Brown and White Vol. 89 no. 18

              lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday november 8 lfh imiwillwllllllliawwhwl v01.89 no 18 hotaaaaaaaaaaaaiaaaajlvffitai 21mimu1 zo::oy<y^.z-:y\-:wzzxz wagner moved to jurisdiction of parr's office in the second major organizational reassignment in a month the ad ministration has transferred the registrar's office to the jurisdiction of preston parr vice president and dean of student affairs registrar james wagner had previously reported to albert zettlemoyer provost and vice president last month the administration trans ferred the affirmative action office from administrative services to the personnel office the transfer of the registrar's office was announced oct 31 in a memorandum from university president deming lewis to all university supervisors the change was effective immediately wagner refused to comment on the transfer saying that because the decision was made by lewis the president should make any statement regarding it parr also referred comment to lewis however he said that he thought the change was merely an organizational shift both lewis and zettlemoyer were unavailable for comment about the reassignment on oct 3 lora liss university af firmative action officer was reassigned to the jurisdiction of robert evans director of personnel it was the third time her office had been transferred to lower ranking supervision since she was hired three years ago originally she had reported directly to lewis liss was reassigned to increase the effectiveness of the affirmative action office by making the resources of the personnel office directly available to it according to richard spriggs vice president for administration james wagner police cite south side crime drop by peg pfenninger ed — this is the first in a series of three articles on crime in the south side of bethlehem assault and theft crimes have decreased about 32 per cent in the south side com pared with last year's figures according to captain joseph moyer of charlie team the south side city police unit moyer attributed the decrease in those crimes to the new team-policing system initiated by the bethlehem city police last year the system divided the city into three areas and assigned a unit of policemen to each both bethlehem mayor gordon mowrer and mayoral candidate paul marcincin said they are satisfied with the team policing system not only have we been able to cut down on crime but we've been able to bring the police and the people in closer contact marcincin said my only gripe with it is that we were not able to put more police out on foot patrols an aspect that i con sidered to be an asset to the whole plan the system moyer said enables police men to get to know their areas and know where the trouble spots are " he explained the trouble spots on the south side are along parts of fourth street and near five points on broadway moyer also noted however that the south side contrary to what many lehigh students may think is not the most high crime section of the city the northeast section of the city which is patrolled by baker team has the highest incidence of crime moyer stressed it is not because of the quality of the police force patrolling the area but rather the condensed population in the housing developments the immediate area of the university yields very little disturbance moyer said and we have had very few complaints of students creating disturbances he noted however mowrer said in a recent in terview that his office has received numerous complaints about the drunken rowdiness of lehigh's off-campus students moyer said many more crimes have been committed against off-campus students than by them we have had numerous calls in the past years about off-campus students being robbed over weekends or during vacations he said he cited a substantial list on his office bulletin board of students names and descriptions of stolen articles most of the crimes remain unsolved students should be aware of the fact that they are prime targets fro robberty moyer said sure we patrol the area but thieves usually only commit robberies when they are given the opportunity such as when students leave for a weekend most of the off-campus houses have proven to be not well-protected against breakins most breakins are premeditated moyer said robbers watch houses to see who lives in them as well as when the inhabitants come and go you'd be surprised about how many other residents know the lehigh vacation schedule moyer said he explained many of the robberies go unsolved because students report rob beries too long after they have been b&w photo by glickman cutting crlme contrary to popular belief the south side of bethlehem does not have the highest crime rate hi the city a new team-policing system of the bethlehem police has cut assault and theft crimes by 32 per cent more clarification sought in affirmative action issues by linda pickens a letter asking for further clarification of affirmative action issues was sent by faculty and staff members to university president deming lewis late last week according to robert rosenwein depart ment chairman of social relations and mary jo hill of the university's research department both rosenwein and hill were responsible for writing the letter which was signed by approximately 42 members of the faculty and staff as was an earlier letter of concern sent to lewis there were one or two less than the last letter and one or two who added their names rosenwein said about those who signed the most recent letter as of friday afternoon both lewis and richard spriggs vice president for ad minstration and head of the affirmative action directurate were out of town and unavailable for comment on the letter the faculty group originally sent two letters of concern to lewis late in sep tember over the transfer of the af firmative action office one was signed by 25 female staff and faculty members the second was signed by 17 faculty and staff members including 11 department heads lewis then sent a reply oct 3 to each of the signators the faculty group held meetings oct 11 and oct 19 to discuss lewis response rosenwein stressed the positive tone of the letter which he called part of a process of negotiation and clarification we tried to couch the letter in those terms we left the idea of a meeting open we'd like to meet with dr lewis but that meeting would not be open to the whole university rosenwein explained i think the faculty group is interested in a faculty advisory committee on af firmative action with two conditions that it has power and that it can serve as a watchdog and not just another level of bureaucracy said sharon friedman assistant professor of journalism we're also concerned with the af firmative action directorate which has never met as a body friedman said another major concern is that the directorate consists of only ad ministrators according to friedman we'd like to see it more representative with a published agenda and minutes she explained currently the directorate consists of spriggs austin gavin executive con sultant to the president thomas ver bonitz director of administrative ser vices and lora liss affirmative action office firm named to supervise arena building humphreys and harding inc of new york city has been named construction managers for the university's planned arena in saucon valley groundbreaking ceremonies for the 3.7 million building are scheduled for nov 19 at 10:30 a.m the cost of the building had been set at 3.5 million earlier this semester ac cording to donald stabler chairman of the development committee of the university board of trustees 2.6 million has been raised for the building wrestling matches basketball games concerts theater productions and graduations will be held in the building's 95,000 square-foot spectator area the floor will accommodate four wrestling mats the university also plans to lease the building to outside groups no groups yet have contracted to do so present plans call for 6,000 permanent seats in the building see letter page 9 see crime page 4 inside art recovered p 5 rare books p 7 engineer romp p 12