Brown and White Vol. 109 No. 24

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 109 no 24 tuesday january 22 2002 all the lehigh news first former coach dies of heart failure by nora unscheid b&w photo by autumn cruz news editor former lehigh head football coach and athletic director john whitehead died saturday night of heart failure at st luke's hospital whitehead the 1977 division ii and 1979 division 1-aa coach of the year led the engineers to their 1977 division ii national championship victory over jacksonville state in the pioneer bowl whitehead 77 served as head football coach from 1976 to 1985 both his 1977 and 1979 teams are counted among the top three in lehigh football history he is survived by his wife bernice three sons walter robert and david a lehigh graduate sister anna rabenwold and brothers harry and claude students applying for gryphon positions for the 2002-2003 school year work together to create imaginary products at saturday's gryphon carousel see page 5 phi delta theta fraternity suspended by amanda macmillan assistant news editor after several incidents during the fall semester the national advisers of phi delta theta frater nity have suspended the lehigh chapter and the phi delt house has been closed indefinitely although lehigh's faculty and several alumni advisers had been working with the house during the semester the national chapter made a decision to withdraw recognition during the last week of fall classes phi delt had several problems in the fall in which both lehigh and national advisors expressed concern according to michael carey assistant dean of fraternity and sorority affairs lehigh was willing to work with the fraternity to help them remain open but it was ulti mately the national advisers who made the decision without national recognition phi delt is suspended indefinitely from lehigh of course i think it's a shame any time we lose a frater nity here and i strongly remain a supporter of the greek system carey said but unfortunately once the nationals make their decision there is nothing we can do about it anymore earlier in the fall semester a student fell from the balcony of phi delt's house and sustained life-threatening injuries in addition there were three fires in the house throughout the semester two were small kitchen fires and were con tained without any damage the third fire occurred when an accelerant was used to light a grill and the porch caught fire faculty adviser and phi delt alumnus ken smith 61 blames just a few individuals for the problems in the house sadly these things are always the fault of just a few people in this case 125 years of tradition has been lost through the actions of a few smith said he said he hopes phi delt will be able to re-colonize in a few years after the nationals informed lehigh of the withdrawal several members of the greek affairs staff met with members of phi delt to discuss their options because the faculty felt it was unfair to pull the brothers plans for new logo put on hold byjohnmisinco assistant news editor plans to implement the pro posed new university logo are now on hold after countless stu dents faculty and alumni voiced discontent with the new design in response to comments we received we are currently rethinking the proposed logo and trying to improve upon it brad drexler vice president of university relations said the most controversial aspect of the proposed design is the removal of the book and heart from the logo elements taken directly from the univer sity seal drexler explained that the items were removed to create a simpler design that could reproduce more easily in digital format and on mer chandise we looked at how to simplify it drexler said one way is to reduce the number of symbols he also said that if either the book or heart were left on the logo alone people might misin terpret the meaning for example the heart could be associated with love or romance and the book could symbolize that lehigh is primarily focused on textbook-based learning the heart and textbook alone would not be an appropri ate representation of lehigh he said in the new design a rounded shield replaces the pointed gothic-like one on the current logo the image of a rising sun remains on the shield the sun is truly a symbolic part of lehigh often used to rep resent power innovation and enlightenment drexler said but when drexler addressed the student senate last tuesday most were not convinced they call us the lehigh family how can you have the lehigh family without the heart sanket kapadia 04 said it the proposed logo doesn't give people viewing it enough credit melissa klein 04 said they should under stand that the heart doesn't stand for romance others feel the new logo looks too modern and misrepre see logo page 4 seephideltpage4 f ' '■: i ■■ jßl ' if .;■■:&■-:■ 8 women's basketball team beats holy cross in double overtime see page 16 sports 13-16 wrestling 13 football 14 men's basketball 16 spring commence ment will be held outdoors rain or shine see page 3 news 1-5 college news briefs 2 gryphon carousel 5 enron runs into major trouble see page 9 business 9-11 business briefs 9-10 look who's investing 11 seven percent of americans believe elvis presley is still alive source:http://www.uselessfacts.net