Brown and White Vol. 116 No. 11

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 116 no 11 tuesday october 7 2008 all the lehigh news first tuning in to voters b&w photo by henry weinberger on thursday abc 7 of new york interviewed lehigh students from new jersey who re-registered to vote in pennsylvania which is more of a swing state than new jersey the deadline to register was monday frats host recruitment barbecue in lieu of fall open house events by emily iwan in the first step toward improving fraternity recruitment the interfrater nity council sponsored a barbecue on the front lawn of the university center thursday night the event marks a change from fra ternities hosting fall open houses which will not be held this year ifc president bobby buckheit 09 said spring open houses may or may not be held this year this sort of event it's not connected with open houses but there will be no fall open houses this semester as far as we're concerned spring open houses are still up in the air said buckheit this is an event looking to do some thing different from open houses but still generating buzz about recruitment he said the event generated a large turn out including fraternity brothers ifc members greek life coordinators and freshmen griffin humphreys 09 ifc vice president of administration said the changes in the recruitment process reflect the newly adopted fraternity code of conduct which is designed to increase accountability within fraternity life at lehigh humphreys jack cherewatti 09 ifc recruitment chair and buckheit brainstormed the new code of con duct humphreys said humphreys said the new recruiting process will be more integrated into the lehigh community which is why the first event took place off the hill we want to dismiss the stereotype that fraternities are exclusive sexists elitist groups because we're not hum phreys said fraternities are values based organizations that have a social outlet tim wilkinson director of fraternity and sorority affairs said the fraternity recruitment process is evolving traditionally fraternity recruitment relied heavily on alcohol and women city seeks bond to install public security cameras by matt stayman â–  wireless camera network will monitor public areas in bethlehem and transmit information to police bethlehem mayor john callahan allocated 800,000 last week to create a wireless mesh sur veillance network that will be implemented by next year the plan is to install cameras in public spaces such as streets and parking garages the surveillance network will be imple mented gradually with a total cost of about 2.9 million and funded from a proposed 7.5 million bond other projects supported by the bond will include new police cars a miniature golf course and the south bethlehem greenway park the proposal will also equip police cars with screens so officers can view footage transmit ted wirelessly by the cameras allowing them to respond to emergencies with greater efficiency callahan said other municipal services such as the fire de partment and ems units will also have access to the streaming video he said the cameras would provide evidence in cases where police could not be present callahan said the goal of the cameras is really to act as what is called a fourth multiplier he said they are always there they can be there when a po lice officer can't be callahan said he believes the cameras will be instrumental in determining how to deploy of ficers in the future some lehigh students expressed support for the proposal because of the promise of increased safety in public areas near-collision at local airport raises certification concerns by dana anderson â–  lehigh valley international airport which is often used by lehigh stu dents doesn't have enough fully certi fied air traffic controllers sources say a near-crash between a commercial jet and a small cessna airplane at lehigh valley international airport is under investigation said a transportation safety official the two planes came an estimated 10 feet from each other on sept 19 according to a national transportation safety board press release peter knudson a national transportation safety board spokesman said an investigation is under way and the con trollers who were on duty have been interviewed and an investigator has examined the runway as we understand there was substantial braking at about the time the commuter jet was trying to avoid the collision with the cessna so we want to find out the details of what happened knudson said the near-crash occurred when a runway that had been cleared for takeoff by the regional jet was still occupied by the cessna the report said a commercial jet operated by mesa airlines which was taking off on the same runway had reached about 138.2 mph at the time and was forced to swerve around the cessna there were no reported injuries to those on board the cessna or the jet knudson said by understanding the sequence of events that led up to the near crash the safety board can better understand how to prevent future problems jeff fisher president of the allentown chapter of the air traffic controllers association said the incident highlights a federal aviation administration staffing crisis neither of the controllers in the control tower at the time of the inci dent was fully certified fisher said as rising numbers of experienced controllers retire because of low wages and long hours the faa is desper ate to replace controllers fisher said the ratio of trainees to certified controllers has increased at airports across the country fisher said while the controller who cleared the mesa airlines jet was certified to work in the control tower he was not a fully qualified air traffic controller fisher said we have four positions that you have to certify on in the tower and we also have three radar positions down stairs fisher said so when we characterize trainees in the tower the reason we say that is because they're not certified in all the positions in the building that kind of automatically means they don't have experience in the building the controller who was on duty at the time of the in cident had been certified in the control tower for less than see plane page 2 see cameras page 4 see recruitment page 4 andrew bird football falls again scholar lectures on plays at zoellner in final seconds human trafficking page 7 page 16 www.thebrownandwhite.com