Brown and White Vol. 100 no. 12

              b4w photo by debra cogan saturday's brisk weather could not stop these freshman families from attending the lehigh-towson football game coverage of day's events page 3 2 attend forum meeting committee explains restructuring both bethlehem police and lehigh police were at the scene will was arrested by bethlehem police while brown was arrested by lehigh police detective mark diluzio according to the police report one of the two students said their actions were part of an initiation process for the fraternity the fraternity was brought up on hazing charges by the university the next day hazing is defined broadly by the lehigh handbook as any action or situation created whether on or off campus to produce mental or physi cal discomfort embarrassment har rassment or ridicule according to steve dayton 89 presi dent of phi gamma delta brown said in the hearing that he and will had gotten drunk at a friend's house off campus brown and will pleaded guilty to the charges of underage drinking and drunk and disorderly conduct before by erica crespi brown and white news writer only one member of the lehigh staftand one student attended the forum's restructuring committee meeting thursday held for hearing faculty and student reactions to its newly proposed constitution and bylaws one of the reasons this restructuring began was to get the faculty involved again said forum student co-chairman jorge segovia 89 a committee member i don't want the forum to continue without faculty support according to robert mills restructuring committee chairman who said he was disappointed with the low turnout a major concern of the forum is the degree of faculty apathy in relation to it we're very interested in getting the faculty to take a stand either for or against the forum he continued the proposed constitution and bylaws were given to the members of forum student senate president's council faculty steering committee and the graduate student council we're interested in getting as much expos ure as we can but we haven't been too successful admitted mills they all must be happy with us he added jokingly the committee is holding one final meeting b&w photo by carol taffet dan poresky founder of dan's camera store in allen town lectured thursday about entrepreneurship see story page 6 the brown and white 215 758-4181 bethlehem pennsylvania tuesday october 25 1988 lehigh university vol.loo n0.12 ijc finds fiji innocent of hazing charges by caroune west brown and white news edttor phi gamma delta fraternity was found innocent of hazing charges on thursday by the interfraternity judi cial council in a closed hearing the charge stemmed from an incident ocl 6 in which two pledges were arrested off campus by bethlehem police and lehigh police the uc recommendation is subject to approval by dean of students john smeaton according to assistant dean of students mike boyd smeaton should be announcing his decision today on oct 6 robert eric will 91 and andrew brown 91 were cited for underage possession and consump tion of alcohol and drunk and disor derly conduct in the 100 block of east morton street said bethlehem police the report stated the two were running in the street yelling and screaming and that the bethlehem police officer smelled alcohol on them nov 1 to hear responses on the matter and are accepting written comments until nov 1 the proposed constitution and bylaws will be brought before the faculty and board of trustees for a final vote dec 7 at the all-un iversity convocation my big fear is that we'll hold that convoca tion and there will be a very low turnout said mills if it passes with a low turnout and at a future time we don't get faculty back-up in my point of view i wish it would have been defeated the new constitution created to reflect the emerging role of the forum as the arena for discussion and debate of issues affecting lehigh as a whole will provide both continuity with the past and the flexibility to deal with the problems of the lehigh community the changes proposed were a reduction in the number of members meetings and commit tees of the forum to expedite and simplify matters membership will be decreased from 65 to 51 and there will be a minimum of one meeting per semester instead of three the administration and planning acad emic affairs and the campus life committees have been dissolved to eliminate unnecessary deliberation time in dealing with issues see innocent page 5 what's inside - lehigh proposes to lower grad uate school tuition page 4 study abroad programs expand ing through europe page 5 music hagaromo makes premiere page 10 students find alternatives to pubnights — page 12 | r rugby club remains undefeated routs princeton page 13 men's cross country sweeps leopards — page 16