Brown and White Vol. 88 no. 37

              lehigh university brown and white 215-866-0331 vol 88 — no 37 bethlehem pa tuesday march 1 1977 deans decide break even guarantee must precede concert contract signing by ken bandler managing editor future concerts at the university must be guaranteed to break even before a contract can be signed according to a decision made by william quay dean of students and nathan harris assistant dean of students and student activities council sac adviser the decision announced to the sac wednesday is an interim solution to prevent more deficits quay said currently the sac concert deficit is 13,900 this sum accumulated over three years sac president jack pariseau 78 termed the decision entirely un feasible...lf quay does not change his mind we will not have another concert this year he continued the sac held an open hearing on the future of concerts at the university yesterday both quay and harris were on hand to answer questions from ap proximately 50 students attending quay explained the future concert procedure to be put into motion at least a month before each proposed program sac announces a concert date and the potential group for that date presidents of all dorms and frater nities submit to the sac signed purchase orders for concert tickets for their respective houses when sac receives enough orders for tickets to break even a contract can be signed this procedure was university policy until 1968 until that time concerts and other student activities were organized by a student activities committee of arcadia the forum's precursor quay said the policy disappeared m the transition from arcadia to the forum and establishment of the sac quay explained that the administration is not opposed to concerts harris said the concerts are at the university for student consumption and should be supported by the students during the past three years tickets sold to university students have averaged 1,500 tickets per concert an average of 2,300 tickets sold has been necessary for con certs to break even pariseau said pariseau said the sac would not attempt to implement the new procedure this is the closest he quay could come to saying no concerts without saying it m those words he continued the university community has no desire to decide about a concert a month m advance he said pariseau said the administration has to come to a decision that concerts are a definite part of the lehigh experience " he suggested an interim solution consist of the administration subsidizing one dollar per university student if the concert runs a deficit william quay revised plan changes indicator by ed bogucz editor-in-chief the economic indicator used by the administration for evaluation of tuition and living expense increases was changed m a revised draft of the university's 10 year plan the original draft of the plan stated that the university must avoid increasing these costs tuition and living expenses eric ottervik more rapidly than the rate of inflation the revised draft however compares the students costs to the disposable personal income index the disposable personal income index has increased an average of 9.27 per cent annually over the last five years while the consumer price index averaged a 7.6 per cent annual increase a 1.67 percentage point difference student costs have averaged 7.82 per cent annually over the same period the 10-year plan is a summary of the long-range planning efforts of the university's academic and non-academic departments the original draft of the plan was released late last september for critical comments a revised draft of the first two of the six sections m the plan was distributed to administrators forum members and other selected individuals feb 16 for their review and comments ottervik who was responsible for drafting the plan refused to release a copy of the revisions to the brown and white the revised draft also includes a new definition of undergraduate enrollment with allowances for reasonable yearly variations the revised draft states approximately 40 per cent of un dergraduate grades given a more ac curate indication of student and faculty loads than degree choices will be m the college of engineering and physical sciences 40 per cent m the college of arts and science and 20 per cent m the college of business and economics this revised definition of enrollment will be changed back to the original draft's version ottervik said yesterday the original draft stated that of the total number of undergraduate degrees awarded 40 per cent would be given m the engineering college 40 per cent m the arts college and 20 per cent m the business college ottervik refused to comment on other sections of the revised draft which resembled the original version except for rewording of some passages and organizational changes he pointed out that he is constantly making revisions and the revised draft will soon be changed the two sections of the draft which were revised and distributed deal with the mission and broad goals of the university the constraints which were assumed when the plan was drafted and the university's operational guidelines the two sections are expected to be discussed with the university trustees at their april meeting ottervik said ot tervik has requested that comments on the revisions be submitted by mar 11 the constraints which were assumed m the plan include the admittance of men and women m order of excellence of qualifications and without specific storm floods cars in smags lot reimbursement sought by owners by jeff glaze the owners of 14 cars flooded m the smags parking lot during last thursday's heavy rainstorms are seeking reim bursement from the university for damage to their cars flooding m the lot has been attributed to the alleged drains which backed up during the storm ac cording to several smags residents dan basora a government graduate student residing m smags is the leader of the group whose cars were damaged basora said robert reeves assistant dean of students originally told the group the flooding was an act of god and that no reimbursement would be made we don't think this was an act of god it was clearly an act of negligence basora said smags resident joanne whitney wife of business grad student james whitney said ann fritz of residence operations had been contacted last wednesday to have litter and debris cleared from the drains but no action was taken when they finally unclogged the drain it was only a matter of minutes until the drain was cleared basora said according to the campus police report the first call from smags for assistance came at 6:30 p.m thursday tony packer allied maintenance supervisor was called by the campus police at 6:35 p.m but did not respond until 8:05 p.m whitney said it was not until university president deming lewis was called that allied showed up it was obviously negligence whitney said it could have taken them 15 minutes to clear the drain but instead the cars sat there for 1v 2 hours ; richard irwin allied project manager was not available for comment about the delay after speaking to reeves basora robert reeves see income page 4 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm next issue the next issue of the brown and 1 || white will be distributed thursday § || instead of friday the paper will i § contain a special eiwa wrestling § |! preview advertisements and other i i copy for that issue should be sub ;| |§ mitted by 6 p.m today see flooding page 5 inside dining survey p 5 twinkle toes p 6 playoffs next p 8