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              seniors laurel casten michael beat tie and mary kush all said they expect the speech to be interesting warren pillsbury director for the center of economic education said he taught trump's nephew in class a few years ago since the student would talk about the things trump was doing pillsbury feels as if he knows him as more than a name in the paper he is certainly an exciting person pill sbury said adding that he has no idea whether he will be a good speaker senior katie zilligen said at first she was disappointed when she heard trump was going to be the speaker but now she is looking forward to hearing what he has to say but she added i hope he speaks on issues other than money the next donald trump he's one of my heroes among those who have reservations about him speaking is biology profess or steven krawiec i think that graduation should be an academic ceremony and that the speaker should be an individual of academic distinction trump is a notable per sonality but i see no evidence that he's academically distinguished he said department chairman of geologi cal sciences bobb carson comment ed i guess i think the university ought to be recognizing excellence in a variety of forms he said the appointment gives the impression the university is interested in people who make money he is not sure trump is by hope goldhaber brown and white news writer some people have reservations about donald trump speaking at graduation others have no opinion and still others think it will be interest ing to hear what he has to say richard bareness dean of the col lege of business and economics said he does not feel strongly one way or the other about the selection he said the students must have given considera ble thought to it and he respects them for the decision senior chad watkins said i think it's great the guy knows a lot of things look at his success-he's pretty smart maybe it wouldn't be appealing to someone who's not business ambiti ous but for me it's great i plan to be the brown and white 215 758-4181 bethlehem pennsylvania tuesday december 8 1987 lehigh university v 01.98 n0.23 christmas vespers were presented sunday at 4 p.m and 8 p.m by the lehigh university choir and brass ensemble in packer memorial chapel in addition to traditional christmas works an invocation and benediction were given by lehigh chaplain hubert flesher who presented the service's readings ifc passes majority of social proposals the interfraternity and panhellenic councils approved five of the six proposed changes in lehigh's social policy at their joint meeting wednesday the proposal rejected 1-33 is freshman will not be allowed in fraternities until the completion of the first set of 4 o'clock quizzes roughly the first week in october except for ifc-scheduled rush events according to the rationale freshmen should be given time to adjust to college academics and life away from home as well as explore what the university has to offer without being immediate ly influenced by an abusive alcohol environment with dry rush we felt that keeping freshmen off the hill wasn't the way to go about this adjustment said ifc president scan kelly that's what defeated it he added no one even suggested the time period for forbidding freshmen on the hill be shortened after a change in the last proposal all social functions must stop serving alcohol by 2 a.m rather than be cleared out it was approved 31-3 support for the proposals said kelly was overwhelmingly positive if somewhat reluctant after being made to understand why these changes have to come they knew what the right thing to do was the proposals will be recommended to the trustees for their vote at the jan 15 board meeting referring to the drastic compromises in the social policy the student body has declared itself willing to make kelly said the scary thing is that it might not be enough nities and sororities with their pubnites and greek week celebrations has a devastating impact on the cultural environment and is incompatible with our desire to create an ethos rooted in intellectual growth and moral development a number of essential steps must be taken first of all the availability of alcohol on campus must be restricted....second we must be more courageous in addressing the inordinate impact of the fraternities and sororities on the cultural and social climate of the school alumni pressure notwithstanding we must reduce the density of fraternities and sororit ies and replace them with living contexts more suitable to the cultural and intellectual climate of a first-rate university i think it's just the sentiments of a few faculty said interfraternity council president scan kelly a very vocal minority the greek system is pretty much here to stay-it has too positive a history and tradition to be wiped out by a few faculty members profs greeks hurt academia byeoincallan brown and white news writer the faculty caucus drafting committee is prepar ing a document for presentation to the faculty caucus tomorrow which will voice a negative arts and science faculty reaction against the greek system according to an excerpt from the rough draft it was not a registered complaint against the fraternities said government professor laura olson rather it was an intention to get the faculty involved with student life many students come to lehigh eager for intel lectual vitality reads the letter instead they encounter the social climate of a party school a prevailing student attitude that is anti-intellectual and careerist and little evidence of student concern for the significant social and moral issues of our day the most significant characteristic of student culture at lehigh is the inordinate influence of the greek system the unusually high density of frater who've had a bad experience with a fraternity or sorority attempts for comments from the faculty members most involved proved difficult olson a member of the drafting committtee was unfamiliar with the document and referred to associate government professor edward morgan and associate jewish studies professor laurence silberstein as the auth ors silberstein was unavailable for comment and morgan refused to comment on the document until after tomorrow's faculty caucus this has been an in-house project he said it would be irresponsi ble of me to discuss it the letter first entered student hands when a faculty member gave a photocopy to kelly he thought i would be interested in what it had to say since then i understand they are working on another draft right now it comes across pretty anti fraternity and they may have toned it down kelly said i'm not worried said kelly this is absolutely not a grass-roots movement by the faculty to eradi cate fraternities trump as speaker indicates lehigh outlook an appropriate speaker for a comm encement senior rence goldman heard him speak on 20-20 and although he speaks very well said the only reason people want him as speaker is because he is wealthy norman melchcrt dean of the col lege of arts and science said i guess i'd rather have a world famous nov elist or a poet or a nobel prize winner but the senior class chose him and i'm not going to protest it senior class president jeffrey ensl in said trump fits in well with what lehigh is about the class chose him to speak he said and the officers are satisfied with that selection most students interviewed also appear satisfied with their choice