LehighWeek Volume 07, Issue 24

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LEHIGH
Volume 7, Issue 24
Plus SOUTH MOUNTAINEER
April 19,1994
Spring Clean Up Begins!
Every spring facilities
services makes a special
effort to make the campus
look nice. April is a critical
month for campus visits:
each college hosts a
candidate's day and invites
all the high school seniors
who have been offered
admission to come and meet
the faculty and tour the
campus.
"Lots of kids come to
campus this time of year and
we make an extra effort to
look good," said Gary
Falasca, director of facilities
services. "We never had a
winter where we had to deal
with so much snow. It
snowed so heavily we used
heavy equipment to move it
off the streets. If we had
known at the beginning of
the winter we were going to
get more than 70 inches of
snow we could have planned
for areas to remove the
excess accumulation."
Falasca said they plan to
bring in loads of top soil
removed from the tennis
courts project, and re-seed
the lawn at Maginnes with a
turf mixture designed for
athletic use. This should
Snow plows were out for the final time this year (hopefully!) and removed
the mountain of snow piled in front of Maginnes Hall. Photos by brian ricker 94
hold up better under the
heavy use the lawn receives.
"Redoing the Maginnes lawn
was not planned, but this is
an opportunity to make the
lawn much better than it
was," he said.
"We couldn't just wait for
the snow to melt," added
Richard Benner, assistant
director of facilities services.
"The snow was mixed with
anti-skid material and an
unbelievable quantity of
trash that was just scooped
up by the snow plows. It
looked terrible. If we waited
for the snow to melt
naturally there was a very
good chance it would be too
late to re-seed the lawn. The
seed needs to be planted in
early to mid-spring before it
gets too warm."
The tree planting around
campus was part of their ongoing tree maintenance
program, according' to
Benner. In addition to     .  .
planting 30 trees, they also
Crews from Greentree Nursery were busy planting 30
shade trees across the Asa Packer Campus. From left
to right: Fred Heinemann of Allentown, Rick Smith of
Northampton, and Mike Nemes of Allentown.
had to remove a few trees
and perform maintenance
work on other trees.
Also in the plans is
routine re-seeding of heavily
trafficked areas, extensive
road repair on the Goodman
Campus to fill in pot holes
and sections that collapsed,
repairing the slate steps by
the University Center that
deteriorated due to the
weather, and other damage.
"The was a tough winter.
Everything was covered with
snow and the plows couldn't
see what to avoid. Even our
snow stakes marking
catchment basins were
covered by the snow," said
Benner.
Faculty take part in
Handicapped-for-a-Day program
Professor Keith Schray learned about the difficulties of being handicapped on
Lehigh's mountainous campus April 13.   Schray and President Likins were among those
who spent much of the day in wheelchairs performing their daily activities as volunteers in
Lehigh for Life's Handicapped-for-a-Day program.
Schray started his day in a wheelchair and found that some cf the problems were hard
to anticipate. "I left early from the Mudd building to teach my class at Packard Lab. I
didn't realize how hard it would be to get up the hill to the building using your arms,"
commented Schray. "Finally, a student helped with a push. She said she would not have
to do her normal workout after that." He was not able to stand at a blackboard to teach his
class and had to use an overhead projector.
Student donations of $1 were used to select the volunteers to participate. Three-
quarters of the money raised will go towards making Lehigh more accessible, and the
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