Brown and White Vol. 111 No. 41

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 11l no 41 tuesday april 6 2004 all the lehigh news first faculty keeps quiet about dean not available department chairs in the college of arts and sciences are being tight-lipped about a meet ing they had with james tanenbaum chairman of the board of trustees thursday tanenbaum called the meeting last monday before the chairs met with president gregory farrington at his house for lunch to discuss the dean search process which has come under fire from the cas faculty an anonymous chair said that farrington's meeting did not go as planned because he was told by tanenbaum not to come to any conclusions news writer instead farrington just reviewed the events as they occurred to that point and informed the chairs about their meeting with tanenbaum because there is no leader for the department chairs no one is willing to stand up and speak for the group one chair said this coupled with the fact that no deci sions have been made yet about how to proceed is keeping every body quiet about the meeting one chair said the meeting lasted more than two hours and that the chairs stayed after tanenbaum left to engage in fur ther discussions among three resolutions passed by the cas faculty is a call for multiple parties to exam ine ways to improve faculty gov ernance a week before the resolution was passed provost ron yoshida reported to the faculty that farrington suggested an expan sion of the provost's office this may mean creating a new posi tion to spread out some of yoshida's responsibilities farrington said he would consid er this more at the end of the semester hi the spirit of improving fac ulty governance the faculty also requested that the report complet ed in november by the task force on faculty governance be released according to the chair of the task force barbara traister the report has been delivered to farrington traister also said farrington suggested in november that next year might be a good time to look at the issue because there is so much focus on the greek life task force report this year although tanenbaum said that he could not fully speculate on the matter he did mention that the president and the provost have the complete support of the board the board has become involved to assist in resolving issues of importance to the uni versity said tanenbaum tannenbaum graduated from lehigh in 1971 and is a partner for the law firm morrison & foerster's new york office tenants landlords face off for rights by amanda macmillan editor in chief a working bathroom was all she wanted from her landlord yet nancy kanetsky 04 and her roommates walked half a block down montclair avenue to use the wendy's bathroom for an entire weekend when their toilet stopped working last year unable to reach their landlord two roommates finally tracked him down at his home that sunday afternoon bare necessities you need heat and running water kanetsky said i think that's all landlords are really required to take care of immediately but the students claim their landlord repeatedly ignored emergency calls neglected their safety and failed to follow through on promises the land lord on the other hand blames their spoiled relationship on mis communication and the tenants lack of organization with approximately 1,300 undergraduates - roughly 28 per cent of the student body - living off campus landlord horror sto ries are natural of course land lords have complaints about stu dent tenants as well when students move off cam pus they enter into a partnership with their landlord neighbors and the city of bethlehem in the last few years the city has gotten more involved in the partnership and landlords claim they have steadily improved the quality of homes in south bethlehem insisting on inspections for many years student rentals in the city of bethlehem were not inspected annually city regulations required that a house be inspected every time new ten ants moved in but there was no way the city could keep track said mike palos chief of bethlehem's bureau of housing palos explained that when a house in the city is sold it must pass inspection once the house passes the owner is given a b^w photo by amanda mai mil i at certificate of occupancy and is free to move in or rent the house it's kind of a safety check for the city palos said we're really looking for anything that could possibly go wrong palos basic checklist includes working smoke detectors on every floor handrails on all stairs and windows that open and close properly safe electrical wiring is mandatory and outlets near sinks must be ground fault interrupters three-pronged with a red and black safety button the home owner is given 30 days to make repairs and will be fined every montclair avenue residents kelly searfoss 04 and nancy kanetsky 04 struggle to open their living room window which has been broken all year and constantly falls shut the house is inspected annually but the women think conditions in their home couid be much better pulse forum promotes discussion by michael ilnyckyj news writer lehigh students can now easi ly hold political debates discuss hans blix's recent lecture or talk about anything else without leav ing their rooms on lehigh's new online message board the pulse of the campus is a new internet forum at pulse.lehigh.edu in its early stages the message board has been used primarily to discuss campus lectures and debates although the pulse forum is fairly new students have already posted their opinions on various issues two weeks after the pulse's launch on march 16 it already has more than 40 posts 70 registered users and a much larger number of lurkers or peo pie who read the forum but do not post before a post submitted by a user becomes publicly viewable it has to be screened by one of the board's moderators the pulse is moderated by members of library and technology services and by meredith bartlett 01 the student responsible for the board's cre ation after seeing the new portal feature on the university's web site she contacted lts to ask about the feasibility of a campus online message board the purpose of having all see city codes page 3 see pulse page 5 men's lacrosse team gets second win and first league win see story page 20 sports 16-20 eric hoffman 17 women's lacrosse 20 senior class plans to restore garden walk way events planned for senior week see story page 2 news 1-9 green week 4 local 8 delta tau delta 8 battle of the bands 9 scientists discuss new fad known as cyberdieting see story page 11 science 11-13 nutrition 11 new ees program 13 weekly poll tell us who your favorite student band at lehigh is bw.lehigh.edu quick fact the you are here arrow on a map is called the ideo locator source www.amusingfacts.com