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Vol.3, Issue 15
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
January 17,1990
220 Receive Degrees
'Marxist God Has Failed/
Historian Tells Graduates
"We have just won a war," military historian Sir Michael
Howard told 220 Lehigh graduates and their families at
Sunday's commencement. "It has been a war, not for
territory but for something far more important: the hearts and
minds of men."
Howard, who is the Robert E. Lovett Professor of Military
and Naval History at Yale University, received an honorary
doctor of humane letters degree at
^^^j/jff Sunday's ceremony. In analyzing
jjk recent events in Eastern Europe, he
5^H JP^Nt declared that "It would be more
accurate to say not that we have
won the war, but that our opponents
have lost it. The Marxist God has
failed, and his acolytes are
abandoning his temple in droves.
"Communism may or may not
have been 'evil', but it simply did
not work"
Howard credited leaders in the
Soviet Union and in Hungary with
recognizing the failure of the their system. He also
highlighted the role of the West, which refused to be intimated
by Soviet military power, made its economic systems work,
and maintained communications with the Communists.
The nature of the victory is not one of one ideology
Sir Michael Howard
triumphing over another. Rather, he said, "It was capitalist
pluralism, not socialist dirigisme (state economic planning),
that produced sufficient food, adequate housing, technological
advances, opening for creative enterprise, and above all,
abundant opportunities for the sheer enjoyment of life; all of
which were denied in the grey dingy barracks of the Marxist
states."
The graduates will be going out into a greatly changed
world, Howard stated, a world in which it is no longer
possible to blame "an Evil Empire" for all of the problems.
"The waning of an external threat must make us more
conscious of the imperfections - to put it no more strongly - of
our own societies.
"Freedom means that we are responsible for our own lives:
we cannot blame our own shortcomings or those of our
societies on anyone else. Freedom means freedom to choose,
and sometimes to choose disastrously.''
The graduates will now have "no more excuses, no
justification for cutting corners or debasing standards or
neglecting the evils that our own greed, materialism and
laziness create. That is what peace means.
"And this is what freedom means," he concluded, "the
duty to confront a perpetual challenge created, not by some
outside adversary, but by the gap between our achievements
and our aspirations; between the world we inherited and the
world as we know it ought to be."
Campus Daycare Center To Open By Fall
By Bob Fisher
A daycare center for children of Lehigh faculty, staff and
students will open in the Saucon Village Apartment complex
sometime in mid-August.
The university has made four apartments in More House
available for the facility and will soonrsolicit proposals from
daycare providers interested in operating the campus center;
according to Gail Vollman, a coordinator in transportation
services, who has helped lead the group that has studied the
day care issue.
Work toward an on-campus daycare center began in earnest
last March as an outgrowth of the Conditions of Employment
working group of the Commission on Women, and progressed
rapidly through the year.
"Because a daycare center has been long overdue, we kept
on top of it to make sure it would become a reality," Vollman
said.
"I'm just sorry it couldn't have been a reality sooner."
While a survey of employees and students last year found a
preference for a daycare center on the Asa Packer Campus, an
available location that met state codes for such facilities could
not be found, Vollman said. The Saucon Village site was
underutilized and can be used after "minimal" renovations.
The Saucon Village location is close to outdoor play areas
and sees relatively light automobile traffic.
The daycare center will be operated exclusively for
children of Lehigh employees and students. The center will
accept children aged six-weeks to five years and will initially
be able to accomodate 48 children on a full-time basis,
Vollman said.
Because demand for daycare services is expected to be
much higher ~ the survey found a need for 109 children to
be in full-time daycare over the next three years ~
youngsters will be accepted on a first-come, first-served
basis. Applications will be available in early March.
The cost of full-time daycare at the campus center is
expected to be about $100 per week, according to Laurie
Gostley, assistant to the president for human relations. Exact
costs will not be known until a contract provider is selected.
A limited amount of need-based financial aid will be
available, Vollman said.
Although the daycare center will be operated by an
outside contractor, Lehigh will be involved in the hiring of
the director of the center, Gostley said. An advisory
committee will be formed of members of the university
community to help select the outside contractor. Interested
employees or students should contact Vollman at ext. 4410
or Gostley at ext. 3168.
Plans call for the center to be open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
and for breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack to be served
to children.
News
Researchers in
education and computer
science join forces on an
expert system to
diagnose children's
reading problems.
Enrichment
A two-page preview
outlines the spring
season of art, music,
theatre, lectures and
film.
Perspective
Is your desk a disaster?
The start of the year
might the time to reclaim
your work space.
Sports
Sergei Beloglazov,
perhaps the greatest
wrestler of modern
times, has signed on as
an assistant wrestling
coach at Lehigh. See the
South Mountaineer.
Wrestling Hall of Fame
member (and president)
Peter Likins and Former
NCAA champ (and
trustee) Kirk Pendleton
faced each other in the
Alumni Wrestle Backs.
See the South
Mountaineer.