Brown and White Vol. 85 no. 11

              lehigh university brown and white vol 85 — no 11 ' wmm " ■■■' ■:.;;;■■-:■.■;.. bethlehem pa october 5 1973 866-0331 law school is worthwhile missimer says a law school would add a new dimension to the university said samuel h missimer director of admissions he stressed the importance of integrating a law school with all other academic of ferings at the university missimer said there are no reliable statistics available that would predict a law school's effect on undergraduate enrollment he said a 3-3 program enabling students to complete un dergraduate studies in three years and law school in the subsequent three years might be an attraction at the high school level because interest in professional schools has increased there in recent years students would think of lehigh who otherwise would not he said missimer said colleges often spread themselves too thin to expand fashionable academic offerings but lehigh has resisted this trend he said he did not consider law school proposals fashionable but worthwhile from an integrated academic standpoint missimer said that should a number of ifs be resolved including finances quality and inter departmental in tegration a law school could provide a wider academic spectrum at lehigh ehshamlvbsmhhbmsvs b 1 w photo by cramer eric ottervik calendar altered little heads for forum vote despite continuing controversy con cerning the tentative calendar presented at an open meeting sept 19 the calendar committee decided to send the calendar essentially unchanged to the forum the only minor change in the proposed calendar is the shifting of the spring semester ahead three class days norman melchert chairman of the calendar committee said this was done to ac commodate students under the g.i bill who would have lost one month's benefits under the originally proposed calendar melchert said that the change would give graduating engineering students seeking employment an earlier start and would eliminate problems created by registering on monday the committee will also propose that another committee be established by the forum to consider future calendars and establish more permanent guidelines melchert said the committee also accepted a petition signed by 67 people stating that the jewish holidays of rosh hashana yom kippur and passover be observed by the university i 6-year b.a.-m.d program approved by arts faculty by ken flatto by kkn h la i id the college of arts and sciences faculty almost unanimously approved a six-year b.a.-m.d program at its meeting the program will allow a small number of incoming freshmen to finish their un r dergraduate and graduate medical training in six years as compared to the normal eight-year program the student accepted in the program suggested to begin next fall would study two years at lehigh to fulfill all the requirements for a basic liberal arts background for medical school he would then go to either hahnemann medical school or the medical school of pennsylvania for the remainder of his medical training the six-year program will be submitted for approval to the educational policy committee at its oct 17 meeting final approval must come from the university faculty vice provost eric ottervik said the program would attract high caliber students to lehigh and increase the number of students accepted to medical school without hurting other student programs normally the university gets only a few students into the medical schools at hahnemann and penn he said with this program between 10 and 20 incoming students would be guaranteed admittance to the schools if they keep up an acceptable work standard ottervik said objecting to the program steven krawiec assistant professor of biology said the admitted students would not be taking enough courses at the university for a lehigh degree because they would be using college only as a stopover to medical school he also said students would not be prepared adequately in biology and that the major should be called a pre-med major not a biology maior ottervik answered that medical schools only require six to eight credits of biology and that they give an intensive biological program at the graduate level we must not allow the medical school monopoly to break a student's liberal arts education at lehigh said raymond cowherd professor of history marc kramer 74 questioned whether the program would hurt normal students chances for medical school and increase pre-med competition kramer asked how an 18-year-old high school senior could decide whether he definitely wanted to attend medical school and how the university could determine how applicants who had never faced college work would handle the program the other item on the agenda was the creation of a permanent three-man arts and science course committee this committee would have two purposes 1 to review proposed changes in the course requirements and curriculum and 2 to study new ideas and programs that are proposed horizons lacks sufficient news grzywacz says by robert feldman what i'm looking for is more news and what they're publishing the lehigh horizons is little stories said bob grzywacz 72 who last year told the forum that he wouldn't wrap fish with the horizons lehigh horizons which first appeared last semester to replace the lehigh news is a publication geared towards alumni parents and friends of the university the third issue of horizons was in september grzywacz who made his comment at the forum meeting of april 17 said the horizons failed miserably in replacing the lehigh news his opinion has not changed drastically since reading the second issue he said grzywacz said that as an alumnus he learns more about the lehigh community from the brown and white than from the horizons he said that the second issue which wasn't significantly better proved to him that the horizons does not inform the alumni of campus news he said a publication which featured excerpts from the brown and white specifically pertaining to alumni would be more useful grzywacz lives in richmond va and is employed by the department of housing and urban development b a w photo by conner y career counseling marcia kleiman and vicki kramer encouraged the predominantly female audience to consider options open to women today career counselors tell girls to be aggressive by mary koltisko job opportunities and career counseling for women were the topics of the options for women conference held tuesday in neville lounge marcia p kleiman and vicki w kramer directors of options for women inc a non-profit consultation and placement service encouraged the predominantly female audience to con sider the increased options open to women today new lifestyles new jobs more on the-job training programs the two women encouraged the students present to keep their vocational options open until they make a truly desired career choice ms kramer and kleiman spend most of their time counseling women returning to the job market after many years of marriage women changing careers in midstream and women who have come to realize that even if they haven't worked until age 35 they still have 25 years of labor-market potential these women the directors said want to make changes in their lives but find they don't possess the confidence or the training for this reason explained ms kramer options for women stresses flexibility in making an initial career choice not following a predetermined career plan the first step in deciding a career said ms kleiman is a thorough self evaluation of one's personal needs interests lifestyle skills and traits do you need money to feel worthy do you need in tellectual stimulation do you enjoy dealing with data or people what sort of pattern emerges from your interests what made you decide on your present major if any she suggested girls ask themselves these questions it is most important ms kleiman said to examine see career page 5 whitten les whitten columnist jack anderson's top aide will speak in packard lab auditorium at 8 p.m thursday oct 11 law decision due the board of trustees will meet next friday to reach a decision on the status of the law school proposal this is the final obstacle to a lehigh law school an interview with last year's american bar assn president is reprinted on pages six and seven because it answers many of the questions raised next friday's issue will have a summation of the entire issue