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From Ukraine to Lehigh Student fills his plate with economics, Asian studies See Page 3 Volume 13, Issue 17 LehighVfefc The campus digest for innovation, news and events South Mountaineer Wrestling squad, at 11-2, is ranked 12th in nation See page 8 January 19, 2000 Pedestrian safety on Taylor Street Do you know the speed limit on campus roads? It's only 15 mph, which many motorists apparently don't realize, even after new 15-mph speed limit signs were posted on campus last semester. Concern about pedestrian safety is on the rise. In the past year, three accidents have occurred on Taylor Street, including one in which a professor was injured crossing Taylor in front of Rauch Business Center. Areas of particular concern on Taylor are the pedestrian crossings by Rauch, Taylor Gym and the Newman Center. Last spring when the University Police conducted a speed awareness campaign on Taylor Street with a radar gun, some vehicles were clocked in excess of 55 mph traveling down the hill that starts near Lamberton Hall, passes Taylor Gym and comes to a stop at Packer Avenue. John Smeaton, vice provost for student affairs, Tony Corallo, associate vice president for facilities services and campus planning; Ed Shupp, chief of campus police, and Chris Christian, director of transportation services, met recently to discuss what could be done in the long and short term to improve safety. "We've all heard stories about close calls on Taylor Street," said Smeaton. "We don't want to wait until there is a fatal accident to do something." He added that the primary concern is the speed of vehicles. With the completion of Memorial Walkway, there are now more pedestrians crossing Taylor Street by the gym. Another problem is delivery vehicles parking on Taylor, which other vehicles must then go around, adding to the congestion. Sasaki and Associates, the consulting group working on the new campus master plan, has been asked to take a look at Taylor Street and recommend permanent traffic safety improvements. Meanwhile, Joe Sterrett, executive director of athletics, and Mary Lynn Breiner, coordinator in the business dean's office, were asked to identify vendors and service providers who regularly park on Taylor. These individuals have been asked to park elsewhere while making deliveries. Drivers have been asked to slow down on campus roads and not to park, even briefly, on Taylor Street by the gym or Rauch. Police will be increasing enforcement of traffic safety rules on Taylor, particularly speed control, careless driving and parking in a no-parking zone. They will conduct another safety awareness campaign this semester. Please See SAFETY, Page 6 Photo by Robert Walch Richard D. Kaplan '65, who led a series of workshops on creativity on Monday, challenged faculty and students to try to solve "The Pony" and other puzzles by Sam Lloyd (b. 1840), considered America's greatest puzzle maker. (See story, right) Freshman seminar inspires student to attend South African college A course Elizabeth Klicker' 01 took as a freshman led her halfway around the world and changed her future. Klicker, of Tyngsboro, Mass., initially enrolled as a pre-med biology major. But a freshman seminar, "The Politics of Self Respect," taught by Robin Dillon, associate professor of philosophy, turned her on to new ways of looking at the world. "We studied self-respect from the point of view of philosophers such as Immanuel Kant," says Klicker. "We read books like Up From Slavery and The Color Purple. I learned that self-respect is so important to your development, and so devastating if it's lost. And the experience of other people, especially people who were oppressed, really fascinates me. "Prof. Dillon was a great teacher," Klicker says. "For the first time, I was learning history from a different point of view, Afro-centric, not Euro-centric." After the freshman seminar, Klicker took more courses in Lehigh's Africana studies department and became the first to declare a major in the field since the university began offering it as a major program last fall. Hoping to work for educational reform in developing countries, Klicker chose a minor in education. After completing her bachelor's, she plans to pursue a master's in education from Lehigh. Photo Courtesy of Liz Klicker Elizabeth Klicker '01, who studied last fall in South Africa, greets Zulu children in the country's Natal province. To complement her Africana studies, Klicker recently studied last fall at the University of Na- tal-Pietermaritzburg in Natal, South Africa, which is home to most of the Zulu population of South Africa. Her classes were in English, but Klicker took a practical Zulu language course, which enabled her to communicate with the local population. One of her favorite experiences was visiting her Zulu teacher's family in a rural community. "These are people that may not have shoes or running water, yet they generously hosted our entire class for the day, teaching us about their culture," she says. Over weekends and breaks, Klicker played tourist, visiting Cape Town, which is about a two- hour plane ride, and hiking and camping in South Africa's game reserves. When classes ended in. November, she visited schools in the country to gather information for her independent research project. "I was able to see first-hand situations of issues I will be writing about concerning present-day issues in education and educational reform in South Africa," she says. The schools in Natal, says Klicker, are overcrowded, with up to 80 students to a teacher. Many The creative way Step outside your box, past the paradigms that define your routine. Shake off traditional ways of doing things. Wriggle free of logic and see how creative you can be. If you believe yours is not a creative "personality type," Richard D. Kaplan '65, founder of Kaplan Creativity Services Inc., urges you to reconsider. Kaplan spent Monday teaching a seminar on creativity to faculty and students from chemical engineering and other departments in the PC. