LehighWeek Volume 08, Issue 30

              WE'RE
Growing!
Block of Packer Ave. to close for ZAC
construction
ning out of the Ground
Construction on the
Zoellner Arts Center and
parking garage has been
continuing on schedule
due to good weather,
according to Richard
Benner, associate director
of facilities services for
grounds and capital
projects. The parking
garage, on the eastern half
of the site, will be available
sometime next fall if all
goes according to plans.
By June 21 (top left), footers
and foundation work were in
its last stages. Benner said
that in July and August the
biggest changes on the site
will be visible when steel
work and precast concrete are
erected. The arts center will
occupy the half of the site
nearest to Rauch.
Back in early March, the last
of Taylor Stadium was gone
and the first concrete forms
were taking shape.
photos by Joe Ryan
ne block of Packer Ave., from Polk to Fillmore
Sts., will be closed from July 10 until at least
August 24 due to construction of the Zoellner
Arts Center (ZAC) and parking garage. Traffic
will be detoured around the site onto Fifth St.
The road closure is necessary for safety reasons
; as well as the staging of the next phase
of construction:  delivery and installation of the
steel beams for ZAC and the precast concrete
structure for the parking garage.  The City of
Bethlehem has approved the temporary road
i closure.
The exact date the road will reopen depends
upon construction progress.  Faculty, staff and
visitors are reminded that additional parking
during construction is available in Bethlehem
I Steel's lot 11 on Fourth St. between Pierce and
Buchanan Sts.  Bethlehem Steel is allowing
Lehigh to use 140 ofthe 180 spaces in that lot
on weekdays.
"Lehigh appreciates how considerate the
South Side residents have been as we've begun
construction of the new Zoellner Arts Center,"
said James Harper, director of community
relations.  "We regret the temporary inconvenience,
to our neighbors that might be created by the
closing of this short stretch of roadway. But
when complete, ZAC will become a superb asset
to the entire Lehigh Valley. It will bring people
and activity to the South Side, making it a very
special place for the community to enjoy art,
music and theater."
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CONTENTS
New dean named in Arts and Sciences
12
Joan Straumanis,
currently a program officer
with the U.S. Department
of Education's Fund for the
Improvement of
Postsecondary
Education
(FIPSE), has
been named the
new dean of the
College of Arts
and Sciences.
Straumanis will
assume the
Herbert J. and
Ann L. Siegel
Deanship of the
College this
summer.
"I am pleased to
announce Joan's
appointment," said Provost
Alan W. Pense.  "She
Joan Straumanis
brings a wealth of
experience as an academic
administrator as well as a
national perspective on
issues in higher
education.  I am
excited about the
experience and
enthusiasm she
will bring to
Lehigh."
The largest
of Lehigh's four
colleges, Arts
and Sciences has
18 departments
in the arts,
humanities,
social sciences
and natural sciences. It
offers more than 100 majors
and minor programs and
enrolls about 2,000
undergraduates, nearly half
the undergraduate student
population attending the
university.
"I am excited about
joining a university that is
so sincerely committed to
sustaining and building the
arts and sciences at a time
when many others are
cutting vital programs,"
said Straumanis. "At
FIPSE, I was in touch
with the leading edge of
educational innovation in
the country. My desire is
to bring to Lehigh this store
of knowledge about what
others are doing in research
and teaching, and use it to
help Lehigh to be a world-
class university."
Straumanis has spent
three years at FIPSE, a
small tax-supported
foundation which funds
model innovation and
reform projects in higher
education.  Prior to moving
to Washington, she was
dean of the faculty of arts
and sciences and professor
of philosophy at Rollins
College 'Fla.). She has also
served as academic dean,
associate provost and
professor of philosophy at
Kenyon College (Ohio) and
on the faculty of Denison
University (Ohio). While
on sabbatical from Denison,
she served as a program
officer at the National
Science Foundation.
Continued on page 2
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