LehighWeek Volume 01, Issue 21

              MARIE C. BOLTZ
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INSIDE
Lehigh's Indiana Jones
Lehigh Professor Ed Evenson travels the
world in search of glaciers to ultimately help
industries. See Story Page 4 >
Op-ed Tips
Lehigh's Office of Media Relations is very
interested in helping you write or place an
Op-ed peice. See Story Page 3 >
Calendar Of Events
Lehigh University events scheduled through
February, including movies,
exhibits and sports. See Calendar Page 8 >
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Lehigh Draws Temple
By KURT PFITZER
The selection committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association must have been
impressed with Lehigh's record-breaking 1987-88 basketball season.
The committee apparently feels Lehigh is ready for the big time. On Sunday, it announced Lehigh
would open the 1988 NCAA tournament the same way the Brown and White opened the 1985 toumey
— against the nation's top-ranked basketball team.
On Friday night, at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Conn., Lehigh will play the Temple
Owls, a team that has lost just once in 30 games this season.
The announcement on national TV sobered the euphoria that began when Lehigh beat Towson
State on March 8 to win its second East Coast Conference championship in four years.
It gave the Brown and White precious little time to savor a season in which they won 21 games
— the most in Lehigh's history.
And it left the two most celebrated players in Lehigh basketball history just five days to prepare
for what most armchair pundits feel will be their last game together.
But don't count Daren Queenan and Michael Polaha out yet.
"We'll give them a good game," said Polaha, the Most Valuable Player in the ECC tournament.
"I know we'll play to win. They're very good, but they're not unbeatable."
Polaha, who is working on his M.B.A., and Queenan, an economics major, earned much of the
credit for Lehigh's 21-9 record and ECC title. And they will carry most of the weight when Lehigh faces
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Strategic Defense Initiative Focus
Of March 23 Panel Discussion
A conference on the Strategic Defense Initiative,
popularly known as Star Wars, will be held at Lehigh
University on Wednesday, March 23 at 7 p.m. in
Neville Lounge of the University Center. It is open to
the public free of charge.
There will be a panel statement followed by a
group discussion. Panel members will include Lehigh
faculty members Dr. Joseph I. Goldstein, vice
president for research and graduate studies; Dr. John
E. Hare, chairman of the philosophy department; and
Dr. R. Wayne Kraft, professor of material science and
engineering.
The conference is sponsored by the Lehigh chapter of Student Pugwash. It is co-sponsored by the
University's history department, science, technology
and society program, and the Lehigh Libraries.
Student Pugwash USA is an organization dedicated to providing students, tomorrow's leaders, with
enough information on all sides of an issue to make
their own, informed decisions. Student Pugwash is
apolitical and only takes a neutral stance on all issues
involving the ethics of science/technology and its
relation to society.
Dining Room Holiday Closings
The Mountaintop Dining Room and the Asa
Packer Room will be closed from Monday,
March 28 through Friday, April 1. Both
facilities will re-open on Monday, April 4.
Sen. Reibman To Discuss
Public Education March 17
State Sen. Jeanette Reibman (Pa.) will discuss public
education and state programs supporting it on Thursday,
March 17 at Lehigh University. Her talk, "A
Legislator's Look Back at Legislative Accomplishments in Support of Public Education," will begin at
7:15 p.m. in the dining room of Building A on Lehigh's
Mountaintop Campus.
The program is open to the public free of charge. It
is sponsored by Phi Delta Kappa, an international professional fraternity for men and women in education.
The Lehigh chapter will present Sen. Reibman with a
special award during the program.
PDK members are recognized leaders in education
and graduate students whose leadership potential has
been identified. Members included classroom teachers,
school administrators, college professors, and educational specialists of many types.