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              strengthen fraternities instead of allowing them to be weakened with bad public ity moss said i would also organize a new postition on the ifc for a community relations and charity work chairman to promote organize and com pile fraternity activity moss said he would also continue matt deutscher's progress in trying to find a way to alleviate the problems we are having with the office of residential and facility ser vices see electionpage 3 ary todd grimsrud 91 of the alpha tau omega fraternity and michael moss 91 of the delta phi fraternity are the only two ifc presidential can didates grimsrud who is currently chairman of the community relations committee said he has many goals to achieve if elected president i would like the ifc to become an efficient governing body by becoming a more cohesive unit grimsrud added before accomplishing bigger goals lehigh university tuesday february 6 1990 the brown and white vol 97 no 27 acid rain study questioned by lehigh scientist a 1989 federal report states that water quality in northeastern united states lakes would change very little over the next 50 years if the region's acid rain levels remains constant but a lehigh university scientist said acidification of lakes in the pocono mountains is proceeding much faster than the report estimates the federal environment protection agency last august issued a report that predicts that if sulfur emissions are not reduced lakes in the south and northeast will suffer however the report also states that if today's rainfall acidity in the northeast were to remain unchanged for the next 50 years lakes in the region would experience only a slight decrease in acid-neutralizing capacity anc for the past 10 years patricia bradt a research scientist at lehigh's environmental studies center has studied the effects of acid rain on lakes in the pocono mountains where see acid rainpage 2 judicial board set for panhel b&w photo by tony panza kirsten halvorsen 91 left and steve ploder 91 pause to talk on the way to class about the pjb and said i think it will help people to become aware of uni versity and panhel rules and bylaws she explained that the five standing members will be present at all hear ings unless there is a conflict of interest when one of the alternates will take that person's place current panhel president julie johnson 91 echoed benner's com ments when she said that panhel violations are completely different than fraternity problems due to the extreme limitations placed on sororit ies with regard to parties and rushing johnson explained we are trying to put our panhel system up to the training for its five standing mem bers and seven alternates was held last week according to benner the five standing members are michele cabot 90 jennifer cray courtenay engleke 92 kathy gimpel 90 and jessie robertson 92 robertson said that their training consisted of two 2-hour sessions the first a meeting with associate dean of students terrence curran.who expla ined how lehigh's judicial system works and their place within it assist ant dean of students lisa hanson explained how panhel and the judi cial system will interact robertson is very enthusiastic by ted van horn brown and white news writer starting this week sororities charg ed with violations of rush or social policy have an option besides going to the administration's judicial system for punishment sentencing the panhellenic judicial board pjb is a new division of the pan hellenic council that has roughly the same power as the interfraternity council's ifc judicial board said diana benner 90 former panhel pre sident benner said the pjb was created so we could handle rush violations and other problems ourselves national panhellenic system's stan dards she said that the ifc has had greater power than panhel in the past and this is part of an attempt to change that delta zeta sister debra klinek 90 said of the pjb i think it's a good idea because it will promote unification between the eight sororities according to robertson pjb mem bers were appointed after being inter viewed by four sorority presidents hanson and greek affairs coordina tor bob robeson according to johnson the idea for the pjb was put together by hanson and brenner ifc elections held tonight at sigma phi byunda jacobs brown and white news writer interfraternity council elec tions will be held tonight at the sigma phi fraternity house to choose its officers for the 1990-91 school year the ifc the representative body elected to govern all lehigh fraternities includes the thirty house presidents and a five man executive body whose members are elected to serve for one year the elected offices are pre sident judiciary vice presi dent administrative vice pre sident treasurer and secret we must work on our funda mental weaknesses i would like to improve public rela tions increase social and intellectual awareness and increase involvement a mandatory recycling pro gram at lehigh is one project grimsrud said he will con centrate on as president moss's goals are geared tow ard developing a more posi tive image for the lehigh frat ernities i feel that our greek sys tem is the primary reason for our strong alumni activity and therefore it's important to inside news andrew garr 65 gives advice on real estate careers page 4 arts & leisure a student gives his account of experiences in czechloslavakia page 8 sports men's hoopsters break four-game losing streak with win against towson page 1 2