Brown and White Vol. 94 no. 48

              lehigh university brown and white vol 94 - no 48 bethlehem pa friday april 29 1983 215 861-4184 pie in the eye bsw photo by rob sternlieb chris bubser 86 a pledge at alpha phi is shown on tuesday winning the pie-eating contest at beta theta pi for more pictures on greek week activities see photo spread on pages 8 and 9 acceptance rate excellent for law medical schools by louis gombocz there has been an excellent accep tance rate for members of the senior class into law and medical schools according to mark ellis associate dean of the arts college and nancy fulford health professions coordinator pre-law adviser ellis said as of late april this year of the 35 seniors who have applied for admission to law school 83 percent or 29 students had been accepted fulford said of the 39 seniors applying to medical schools 30 students or 77 percent have been accepted she added that approximately half of her stu dents have received multiple acceptan ces several as many as six the reason for this high medical school acceptance rate according to john perri 83 is because his fellow pre med colleagues are not cutthroats he explained there is a close camaraderie between the pre-med majors in that they are always willing to help each other out the class of 83 has done well this year in professional acceptances ' ellis said they deserve credit he said the university has a successful pre-law pro gram in which most of its students have received early acceptances this year he also mentioned the class of 83 already appears to be leading the past two year's senior classes in terms of law school admissions both ellis and fulford said they expect all admissions results to be in by august fulford expects three more of her stu dents to be accepted to medical schools giving the university an 80 percent acceptance rate which is comparable to harvard full-service bank in uc planned for neville lounge by kathy goldstein several financial institutions wishing to locate at the university are presently being reviewed according to university controller timothy hill our intention is to have a full-service branch bank in operation in the univer sity center uc by fall semester 1983 he said the banks involved cannot be public ized until they have received approval from the federal deposit insurance company and the state banking author ity hill said the bank will be located in neville lounge between the post office and a wall which will be built by the bank according to dave bailin 84 forum student representative involved with reviewing bank plans the wall will cost approximately 30,000 for the bank and will do away with dead space in neville lounge he continued bailin presented the plans at the last forum xiii meeting along with a recom mendation to the administration that the bank's pricing of services to students be a major criteria in the selection of the bank the recommendation passed and was presented to hill right from the beginning our number-one objective was to meet the needs of students hill said adding that this has already been discussed with the banks hill emphasized that the bank will be a full-service branch where students faculty and staff will be able to do all normal services including checking savings and loans there will be space for three tellers and an automatic teller machine in neville lounge according to bailin a second automatic teller will be located in the bookstore added hill but this may not be available at first according to hill the bank's location and the services it provides should cause a natural tendency for students to use it we will attempt to assist the bank in fraternity alarms inrlfing by mike coryell only about 60 percent of the frater nities at the university are equipped with burglar alarms which are tied into the police station in the univer sity center uc , according to chief of campus police eugene dax since the university has taken over the maintenance systems of the fra ternities it has given the lack of alarm systems its highest priority said michael butryn assistant direc tor of physical plant we noticed the problem back in august butryn said and we strongly recommended that the houses put in alarm systems it is especially necessary in the summer to prevent vandalism and theft if they have an alarm the police can respond within a resonable amount of time only about 18 fraternities have security systems dax said fire alarms are also a concern he noted most houses dax pointed out have lines hooked directly to the campus police base however some houses have fire alarms that sound only in the house — it is then up to the brothers to call the fire department not all of the systems come into my office they have the physical capabilities to be connected to the police station but not all do dax added that the houses should be encouraged to connect the systems to the police station but since they pay for the systems they cannot be ordered to do so dax also pointed out that the fire and alarm systems are on the same line so they are indistinguishable athletic department aids players academics by michael melley the university's athletic department continually takes measures to maintain good academic performance among its players according to assistant football coach joe sterrett about five to eight percent of the football squad of about 100 students is on academic probation during any given semester sterrett said that the majority of the players on academic pro bation are on hours probation not pass ing at least 12 credit hours during a semester . three players were dropped in janu ary for poor scholarship and one with drew on his own according to sterrett according to baseball coach stan schultz two baseball players are on aca demic probation this semester schultz said that during the 16 years he has coached at the university about seven or eight players have gone on probation and thus been ineligible to play how ever he added he has not yet had a player dropped for poor scholarship tennis coach kevin kopp said two of his players are on academic probation this semester neither of them were on probation in the fall according to assistant athletic direc tor judy baxter less than five students in the entire women's program are cur rently on academic probation the football program has an extensive system to check on the academic perfor mance of its players and assist those stu dents who are having difficulties according to sterrett the program includes curriculum advising in conjunc tion with the deans and curriculum advi sors a study hall weekly grade checks player evaluation forms tutoring and counseling sterrett said all incoming freshmen who have test scores below the median for the academic program they are enrolled in and upperclassmen with cumulative averages below 2.0 are assigned to a study hall every monday through thursday night from 7 to 10 p.m according to head football coach john whitehead most players with cumula tive averages under 2.25 have weekly appointments with him to check on their performance during the previous week whitehead keeps a record of all grade checks held with each of his players sterrett said that at mid-semester the department sends an evaluation form to the teachers of all the football players the form asks the instructors to evaluate the students attendance attitude prep aration for class and performance on quizzes and tests according to sterrett the coaching staff sets up tutoring through the univer sity as well as through a special budget in the athletic department he added that library programs and seminars on how to study and take notes are provided for the students kopp said he discusses academics with his players about four times during the semester and helps them arrange tutoring if necessary baxter said she also discusses aca demic performance on a one-on-one per sonal basis with the field hockey and lacrosse players she coaches however the coaches in the athletic department said no matter how hard see full-service page 3 see fraternity page 4 see coaches page 4