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October 12,1999
Open brown bags
for campus plan
Faculty and staff interested in
the new campus master plan can
share their thoughts and concerns, and learn about the
progress being made on the plan,
at a brown bag lunch meeting
scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 14,
at 12:15 p.m. in room 292 of the
Rauch Business Center.
Students will have their own
open meetings to raise issues
and hear about the plan on
Wednesday, Oct. 13. Undergraduates will gather from 7 to8:30
p.m. in the Kenner Auditorium
of the Ulrich Student Center, and
graduate students will meet from
7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Mark Twain
Room of Maginnes Hall.
Sasaki, Bergmann, and
Milner Associates, the planning
consultants advising the university on the master plan, are visiting campus Oct. 13-14 and will
attend the open meetings to learn
from the campus community and
answer questions.
, Representatives from the
same groups, which were retained last summer, visited campus in September and met with
students, staff, and faculty to
gather input on perceived priorities. Lehigh's last campus master plan was drafted in 1990.
The consultants are developing strategies for land utilization; for landscape, parking and
pedestrian/vehicular upgrades;
and for the space shared by the
university and Bethlehem. They
are also making recommendations on creating an historic district around the central core of
buildings constructed on the Asa
Packer campus between 1865-
1930.
Information on the planning
process can be found at
www.lehigh.edu/campusplan.
Undergrad
enrollment
reaches 4,547
A total of 4,547 full- and part-
time undergraduates have enrolled at Lehigh for the fall semester, according to 10th day enrollment statistics released by
the registrar's office. This number does not include students who
are not seeking a degree, such as
LVAIC or ROTC students from
other colleges taking courses at
Lehigh. On a full-time-equivalent
(FTE) basis the total undergraduate count is 4,524 students. There
are 1,078 incoming freshmen at
Lehigh and a total of 1,832 full-
and part-time graduate students.
Forty percent of the undergraduates and 42 percent of the
graduate students are women.
The College of Arts and Sci-
Please see UNDERGRAD Page 3
Fitness now\
Photos by John Kish IV
A large crowd turned out on Founder's Day to hear John C. Chen
(lower right), dean of the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and
Applied Science, deliver the main address. Chen and Richard Durand (upper left), dean of the
College of Business and Economics, were installed as deans, while students and faculty were
honored for academic achievement.
Academic excellence
honored at Founder's Day
John C. Chen, dean of the P.C.
Rossin College of Engineering,
spoke about the past, present
and future of Lehigh at the 121st
annual Founder's Day on Oct. 7.
The celebration was held on a
cool autumn day inside the venerable Packer Chapel, where the
current work to repair and restore the stained glass windows
was evident as those windows
already completed glowed with
vibrant colors.
"You are the reason for Lehigh
to exist," Chen told the students
in the audience. "You came to
Lehigh, investing some of the
most important years of your
lives, the formative years, to be
nurtured and educated, to have
your horizons expanded, and to
be prepared for life."
To the families of students,
Chen said, 'You have placed enormous trust in this university. As
a parent and a grandparent I
know that few things are more
precious to us than our children
or grandchildren. The very presence of the young men and women
of your families attests to your
trust in Lehigh."
Joking that "before my demotion to the deanship" he would
have stood with the faculty, Chen
said, "Lehigh faculty are the soul
and heart of the university. They
are the ones that carry that awesome task of truly educating the
students who have entrusted to
Lehigh University not only their
college years, but also to a significant extent the success of
their future years."
"We are the enablers," Chen
told the staff, the administration
and the Board of Trustees. "It is
our task to provide for, to support, and to enable the faculty
and the students to work together in achieving the best of all
college educational experiences."
"I am proud to be one member
of the Lehigh family, a great family that extends in time over generations, in geography to encompass the world and in achievements to mark fields of many
diverse endeavors," he said.
Looking toward the future,
"the star by which Lehigh should
set its compass is in two words:
academic excellence," said Chen.
"The bottom line for our very existence must be supported by
Please see FOUNDER'S, Page 6
Did you know that cardiovascular disease — heart attack or
stroke — is the number-one
cause of death in America? Did
you know that after a man
reaches 40, and a woman turns
50, both increase their risk of
having a heart attack or stroke?
Those ages fall right within
the boundaries of the baby
boomers, a generation born between 1946 and 1964 that now
numbers 80 million Americans.
These statistics are well
known to Doug Strange, director, and the staff of the Welch
Fitness Center in Taylor Gym.
Strange and his fellow fitness
buffs also know most people wait
to have a life-changing event,
such as a heart attack, before they
start an exercise program.
So the fitness center is hosting an open house on Wednesday,
Oct. 20, from 11:30a.m. to 1 p.m.
All faculty and staff, baby
boomers or not, are invited to
come and tour the facilities that
have made Taylor Gym one of the
most popular places for students
to gather (and the place where
they perhaps do their most constructive "hanging out") — facilities that include swimming
pools, basketball and volleyball
courts, saunas, and locker rooms.
For the past several years, the
fitness center and the Office of
Human Resources have sponsored fitness programs for fac-
ilty and staff.
One of those programs,
Health on the Rise, will reprise
this year on Oct. 13 and on every
second Wednesday of the month
thereafter until May 10, 2000.
From 6:30 to 8:30 a.m., Health
on the Rise will give faculty and
staff a chance to use the fitness
center and enjoy a light breakfast afterward.
Health on the Rise drew an
average of 18 people per session
last year. Strange hopes to see
an increase this year.
"It is important," he says, "that
as people mature they remain conscious of their health and well-being. The Welch Fitness Center and
Taylor Gym are invaluable benefits offered to Lehigh's faculty and
staff. Why not make use of them
before a life-changing event makes
you use them?"
For more information, you can
contact Strange at x84432 or
dws0@lehigh.edu.
Training sessions set
for chemical hazards
Under the federal Hazard Communications Standard, or OSHA
Right-To-Know Law, as it is also
called,.the Environmental Health
and .Safety office has scheduled
training sessions to inform lab
workers about potential chemical hazards of the work place and
measures that can be taken to
Please see TRAINING, Page 6
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