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              zoning officer says fraternity out of bounds bv mary francks donlky the chapter house of alpha epsilon pi fraternity at the university technically cannot be used as a fraternity house according to bethlehem city officials the house is located at 308 w packer ave in an area that is zoned residen tially and is outside the boundaries of the university's master plan according to steve chanitz city zoning officer the fraternity rents the house from an allentown man joseph bach bach recently bought the house and from all accounts plans to continue renting the house to the fraternity bach refused to comment on his purchase of the house chanitz said the former owner of the house was told nearly a year ago by the city that it could not be converted into a fraternity house but that it could be used as an apartment house although the former owner has had a chance to appeal the decision he has not done so chanitz said although the house technically vio see philippi page 10 nuts to winter while fraternities and sororities are welcoming their new pledges the winter rush is still on to store food in the university's treetops bkthlkiikm pa friday january 30 1981 increase in minimum wage may force office cutbacks wmmsmmmm 215 861-4184 vol 92 — no 28 please give b&w photo by annfc pollacki jack archibald senior class president addresses the audience at the senior class gift campaign benefit dinner by john burkk with the increase in the minimum wage to 3.35 work-study students will proba bly earn their full financial award in a shorter period of time by being able to work fewer hours said larry seehney assistant director of financial aid according to seehney university departments depending on work-study students may be forced to drop them by the end of the semester carolyn hayes receptionist for the dean of students office said i don't know what i'm going to do we are either going to lose our help or have to get money to subsidize the extra help she pointed out that the money would not be available from the dean of stu dents office for extra help if the university does not assist var ious offices and cover the costs of work study students once they have earned their award some departments may have to cut back seehney said i will have no choice i cant spend what i don't have he explained as the semester progresses seehney said he would wait and see how the mothly work-study payroll suffices and ask departments to cut back if needed we have to determine which depart ments have money and which can help us in our drive to continue seehney said areas like the libraries the media cen ter the athletic department and the dean of students office demand continu ous service and have to be recognized as needing the money first he said adding that academic areas are different the college work-study program sponsored by the u.s office of educa tion assists students by providing job opportunities either with the university or with private or public non-profit agencies when the work-study money is gone the university will not get any additional money from the government which supplies 80 percent of the funds we will have to start tapping into departmental budgets he said university vice president and treas urer john woltjen said i don't know if we're in a position to say there's going to be sufficient funds without some moni toring or adjustment one department which will not have problems because of the wage increase is the computing center which employed 21 work-study students last semester we don't see any of those students being terminated from work-study said ben weschler director of the com puting center he added that his depart ment has money to pay students not on the work-study program to fill the void the financial aid office spent 57 per cent of its work-study funds last semes ter because of a new law that went into effect on oct 1 seehney said at that time all students had to get the min imum wage of 3 10 formerly three rates were paid stu dents who could do homework on the job got 2.90 an hour and students who could not do homework got 3 10 an hour grad uate students were paid 3 30 an hour the university had been granted per mission from the department of labor to pay about 200 students the 2.90 rate because it is a non-profit organization this semester only the 3.35 rate is offered to work-study students because the financial aid office cannot afford higher rates see work-study page 4 see improvement page :> will be in johnson hall the university center and the alumni memorial build ing corallo said he noted that these buildings were chosen because they are used a lot the office of physical planning has recently taken bids from companies for the projects which will get under way at the end of this semester he said we can't start most of the projects yet because they require pouring con facilities for handicapped on schedule at university by patrick wilciikk all projects in the first stage of the university's program for creating and improving facilities for handicapped persons will be under way by june according to anthony corallo director of facilities and physical planning of the projects in the first stage two have already been completed a ramp at packer chapel and a specially-equipped restroom in coppee hall improvements yet to be completed lehigh university brown and white