LehighWeek Volume 14, Issue 4

              Taking the reins
New chairs named
in seven departments
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Volume 14, Issue 4
LehighWeek
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Bring on the brooms
M-W    cross-country
sweeps    Lafayette
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September 27,2000
COE Alumni Day
set for Oct. 14
William L. Smith, a specialist in
adult, special and teacher education, and civil rights, will give
the keynote speech at the College
of Education's annual Alumni
Day on Saturday, Oct. 14, in
Iacocca Hall.
The event begins at 8:30 a.m.
in Wood Dining Room with registration and coffee.
Smith directs the Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community program of the Office of Vocational and Adult Education at the
U.S. Department of Education.
He will speak on diversity in
education, including how teachers
can use the multicultural attributes
of their students to promote new and
exciting ways to teach.
Smith is recognized nationally and internationally as an
expert in classroom management, community management,
special education, teachers and
technology and multiculturalism.
He has been a teacher, guidance
counselor and principal.
Also during Alumni Day, several local teachers will receive
outstanding educator and leadership awards.
Alumni Day is free to the public. Deadline to register is Oct. 6.
Info: Eric Gopen, alumni relations director, x83226.
The College of Education Alumni
Council sponsors the event.
Theta Delta Chi
kicks off 11th
scholar drive
The 11th annual Good Scholar
Election, sponsored by Theta
Delta Chi fraternity to raise
money for cancer research, will
attempt to break last year's record
of $60,000, which was donated to
the American Cancer Society.
Any Lehigh organization, on-
and off-campus, may nominate
candidates, or "scholars." Candidates must have a 3.25 GPA;
their sponsors must pay a $100
entry fee.
The candidate who collects the
most "votes," or $l-dollar contributions, wins. There is no limit to
the number of votes a candidate
may receive from one person.
"In this election, you can buy
all of the votes that you want -
in fact, it's encouraged," says
Alvin Cohen, professor emeritus of economics, former faculty
adviser to Theta Delta Chi and
cancer survivor. Cohen and the
fraternity founded the fund-raising drive a decade ago.
Voting begins Nov. 5, with a
"Cancer Research Mile" walk,
and concludes with an awards
ceremony Nov. 27.
First-place prize this year is
an airline ticket to any destina-
Please See SCHOLAR Page 2
LU volunteers make splash
in local community
At the South Bethlehem
Neighborhood Center,
they pulled weeds,
mowed the lawn and waxed the
floors.
At New Bethany Ministries,
they painted the walls of the
Drop In/Meal Center.
At the Boys & Girls Club of
Bethlehem, they stripped,
washed and waxed the floors;
cleaned the locker rooms, bathrooms and showers; and pulled
weeds around the building.
More than 75 Lehigh employees — twice as many as any previous year - took a day off from
work Sept. 7 to volunteer for the
annual Day of Caring sponsored
by the Volunteer Center of the
Lehigh Valley.
In addition to the above sites,
the volunteers pitched in at Center City Ministries, Bethlehem
Senior Centers' Rooney House,
Lehigh Valley Legal Services and
the Discovery Center.
Lehigh's participation in the
valley-wide event was organized
by Anne Noon-Scaggs, administrative coordinator for public
affairs, who received thank-you
notes from the agencies helped
by the volunteers.
"The Lehigh employees who
participated in the Day of Caring at our senior center were a
great group of volunteers!" said
Mary Evelyn Trinkle, program
director at the Senior Centers of
Bethlehem. "Without their help
the cleaning and grocery bingo
might never happened."
'You did a great job sprucing
the inside of our club," said Gary
M. Martell, assistant executive
director of the Boys & Girls Club.
"The kids really appreciate coming here...without community
assistance such as yours, these
programs would not be possible."
"This was the best bunch of
volunteers we've ever had [at the
Drop In]," said Ellen Jacoby, associate director of New Bethany
Ministries. "They were cheerful,
neat and considerate."
Volunteers also counted their
blessings.
