LehighWeek Volume 09, Issue 17

              LEHIGHWEEK
Volume 9, Issue 17
THIS    WEEK
Quayles to speak at
Commencement
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2
Vatican priest to
come to campus
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2
Roof caves in on
hockey club
page.
3
Alumnae support
Taylor Gym
page
3
Perspective by
Roy Herrenkohl
page
11
20-1 Jason Kutz
leads wrestlers
against Pittsburgh tonight at
Grace.
South
Mountaineer
pages
13-16
with South Mountaineer
INSIDE
News
Events
People
Jobs
Calendar
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Lehigh University Campus Weekly
January 31,1996
Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Forest B.
Soaries, pastor of First
Baptist Church of Lincoln
Gardens in Somerset,
N.J., elaborated on the
Gospel of Matthew on
Jan. 21 when he spoke at
a program honoring the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., the late civil-
rights leader. Speaking
without notes and for the
third time that day,
Soaries urged his audience of 270 to strive for
academic success
without losing sight of
moral and spiritual
values. The event was
sponsored by Lehigh and
held at St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church
on Packer Avenue.
More photos
on page 5.
Young Hong
Parking Fee Discussion Continues
by Ron Ticho
Writers' Group
Discussion surrounding
the structure and implementation of a parking fee at the
university has continued for
the past two weeks. Rhonda
Gross, vice president of
finance and administration,
took the opportunity to
summarize the situation at
the faculty meeting Jan. 29 in
the U.C.  Gross' presentation
focused on how the concept of
a parking fee was raised
through the University
Council, the proposals that
are under consideration, and
the feedback that has been
compiled thus far.
Gross will be taking the
feedback and developing a
final proposal for presentation to the University Council
at its meeting on Feb. 14.
Gross explained that
during the fall term, the
University Council reviewed
a variety of budget scenarios
for the 1996-97 fiscal year,
which projected over a $1
million deficit. All agreed
that the strategy should be
focused on keeping any
tuition increase as low as
possible. "The Lehigh Plan
called for a $1,000 increase in
tuition, which was subsequently reduced in the original budget to $950," said
Gross. "However, the Board
of Trustees agreed that we
should look to reduce tuition
by an additional $100 (to
$850), making next year's
tuition the lowest percentage
increase in 26 years."
With limited tuition
increase as a primary objective, the University Council
also considered other significant items which included
providing for an increase in
compensation above the
consumer price index (CPI)
and additional costs (which
included expense budgets and
annual operating expenses
associated with the Zoellner
parking garage).
"It was the consensus of the
Council that there should be a
reimbursement of expenditures related to parking by
people who use all parking
facilities," said Gross. The
proposals under consideration
would provide for $205,000 in
revenue which has been built
into the budget to offset
parking expenses.
There are two proposals
A University Council proposal will charge
for f 3 hang tag
that have been introduced
and shared with a variety of
university constituencies.  In
both cases the proposals call
for revenue to be primarily
collected from event parking,
student parking, faculty/staff
parking and vendor parking.
Both scenarios propose the
following fee arrangement: (a)
assign a short-term event
parking fee of $1 per event for
revenue-generating events
held at the Zoellner Arts
Center (estimated to generate
$20,000) and (b) charge all
students who wish to park on
campus a $55 annual registration fee (estimated to
generate $80,000). The
proposals differ on the
assessments for faculty/staff
parking. The first is centered
around a flat $55 fee for all
faculty, staff and wage
employees (estimated to
generate $62,000). The
second proposal is a graduated fee that assesses a $35
fee for faculty and staff who
make under $30,000 annually
and a $75 fee for those
employees who make $30,000
or more annually. Both
scenarios would result in
approximately the same
Please see Park on page 2
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