Brown and White Vol. 97 no. 2

              the brown and white lehigh university volm-no.b tuesday september 10 ims bethlehem pennsylvania seven committees consider lehigh athletic aid policies by rich simon associate editor vice president for student affairs marsha duncan has set a deadline of early next spring for reports from seven university committees in vestigating lehigh's policy on athletic scholarships duncan said she will review the committee reports and make her own recommendations concerning aid which will be resubmitted to the committees for feedback and suggestions a final draft of the report is due on president likins desk early next summer she said regardless of the final committee recommendations the football team which will begin competition in the newly formed colonial league next fall will still adhere to league policy which states that member schools may only provide need-based scholarships the groups which include a visiting committee on intercollegiate athletics a visiting committee on student life an alumni group a faculty committee formed from the educational policy committee a forum committee an undergraduate committee on financial aid and the affirmative action equal opportunity committee are each conducting separate studies under their respective chairmen duncan who is coordinating the group's work said that in order to make a recommendation committee members must understand the significance of intercollegiate athletics and have a knowledge of lehigh's current policy i must be sure that the committee members take the time to understand the complexities of intercollegiate athletics duncan said there is no easy answer to the question of how lehigh university should administer financial aid to intercollegiate athletes the pressures on the current athletic programs financially and in successful records and on the athletes themselves must also be understood she said duncan tried to dispel the fears of people who feel that this decision could lead to the downfall of lehigh's outstanding academic reputation one thing that will not be part of the study is the current academic criteria for all students including student athletes that will never change she said class of 2010 215 ml 181 sib4w photo by john tbeichleh faculty students and potentta mm hktonte parted on the uc lawn at tat thursday's unhreralty day gamm music clowns and alcohol-frss rslresh msnts highlighted ttw svsnl which faaturad an out door movie bi ths evening lehigh figures in bestselhng book book tells tale of murder bypetetrumbore edltor in chief it's billed as a true story of money murder and betrayal and allentown native jonathan coleman's first book keller at mother's request more lives up to that billing e book is the story of the brad shaw family and the murder of family patriarch utah multi-millionaire franklin bradshaw in july 1978 he was shot to death by his grandson marc schreuder who was acting on the orders of his , mother frances schreuder bradshaw's daughter as court testimony would later reveal the motive for the killing was money frances afraid she would be cut from her father's will engineered his death and convinced her youngest son to commit the crime although frances and marc hold the spotlight through much of the book's 608 pages an important element of the story is played out by another son in the winter of 1979 at lehigh university larry bradshaw who would have graduated from lehigh in 1982 was at one point a leading suspect in his grandfather's murder and what happened at lehigh only served to underscore that in the early morning hours of december 20 larry returned to the mcclintic-marshall room he shared with lebanese-american transfer student farid salloum larry attacked his roommate with a four-pound stonemason's hammer he bought the day before hitting him 1 1 times in the head according to residents of the hall the floor was shaking from the force of the blows salloum s skull was fractured seven times physicians at st luke's hospital in bethlehem said it was a miracle he survived larry who claimed his roommate was using alpha brain waves to drain his strength and turn him into a woman was convicted of assaulting salloum he was subsequently committed to the allenjtown state hospital and later served out his sentence in northampton county prison ex-lu student was suspect by pktetrumbore editor ia chief the following is a partial transcript of a conversation the brown and white had witb jonathan coleman author of the best-selling book at mother's request the interview deals witb larry bradshaw who attended lehigh from 1978 to 1979 and was plicated in tbe murder of bis multi millionaire grandfather franklin brad-haw tbe brawn and white what's the status of the bradshaw family now larry is the person we know from lehigh when i was a freshman there was a senior that i knew who had been in larry's class he knew the story and he told me and my friends this is one of the things that has been passed down as lehigh lore that someone in m&m attacked his roommate with a hammer what's larry doing now where is he jonathan coleman well there's a sort of timeliness to this at the 4 moment about two months ago larry reappeared in salt lake in june having lived in california for a few months really living a very transient existence larry reappeared in salt lake but the lease on his house out there had expired and he was sort of living in a park for a while a situation that he was not unfamiliar with having lived in central park new york occasionally but he began to develop and display the same paranoid behavior he did when he was at lehigh it realty came out in this way larry needed to get his monthly money from the first interstate bank who were the executors of his grandfather's estate and he's been waiting for some sort of decision one way or another on his mother's appeal the appeal was argued in june before the utah supreme court and once that's deckled then larry and his half-sister lavinia will be entitled to frances share of that estate larry began to feel that there was some sort of conspiracy going on between the bank and his grandmother berenice bradshaw franklin bradshaw's widow that there was a conspiracy to keep this money from see coleman page 12 see bradshaw page 3