Brown and White Vol. 101 no. 24

              brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 101 no 24 friday january 28 1994 all the lehigh news first financial aid guarantee dropped by learie carasco assistant news editor aid to be awarded to most qualified students for incoming freshman class lehigh will no longer guarantee financial aid to prospective students choosing to award financial aid to the most qualified students pat boig director of admissions said lehigh origi nally implemented the guarantee in 1991 to better com pete with other schools lehigh was aiding 25 percent of its students while rival schools like lafayette college were aiding 50 percent of their student body ' there was recognition that we had to do more in the area financial aid in order to be more competitive boig said she said lehigh had a reputation for not placing a lot of money on the table the guarantee helped us change the perception of lehigh being unfriendly boig said it was also used to encourage families of lower income groups to allow their children to apply to lehigh presently lehigh has 50 percent of its students on aid william stanford director of financial aid said the question is whether it is viable to keep the guarantee as such if we are at the point where we are fully competitive with everybody else he said there are more and more needy students even though we have increased the financial aid budget 2 or 3 million a year we almost can't keep a guarantee within the past three years lehigh has increased its financial aid from 1 2 million to 23 million without the financial aid guarantee lehigh will be able to balance its budget boig said it reflects the concern that lehigh does not have a bottomless pit of dollars she said it reflects a need on our part to do the right thing the guarantee caters to those who filed for aid on time once accepted their needs were matched this policy hurt students who filed late because the funds had already been distributed i think we would have more flexibility i think we would be able to look at the strongest applicants we have stanford said we are doing the best possible job we can in getting the right number of students and the highest quality without going over the budget at present it has not been determined whether or not students barely admitted to lehigh would be at a greater risk stanford said we cannot determine before the facts where the knife is going to cut because until all the applicants are on file and all the needs are calculated you are not in a position to know how far you can go on your list and where you have to start looking for tradeoffs returning students will not be affected it is almost wlvr to move transmitter by amy gorman news editor the voice of lehigh will soon be heard broadcasting live to twice the number of its present audience lehigh s radio station wlvr will be able to broadcast to a wider area with the impending move of their transmitter to the mountaintop campus presently the transmitter is located on the top of the university center a location from which they cannot broadcast to the other side of the mountain basically right now the broad cast doesn't get over to goodman said wlvr general manager bridget marshall 96 in efforts to expand wlvr's broadcast the transmitter will be moved to the mountaintop campus the move is planned to take place in march we're moving it higher to in crease the listening area that the uc location doesn't give us marshall said since the university could not budget them the necessary funds wlvr sought donations from local businesses to obtain the approxi mate 8,000 for the new transmitter since the money was not bud geted to us we raised money through an underwriting campaign marshall said underwriting works by hav ing local businesses in bethlehem sponsor programs through donations in return to have their name associ ated with a specific radio program or show erin lynn 96 public affairs di snow cold close lehigh by geoffrey s colon freezing temperatures continued snow storms disrupt first week of classes and drop add leave leaking buildings and residence halls news editor over a foot of snow dumped on the lchigh valley last week and a winter cold front that originated in siberia made the opening week of school a flood for some students the enormous snowfall caused the cancellation of classes wednes day morning during the morning of jan 18 after 4 p.m jan 19 and the cancellation of classes all day on jan 20 disrupting the add/drop period and leaving professors and students scrambling to make up lost time melting snow began leaking into campus buildings causing water damage to trembley park apart ments mcclintic-marshall hall the university center drown hall chandler-ullman hall grace hall and sinclair laboratory ozzie breiner associate director of residential services said 40 resi dence hall rooms have been affected by the flooding breiner said there is little that residential services can do at the moment until the snow melts the temperature needs to rise a little bit more to help us out he said we ve had workmen on roofs chipping away ice breiner said the whole lehigh valley is experiencing the same problem compared to last year's spring break blizzard breiner said baw photo by david baker students walk to classes on one of the few days they were held last week student to face trial for assault charges by paul hare a lehigh student will face trial for two charges of indecent assault as he waived his right to a prelimi nary hearing in front of pennsylvania district justice nancy matos on monday jonathan hornstein 96 was ar rested by lehigh police on dec 3 and charged with the attack of two women during a party at theta xi fraternity according to an affidavit from arresting lchigh police officer rich ard mcgarr the female victims al lege that hornstein bit both of them on the chest resulting in a visible bruise on one of the victims hornstein was released on 10,000 bond under his own respon sibility to return for trial according to the district justice's office associate editor pjease see snow page 4 please see court page 6 please see aid page 6 please sec wlvr page 6 m^^^^m&^^^^m news 1 " 7 world news briefs 2 new editorial staff 3 kappa kappa psi 7 wa m i lifestyle 9-16 m a roommate disasters 10 w^ma alternative bands 12 mm i sports h'l i swimming 22 men's basketball 24 morris dees lecture see more in news page 5