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              expected woltjen said another change enacted by ray jansen director of purchasing is the credit card system under the new sys tem the credit cards issued to depart ment heads jensen explained are good at 25 businesses they are used to pur chase office supplies furnishings and laboratory supplies jensen added this centralizes purchasing and leisdepart ments move quickly to pick upsupplies jensen said the card aids the vendor by letting him know the user is authorized and eligible for discounts according to woltjen i suspect the credit card approach will have i rub off effect at other campuses he said in addition a computer terminal has been hooked up to display product avail by sharon haggerty changes in the purchasing depart ment's credit system and the leasing of fuel oil tank space have resulted in an estimated savings of 400,000 according to john woltjen i'niversity treasurer he added that another 200 000 in savings can be expected in the next year or two because of these savings budget adjustments have been decreased in some cases and increased in needed areas woltjen said the biggest savings 100 000 came from the leasing of fuel oil tank space he noted the university purchased 3oo,ooo gallons of no 2 fuel oil over a year ago at 2 cents per gallon woltjen said the university is allowing the oil supply which is being stored in macungie pa to deplete until prices increase as lehigh university brow n and white bkthlkhkm pa tuesday df kmbkr 8 1981 215)861-4184 tis the season ib&w photo by tami scherer these musicians wkrf some of the performers featured at sunday's annual christmas vespers performance in packer hupei intrmaik.nai carols nd musical ompo-si i w«-i inrlmlrri n sunday's shnw vw a review turn to pugc 6 student charged in alleged rape at drinker dorm foreign language graduate program dropped by jeff xl hknkikm a university freshman was arrested last nighi and charged with raping a icmale student early thursday morning m a drinker house lounge according to eugene dax university police edict robert bell 85 was arrested bj uni versity police officer edward shupp and charged with rape criminal attempt to commit involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and indecent assault the university has ordered him to move off campus for the protection of all con cerned according to a university spokesman in a report the woman made tothe i hi versity police at 6:50 p.m dec a she stated she was raped early that morning dax said she was advised to go to st luke's hospital for a medical examina tion and did so at 8 30 p.m university and bethlehem police were called to the hospital later that evening the lehigh valley rape crisis council was with the victim at that time and at another meeting in dax's office friday he said yesterday evening university police in cooperation with the district attor see freshman page 2 by susan wkber the university's graduate program in modern foreign language was discon tinued by a narrow vote at last month's faculty meeting the motion to discontinue the gradu ate program was proposed by david lewis chairman of the modern foreign language department lewis said yes terday that a combination of several fac tors prompted him to propose the discontinuation of the program when he became department chair man in 1977 a bare minimum of faculty taught language courses lewis said this shortageof faculty todeal with the masters major and minor pro grams had caused problems for the demic standards of the department as a whole the program did not provide the stu dents with an adequate learning environ ment lewis said explaining that since it was based on a tutorial system there was no interaction among the students speaking for the german department professor arthur gardner summed up the problem as involving a lack of the necessary resources the department was relying upon teachers already over-teaching he said gardner also stressed that to encourage the degree in modern foreign languages it is not fair to the student unless he made aware of the job market situation the undergraduate program is our primary responsibility he said jerry king dean of the graduate school said the decision was not imposed on them the modern foreign language department from the outside the deci sion was very carefully and thoughtfully made i don't see it as a controversial issue king said as to the effect of this discontinuation will have on the rest of the graduate program king said the pro gram was not intricately involved in the rest of the graduate program the last two modern foreign language mas graduated in october lewis said we kept our commitment to all stu dents engaged with us and we're proud because of it both students and faculty worked under adverse conditions department in the past he said the suspension of the language requirement several years earlier resulted in the loss of the teaching assist ants he added during the last four or five years there has been increased enrollment in language courses yet no new permanent teaching posts have been added since lewis arrival he said as a result of lewis proposal a debate began among faculty members those who agreed with lewis believed the department's resources were being stretched too far and that they should concentrate solely on the undergraduate program he said others he added felt that the research work encouraged by graduate programs would lift the aca credit system revisions cut costs john w woi.tjkn ability and price information at a glance woltjen said this facilitates the rela tionship between the university and the vendor because prompt payment means better prices for the university he added response to the changes this fall has been very good jensen said as individ ual departments become accustomed to the changes collective working is improving he added in the future jensen said he wants to combine needs of different departments and have them work together also a central stores operation is being developed according to jensen it will inventory commonly-used items such as office supplies furnishings and audio-visual materials he said vol 93 — no 2