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Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
February 7,1990
Likins Named
To Bush's
Science Panel
By William J. Johnson
Lehigh University Writers' Group
Lehigh President Peter Likins has been named by
President Bush to the President's Council of Advisors
on Science and Technology. Likins joins a panel of
distinguished American leaders charged with searching
for ways to make the nation more competitive in
science and technology.
The introduction of the 13-member panel was made
Friday in Washington by Vice President Dan Quayle.
Likins and other panel members met Saturday at Camp
David with the President, Chief of Staff John Sununu,
Budget Director Richard Darman and others.
Likins emerged from the three-hour session "deeply
impressed" with Bush"s commitment to science and
technology.
Likins described the Camp David meeting as a
"quite spontaneous" and "shirt-sleeves" session in
which Bush asked the new council members their
concerns without formal opening remarks. The meeting
came in the same week that Bush introduced a budget
including a record high of $71-billion for science-
related programs. But Bush was "not selling" his
budaet, accordine to Likins.
The diversity of Peter's background
makes him a natural for this council.
He will give the president important
insights on key competitiveness
issues." -Dean Alan Pense
The president's participation will not directly affect
federal funding for Lehigh programs.
"There's a code," Likins said. "You don't go there
to promote your own interests, but you can't help but
draw on your background. -»
"Certainly Lehigh's visibility is helped by my
appearances."
Likins said his own remarks centered on his
concerns about U.S. industrial competitiveness and
education, including the barriers that women and
minorities face in pursuing careers in science and
engineering.
The council, established by Bush last month, is the
Going Fishing?
In honor of Peter Likins' appointment to President
Bush's science advisory panel, Provost David Sanchez
gave him a catalog of gear Likins could use if he's
asked to accompany Bush on one of his fishing trips.
first scientific advisory group in many years to report
directly to the president. It is chaired by D. Allan
Bromley, assistant to the president fur science and
technology — a post elevated to cabinet-level status by
Bush.
Other members of the panel include California
industrialist David Packard; Nobel Laureate Norman E.
Borlaug; Princeton University president Harold T.
Shapiro; Bernadine Healy, Cleveland Clinic; Solomon
J. Buschbaum, AT&T Bell Labs; Charles L. Drake,
Dartmouth College; Ralph E. Gomory, Sloan Foundation; Thomas E. Lovejoy, Smithsonian Institution;
Walter E. Massey, University of Chicago; John P.
McTague, Ford Motor Co.; and Daniel Nathans, Johns
Hopkins University.
The university community reacted to Likins'
appointment with excitement.
"The diversity of Peter's background makes him a
natural for this council," said Alan Pense, dean of the
College of Engineering and Applied Science. "He will
be able to give insights to the president on key competitiveness issues."
Alden S. Bean, director of Lehigh's Center for
Innovation Management Studies, said, "Peter's
appointment to the council is a clear acknowledgement
of his ability to shape national educational priorities for
this new era of global competitiveness. His experience
has given him a broad perspective on the educational
system and he understands what it can and cannot do.
He sees the whole picture, not just where Lehigh fits.
He is open to new and innovative approaches at all
levels Of the system. His appointment sends a strong
signal about the character of this council as well. With
Peter on board, it will have a bias toward action. It's a
good time for that."
Continued on Page 5
After the Revolution:
Czechs Face
Pain, Uncertainty
By Kurt Pfitzer
Lehigh University Writers' Group
Revolutionary Czechoslovakia throbs with joy
and vitality, but the everyday tasks of building a
new, post-communist society will be painful.
Zdenek Slouka, a native of Czechoslovakia and
professor of international relations at Lehigh,
delivered that assessment last week to the Friends of
the Lehigh Libraries.
He based his observations on a one-week trip he
took last month to the central European country that
threw off the shackles of one-party dictatorship last
fall.
Prague, the Czechoslovak capital, vibrated day
and night with all kinds of activity. Slouka said.
Volunteers advised citizens of their new rights.
People queued up at bookstores to buy volumes that
had been banned for decades. Windows and storefronts were covered with posters of the country's
pre-communist leaders and of the new president,
playwright and former dissident Vaclav Havel.
"The revolution was fairly successfully and
painless carried out," Slouka said. "People are still
enjoying it. But the difference between the joy of the
revolution and the pain of having to complete it in
everyday life will be stupendous."
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators massing
in Wenceslas Square
were able to oust most
of the old regime in a
period of a few weeks
in November.
But since then, the
opposition has
splintered into 36
different parties,
leaving the communist party the most
unified — at least for
now — as the country
prepares for free
elections in June.
Although it is widely blamed for repression and
poor economic.performance, Slouka said, the
communist party still commands the allegiance of as
much as 20 percent of Czechoslovakia's electorate.
Many of its adherents, he said, are bureaucrats
and members of the armed forces and secret police,
who enjoyed perks under the communists.
Zdenek Slouka
Continued on Page 5
The Soviets are Coming!
Lehigh will be one of five sites for
matches between the U.S. National
Volleyball Team and the defending
Olympic gold medal team from the
Soviet Union. See the South
Mountaineer
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Cagers Upset Towson
The men's basketball team broke
. a four-game conference losing
streak by downing Towson State
87-69. The women made it two-
out-of-three by beating Towson.
See the South Mountaineer _
Diversity Training
Lehigh's Diversity Awareness
program for faculty, staff and
students starts a full semester of
activity by unveiling a new logo.
Changzhou Memories
Art professor Richard Redd recalls
his recent six-week trip to China,
where he got some laughs with his
talk on "The Good Andy and The
Bad Andy" - Wyeth and Warhol.