LehighWeek Volume 04, Issue 02

              Go Team!
Lehigh trounces
Fordham. Story in
South Mountaineer.
WiF^m A Look Inside
Religion studies that
are far from boring
Staff Profile
Marty Snyder:
Building J's kingpin
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Vol.4, Issue 2
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
September 11,1990
Lloyd Steffen
Lloyd Steffen
named chaplain
Lloyd H. Steffen, associate professor of
philosophy and religion and chaplain at Northland
College, Ashland, Wisconsin, has been named the
new chaplain at Lehigh University. He will begin
his new duties Sept. 17.
-    Steffen's appointment was announced by John
W. Smeaton, assistant vice president for student
affairs. "I'm
delighted that Lloyd
Steffen will be
coming to Lehigh,"
said Smeaton. "The
search committee was
impressed by his
breadth as a
candidate, his
sensitivities to the
issues faced by the
contemporary
university chaplain,
his academic
^^^m^mmmmmmmm—m     credentials and his
professional experience. I think he will be an
outstanding addition to the university
community."
Steffen will also be an adjunct associate
professor in Lehigh's religion studies department.
He replaces Hugh Flesher who left to become
dean of the Chapel at Smith College.
An ordained minister in the United Church of
Christ, he joined the faculty at Northland College
in 1982, and served as chairperson of his
department for the last six years. He earned his
Ph.D. from Brown University, his divinity degree
from Yale, a master's degree from Andover
Newton Theological School, and his bachelor's
degree in history from New College in Sarasota.
Steffen is the author of a book, Self-Deception
and the Common Life. He has also written
numerous articles and reviews on topics in   .
religion, ethics, self-deception and morality. He
has served on several committees for UCC, and is a
member of many professional associations,
including the American Academy of Religion,
American Philosophical Society, College Theology
Society, and the Societies of Biblical Literature,
Christian Ethics, Christian Philosophers.
He is relocating from Duluth, Minnesota.
Jason Stanford
Provost Alan W. Pense discusses Lehigh's future plans with university volunteers. His talk near the
Rauch Field House was part of Volunteer Day Saturday.
Computing Center staff, others
spring into action during power outage
William Johnson
Carol Lidie, Lehigh associate director of
computing facilities, hopes power outages, like other
kinds of bad news, come in threes.
Since July, three outages have wreaked short-term
havoc on the university's computer systems, the most
recent occurring at 6:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 6.
"Rumor has it a squirrel tripped a line over near
Price Hall, the same place the problem originated last
Sunday (Sept. 2, the second of the recent outages),"
says Lidie. "They've chopped down two trees over
there so far to try to eliminate the problem."
When power is lost on campus, most students,
faculty and staff are inconvenienced by the
temporary loss of use of their PCs.
But Lidie and others in the computing center have
to work to bring back up 11 local area networks, a
high-speed fiber-optics backbone network, four
central computing systems, computer-aided design
workstations and computer "clusters" in Packard
Laboratory and the network server. There also are
air-conditioning and water-cooling units that need to
be re-started in the computing center.
Lidie points out that there also are several other
computing systems on campus not managed by the
computing center that go through the same kind of
pain.
Also, telecommunications people work in restoring
phone service where needed, and facilities services
works with the electric utility and vendors in restoring
electrical service.
Lidie says computer "downtime" costs are tough
to estimate for the entire university, since individuals
and groups don't tabulate the cost of lost time on their
computers during an outage.
What many people don't realize, she says, is that
outages cause abrupt shutdown of computer systems,
and this weakens the systems' hardware. "So we
could have a problem a few months down the road,
even though we wouldn't be able to point back to the
outage as the direct cause."
Lidie credits the hard work of the people in the
computing center for having things back up and
running by 11:30 a.m. last Thursday, about an hour
after power was restored, and generally for going
above and beyond the call of duty during power
outages.
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