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              going to seek people out and find out their reasons for leaving he continued we have to counteract woltjen said and one of the ways we're doing this is by offering financial aid for transfer students woltjen noted the other factor which will contribute to the proposed deficit when the amount of university sponsored research declines the univer sity loses the overhead recovery for the expenses incurred through the research being done there is a formula used based upon expenses to charge against grants and contracts he said now that there will be fewer we'll get less the budget items which will be delayed until the revenue is confirmed include 263,500 for instruction costs 85,380 for academic support 30,150 for see enrollment page 6 new roadways and projects under construction in valley been a burden to everyone entering and leaving the fields corallo said also included in the project is the con struction of an identification sign which will be placed by the side of the boule vard in front of the varsity house according to corallo the sign will have an extensive map identifying all roads fields and buildings the roads surrounding the football fields will also be widened and lighted this will make it easier to leave events at stabler during the nighttime ' ' corallo explained the construction will cost 320,000 corallo said the budget for this is part of a donation by goodman the project will be dedicated oh founder's day in october according to corallo the roads will be completed by graduation and the rest of the project will be finished in the summer by rennie benn new roadways as well as other pro jects are now being constructed in the saucon valley field complex according to tony corallo director of physical planning the purpose of the construction is to create a new entrance to the valley com plex the new entrance will help facili tate traffic flow and will help identify the fields as the murray h goodman cam pus corallo explained the construction involves eliminating the northern-most road leading into the complex the new roadway will parallel the old one and will have a bell-shaped curve the roads will be wider corallo explained the new system will make it easier to get in and out of the complex he said the elimination of the small island that is positioned before the main boule vard is also underway this island has mentesana quits hoops post no coach william and mary senior class gift campaign rated as overall success goal we wanted to have something to work for to give incentive and keep people motivated larry hunter 83 solicitation chairman for the campaign said he attributed the success of the cam paign to good solicitors dedicated people and the organization of the campaign the clean-up campaign people were very important this year he said about nine percent of the seniors gave after the start of the clean-up campaign although he pointed out that this figure may be deceiving because seniors may have given before the start of the clean-up but their forms may have been turned in after the clean-up kick-off i think people appreciated how the campaign was presented this year funnell said we tried to make it an educational process by teresa kilcullen this year's senior gift campaign obtaining 57 percent class participa tion was a success overall according to bob funnell 83 senior class gift chairman however he pointed out that this figure is not the final one since the campaign does not end until gradua tion day and any pledge forms received through that date will be added to the percentage people will still be soliciting on their own time until graduation he said although the 70 percent participa tion goal that was set at the beginning of the campaign was not reached funnell said he was pleased with the results this is one of the highest percentages achieved with the five year pledge program he explained the 70 percent was a far-reaching by frank rudisill 1 ithappened again for the second time pa little over two weeks the engineer itoketball program lost a head coach to kneone named parkhill former lehigh assistant coach sal pntesana accepted the position of head hch at the university sunday night and few hours later phoned director of petics william leckonby to say that bwas resigning to become an assistant •* at the college of william and i"lreally had to think about it mente posaid i've lived in the lehigh val pall my life and i guess i felt a little pure to stay here i had to think pot how my decision would affect the p^ersity m y family and the players the final hours i thought i would tell i'illiam and mary that i wasn't coming 1*1 i would only be hurting one person instead of so many i hen asked if the delay in selecting a replacement for former head coach brian hill had prompted his decision to go elsewhere mentesana replied that i think they the selection committee went about it the only way they could william and mary called last tuesday and asked if i was interested at that time i still hadn't received an offer here and i went down to virginia and found that i really liked the place mentesana added in effect the delay did bring about my decisin to leave for william and mary because i wasn'tsure whatthe situation was here mentesana will be serving under head coach barry parkhiu that name should sound familiar to engineer basketball fans the parkhiu brothers are two-for two in hiring away lehigh head coaches hill left only last week to become an assistant under parkhill's brother bruce at perm state i met barry parkhill this summer through hill mentesana explained see mentesana page 16 lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday may 6 1983 lvrt.j4-n0.50 215 861-4184 appeal denied the rape appeal of former uni versity student robert bell was denied tuesday in northampton county court bell was convicted on june 11 1982 of criminal attempt to commit involuntary deviate sexual inter course indecent assault and rape he appealed the rape conviction trial judge alfred williams denied bell's appeal and ordered a presentence report on bell this report is used to compile all pertinent information back ground past record etc on a per son it is designed to furnish the jury with any mitigating informa tion before sentencing is announced i biw ptkxo f bill fuehbach new roadways and other projects are now being constructed by the university in saucon valley the changes to be completed by the end of the wmmer will cost 320,000 and facilitate a better traffic flow enrollment down deficit predicted by valerie votto a 500,000 deficit is expected next year itcause of declining enrollment and a grease in sponsored research sup jgrted by the national government aplained university treasurer and rice president john woltjen at this point woltjen estimates the net tvenue decrease for overhead recovery 155,000 for research d 350 to 400,000 in tuition reduction according to registrar james lagner the four determining factors for arollment prediction are the number of transfers the number of readmittances the number of students dropped for poor utolarship as well as the number of graduates wagner said that he is not alarmed jbst concerned over the predicted nrollment drop these things happen he added wagner explained that with the exception of the number of transfers each of these numbers increased woltjen noted that statistics for last year at this time were markedly differ ent the number out due to poor scholarship this semester has increased from 40 to 62 he said the non returning number increased from 147 to 179 and the number of transfers in decreased from 24 to 11 when you have all the factors point ing in the same direction wagner said you can come out with a less-than positive forecast many say that the situation is a result of what is happening economically across the country woltjen said we really don't know if economic factors are the reason for this decline but we're