Brown and White Vol. 112 No. 7

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 112 no 7 tuesday september 21 2004 all the lehigh news first 1 new housing policy enacted by patrick fulton senior news writer second-year students will be required to live on campus and participate in a housing lottery starting this spring a campus wide e-mail announced last week the board of trustees sup ports the new housing ordi nance which will offer students a chance to be more involved on campus said john smeaton vice provost of student affairs on-campus housing as described in the ordinance includes dormitories fraterni ties sororities and special inter est housing college is a place where you leam valuable life lessons and we can foster and promote that in a residential setting smeaton said getting engaged in your surroundings is an important part of college and living on campus promotes that a task force made up of stu dents faculty staff and alumni recommended the new residen cy restriction last year as part of an effort to improve student life the new rules help all stu dents smeaton said under the new system upperclassmen will participate in a fall lottery while first and second-year stu dents lottery will be held in march this will give upper classmen priority and give younger students more time to decide on living options at the same time each year a number of first-year students feel unsure about what is available the fol lowing year so they're looking off campus by october smeaton said we don't want them to feel obliged to make that decision so early the second lottery will be held after greek rush giving first-year students time to decide if they want to pledge a fraternity or sorority second-year students might have a hard time drawing their first choices for housing since their lottery is later said associate dean of students thomas dubreuil i think we are going to reserve spaces for juniors and seniors he said it's going to be a little more of a challenge for sophomores to live in popu lar dorms like campus square we'll get some sophomores liv ing in those places but not as many as there are now campus square and trembley park will most likely be largely inhabited by upper classmen dubreuil said but he was unsure which dormitories would house mostly second-year students those details will be known by november he said student reactions to the new dual-lottery system are mixed if we have to live on cam pus why do the upperclassmen get first choice asked amber worst flooding in 50 years strikes historic bethlehem sites b&w photos by bj shepard the remnants of hurricane ivan ravaged the lehigh valley saturday as torrential rains caused flash floods areas of historic bethlehem along the monocacy creek were hit particularly hard left most of the historic industrial quarter including the tents set up for the celtic classic next weekend was sub merged above the entire first floor of the 1761 tannery was flooded ruining exhibits inside the historic structure see photo essay page 5 tally-ho no longer to host beirut by michael levine tavern could have lost liquor license for continuing drinking game news writer couple of tables on off-nights tuesdays or thursdays and let the kids play he said it was our understanding when we instituted the game that as long as we didn't charge any body to play award prizes run tournaments or set any rules that it wouldn't be a problem spalding also said the game was not intended to promote alcohol consump tion we never said that you had to play with beer you could have played with ice water we didn't care the tables were just set up for the entertainment of our patrons spalding said things started to turn sour after a report in the morning call named spalding and the tally-ho specifically in an article about the game and its popularity on the lehigh campus the report brought the sit uation to the attention of the state liquor control board they put their foot on our neck spalding said they would have shut us down spalding said the lcb threatened to revoke the tally-ho's liquor license which would have put the bar out of business they're a very strong organization he said we could appeal and we may still but there's nowhere to go for an appeal except to them we'd be appealing one of the rules that they wrote and the chances of us getting it overturned are basically zero according to a statement offered on the issue at the lcb's web site section 5.32(e)(5 of the board's regulations generally pro hibits retail licensees from after hosting beirut games for six months the owners of the tally-ho tavern were forced to desist from conduct ing the popular drinking game by the pennsylvania liquor control board last spring ken spalding a part owner and managing partner said the ho began setting up tables and supplying cups and ping pong balls intended for use in the game last fall we know how popular the game is so we set up a see tally-ho page 6 see housing page 6 men's soccer team wins lehigh soccer classic at ulrich sports complex sports 15-20 eric rath 15 football 20 myers selected as director of financial services lab see story page 3 news 1-6 college briefs 2 zoellner update 4 tauck scholarship sends ibe major to vietnam see story page 9 business 9-11 what's the big idea 9 who's investing 11 career services to host career fair at rauch field house thursday bw.lehigh.edu quick fact alcoholic bever ages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life source www.amusingfacts.com