Brown and White Vol. 94 no. 19

              robert cohen associate dean of stu dents and university case officer has said he will request that an upcoming disciplinary hearing against kappa sigma fraternity be closed to the public the hearing originally set for this afternoon has been postponed until nov 23 the fraternity has been charged with sexual harassment and with inflicting emotional distress stemming from an alleged incident at the house on sept 17 i will ask that it be closed on the grounds that an open hearing would adversely affect the reputation of the student bringing the complaint he said the law of the campus allows for the closing of a hearing in cases where an open hearing would substantially unfairly and adversely affect the repu tation of the student closing a hearing requires a unanimous vote of the hearing panel this decision to open it the hearing will be made at the opening of the hear ing cohen said if one side wants it closed and the other side wants it open the committee is bound to hear opposing arguments it seems unlikely that a deci sion will be made before the thing starts he said explaining why it was postponed cohen said the hearing was put off by mutual agreement oflhe case officer and the attorney for the house it will give each of the sides more time he said doug paul 83 president of kappa sigma acknowledged that kappa sig ma's lawyer wants to be present at the hearing although cohen noted that law yers have not been allowed to attend hearings in the past according to the law ol the campus defendants are allowed to have a uni versity friend " present at hearings and that the university friend must be a member of the university community concerning the precedent of excluding attorneys paul noted that's what it says in the handbook the lehigh hand book but emphasized that he thought the u.s constitution gives kappa sigma the right to have their lawyer on hand see hearing page 5 preventive measures taken for lafayette game behavior " quay said he cited past problems such as people running onto the field before the end of the game the destruction of the goal posts before the end of the game the mutilation of lafayette's new wire fence two years ago and assaults on lafayette students the rules in effect have not changed since the last game at lafayette they prohibit alcoholic beverages in fisher field disorderly conduct which includes throwing objects onto the field running onto the field destroying the goal posts before the end of the game fist fighting and any other rowdy behav ior which interferes with the game or by teresa kilcullen preparation for the prevention of prob lems during the lehigh-lafayette foot ball game on nov 22 has already begun on both campuses according to herm kissiah dean of students at lafayette college and william quay dean of stu dents at lehigh administration and student leaders from the two schools have been meeting in order to communicate their expecta tions kissiah said we will be prepared for problems but don't expect any we're pretty confident that the stu dents will go over and enjoy the game without getting involved in any rowdy also be on the field to take pictures of those who violate any of the rules viola tors will be removed from the stadium and turned over to their respective disci pline committees which will be hard on them and their living group quay said students violating the rules could possi bly be suspended from the university he added i think it's going to be a very good game quay noted it's one of the old est football rivalries in the nation and we want to keep it going we want the students to have fun without getting out of hand and jeopardizing the continua tion of the series harms the spectators according to an announcement from quay to university students the campuses will be made aware of these rules through a media cam paign according to quay also the football players will be visiting fraterni ties and other living groups to point out that it ruins the game for them when the goal posts come down early or when other behavior interferes with the game in addition to the lafayette police force there will be 40 student guards posted around the field increased from 25 in previous years photographers will lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday november 9 1982 ifc to petition for changes in campus social regulations 215)861-4184 vol 94 — no 19 by jim creedon the interfraternity council ifc has circulated a petition asking fcr changes in the university's social regulations and plans to present them to university pres ident peter likins within the next few weeks according to joe baker 83 ifc social chairman baker cited a negative response by forum xiii to the changes as the reason for the petition since we received a negative response from the forum we thought that we would try the student route baker said the petition has been distributed to fraternity presidents and the results will be reviewed at an executive committee meeting of the ifc this friday baker said he added that at that time a deci sion would be made as to when to present them to likins the petition calls for three changes an extension of party hours until 3 a.m the extension of pub-night hours until 2 a.m and the elimination of the regula tion which requires food at parties rugged b&w photo by rob weisstuch reaching for the gusto the university's rugby team played hard at villanova saturday but came up on the short end with a score of 4-0 we think that we are responsible enough we went through a trial period and it went well baker said he added that the ifc does not want to hear a straight no from the forum and that they feel a compromise should be worked out donald ryan professor of geology and co-chairman of forum xiii said the changes were given a hearing before the appropriate sub-committee of the forum at that time three out of the four proposed changes were rejected ryan said i think that they the ifc are mak ing a mistake the forum is the body of the university that represents the stu dents as a whole since we do represent the entire university community we are properly given the power to set the social regulations ryan explained asked about the petition dean of stu dents william quay responded that it would be premature to comment on this he added that he believed likins see ifc page 4 by rhonda stone little-sister groups are detrimental to the functions of fraternities because they take time and money away from fraterity operations according to the fraternity execu tive association fea , an associa tion of national fraternity leaders little-sister groups divert frater nity time and funding and can con fuse the identity of all greek letter organizations the fea said in the sept 17 on-campus report a national campus news service at a recent national meeting the fea recommended that sororities are the proper outlet for female asso ciation according to the report according to larry philippi assist ant to the dean of students in charge of fraternity and sorority affairs the university doesn't have enough sor orities to accommodate all the women who would like to join them as a result many women choose to join little-sister organizations to make association raps program little sisters detrimental see little-sister page 5 friends with both men and women he said there are presently 11 fraternities on campus that have little-sister pro grams the number of little sisters varies from house to house ranging from seven at tau epsilon phi to 37 at beta theta pi there is an approxi mate total of 170 little sisters little-sister groups are a good way to expand the ways that women can come together assistant dean of students muriel whitcomb said but i'd also like to see other support func tions for women no two little-sister programs are alike some houses have a more for mal program where the little sisters have responsibilities and obligations to the house some have informal pledge programs and they all have different rush programs kendall butts 84 vice president of the little sister program at beta said kappa sig hearing put off ; cohen to request it be closed by george gabuzda