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              nity has not yet been approved to be a member of the ifc board approval by ifc to recolonize is not the same as joining or belonging to ifc malekzadeh said theta delta chi has to apply for ifc membership by making a for mal proposal most likely they will apply whenever their new chapter is organized later on this year peter stamas 96 a brother of lambda chi alpha fraternity said the recolonization of nize and then apply for approval from the univer sity and from the ifc from now on before a fraternity can start to recruit new members they have to get ifc approval first malekzadeh said theta delt will be the last fraternity to recolo nize before applying to the university and the ifc for approval the fraternity had already begun the recolonization process before the ifc changed its policy and therefore it does not have to follow the procedures contained m the new policy although theta delt has been approved by ifc to come back to campus the returning frater by casey bahrenburg news writer with the thanksgiving break just around the corner hundreds of mem bers from the lehigh community put on their running shoes and got themselves into the holiday spirit by participating m the 42nd annual tur key trot thursday the 2.6-mile run began outside packer memorial chapel and wound through the campus past the frater nities on the hill and back down to the maginnes lawn of the 425 registered participants 287 runners crossed the finish line the race is part of the year long intramural competition and teams can use the race to add points to their score jane josephson director of intramural and club sports ran the event and said she was very pleased with the outcome of the race this event takes a lot of prepa please see turkey page 6 three teams were the women's run ning team the crew team and the soccer team stephanie laski 99 ran with other members of the crew team » i really enjoyed participating because it was not only a lot of fun it was a team-bonding experience as well stephanie laski 99 5 i really enjoyed participating because not only was it a lot of fun it was a team-bonding experience as well laski said participating as independent groups the top scorers were the men's crew team the frisbee team and the men's lacrosse team joe youngblood 96 a member of the men's crew team said he was satisfied with the team's over all performance as well as his own personal performance — as a team we did very well plus we had a good time especially because we were not expected to do this well youngblood said personally i was also very pleased with myself because my time was much faster than it was last year several freshman residence _ halls also participated led by the palmer/stevens group and followed closely by the stoughton williams group and richards a2 josephson is looking forward to next year's turkey trot after this year's great success ration and the campus always seems to come through to run the turkey trot josephson said this year we were a little concerned about the weather conditions and we were very lucky that they were ok be cause safety is always my first / priority with anything this year's event was not only safe but was a success as well josephson said many participants ran with their living groups or sports teams each organization was represented by a group of five to 10 runners the top three overall finish ers were the brodhead house — group alpha chi rho fraternity and sigma chi fraternity all three teams were rewarded with turkey trot t shirts and trophy points which will go toward their overall standings m the intramural competition on the women's side the top student and staff groups celebrate thanksgiving early with 42nd annual race runners circle campus in turkey trot the brown and white vol 103 no 20 lehigh university's student newspaper founded m 1894 tuesday november 21 1995 praying for a victory all the lehigh news first new ifc policy will not affect theta delta chi by molly maginn news writer baw photo by mark rubins more than 15,000 fans turned out saturday at goodman stadium to support the football team m its 37-30 victory over lafayette college m double overtime the win gave the engineers the patriot league championship see page 16 theta delta chi fraternity will recognize its lehigh chapter for the fall of 1997 but it will not be affected by a new interfraternity council policy on recolonization during last tuesday's ifc meeting scott walter greek affairs coordinator discussed the time table for the recolonization process theta delta chi will be sending representa tives from their nationals to actively recruit mem bers walter said the consultants will be here ci ther at the end of this semester or during the first two weeks of february next semester and they are looking to recruit somewhere from 20 to 25 brothers theta delt had its lehigh chapter revoked after being found guilty of violating lehigh's policies prohibiting hazing m 1992 theta delt s recolonization has prompted the ifc to change its policy on the way fraternities come to campus right now the ifc has the power to deter mine which fraternities comeback to campus and whether they will be a part of the ifc board ben malekzadeh 96 president of the ifc said the ifc board needs to control the number of fraternities on the hill there are too many fraternities on lehigh's campus malekzadeh said we have to be care ful to meet the university's occupancy standards and we can barely do that now . we have to protect the fraternities that are on campus especially now with the residential environment report malekzadeh described the new policy and how it is different from the old one in the past a fraternity would start to recolo please see theta delt page 6 the men's basketball team lost its exhibition game against slovakia thursday night 98-74 senior rashawne glenn led lehigh with 14 points see page 1 6 sports 12-16 football review 14 kelly madden 15 football 16 women's basketball 16 students had the opportunity to escape to another world thursday as sac brought virtual reality to the ulrich student center see page 3 news 1-6 russia lecture 3 student senate 3 football photos 4-5 research on ultraviolet radiation's effects on underwater sea life shows future changes m u v intensity that may cause shifts m freshwater ecosystems see page 7 63.8 percent of respon dents to a wired survey said access to a network connection was an im portant part of their deci sion to live on campus source spring 199.5 wired survey