of the school year with daily an nouncements of school closings robert frey president of the bethle hem education association said we as a parent and educator i'm disappointed in the school board and their position which seems awfully inflexible roger simon history department chair will continue our practice of making a decision on a day-by-day basis and com municating that decision to the superin tendent by early evening of the day be fore thomas doluisio superintendent of the bethlehem school district said obviously i'm happy anytime we can get the teachers back but my overriding b&w photo by jason stanford bring the noise guitarist scott lan jams during the anthrax/public enemy concert last sunday at lehigh's stabler arena the brown and white tuesday october 1 1991 vol 99 no 8 lehigh university weekend assaults thefts trigger campus safety concerns student mugged at knifepoint not reported until yesterday at 8 p.m when the victim described her attacker as a black male thin short hair about six feet tall at approximately 9 p.m that same night a male lehigh student was assaulted by three assailants on morton street one block from brodhead house while walk ing from the brodhead parking lot although nothing was stolen the victim suffered a broken nose and bruises from the attackers blood from the vic tim's injuries left stains on the sidewalk in front of brodhead police officials said the victim a brodhead house resi dent who had been walking alone was taken to st luke's hospital where he was treated and released smeaton said the attack was probably unrelated to the one reported yesterday campus police surveillance of mor ton and vine streets and brodhead ave by kara villamil and mitchell drake brown and white editors two lehigh students were involved in separate assault incidents last weekend according to campus police reports a female student was mugged at knifepoint in the park next to packard laboratory at approximately 9:45 p.m saturday night said john smeaton vice president of student affairs smeaton said the student was walking home alone through the dimly lit wooded area when a man approached her and said where is your pocketbook the man noticed she didn't have a pocket book and said it must be in your pocket put it on the ground and back up seeing that the assailant had a knife the victim put her wallet on the ground he grabbed it and ran the incident was see crime page 2 ures near the building nearly 150 signa tures were obtained by sunday evening laura vorel 94 explained that brod head residents are particularly unsafe because the dormitory is not part of the main campus she said there is no reliable transpor tation to and from campus buildings at night the t.r.a.c.s bus ignores the stop in front of brodhead so people are reluctant to use it she said lack of safe parking areas was an other concern of the students at night many students are forced to park in the poorly lit brodhead lot two blocks away many students voiced how unsafe walk ing to and from the lot is as exemplified by the assault this weekend i would rather risk getting a ticket than risking my life walking from the nue increased yesterday smeaton said reports of both confirmed and ru mored assaults on and off campus prompted a building meeting yesterday for the residents of brodhead house campus police sgt tony casciano and assistant director of residence life ozzie breiner held an information session to address the heightened fears among the brodhead residents at the meeting casciano and breiner spoke with approximately 140 residents more than 75 percent of all the students living at brodhead the pair attempted to allay fears concerning lax police prac tices inadequate lighting and transpor tation and the weekend assault incidents after hearing unconfirmed reports of weekend assault incidents brodhead residents were quick to circulate a peti tion among themselves calling for in creased lighting and other security meas bethlehem area teachers strike ordeal for students see strike page 9 jxissil^-artimoale libr no.ooba jason project to bring galapagos to lu page 6