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Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
November 14,1989
The 125th Meeting
The
Game
Is
Here!
It's that time of year again
as the Lehigh Valley gears up
for the 125th edition of the
Lehigh-Lafayette football
classic.
For Saturday's sellout
game, the largest crowd ever is
expected at Murray H.
Goodman Stadium. Additional
seating has raised the stadium
capacity to 18,371. The game
will be broadcast live by
WFMZ-TV, Channel 69 and
will be beamed by satellite.
The Lehigh University
ticket office reported last week
it had no more tickets and this week,
George Davidson, Lafayette ticket
manager, said "There's no doubt about
it. It's a sellout."
However, there will be tickets on
sale at the game — for a raffle sponsored by the Lehigh Valley Association
of Independent Colleges and Bethlehem
merchants. Proceeds will benefit the
Red Cross disaster relief effort for
victims of the California earthquake and
Hurricane Hugo. First prize is a cruise
to the Bahamas.
If everyone in the Lehigh Valley
can't come to see the game, they may
be able to hear the Engineer fans. Some
4,000 train whistles will be given away
with the purchase of a program.
Students, however, aren't waiting
for the kickoff to celebrate.
•Squaring off Wednesday will be a
"Robotic Boxing Night," sponsored by
the Student Activities Council, the
Interfraternity Council (IFC) and the
Panhellenic Council (Panhel). Round
one begins 9 p.m. at Club 31.
•Nearly 800 runners are expected for the
36th annual Turkey Trot, a 2.6-mile run
through campus which will begin on the
mall behind the bookstore at 4:20 p.m.
Thursday.
•The "One-Night Stand" program
Thursday will be a student talent
contest starting 8 p.m. in Dravo House.
• The Lehigh-Lafayette "Laugh Off"
will feature comedian Paula Pound-
stone at 9:15 p.m. Thursday at Packard
Lab (sponsored by Twilight) and
comedian Earl Reed at 9 p.m. Friday in
Lower Grace, sponsored by the
Student Activities Council.
•The "Step Show" Saturday at 9 p.m.
in Rathbone Hall will have a "Greek
Complete Lafayette
Game Preview Inside
The South Mountaineer
Freak '89" theme. Tickets are $5.
The Lehigh-Lafayette series began
in 1884, and has continued every year
except in 1896, when there was no
game. In the early years, and also in
1943 and 1944, they played twice a year.
In 1891, the teams met three times.
Lehigh trails in the series. Lafayette
has won 68 times, including last year,
while Lehigh has 51 wins. There have
been five ties.
'Culture Change' Is Goal
Of Reallocation Process
Lehigh's vice presidents and provost
are presenting proposals for resource reallocations and expense reductions to the
university's Visiting Committee on
Resource Management in meetings today
(Tuesday).
The proposals are the result of several
months of reevaluating existing programs
and services and studying ways in which
new initiatives can be funded by using
money earmarked for lower priority
projects.
The goal of the reallocation process,
according to President Peter Likins, is to
refocus Lehigh's expenditures on its top
priorities: teaching, research and faculty
development. To achieve this, administrators will need to scrutinize the resources
used for existing programs as carefully as
those considered for new programs.
"We are striving for a culture
change," Likins said. "We want to create
an environment in which people think
carefully about the optimal use of our
resources on a continuing basis."
In practice, this means that a department proposing a new program to serve
students or faculty development should
consider whether an ongoing activity can
be curtailed to fund the new initiative,
Likins said.
This process will not immediately
result in a smaller operating budget or
lower tuition, the president said. But over
time the university intends to slow the rate
at which the cost of a Lehigh education
grows.
"If after all this we don't manage to
reduce the percentage rate of growth in
tuition, we'll have failed in our mission,"
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Likins said.
The vice presidents' proposals were
shared with the Faculty Steering Committee last Friday.
While the proposals are targeted to
affect the 1990-91 academic year budget,
"in some domains our actions are immi-
"We are striving for a culture
change. We want an environment in which people think
about the optimal use of our
resources on a continuing
basis." Peter Likins
nent," according to Likins.
The proposals may include elimination of staff positions and reductions in
program expenses.
Elimination of positions does not
necessarily mean elimination of people. A
number of budgeted positions across the
university are currently unfilled, and some
of these positions will be eliminated. Other
positions will not be refilled when their
occupants resign or retire.
"We have tried very hard to achieve
our goal through a process of either
attrition or internal transfer," Likins said.
"It's conceivable that it will all happen
that way, but I don't want to promise
that."
The employees who occupy those
positions that are eliminated will receive
several months notice and will have
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News:
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Perspective:
4 The Berlin Wall Crumbles
Enrichment:
6       Gift Expands Poster Collection
UNITED WAY:
At the close of the 1989 campaign,
pledges from the Lehigh
community total $82,000.