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science. He gave them puzzles, simple and complex, including one whose object is to connect nine dots in a grid with the fewest possible number of straight lines. He told them that Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison and Salvador Dali, in order to get in touch with their subconscious, where creativity originates, fell asleep seated, holding steel balls. When the balls dropped and wakened them, they recorded their thoughts and dreams. And Kaplan reminded his audience in Sinclair Auditorium that before Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, 28 other researchers had noticed that mold killed bacteria but concluded nothing, so perturbed were they that their experiment had been upset. Creativity, Kaplan said, is the generation of a useful new idea. Innovation is the implementation of a useful new idea. Every person is innately creative, Kaplan said. Many of us resist this notion, especially engineers, whose "psychological hallmark," he said, "is their critical nature." Creativity is a function of psychology, environment and techniques, Kaplan said. A willingness — or permission from one's sponsor — to take risks is important. The generation of many ideas (even if most prove useless) is helpful. And serendipity, which Kaplan defined as "good fortune when faced with a prepared mind," might always be waiting around the next corner. Intelligence is no prerequisite for creativity, Kaplan said. Characterized by what psychologists call "the need to be right," intelligent people are often too easily satisfied by the first solution they come up with. Similarly, a logical mind, instead of stalking a new idea, often retreats to an established paradigm. The discovery of sulfa drugs early in the 1900s, for example, occurred only after textile workers suggested, improbably, that if azo dye could color clothes it might also kill the bacteria that were causing simple wounds to turn into fatal infections. Israel Wachs, professor of Please See SEMINAR, Page 3 Please See THINK, Page 2 LEHIGH University LehighWeefc Office of Communications/Design 422 Brodhead Avenue Bethlehem, Pa. 18015-3067 MARIE C. BOLTZ INFC RES CLIENT RM.3G6 k LINDERMAN LIBRARY SERVICES NON-PROFIT MAIL U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 230 Bethlehem, Pa. 18015
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Title | LehighWeek Volume 13, Issue 17 |
Subject | Lehigh University--Periodicals |
Description | Reports on the past week's news, and schedules of upcoming events, at Lehigh University. Thirty issues yearly, published weekly, except for vacations, during the school year, and once or twice a month during the summer. |
Creator | Lehigh University. Dept. of University Relations. |
Publisher | Lehigh University |
Date | 2000-01-19 |
Type | Text |
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Extent | 8 pages |
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Title | [Front cover] |
Identifier | SC LSer L522 V13 N17 001 |
Language | Eng |
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Full Text | From Ukraine to Lehigh Student fills his plate with economics, Asian studies See Page 3 Volume 13, Issue 17 LehighVfefc The campus digest for innovation, news and events South Mountaineer Wrestling squad, at 11-2, is ranked 12th in nation See page 8 January 19, 2000 Pedestrian safety on Taylor Street Do you know the speed limit on campus roads? It's only 15 mph, which many motorists apparently don't realize, even after new 15-mph speed limit signs were posted on campus last semester. Concern about pedestrian safety is on the rise. In the past year, three accidents have occurred on Taylor Street, including one in which a professor was injured crossing Taylor in front of Rauch Business Center. Areas of particular concern on Taylor are the pedestrian crossings by Rauch, Taylor Gym and the Newman Center. Last spring when the University Police conducted a speed awareness campaign on Taylor Street with a radar gun, some vehicles were clocked in excess of 55 mph traveling down the hill that starts near Lamberton Hall, passes Taylor Gym and comes to a stop at Packer Avenue. John Smeaton, vice provost for student affairs, Tony Corallo, associate vice president for facilities services and campus planning; Ed Shupp, chief of campus police, and Chris Christian, director of transportation services, met recently to discuss what could be done in the long and short term to improve safety. "We've all heard stories about close calls on Taylor Street," said Smeaton. "We don't want to wait until there is a fatal accident to do something." He added that the primary concern is the speed of vehicles. With the completion of Memorial Walkway, there are now more pedestrians crossing Taylor Street by the gym. Another problem is delivery vehicles parking on Taylor, which other vehicles must then go around, adding to the congestion. Sasaki and Associates, the consulting group working on the new campus master plan, has been asked to take a look at Taylor Street and recommend permanent traffic safety improvements. Meanwhile, Joe Sterrett, executive director of athletics, and Mary Lynn Breiner, coordinator in the business dean's office, were asked to identify vendors and service providers who regularly park on Taylor. These individuals have been asked to park elsewhere while making deliveries. Drivers have been asked to slow down on campus roads and not to park, even briefly, on Taylor Street by the gym or Rauch. Police will be increasing enforcement of traffic safety rules on Taylor, particularly speed control, careless driving and parking in a