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              a critical five percent of his tradi tional voters because of miserable campaign tactics by the press and media such as one commercial called target mcgovern featur ing a telescopic rifle aimed at his heart as an example of reactionary tac tics propagated by the radical right mcgovern noted the carefully negotiated salt ii treaty which was defeated because of hard-line hawks who were more dedicated to a nar see radical page 3 see sigma page 4 duled to be renovated during the spring semester and summer months for a fall semester reopening the sigma phi pledges will attend interfraternity council bid day in janu ary and accept their bids along with the other pledges he said sigma phi will follow a basic pledge program he added which includes among other things knowledge of house history administration and finances twenty-four groups were interviewed by philippi in late october some of these which were the most popular choices of those surveyed according to sarita singh 86 co-chairman of the committee these possibilities will be discussed with area coordinators leaders of women's groups on campus and others at a luncheon to be held sometime next week to the question if an escort service is initiated would you use it even if it may be inconvenient the response was 123-possibly 108-occasionally , 48 regularly and 51-no subcommittee with general support and a relatively high response rate of approximately 30 percent to the 1.200 surveys handed out to undergraduate women the forum security and lighting subcommittee of the administration committee of forum xiii will draw up proposals for possible types of escort services employing the survey results the sub committee will work up proposals based on the one-on-one escort from desks at libraries the computer center etc and the one-on-one escort call-up " systems by darren maloney weekend : a disappointment sigma phi alumni select 42 see closed page 5 fewer than 80 people attended if students don't show up for events like these i don't see why we should keep planning them he said the purpose of a closed-party weekend he continued is to show that there is more social life than the hill although he said that he did not think this was shown last weekend lewis suggested as a solution to the lack of student interest that the closed party weekend could be made into an event with the social alternatives and the entire weekend planned around a sin gle theme also lewis said he thought that more careful planning is needed to arouse the interest needed to make by teresa kilcullen both students and administrators have expressed disappointment with this past closed-party weekend's social alter natives citing a lack of adequate pro gramming as well as the small amount of student participation in the events that did take place student activities council sac con cert chairman jon lewis 84 said that he was disappointed with the student participation in this past weekends activities especially the sac dance at which people wandered in but no one stayed and at the sunday evening con cert by mr charlie a grateful dead cover band according to sac officials by michele gerencher a group consisting primarily of taylor gryphons and residents has been chosen by the sigma phi alumni corporation to start the house's new chapter according to larry philippi assistant to the dean of students philippi said members of the group were offered bids tuesday night by the alumni of the 42 men chosen 18 are freshmen 14 are sophomores six are juniors and four are seniors the sigma phi fraternity house was closed by its alumni this semester for financial reasons the house is sche lehigh university brown and white vol 94 — no 20 bethlehem pa friday november 12 1982 215)861 4184 forum eyes size reduction to make body more effective iole b&w photo by sanford block sophomore leslie platt and senior andrew altman negotiate the building of the panama canal in a scene from theater at lehigh's musical tintypes the lab theater production will play its third and final weekend tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m in coppee 201 admis sion is free security subcommittee to draft escort proposals by katiiy goldstein a motion to change the current size of the forum from 60 student ami 60 faculty voting members to 30 members each will be introduced at tuesday's forum xiii open meeting according to donald ryan professor of geology and forum xiii co-chairman a more effective and attentive body designed to represent student and faculty opinions and a more focused agenda with issues selectively consi dered were stated as positive results to a size change in letters sent to faculty and student forum members by the interim committee on reorganization of the forum the forum is a forum as its most important function ryan said a smaller body would result in a better mechanism for discourse he continued some people feel that the forum's size makes it lethargic .< ilm reduction could make it more efficient h laid in my view this is a very important step for the fonim to take and i'm very much in favor of it " he said if the prop osai passes iii the forum an all university convocation will have to be called by the president for voting since it involves a constitutional change he explained the interim committee's letter to faculty members explained thai the 120 member student-faculty konini dates back to the formation of the forum 1970 it is based on an egalitarian par ticipatory spirit which permeated the campus at that time the letter said it continued that the large site no longer seems appropriate nor practical since only 42 of the fio faculty seats are filled and only 75 students ran for the 60 stu dent seats last year how safe do you feel on campus espe cially after dark the response was 192-conscious of danger 67-moderately safe 63-unsafe 24-scared and 1-very safe to the question do you take any pre cautions for your safety 254 answered yes " and 102 answered no those who answered yes listed the precau tions they use 160-lighted paths 60 never go alone 24-whistle 7-mace and many others listed keeping keys between their fingers member dave bailin 84 said he felt that these results indicate that there is substantial demand for a service about half of the 352 that responded said they would use it and i think that's enough to start something we should give the females what they want he said co-chairman eric neu 84 said that not enough people were aware of safety problems citing the responses from 102 women saying they were unaware of such problems other questions went as follows to mcgovern still fighting right-wing conservatives b&w photo by steve kress george mcgovern by herb fischer radical right-wing groups focus on emotionalism and single-issue polit ics according to george mcgovern the 1972 candidate for president and three-time united states senator from south dakota mcgovern discussed the influences of the radical right in his senatorial campaign experiences public opin ion the media and the moral major ity before a full house wednesday night in packard lab auditorium he also announced the recent formation of americans for common sense a group in which he is involved aimed at fighting the new wave of radical conservatism in politics issues are not impor tant but images are just keep saying mcgovern doesn't represent south dakota quoted mcgovern in des cribing senatorial campaign tactics used against him by the representa tive of the national conservative pol itical action committee ncpac . on election day with the tactics we are using people will vote for us and they won't remember why in addition mcgovern noted that in one senatorial race he could have lost