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              the largest single factor in the error parr said was a change by the office of education in the needs analysis metho dology to favor middle-income stu dents thus increasing the number of students eligible for aid at a time when congress had reduced the funds available on the information then available to us the deficit document states we estimated the average family contribu tion to tuition would be reduced by about 300 in practice it was closer to 600 parr and woltjen said the change in financial need requirements cost the university about 200,000 a similar decision by pheaa on state aid eligibility requirements added about 148,000 to the deficit which was further compounded by a larger than expected freshman class extending aid to the extra qualifying freshmen cost about 96,000 parr explained it is difficult tomakethebudgetwork if the government decides to change things in mid-july woltjen com mented noting that the overcommit ment amounted to about one percent of sec kiidget page 3 boo here's one customer who could make use of the depart ment of human development and makes no bones about telling this branch of the school of education so by jerry miller last minute changes in award deter mination procedures by the federal department of education and cuts in federal aid programs are being blamed by university officials for a large portion of the 550,000 financial aid overcommit ment announced by university presi dent deming lewis last week lewis at last week's faculty meeting confirmed rumors that the error had been made in figuring the financial aid budget for 1980-81 he assured faculty that the budget would be balanced by july the end of the fiscal year without sacrificing faculty or staff compen sation a larger than expected freshman class and changes in eligibility requirements by the pennsylvania higher education assistance agency pheaa also con tributed to the problem according to a report prepared for lewis by preston parr dean and vice-president for stu dent affairs this the financial aid situation is a game in which the roles are changing parr said wednesday the thing snow balled this year parr and john woltjen university treasurer said v 140 million eul i thi basic ectacatton opportunities grant beog program by congress last summer after the current university budget had been approved accounted for 80,000 of the deficit changes in beog eligibility requirements also eliminated funds already promised to students they added faculty proposes discipline inquiry and open lewdness these charges were not pressed lindgren added lindgren said the selection of charges resulted in t he decision made a decision receiving reactions from the faculty ranging from outrage to indifference the failure to bring more severe charges not the lack of sanctions con tributed to the decision lindgren added by mary frances donley the establishment of a faculty com mittee to investigate the university dis ciplinary system was proposed by two professors at monday's faculty meeting the proposal was presented by ralph lindgren chairman of the philosophy department and edwin kay associate professor of psychology in response to present regulations do not cover all the contingencies that might arise " — faculty appeals committee memo clean up b&w photo carothers gryphon glenn meyer 83 cleans up the mess after vandals broke into the residence hall sometime early tuesday morning and flooded the bathroom see story page 3 book adding that the principles of due process ' operate as best as we can inter pret them we are not lawyers and do not intend to be the appeals committee also reported on the delts case at the meeting a memo from the committee was distrib uted to the faculty which outlined prob lems of social regulation on campus the memo stated that present regula tions do not cover all the contingencies that might arise it explained that although more regulations would impose endless legislative activity the pres ent self-imposed restraints are not always practical e anthony james professor of eng lish and chairman of the appeals com mittee said that although the memo is unofficial and is not based on thorough study it may serve as a basis for future attention and asked that it be included in the minutes of the meeting robert barnes professor of philo sophy and chairman of forum xi reported to the faculty on the concerned students coalition this coalition is attempting to modify representation on the forum since students have little sense of this according to barnes the coalition said it welcomes faculty input on proposals for modifying faculty representation due to the lack of a quorum at mon day's meeting the proposal presented by lindgren and kay will be discussed at a faculty meeting on monday nov 3 at 4 10 p.m in uc 403 lindgren and kay suggested that a less than vigorous performance by the dean of students office also may have contributed to the decision kay cited a separate example of a conflict of interest within the juidicial process in which the students involved were personal friends of members of the discipline committee kay said that only faculty should investigate the present discipline pro cess because the disciplinary system is the responsibility of the faculty dean of students william quay pres ented the disciplinary committee's report at monday's meeting he outlined the types of violations with which the fra ternity was charged the verdict and asked for any questions from the assembled faculty quay explained the disciplinary pro cess as set forth in the university hand the discipline committee's report on the recent delta tail delta fraternity case the proposed committee would be charged with investigating the present university disciplinary system and eva luating its performance and proce dure according to lindgren the committee would also recommend possi ble changes in the system lindgren used the delta tau delta case as evidence of the past performance of the current diciplinary system he related to the faculty accounts as told to him by eyewitnesses of the wet t-shirt contest lindgren said eyewitnesses told him of the lifting of the contestants shirts by delts brothers the wild behavior of the crowd and the exposure of the contest ants breasts he said this behavior could have been evidence for charges such as disorderly conduct indecent exposure vol 92 — no lfi bethlehem pa friday october 31 1980 s:s¥:::::::¥::::::;:siw*:s;b more slices shrinking pie cited in financial aid error 215 861-4184 lehigh university brown and white inside vandalism p 3 i/lock election p 9 james madison p j2