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              rights act of 1964 and the equal pay act it also claims that decker is entitled to be promoted to associate profess or with tenure she claims that even though she received positive evalua tions from other faculty mem bers and carried out the same obligations asked by the male professors her contract was not renewed because of her gender decker was an assistant pro by jennifer provda brown and white asst news editor a former professor in leh igh's modern foreign lan guages and literature depart ment is suing the university charging that she was denied tenure because she is a wom an therese decker filed a com plaint in the u.s district court in philadelphia asking for 75,000 in damages and back pay under the civil ex-professor sues lu for sex discrimination tenure according to the complaint decker did not receive pay equal to that of her male colleagues from the begin ning of her lehigh career the complaint also says that she was assigned a more inten se schedule and was serving on more faculty committees than the men the information in this article was compiled from the morn ing call fessor of german from aug 1982 to june 1989 and signed two-year contracts for her first six years of employment according to the suit filed by attorney aaron matte of allen town the complaint says her fin al contract for 29,500 would have her work for one year beginning aug 22 1988 however before she received the contract she was inform ed that she would not receive the brown and white lehigh university friday november 2 1990 vol 98 no 15 local youths vandalize assault on campus said that one juvenile was arrested on oct 13 for physically assaulting two students spraying mace on a third and resisting arrest on memorial drive casciano said the second macing incident which occurred on friday oct 26 is under investigation casciano added in response to the recent problems involving vandalism theft and assaults lehigh police has increased the number of police on patrol in certain areas we're putting more men out and concentrating on trying to take care of this problem casciano said he explained the targetted areas of affairs john smeaton agreed if frat ernity members do the job they're supposed to do at the door by checking ids that will remove the motivation smeaton said if you see any suspi cious or unusual characters don't respond yourself call the police erickson said we're not trying to create a barrier between lehigh and the community if you have friends that live in the community and you invite them to campus stay with them smeaton concluded with the help of students we'd like to respond to the presence of juveniles on campus bef ore a problem occurs instead of responding to a problem increased patrol are the hill and lower campus because they are the trouble spots casciano stated that several arrest ed juveniles claimed to be on their way to the stage door however several fraternity members claimed to see juveniles at parties on the hill mark erickson director of student life cited the social aspect as the attraction for the juvenile gangs we need to take away the incentive for these kids to come on campus we're working with the ifc to make sure that all fraternities really do check for ids before admitting people into a party assistant vice president of student by andrea lauer brown and white a&l editor more than 40 juveniles have been warned against trespassing on lehigh property within the past three weeks and more than 12 have been arrested lehigh police sgt tony casciano said most of the arrests have been juv eniles warned prior for trespassing casciano continued three arrests were for theft at the brodhead house involving purses being taken from food services personnel two students have been assaulted with mace and another three have been beaten by at least two juveniles according to police reports police the mood was somber at the take back the night rally in bethlehem on halloween until reverand jo claire hartsig of center city ministries lead the crowd in a community littany participants responded to her statements about violence and rape by shouting unmask the crime unleash the power community unites at anti-rape rally by robyn suriano brown and white managing editor see rally page 9 you haw struck a woman you have struck a rock you have unleashed a boulder your purposes urill be crushed south african women's rally tune personal freedom violence depicted in the media and misconceptions about rape were themes of the take back the night rally in center city plaza in bethlehem wednesday evening approximately 120 people gathered at the halloween vigil about 15 lehigh students among them to listen to speakers denounce myths about rape and uncover facts about violence in society the rally was held in response to five rapes that have been committed in bethlehem in the past six months bethlehem police commissioner thomas murphy said the police department is sensitive to the detrimental effects of rape on victims and potential victims he assured the crowd that the department is doing everthing in its power to bring the criminals to justice dixie white of bethlehem one of the rally's organizers said if five rapes have been reported statistically there have probably been 50 committed five is too many one is too many £ i inside news senate hesistates to vote on social policy changes in light of recent troubles on the hill page 2 arts and leisure where did all the new sculptures around campus come from page 1 4