Brown and White Vol. 113 No. 46

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 113 no 46 friday april 21 2006 all the lehigh news first four frats could lose house in fall by madelyn king news writer four fraternities face losing housing privileges next semes ter if they don't reach 90 per cent occupancy based on pro jected occupancies for fall 2006 the fraternities face this penalty because of a policy implemented by the strengthening greek life task force in fall 2005 the task force policy states any chapters not meeting the 90 percent occupancy standard for three consecutive semesters will be given a grace period that third semester during which the chapters can recruit more live-in members before the next semester begins fraternities below 90 per cent occupancy for the second consecutive semester this spring are alpha chi rho alpha tau omega beta theta pi delta sigma phi delta upsilon kappa alpha kappa sigma lambda chi alpha and theta xi according to a sys tem-wide assessment of the greek system released this semester just four of these nine - crow delta sig du and kappa sig - are projected to be under occupancy for fall 2006 tim wilkinson assistant dean of students for fraternity and sorority affairs said the four fraternities must recruit new members next fall if they want to retain their houses the chapters that have failed to meet occupancy three times have until the 10th week of the semester to recruit enough eligible men to move into the respective chapter b&w graphic by michelle brinker projected fall occupancies are based on information given by chapter presidents and verified by wilkinson the four chapters with projections below 90 percent can hold fall rush to gain more members and avoid los ing housing privileges projections are subject to change and depend on how many men return next fall intelligent design hurts learning expert says by daniel glaser a strong critic of intelligent design says the theory hurts public school science educators news writer the ongoing debate over intel ligent design has caused problems for teaching science said eugenic scott executive director of the national center for science education in her lecture on monday at packard auditorium b&w photo by lindsay keller intelligent design is the idea that certain features of the uni verse and life are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than natural selection scott said some religious institutions are pushing for intelligent design to be taught in public schools scott said the intelligent design model is based on what we do not know and not what we do know scott said believers just make all of their conclusions based on the fact that evolution does not cut it this is not good scientific process eugenic scott executive director of the national center for science education argued that intelligent design hinders science learning senate continues to push for conduct code revision by kati noderer and stephanie fails news writers student senate voted tuesday to continue pur suing an amendment to the code of conduct that would give witnesses in a code of conduct trial the right to refuse to answer questions that would implicate them in a crime or violation of the code the administration rejected the senate's previ ous recommendation to amend this article in the code of conduct senate rewrote its previous amendment to make it more specific senate had initially recommended a broader amendment one stating a student should be able to refrain from answering any questions he or she thought violated personal rights to amend the code senate will need a faculty adviser to support its recommended change and to present senate's change to the faculty body at a meeting in early may in this meeting the fac ulty will vote on the code the clause that requires witnesses to answer all questions has always been in the code and was only revised recendy to clarify the language said assistant dean of students chris mulvihill mulvihill said the clause is necessary to ensure all testimony is reviewed at full value he said if a student testifies at a hearing especially one hav ing to do with serious charges such as rape or drug dealing the panel must know whether the student was intoxicated or involved in the crime to determine the credibility of the statement requiring witnesses to answer all questions does not violate the bill of rights because lehigh is a private university and has a right to make its own rules said perry zirkel professor of law the fifth amendment does not apply to non governmental agencies such as lehigh zirkel said its force like the rest of the bill of rights is purely a discretionary matter as an ethical principle students who admit to underage drinking and other violations when testifying as witnesses of a crime are sometimes called before a separate hearing mulvihill said he uses his best judgment to determine whether a student will be tried and that the likelihood of the student being held accountable is slim another concern voiced by students is that information admitted during testimony could be used against them outside the university because the hearings are discoverable the information can be subpoenaed by the government for crimi nal trials mulvihill said although it could happen it's unlikely and it's never happened in his five years at lehigh witnesses are read an honesty statement before they testify to inform them of the conse quences of lying during the hearing those who have been found to have provided false informa tion are subject to a hearing of their own lying in a hearing can make it worse for the student accused mulvihill said if a student lies during testimony the panel see occupancy page 2 see code page 3 see evolution page 3 fall 2006 projected occupancies fraternity projected fall occupancy occupants needed alpha chi rho 79 percent 4 alpha tau omega 97 percent 0 beta theta pi 94 percent 0 delta sigma phi 86 percent 1 delta upsilon 75 percent 4 kappa alpha 110 percent 0 kappa sigma 81 percent 3 lambda chi alpha 94 percent 0 theta xi 107 percent 0 how handicap l p^ai new lehigh river accessible is ? x football coach becoming lehigh brings promise recreational haven page 7 r i i page 16 bw.lehigh.edu