Brown and White Vol. 93 no. 11

              lehigh university brown and white 215 861-4184 vol 93 - no 11 bethlehem pa tuesday october 6 1981 university may pick up tab for old club debts by andy lehren debts totaling more than 30,000 accrued over the years by various stu dent organizations may be forgiven by the university pending the outcome of friday's board of trustees meeting the student activities council sac incurred 53-55 percent of the debts from four or five concerts with deficit amounts according to roger watkins assistant dean of students sac has amassed the debts since 1977 when the univrsity picked up a 14,000 tab for con cert debts the other groups facing debt relief include wlvr with at least 9,000 of debts incurred since 1972 and the senior classes of 77 79 and 80 watkins added in a separate action stabler arena will present the lehigh college republi can club debt of 668.74 to the trustees friday according to richard metz the debt was incurred by the club's mock convention m 1980 when only 150 attended m the 6,000 seat arena also the dean of students office cleared off 2,800 worth of smaller debts by transferring surpluses m dead accounts watkins said dead accounts he added are accounts of dis banded organizations with either sur pluses of deficits and the dean of students office transferred the sur pluses to close the deficit accounts and applied whatever remained to smaller debts incurred by currently operating organizations watkins declined to disclose which clubs were involved because of the small size of their debts and because they were taken care of by the surpluses m dead accounts in the case of the college republican club debt metz watkins and richard fritz stabler's director of events agree that the clubs new executives worked m good faith to alleviate the debts and met frequently with university officials but because of the size of the debt and other outside debts the officials decided to ask to erase the stabler debt because its burden would make the club ineffectual as a campus organization the debts would take up all the energies of the club and hurt recuriting the problem with groups becoming ineffectual is a primary reason univer sity officials want to erase the debts watkins said they also want to prevent situations where new club officers have to face debts caused by former club offic ers he added we did it b&w photo by jeff stewaht the engineers celebrate following their emotion-filled victory over rival delaware lehigh dethroned tubby raymond's top ranked 1-aa team by a 24-21 score see story page 12 peer pressure criticized senior gifts go to students by sharon haggerty if seniors realize that money for the senior class gift benefits other students and not the administration the cam paign can be conducted without the peer pressure that has been used m the past according to pete fioretti 82 senior lass president the gift campaign has nothing to do with the administration says fioretti it has to do with the senior class guided along by the development office according to fioretti usually more than 50 percent of the seniors pledge he said he would rather get a large tur nout without peer pressure if possible and eliminate the publication of the names of those students who have given to the campaign fioretti attributes the negative attitude toward the campaign to two things marketing the campaign through peer pressure and bad publicity from the brown and white assistant director of annual giving susan george said the campaign is run and organized by the seniors the investment and where it will go is decided by the seniors she added we're here to help the senior class by next month a chairman and three sub-chairmen m charge of solicitation publicity and investment will be chosen to head the campaign fioretti said the actual campaign will start next semes ter he added the senior gift campaign is a long standing tradition at the university according to jack fulton director of annual giving it was started by the class of 1929 as a 20-year life insurance policy naming the university as the benefi ciary the class of 1961 decided it would be better to invest m mutual funds and this form of investment was used up until 1967 when the class decided to use investment counseling firms since 1967 most of the classes have gone with investment counseling firms fulton added in 1980 the program was entirely res truetured it has been changed to a five year program investing m liquid assets or money market funds fulton said over the five-year period each senior would contribute 10 15 20 25 and 30 respectively totalling 100 george said according to fulton tuition only cov ers 60 to 65 percent of the actual cost of education at the university the rest ol the mon y comes from gifts endow ments and other financial programs off-campus coordinator appointed by anne markward bringing together the combination of three sororities and many graduate stu dents some with families into one hous ing complex is a challenge faced daily by ann fritz fritz has recently been appointed coordinator of graduate and off-campus housing after serving as manager of sau con married and graduate student apartments smags fritz's main function is managing smags but she has other duties related to campus housing including taking care of the campus laundry system working out exterminating contracts overseeing the trash removal service checking for defective fire extin guishers and caring for the leased polk gardens a university student residence on fourth street during her 11 years at the university frit z has been employed m a number of different areas she originally worked m the development office then moved to the president's office next she worked m the buildings and grounds office and after three years moved to residence halls operations her next step was becoming manager of smags and she remained manager until her recent title change and promotion she says she par ticularly enjoys her new position it's very interesting and you continu ally meet people she remarked it's not a boring job there are always differ ent situations fifty-five percent of the married and graduate students at smags are for eign so fritz works closely with kathy putnam director of the international center they run social functions for the students including coffee hours at the smags facility every wednesday where students often create delicacies from their homelands these activities are popular with the students she said i'd like to see eventually that we could have a meeting place that would hold larger functions like dinner-dances fritz commented she added that there are no major problems with the smags facilities but that there are continual upgradings and renovations plans for the facilities include new insulation better windows and methods for lowering electricity bills she said among the community's new acquisitions are vegetable gardens playground facilities and sporting equipment for students and their families one problem at smags is limited space fritz said she observed i think a lot of the people that live there would probably like not to see the sororities overall i think it's a really nice little community and i think students really like it there fritz said 3 sororities eye off campus living option by karen koch since leases for the three soror ity houses located m saucon valley are coming up for renewal this year the greeks are presently dis cussing whether or not they plan to stay m the valley according to debbi kuchka 82 panhellenic council panhel president kuchka noted that several options for housing had been dis cussed last year including being placed on a waiting list for the hill looking into renovating houses on delaware avenue or elsewhere of f campus or staying m saucon valley see philippi page 9