National chapter to close Sigma Nu house By DAVE PALOMBI AND CAROLYN PETER Brothers required to reapply; fraternity to be reorganized "deteriorating situation over Sigma Nu fraternity has the last five or six years." been closed until at least next blem in the past will be read­ tional chapter is closing the receive first priority, ac­ Representatives from fall by their national chapter, mitted, he said. house, the fraternity can't ap­ cording to David Butler, Sigma Nu's national chapter, reported Stuart Sharkey, vice The procedure will be "ex­ peal the decision through the •director of Housing and their alumni chapter and president for Student Affairs. tremely selective," Allenby university. Residence Life. university administrators added. met last week to discuss the The house is closing at the The decision to reopen, Currently there are no There should, however, be future of the fraternity. end of this semester so that a · however, "will not be made plans for anyone to occupy enough housing to ac­ Sigma Nu National and the reorganization process can until Sigma Nu National and the house next semester, comodate everyone wanting a alumni chapter expressed take place, according to Ed­ the alumni chapter submit a Sharkey said. Housing and room, said Edward Spencer, concern over what was hap­ ward Allenby, a member of plan," Sharkey said. Residence Life might decide associate director for ad­ pening in the fraternity, and Sigma Nu's alumni chapter. Sometime next semester to use the house if necessary. ministration of Housing and jointly decided that some ac­ Sigma Nu National plans to The Sigma Nu house is the Residence Life. tion must be taken, Allenby During the reorganization, submit a proposal stating the only campus fraternity own- said. representatives from the na­ conditions for reopening the ed by the university, Sharkey The decision to close the tional chapter will work fraternity, he added. said. house was not based solely After the meeting, Moe Lit­ closely with several current Once the fraternity is upon the recent fight between tlefield, executive secretary Sigma Nu members in an ef­ reopened, the alumni chapter Sigma Nu members will be Kappa Alpha and Sigma Nu of Sigma Nu National, and fort to restart the fraternity, will probably run the house, permitted to apply for univer­ members in which a visiting Paul McConnell, president of Allenby said. All Sigma Nu and a member of the national sity housing for winter ses­ student lost the sight in one the Alumni Corp. made the brothers will be required te chapter will serve as a live-in sion and spring semester, but eye when hit by a beer bottle, final decision as to what ac­ reapply to the fraternity, and advisor, Sharkey said. th(\se students currently liv­ Allenby said. Instead, he tion would be taken, Allenby those who haven't been a pro- He added that since the na- ing in extended housing will blamed the closing on the added. Student Center renovation Ringing in the season costs university $35,000 By BARB LANDSKROENER the semester ends, even if renova­ tions are not complete, Carter said. Approximately $35,000 will be spent Special technical devices, such as a renovating three rooms in the Student security-type door which slides out of Center, according to Herman A. the.ceiling, have been ordered. Smith, director of Engineering and "We feel that since the center will Construction. be in a higher volume traffic area, Currently underway is the remodel­ their 'business' will be increased. The ing of the present Student Information only change is that they will have Center, the Morgan Room and the nicer surroundings," Carter said. room which formerly contained the The Information Center's former pinball machines, said John Carter, location will be used as a TV lounge. ._,_..,--::­ associate director of the Student Carter said they have already pur­ Center. chased a 6-foot wide TV screen, as After remodeling is complete, the well as new furniture. Student Information Center will In other financial matters, the Stu­ move to the area across from Room dent Center was forced to overdraw 107. The pinball machines have been its interdepartmental account by moved to the Morgan Room, and the about $19,000 in the last fiscal year, room which currently houses the In­ according to Student Center Director formation Center will be used as a TV J .S. Sturgell. This was due to unan­ lounge. ticipated rising costs, such as in The new Student Information custodial service, Sturgell said. Center is scheduled to be in use before (Continued to page 2) More upperclassmen apply Housing demand increases Review photo by Neal Williamson By SUSAN HERTEL OH ~ANNENBA~M. OH ••• Students gather around the university Christmas to Stuart Sharkey, vice-px:esident for In order to accommodate the 230 ad­ tree m front of K1rkbride Office Building. The tree was dedicated on Thursday ditional students who are expected to Student Affairs, within the next two with a lighting ceremony. apply for housing in the fall of 1981, weeks. David Butler, director of Housing and To handle the overflow, Butler suggested leasing more off-campus number of cancellations would be He also pointed out that the dorms Resident Life, has proposed several greatly decreased. would be made coed instead of con­ new programs, be announced at the apartments, which would house at least 230 additional students. Butler's next suggestion is to con­ verting male dorms to all f~e Resident Student Association (RSA) vert two of the men's dorms into coed dorms because there is more of a de­ meeting Sunday night. Another recommendation, which won't take effect until1982-83, is to in­ halls to accommodate the increasing mand for coed halls. Housing expects a total of about number of women applying for hous­ To deal with overcrowding; the 9100 applications next fall, however crease the amount of the room deposit from $50 to $100, $50 of it being non­ ing. This fall, 65% of the students in university recently requested a loan traditional housing is designed to ac­ extended housing were women. from the department of Housing and commodate only 7050 students. refundable. Butler said that last year, since 1100 people cancelled rooms in BuUer also proposed that Lane and Urban Development. The loan was The increase in housing requests Harrington E be made coed. He chose denied, but Housing intends to keep are due to the rise in the number of university leased apartments, the result was a loss of money. them by determining where there trying, Butler said. upperclassmen applying. are the. weakest ties as far as brother- This year, an extra 100 beds in Vic­ Butler plans to submit his proposals By making part of the deposit non­ refundable, Butler feels that the sister dorms go. -. (Continued to -7) Page 2 • THE REVIEW • December 9, 1980 Travis, Pettigrew hired for new posts ATTENTION: AGRICULTURE AND BUSINESS MAJORS New associate provosts named BY FLOYD SHORT newly created post of provost State University, will AGRIBUSINESS YOUR BAG? Two new associate provosts for computing, Campbell primarily be responsible, ac­ will join the university, effec­ said. cording to Campbell, for ad­ MINE TOO!!! tive Jan. 1, Dr. L. Leon Camp­ Campbell explained that a vising him on matters involv­ bell, provost and vice presi­ long range planning commit­ ing educational policy, facul­ I'M MAGGIE TARBURTON dent for academic affairs, tee on computing recom­ ty development and the in­ recently announced. mended the new post. structional program. The DELMARVA AGRIBUSINESS SPECIALIST Dr. Eudora Pettigrew will Halio will return to full­ university tutoring service become the new associate time teaching and research in and the student academic in the DOVER office of provost for instruction, the English department, grievance process will report replacing Dr. Jay Halio, and Campbell said. directly to her, Campbell Dr. Larry Travis will fill the Pettigrew, of Michigan said. Pettigrew has a doctorate Sn~fing ~ Snelling in educational psychology Delaware Skiing Means .. from Southern Illinois University. THE PLACEMENT PEOPLE She has been a consultant to WICK'S \NICK'S the Illinois State Board of Education and in 1975 was You're cordially invited to stop by my office during or Check Wick's for the sKI sHoPs after the Semester Break and discuss the direction of named outstanding woman your career plans in the expanding .Agriculture In­ Christmas needs of the skier WILMINGTON educator by the Michigan dustry. in your family. 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Travis, who received his doctorate from UCLA, has been a computing planning FIRST consultant for the Wisconsin Department of Industry, GOOD PAY.FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS Labor and Human Relations . ... renovations OVER $800 PER MONTH (Continu&d from page 1) "There has been no budget increase in three years, so we have to flush out money from Attention Engineering Students: There's a new pro­ other projects, which means programming is cut down," ...