Brown and White Vol. 98 no. 21

              due to a lack of manpower the escort system sponsored by the sophomore class will not be put into effect until next semester according to sophomore class president richard rosier as the deadline to start the program approached it became obvious that the escort system could not start operations rosier said we didn't meet our goal we needed at least 100 people to make this thing work right now we need another 30-50 volunteers to fill up the roster he said the sophomore class is still accepting names for volun teers but the escort system will not begin until as early as possible into next semester according to likins concerned over social policy adequacy by david esposito brown and while news writer president peter likins voiced concern about the adequacy of the current social policy at the most recent inter fraternity council meeting noting that it is his fifth lehigh-lafayette weekend likins said i feel a little worse now than five years ago reflecting on the increased violence on the hill this fall likins said we can go back to the old hardline that is not what anyone wants although the critical review of the social policy may make rules harsher the root of the problem is alcohol abuse and its symptoms are violence he said likins also suggested the problems of cocaine and crack may be beginning to show themselves on campus in 1982 the social environment was such that people routinely broke rules and just thought it was part of the system likins said we created new rules that we expect you to live by he said lehigh's current social policy amounts to students agreeing to behave responsibly he said in practice the administration counts on the more mature element of the student body to watch out for the others we haven't been trying to deal with underage drinking but rather we have been trying to deal with the problems of alcohol abuse likins said likins asked fraternities to check for lehigh iden tification at parties this weekend and asked representatives to address their houses on the subject of violence we want you the house presidents to handle it before the trustees have to break in like they did for delta tau delta fraternity he said we have to be consistent about checking ids before some drunk kid gets killed driving home after drinking on the hill and we all get hung up to dry said likins despite the lack of volunteer response those who did volunteer came from all corners of the university we had some response from fraternities and we had some response from the residence halls rosier said we even had applications from girls there were also some people who live off campus that volunteered he continued the people to do this are out there once again it's still just a question of getting people to do it rosier said assistant dean of students janet walbert agrees the willingness to participate in this program isn't there one hundred people out of a population of 4,500 is not very much if just four people from each living group were to volunteer we would have a roster of over 200 people walbert is currently working alongside the sophomores to get the escort system off the ground the best way to get one started was to get the sophomore class involved they have done an excellent job she said when the sophomores see escort page 14 provost supports research role by david leight brown and while managing editor editor's note this is the third in a three part series on a report by the carnegie foundation and lehlgh's policies on faculty research teaching and campus service research outweighs both teaching and service in granting faculty tenure and promotions at lehigh according to provost david sanchez after that teaching is considered second most important followed by campus service he said sanchez stressed that while this is his opinion and not specific university policy my photo by craig hofsess lehigh cheerleaders exhibit feats of aerobatical expertise during saturday's football game against bucknell view is in a sense what i carry out in practice i think a university has a responsibility in both teaching and research he said we want to help people become good teachers we certainly cannot deny the fact that a major role of lehigh university or any university is to have good classes and get the students excited and interested and well-trained and in my opinion it's best accomplished by people who love their subject who work on it who un derstand it who try to make it better and improve it sanchez criticized the report for statements see carnegie page 14 aids control and cure possible doctor says caiazza said aids is not a monolithic disease that can be neatly categorized according to a specific set of symptoms it ranges from the healthy asymptomatic carrier to the person in intensive care without much time to live the aids virus attacks the immune system which destroys microscopic disease-causing organisms within our bodies caiazza added the immune system of a person with aids does not work properly and the person becomes sick a person with aids is affected by many opportunistic diseases — diseases that wouldn't affect a person with a normal immune system the fear of contracting aids in see aids page 7 everyday life is unfounded because if a person has a normal immune system he isn't susceptible to the opportunistic infections that are dangerous to a person with the aids virus caiazza said you are more a danger to that person with no immune system than he is to you aids is a 100-percent preventable disease because of the way it's tran smitted only two bodily products will trasmit the virus — blood and semen and although the virus is also found in tears and saliva these will not transmit aids he said aids cannot be contracted bydiannecarlin brown and white news writer aquired immune deficiency sydrome does not have to be the plague of the 80s aids specialist dr stephen caiazza said in a lecture tuesday night in packard lab auditorium caiazza said it is time to begin talking about curing this disease we have the agents available to us today he said the virus can be controlled by discovering it early changing the behavior pattern which brings the person in contact with the virus and convincing the regulatory agencies and researchers to let doctors use ex perimental aids medicine's caiazza a member of the aids resource center advisory board and past president of new york physicians for human rights said much of the confusion about aids today comes from the number of different terms used to describe the disease the largest single group dying have the aids antibody and virus but don't have aids they don't meet the center for disease control's cdc definition of aids according to caiazza the cdc came up with a surveillance definition in 1981 when not much was known about the disease the sur veillance definition was never meant to be the clinical definition it has become the brown and white 215)758-4181 bethlehem pennsylvania friday november 21 1986 v 01.98 n0.21 escort system postponed lehigh university rosier this week we have a meeting scheduled with the dean of students office and the other groups who helped create the idea of an escort system we plan to organize a campaign to persuade more people to volunteer it's not a recruitment drive because that's what the army does and we don't want to force anyone to do anything he said after the program did not start those people who had already volunteered were sent a letter informing them that their names would be kept on file until next semester the letter discussed the future plans of the escort system such as the training session for escorts we still have not held the training session rosier said we will have it before the program begins but we're not sure when by eoin callan brown and white news writer