Brown and White Vol. 99 no. 44

              uc site approved for pub v 01.99 n0.44 bynickchini brown and white desk editor forum and social policy committee members have finalized their recom mendations and plans for a new cam pus pub following the administra tion's approval of funds for the project last week the pub as it will be called will be located in neville lounge in the university center the lounge will be completely refurbished this summer it will include a wide screen video projector a sophisticated sound sys tem a disc jockey's booth video moni tors a bar food preparation facilities booths tables and new spot and neon lighting the pub will serve beverages hot and cold foods sandwiches and other pub-type foods from the snackbar and its own facilities televised sporting events music television live comed b&w photo by jim kolberg the beat les-1 964 a group of performers from beatlemania recreated the look and sound of the legendary performers saturday night in grace hall du on disciplinary probation through 88-'89 ians and bands are some highlights of the entertainment the pub will pro vide after visiting pubs at lafayette and muhlenberg colleges and chi-chi's restaurant the pub subcommittee decided on a set-up similar to muh lenberg's pub initially the student-run pub will be open every week from thursday through saturday 7 p.m to 3 a.m once the pub is open on a seven day schedule there will be theme nights like sundays will be for foot ball saturday nights for comedians there will be time set aside for the performing arts rock bands and jazz said pub subcommittee chairman david cohen 88 cohen is also twil ight president he said the administration said it was a good idea and they are writing up a full proposal by caroune west brown and white editorial page editor delta upsilon fraternity and one member of the house were placed on disciplinary probation friday by dean of students john smeaton for a potentially volatile situation at sig ma chi fraternity earlier this semester delta upsilon was placed on proba tion until the end of the 1988-89 school year and senior don ferrell until the end of his lehigh career charges were brought against delta upsilon by assistant dean of students mike boyd and the university smeaton said any further incidents or violations during the next year would result in an immediate recom mendation by the university for dis solution of the chapter delta upsilon charged with three violations of the university code of conduct was found guilty of two of the charges offenses against another per son and offenses against lehigh on behalf of the fraternity house president mark mcgowan 89 plead ed not guilty to all charges in an administrative hearing with smeaton thursday afternoon if you look at the events mcgowan said in his opening statement you will find we handled the situation responsibly as a stong fraternity would the house was found guilty of oflen of disrupting lunch at sigma chi on march 18 with a group of 15-20 mem bers and disrupting a social function at sigma chi the night of march 19 20 with a group of 15-20 members according to witnesses the week end's events were precipitated by a fight at sigma chi on thursday night i n which two du brothers were allegedly beaten by a sigma chi brother dillon smeaton said the incident on thurs day night is being handled separately campus police lt edward shupp said ferrell advised him on friday morning that there was an alterca tion at sigma chi the night before l said that we would investigate thor see probation page 4 ses against another person specifical ly entering sigma chi on march 18 19 with ferrell in search of tom dillon a sigma chi brother failing to take reasonable measure to prevent ferrell from threatening dillon and failing to take reasonable measures to prevent ferrell from pushing grant oldfield and hitting john tuttle both sigma chi brothers the house was also found guilty of failing to heed warnings issued by greek affairs coordinator karen wolfe to delta upsilon treasurer thomas hydro on friday march 18 regarding further confrontations with sigma chi the fraternity was found not guilty city looks into student rentals sac candidate appeals invalidate elections due to written appeals made by four candidates alleging campaign sabatoge wednesday's student activities coun cil officer elections have been invalidated rather than holding a re-election officers will be selected through an interview process according to coordinator of student activities joann fletcher according to fletcher students appeals cited problems of campaign sabotage such as candidates posters being torn down or postered over she said more than 50 percent of the positions were appealed by candidates four out of the seven available positions have been contested fletcher explained that the interview process will replace elections for candidate selection by posing questions on such points as qualifications and experience prior to wednesday's elections the candidates were interviewed as part of a screening process but the current series of interviews will be more in-depth according to fletcher interviews are being conducted by fletcher greek affairs coordinator karen wolfe who will be taking over fletcher's position next semester and sac president wendy suter 90 fletcher said a re-election is not being held because the campaign problems did not center around difficulties with the actual voting procedure the new officers will be announced tomorrow conflicts between family neighborhoods and student housing areas will help bethlehem to determine whether a special tax or a zoning restriction is needed to curb student expan sion from the college campus under existing city law all rental property owners are already required to pay the gross receipts or a 1 percent mercantile tax on rental homes it has been difficult for the city to enforce the mercantile tax because the city does not know where the rental units are the problem with the mercantile tax regional planning director samuel guttman said is that many people are not aware of it and others just ignore it but even with a 100 percent collection rate smith said the 1 percent tax would not prove a sufficient economic deterrent to cramming as many students as possible into the house guttman said density controls which would be enforced by the code checks exist so a landlord cannot rent to an unlimited number of students see housing page 5 by caroune west brown and white editor ial page editor bethlehem housing inspectors plan to start checking all south side houses occupied by lehigh university students for any health and housing code violations-such as having too many people living in the house or too many people using too few bathrooms according to mayor ken smith this is a first attempt to determine the extent of the problems resulting from increasing off campus student housing and how to alleviate those concerns because the city does not have any way of knowing where the rental housing units are smith said he hopes to get a list of all off-campus students from the university and start the investigation this fall when the students return to school this year nearly 26 percent of lehigh's 4,700 students lived off campus in the densely populated south bethlehem area a 3-percent increase over last year the code checks along with a survey on how other university cities have tried to deal with th e brown and white 215 758-4181 bethlehem pennsylvania tuesday may 3 1988 lehigh university