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              is also chairman of the neifc it's great he said once this is over it'll be obvious that the lehigh fraternity sys tem is probably the strongest in the northeast according to mike tisehbcin 82 pres ident ol the neifc the conference will discuss topics relevant to fraternities today and propose solutions to common problems funding that enables all university house presidents to attend the confer ence is provided by the dean of students office a rnvk advisory committee was enacted this year to provide such funding neifc goals and objectives are decided some program topics to be discussed are alcohol abuse hazing positive pledge programs black white relations greek week activities new officer train ing and food co-ops according to larry philippi assistant to the dean of students and executive director of the council the purpose of the conference is to provide professional information about all different aspects of fraternity life and provide an oppor tunity for all fraternity and sorority members to share ideas and put their problems into perspective between 30 and 40 schools will attend fc president jim odell 82 said odell greeks advisers to attend seminar by fran brooks the sands hotel and casino in atlantic city n.j is the site for this year's northeast interfraternity conference neifc to be held feb 2(1-28 for the first time sorority panhel lenic councils will be allowed to attend the conference and begin working together on greek issues the annual conference provides fra ternitj and sorority members and their advisers with the opportunity to attend seminars workshops and forums nn top ics relevant to individual chapters interfraternity councils ipx and pan hellenics a business session is held dur ing which officers are elected and b&w photo by chip i larry philippi lehigh university brown and white vol •).•{ - no 33 bethlehem pa tuesday february hi iwcj l'l.dxtil-iiki supply and demand b&w phol , mary swatek s kathy harris 84 jacki lach man h mary be th cooleen si and katie rosche 84 sisters of alpha phi from left o right present singing valentines to the economics 1 class as pro fessor 1 richard aronson looks on by diana wall the cultural affairs committee established to promote cultural alterna tives has been reorganized into the uni versity cultural committee in meet the demands of increased programming according to provost arthur humphrey this committee should view itsell as the eyes of the university community witli respect to future cultural oppor tunities humphrey said in a memoran dum released last thursday the decision was made in response to a recommendation by 1 ralph lindgren philosophy department chairman and former chairman of the cultural commit tee the recommendation called for a restructuring ot the cultural allan's committee funding for the increased program ming of cultural affairs was granted by the board of trustees in august its budget or 1982-83 will be 15,000 and three separate proposals for future budgets of 15,001 30 000 and 45,000 will be submitted to humphrey and dean maintenance costs cause fraternity rent rise of students william quay for the first time there will be student representation on the committee it will consist of three undergraduates one each from omicron delta kappa odk . student activities council sac andthe forum one graduate student and the university cultural affairs coordinator in addition the committee will be chaired by a faculty member and will have faculty representation from each of the four colleges and from the school of education frank hook chairman of the english department has agreed to hi chairperson for 1!)82 ka ad hoc members also will be selected from the music departmeni . the division of speech and theater the director ol exhibitions and collection the directorol the university libraries or her designee and the deans office in addition to looking into cultural opportunities the committee will be responsible for reporting the status of cultural affairs at the university humphrey said cultural committee designed to meet increasing demands mike filipos an alumnus oi delia sigma phi welcomes the university's decision to impose a maintenance standard it should have been done a long time ago " filipos contended he added that the house has not yet decided how to fund the repairs it's not much of an increase " hesaid but the brothers in the house will proba bly have to bear most of the cost robert davies an alumnus of phi gamma delta praised the university for its decision i give credit to lehigh for acknowl edging that there's a problem he said he said he is presently in the midst of negotiating with the university about that very problem davies referred to the situation as being between a rock in a hard place because the fraternities need mainte nance but have no money and somebody has to pay for it it's a question whether the tuition should go up or whether the fraternities should assume the debts he said man added that the house has not decided just how the projects will be funded but that delta sigma phi's alumni have been very generous in the past while some fraternities agreed that their houses were fairly assessed by the firm pi gamma delta treasurer scott edwards fw disagreed they the firm put things down that we can either do on our own or that was already repaired edwards said he added that the university has the right idea as far as setting money aside but that we phi gamma delta could have done it through our alumni association as opposed to through the university he explained that his house is more comfor table dealing with the people it has dealt with in the past he does not like the idea of his house paying extra rent and then expecting the university to make repairs edwards pointed out that phi gamma delta's repairs will cost in the neighborhood of 80,000 which will result in almost a doubling of the house's current rent urer of sigma nu his house is in pretty good shape relative to the rest because it's a new house barnes said that the accounting firm went through the house and determined what repairs were necessary which will result in maybe only 10 more a year per person for rent " he also mentioned that with this new system all houses should theoreti cally be in perfect shape after 20 years which is the required time span the uni versity has imposed for the fraternities to meet their current maintenance deficiencies paul camuti 83 treasurer of chi psi reported that his house is in the most favorable category as far as overall needs are concerned he added that the rent increase will most probably result in not over 20 a person according to delta sigma phi treas urer tom heckman 84 his house's repair needs were determined to be 45,000 over 20 years he sairt that every thing the accounting firm and team of engineers listed as necessary was legiti mate especially safety features of the house such as lighted exit signs heck by scott cagan assessments of each fraternity house's maintenance needs have been completed and sent to their respective fraternities according to richard metz director of auxiliary services the assessments were based on a university-contracted study conducted by the accounting firm of deloitte has kins & sells each of the 27 university owned fraternities face an average cost of 47,447 to meet the new minimal main tenance standards according to the report the ongoing costs of operating the facilities should be the responsibility of the people who live there metz said adding that the rent the fraternities pay to the university will increase next semester for the first time in about 10 years metz said he had met with 17 of the fraternities as of feb 8 and that he will meet with all of them soon to discuss a plan of action he added that he is prim arily dealing with the alumni associations according to bob barnes 82 treas