Brown and White Vol. 99 no. 10

              the brown and white vol 99n0.10 tuesday october 8 1991 lehigh university increased security patrols cover brodhead vicinity by marc j goldstein brown and white assistant news editor additional patrols have been added to the area surrounding broadhead house where two students were assaulted in separate incidents on sept 28 said eu gene dax university police chief there was a need at the present time to do more surveillance in this area dax said so we are adding until further notice either a policeman or a guard who is assigned to this immediate area dax said there were patrols that walked through this area seven to eight times a night they are there to see things but they are also there to be seen they serve as a deterrent as well dax said however the broadhead area never was targeted previously by university police as a place requiring greater manpower because statistically the most frequent crimes vandalism theft and alcohol vio lations occur on the hill during week ends between midnight and 4 a.m that is where statistics indicate most of the crimes are taking place said john smeaton assistant vice-president for student affairs during the evening hours there are three or four officers on duty as well as four security guards who are assigned to certain areas however there is no way to prevent every incident from happening we try to minimize the likelihood smeaton said in general we have to look at campus as part of society unfortunately we are not protected from all the ills of society smeaton said increased usage of the tracs system and following simple safety rules are the best ways to protect oneself smeaton said we can't just rely on the campus police to provide the safety for the cam pus smeaton said we have to rely on our students faculty and members of the community letting the campus police know when they see something smeaton said it is really a shared responsibility if people think that some one is just going to protect them if they put all the responsibility on someone else they are not fulfilling their individ ual responsibility or obligation after information about the muggings was reported many of the administrative offices and the university police received calls from both students and parents concerned about safety they wanted to know what types of changes are going to be made we don't have to change a whole lot the system is in place smeaton said we will react to particular situations just as chief dax has now and put extra surveillance in that area both smeaton and dax agreed that probably the most underused resource was the tracs transport system i don't think that the lehigh community fully understands or takes advantage of the tracs bus service dax said dax said that in the september the tracs service was used by about 100 people per night the tracs take a ride around campus safely system began in 1988 and contains two vans which run from 8 p.m to 1 a.m sunday through thursday students charge police with harassment by vincent keane brown and white news writer two lehigh students and a third individual filed a complaint friday against two lower sau con police officers for racially motivated harassment according to the complaint dozie mbonu 92 charles perm 92 and jessie morales were in the front seat of mbonu's dodge aries with four other friends in the back seat while driving home from a concert at stabler arena on sept 29 mbonu was pulled over on the 800 block of wyandotte street by officers thomas barndt and ronald jones for overcrowding a vehicle according to the complaint issued by mbonu penn and morales barndt immediately began to yell at the occupants of the car without provocation within seconds the vehicle was surrounded by three more squad cars all the passengers in mbonu's car were minorities and mbonu said he thinks they would have been treated differently if the passengers were white we were treated like crimi nals from the beginning mbonu said we might have been pulled over but i don't think we would have been treated in that man ner based on the fact of an over crowded car jones instructed mbonu to produce identification and when he did mbonu said the officers attitudes changed dramatically toward the occupants in the car the complaint stated the incident that took place reeked of predjudiced harassment see ing as though all the passengers of the car were minorities we are all deeply saddened by this incident not just because our rights were knowingly and forcefully violoated but because it shows that prejudice and ra cism are actively present in the lower saucon police depart ment according to the complaint while mbonu searched under the seat for his wallet barndt per mitted penn and morales to get out of the car the complaint states that jones approached the two and demanded that they return to the car after brandt told jones that he had permitted penn and morales to get out of the car jones began to physically search morales jacket and the back side of her pants according to the complaint morales protested the officer's search jones then screamed i can search whatever i want when i want and then yelled for her mtv jams at lehigh by vincent keane brown and white news writer late-night at lehigh and the student activities council hosted club mtv's college tour on saturday night where ap proximately 350 people attended a dance party at lower grace hall wendy mcswain the casting director for club mtv and a graduate of mo ravian college brought lights a sound system smoke machines a giant video screen and six mtv dancers for the show which took place from 10 p.m to mid night mcswain said this tour which is the last of three such tours will end in de cember after getting great receptions at other schools while three male and three female dancers performed four choreographed routines and taught students dance moves named the wop the snake and the robocop mcswain conducted a dance contest for approximately 90 people jennifer malatesta 94 and stephen cassidy 94 finished the night in first b&w photo by jason stanford mtv dancer encourages the crowd see complaint page 3 see security page 3 see mtv page 1 2 sciencepages origin of life debated page 9