Brown and White Vol. 93 no. 12

              brown and white lehigh university vol 93 - no 12 bethlehem pa friday october 9 1981 215 861-4184 university brings charges against 6 students by diana wall disciplinary charges have been issued by the university to six of the 13 students involved m an incident m which a former muhlenberg coed claimed she was raped last april 12 according to william quay dean of students none of the men were found guilty of the criminal charges lodged against them a university hearing is scheduled for mid-october quay said although the men were acquitted associate dean of students robert cohen said the uni versity has a separate interest m the behavior of its citizens . . the students are not being charged with anything for which they were acquitted the charges however are related to the original incident cohen said adding that the university has a responsibility to bring to a hearing charges concerning behavior that may not be criminal out side the campus but that is unacceptable under the university's own code as stated m the law of the campus any action taken by civil authorities is subject to further review by the univer sity . . the university reserves the right to conduct its own disciplinary proceed ings with respect to both major and lesser crimes at the appropriate time students cannot be represented by an attorney at a hearing under university regulations atty costas douvanis legal counsel for two of the six students told the allen town morning call that university charges against the six include violat ing the law of pennsylvania failure to observe the boundaries of behavior of which the lehigh student is part — the campus and the city — and engaging m action that causes physical exhaustion or suffering or personal offense or that interferes with scholastic work or that constitutes any danger or possibility of danger to person or property although cohen would not elaborate on possible disciplinary sanctions he said some charges could result m suspension if proved while others carry a maxi mum penalty of probation in the morning call article douvanis said i think the hearing is entirely consistent with the university's concept of justice — that attorneys are not allowed to be present at the hearing standard rules of evidence are dispensed with there are no guarantees ofduepro cess admissable hearsay evidence and the person who presents the case on behalf of the university gives the law as interpreted by the university douvanis m the same article com mented on the university's statement that the charges are not the same as those for which the students were acquit ted saying that is obviously ridicu lous because the disciplinary charges arrive out of the same cause of action that resulted m their subsequent acquit tals the university is placing itself above the courts he said charges were not brought previously by the university because cohen said the university was advised not to take action while the trial was pending m order not to prejudice the court case administration addresses rare book sale proposal university officials stressed that the proposal to sell a portion of the universi ty's rare book collection m order to finance an addition to mart library is merely m the studying stage during a press conference wednesday they also expressed concern over the effect of the controversy on the university's image to the public eric ottervik vice president for plan ning said that plans have been made to have the collection inventoried and appraised by an expert faculty and appropriate committees will be con sulted before any other action is taken he said controversy has elevated since the possible sale was made known widely last month many faculty members including those on the rare book com mittee have been angered over what they see as a lack of know ledge about md input into the administration's actions dr david stam an expert on rare hooks from the new york public library was brought to the university m july to study whether a sale of the books would be feasible or worthwhile he concluded that several millions could be raised through a sale of books and recommended that some of that money should be used as an endowment fund to maintain the remaining part of the collecton the faculty and rare book committee were informed of the proposal and stam's visit m the fall ottervik said arthur humphrey vice president and provost said that he was very con cerned about the image of the univer sity adding that it was most unfortunate the controversy has been public and it might hurt our image ross yates chairman of the rare book committee and outspoken critic of the action taken so far replied that issues such as this are best when dis cussed very broadly if the public under stands the university's needs chances are those needs will be fulfilled humphrey praises greeks for abiding by regulations by dave paul the university's fraternities were praised for their handling of the current interim social regulations by provost arthur humphrey at wednesday's inter fraternity council ifc meeting but were also warned about their conduct at this year's lehigh-lafayette football game by dean of students william quay humphrey said that he is extremely pleased with the way things are going this fall and added that changes m the social regulations could be realized through a regularization of logical changes pub nights and the extension of parties past 2 a.m without alcohol were two social regulations that humphrey said could be amended humphrey explained that thursday night pub-nights were cancelled primar ily due to the lack of attendance at fri day morning classes he also said that he saw nothing wrong with extending par ties past 2 a.m hut that any proposed changes m the regulations would have to be presented to the forum and approved by the board of trustees quay told the ifc that proper behavior scrambled monogrammed sweaters and oxford cloth shirts may be the fashion but every year some people take it just a little too far edpol endorses guidelines by randy benflr the educational policy committee fdpol endorsed guidelines for faculty evaluations which were presented to the committee by arthur humphrey vice president and provost at its meeting wednesday in other business the committee decided to ask the rare book committee to serve as a subcommittee of edpol edpol endorsed the evaluation guide lines with the provision that a subcom mittee be appointed to make editorial changes discussed at the meeting if approved by the faculty the guidelines consisting of three basic areas of evalua tion will be implemented on a two-year trial basis beginning m the spring of 1982 the three areas of evaluation are teach ing research and scholarship and ser vice to the university debate preceding the endorsement centered on the issue of student input to the teaching section of the guidelines members of the committee expressed concern about how the results of the one universal question to be asked of eve ryone m classes with greater than five students would be used the guidelines say that the responses to the question which asks students to rate the instructor on a scaleof onetosix will not be used during the trial period . . unless . . forwarded by the faculty member several amendments were proposed to the student input guidelines but were voted down after discussion of the edi torial changes the committee decided to give the guidelines its approval the committee decided to ask the rare books committee to serve as a sub committee of edpol so they would be kept informed about the proposed sale of rare books rather than forming a sub committee of their own humphrey told the committee that sale of rare books may be oneof theoptions considered but no decision will be made until 1983 he assured the committee that no decision would be made without full input from the faculty see tight page »