Brown and White Vol. 100 no. 39

              brown and white vol 100 no 39 tuesday april 6 1993 lehigh university student senate chooses officers by lori mccarthy news writer lehigh's fifth student senate ended last thursday with the election of new officers the new officers of the sixth student senate are as follows heather zaslansky 94 president ed monahan 94 vice president tammy canna 94 secretary kevin chick 95 treasurer and jeff hunter 96 parliamentarian in other business the rugby club was cited for violating senate's alcohol policy on march 12 team members say ap proximately five players were arrested for underage drinking on a lehigh van on their way back from a game at franklin and marshall college upon the advice of terrence curran associatedean of studentlife senate mem bers voted to freeze transportation privi leges for one year with any further viola tions resulting in the loss of recognition of the clubby the university former senate president ken hoexter 93 recommended to the senate that in addition to quran's actions funding should be frozen for a year according to senalorglennmackenzie 94 the latter request was too severe as funding is necessary for the club to exist i think it's a little harsh to suspend funds he said dissolving the team is not the answer according to rugby club captain fritz lloyd 93 the incident was the fault of the team's younger members who were left to drive the van home many of the team's older members were busy taking lloyd to the hospital because of an injury we the rugby club have many explicit rules drawn up lloyd said it's a shame that i did not fully explain the rules to them lloyd assured senate members that the beer was not provided by the club but by the spectators and that no drinking was being done on the van i assume full responsibility for the van he said the freshman driving was sober and wasn't aware he was doing anything wrong also present at the meeting on behalf of the rugby team were members brian donnelly 93 ed penberthy 94 and tom kyle 93 here comes peter cottontail the annual easter egg hunt sponsored by the panhellenic council delighted nearly 80 area children sunday afternoon the children had their faces painted played games and searched for eggs â–  russian crisis will not end soon bytadehrbar news writer no immediate end to the current crisis in russia is f orsccablc because the government is still authoritarian said a russian scholar from the institute of usa canada and mos cow henry trofimeenko a senior research associate at the institute said the develop ments in russian president boris yeltsin's country blur the future of the divided na tion the same decline continues where there is no law and order and chaos is every where trofimeenko said he believes land must be privatized and russian farmers must be assisted he also said people must be given the opportunity to receive tax credits for any thing that they make trofimeenko said the problems in russia are the result of many years of poor leader ship he said the past rulers of russia were not knowledgeable about the way a government should be run a sign of damnation hangs over the head of yeltsin that is why has been so unsuc cessful in going on with his reforms trofimeenko said he said the people of russia lost inter est in their government and that many of them have experienced socio-political unrest before economic conditions in russia are so bad that many people are being buried in plastic bags because of the expense ac cording to trofimeenko the first thing that yeltsin did when russia broke apart was to put in economic reform trofimeenko said the stingy russian parliament has not passed many of yeltsin's reforms trofemeenko said and as a result the economy has worsened since yelsin as sumed power inflation has increased 100-fold while the wage increase has only increased 15 times according to trofimeenko the government has lost money be cause goods are scarce and prices are skyrocketing many people's lifetime ac cumulations have been wiped out trofimeenko said he said nearly 80 percent of all savings deposits were less than 2,500 rubles be fore yeltsin took office the average savings account has dropped to only 25 rubles in today's market raw materials have been traded through russia but there is still a problem since many of the finished products are not landing in the local russian supermarket troflmeenko said eighty percent of corporations deal with raw materials where there is no market for it in russia instead the prod ucts are going to other markets trofimeenko said trofimeenko said russia is far from being a capitalistic society he also said russia is too unstable since many laws change weekly and differ in every region of the country there have been over 300 amend ments to the present constitution it is easier to amend the constitution than to buy a bottle of milk he said trofemeenko said he is a yeltsin supporter no one else could lead the country baker air products give 4 million for zoellner center see russia page 4 new writer trexlertowrvbased ajr productsand chemicals inc gave a 600,000 grant to lehigh university to benefit the pro posed zoeiiner arts center to be built next to rauch business center the estimated cost of the arts center is 30 million and is part of the 300 million goal of the preserving the vi sion campaign the arts center project includes con struct lon of the arts center building an attached 350-car parking facility along with an endowment for maintenance operations and programs to date lehigh has received gener ous gifts totaling almost 15 million marcla theodoredls consultant for the zoeiiner arts center project said an excellent relationship exists be tween lehigh and air products see baker page 4 earth day brings biodiversity to the planets attention page 5