LehighWeek Volume 13, Issue 04

              Going to the source
Religion studies class
journeys to Holy Land
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Turning out the lights
Lehigh spoils Princeton's
first-ever night game
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September 28,1999
IR revamps
campus
computer
network
Frustration with passwords, the inability to use
personal internet information away from home,
and other computer nuisances may soon be a
thing of the past.
When students and faculty
returned to campus, they encountered changes designed to make
life easier for computer users and
operators.
Doug Reese, senior computer
consultant, says the changes will
help users work more efficiently,
and will tighten security and
help enforce Lehigh's policy of
restricting computer use to students, faculty and staff.
Changes include upgrading
the remaining public sites to
Windows 98, creation of a web-
based means of managing accounts (at http://www.lehigh.edu/
account), and mandatory LAN
logins at public sites. Users
changing password* via the web
interface need to remember only
one password. Other features,
such as IMAP and roaming access, may require a one-time setup procedure for returning users,
but will be nearly automatic for
new students.
Reese said the changes would
improve flexibility, enabling students to start a paper on their
personal PC and finish it in the
library. "The new system will be
smoother to use at different
places," he said. "Students can
take their work with them anywhere."
Temporary storage, or scratch
space, on the network will eliminate the need of carrying diskettes, Reese said. IMAP keeps
e-mail in a central location, making messages accessible anywhere on campus. Roaming access "remembers" personal e-
mail preferences and keeps address books and web bookmarks
handy.
Mandatory logins will enable
Lehigh to control access. Before,
unauthorized and off-campus
users caused two problems. They
monopolized limited resources.
And by gaining access to proprietary materials, they made it
difficult for Information Resources to negotiate licenses.
Professors can benefit from
the network upgrades by placing
assignments or reading in their
public folder so that students can
obtain the necessary information
for class.
The changes help Lehigh stay
in tune with the rapid advances in
hardware and software. "We are
trying to keep up with the cutting
edge of technology," said Reese.
-Joanne Snyder
Students give business a toehold
A sandal-maker who hopes
to sell his product world
wide believes the teamwork of Lehigh students enrolled
in an Integrated Product Development (IPD) program will help
make his dream become reality.
Mansour G. Mansour has
been working with the undergraduates since the spring semester. "Their work has been
beneficial, absolutely," he said.
"I don't think we've missed any
angle in this product."
After receiving a design
patent for his sandal, Mansour
sought help from the Ben
Franklin Technology Center at
Lehigh. In the IPD program, juniors and seniors in engineering,
business, and design arts work
on new product ideas with private companies. This fall, 18
companies are sponsoring 26
project teams involving about
120 students, said John B.
Ochs, IPD director and professor of mechanical engineering
and mechanics.
"For years, business leaders
and recruiters have said that college students have the technical
skills but are not used to working in teams or working in a
cross-disciplinary manner. The
IPD program addresses that,"
said Todd Watkins, an associate professor of economics who
helps coordinate IPD projects.
Photo by Rob Upton
Mansour G. Mansour, maker of patented sandals, meets with
his IPD team — seniors (from left) Robyn Stober, Suzanne
Cascarano, Joel Romig and Caroline Chang, and Todd Watkins,
associate professor of economics.
The students working on the
sandal have analyzed competition, pricing, marketing strategies, the survival rate of new footwear products, and consumer
taste and demand. They have
been studying how to make the
manufacturing process more efficient and how to improve the
sole design.
"I never had an experience like
this before," said Robyn Stober
'00, a finance and marketing
double major."The challenge has
been: People-think differently.
I've learned to work as a member
of a team — not just as a business student or a marketing student. I learned outside the classroom, working in the real world."
Other project members have
been Sandro Arbulu '00 and
Erik Burachinsky '00, both
mechanical engineering;
Suzanne Cascarano '00, business; and Caroline Chang '00,
economics; and Joel Romig '00,
mechanical engineering. They
received a $1,000 prize from an
Please see SANDAL, Page 2
121st Founder's Day
New deans to be installed
John Chen, dean of the P.C.
