Brown and White Vol. 97 no. 17

              emotional moment lehigh university friday november 8 1985 bethlehem pennsylvania the brown and white vol 97 - no 17 215 861-4181 police may limit cars on hill by chris burke as a result of the recent automobile accident near alpha tau omega fraternity where an individual was struck by a car and severely injured a panel organized by the dean of students office is being planned to consider initiating a new policy for prohibiting vehicles on the hill the interfrateraity council has been invited to participate in the panel it's something that's worth considering ifc president howard goldstein said he plans to discuss it with the ifc executive council next sunday and also at the next ifc meeting dean of students john smeaton said no imminent change in policy is anticipated but suggestions have been made about closing the hill to vehicles on friday and saturday nights and for more closely checking the condition of drivers at entrances with whatever means the campus police have available according to campus police chief eugene dax the campus police plans to increase patrolling of the hill but to basically keep policy as usual this policy includes prohibiting cars beyond the entrances to the hill past 9 p.m on major party weekends such as thi past halloween weekend occasionally . • ■ checking car drivers for lehigh student identification and monitoring the number of occupants inside cars entering the hill smeaton explained that the main concern of the university in enacting these measures would be maximum safety for drivers and pedestrians on the hill " there are so many people walking around on the hill on weekends that the probability of someone getting hit by a car is very high goldstein said we've been very lucky that there haven't been any fatal accidents drivers under the influence of alcohol is also of concern smeaton stated that even though the driver of the car in the ato incident was not drunk the likelihood is still high that a driver on the hill on a weekend . will be driving under the influence in addition to a changed policy regarding vehicles smeaton believes that regulation of non-students on the hill is long overdue and that the past lax attitude toward outsiders is a result of an unwillingness to confront this issue at the university he said guests of lehigh students are not considered outsiders in this situation smeaton indicated the regular problems we have are with non-students who do not belong mjawim-.-w ■„.,■, ;,, >, i hmn ; aids making impact on the lehigh valley by dan ryan desk editor editor's note this is the first of a two part series on aids what is aids is it a problem here in the lehigh valley how can it affect me what is being done about it who is most at risk what if my roommate or someone in my dorm gets it these are some of the questions that area residents and college students are asking as it becomes more apparent that aids is making its way into the lehigh valley but how prevalent is aids and what kind of threat does it pose evidence currently indicates that the lehigh valley has proportionately as many cases of aids and related maladies as anywhere else in the united states this can be misleading however when one considers that according to the lambda center a homosexual community group in allentown only 30 cases of full-blown aids have been reported in the entire area still according to gary gurian director of the allentown bureau of public health aids remains a significant health threat not only to certain risk groups but to the area and college populations as well but to understand what kind of health risk it poses it is im portant to understand exactly what aids is and who it affects according to the u.s public health service aids is short for acquired immune deficiency syndrome it describes an illness that severely impairs or destroys the body's immune system thereby making victims highly susceptible to outside infections which ordinarily would not be a threat to a healthy immune system these op portunistic infections are the diseases which cause sickness and eventually death in aids patients what actually weakens the immune system and provides an in route for infection is a virus known as htlv-ih more commonly called the aids virus although the aids virus provides an easier way for other infections to enter the body the virus itself has difficulty entering the system according to a fact sheet issued by the centers for disease control in washington d.c the virus is most active in blood and in sperm therefore it is not communicable through casual contact including handshaking light kissing and standard non sexual contact in addition gurian says because the virus is not hardy it has a short life span outside of the body therefore using the same toilet and food preparation facilities as infected persons will not spread the infection research has shown however that aids is transmitted through more direct methods these include intimate see aids page 4 faculty debates attraction of wrestling aid by rich simon associate editor in the spring of 1983 darryl burley of lehigh became only the fourth collegiate wrestler in history to make the finals of the ncaa tournament four years in a row the lehigh wrestling tradition seemed healthier than ever just two years later however president peter likins proposed to the lehigh board of trustees that the wrestling team be allowed to offer athletic scholarships for two years without regard to financial need the board approved the decision and university-wide debate ensued what happened how could a program that was so successful now have to rely on grant-in-aid scholar ships according to athletic director richard gibncy for two or three years the wrestling team had disastrous recruiting years and couldn't attract top-notch athletes the primary reason for this was what gibncy called financial restriction wrestling coach thad turner noted a year ago the group of 10 to is kids that we were talking to were all exceptionally good students as well as athletes and we didn't get any of them i think if we want to maintain what we've done in wrestling over a long period of time we need to offer scholarships although there are supporters of likins decision others feel that it will have a negative impact since it removes lehigh from the small group of schools that provide only need-based athletic scholarships a committee headed by social relations professor james mclntosh distributed a questionnaire to gauge faculty opinion of the scholarships with 34 to 35 percent of the questionnaires returned the faculty supports giving scholarships based see profs page 5 b&w photo by heather dunk't david baubtain joseph fluet 89 ha a qutot moment with hto pregnant write latter sumo mdm—ti 87 in th thmter at l#filqn production of rotort 7•7 • which op#n#o y##t#rdty d