Brown and White Vol. 100 no. 19

              the brown and white it 6rsity bethlehem pennsylvania vol.loo n0.19 friday november 18 1988 215)7584181 new judicial methods proposed by erica crespi brown and white news writer student advocacy program presented to senate a revised judicial system geared to make the judiciary process fairer to the student was proposed at the stu dent senate meeting wednesday senator stuart jara 90 who worked with bill reboul 90 missy weinkam 90 and matt deutscher 90 introduc ed the proposal to the rest of the senate the changes included adding a student advocacy program trial by one's peers and a more efficient appe als process according to jara it's something that's got to hap pen reboul said i have been through it and it is a bad system there are so many ways you can be abus ed...because you just don't know what's going on the student advocacy program is an option in which a student adviser would explain the upcoming proceed ings and answer questions the student may have before the pretrial inter view the program would not be gear ed toward case defense weinkam explained according to reboul the current system dictates that a written notice and a judicial officer give the student any information needed although information is offered it is hard for the student to understand the rules since the officer is a faculty member the student may feel uncomfortable with him he said having a student adviser is a chance to get a student's opinion and discuss what kinds of things are going to happen to you reboul said the advocate would be present throughout the interview and trial to make sure the student is aware of his rights within the university and responsibilities and is aware that anything presented to a person at anytime can be held against him according to reboul the next part of the proposed judi cial system is a change in the univers ity committee on discipline this com mittee consisting of students faculty and administration is responsible for hearing students cases and deciding whether a student violated the code of conduct under the proposed system this committee will be comprised entirely of students to give the student a trial by his peers this type of judicial system is not a new one according to jara and reboul many schools have had it for years vanderbilt university has had a student-run judiciary body since it was founded and that was back in the 1800s said reboul after the proposed university com mittee on discpline makes its deci sion the case goes straight to the dean of students who will either confirm or veto the decision if vetoed the case is sent to the disciplinary appeals com mittee for a final trial the proposed disciplinary appeals committee similar to the current ucod is made up of two students two faculty members and one administra tor this differs from the current system under which the decision would go first to the disciplinary appeals committee then to the dean of students for the final review senate president debbie tsai 89 likins says weekend will be different test by celeste primiani brown and white news writer come lehigh-lafayette weekend you'll go through another test a different kind of test said university president peter likins at the joint interfraternity council-panhellenic council meeting tuesday at alpha gamma delta sorority the meeting was held for house officers to discuss concerns and logistics of lehigh-lafayette weekend likins expressed particular concern for this year's weekend as opposed to last year's because of the change in social environment he referred to previous lehigh-lafayette week ends as exercises in trust under a social policy based on student responsibility this year with the passage of act 31 it's a whole new ballgame according to likins he said here i am tonight in a state of real uncertainty you've suffered through a lot but so have we act 31 came i n may and we've been thrown into a tumult for most of you these changes were like a thunderbolt and we worried about it and i'm still worried about it likins made it clear that he is concerned not just with student b&w photo by young homo university president peter likins left spoke at tuesday's interf raternlty and panhellenlc council meeting at right is ifc president jeff elchman and panhel president danielle latourette second from right see senate page 7 see ifc page 8 brown and white survey results engineers i ob mu oo see story page 5 ■ • ___ what's inside ~» , "~*" m mmtmm.mmmammwmmmamwmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i ■ ■ ■■ ■ „_^ ■ , . , news features sports delaware sen joe biden drown hall has interesting cross country fares well at speaks at lehigh - page 3 history page 18 regionals — page 24 tomorrow's specifics buses no the trials and tribulations of knee injuries plague lehigh open containers page 4 student athletes page 19 athletics - page 24