Brown and White Vol. 89 no. 32

              lehigh university brown and white voi 89 ~ no 32 bethlehem pa wednesday february 8 1978 215-866-0331 university cancels class for a day by ken bandler all university classes were canceled and nonessential services closed yester day as the worst winter storm in 30 years dumped 14 to 18 inches of snow on the lehigh valley it was the first time in more than a decade that the university canceled classes for an entire day only the university center remained open largely to serve meals the residence lottery was postponed until today area coordinator bob i os pi noso said the lottery may be con tinued tomorrow former u.s attorney david marston canceled his lecture scheduled for grace hall last night marston has agreed to speak at the university friday night arthur mann associate dean of students said an all-faculty meeting scheduled for monday was postponed until next week most university offices closed at 2:30 p.m monday that evening's classes were canceled allied maintenance began plowing roads and clearing walkways at 6 a.m monday according to eric ottervik vice president for planning efforts will be made to plow lots as well as some city streets especially brodhead and packer avenues he said lospinoso reported the new snowfall created no major leaking problems in residence halls four apartments in trembley park reported minor leaking he said the campus police said no accidents or injuries had been reported by last night the decision to cancel classes was an nounced monday night by richard spriggs vice president for administration at the time spriggs was the highest ranking official on the campus as university president deming lewis was in florida and provost albert zettlemoyer was also out of town after the 11.4-inch snowfall two weeks ago lewis said i don't think we should call off classes ever spriggs set into motion a telephone chain monday night to notify students on the campus that classes were canceled spriggs called robert reeves associate dean of students to coordinate the notification process reeves and herschel dorney assistant to the dean of students called each fraternity david lee director of residence operations area coor b&w photo by bogucz snow patrol after another 14 inches of snow fell on the campus monday traveling on packer ave was much more difficult this young child makes it look easy as his dog does all the work forum credit survey misleading by michele macdonald results of the forum's survey on academic credit for activities are of little significance and are possibly misleading according to two university faculty members who specialize in statistical analysis the survey is seriously flawed said carol barner-barry assistant professor of government if a survey is going to have an influence on any policies then it should be more carefully done i think useless is too strong a word for it said robert thornton associate professor of economics but it really doesn't tell you very much the survey was conducted last semester by the forum academic credit sub committee to determine how the university community felt about granting credit for participation in extracurricular activities the nine-question survey was mailed to all faculty members as well as graduate and undergraduate students larry weitzner 79 who designed the survey said it was definitely one of the major projects of the forum this year the project was created to try to get credit for forum members and to make the university credit policy move con sistent weitzner added currently only a few activities are credited the primary flaw in the survey ac cording to barney-barry and thornton is that it cannot be said to be representative only about 40 per cent of graduate students responded to the survey if the respondents had been randomly selected or if the number of responses had been higher then you could say there was a high probability that it was represen tative barner-barry said but with this the other 60 per cent of the faculty could feel just the opposite of those that responded you just don't know with such a low response the survey is just so flawed that it is a problem to know what to do with it she added results of the survey had indicated that a majority of faculty members were against giving credit for any activity undergraduate students were fairly evenly divided on the issue graduate students responses have not been tabulated yet it could give you a misleading view thornton said i would bet that they got most of the faculty who felt strongly against credit the others probably larry weitzner sorority rush successful fraternities have bad year sororities by linda pickens all three sorority houses will be filled next year as a result of this year's suc cessful rush program according to the rush chairmen of alpha phi alpha gamma delta and gamma phi beta the response was a lot better than i think anyone expected lee kraushaar 79 rush chairman for alpha gamma delta said each sorority was limited to a total of 23 new pledges by the panhellenic society fraternities by 808 fisher fraternities pledged approximately 40 fewer freshmen this year than last ac cording to steve detwiler 78 in terfraternity council ifc president a preliminary count shows that 350 fresh men pledged to fraternities at the end of formal rush detwiler said he is optimistic that the number will grow with intensive post-rush efforts we would consider this a bad year detwiler said he attributed the decline to no fault of the ifc system—just cir cumstances he noted that the downward trend has been going on since four or five years ago when the system had a record of almost 500 pledges detwiler confirmed that the turnout for the open houses held to introduce fresh men to the fraternities was down from last year however he said that this probably was not a factor in the low pledge numbers detwiler noted that the fresh shop talk les whitten 50 who writes a syndicated column with jack anderson will speak m neville lounge tomorrow 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