Brown and White Vol. 135 no. 4

              The Brown and White Vol. 135 No. 4
Tuesday, September 18, 2018 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
IFC reacts to national fraternity hard alcohol ban
By KAYLA SIPPIN
Associate News Editor
The North-American
Interfraternity Conference
released a memo on Sept. 4 ban-ning
hard alcohol consumption for
all 66 of its member fraternities.
Lehigh’s Interfraternity Council
banned hard alcohol among its
member fraternities in January
2017. Considering recent hard
alcohol policies implemented at
other schools, Jacob Anderson,
‘19, the judicial chair of Lehigh
IFC, said he saw the national ban
coming.
“IFC is in strong support of this
policy,” Anderson said. “It’s along
the lines of what we’ve already
been trying to do.”
Matt Tracy, ‘19, the president of
IFC, said the national ban more
specifically states that hard alco-hol
isn’t allowed in chapter hous-es,
facilities or at events sponsored
by fraternities. The only exception
to the rule is when licensed out-side
vendors sell alcohol at events,
such as a date parties, provid-ed
the chapters’ national policies
allow that.
Anderson said the North-
Roshan Giyanani/B&W Staff
The North-American Interfraternity Council placed a national ban on hard alcohol on Sept. 4. Lehigh’s branch of the Interfraternity
See IFC Page 2 Council placed a similar ban on its chapters in January 2018.
TRACS replaced under Path to Prominence
Jillian Wolfson/B&W Staff
TRACS is a transportation service that provides students with safe rides from 10:45 p.m. to 2:15 a.m. The TRACS service will now
be incorporated into the Campus Connector Service, which is a bus that runs until 2:30 a.m.
By LINDSAY SHAGRIN
B&W Staff
After 31 years, Lehigh’s
Transportation Services has pro-posed
an end to TRACS — the
‘Take a Ride Around Campus
See TRACS Page 2
Safely’ service often used during
the late night and early morning
hours.
Bob Bruneio, the manager of
transportation and transit ser-vices,
said this change is a result
of the Path to Prominence.
“Under the new proposed trans-portation
plan, TRACS will be
incorporated into the Campus
Connector Service, which will run
until 2:30 a.m.,” Bruneio said.
“The proposed Campus Connector
will utilize a bus instead of a van
and will increase bus stop loca-tions
to include the area of Third
and New Streets, Mountaintop
and Saucon Village.”
Bruneio said TRACS was cre-ated
to give students safe rides
around campus at night. He said
7,399 passengers used the ser-vice
in the fall 2017 semester
and 7,783 in the spring 2018
semester. Although the service is
changing, Bruneio said campus
transit services are being eval-uated
to ensure there are still
adequate transportation options
available to the university com-munity.
Chris Houtz, the assistant chief
of the Lehigh University Police
Department, said there will still
be safe options during the evening
hours.
“I think the students have a lot
of opportunities for safe travel,”
Houtz said. “We try and do as
much as we can to make sure
they’re safe, and it’s up to them to
take advantage of that.”
Haley Morris, ’20, has been a
user and supporter of TRACS.
However, she said there are flaws
to the service.
“I think the schedule is some-