Brown and White Vol. 98 no. 16

              the czechoslovakians most pressing need can be best served by our business college peter likins lehigh president arthur e king an expert on the economics of eastern european countries as a result of the visit likins wants to establish a satellite com munications link between le likins plans satellite link with czech leader by amy mulligan brown and white news writer lehigh president peter lik ins met with czechoslovakian president vaclav havel in pra gue czechoslovakia on oct 29 to discuss the differences between american and czechoslovakian academic systems likins said the purpose of the visit was to understand the aca demic infrastructure of the czechoslovakian system which is very different from ours likins was joined by zdenek slouka cohen professor of in ternational relations and a long time acquaintance of havel and brown and white vol 98 no 16 tuesday november 6 1990 lafayette students protest metal posts lehigh university by robyn suriano brown and white managing editor the goal posts at the lehigh-lafayette football game this year will be wooden as usual despite a heated debate at lafay ette college over the possibility of hav ing metal posts earlier this semester lafayette col lege president robert rotberg told the student body that the posts would be metal in order to discourage the violence associated with the competition to get a piece of the goal post after the game rotberg said he never intended his suggestion to be a final decision nor did he anticipate the students reaction within 48 hours i got 54.7 percent of the lafayette student body to sign a petition protesting metal goal posts marc fedorov lafayette student upon learning about the possibility of metal posts at his fraternity house meet ing lafayette senior mark fedorov cir culated a petition among the students which requested that the posts remain wooden within 48 hours i got 54.7 percent of the lafayette student body to sign it fedorovsaid todate l,ll6studentsout of a total population of 1,953 have signed the petition he said fedorov presented the petition to rotberg at an informal gathering be tween students and the president to con sider the football game issue fedorov said rotberg indicated that he would reconsider the proposal rotberg then asked the student gov ernment to contemplate the issue and give him a recommendation the student government recommended that the posts remain wooden last wednesday rotberg officially announced that the goal posts would be wooden rotberg said he changed his mind because lafayette's student government carefully considered the issue and he believes the students and the administra tion need more time to formulate a plan for reducing the problems effectively assistant dean of students bob robe son said lehigh had no part in lafay ette's original decision to use metal posts robeson said since the game is at lafay ette lehigh has no say in the matter see lafayette page 7 bid acceptances down 48 to 336 this season by lydia federico brown and white news writer three hundred and sixty-six men accepted fraternity bids on the annual bid day saturday 48 less than last year and 13 less than 2 years ago delta chi received the highest number of accepted bids with 22 delta sigma phi and deltaupsilon both had the second highest totals at 19bids each the other houses had 16 or less with one house having only five acceptances the average number of accepted bids for each house was 12.5 which is a decrease of 1.2 from last year's average of 13.7 while these numbers seem low in comparison to previous years they are expected to increase it is calculated that about 15 to 20 bidees couldn't make it to bid day while other people who had been given bids didn't accept because they felt they needed more time to make the right decision assistant dean of students bob robeson predicts most houses will post-rush throughout the fall and into the winter this will help increase their numbers and also give the bidees more time to decide most houses maintain a continuous open bidding process anytime of the year he estimates that 20 to 40 new men will join fraternities during post-rush there will not be any final numbers until see bids page 3 jinka schroder's sculpture the shunning was displayed at the lehigh art alliance juried show until it was stolen another figure portraying a man seated on a chair wearing a cloak with his arms wrapped around his legs sat behind these figures the piece valued at 400 is about six inches tall and made of terracotta brown-red clay two more pieces in the show were damaged see story page 4 see likins page 3 _ . , „ , omr photo peter likins high and charles university in prague a receiving station would be set up at charles and lehigh already has a satellite linkup likins said that this would provide in a cost-effective way an enormous flow of experience from our campus to theirs we had wonderful personal experiences walking through the streets for hours listening to the tale of the revolution said lik ins the czech revolution which took place in november last year began as a student-lead demon q ec o ll co 1 i q e m inside news tep raises 5,681 for the american cancer society kappa alpha's candidate ryan gelrod wins 1,000 - page 5 arts and leisure photographic essays depicting vietnam are on display in mountaintop a page 1 1 sports patriot league relay results forecast a hopeful season for the lust page 14