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              student response to the survey will be seriously considered in future redevelopment plans according to carl anderson vice president of the sbc and a member of the task force the needs of the university com munity have been ignored for too long anderson said the university is a captive market that could sup port increased student-oriented busi nesses and services in the south side he said james mccarthy bethlehem com munity development director said he also supported student oriented com mercial development of the area as well as new businesses geared toward residents we're interested in uses that would not only serve university students but south side residents as well mccarthy explained n surveys should be returned to the university community relations | office johnson hall through the campus mail by parii kaimk would you like to see a fast-food outlet on fourth street or a nice res taurant to go to on a date doyouwish you could buy posters for your room or a pair of jeans right here in south bethlehem are you looking fora new weekend hangout besides the hill whatever your responses may be university students will have a chance to make their voices heard this week in a campus-wide survey on the redevelopment of south bethle hem the south bethlehem coalition sbc will distribute a survey wed nesday through campus mail the survey is designed to define student business and service needs the survey is part of a task force study on the economic development of the south side the task force spon sored by the joint planning commis sion of lehigh and northampton counties will issue a report on revital ization plans for the area as a result of the study backs on government financial aid creates some tough situations and might especially affect minorities who usually comprise about six percent of the freshman class this year there was an increase in applications from minorities and this year there has been a fine quality of minority applications missimer said according to vicky sanders admis sions counselor the university has received 200 minority applications com pared to last year's total of 168 this is the largest number ever she noted despite the increase in the number of applications offers of admission were sent to 106 minority applicants for the prospective freshman class while 113 offers were sent to last year's minority applicants sanders said this inconsis tency is a result of the cutback in the financial aid situation so far the university has received 11 acceptances and deposits for the fall semester from minorities and the admissions office expects a total of approximately 40 as in past years she said by karen koch this has been a banner year for us said samuel missimer director of admissions in reference to the number of applications received for the fresh man class entering the university in the fall of 1981 according to missimer a record number of applications were made the university received 4,807 male applica tions and 1,985 female applications totaling 6,792 applications he said this total exceeds the class of 84 applica tions which totaled 5,860 and the class of 83 which totaled 5,855 a few years ago the university only received about 3,400 applications each year missimer added offers of admission were sent to 2,961 applicants — 2,111 men and 850 women — in hopes of getting a freshman class of about 1 050 according to missimer as of april 23 there have been 660 acceptan ces returned to the university with dep osits for the fall semester the admissions office is hoping for about 400 more acceptances with seven days to go missimer said he also added that the effect of cut 215 861-4184 vol 92 — no 45 mmmmmmmm bethiehem pa tuesday april 28 1981 areas such as furniture and office supp iies in an effort to reduce paperwork and costs jensen said other steps have been taken to save money the university through the pur chasing office is leasing fuel oil tank space and expects to save 100,000 over t he next two years jensen said the pur chasing office has also saved by stand ardizing purchasing he added the purchasing office is also needed because certain federal guidelines must be followed if the university is to earn government contracts lehigh is going to suffer in the future because of the failure to satisfy the sys tem jensen said we've got to do some things that we're not doing now he said today we would have some problems with an audit but i think our direction is good members of various departments including biology chairman sidney her see departments page 9 empty school building costs university thousands kll'l photo the university's 650,000 centennial school building pictured here before its dedication in 1972 now lies empty in saucon valley purchasing office changes may save 500,000 annually by tom dipiazza and doug mattfeld changes in the university's office of purchasing may save the university up to one half million dollars annually although reactions to the new policies are varied according to ray jensen director of the office of purchasing according to jensen his office is try ing to centralize university purchasing previously the purchasing office was concerned only with record retention he noted the reaction to what we've been doing is very mixed he added in an effort to centralize purchasing the office has injected a receiving func tion into t he system to assure that orders have arrived without this function the university was sometimes paying for items that were never received he said the purchasing office also operates the kib store which supplies depart ments with chemicals and glassware this operation may be expanded to other transform the school into a research cen ter ottervik said estimating that it would co«=t 750,000 to establish a research center in the school building since most centers are laboratory oriented ottervik said his committee is continu ing to formulate plans to solve univer sity space needs with the 25,000 square foot school building but says i don't think any of these are likely either according to university treasurer john woltjen who also serves on the committee to find a use for the building the annual 55,000 mortgage payment is having an effect on the university's see facility page 5 located in saucon valley was built by the university in 1972 to house an exist ing university special education pro gram for elemetary and high school students it is affiliated with the univer sity's school of education the saucon valley building was closed in 1980 for primarily financial rea sons according to frederic west the school's current director the centen nial school incurred deficits from 1977 to 1980 due to a sharp drop in enrollment he said the drop stemmed in part from a change in state special education laws he said ottervik cited two reasons why the admissions awaits replies after record number apply the university's 650,000 centennial school building has been empty for nearly a year while the university pays a 55,000 annual mortgage payment on the facility in an effort to utilize the vacant build ing we have looked at literally dozens of possibilities most of which have proved to be impossible we've gotten as far as detailed plans in some cases before they fell apart said eric ottervik vice pres ident for administration and planning and chairman of a committee that's worrying about it the centennial school building by tom dipiazza university has been unable to utilize the empty centennial school building des pite the university's current space needs " ottervik said that one reason is the building'sdistance from the center of campus or the flagpole syndrome all sorts of people are clamoring for space but none of them want to move over there and i can understand why he said we're frustrated because we know we have alot of space needs and we can't solve any down there he said the second reason why the building remains empty is the enormous expense the university would face to students 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