CAMPUS BRIEFS: Thursday, October 15, 1998

IFC to institute formal fall rush program Although the term "rush" is being used, houses will not give out bids or pick rushes until the spring rush. Fraternities will hold rush events from November 8 to 11 and 15 to 18. The events are scheduled according to the geographic location of the chapter houses. Jeff Snyder, the IFC's vice president for rush and new membership education, said that during the two-week spring rush, freshmen have a limited amount of time to spend at the different IFC fraternities. The Wharton senior explained that now with additional rush events in the fall, "come spring, people will have a better idea which houses they're matches for." Freshman rush was held in the fall semester until 1995, when the IFC and University officials moved rush to the spring because of concerns that freshman men needed to spend more time adjusting to University life before they joined a fraternity. Scott Reikofski, director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs, said last night that he was not aware of the new additional fall rush plans. He explained that when the arrangements were made to switch to a spring rush, the fraternities were told that they could hold showcasing events -- when freshmen could meet brothers and see the houses -- but no formal rush events in the fall. Snyder said that since there would be no fall bids or cuts, the events would adher to all OFSA regulations. -- Catherine Lucey U. sets date for Wolfgang memorial service A memorial service for renowned Criminology Professor Marvin Wolfgang will be held on Wednesday, October 21, at 4 p.m. in the Faculty Club's Alumni Hall. Wolfgang, a standing faculty member in the Wharton School's Legal Studies Department since 1982, died on April 12 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 73. A recipient of numerous awards and distinctions, including two Guggenheim fellowships and a Fulbright scholarship, Wolfgang was most noted for his research for and co-writing of the influential Delinquency in a Birth Cohort, which showed that a small number of juvenile delinquents account for a disproportionate amount of crime. Wolfgang served as president of the American Society of Criminology and the Membership of the American Philosophical Society. He was also an adviser on several committees, including the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice and the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare's Panel on Social Indicators. His findings were also used in the 1972 landmark Supreme Court decision Furman v. Georgia, which held the death penalty to be unconstitutional. -- Phyllis Pei