Brown and White Vol. 96 no. 26

              t he brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pennsylvania vol 96 — no 26 tuesday january 22 1985 215 861-4181 by jonathan ansbacher and pete trumbore lu to offer wrestling scholarships for the first time in lehigh's history partial athletic scholarships will be offered to wrestlers for an 18-month trial period in an effort to improve recruiting and reverse the demise of lehigh wrestling according to a memorandum released by president likins the executive committee of the board of trus tees passed a proposal from president peter lik ins on jan 10 that calls for the establishment of a committee to work with the wrestling coaches in implementing a provisional policy permitting financial support of student athletes subject to overall budgetary constraints defined by the 1985 86 alumni student grant budget for wrestling every year the university establishes a budget for recruiting student athletes currently wrestlers and other athletes receive financial aid based solely on need under the provisions of the proposal the university will be able to offer potential wrestlers a sum of money in excess of their need the university however will not offer free rides said vice president for student affairs marsha duncan the amount of financial aid available for wrestlers will remain the same we're going to have to try to stretch the dollars as much as possi ble to cover as many prospects as possible com mented head wrestling coach thad turner in the past turner said one reason many potential wrestlers gave for not attending lehigh was the lack of financial support by awarding financial aid beyond need the university will pro vide an added incentive for prospects to attend turner said the awarding of scholarships will not increase the number of prospects they recruit but may increase the caliber by allowing them to focus on more promising candidates now six or seven wrestlers are recruited for each health center lawsuit filed by alden cushman a lehigh student filed suit jan 12 against lehigh's asso ciate director of health services for misdiagnosis of a pain in his abdomen and subsequent burst appendix senior david osterman filed suit in northampton county court against dr duane stack house and the university seek ing more thn 20,000 in damages osterman claimed that on oct 5 1982 he expe rienced an abdominal pain and went to the health center stack house examined him and released him after 15 minutes osterman claims to have returned to the medical center the next day with a similar pain in his abdomen was again examined by stackhouse and was released that evening later tht evening osterman was admitted to st luke's hos pital with a burst appendix the suit prepared by attor ney costas douvanis contends that stackhouse negligently failed to diagnose the ailment failed to properly examine osterman for the cause of the pain and failed to refer him to other physicans versed in inter nal medicine lehigh is being represented by the law offices of holland taylor and sorrentino lehigh vice president and treasurer john woltjen said both side have just begun to collect infor mation for the case woltjen in dicated that stackhouse is pro vided like all other university faculty with liable cover age and more specifically with medical coverage tobak case still pending another important case involving lehigh and in the dis covery stage is the case being brought by james tobak former assistant professor of law harry dower tobak's law yer explained that the case is still in the discovery stage which allows each side to be cognizant of the other side's case the process allows both sides to prepare competent cases and can help shorten the actual trial tobak filed suit last march 23 for more than 835,000 when the dean's council overrruled the tuition increase set labor costs to blame by pete trumbore managing editor in what vice president and treasurer john woltjen called an annual occurance tuition for the fall will rise 800 increasing the cost of a year at lehigh to 9,550 before room and board the new figure represents an increase of 9 1 percent over this year's tuition of 8,750 historically tuition has more than doubled since 1979-80 when the cost of a year at lehigh was only 4,550 the single largest increase since that time came in 1982-83 when tuition rose 1,100 to 7,200 nearly 100 million has been tentatively budgeted for 1985-86 lehigh tuition 1960*81 -. 5,130 1 983-84 - 8,000 1981-82 - 8400 1984*88 - 8,750 1982-83 - 7,200 1985-88 - 9,sso with two-thirds of that coming from student sources woltjen said that the university tries to keep the two-thirds ratio fairly constant we never want more than that coming from the students according to woltjen some of the increase will go to increased costs of operation although these are not as signifi cant as they have been in the past the main culprit in this category he said is compensation education is very labor intensified so a lot goes into covering those costs salaries and benefits for university faculty and staff have increased six percent over the amount currently budgeted just under 37 million woltjen said the 1985-86 budget model proposes almost 40 million and sets the increase at 7.9 percent beyond compensation the new martindale extension of mart library will take a big bite of next year's budget an operating budget of 440 thousand is set for the library which will cover all of its operations including the costs of the computing center and other expenses woltjen said his office has been trying to phase in the library's expenses gradually but that it will have its biggest impact in the 1985-86 fiscal year more than 1.5 million in new items have been added to the budget including new employee positions a lot of the new items relate to personnel woltjen said in addition 1.2 million in one-time expenditures have been included in the budget these are not supported by tuition but rather are covered by gifts money from the endowment fund or other such sources snow job b&w pholo by adam sevel with the help of a u.c food tray two daring students roar down a snow covered hill toward an uncertain destiny snow sports should continue as temperatures dip well below freezing see lawsuits page 4 see wrestling page 9