LehighWeek Volume 08, Issue 14

              CONTENTS
NEWS: MBA-Plus announced,     JOBS:
Fraternity recovers from fire
1-3
PEOPLE: John Woltjen profiled,
In Memoriam, Achievements 6-7
EVENTS: Martin Luther Ring
Day celebration, Choral Union     CALENDAR:
seeks singers, Pat Methany jazz
4-5
8
SOUTH MOUNTAINEER:
The Engineers are 4-0 in
wrestling... Can they buck
the BRONCS to remain
undefeated?
The Engineers are going to
bounce the SPOTS off the
Leopards in basketball on
Saturday Jan. 21. 9-12
SOUTH MOUNTAINEER
SPECIAL   INSERT
Education
College Newsletter 1995
Ray Bell named chair of
new department of education
and human services (two
departments merging into one
July 1 as part of Lehigh Plan)
Ray Bell
LEHIGHWEEK
Volume 8, Issue 14
For the Campus Community
Januray 18,1995
Graduates urged to keep
Martin Luther King's dream alive
by Barbara Lee .Writers' Group
A
William Scott
fter centuries of
racial discrimination,
affirmative action
policies have become
289 graduates, and their friends and families, attended the mid-year commencement
ceremony in Stabler Arena, photos by joe Ryan
a major fault line in our
society in only 20 years, said
William Scott, director of
Lehigh University's African
American Studies program
and professor of history,
making it even more
important that we draw
A new view at the Bookstore
photo by Joe Ryan
Construction work on the new entrance for the bookstore and display windows were
finished during the semester break, along with a new lobby containing the MAC machine,
which is accessible 24 hours a day. The changes are part of phase 2A of the bookstore
renovations, which also included new lighting, carpeting, drop ceiling, painting and
temporary fixtures in the display area. continued on page 2
inspiration from the words
of Martin Luther King, Jr.
"King's dream was
rooted in the recognition
that Americans—regardless
of color, creed or class—
constituted a common
people with a common
destiny," Scott said.
Addressing 289
graduates, and their friends
and families, at the midyear commencement
ceremony on Sun., Jan. 15,
which coincided with the
birthday of Martin Luther
King, Jr., Scott reminded
graduates of the great
strides that were made
during King's ministry,
which brought down walls of
legalized race separation
and discrimination.
While many triumphs
have been made, Scott told
graduates that there is still
much v/ork to do in a nation
that is torn over racially
related issues. "It would
have disturbed Martin that
color, that dinky genetic
difference among us, still
counts considerably," he
said.
Scott said that King
would have been alarmed
and distressed by the
decay of urban life, violence,
broken homes and poverty
in America today, but would
have been driven to find just
solutions. He urged
graduates to do the same.
"He would have
expected you, our future
leaders, to save the dream
for all Americans," Scott
said. "Struggle, most of all,
in your lifetime to see that
some day soon our society
overcomes the divisions that
have separated us for so
long."
Scott joined Lehigh's
faculty in 1992. He is
director of the United
Negro College Fund/Mellon
Minorities Fellows Program
and is a member ofthe
national council ofthe
Institute for International
Education's South African
Education Program.
Jere Knight of
Newtown, Pa., poet, writer,
editor and environmental
activist, received an
honorary Doctor of Humane
Letters degree at the
ceremony. Knight's work
has been published in the
Saturday Evening Post and
U.S. Infantry Journal. She
is the author of The
Bicentennial History of
Northampton County (1976)
and the book of poetry, The
Uphill View, published last
June. She served as
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