Brown and White Vol. 81 no. 52

              lehigh univerity brown and white ye 8 - ne 52 bethlehem fa thursday april 30 1970 866-0331 pi lambda phi house folds but will begin revitalization pm lambda phi does not exist on the university campus stated the national chapter's field secretary who has investigated the house's financial problems the statement came after last monday's house meeting charles rebright said he was cleaning house he issued an ultimatum monday to members that they either help save the fraternity financially or disassociate themselves from the campus chapter only ten students chose to revitalize the house under rebright s direction the present members are conducting an extensive post rush program m an attempt to gain more financial backing and to reestablish the chapter at the university rebright was requested to assist the returning members m obtaining financial solvency the university indicated that lt would only re-open the house ln septem ber if there was reassurance of the frat ernity's financial stability pi lambda phi's financial crisis re sulted from the insufficient number of freshmen pledged ten students were slated to pledge wmch meant 24 mem bers would c.arrry the weight of a bill intended for 35 members the annual charge of 1,390 per man would exceed the average costs of fraternity living by 240 william quay assistant dean of student life urged the house to initiate an extensive post rush program but no progress was made the fraternity then decided to call m the national chapter's official during a two week stay on the campus rebright will kick off a pledge program m order to continue the fraternity chap ter the pledge and initiation fees have been waived and " hell week was abolish ed m order to encourage freshmen to pledge in addition house members are attempting to solicit transfer-boarders for the next semester rebright who asks any interested stu dent to see mm at the house expects to obtain approximately 20 pledges last year pm delta theta faced a similar crisis resulting from the lack of pledge support and was forced to offer room and board to ten non fraternity members according to quay's letter to pi lambda pm president thomas car roll the letter added that the arrange ment proved successful for the house m the fact that nine of the boarders became members the officers of pm delta theta have indicated their willing ness to offer counsel and advice to pl lam rebright has expressed optimism to ward the re-establishment of the chapter on campus he added that the national chapter is concerned over the fate of the fraternity because it had a long record of financial stability u forum constitution is ratified by faculty after several minor amendments the faculty overwhelmingly ratified the proposed constitution of the university forum during a special meeting on monday ratification was expected since the faculty had approved the forum ln principle and the amendments made during the all-university meetings two weeks ago the official acceptance of those principles was delayed for seven days as required by university procedures the faculty after some debate passed the motion with the idea that the decisions made were not permanent but could be subject to polishing the constitution is an adequate document and able to be changed according to dr francis j wuest professor of psychology and chairman of the sub-committee wmch drew up the constitution the document reflects the general consensus of the university community and contains safeguards against control by interest groups stated wuest urging its acceptance ln entirety he added that much of the faculty power remains intact and that the constitution even grants the faculty some additional powers a majority of the faculty supported the proposal ln whole with tha exception of election procedures a motion to strike the electorial suggestions from the constitu tion was passed the procedures will be discussed at the may 4 faculty meeting at wmch time the university nominating committee will present several suggestions as to possible methods of electing forum members another amendment was made m the area of re-apportionment the motion stated that re apportion ment shall be made at the end of the first year and thereafter every three years ln a manner to bo determined by the university faculty and student body tbe third amendment involved a grammatical correction witmn article three concerning function robert folk professor of physics moved to strike the comma ' ppearing after academic program and planning . students decide for uf representation by robin reinhold the student body agreed tuesday m grace hall that graduate students will receive 17 seats on the university forum uf three proposals for the undergraduate repre sentative structure were also introduced and will appear ln a referendum for vote today and friday the meeting attended by 100 undergraduates and 50 graduates ended after two hours with each faction departing to formulate representative structures the grad uates will meet tonight to decide the apportionment of the 17 seats witmn ths post baccalaureate framework and the undergraduates organized a committee to draw up the referendum of the proposed apportionment pressured by the lack of time each student group must complete the election of candidates between may 1-12 as stated ln the constitution time also shortened the debate as many proposals seemed to be hastily drawn up under the knowledge that any decision made was only for one year graduates presented sets of figures that indicated the particular segment should receive between 16-18 votes on the forum becaus e the sets conflicted somewhat james selgas 66 withdrew his motion of 18 graduate voting members it was overwhelmingly accempted that 17 graduates sit on the forum after a straw vote was take n selgas stated that he would not quibble over one vote since the motion was m effect for just one year he regarded 18 as a reasonable figure since graduates composed a third of the university population with major support from the residence halls council rhc and the interfraternity council ifc john graham ifc president urged that half the undergraduates should â–  be elected by residential constituencies and the other half by the original cellege level constituencies the pnoposal had been unamlously ap proved m principle during the last ifc meeting and supported by a 10-8 vote m the monday rhc meeting rick wiffen president of rhc stated there was no significant majority but lt was a major ity graham proposed the following appor tionment eight for arts four for busi ness and ten for engineering the resi dential breakdown will be 12 fraternity five upperclass residents and four town students b&w photo by steele don parsons addresses the small group of students who attended the stud ent body meeting tuesday m grace hall the meeting was called to solicit pro posals for a referendum which aid m deciding the method of student representation south side 76 hears wallach by tom foley abraham wallach the city planner re cently dismissed by gruen associates was the speaker at yesterday's malting of the south side 76 neighborhood com mittee at the young democrats ass'n headquarters ln bethlehem the meeting was comprised of two sessions one was open only to com mittee members the other was open to all interested parties the closed session was held first and it occupied the first hour-and-a-half of the meeting wallach began the open portion of the meeting by presenting a prepared speech the involvement of the people of south bethiehem is an important element if city planning is to be effective active people are an asset ln tms attempt to rejuven ate tms section by the target date of 1976 wallach said " facts must be stated openly and dealt with properly acting upon tms philosophy he outlined the major issues that were of interest to tbe bethlehem south side community the first issue hs brought up was that two meetings had allegably been held m secret in addition no member of the com munity was present the question of the south side spur was also raised at tms point the continual erosion of the south side residential community as lemgh university aad bethlehem steel expand said wallach is also aa issue see gruen face 4 see apportionment page 6 see ad hoc page 7 refer endum h the undergraduate student body h will vote today and tomorrow on the jg representation referendum to deter & mine the student constituencies m | the lemgh university forum the i polls are m the university center's j lobby and are open from 10 a.m j until 7 p.m three proposals will appear on i the referendum these plans for | possible representation were dec id - \ ed during the student body meeting | laat tuesday . plan a urges academic repre isentation plan b urges academic aad residential constituencies and plan c urges that all members be at-large see students decide