Brown and White Vol. 98 no. 24

              by rich rosier brown and white news writer 42 incidents involving non lehigh students were reported from the beginning of the semester to the end of oc tober the second revision rein states house-party weekends at least three times a semester during these weekends social events would be limited to hosts and their invited guests the belief is that this policy will enable hosts to better control their events and reduce the risk of having things stolen or facilities dama ged this policy will also discourage non lehigh people from attending campus parties the third revision passed will require all hosts of social events to take part in special training progr ams designed to assist them in complying with the social policy the program is to be run by the dean of students staff the rationale is the apparent need for on going education regarding the social policy senior rob ripp ifc president said these changes came from the ifc in response to the current social scene on the hill ripp said that all the houses agreed with the proposals and added that he was pleased that the ifc supported these measures a motion to change the official university nickname of lehigh's athletic teams to the packers was passed by the forum xvii at its meeting last thursday english professor edward gallagher speaking for the motion said that an academic issue was involved here he explained that lehigh was not getting the best humanities and social science students because of the current nickname and the public image it presents gallagher said that a nickname change would help improve the student body history pro fessor william shade suggested splitting the motion into two separate con siderations w hether lehigh should consider changing the name altogether and if so whether it should be the packers the motion was voted down president peter likins said that lehigh was a different place than 50 years ago when most students were in the college of engineering and physical sciences likins added that enrollment per centages have increased in the other colleges and that this issue matters in terms of the id s at all parties having house-party weekends and bartending training the first revision will require hosts to check id s of all guests at all unlocked entrances to the social event the rationale behind this new policy is that while the old policy of checking id s worked to an extent problems with people from outside lehigh were still occurring according to campus police b*w photo by donna saraisk sophomore jim conlin disguised in a santa suit balances laura haller daughter of rotc capt lawrence haller on his lap as senior mike hershman one of santa's elves looks on see story on page 5 help steer a few more students toward accounting than toward other majors simply because they've had exposure to accounting when it is time to declare though the college is not taking any specific measures to force students into major areas he said that it would be better for the college if students were more evenly distributed among the majors balance is something that is desired in the university as well as the college see gripe page 11 deans defend curriculum hourly schedules said that lehigh students are very smart but not intelligent implying that they have their priorities misplaced i honestly can't say i know what students do between after dinner and the time that they say they start studying they just play or do nothing he said speaking for engineering students clump said one of the saddest things is that there's so much going on that students don't take advantage of lectures films and programs that are a major component of a university's broad education process if students would participate in some of these things they might find them exciting he said according to richard barsness dean of the college of business and economics required courses and the sequence in which they are offered are not supposed to focus students in on a major but one of the effects is to structured programming which is like high school another such course is biology 21 principles of biology a requirement for biology majors which discourages a lot of pre-meds biology 28 mendelian and population genetics separates the men from the boys ellis compared lehigh s system with that of franklin and marshall college f&m which puts pre-meds right away into organic chemistry not required here until the second year f&m does that he explained so students don't have any illusions in the first year about being a doctor students may believe there is a weeding-out process in the way their college is structured the con centration and sequence of courses and which courses are required but curtis clump associate dean of the college of engineering and physical sciences called it a self-weeding process he by elizabeth varga brown and while news editor editor's note this is the second of a two-part series on student perceptions of major requirements and advisers and the ad ministration's explanations deans from the three undergraduate colleges unanimously deny the possible existence of anything in the structure of their colleges serving to 4'weed out less-committed students from certain programs there is no stumbling device designed by the faculty it's built into the system it's certainly not designed that way but it has that effect g mark ellis associate dean of the college of arts and sciences said for example computer science csc 15 data stuctures according to ellis will screen out some people because it's more demanding than its prerequisite csc 1 1 introduction to the brown and white 215)758-4181 bethlehem pennsylvania tuesday december 9 1986 lehigh university forum passes mascot change v 01.98 n0.24 third female attacked van service expanded by dave leight brown and while managing editor a lehigh student was assaulted at 7:30 p.m sunday outside chandler-ullman hall according to dean of students john smeaton it was the third such attack in as many weeks the female undergraduate escaped serious injury smeaton said in a letter to students yesterday her assailant was described as about 6 feet tall in his late teens or early 20s of medium build and wearing a dark-colored ski mask the description matches that of an assailant in nov 21 and 30 incidents two female students spotted a man of this description at 6 p.m thursday on the north side of fairchild-martindale library campus police chief eugene dax said yesterday they called police but the man was gone before police arrived he added see vans page 5 faculty and students lehigh recruits its graduate program and the university's future in general in other business three social policy revisions which had previously been approved by the interfraternity council ifc and the panhellenic council were voted on and passed by forum xvii at its meeting thursday the revisions included checking b&w ballot results in percentages ttttter>t9{!34 69.4 12.7 75 alumni 41 65.s 1z2 0 atjt > ■ m sr o f66a^^14 20.7 51 3 tqt«t number 250 136 s2 3 stu^nt?{i$4 75 t2 3,7 aiufflni<41 2,4 «?-? 7.3 a<ftwta».(s3 7 7 0 faculty 14 7.6 1&1 1 othar(fi 0 0 37 total number 250 4 51 1 this is the last issue of the brown and white for the fall semester the next paper will be jan 20 the brown and white wishes all students good luck on final exams