Brown and White Vol. 89 no. 30

              lehigh university brown and white vol 8t - no 30 ■ bethlehem pa tuesday january 31 1978 21s-6mh031 *:■:•::■:■:•••:■:•.• .■;■.■.;•■•■■■■■■■:■ i david marston to speak at university next week former u.s attorney david marston will speak at the university feb 7 ac cording to rob rosen thai 79 student activities council lecture chairman rosen thai said marston is scheduled to speak on an unspecified topic that evening in grace hall a question-and-answer period will follow marston who prosecuted leading politicians as u.s attorney for eastern pennsylvania was fired two weeks ago by atty gen griffin bell last spring marston was among the top three of 10 republican-appointed u.s attorneys whom the justice department recommended be retained on merit ac cording to the morning call several pennsylvania politicians publicly urged the administration to keep the 35-year-old marston on the job through the final 28 months of his four-year term u.s attorney marston won convictions of albert fineman former pennsylvania house speaker and henry cianfrani former chairman of the state senate appropriations committee at the time of his dismissal marston was investigating hahnemann hospital rep daniel flood d-wilkes-barre was reported to be a target of the hahnemann probe the morning call reported president carter and bell have insisted merit be the basis for naming u.s at torneys carter in a jan 12 press con ference said twice that marston's replacement would be named on the basis of merit yet carter passed up several opportunities to deny bell's earlier statement that marston was being fired for political reasons according to the morning david marston girl talk b&w photo by henry more than 100 freshman and upperclass women turned out for the fanhellenic open house thursday to be introduced to the three university sororities rush has already begun and will continue for several weeks see story page 11 hew audit of university revealed the university improperly accounted for 6.6 million of the 9.5 million it was granted in federal research money between 1969 and 1974 according to a story by the capitol hill news service published in the allentown morning call yesterday the story was based on a 1976 government audit which the news service obtained under the freedom of information act the audit which was conducted by the department of health education and welfare hew does not allege that any of the university's research funds were misused by school officials however the audit does indicate that the university kept sloppy records of federal grant money and that the procedures used to account for the funding were in substantial violation of government regulations the university has not fully documented the personal costs charged to federal grants and contracts the audit stated the university has since restructured its accounting system to conform to federal standards according to george jenkins research director there was never a question of misuse of federal money jenkins said of the audit it was simply a question of which accounting procedure to use there were no allegations of wrongdoing the audit of the university is one of dozens conducted in the last three years by hew as it continues to battle many of the nation's top universities over how to account for federal grant money the report suggests that the federal agencies which provided the research funding to the university review their projects to determine whether they should try to get some of the grant money back so far none of the agencies have been willing to press the issue until one of the agencies reviews the audit and reaches a decision concerning future action the matter will remain an open issue hew officials said b&w photo by feller ten four the campus police's base station where this secretary works will soon include a computerized fire and burglar alarm unit according to captain eugene dax installation of the 10,000 unit is expected in six to eight weeks new alarm unit to expand system at base station by jim morrison the university has purchased a com puterized fire and burglar alarm base station in order to upgrade building security according to eugene dar campus police captain dax is awaiting shipment of the unit which cost approximately 10,000 the university's current system which is working at capacity monitors an alarm capacity of 40 buildings from the base station in the university center the new system will be able to handle 1,000 alarms dax said if we ever even fill this thing up half way dax said we'll have a darn good alarm system we can't afford a police force of gigantic size with the corn residence water damages set at more than 25,000 by ed bogucz last week's severe weather may have caused damages in campus residence buildings in excess of 25,000 according to david lee director of residence operations lee said 124 dormitory rooms and campus apartments experienced leaking problems and damages after the recent heavy rain and snow storms heavy icing of roofs gutters and downspouts of the residence halls was almost exclusively responsible for the severe leaking problems lee said he said the university is considering installation of heat cables in the buildings gutters and downspouts to try to prevent future icing problems damage from last week's storms af fected all campus residence buildings except the centennial dorms several trembley park apartments will have to be completely reroofed because of ex tensive damage lee said other required repair work includes renovation of some rooms and apartments and general cleaning of others he continued lee said he also plans to have an elec trical inspection of all rooms that reported water coming from light fixtures and outlets during the storm the 25,000 estimate of damage from the storms is just a ballpark figure lee stressed he said it includes estimates of required repair work as well as costs in curred transporting students to and from temporary housing the figure does not include estimates of damages to students personal belongings he said lee said he did not know whether the university would reimburse students for damages to their personal belongings he see repeat page 10 see computerized page 11 inside 1978 lottery p 4 african art p 8 hoopsters dunked p 16