"It was a very rewarding experience to be able to help
brighten a room that is used for
so many purposes," said Deanne
L. Hoenscheid, administrative
associate at the Materials Research Center, who worked at New
Bethany. "I had no idea [New
Bethany] existed before that day."
"I think it's great that Lehigh
gets involved in this effort," said
Dot De Masi, administrative coordinator of the environmental,
health and safety office. "Em-
Photo by Rob Upton
Rochelle Makela-Goodman (top), associate director of foundation relations, and Amy Young, assistant director of the
annual fund, brush up on their volunteer skills at Center
City Ministries.
ployees at the South Bethlehem
Neighborhood Center were extremely friendly [and] a luncheon prepared by one of the em
ployees [baked plantains topped
with hamburger and cheese] was
delicious. I learned about an organization I never knew existed."
Professors and students take to Web software
Lehigh has updated its web-
based Courselnfo software, to
popular acclaim from faculty and
students.
Launched in the summer of
1999, Courselnfo gives professors the ability to communicate
with students over the Web, as
well as an electronic alternative
to paper handouts. Courselnfo
has a message board, e-mail, a
calendar, and even grades. Students can obtain up-to-date information from any computer
with Internet access.
When the program was
started, 10 professors elected to
draft their courses electronically.
By the start of the fall semester,
more than 160 professors were
using the service. Estimates of
spring'participation are expected
to exceed 230.
One useful item is "My Blackboard," a program that gives you
a personal web page where you
can access your daily and weekly
information. Daily news and
weather are also displayed.
Faculty like Courselnfo's convenience.
"It is an enormous time-saver,"
says Carol Gorney, professor of
journalism. "It is accessible to everyone all the time, therefore it's
up to the student to take responsibility for staying current on assignments and other class work."
Students are also enthusiastic. According to a poll conducted
by Information Resources this
fall, more than 90 percent use
the service at least once a week.
Of those, more than 90 percent
say it is easy to use.
DeBellis publishes
John Updike
Encyclopedia
Six years after the publication of
his acclaimed bibliography of
John Updike, Jack De Bellis, professor of English, has completed
an encyclopedia that critics say
should delight readers and scholars of one of 20th-century America's
most influential writers.
The John Updike Encyclopedia, a summary of Updike's
works, plots, characters and subjects, as well as his life and career, is scheduled for release
Sept. 30 by Greenwood Publishing Group Inc. of Westport, Conn.
The 584-page opus also contains a chapter on Updike's latest work, Looks of Love, a collection of already-published short
stories that includes a new novella, Rabbit Remembered, which
becomes the fifth installment of
Updike's popular Rabbit series.
De Bellis, who met Updike in
1977 and has exchanged letters
with him since 1981, says Updike
asked him to review the manuscript for Looks of Love last spring
and again over the summer.
"The first two words of the new
novella are 'Janice Harrison,'" says
De Bellis, "and they should come
as a shock to anyone who has read
the previous Rabbit books."
Critics are praising the range
and insight of De Bellis's encyclopedia.
"Updike studies is fortunate
to have such a devoted, perceptive and intelligent figure as Jack
De Bellis," says James Schiff of
the University of Cincinnati, author of John Updike Revisited. "To
say his comprehensive bibliography has been enormously useful
is an understatement. This new
volume [contains] hundreds of
informative entries on such subjects as Adultery, THE COUP,
Faulkner, Golf, Popeye, Rabbit
Angstrom and Vermeer.
Throughout I found myself gaining new bits of information, forming new connections, and generally benefiting from De Bellis's
clear-eyed attention."
"The John Updike Encyclopedia will prove to be an indispensable resource," says Beverly J.
Tisdale, professor emerita of English at Cedar Crest College.
"The entries on the stories, novels, essays, and poems are exceedingly thorough. Here one can
find plot summaries and character analysis, investigation of
themes and motifs, identification
of allusions, elucidation of symbols
and imagistic patterns, and the
relationship of the entry work to
other works in the Updike canon.
"All this, plus the cogency and
readability of The John Updike
Encyclopedia,-will make it perhaps the single most useful reference tool available to the
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