LehighWeek Volume 13, Issue 10

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Volume 13, Issue 10
LehighWee/c
The campus digest for innovation, news and events
South Mountaineer
Football team finally loses,
falling to Colgate, 28-24
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November 9,1999
Alumnae discuss life after Lehigh
Photo by Chris Christian 78
Pike's recent haunted house
benefited charity.
Showing off their
good side
Loud music, wild parties at 3
a.m. and houses reeking of alcohol are just a few images that
run through people's heads when
they hear the words "fraternity"
or "sorority."
But the Greeks are making
efforts to project a positive image of their organizations by reminding people that they are continuing a long tradition of raising money for charities and donating time to the community.
Raising money for breast cancer research will be the goal
when the Panehellenic Council
of sororities holds its first annual
12- hour dance marathon on Nov.
13-14. "We want people to know
it cancer affects everyone, not
just women," said event coordinator Alicia Bonaly '00.
Fraternities and sororities also
help out the local community. Several houses tutor elementary
school children each week at the
Boys' and Girls' Club of South
Bethlehem,helping them with
homework or playing basketball.
"As we were leaving, one little
kid said, 'Big Al, will you bring
your big kids down again to play
basketball with us little kids?,'"
said Alfred Pedrick '43, alumni
adviser to Theta Xi.
"The fraternity and sorority
students help wherever we need
them. They reach out to the students," said Gary Martell, assistant executive director of the
club. "I don't know what we
would do without them. They are
priceless to us."
In September, Theta Xi fraternity donated new basketball
backboards to the club. John
Buchanan '00, fraternity president, has been volunteering at
the club since his freshman year.
"I feel that too often fraternities get a bad rap and people
think they don't do enough for
the community," said Buchanan.
"Helping the children in the community is something we can all
do and we enjoy it."
"I feel the time the brothers
spend with the children of the
Boys' and Girls' Club has instilled in them the importance
of sharing and giving back to the
community," said Pedrick.
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In an effort to bring back female
graduates to campus, the Leaders in Residence program recently sponsored the return of 15
alumnae. The women shared insights gained since attending college at career forums and classroom discussions for students.
The program, created by the
President's Council of Women,
began Nov. 2 with alumnae attending classes and taking part
in discussions.lt continued with
three career forums, each with
five women from different disciplines, to answer questions about
life after Lehigh.
When asked what they had
done during college that helped
them most in their careers, many
women said internships. Elizabeth Dahme '79, vice president
and financial consultant with
Paine Webber, said "I felt like the
world opened up every summer."
Many alumnae said they regretted the hectic pace they had
set for themselves at school. Instead of attending Lehigh only to
meet degree requirements, some
said they wished they had taken
more varied courses and even
studied abroad.
Wendy Weiss '88, a lawyer
with the New Jersey Supreme
Court and a single parent, said,
"Life is a bunch of choices. You
have to figure out what is good
for you." Weiss, who gave up litigation to spend more time with
her children, said it was impossible to be everything, and
stressed the importance of
learning to compromise and to
accept the decisions one makes.
After the forum, students and
alumnae attended a reception and
dinner at the University Center.
On Nov. 3, alumnae attended more
classes. Carla Falco '88, manager
of product promotion with the
American Society for Testing and
Photos by Elizabeth Keegin Colley
Materials, told 60 students in an
introductory public relations
course that captaining the varsity
field hockey and lacrosse teams at
Lehigh had prepared her for the
(Above, L - R)
Panelists Aries
Keck '92,
Dianne Yamin
'83, Kristin
Kohler '89 and
Kimberly Haas
Flynn '97.
business world. She discussed how
this had taught her to motivate
different types of people and use
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lacocca Scholar Ryan Johnson '00 (right) displays a leis contributed by Chais Paivia of Hawaii to a time capsule the Scholars assembled during the lacocca Scholars High School Juniors Millennial Conference held Nov. 5-7. The capsule will be buried on MountainTop campus
and opened in 50 years. The juniors, whose expenses are being paid by the institute, were
selected for academic standing, involvement in extracurricular activities and responses to
essay questions regarding their thoughts on the new millennium.
Faculty try out a
new blackboard
Does one size sometimes fit all?
The new software package
Courselnfo might, as far as faculty and staff are concerned.
Produced by Blackboard Inc.
in Washington, D.C, Courselnfo
helps instructors create a Web-
based version of any course, including lecture notes, homework
problems, and reading assignments. The university made
Courselnfo available this fall,
and nearly 150 courses with
6,252 students now use it.
"Those are impressive statistics when we have only just
started," says Neil Toporski, a
senior consultant in education
and human services. "It's really
because of the ease of use. The
program uses a well organized
template and is rather intuitive."
The software enables any existing word processing document, such as a Microsoft Word
or WordPerfect file, to be uploaded directly to Courselnfo,
Toporski says. It also supports
Microsoft PowerPoint and graphics, audio, and video file formats.
Courselnfo also provides e-
mail, chat, whiteboards,
threaded discussion groups, and
file sharing. Students doing
team projects communicate electronically. They access courses
on any Web browser anytime,
and send assignments electronically to faculty.
"Some faculty are using the
virtual chat function as a virtual
office hour," Toporski says. "They
can be at home in the evening
and extend their office hours."
Ken Sinclair, professor of
accounting, uses Courselnfo to
supplement face-to-face teaching. He makes copies of past exams, and slides produced by textbook publishers, available to students over the Courselnfo Web
site. He is -adding video lessons
related to each textbook chapter,
also provided by the publisher.
"This is fantastic," Sinclair
says. "Students can watch the
video at their own computer and
I can generate questions and make
it a homework assignment."
Courselnfo offers tracking to
tell instructors which areas of
the course Web site students are
accessing and how often,
Sinclair believes the act of
using Courselnfo in and of itself
is a valuable lesson to provide to
students these days.
"It is the way that they are
going to operate in the future in
the business world," he explains.
"When they communicate, they
are going to communicate using
Web sites. Rather than doing everything with a pencil and paper,
it is good to get them used to doing it this way."
-Jennifer Montemurro
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