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              athletic scholarship proposal elicits mixed response favor of the decision simply because i just don't think you can distinguish one athlete as being more important than another one at the same in stitution and that mccaffery said is what see need page 4 while turner does not agree with the decision — i'm sorry to see that it's gone that way and whitehead thinks it is best for the university second-year basketball coach fran mccaffery supports the decision for reasons of fairness i would have to say that i'd be in mw kioto wrestling coaches are concerned that failure to offer no«vn««dbased scholarships could harm lehigh's wrestling tradition by rich kleban brown and white editorial page editor editor's note this is the second of a two part series dealing with the recommendation to give scholarships based exclusively on need last week's announcement regar ding a proposal to offer only need based scholarships has created dif ferent reactions around campus — especially in the athletic department where the affects will be felt the most the majority of campus ad ministrators and athletic coaches support president peter li kins choice to accept marsha duncan's report favoring need-based scholarships the decision had to be made lehigh's athletic director john whitehead said i think it was made for the benefit of the entire university i don't think it was anything against wrestling whitehead sympathizes with the wrestling program which had been able to give scholarships above need for an 18-month trial period but he places the school as a whole ahead of the sport we do have a great wrestling tradition and it would be nice to maintain that but i don't think at the expense of the university the great tradition of lehigh wrestling was one of the main com ponents of duncan's report the vice president for student affairs wrote that she has full knowledge the impact of her report will change the wrestling tradition as we have known it wrestling coach thad turner admittedly disappointed with the recommendation echoed those sen timents i guess i'm concerned that just like marsha duncan said in her report i don't think the wrestling program can function as it has functioned in the past without it turner lehigh's coach for the past 16 years did emphasize that the recommendation has yet to be adopted the board of trustees will vote on the issue in january the brown and white v01.98 n0.1 3 lehigh university friday october 24 1988 bethlehem pennsylvania 215)758-4181 beth brlnkman 88 left and jackie massa 89 were only two of the many students and faculty who gathered on the uc lawn wednesday for free balloons elder and donuts which were given away as part of alcohol awareness week w photo by mary ralston engineers in class of 95 need 2.0 gpa to graduate by elizabeth varqa hrown and white nrw editor lehigh faculty passed three major changes in rules and procedures of the faculty on monday at its second meeting of the semester the changes were proposed by the educational policy com mittee chaired by forbes brown professor of mechanical engineering effective with the class of 1991 students in the college of engineering and physical sciences in order to graduate will need a grade point average of 2.0 or higher in courses in their major making it equal to south side relies on lu's business fourth street are representative of the evolution of the entire nation before world war 11 a student at lehigh may have shopped at tiger hall tom bass men's clothing store seen movies at the college theater now the location of brodhead house or rented formal eveningwear from figlear's on fourth post-car america amidon con tinued and the phenomenon of going to shopping centers in the 60s resulted in a lessening of student contact with the local merchants students were willing to travel to points farther away for the same goods offered a block from campus around 1917 by amidon's estimates two-thirds of the student population regularly availed themselves of the stores and services on fourth street in 1980 see impact page 6 by elizabeth varqa brown and white news editor what has happened to lchigh's policy of promoting relations with the business district bordering its campus according to several fourth street business proprietors the university never followed up on its promise made more than three years ago fourth street's economic expansion occurred naturally despite the lack of effort on lehigh's part however the form this expansion assumed indicates a direct relationship with proximity to the campus the economic history of south bethlehem is comparable on a smaller scale to that of america as a whole according to david amidon director of lehigh's urban studies program until the 19305 the town was completely farmland a zinc refinery converted to an iron refinery in the 40s was the region's first basic metal industry and marked the transition to a residential area he said business took the form of a network of peddlers buying and selling wares eventually an outlet center was established on south mountain as a distribution point for peddlers mer chandise amidon recounted as a result many former peddlers founded businesses and situated them selves down the hill in the area of fourth street then in the 1850s and 60s fourth street experienced a raging economic boom and in 1866 asa packer planted a university in the midst of this boom town significant changes since the 19th century in the types of establishments on that required in the college of arts and science the need for the change arises from a concern of the college faculty and an ac creditation team that our minimum grade point average currently 1.7 is the lowest of schools to which we have compared ourselves the proposal stated other factors remaining constant about 6 percent of the students would be af fected therefore if the rule took effect immediately assuming enrollment figures do not change drastically by 1991 about 26 students in the engineering college would not graduate we did look very carefully before proposing the change at what students would be affected donald bolle dean of the engineering college said also effective with next year's freshman class a grade of c or higher is necessary in each prerequisite or required course for an engineering major currently the proposal stated students are supposed to get approval from their advisers in order to use any grade of d to satisfy a prerequisite the third change effective with the monday afternoon meeting and applicable to all students is the addition of a clause stating make-up examinations may upon see faculty page 7