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              b&w photo by john treichieri the university plans to acquire the brith sholom community center on the southwest corner of brodhead and packer avenues the university will develop the use of the facility which contains a gym pool and kitchen for specialized programs see brith sholom page 5 ics of plans will not be announced until a sales agreement is signed which he pro jects will be done way before april 1 although he declined to comment on what will happen to the religious facili ties in the center he did say that the building would not be used as a residence hall representatives for the community center contacted the university about a sale early last summer woltjen said he added that the members had attempted to sell it to other parties before the con tact was made the reason for sale was due to the changing needs for the membership according to congregation president gary miller he said that most of the 500 community center members do not reside in south bethlehem but are close by darren maloney members of the brith sholom com munity center have agreed in princi ple on the sale of the premises on the southwest corner of brodhead and packer avenues to the university according to university vice president and treasurer john woltjen no contract has been signed yet he said but april 1 is slated as the date the university will acquire the center as part of the agreement the community center will acquire a 5.6-acre tract of university-owned property at the north west corner of macada and jacksonville roads in hanover township according to woltjen the university will develop the use of the facility which contains a gym pool and kitchen over a period of time for specialized programs vice president for administration and planning eric ottervik said that specif by brett lowy see forbes page 7 malcolm forbes chairman and editor-in-chief of forbes magazine inc will deliver the principal address at the university's 116 th commencement ceremonies on june 3 according to an announcement made by university president peter likins and kevin clayton senior class president forbes an internationally known publisher and business leader became editor and publisher of forbes magazine in 1954 and was elected editor-in-chief in 1957 forbes is also a world renowned balloonist having set six world records in 1973 and becoming the first person in his tory to successfully fly across the uni ted states in one hot air balloon forbes acceptance as com mencement-address speaker was the malcolm forbes selected as commencement speaker there are 250,000 of new items going into the 1984-85 budget including additional faculty positions the transition to the new library and the conversion of its card catalog system woltjen said he added that the new mart library extension computing system will com prise 150,000 of the 250,000 in comparison with other private insti tutions tuition fees this year we are 430 below the average tuition woltjen said noting that in 1982-83 we were only 294 below average in total there are some 800,000 worth of new items added to the 1984-85 budget woltjen said in a letter from university president peter likins to the parents of under graduates he said faced with increas ing costs institutions of higher education must carefully plan expenditures and utilize resources in the most efficient cost-effective fashion tuition increases by 750 new salary structure cited a tuition increase of 750 was adopted at the jan 1984 meeting of the board of trustees which will bring the annual tui tion up to 8,750 per year according to john woltjen university vice president and treasurer there also will be a 100 increase in the 21-meal plan increasing the annual total to 1,420 as well as a 120 increase for the average residence hall fee bringing the total to 1,700 he said this means that tuition room and board charges for the average undergraduate student will be 11,870 this amounts to a 9.38 percent incease in tuition as compared to last year's 11.1 percent increase woltjen said he attributed the bulk of the rise in tuition to general increases in the salary structure to benefit employees faculty and staff and in utilities expenses supplies and institutional expenses in addition within the academic area by rhonda m stone lehigh university brown and white 215 861-4184 bethlehem pa friday january 20 1984 vol 95 — no 26 trustees pass coed-by-room option by teresa kilcullen the university board of trustees have approved coed-by-room housing by pass ing a forum xiv package proposal which will turn taylor house to a residen tial college according to mark erikson assistant dean for residence life the house will become taylor college beginning next fall while the coed-by room strategy will also be implemented in williams house according to erikson the idea of a residential college at the university in which a faculty member would reside in the dormitory with the students to facilitate faculty/student interaction and programming began some time ago erikson said the prop osal has worked its way through the var ious committees and subcommittees of the forums over the past few years they the forum committees worked on looking at the concept of a residential college . how it works what it would provide for the students and university community and other details erikson explained the con clusion was reached that this sort of arrangement made sense for taylor the coed-by-room proposal for willi ams house as well as in taylor college was passed by the trustees at their jan 13 meeting according to erikson by the time the proposal reached the trustees it had been endorsed by forum xiv and the administration and therefore did not appear to present much of a problem allen cuff area coordinator explained that of the three sections in taylor only one of them would be made coed-by-room because of the bathroom facilities he added that only upper classmen will be able to take advantage alpha phi wins campus housing starting in fall by kathy goldstein alpha phi sorority will be the first sorority to move to campus as a result of a drawing held dec .•* between gamma phi beta sorority and alpha phi according to larry philippi assistant to the dean of students for fraternity and sorority affairs the sorority will be housed in what was congdon house alpha gamma delta sorority withdrew its name from the draw ing to determine which sorority would be the first to move but see alpha phi page 5 of the coed-by-room option the 161 residents of taylor college will be a mixture of freshmen sophomores juniors and seniors cuff said the selec tion process will be completed after the students draw their lottery numbers but prior to their selection of preferred hous ing he continued informational meetings have been set up for interested students so that the features of the college and the selection process may be explained and so that the students can ask any questions they may have ' cuff stated he added that tours of the inside of the building will be given on a limited basis although the renovation is not yet complete the next informational meeting will be held mon day from 4-5:30 p.m in uc room 308 each interested student is requested to see coed page 7 members of brith sholom agree on sale to university opi photo malcolm forbes