Brown and White Vol. 108 No. 31

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 108 no 31 all the lehigfa news first friday february 23 2001 clinton biographer shares his thoughts by sarah goldman assistant news editor david maraniss associate editor of the washington post told the lehigh community that bill clinton's legacy will never die in a speech tuesday night in packard lab maraniss won a pulitzer prize for his study of clinton and is considered to be an expert on the former president maraniss compared the clinton years not as two four-year terms but as four two-year terms the central theme of clinton is a story of repetition maraniss said a cycle of loss and recovery loss and recov ery ... it will go on until the day he dies while in arkansas clinton ran for office every two years he brought just that men tality to washington when he was elected maraniss described the cycle of clinton as eerie and very predictable when times were bad clinton would utilize the help of dick morris to get him out of trouble many times clinton's actions to save his reputation served as a catalyst for a different issue maraniss said this was evident in clinton's first term as president clinton relied on morris and a number of different media ploys to increase his ratings these ploys got clinton back into trouble maraniss said the same force that drives him to good drives him to bad maraniss said maraniss said the union of clinton and al gore was a brilliant choice b&w photo by laurenlustbader gore solidified clinton's weaknesses maraniss said when clinton and gore met they spent three hours together each was trying to show the other he was smarter then they thought god togeth er we're the two smartest men around maraniss said gore was the voice of stability in the clinton administration gore was fairly consistent and helped to keep clinton out of trouble gore however does not have the polit ical savvy that clinton has maraniss said al gore was born to serve but clinton was bom to run maraniss said maraniss was not surprised with gore's defeat in this past election bush used clinton's techniques better than gore did maraniss spoke about the twofold personality of clinton's nature in rela tion to the duality of the environment he grew up in clinton grew up in a town of incredible duality maraniss said one side was lined with baptist churches the other gambling clinton grew up in this environment and is just an exaggeration of it maraniss said clinton realized his purpose in life through his work with the high school band clinton was the band major and ran the band like a political machine during his senior year of high school a trumpet player moved to clinton's school visiting lecturer david maraniss spoke about what makes bill clinton tick fraternity task force presents data to ifc by greg meyer two groups try to reach a mutual decision on how to sohe issues of deferred maintenance on houses assistant news editor the fraternity task force addressed the interfraternity council about the deferred maintenance problem at a meeting tuesday evening in the university center ifc president jon trenkle 02 began the meeting by emphasizing that the issue at hand was not that the sprinkler system implementation he said the sprinkler system has already been paid for and that it is costing a fiat rate of 110 per bed throughout the university trenkle turned the meeting over to associate dean of students tom dubreuil dubreuil prefaced the meeting by outlining its purpose no decisions are going to be made tonight dubreuil said no decisions have to be made tonight we want to provide you with information to help us through this process dubreuil then introduced director of facilities plan and renovations gary falasca 73 a task force assistant falasca presented the data die task force had analyzed and explained how each of the three plans would affect each house indi vidually the three choices being consid ered are to remain with die current system of each house as an individual cost center to create a separate system just for fraternities or to combine the fraternity system with die residential system falasca stressed the importance regardless of which plan is chosen of keeping the houses filled to capacity living up to capacity is the rule of the day falasca said lie said that those houses not filled to capacity will have to raise their rent so high that they would not be able to compete with other living options mark spedaliere 01 a brother at sigma alpha mv and student senate president suggested that a fourth option one where each house chooses whether they want to join the system or not to be considered i feel that the rollover of the fraterni ties into the residential services system can be very beneficial to many houses but it is detrimental to others spedaliere said at the very least it is imperative that each house have the opportunity to join or reject this system depending on what they feel is best for their chapter i have yet to hear a good enough reason for a mandatory system-wide rollout the task force has been asking for sug gestions to open up discussion on other options one reason for tuesday's meeting was to get the opinions of the people like spedaliere whom the deci sion would affect the most some brothers expressed fear that the residential system would have too much control over them one fraternity member suggested that a contract be drawn up to make sure that no changes in the system are made in the future other items that the fraternity members sug gested putting in a contract are that the university could not impose swipe cards or boarders on the fraternities vice provost john smeaton an assistant to die task force liked the contract idea and expressed interest in following up on it the presenters at the meeting wanted to clarify that the task force has only die best intentions for the fraternity system's future we want to leave the lifestyle of the fraternities alone while modifying their financial system smeaton said many brothers wanted to know what the advantages of a financially sound house joining the system would be ollie foucek 72 the task force chair stressed that the important thing is to keep the system alive we need to preserve the system foucek said we can't turn out backs on those in bad shape foucek said that if a few houses fold because others won't enter the system the whole fraternity system begins to fall apart dubreuil said that the issue is a philo sophical one he said you have to decide what's more important the good of the group or the good of the individual the most important underlying issue is to make sure the system remains to make sure the houses remain see clinton page 4 1 ed lacayo is a leader both on and off the basketball court see page 19 phil stambaugh 18 new coach 20 track and field 20 frank roth appointed to new general counsel position see page 3 news 1-6 world news briefs 2 student senate 5 business program 6 the effects of eating disorders see page 7 lifestyle 7-14 hidden treasure 8 horoscopes 9 matter of opinion 13 the shortest war between britain and zanzibar in 1896 lasted just 38 minutes source:http7/www.use!essknowl edge.com