Brown and White Vol. 98 no. 30

              see faculty page 7 gamma sorority members have special problems because they do no live on university property i live on webster street and during the day i walk down behind handlcr-ullman next to fritz lab bui , because of the bushes and lack of lights along the sidewalks i have to go around on the main roadways at night leigh fagleson 87 said senior jill tirnaucr said there is a problem walking back to delta gamma because of dark roadways so nobody does the lights stop at alpha phi she said the forum committee on safety and lighting was set up about nine years ago when forum mandated that a group of students professors and see lighting page 6 campus crackdowns help lcb fight for life in november psi upsilon fraternity members armed with beer pitchers were on their way to give out pre-bids at a dormitory they were stopped in front of sayre park gates by campus police and plain-clothes officers presumed by the brothers to the organization anyway but it was extended a year ac cording to adam gottbetter social chairman of theta xi fraternity they are out to look good so they will do everything they can to enforce the law gottbetter commented bydinaalcure brown and while news writer 1 think it is definitely feasible for the state liquor control board lcb to come onto lehigh's campus and raid our fraternities for un derage drinking the government wants to dissolve new law to discourage hazing university died as a result of physical exhaustion after doing too many push-ups the push-ups were required of them to complete a pledge program boyd mentioned that other college students have died of alcohol poisoning resulting from consumption in connection with hazing he said the need for such legislation seemed ap parent in view of these problems according to boyd there will be no change in lehigh's hazing policy in response to the law because the actions forbidden in the new law are already illegal under lehigh's policy he added that the new law can be used as a source of reference making new penalties such as prosecution outside lehigh university possible while the same precautions will be used to see hazing page 5 have been lcb members the authorities ordered the brothers to dump the beer immediately in december charges were filed against 16 fraternities at pennsylvania state university for serving alcohol to minors the bust was the result of an undercover local police in vestigation the pennsylvania liquor control board is a state agency whose purpose is to regulate the use of alcohol in past years the lcb has been on lehigh's campus ob serving underage drinking among fraternity houses but not making efforts to end this violation to the law a red scare that the lcb is going to raid lehigh's fraternities began last semester these rumors are false mike green president of collegiate consultants on drugs and alcohol said pennsylvania law states that all persons in the com monwealth of pennsylvania are subject to its state liquor and penal codes this law says that any person under 21 years of age who attempts to purchase consume possess or transport an alcoholic beverage within the state is subject to a fine or im prisonment lehigh's social policy states that the state laws of penn sylvania pertaining to alcoholic beverages are ap plicable to the campus according to the lehigh handbook it is recognized that students need to make indivdual choices concerning the use of alcohol the university supports the choice not to drink and actively discourages the misuse or abuse of alcoholic beverages according to democratic state representative william rybak the lcb is a state agency that has every right to enter lehigh university regardless of the fact that it is a private institution there are two ways that i can think of how the lcb can file charges against virtually any university fraternities can see bust page 5 byamyhocart brown and while news writer we can use all the help we can get to eliminate hazing mike boyd coordinator of greek affairs said in reference to the penn sylvania anti-hazing law the bill scheduled to take effect feb 12 was signed into law by governor richard thornburg dec 5 the legislation was a response to letters written to pennsylvania state legislators by interfraternity councils ifc throughout the state requesting the new bill boyd said lehigh was a participant in the letter campaign according to boyd no specific incidents triggered the requests for the law however accidents at colleges across the country that resulted in serious injuries alerted school ad ministrations to the problem according to boyd cadets from texas a&m the brown and white by elizabeth varga tft)wii n'ul ii hilt tiiniivin i fllih the faculty voted noi to endorse forum xvll's recom mendation to nickname lehigh athletic teams the packers at monday's meeting in addition they opted not to vole at this lime on student evaluations of professors steering committee chairman alan pense associate clean of the college of engineering and physical sciences brought the resolution before the faculty to make lehigh's nickname the packers effective inly i it is not cleai thai the faculty or the forum by themselves has the authority to make such a change pense said it's not even clear who does the committee's report slated al the present no official nickname exists although the nickname the engineers 1 has been used unofficially for some years many faculty members commented against the resolution saying the name i ackers is very unappealing because it does not bring forth a stirring image packers is unimaginative and dull for lehigh art professor richard redd said adding that a change is neceessary however another professor from the college of arts and sciences argued that a new name is crucial to promoting lehigh's image as other than a technical school the engineers docs not designate the true nature of the campus any more than the ac countants according to the steering committee report other faculty members were of the opinion that packers has a very strong meaning and is appropriate as it refers to lehigh's founder one h&w photo y chaio e rust scan kelly 88 has been elected to replace rob ripp 87 as ifc president new intcrfraternity council ifc executive officers were elected wednesday to serve as the governing body of lehigh's greek system for the iw7 kkycar newly elected officers include junior scan kelly lambda chi alpha as president sophomore bruce molo/.nik sigma phi as vice see elections page 10 by tom johnson brown and white new wrlttt kelly elected i fc president 215)758-4181 bethlehem pennsylvania friday februarys 1987 lehigh university faculty nix packers as potential mascot v 01.98 n0.30 years to have the university install lights in the area and the fact that the money was finally appropriated last spring was probably due to the problems we had on campus at that time she said the campus could look like a parking lot as walbert said but it still would not be enough to make most girls walk alone in fact the assault which occurred on granl street at the end of last semester happened after the new lights were installed laura d'orsi 87 said that she drives everywhere i'm still afraid to walk even from the library to my car she said julie irandsen 87 agreed it's much lighter but i still wouldn't walk alone off-campus students and delta 40,000 spent on lights last year bykimberlybond hmwtiiiiiii while n#m wrutt lust year lehigh spent 4(),(x on new lighting nearly half of the 96,000 total spent on lighting si nee 1981 according to patricia chase director of physical planning last yvar's biggest project was the new lighting installed on grant street above grace hall which cost the university 10,000 before that we'd be lucky to get 10,000 in one year assistant dean of students janet walbert said the high price tag was the result of the installation of electrical lines leading into the area but the fact that the forum safety and lighting committee of which walberl is a member had been trying for several