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              said he was very disappointed with the student turn-out but said he thought the faculty did very well bob raffo 84 priorities planning and development committee co chairman agreed saying i hoped that students were more aware and interested university president peter likins said he was satisfied with the turn-out since he did not expect a large number open discusson before the vote brought only support for the amend ment john tarduno 83 forum co chairman explained the problems of a too-large forum as ranging from an inability to fill 60 faculty seats which threatens the equality of stu dent and faculty voices to difficulties in obtaining quorums at meetings a smaller forum could create a close working relationship with the admin istration he said sinnis commented that you always get your share of ceiling tiles damaged but this is ridiculous trucky gowen 86 summed up taylor residents feel ings by saying it's lousy and stupid because they are going to renovate the building anyway cuff said the reporting method is dif ferent and more thorough this year and that accounts for the increase in the tiles reported and replaced also 36 tiles were not charged to the students because the damage was done earlier he added joe zembas 84 gryphon in taylor said the reason why they replaced the tiles was because they had brand new tiles in storage and residence opera tions wanted to replace the old ones and use up the new ones before renovation cuff said that this is not true he said they were installed to keep up with fire department regulations when we do renovate we will take out the tiles in taylor and put them somewhere else see taylor page 11 by lan wilsher the replacement of 210 ceiling tiles costing between 6 and 8 per tile charged to taylor hall residents has angered gryphons and students alike their protest centers on the uniformity and the excessive number of tiles replaced on taylor's first floor 20 tiles were replaced on both the east and west sides on the second floor 40 tiles were replaced on each side and 27 tiles were replaced on each side of the third floor according to stylianus sinnis 85 a tay lor gryphon the fact that the same number of tiles w«?re replaced on both sides of the build ing angered and bewildered many tay lor residents sinnis said how precisely 20 27 and 40 tiles were broken on both sides is a joke allen cuff area coordinator replied the damaged ceil ing tiles on both sides were added together and then halved so as to make ttie damage report more equitable lehigh university brown and white vol 94 — no 40 bethlehem pa friday march 18 1983 215 861-4184 ib&w photo by rob weisstuch ice cream cones and students sitting in the sun are two harbingers of spring dennis alloy 85 and margery huntington 85 prove that spring really is just around the corner licked new freshman-adviser system in effect this fall mart library annex and the renovations of taylor hall and the physics building are yet to be solicited from 98 percent of the university's alumni in the fall the century campaign will be soliciting the general alumni for a por tion of the construction and renovations funding franz said he noted this is due to oversubscription in endowments inflation and the fact the cost of the mart library addition has risen from 7.5 mil lion to 10.8 million because of inflation and inclusion of a computing center provost arthur humphrey said the shovel-turning ceremony " for the con struction of the new library will be held in may also he said we hope to target a date in the next academic year for the physics renovations which may include an annex between it and the sherman see century page 6 new century fund drive exceeds goal by $ 6.5 million by louis gombocz a very successful campaign is how paul franz vice president for develop ment described the second phase of the new century fund drive the campaign which began in 1979 and is expected to be completed by 1985 has raised over 48 million according to franz he said our alumni and friends have been terribly generous since the original goal of the drive was 41.5 million a report from the university's office of development listed four campaign objectives for the century drive these include new construction campus reno vations and improvements endow ments and programs and equipment franz explained however the endow ment and programs and equipment cate gories have been oversubscribed to while a portion of the funding for the percent of the class of 1984 has already been lost to the college through transfer or dropout it states that research shows that a student's impression of an institution is formed early dedicated faculty advisers can have a substantial impact on the quality of the freshman year . . our students more than those in engineering or business are faced with choices of courses major and career we must start to build an environment within the college that will more consciously provide a sense of sup port lor our students the report states the process for revising the advising system was started three years ago according to william newman chair man of the department of psychology and member of the arts and science subcommittee on freshman advising system an evaluation was done during the 1979-80 academic year by the college policy committee which revealed that students felt they did not meet with advisers enough and that they were dis satisfied with the meetings according to newman with the new system newman said he hopes it will improve the quality of life fora student in the college and also help the college establish an identity for itself independent of business and engineering " professor of government and sub committee member edward morgan said i think it's a very exciting change that ought to achieve a few things . . first it should give a better introduction to what it means to be in a liberal arts curriculum second he added it should develop see new page 10 forum reduction ratified 1 percent of students vote students in the usual manner until they declared majors while also receiving a new group of 20-25 students it certainly will be an improvement oyer the preseot system " said mark ellis associate dean of the arts college john hunt dean of the arts college commented favorably on the new sys tem also adding that the proposal will be subject to an entire faculty review the reason for entire faculty approval is because the proposal deals with changes in curriculum the adding of arts 1 to distribution requirements according to hunt however he said that he felt there should be no problem with the other col leges faculty accepting the proposal the report on the proposal prepared by the arts and science policy commit tee and the subcommittee on freshman advising system noted that over 50 by darren maloney aiming at improving the quality of life for their students by improving student adviser relations the college of arts and science faculty passed a proposal on monday which will dramatically change the college's advising system the proposal to be effected this com ing fall replaces the current system of approximately 45 freshman advisers advising a small number about eight of students each year with a volunteer sys tem staffed by 15-18 tenured faculty each of whom would advise 20-25 entering freshmen also stated in the proposal is another provision introducing a one-credit pass fail course arts 1 which will be taught by the adviser to his advisees at a weekly two-hour session after the course these faculty would continue to advise their taylor residents angered over tile-replacement cost by kathy goldstein forum xiii's proposed constitu tional amendment calling for a size reduction of the body was ratified tuesday at the all-university convo cation and will be adopted by forum xiv faculty members present at the convocation voted unanimously in favor of the amendment while the student vote passed with an 84 percent majority a simple majority of each vote was needed for ratification the forum's new constitution changes the number of faculty and student voting members from 60 to 30 each the number of administrators will remain at five the convocation was attended by 78 faculty members and 43 students this was a disappointment to forum officers donald ryan forum co chairman and professor of geology