Brown and White Vol. 108 No. 2

              the brownand white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 108 no 2 friday september 8 2000 all the lehigh news first princeton review finds increased drug use by sarah goldman news writer princeton review's annual poll has observed a major rise in marijuana use on lehigh's campus the best 331 colleges 2001 edition has polled students on various topics such as social life demographics quality of life politics and the party scene schools are then scored and com pared college to college in the various categories with a ranking system of 1-20 this year lehigh was ranked no 4 in the reefer madness category this is a large leap from last year when lehigh was unranked but is illicit drug usage just increasing on lehigh's campus or is it a nationwide problem paul rotondi 02 a brother at delta sigma phi agrees that drug use is rising my freshman year i found little drug use among the people i knew rotondi said now especially with beer not available at dance parties drug use has unbelievably changed social settings at registered parties many students feel project impact is to blame for the rise in drugs jenna goldstein 02 a sister at alpha gamma delta commented on the growing drug use trend since lehigh took drinking away students need to find other outlets for fun she said students who would nor mally drink on the weekends now use drugs vice provost john smeaton doesn't dispute that drugs are on the rise but questions lehigh's rank in the poll there also have not been any signifi cant increases in campus police reports hospital transports or vandalism that would indicate a rise in drug usage lehigh's drug problem is not uncom mon on die national scale in a household drug abuse survey given by the office of national drug control policy the nation wide use of illicit drugs of individuals ranging in age from 18-25 has increased 28 percent from 1997 to 1999 smeaton said we have a culture of abuse in our society it scares me how readily available and seemingly widely acceptable drugs are with far too little regard for potential consequences of use people casually refer to ecstacy and other b&w photo by stella mai i eli the journalism and communications department received a major grant to expand programs of study and to provide scholarship opportunities registration procedures yield frustration by gina montana agitation grows after waiting in line for hours in many cases to be shut out of desired classes news writer lehigh students experienced long lines closed class sections and course conflicts as the 2000/2001 fall semester kicked off with registration last monday many students said they found this semester's registration process to be more problematic than prior semesters students were forced to stand in line for many hours in many cases only to be told that another signature was needed to make any change official lines were so long that many students were still trying to iron out their sched ules after classes had already started brian marvin 02 was one of the many students who waited in line for more than an hour both monday and tuesday 1 don't understand why the registrar does not open for registration more than one day before classes start if they did students would not have to be rushing to get registration material fin ished while classes have already started marvin said bruce correll the registrar and indi vidual in charge of registration proce dures and development agreed that this semester's lines and waiting times were substantially longer and student roster conflicts were extensively greater the normal hour-and-a-half waits at our office increased up to three hour waits correll said we even kept the office open until 7:30 p.m on monday night in order to accommo date as many students as possible with schedule conflicts correll associates this semester's extensive problems with the simultane ous development of a new web-depend able registration system lehigh is testing he assures there will never be another semester with the same degree of confusion and stress once the system is executed this is a transition year between physical registration and our new web system registration correll said he explained that much of the confu sion and schedule conflicts occurred because this was the first semester in which students with drop/add requests could choose their preferred section as long as it was not full in order to change a section for a par ticular course students schedules had to be approved by their advisors and be free of any conflicts after the section change a chain reaction of problems and headaches occurred at the registrar's office as students presented section change and drop/add forms without first verifying that the change would not con flict with already existing courses and that the new section or class did not have a closed class list shannon o'malley 02 experienced a lack of communication between faculty members and the registrar's office when she attempted to switch times for a course section o'malley received permission from her professor to switch section times for a particular class however when she arrived at the registrar's office she was notified that the section she wanted was already at its maximum capacity after verifying with both her advisor and professor that the section was indeed still open o'malley returned to the registrar's office although the section was supposed to be full she was able to assure them that her professor approved her schedule change the entire process of waiting over an hour in line to just get a section time changed and then running back and forth from the registrar to my professor was frustrating and very time consuming o'malley said many freshmen said they had a great deal of difficulty getting the specific english 001 section lor which they had pre-registered some students even see princeton page 4 see register page a '-. spt^l mountain hawks rodale grant offers napster and controversy 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