Brown and White Vol. 108 No. 37

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 108 no 37 tuesday march 27 2001 all the lehigh news first three arrested in undercover drug bust by amanda gontarz news editor the morning call reported friday that state police arrested two lehigh stu dents wednesday on charges of possess ing selling and delivering illegal drugs the students arrested were john pavlik 02 and peter hungerford 04 police said they confiscated 137,400 in cash and drugs including marijuana cocaine lsd and ecstasy according to police more than two ounces of cocaine more than 9,000 hits of lsd and more than 1,500 ecstasy pills were seized pavlik was arrested at his residence on west packer aye he was charged with possession possession with intent to deliver and delivery of cocaine mar ijuana and ecstasy he is being held under 100,000 bail hungerford was arrested in his mcclintic-marshall dormitory room where police found marijuana and other drug paraphernalia the charges against him are attempt to possess with intent to deliver marijuana attempt to deliver marijuana conspiracy to deliver marijua na possession of marijuana and posses sion of drug paraphernalia he is being held under 150,000 bail photo courtesy of the epitome scott kapun 20 an upper milford township resident was also arrested and charged with possession with intent to deliver and delivery of ecstasy and lsd all are being held in northampton country prison pavlik and hungerford were arraigned in easton before district judge michael koury the state police tactical narcotics team university police and the bethlehem police special operations unit were involved in the investigation photo courtesy of the freshman register police said an undercover officer met with and bought drugs from pavlik and hungerford on campus the investigation will continue police said and more arrests may be made in a campus-wide e-mail sent thursday vice provost john smeaton said the arrests cut off a major supply of illegal drugs to campus he said the university would also be taking disciplinary action against the individuals leliigh's position on illegal drugs is clear we will not tolerate their presence in our academic community not only is such activity against the law it constitutes a serious health and safety risk to individuals and undermines the overall living and learning environment those who choose to sell or distribute illegal drugs will be sep arated from lehigh and face serious crimi nal charges smeaton wrote in the e-mail joe havrilla 04 is not overly con cerned about the drug or alcohol prob lems on campus but is glad that action is taken when necessary i think the drug bust was a good thing havrilla said you can only do so much about the little stuff but when something like this comes along it's important to put a stop to it the arrests occurred on the same day the university announced that campus crime in 2000 had decreased by a third project impact was credited with decreasing underage alcohol consump tion but many students feel the program has increased the drug use on campus however smeaton said he does not think project impact has had this effect smeaton said we're trying to help students make healthy choices and make it more difficult for them to make unhealthy choices when there is illegal activity we are going to react john pavlik 02 and peter hungerford 04 were arrested wednesday in an undercover drug bust that also involved local resident scott kapun 20 police say crime cut by one-third in 2000 by safiya jafari shupp pushes for group effort in education to continue pattern of crime prevention reduction news writer university police chief edward shupp issued an e-mail last tuesday to lehigh faculty staff and students announcing a 33 percent decrease in crime on campus for the 2000 calendar year the e-mail echoed the results of the university police's uniform crime report which was completed by police depart ments nationwide in compliance with federal statutes it said there was a 58 percent drop in vandalism and a 35 percent decrease in alcohol violations including driving under the influence public drunk enness and underage drinking crime on campus is still a concern with students many students said that although the university has been addressing the alcohol problem on campus they feel lehigh needs to con tinue its focus on this issue enrique simmons 04 is one of these concerned students i feel that the university should also give attention to drinking and driving and its effects simmons said speed limit and stop sign violations are commonplace on campus as well as a lack of respect for the crosswalks and people in them penny king 03 sees a much larger problem with what she feels is a halfhearted attempt to stop illegal drug use on the hill they were focusing so much on alcohol that now they've realized that there's also a drug problem king said king is one of many students who believe that project impacfs focus on alcohol consumption has pushed students to use illegal drugs instead shupp however does not agree i don't buy that project impact pushed people from drinking to doing drugs shupp said but many students are not accepting shupp's statement especially after the three arrests made last week in correlation with illegal drug use and selling on campus i can't the university can't tolerate the use or selling of illegal drugs shupp said in response to the arrests although shupp was unable to part with any further information regarding the situation he disclosed that it had been an on-going investigation the e-mail sent out regarding the three arrests brought to light another issue with students on campus a lack of adequate communication between the police and the students gibral raphael 03 doesn't feel the uni versity keeps its students properly informed they make it seem as though we're living in a perfect little college raphael said they tell us all the minor things but they don't tell us major things let us know the real deal while raphael was adamant about receiving more information kachina dacosta 01 was satisfied with the amount of information forwarded to the lehigh community she said she thought the university took the time to dissemi nate information when necessary the e-mail regarding the safety report for 2000 spoke of 87 percent of all crimes on campus this left some 13 percent unaccounted for shupp said that these remaining crimes included sexual assaults assaults burglary arson and automotive vehicle theft a section of the crime report also accounts for manslaughter and weapons possession these crimes changed insignificantly if at all during the 2000 calendar year they either remained at zero or zeroed out and thus were not reported in the e-mail see crime page 4 nnm»mpemi«hm baseball team splits holi celebrated with information technology gh|l doubleheader with songs dances and group holds its spring -^ binghamton skits meeting 3 see page 16 see page 5 see 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