Brown and White Vol. 113 No. 15

              the brown and white lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 vol 113 no 15 tuesday november 1 2005 all the lehigh news first volunteers take to streets to cleanse town by claire lefevre b&w photo by bj shepard news writer lehigh students and bethlehem residents cleaned up the area between broadway and west ninth street during campus pride day on friday the lehigh administration and student senate worked with bethlehem mayor john callahan and the city for six months to make this the first year bethlehem residents and lehigh students worked together to clean up the city this day is designed to take properties that border lehigh that could be in disarray and bring forces together to clean up where both lehigh and bethlehem resi dents live together callahan said former mayor donald cunningham developed a similar project strategic neighborhood action plan snap in 1997 snap focused on improving risk areas in bethlehem responding to resident concerns by cleaning up the streets callahan has worked to include the lehigh community in the project he credited president gregory farrington for his en»hu siasm in getting students involved dale kochard executive direc tor of community and regional affairs at lehigh worked with the student senate to help organize the event it is a great way to improve relations with lehigh students and the residents of bethlehem kochard said we want to raise standards and have people realize the importance of keeping the community that we live in clean the cleanup on friday includ ed birkel montclair carlton and west packer avenues and summit street the cleanup area con tained about 400 houses callahan said he expected the one day cleanup to have a big impact on the area there certainly will be an immediate impact seen today callahan said it is great that we are getting the students involved with the residents in the cleanup to see the good and bad students and local residents clean the bethlehem community as part of the campus pride project the project was meant to enrich the south side community and engender town-gown relations displaced disaster survivors overcome odds by devon giddon news writer jaclyn eldridge was enrolled to be a freshman at tulane university this fall when eldridge arrived at the school on aug 27 she was greeted by the residential advisor who gave her the room key so she could move into the dorm she then told her to be quick because they would have to evacuate the campus by 6 p.m hurricane katrina was coming she moved everything in and locked her door expecting to be back by sept 7 for orientation when i woke up the next morning at the hotel everyone was in a panic eldridge said people were leaving in big groups and paying taxi drivers 500 to drive them out of the city all flights had been can celled that's when i knew it was going to be bad eldridge had nowhere to go but a hotel and she had to be above the fourth floor because of flooding and below the 14th because windows were break ing from the wind eldridge had to drag her mattress into the hallway where there were no windows i woke up at 6 a.m because the wind was so loud she said the light above my head was flickering my dad was watching the news which said the eye of the storm was heading toward us the power went out less than three weeks later eldridge was at lehigh lehigh to the rescue the process of accepting students to lehigh after katrina was overseen by carl moses deputy provost for aca demic affairs along with administrators from the dean of students registrar's bur sar's financial aid residential services and admissions offices and associate deans from all three colleges according to moses even though lehigh was looking to take in students from all schools in the affected area the eight accepted students all happened to be from tulane the approach was to pro vide opportunities moses said there were two qualifica tions to attend lehigh as a temporary student students had to be academically quali fied and eligible to enroll in a different institution many of the students who wanted to attend lehigh after the hurri cane had already applied prior to their decision to go to tulane so their applications were already on file moses said the others did not have to go through a full blown application process though their sat scores and high school transcripts were required lehigh is not charging tuition to these eight students because their tuition money is not being returned from tulane moses said tulane needs the tuition and lehigh wants to help out another institution the eight students from tulane are considered guests at lehigh we compete with tulane when high school students apply to college but we will ot use an instance like this to guster tickets to be sold in ulrich by elizabeth danzig news writer tickets for guster's nov 14 benefit concert at stabler arena will be on sale in ulrich student center and the lehigh book store monday through friday from 12 p.m until 2 p.m university productions music director jennifer lennon said she expects tickets to sell out quickly and suggests that students avoid ticketmaster prices by purchasing tickets at campus locations or stabler arena ticketmaster's sales opened friday and will continue until the day of the show ticket prices are 20 for lehigh students and 25 for non-students five dollars from each ticket sale will go to the american red cross for hurricane katrina relief there is general admission standing room available only for students and there is assigned seating in the upper levels lennon said buses will be running to stabler arena before the show from 6:45 p.m until 8:15 p.m and after the concert from 10:45 p.m to 11:30 p.m the buses will pick up and drop off from the following places fairchild-martindale library at packer avenue and sigma phi epsilon the doors open at 7 p.m and the concert begins at 8 p.m for students unfamiliar with the music of guster and special guest matt pond pa lennon said it is similar to that of oar ben folds five and pete yorn monica leahy 06 said guster's got a mellow-type alternative sound but with the beats of the bongos making them extraordinarily unique in the pop world see pride page 6 see disaster page 4 sports 12-16 news 1-6 paul weibel 13 ranger competition 2 football 16 sorority quota 3