no-parking zone. They will conduct another safety awareness campaign this semester. Please See SAFETY, Page 6 Photo by Robert Walch Richard D. Kaplan '65, who led a series of workshops on creativity on Monday, challenged faculty and students to try to solve "The Pony" and other puzzles by Sam Lloyd (b. 1840), considered America's greatest puzzle maker. (See story, right) Freshman seminar inspires student to attend South African college A course Elizabeth Klicker' 01 took as a freshman led her halfway around the world and changed her future. Klicker, of Tyngsboro, Mass., initially enrolled as a pre-med biology major. But a freshman seminar, "The Politics of Self Respect," taught by Robin Dillon, associate professor of philosophy, turned her on to new ways of looking at the world. "We studied self-respect from the point of view of philosophers such as Immanuel Kant," says Klicker. "We read books like Up From Slavery and The Color Purple. I learned that self-respect is so important to your development, and so devastating if it's lost. And the experience of other people, especially people who were oppressed, really fascinates me. "Prof. Dillon was a great teacher," Klicker says. "For the first time, I was learning history from a different point of view, Afro-centric, not Euro-centric." After the freshman seminar, Klicker took more courses in Lehigh's Africana studies department and became the first to declare a major in the field since the university began offering it as a major program last fall. Hoping to work for educational reform in developing countries, Klicker chose a minor in education. After completing her bachelor's, she plans to pursue a master's in education from Lehigh. Photo Courtesy of Liz Klicker Elizabeth Klicker '01, who studied last fall in South Africa, greets Zulu children in the country's Natal province. To complement her Africana studies, Klicker recently studied last fall at the University of Na- tal-Pietermaritzburg in Natal, South Africa, which is home to most of the Zulu population of South Africa. Her classes were in English, but Klicker took a practical Zulu language course, which enabled her to communicate with the local population. One of her favorite experiences was visiting her Zulu teacher's family in a rural community. "These are people that may not have shoes or running water, yet they generously hosted our entire class for the day, teaching us about their culture," she says. Over weekends and breaks, Klicker played tourist, visiting Cape Town, which is about a two- hour plane ride, and hiking and camping in South Africa's game reserves. When classes ended in. November, she visited schools in the country to gather information for her independent research project. "I was able to see first-hand situations of issues I will be writing about concerning present-day issues in education and educational reform in South Africa," she says. The schools in Natal, says Klicker, are overcrowded, with up to 80 students to a teacher. Many The creative way Step outside your box, past the paradigms that define your routine. Shake off traditional ways of doing things. Wriggle free of logic and see how creative you can be. If you believe yours is not a creative "personality type," Richard D. Kaplan '65, founder of Kaplan Creativity Services Inc., urges you to reconsider. Kaplan spent Monday teaching a seminar on creativity to faculty and students from chemical engineering and other departments in the PC. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science. He gave them puzzles, simple and complex, including one whose object is to connect nine dots in a grid with the fewest possible number of straight lines. He told them that Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison and Salvador Dali, in order to get in touch with their subconscious, where creativity originates, fell asleep seated, holding steel balls. When the balls dropped and wakened them, they recorded their thoughts and dreams. And Kaplan reminded his audience in Sinclair Auditorium that before Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, 28 other researchers had noticed that mold killed bacteria but concluded nothing, so perturbed were they that their experiment had been upset. Creativity, Kaplan said, is the generation of a useful new idea. Innovation is the implementation of a useful new idea. Every person is innately creative, Kaplan said. Many of us resist this notion, especially engineers, whose "psychological hallmark," he said, "is their critical nature." Creativity is a function of psychology, environment and techniques, Kaplan said. A willingness — or permission from one's sponsor — to take risks is important. The generation of many ideas (even if most prove useless) is helpful. And serendipity, which Kaplan defined as "good fortune when faced with a prepared mind," might always be waiting around the next corner. Intelligence is no prerequisite for creativity, Kaplan said. Characterized by what psychologists call "the need to be right," intelligent people are often too easily satisfied by the first solution they come up with. Similarly, a logical mind, instead of stalking a new idea, often retreats to an established paradigm. The discovery of sulfa drugs early in the 1900s, for example, occurred only after textile workers suggested, improbably, that if azo dye could color clothes it might also kill the bacteria that were causing simple wounds to turn into fatal infections. Israel Wachs, professor of Please See SEMINAR, Page 3 Please See THINK, Page 2 LEHIGH University LehighWeefc Office of Communications/Design 422 Brodhead Avenue Bethlehem, Pa. 18015-3067 MARIE C. BOLTZ INFC RES CLIENT RM.3G6 k LINDERMAN LIBRARY SERVICES NON-PROFIT MAIL U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 230 Bethlehem, Pa. 18015 |
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