Brown and White Vol. 98 no. 20

              the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pennsylvania v01.98 n0.20 tuesday november 18 1986 215)758-4181 jackson blames reagan for unfair wealth division by karen schoonover melon spring is out you'll lie hetrlng crlei fof impeachment the rev jesse jackson said liidav at ternoon in ins speech which criticized the reagan administration the former presidential candidate called the reagan administration the most corrupt period in american history he cited the disinformation ctmptign with libya the sale of arms to iran ami foreign policy in central america as examples of how it has lost the democratic vision jackson spoke on the moral choices for an immoral world to an audience of more than 1 500 in packet memorial chapel referring to reagan's overwhelming victory in the last election ( jackson pointed out thai former president richard nixon also had much popultl support according to jickion reigtn'i economic policy has cfluisd iin cx tremc concentration of wealth it's the most rtdlcft extreme ol have and have notl in a hall century ho continued the media projects the poor as welfare leeches iirhan and black but of the 41 million pooi people 29 million are while jackson said me said the poor are mostly while women tnd not on welfare they win k hard every day the poor work in hospitals changing the clothei and sheets of the sick they w cabs cul grass and rake leaves they raise other people's children bul cannoi afford to feed thehi own he said jackson continued whether the rev jesse jackson spoke friday afternoon in packer memorial chapel a crowd of more than 1,500 people packed the chapel to hear the human rights activist and former presidential candidate criticize the reagan administration student feedback sought by resops by rich kleban hf.»n unrl while mitunal zaie editor every student living in university housing will rec survey this week from the lehigh residence operations office and residence life office according to assistant director for residence operations david joseph the survey containing four parts of questions should have been distributed by gryphons earlier this eek and returned to them by students within three da>s we've always felt it was important to get student input joseph said this is their opportunity the two offices and the newly-established residence operations advisory committee determined five areas that they were interested in getting feedback from students on the categories according to joseph are physical facilities/services policy procedures safety security and interpersonal relations responsibility programs the areas are the basis for the first 0 questions in the survey following a brief section concerning student characteristics the questions are statements which can be answered by circling one of five numbers — from strongly disagree to agree to does not apply the next group of questions asks he student to identify three items from part i which the feei strongly about ind write what he she would do to improve die situation part 111 is for choosing three aspect - life not identified in the first wctiffli asking hade - they like best and least about residence halls profs fear research could eclipse teaching by david leiqht himwn mill ii imr mttmthlnx i lihn editor's note this is the second in a three-part series on a report by the carnegie foundation and lehigh's policies on faculty research teaching and campus service i think the university position is clear that we're moving into a new era that requires professors to conduct at least some research and that it be of high quality according to peter beidler the lucy g moses professor of english it is no longer enough simply lo be a good classroom teacher he added although ihai is the prime criterion for promotion and ic-nurc bcidler who has published 50-60 articles and has written three books was named professor of the year in 19k3 by the council for ad vancement and support of education to him scholarship — that is con ducting research — is one way to remain interested in teaching the two go together if all i wanted to do was research i wouldn't be teaching but at lehigh teaching research and service to the university or in the local art may conflict in tenure and promotion decisions and research is becoming even more important when education professor al castaldi worked on the personnel committee from 1974-80 the question of which of the three were more im portant came up while he was chairing the committee they had a meeting with then president deming lewis we made the point that if someone was more than adequate in two areas then that was sufficient that it really wasn't appropriate to require all three ( astaldi said castaldi had known of the problem for years when he first came to lehigfi 20 years ago he specifically asked t hen pro vo , t filenn christensen if publishing research was really em ph;r,i/ed chfifttffisefi fold him that only five percent of the lehigh faculty were publishing things of lasting value at fhe time the central role of the soc policy changes discussed by caroline west brown and white news writer forum xvii social policy committee determined wednesday that enforcing a strict policy of id checks to eliminate uninvited guests at fraternity parties is the top priority among possible social policy changes to be proposed to the forum seven possible social policy amendments including id checks were determined tuesday in a meeting of the chairmen of the social policy committee the council of student presidents administration and faculty members at no time were we ever talking about abandoning the social policy but about changes we thought necessary as part of the evolution of the social policy committee co chairman alan paskoff said the committee said that a uniform policy of checking ids must be enforced if the problem of non-lehigh people attending lehigh parties is to be solved i've been at fraternity parties where i know more people from bethlehem than i do from lehigh committee member kristin hanssel a sophomore from bethlehem said re-instituting closed-party weekends was placed as the committee's next-highest priority during closed-party weekends held once a month prior to the institution of the social policy in 1984 guests were admitted by in vitation only these weekends interfraternity council ifc president rob ripp said take the pressure off of the frats to open their doors ifc wouldn't see too much opposition to closed-party weekends even for next semester ripp said according to the committee closed-party weekends would help eliminate some of the problem of non-lehigh people attending lehigh functions when i went to bethlehem high school everyone knew when lehigh was having a closed-party weekend and we knew not to go there hanssel said see survey page 3 see policy page 3 see jesse page 7 see carnegie page 5