Rossin College of Engineering
and Applied Science and Carl
R.Anderson professor of chemical engineering, will be the featured speaker at the 121st
Founder's Day exercises, which
will be held in Packer Memorial Church at 4:15 p.m. on
Thursday, Oct. 7. A reception on
the lawn in front of Maginnes
Hall will follow the ceremony.
Chen will be installed as
dean during the ceremony, as
will Richard Durand, new
dean of the College of Business
and Economics. Seven endowed
professors and four department
chairs will also be honored.
The ceremony will also honor
top Lehigh students, including
Dean's Scholars from the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Applied Science
and Business and Economics,
as well as Roy C. Eckert, lacocca,
Martindale, Tauck and
President's Scholars, and students on the Dean's List.
Chen was appointed as dean
this year. He joined Lehigh in
1970 and was named the
Carl R. Anderson Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1981. He has served
as chairman of the department of chemical engineering and has directed the Institute of Thermo-Fluid
Engineering and Science
at Lehigh since 1978. He
recently completed a sabbatical year abroad as an
Erskine Fellow at the University
of Canterbury.
Chen specializes in
multiphase transport phenomena, including various subjects in
heat transfer, multiphase flow,
energy conversion, and environmental technology. He is the author of over 200 journal and proceeding articles, and has received
many international and national
awards, most recently the Heat
Transfer and Energy Conversion
Division Award in 1997. Chen
also received the Libsch Award
in 1986 and the R.R. and E.C.
Hillman Award in 1996.
Durand was appointed the
Herbert E. Ehlers Dean of the
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Chen
Durand
College of Business and Economics earlier this year.
Previously, Durand was professor and chair of the faculty
of marketing at the Robert H.
Smith School of Business at the
University of Maryland, where
he helped develop undergraduate, MBA and doctoral programs, and worked with corporations to build research partnerships. He led the effort to
establish an undergraduate
career center for business students.
Author or co-author of more
than 40 refereed journal articles, Durand has served as a
Please see CELEBRA TION , Page 6
Bornstein to
step down;
replacement
named
at Zoellner
Eva Bornstein is stepping down as executive
director of the Zoellner
Arts Center, effective
Sept. 30.
"I am proud of my efforts to
increase the visibility of Zoellner
in arts circles around the world
and to have attracted some of
the top international talent to
perform here," Bornstein said. "I
have worked hard to expand the
range of artistic performances at
Zoellner through the establishment of the Premiere Series, now
known as the Guest Artists Series. Any time you work with
many creative, artistic individuals, there are bound to be occasional conflicts and differences
in operational philosophy. I feel
it is best to move on at this point
in my career. Zoellner is a wonderful facility and I wish the staff
well."
Elizabeth Scofield, marketing director of Barrington Stage
Company in Sheffield, Mass.,
has been named managing director of Zoellner for an interim period. She will arrive on campus
later this week.
In announcing Bornstein's departure, President Greg
Farrington said, "I appreciate
Eva's efforts to increase the visibility and stature of Zoellner
and attract some of the top international talent to perform
here. I wish her the best of luck
in her new endeavors."
A national search will be held
to find Bornstein's successor. "We
obviously cannot afford to operate Zoellner without a director
— especially with the season in
full swing," Farrington said.
"Therefore, I have moved quickly
to identify an interim replacement."
Scofield has more than 20
years of experience in business,
marketing, communications and
event management. As marketing director of Barrington Stage
Company, she developed and
implemented marketing plans
for a 5-year-old regional theatre,
which was under the artistic direction of a Broadway director.
She was responsible for developing advertising, promotion,
public relations and media
strategies for the stage company.
She also was responsible for developing and overseeing major
fundraising events.
"I am looking forward to working with the faculty, staff and
students to make Zoellner the
finest education and arts facil-
Please see ZOELLNER, Page 2
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