Brown and White Vol. 97 no. 26

              see rush page 8 according to interfraternity council president howard goldstein this year's bid day went very well goldstein said he had heard of no major problems during the weekend i think all the attention focused on bid day through meetings with house presidents and freshmen had an effect goldstein said ifc and the dean of students office worked before greek week and before lafayette weekend and we were successful he said we worked again before bid day and stressed safety and i think we were successful again greek affairs coordinator mike boyd agreed saying that he had not received any calls or complaints about the weekend see qanin page 5 brigade in germany the plo's role as the chief organization is to direct all the activities of its ten member groups although it does not control them each group is supported by several foreign countries including syria iraq libya and the soviet union each sub-group asserts its authority through the support of a foreign power in order to gain the controlling voice in the plo one of israel's greatest problems is in first identifying which of the member groups controls the plo israel-plo controversy topic of ganin lecture by evan tanenbaum the arab-israeli conflict is probably the most difficult in the world as well as one of the oldest dr zvi ganin of tel aviv university and beit berl college in israel said in a lecture thursday in neville hall conflicts between israel and the arab nations have become more serious and tragic since the establishment of the plo palestine liberation organization in 1967 the plo explained ganin is like a multinational organization with connections to other terrorist groups all over the world like the red 215)861-4181 bethlehem pennsylvania tuesday january 28 1986 lehigh university v01.97-n0.26 lehigh considered site for ce research center by john fleming lehigh university's proposed engineering research center has reached the final round of judging in the national science foundation's search for universities willing to study advanced technology for large structural systems the search is an attempt to protect the united states competitiveness in the steel and related law structure industries nsf officials who visited the campus on dec 13 and 14 were pleased with the university's presentations and facilities we think the site team was satisfied with the presentations made and with the responses to various items related to our proposal said john fisher professor of civil engineering who would direct the proposed center the center's purpose would be to protect u.s design con struction and fabrication industries 300 billion share of the domestic market and billions more in sales abroad from en croaching foreign firms however these industries national and international market shares have been eroding fisher said without a center such as lehigh is proposing technological changes will occur slowly and in a piecemeal fashion u.s industry may not respond rapidly enough to retain its market shares see research page 4 ! mwmmabymumuon a snowfall early saturday morning lent the campus the appearance of a winter won derland unfortunately the snow soon turned to rain and melted away leaving the campus looking soggy and gray committee prepares to launch senior gift campaign fund from the class of 65 are now going toward renovations of neville lounge in the university center and of the biology instructional laboratory the class of 80 is providing for the fairchild martindale library roof terrace and renovation of the career planning & placement office fuirst pointed out that only 63 percent of lehigh s costs are covered by tuition and that it is up to cor porations and alumni to cover the rest the key to the campaign said fuirst is trying to get seniors to think as alumni and realize that it is now up to us year period will be invested under the guidance of the investment com mittee chaired by carl horstmann at the end of the five years the ad ministration and the class of 91 will be surveyed for their recommendation as to where the money should go however the final decision as to where the money is spent lies with the class of 86 prior to 1980 senior gift campaigns spanned a 20 year period rather than five years said fuirst because of this 1985 saw the maturation of two gift campaigns those of the classes of 65 and 80 them to pledge 100 to the gift fund over the next five years the publicity committee chaired by joy rosenberg has also begun an advertising campaign centering around posters and postcards mailed to every senior's box depicting stalks of wheat accompanied by the slogan seeds of harvest the payment plan calls for seniors to pay 10 this year as a cap and gown deposit and continue adding 3 to their yearly contribution until the goal of 100 has been reached at the end of five years the money collected over the five by laura shepherd desk editor a reception and dinner at 6 p.m tomorrow evening will officially kick off the class of 1986 gift campaign the event will be attended by 125 seniors working on the campaign alumni and president peter likins according to ken fuirst chairman of the campaign the campaign will continue until feb 19 during the next three weeks members of the gift solicitation committee under the direction of marlena mihalakis will be ap proaching seniors and encouraging b«w photo by patmce for most lehigh men and woman rushing fraternities and sororities bid day on saturday was one of the most anxiously awaited days of the 85-'m school year after saturday afternoon all could heave a sigh of relief to know that the months of waiting and won dering wars finally ovsr th e brown and white good planning effort cited as major factor in trouble-free bid day by chris palmeri assistant managing editor