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              the part of the survey which dealt with the racial antagonism was two pages long most of which is direct quotes all that was asked blank said was what is good or bad about your neighborhood i thought that it was rather strange that 11 of the 35 people spontaneously offered negative comments about minorities would mention antagonism toward puerto ricans i thought that this was important so i mentioned the fact and included two sentences about it in the executive summary he said blank said he hoped that the conclu sions would help overcome racial antag onism and concentrate on the landlord seven positions on forum vacant following turnover by doug grossinger the vacancies in forum xiv for five faculty and two students do not reflect participation but rather result from normal turnover in the university's government according to greg schulze director of intramu rals and forum xiv co-chairman schulze said that the present seven vacancies are far less than the number that had to be filled last year he noted that there were more than 20 empty faculty positions and approxi mately 10 vacant student spots according to schulze the majority of the faculty that resigned because of their large workload and the added burdens placed upon them by the uni versity he noted berry richards director of libraries and william leckonby director of athletics as examples the students that resigned did so because they were not going to be at the university next year schulze explained the forum has been oper ating this semester with a reduced number of members 65 as opposed to 125 in previous semesters this reduc tion according to schulze was mainly a move for increased effi ciency within the organization ' it's much easier to get more things done at forum meetings when we have only 65 members rather than the unwieldy previous number schulze said schulze also said that the forum instituted new voting regulations that require the faculty to submit the names of prospective members for forum approval the prospective members should represent the three colleges in the university the nomi nating committees from each of the colleges choose the forum members from the group that was recom mended or an active faculty member from the college is selected outright to be a member of the forum the new changes for students involve selection from living groups rather than the previous method of selecting student representatives see forum page 5 the college of arts and science is cur rently planning to propose that students in the college attain some writing certi fication in their junior year according to barbara traister associate professor of english the writing certification requirement is part of the writing across the disci plines program according to traister the program began several years ago when the arts college policy committee created a subcommittee which traister chaired she said the subcommittee recommended faculty workshop " which would help the faculty deal with student writing she explained we wanted faculty to tell students writing was important the committee applied for and was given a grant from the mellon faculty development fund which they used to set up workshops for faculty on how to teach writing traister said two work shops were conducted and most of the faculty who attended were from the arts college traister explained that in february of this year the national endowment for by stuart silberman writing certification plan developed by arts college the humanities neh granted funds to finance additional workshops and semin ars open to all faculty and teaching assistants in the arts college according to rosemary mundhenk associate professor of english surveys have been conducted nationwide which have revealed that in recent years the writing competency of college graduates has declined the college as a whole had to address the problem mundhenk said the main point of the neh grant was to get the faculty more involved with student writing to accomplish this in february the arts college will be considering a prop osal which was outlined in a memo sent to all arts college faculty on nov 28 according to the memo the proposal states each student in the college of arts and science must complete for gra duation at least one writing intensive course and receive writing certification in that course traister said that the course will involve a lot of writing in a particular subject but will not be a com position course such as english 1 bethlehem pa tuesday december 13 1983 215 861-4184 lehigh university brown ana white vol 95 — no 25 open discussion about document in uc today by darren maloney an open discussion concerning the university planning document which will establish the future direction in many areas of structure and develop ment will be held at 3 30 this afternoon in university center uc room 308 university president peter likins will preside at the discussion which he says may stimulate dialogue from across college lines among faculty last month the second draft of the doc ument was submitted to faculty staff and forum xiv for review results of ensuing discussions have been chan neled through deans and chairmen at today's meeting likins says he hopes to combine this material with the older input and present it to a special faculty committee which will study it this month then prepare it for redistribution next semester b&w photo by john treichler the annual christmas vespers featuring the university choir orchestra and brass ensemble were held sunday in packer memorial chapel the groups performed to two full house crowds see professor page 4 problem instead the report seems to have increased racial antagonism or at least made it more visible which blank said may prove to be beneficial in the long run it's rather unfortunate that this has dents felt toward puerto ricans the major points which the survey had set out to investigate were mentioned much later in the article according to blank the study attempted to find out how residents in three specific neighbor hoods were reacting to the reinvestment plan and historical restrictions being implemented by the city of allentown blank explained in the 57-page survey blank pointed out that the results could not be used to make any positive or strong conclusions because of the small sample size which was limited to 35 peo ple due to monetary limitations set by the observatory by alden cushman a study entitled neighborhood changes and effects on individuals prepared by thomas blank assistant professor of social relations and project director for the university's center for social research has recently caused some controversy a nov 1 morning call article entitled city residents fear minorities study claims reported the findings of the study sponsored by urban observatory a consortium of allentown businesses and lehigh valley colleges however the majority of the article dealt with the racial antagonism and fears many resi packer packed morning call article triggers local controversy last issue this is the last issue of the brown and white for the fall semester the first issue of next semester will appear on friday jan 20 1984 good luck on finals