LehighWeek Volume 13, Issue 32

              Grad students step up
LUAA cites four for
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Volume 13, Issue 32
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Worthy of praise
Seven
staff   members
honored
at   recognition
dinner
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May 24, 2000
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Photo by John Kish IV
Bethlehem Mayor Cunningham
accepts check from DCED
Secretary McCullough.
LU, city, state
join to make
South Side
a "brain magnet"
In an effort to attract young, educated residents to Bethlehem,
the city, Lehigh and the state
Department of Community and
Economic Development (DCED)
are joining forces to try to stimulate an economic "renaissance"
on the city's South Side.
At a press conference last
week, Sam McCullough, secretary of the DCED gave a check
for $175,000 to the city and the
university to create a promotional video and a development
plan for the South Side. The city
is contributing $30,000 and
Lehigh another $50,000 for the
development plan.
"There's nothing a university
president likes more than a big
check," said Lehigh President
Gregory Farrington. On a,
more serious note, Farrington
said the future economy of the
Lehigh Valley "is going to depend
less on sweat labor and far more
on brains and education."
The city of Bethlehem will
thrive, Farrington said, because
of the presence of Lehigh and of
Moravian College. But the challenge is to motivate students to
remain in the area after they
earn their degrees.
"We have to find ways to become a brain magnet," he said.
McCullough agreed, saying
that 25,000 of Pennsylvania's
160,000 high-technology jobs are
unfilled because a "brain drain"
is drawing young, educated
people to Massachusetts, Texas
and California.
"We have more intellectual
property in Pennsylvania that
has not been commercialized
than any other state, probably,
except California," he said.
The video, which will market
the city of Bethlehem to visitors,
businesses, investors and potential Moravian and Lehigh students, will cost $100,000.
The study will cost $155,000
and will be done by Boles
Smythe and Associates, and by
Sasaki Associates Inc., the national firm that is preparing a
separate land-use plan for Lehigh.
The firms will study a busi-
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Wrong turn, Isaiah 84:4
guide Colorado student
The summer after her junior year of high school,
Jennifer Warner '03 of
Englewood, Colo., made a 15-
day trip with her family to visit
11 universities on the East
Coast.
The University of North Carolina, Harvard and Princeton were
high on their list of schools to see.
Lehigh did not make the cut.
Somewhere near Princeton,
however, Warner's mother and
aunt made a wrong turn.
"It was so funny because my
dad had written out these instructions that were so detailed," Warner recalls. "Then
we saw the sign that said
'Bethlehem' and 'Lehigh Uni-
"No eye has ever
seen, no ear has
ever heard, no mind
has ever conceived
what God has prepared for those who
love him."
—Isaiah 64:4
versity.'"
The Warners decided to take
a look, but arrived after 5 p.m.
They called the admissions office anyway, though, and coaxed
an after-hours tour and interview with Bruce Gardiner, then
the associate director of admissions.
Gardiner was impressed with
Warner's high school credentials
- a 4.0 GPA, a 1560 SAT score,
three sports - basketball, track,
and softball, and many extracurricular clubs. She had earned 32
college credits from advanced
placement courses in high school
- enough to enter Lehigh with
sophomore academic standing.
"Jennifer is the kind of student any college would want to
have," said Gardiner.
Warner liked Lehigh but was
not sold. In fact, she didn't even
apply. Her first choice was North
Carolina, where she was accepted as an Early Admission
candidate. Harvard and
Princeton also accepted her.
Set on UNC, Warner took
part in a special one-week, all-
expenses-paid trip to Chapel
Hill for the school's brightest candidates. She liked the intellectual environment, but not the
spiritual life.
"Religion was a big factor for
my decision," says Warner, the
product of a devout Christian
home.
Warner turned down UNC
Photo by Rob Upton
Jennifer Warren '03 (right) walks through campus with her
friend, Lisa Sibenac '03. Warren was accepted at Harvard,
Princeton and North Carolina before she applied to Lehigh.
and turned to her favorite verse
of the Bible, Isaiah 64:4, which
she recites, "No eye has ever
seen, no ear has ever heard, no
mind has ever conceived what
God has prepared for those who
love him."
Warner visited Lehigh again,
even though it was past the
March 1 application deadline.
She was assigned to stay with
Julie Lindquist '02, who invited
Warner to a Bible study meeting
of the Fellowship of Christian
Athletes (FCA).
By chance, Isaiah 64:4 was
mentioned at the meeting.
"I thought, 'Oh my gosh, this
is where God is assigning me to
be,'" Warner says. "My parents
talked about it and prayed about
it, and it just seemed like everything was falling into place for
me to go to Lehigh."
Warner faxed an application
to Lehigh and was accepted
within a week. Today, she is a
Dean's Scholar, a College
Scholar, a high jumper for the
track team, a Student Ambassador, and a member of Pi Beta
Phi, FCA and the Lehigh Christian Community Church. She
has a 4.0 GPA as a biochemistry major, and hopes one day to
become an anesthesiologist or
a pediatrician.
"Bruce Gardiner was so awesome, he took care of everything," V/arner says.
Lisa Sibenac '03, Jennifer's
best friend at Lehigh and fellow
initiate at Pi Beta Phi, says one
of Warner's best qualities is her
humility.
"She's exceptionally bright,
but she always looks to everyone
as if they're her equals," Sibenac
said. "She is always willing to
listen to others and to take their
advice."
-Dennis Zehner '99
Tu Weiming
Four to receive
honorary
degrees at
Commencement
Lehigh will award honorary degrees to four people at the 132nd
Commencement on Sunday,
June 4. At the ceremony, which
begins at 9 a.m. in Goodman Stadium, nearly 1,200 seniors and
graduate students will receive
degrees.
No tickets
are required. In
the event
of severe
weather,
festivities
will be
moved to
Stabler
Arena.
Commencement speaker
Montel Williams, host of The
Montel Williams Show, will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, as will baccalaureate speaker Tu Weiming, a professor of Chinese history and
Confucian studies and director of
the Harvard-Yenching Institute.
Judy Chicago, the artist who
created The Holocaust: From
Darkness to Light, now on exhibit at Lehigh, will receive an
honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, and Arthur Rothkopf, president of Lafayette College, will
receive an honorary Doctor of
Laws.
Williams, a graduate of the
U.S. Naval Academy, founded his
syndicated TV show eight years
ago. Tu, whose writings have
been widely anthologized, is now
interpreting Confucian ethics as
a spiritual resource for the global community. Chicago's career
spans more than three decades
and her work has been exhibited
around the world. The Holocaust
Project grew out of eight years
of inquiry, travel and study.
Rothkopf became the 15th
president of Lafayette College in
1993, after serving as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of
Transportation, where
he played a
major role
in defining
government
positions on
foreign investments
in U.S. airlines, the
future role
of the U.S.
merchant marine, trucking deregulation, and other aviation,
highways, railroads and maritime matters.
Before joining the DOT,
Rothkopf was a senior law partner in the Washington law firm
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